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A hardline caucus inside the Democratic Socialists of America is publicly rejecting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, as a potential 2028 presidential contender, accusing her of abandoning the socialist movement that helped launch her career. The Democratic Socialists of America’s Liberation Caucus, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist bloc within DSA, said in a statement that it would not “endorse or give succor” to an Ocasio-Cortez campaign, arguing she has made repeated “capitulations to the imperialists.” The caucus’s statement invokes conditions national DSA’s National Political Committee attached to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s 2024 re-election endorsement, including opposition to Israeli military funding and support for the…

HONOLULU — People in Hawaii are bracing for another round of heavy rain and winds, even as they’re still trying to clean up and recover from a hurricane last weekend that damaged homes, downed trees and left roads covered in mud and rocks. Like with Hurricane Lala, the Big Island is again expected to bear the brunt of the tropical weather, which was expected to be upgraded from a tropical depression to a tropical storm at some point Friday. The rain and heavy winds are expected to begin there late Saturday, with the storm continuing to move west across the…

Deputies arrested a substitute teacher in Louisiana this week, accusing her of sending false reports of active shooters to five schools. The arrest took place in Caddo Parish near Arkansas and Texas. Lytonja Barfield, 58, is accused of sending the fake alerts on Wednesday, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a release Thursday. The sheriff’s office was put on alert Wednesday after getting word of the threats from Caddo Parish Public Schools officials and responded accordingly. After the threats turned out to be bogus, the Caddo Parish School Board told law enforcement that Ms. Barfield sent the reports via…

Researchers are warning that risky abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy could surge in 10 Democratic-led states that have abolished all gestational limits. Most pro-life analysts say data predicts the spike, as lawmakers from Colorado to Massachusetts have acted on a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that let them erase longtime restrictions tied to fetal viability. “Abortion until birth is a product of ideological extremism,” said Gavin Oxley, a spokesman for Americans United for Life. “Removing gestational limits falsely signals to women a cultural assent to its morality and safety, and states should be liable for the harm abortion deregulation…

A New Jersey teen has dropped her lawsuit against the owners of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube that alleged the social media platforms try to get users addicted and caused her a mental health crisis. Emily Jeffcott, a lawyer for the plaintiff “P.M.Y,” told The New York Times that her client dropped the suit and settled with another defendant, TikTok, in order to move on with her life. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said in a statement that P.M.Y. “had a significant mental health condition that pre-dated her use of social media, and it’s clear that many of these…

The Trump administration is moving to do away with the American Bar Association’s accreditation of law schools, taking a new step to escalate conservatives’ beef with the left-leaning legal group. The announcement came from David Barker, assistant secretary of education, through a report on Friday in the Wall Street Journal, which said the Education Department — by making this move — is escalating the Trump administration’s war with the premier legal group. The president and Republican lawmakers have been critical of the ABA’s decision not to rate Trump judicial appointees as high as they have Democratic-appointed judges. They’ve accused the…

A Detroit pastor accused Dearborn of being “up under Sharia law” during a contentious City Council meeting Tuesday as hundreds demonstrated outside and police made 22 arrests. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church confronted council members directly, telling them the city had strayed from American law. “You are only 1% of this nation. We are not a nation of Muslims,” Mr. Sewell said, according to Fox News. The council meeting itself proceeded as planned and concluded without incident, according to ClickOnDetroit. The unrest was confined to the demonstration outside, where organizers had promoted a “Christian Crusader March on Dearborn” in…

A man in a full Darth Vader costume approached the microphone at a San Diego City Council committee hearing this week and delivered a sarcasm-drenched endorsement of the city’s Flock surveillance cameras, telling members “the Emperor is a fan of Flock.” The costumed speaker, addressed only as “Darth Vader” by committee staff, brought the character’s trademark heavy breathing into the council chamber’s microphone during public comment at Wednesday’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting, according to a Fox News report on the stunt. “This is what the emperor needs,” he told the panel. He went on to argue the…

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, earning $1.352 billion worldwide and surpassing the record set by 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which took in $1.338 billion.  “The Odyssey” opened in theaters July 17, collecting $123 million in its domestic debut, and has remained a strong performer since.  The nearly three-hour adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has generated $516 million domestically and $835 million internationally. It ranks as Mr. Nolan’s biggest box office hit ever, surpassing 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” and is the highest-grossing IMAX release of all time.  Ryan Reynolds, who starred in…

Maryland wildlife officials say a dead beaver found at Seneca Creek State Park, where a girl was attacked last week, tested positive for rabies. The 10-year-old girl was at the Gaithersburg park to swim as part of a summer camp activity when the beaver attacked her on Aug. 13. On Monday, Maryland Department of Natural Resources personnel found a dead beaver, and the Maryland Department of Health confirmed it was rabid when it died, state wildlife officials said in an update. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources said it was unable to confirm whether the dead beaver that was found…