Salman Elmi was awarded “Outstanding Refugee" by Minnesota.
He was just charged for a $1 million Medicaid fraud scheme.
6:37 AM · Aug 18, 2026
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A judge has sentenced Adam Sheafe to life in prison for killing Pastor Bill Schonemann, 76, in a crucifixion-style attack inside Schonemann’s New River, Arizona, home in April 2025.
Sheafe, 52, who represented himself, additionally received a 35-year sentence and two separate 25-year sentences on attempted murder charges Friday, with all sentences ordered to run consecutively, Arizona's Family reported.
That outcome followed a plea deal accepted in June that took capital punishment off the table. Sheafe had confessed to the killing and told investigators he intended to kill a dozen-plus additional religious leaders, saying he believed Christian leaders were leading their congregations astray by teaching that Jesus is equal to God, as CP previously reported.
Schonemann, who was known to his congregation at New River Bible Chapel as "Pastor Bill," had his arms outstretched with his hands pinned to a wall, a posture the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said resembled crucifixion. He turned up dead and bloodied in his bed on April 28, 2025.
Sheafe said in a jailhouse interview that he drove from Phoenix to Schonemann's house on a Sunday, killed him and put thorns around his head, a reference to the crown of thorns in Christian tradition. He said he wanted to target only pastors he accused of leading their congregations astray, and at one point expressed a desire to "execute every single priest and burn every church to the ground."
Thirteen more Christian leaders were on his list, Sheafe said, naming states including Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas.
Sheafe traveled to Sedona after the killing, planning to kill two more people, and was arrested two days later after a manhunt spanning the state.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/man-given-life-sentence-for-crucifixion-style-murder-of-pastor.html
Newly declassified files reveal that the FBI dropped its investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's romantic relationship with an alleged Chinese spy — even though it had concluded she was an “illegal source of campaign contributions” — as it ramped up its investigation of Trump.
5:08 PM · Aug 17, 2026
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https://x.com/shellenberger/status/2089459475271049536
By Amanda Head
Published: August 18, 2026 6:21am
Updated: August 18, 2026 10:45am
In a tense March 2020 meeting just months before the presidential election, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections—not because the intelligence was flawed, but because he feared it would brand the agency as part of the “deep state.”
The memo states: “DDIR explained that he was concerned that releasing the [report] at this time – in the current political climate, with an acting ODNI who had been tasked (according to DDIR) to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, and with an administration that is suspicious of the IC and aggressive in removing anyone who stands in their way – would damage NSA’s credibility. He believed that questions would be asked as to why the NSA was choosing to release this information, most obviously pertinent to the 2016 election, now, more than a year after the election, and that NSA would be accused of releasing it for political purposes."
"DDIR perceived that ODNI, CIA, and to an extent the FBI had been tarred as hosting or being part of the ‘deep state’, but that NSA thus far had not been associated with the deep state and was trusted; he felt that publishing this report would destroy that trust. He felt that the questioning of NSA that would ensue would have ramifications on the credibility of NSA reporting overall and would result in morale problems among the broader NSA workforce. He repeatedly said that he wanted to protect our ability to be who we are at NSA: nonpartisan, objective, speaking truth to power."
The recently declassified document is a contemporaneous, written account by an NSA analyst of a meeting that day about whether, and how, to release a long-delayed intelligence report, at a time when President Donald Trump had levied sharp criticism about the intelligence community (IC) and had questioned the security of elections.
It was released Tuesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/nsa-analyst-agency-sat-2016-election-interference-intel-avoid-trump-era
Michael Allen Caruso, a former state legislator whom Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller, was arrested early Tuesday morning on allegations of kidnapping and molesting a child. The 67-year-old Republican is running for re-election in November to retain the top county post that DeSantis appointed him to last August. But no other Republican is contesting him, meaning his name is not on Tuesday’s primary ballot.
Officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested and booked Caruso, a former Florida House member, into the Palm Beach County jail early Tuesday morning on suspicion of molestation, kidnapping, luring and enticing a child, lewd and lascivious exhibition and child abuse, according to his arrest affidavit. DeSantis has the authority to suspend elected officials accused of crimes — a power he has regularly used. A few hours after Caruso’s arrest, DeSantis issued an executive order suspending him from public office. “Being in a position of public trust provides no shield from accountability,” Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a statement Tuesday.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article316719710.html
BREAKING: A transgender defendant convicted of crimes connected to an attempted assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been sentenced to 6 years in federal prison.
Bessent previously said the plot unfolded just two hours after he was sworn into office, citing the case as evidence of what he described as a serious threat from violent left-wing extremism.
According to the Justice Department, Ryan Michael English traveled to Washington, D.C., carrying a folding knife and two improvised Molotov cocktails before surrendering to U.S. Capitol Police. | @LucasFoxNews
12:56 PM · Aug 18, 2026
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A family-owned business was left in shambles after a ruthless group ransacked the entire inventory as part of another lawless street takeover.
A-Z Market in Bellflower was hit around 3:30 a.m. Saturday as a street takeover unfolded nearby, with roughly 100 to 150 vehicles reportedly blocking the surrounding streets and intersection, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Surveillance footage showed three unidentified suspects using power tools to break through the store’s front window and cut the lock on its security gate.
Once inside, the suspects cleared the way for 40 to 60 more people to storm the family-owned business and ransack it, according to authorities and the store owners.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/family-owned-bellflower-store-ransacked-by-mob-during-street-takeover/