A 12-year-old Florida girl is accused of threatening to "shoot up" an elementary school and threatening a teacher, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

Officials said Monday that detectives over the weekend responded to a Gaggle alert about an explicit written threat sent to a teacher at Louise S. McInnis Elementary School in DeLeon Springs, which is just under an hour north of Orlando.

Gaggle is a K-12 online safety management software that gives schools the ability to monitor student activity on school-provided devices for "concerning content."

The sheriff's office said that in addition to threatening the teacher, the sender said "they were going to shoot up the school on the last day."

A rabid Trump-hating democRAT from Tennessee will soon be out of a congressional district, now that Republicans in his state have implemented a new map free of racial gerrymanders.

Goodbye Steve Cohen. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out of your congressional office.

Seattle mayor Katie Wilson doesn't appear to understand that wealthy residents mean a wealthier city, as she's imposing a 10% tax on millionaires in Seattle.

The April jobs report shows much stronger than expected growth, and the stock market has reacted by surging positively.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said about 115,000 new jobs were added in April. The rate of unemployment held at 4.3%.

The White House touted the comments from CNBC on-air editor Rick Santelli.

"The big jobs report for April — 65,000 expected! Nay, nay, nay! We are much stronger: 115,000!" he said. "And last month? Upward revision from 178,000 to 185,000! These are good numbers!"

Fifth Third Commercial Bank's chief economist Bill Adams said that the job market was "inching out of low hire, low fire mode into moderate hire, low fire mode."

"This is a very strong number, and I think it's hard to argue against the notion right now that the labor market is on solid footing," said Mark Reid of RBC Economics.

On the other hand, better jobs numbers will ease the pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates as one part of its mandate is to avoid inflation by overheating the economy.

One sector continuing to shed jobs was offices, which includes tech, telecom, data processing, and media. There were 13,000 office jobs lost in April, while another 12,000 were lost in financial activities.

Trump's Department of Justice on Friday announced denaturalization actions against a dozen individuals, including those accused of providing material support to terrorist groups.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the United States attorney for the District of Arizona filed a civil denaturalization complaint on Friday against Ali Yousif Ahmed, a 48-year-old man from Iraq who entered the U.S. in 2009 based on a claim that he and his family were attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

The DOJ stated that in 2019, the Republic of Iraq requested the U.S. extradite Yousif Ahmed, claiming that he was an Al-Qaeda leader who had murdered two Iraqi police officers in 2006. A U.S. investigation into Yousif Ahmed uncovered that he had allegedly illegally obtained his naturalization in 2015 by lying under oath about his criminal and family history.

The DOJ is also moving to denaturalize Oscar Alberto Pelaez, a 75-year-old from Colombia, arguing that he lacks good moral character and that he lied to immigration authorities. The department stated that Alberto Pelaez, a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child on multiple occasions from 1998 to 2000. The victim was 14 to 17 years old at the time of the abuse.

Alberto Pelaez was convicted of 13 counts of sexual assault against a child, including two counts of oral copulation with a person under 18 years of age, and two counts of sodomy of a person under 18 years of age. The DOJ claimed that Alberto Pelaez lied about his crimes in his naturalization application.

Khalid Ouazzani, a 48-year-old from Morocco, may lose his U.S. citizenship after the DOJ claimed he falsely swore to the principles of the Constitution. The department stated that Ouazzani planned ways to support Al-Qaeda, alongside two other men who were convicted of attempting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. In 2010, Ouazzani pleaded guilty to bank fraud, money laundering, and providing material support to the terrorist group.

The World Bank has warned that disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and escalating conflict in the Middle East are triggering a global oil supply shock that is beginning to suppress energy demand worldwide.

In its May 7 analysis, the World Bank said that global oil demand declined by 0.8 million barrels per day year-over-year in March and is forecast to fall by another 1.5 million barrels per day in the second quarter of 2026.

"Oil demand destruction is emerging," the World Bank said, citing rising prices, trade disruptions, and reduced economic activity in advanced economies, Asia, and the Middle East.

The warning came as Brent crude prices surged following what the World Bank described as the "near-total disruption" of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Roughly one-quarter of global seaborne crude oil trade passes through the narrow waterway.

By the end of March, Brent crude prices had risen approximately 65 percent, or $46 per barrel, marking what the World Bank called the largest monthly increase on record.

Marco Rubio has said the White House is expecting a response proposal on May 8 from the Iranian regime about ending the war, coming as American and Iranian forces clashed in the region in recent days.

"We're expecting a response from them today at some point. We have not received that yet," Rubio told reporters on Friday while he was visiting with the Pope in Italy about negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Rubio added that U.S. officials hope that the Iranian proposal is "something that can put us into a serious process in negotiation."

The secretary said the U.S. government is aware of recent reports saying Iran is attempting to create "some agency that's going to control traffic" in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which about one-fifth of the world's oil travels.

"That would actually be unacceptable," he said.

Dem governor in the hot seat after testing limits of authority with major move against ICE

Gov. Hochul's budget proposal includes new restrictions on ICE operations in New York, blocking local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration work.

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Quote from: Blazor on May 07, 2026, 08:43:31 PMI kinda feel like I don't have to with you, you simply liked the meme, thought of me, and posted it. But it so wrong, and every time I see that quote it downright gets my blood a boilin'!

The War of Northern Aggression, was no more, than a despotic government's attempt at roping the Southern States back in by force.

Virginia and other states had FULL right to secede, as Virginia did not trust a one ruling government, it was written in, when signing the Constitution.

Virginia seceded, when the government tried to make them attack their fellow countrymen.

The war was not started over slavery, it was over high taxation upon the South, and all the money going to the Northern states. Other reasons as well.

Slavery was a part, yes, for a lot of reasons "at the time". The North had slaves as well, but they don't tell you that.

If the war was simply over slavery, then the South would of agreed to the original 13th amendment, as proposed to the South to keep them in, which would of made slavery legal across the nation, known as the Corwin amendment. Did they say yes, hell no!!!

It wasn't until the North was losing the war effort, that they pulled an old British trick, by freeing ONLY the slaves in the South, hoping they would revolt against the Southerners. Didn't work! But, it did help with the North's recruitment efforts, as well as support from other nations.

The North came down and burned everything, raped the women, slaughtered children and elderly, plundered, I mean you name it. Meanwhile, the South was trying to survive, so they fought to defend their families. NOT for slavery!

The reason I get pissed at the quote, is because it wasn't what they fought the South for, it was to submit them back into a despotic nation.

I will always support the South!!!

I no longer think of Virginia as a Southern state. It has more in common with New York than Tennessee.