Police say Kevin Cooper, a minister at the People of Purpose Worship Center in Portland, Oregon, was murdered at the hands of four adults and a 17-year-old during a November home invasion.

Zyaire Eugene Carter (19) and Ty’Davion Corshawn Burton (19) have been charged with first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, and theft. Jayden Joseph Sarinana (18), Jordan Cornelius Perkins (18), and the unnamed 17-year-old have been charged with second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and unlawful use of a vehicle.

The Cuban Communist Party identified seven individuals of the ten that it claims were onboard a Florida-registered speedboat intercepted in a fatal shootout on Wednesday.

Among those named are two individuals the Castro regime had previously identified as “terrorists.” Friends and family identified the one man the Castro regime identified as killed by Cuban Coast Guard agents – Michel Ortega Casanova – as a Tampa-based “patriot” who was “obsessed” with ending the 67-year-old communist regime in his home country.

Rapper Cardi B, who previously said she was “starting not to like America,” called the United States “ghetto” and “dusty,” and declared “this is why some of y’all states be getting hurricanes” after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, is now urging voters in Texas — a Gulf Coast state that has been struck by major hurricanes — to back Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat U.S. Senate primary as early voting enters its final days.

The United States and Iran began the third round of their current cycle of indirect nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, under the looming threat of U.S. military action and Iran’s belligerent threats to respond with attacks across the Middle East.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab on Wednesday resigned from his position after almost nine years — only for him to be appointed as interim Ombudsman moments later after Ombudsman Alfredo Ruiz also resigned on the same day.

Saab – a lawyer, poet, and a self-declared “stoic Buddhist” – is one of the most infamous “original” members of the Venezuelan socialist regime and a man once known as the “Poet of the Revolution,” a designation given by late dictator Hugo Chávez at the start of his rule in 1999. Saab, a close ally of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, was among the group of lawyers that represented Chávez and other individuals involved in the failed February 4 and November 27, 1992, coup attempts against late President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

Mortgage rates fell below six percent this week, the lowest since September 2022.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage this week was 5.98 percent, the first time the average rate has dropped into the five percent range in nearly three years, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.

The reception for American-based members of the USA men’s hockey team as they return to their teams is going quite well. The reception for those who play north of the border?

It’s not going nearly so well.

Toronto Star sportswriter Damien Cox spared no vitriol in denouncing Team USA and Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews, whom he charged with failing “in every respect as captain of the Leafs. Miserably.” Cox’s case for Matthews’ disappointment is two-fold.

Vice President JD Vance, who tapped by President Donald Trump to combat fraud nationwide, on Wednesday said that the country’s social safety net would disappear unless we take combatting fraud more seriously.

“So tonight, although it started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud, to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance. He’ll get it done. We will actually have a balanced budget overnight. It’ll go very quickly. That’s the kind of money you’re talking about,” Trump said during his State of the Union address, tapping the vice president to lead the administration’s effort to combat fraud.

The number of left-wing extremist crimes rose by over 100 per cent last year in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the state interior ministry in Düsseldorf, the capital of Germany’s most populous state, there were over 2,400 cases of leftist extremist crimes in 2025.

A judge is expected to order Greenpeace to pay a $345 million judgment, which will (hopefully) bankrupt the extremist environmental organization.

Greenpeace is expected to appeal the ruling.

Last year, a jury awarded Energy Transfer $660 million against Greenpeace. The judge felt that was too high and halved the award. Energy Transfer intends to file an appeal seeking the full $660 million.

The suspect who allegedly shot at a Border Patrol agent Sunday near the U.S./Canada border had a driver license for a male then changed to a driver license “denominated to be female,” according to U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan.

WMUR quoted Creegan saying, “This individual did have a previous Massachusetts driver’s license that was denominated to be male and now has a New Hampshire driver’s license, which is denominated to be female. So, it’s a reasonable assumption that the person has decided to transition their gender.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Wednesday evening the government of President Donald Trump is working to verify the facts surrounding an alleged shootout at sea between an alleged Florida speedboat and the Cuban communist coast guard.