Mentalist Oz Pearlman reveals the trick he had just performed on Karoline Leavitt when the shooting happened
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A Daily Beast editor had the hotel room next door to the alleged WHCD attacker.
“How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.”
https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2048534040228007988
Supreme Court hands Republicans a redistricting win by striking down lower court block on Texas map
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Ron DeSantis Reveals New Florida Map Tilting 4 More Seats Toward GOP as Gerrymandering War Heats Up
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) revealed a new congressional map for his state that would add four more Republican seats to the House, adding to the growing list of states that are revamping their maps ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The governor shared his new map with Fox News on Monday morning. As the picture posted below shows, Florida’s map would be deep red, with a few blue districts north of Miami and another in central Florida sprinkled in.
DeSantis explained:
Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since. Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.
The DeSantis map still needs to be approved by the state legislature. Florida has a GOP majority in both the state House and Senate; if it gets the green light from the legislature, the governor will be able to sign it into law and have it apply to the midterms later this year.
He told Fox News the new map “more fairly represents the makeup of Florida today.”
Florida has 20 Republican representatives in the House right now and seven Democrats — one fewer than the state had a week ago after Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) quit as the House Ethics panel was weighing sanctions; she had been found guilty last month on 25 out of 27 ethics violations related to embezzling millions.
DeSantis unveiled his new map as several states are racing to change their maps before the next election. Virginia changed its map last week and will likely have four more Democrats in the House as a result of it.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ron-desantis-reveals-new-florida-map-tilting-4-more-seats-toward-gop-as-gerrymandering-war-heats-up/
22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust
Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said.
A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had Kush a potent strain of cannabis hidden in their luggage.
"Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage," the spokesman said, adding that the monks had been handed over to police.
They were to be taken before a magistrate later on Sunday.
The monks were mostly young students from temples across Sri Lanka and had been on a holiday sponsored by a businessman.
Customs officials said it was the largest single detection of Kush at the South Asian country's main international airport.
Last May, a 21-year-old British woman was arrested with 101 pounds of the drug at the same airport. The woman, identified as Charlotte May Lee, said she had traveled from Bangkok to Colombo to renew her Thai visa. The BBC reported that she denied knowledge of drugs in her luggage, and claimed they were planted at her hotel in Bangkok.
In June 2025, Sri Lanka's customs authorities arrested a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country's main airport. Officials said the unnamed 38-year-old Thai woman was carrying about 22 pounds of cocaine stuffed into three plush toys.
Sri Lankan authorities have also made several detections of large hauls of heroin and other narcotics smuggled in via small fishing boats in recent years.
The latest arrests aren't the first time monks have run afoul of drug laws.
In 2022, every single monk at a Buddhist temple in central Thailand was defrocked after they tested positive for methamphetamine. The monks were sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation.
In 2017, police said a Buddhist monk was arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million meth pills in his car and in his monastery.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monks-arrested-sri-lanka-airport-record-drug-bust-kush/