Day: January 16, 2026
Renee Good was shot four times, including in the head, fire report shows
Renee Good suffered four gunshot wounds in the fatal ICE-involved shooting, not three as initially reported, according to a Minneapolis fire incident report.
Melissa Gilbert ‘stands with’ Timothy Busfield: Inside the Hollywood love story tested by scandal
Melissa Gilbert stands by husband Timothy Busfield as actor faces child sex abuse allegations. “The Little House on the Prairie” star canceled an event scheduled for Jan. 16.
Foreign-born ‘trans’ fraudster BUSTED: Man posing as woman likely to be deported after stealing nearly $1M in COVID cash
A native Salvadoran faces likely deportation after pleading guilty in connection with nearly $1 million in COVID-related fraud.
On Tuesday, a man who calls himself a woman and prefers the name Ruby Corado learned that he will have to spend 33 months behind bars followed by two years of supervised release. Corado pled guilty to one count of wire fraud back in July 2024.
Corado was previously charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, laundering of monetary instruments, monetary transactions in criminally derived proceeds, and failure to file a report of a foreign bank account. Prosecutors dropped the other charges in exchange for the guilty plea.
‘You betrayed this country.’
In 2020, Corado applied for two federal COVID-relief loans on behalf of Casa Ruby, the now-defunct nonprofit he founded in Washington, D.C., ostensibly to help homeless LGBTQ+ youth. An Economic Injury Disaster Loan and a Paycheck Protection Program loan, both from the Small Business Administration and totaling $956,215, were then deposited directly into a Casa Ruby account, according to a defense sentencing memorandum.
However, Corado instead wired at least some of those funds overseas and hid them from the IRS, prosecutors claimed, according to NBC Washington. Corado also escaped to El Salvador in 2022, apparently to evade federal authorities.
Prior to sentencing, Corado submitted a statement to the court, admitting to funneling at least $200,000 to El Salvador. He claimed he had hopes of establishing Casa Ruby services there
“I am sorry that my mistake impacted my work,” he told the court.
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In his statements during the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, D.C. District Judge Trevor McFadden issued a scathing rebuke of Corado.
“You betrayed this country,” McFadden said, according to WUSA9. “You spotted an opportunity to defraud the American people.”
McFadden also professed himself “very dubious” that Corado tried to bring Casa Ruby to El Salvador, noting that the defense offered no evidence that Corado had attempted to establish any nonprofit there.
McFadden also ordered Corado to pay back the SBA in full.
The defense had argued for leniency, requesting that Corado, who identifies as a “transgender woman,” be able to serve his sentence at a local jail or perhaps even at home out of fear that the Trump DOJ will place him in a men’s facility in accordance with his “biological sex”:
DOJ policy has moved to align federal detention practices with directives rejecting gender identity in favor of “biological sex,” resulting in transgender women being transferred into men’s facilities and in efforts to curtail gender-affirming medical care. Attorneys representing transgender women in BOP custody have described these shifts as placing their clients in “incredibly dangerous” situations, effectively emboldening predators and exposing inmates to foreseeable harm. As one longtime advocate explained, the signals sent by these policies can determine “whether a person lives or dies.”
Whether Corado will be housed in a men or women’s facility remains unclear, though he was incarcerated in a men’s jail after his arrest in March 2024. What is clear is that Corado will likely be deported back to El Salvador after his sentence is concluded.
“Your deportation is likely if not certain,” Judge McFadden said.
Corado also faces a civil suit regarding alleged failure to pay Casa Ruby employees. Though that suit was paused pending the criminal proceeding, it may soon resume now that Corado has been convicted.
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‘I killed Daddy’: Adopted 11-year-old boy killed his father for taking away his Nintendo game, police say
A wife sleeping next to her husband said she was awakened by a loud noise and heard some liquid dripping before turning on the light and finding out it was blood, according to Pennsylvania police.
Court documents say 42-year-old Douglas Dietz was shot and killed by their adopted son, an 11-year-old boy, over a Nintendo Switch gaming console.
He allegedly described opening the safe, removing the gun, and walking to his father’s side of the bed.
Even more shocking, the incident occurred after the family celebrated the boy’s birthday.
Police said they responded to the home on South Market Street in the borough of Duncannon early on Tuesday morning at about 3:20 a.m. They found Dietz dead from a shot in the head in his bedroom.
Police noted that the parents’ bedroom was connected through a closet to their son’s bedroom.
Dietz’s wife told them she had smelled a strong scent like fireworks when she awoke to discover her husband shot after turning on the lights.
Their son, Clayton Dietz, allegedly entered the room and said, “Daddy’s dead.”
Police also reported that they heard the boy say, “I killed Daddy,” to their mother.
When police questioned him, he said that the family had a good time but that he grew angry at his father when he was told to go to bed.
“He admitted that he had someone in mind whom he was going to shoot, whom he identified as his father,” police wrote in their report.
The boy said that he found the key to their gun safe when he was looking for his Nintendo Switch that had been previously taken away. He allegedly described opening the safe, removing the gun, and walking to his father’s side of the bed.
“He pulled back the hammer and fired the gun at his father,” police said.
The boy faces homicide charges.
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A neighbor named Jesse Weldon told WGAL-TV that he was shocked by the incident.
“They’re very kind. I mean, I didn’t talk to them much. They, you know, kept to themselves over there and just seemed pretty nice. I didn’t expect this,” Weldon said.
The boy was booked into the Perry County Prison, where he is being held without bail.
The couple adopted the boy in 2018, when he would have been about 3 years old.
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Glenn Beck exposes the REAL motive behind Clintons’ Epstein subpoena rejection
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to honor congressional subpoenas requiring them to testify about Jeffrey Epstein and the federal government’s handling of his crimes.
The former president and secretary of state responded with a sharply worded letter to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) — also posted publicly on X — dismissing the probe as partisan politics designed to distract from the Trump administration’s failures, including aggressive ICE operations; January 6 pardons; threats to funding and free speech for universities, media companies, and law firms; the dismantling of national security agencies (such as USAID); and the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time,” the letter declares.
“Really? Now? … Now, when you’re asked to testify in front of Congress under subpoena about Epstein? That’s the straw that broke the camel’s back?” Glenn Beck retorts, calling the timing of their sudden “fight” for “principles” suspiciously convenient.
Their letter and refusal aren’t about justice or principle at all — they’re about what the Clintons have always prized most: self-preservation.
In the letter, Washington’s most scandal-ridden, slippery duo wrote, “You accepted the least from those who know the most but demand the most from those who know the least. To say that you can’t complete your work without speaking to us is simply bizarre.”
Glenn finds this statement so absurd, it’s almost funny. “Is there anybody that was closer to Epstein than Bill and Hillary Clinton? I mean, maybe not Hillary, but Bill? I mean, he was there all the time,” he claps back. “In the stairway of the Epstein mansion was that weird-ass picture of Bill Clinton in the dress with his legs draped over wearing heels.”
The letter also addressed the potential for contempt of Congress charges. “We expect you will direct your committee to seek to hold us in contempt,” they wrote, denouncing such an act as a partisan move that will only halt Congress.
In 2022, however, Hillary Clinton publicly supported holding both Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro — former Trump advisers — in contempt of Congress for defying the Jan. 6 subpoenas.
But now that the same fate is staring them in the face, the Clintons are suddenly calling it “injustice.”
“You don’t get to suddenly sound like James Madison after you spent four straight years trying to put Donald Trump in prison by any means necessary,” Glenn says, recalling that “it was Hillary Clinton that started the whole Russiagate thing.”
“[The Clintons] did everything — Russian collusion, manufactured intelligence, leaked FISA warrants, media operation masquerading as journalism, all of that stuff,” he continues. “Now, we know that all of this stuff is based on lies, so when I hear warnings about the Justice Department being used as a cudgel, … when I hear lectures about intimidation and subpoena and punishments of enemies, you know, I don’t dismiss them, but I also don’t forget who the people were that normalized it.”
The truth is, everyone who was tied to Epstein in any way — not excluding President Trump — should be questioned, Glenn says.
“Doesn’t mean they all go to jail. Doesn’t mean they all did something. But you should be questioned — all of them,” he says.
“I don’t want show trials. I don’t want immunity for friends or punishment for enemies. … I want equal justice under the law — you know, the kind written in the Constitution and almost never practiced by anybody in power lately.”
But Glenn knows the odds of real justice ever catching up to the Clintons are slim to none.
“They’re above it all,” he acknowledges.
To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.
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Slate smear fails: DHS torpedoes anti-Trump agitator’s ‘lazy lie’ about infiltrating ICE
Slate magazine published a hit piece by an anti-Trump propagandist on Tuesday suggesting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does such a poor job of screening applicants that “trigger-happy” criminals — or even subversive Antifa apologists — could find themselves with badges.
“A few months ago, ICE hired me,” Laura Jedeed, the self-identified “anti-ICE journalist” behind the piece, noted in a summary of her article on X. “I didn’t sign and submit any paperwork. I’m real outspoken about my opinion of the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable[.] And yet, there it was, in plain English. ‘Welcome to ICE!'”
‘ICE had officially hired me.’
Liberal rags such as the Guardian and Democracy Now! rushed to amplify Jedeed’s tale, along with her suggestion that if she made it through the recruitment process, then pedophiles, rapists, white supremacists, and other unsavory characters might similarly be securing ICE jobs.
The Department of Homeland Security stated, however, that the Slate article’s core claim was “a lazy lie.”
This response was met in turn with a community note on X casting doubt on the agency’s denial.
After corresponding with both parties, Blaze News learned that contrary to the 38-year-old leftist’s suggestion, ICE neither hired Jedeed nor sent her a final offer.
In her article, Jedeed claimed she spoke to a recruiter and submitted her resume at an ICE career expo in Texas last August, working under the presumption that her time serving in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, her repeat deployments to Afghanistan, and her civilian analyst work might “tantalize a recruiter for America’s Gestapo-in-waiting.”
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Jedeed indicated that on Sept. 3, she received a tentative offer instructing her to log on to USAJobs, fill out a declaration for federal employment, and submit several documents, including driver’s license information, an affidavit that she never received a domestic violence conviction, and a form consenting to a background check.
‘I never received an emailed final offer.’
Despite supposedly doing “exactly none of these things,” she allegedly received an email three weeks later indicating that she had confirmed her intention to continue with the hiring process and asking her to complete a pre-employment drug test.
The leftist suggested that she subsequently traveled to her local LabCorp, underwent a drug test with THC potentially coursing through her system, and then — nine days later — discovered that “ICE had apparently offered me a job.”
“According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was ‘EOD’ — Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period,” she wrote. “I moused over the exclamation mark next to ‘Onboarding’ and a helpful pop-up appeared. ‘Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!'”
In a video Jedeed shared online, the ICE recruitment portal appears to indicate that she was in the fifth and final stage of onboarding for the role of deportation officer, despite indications that she not yet completed the drug or physical fitness tests. The video also appears to show the ICE portal state welcome Jedeed to ICE and specify that her EOD was on Sept. 30.
“By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me,” Jedeed wrote. “Perhaps, if I’d accepted, they would have demanded my pre-employment paperwork, done a basic screening, realized their mistake, and fired me immediately.”
While the DHS did not comment on the authenticity of Jedeed’s video, a spokesperson told Blaze News, “This individual was NEVER offered a job at ICE. Applicants may receive a Tentative Selection Letter following their initial application and interview that is not a job offer.”
The agency’s careers page states that “following receipt of a tentative selection letter, you must complete per-employment requirements. These requirements vary by position. All positions require security vetting and drug test. You may also be required to pass a medical exam, fitness exam and oral board interview.”
The page notes further that “a tentative selection letter remains tentative until all pre-employment requirements are met for the position.”
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When asked about the DHS statement to Blaze News, Jedeed said, “I did not receive a final offer, nor did I accept one.”
Jedeed noted in a follow-up email, “To clarify: I did not receive a final offer in the mail.”
“I never received an emailed final offer — the portal indicated that I had already accepted that offer, as you can see from the screen capture posted on X,” she wrote.
When asked whether she suspected or had any reason to believe that the system would have barred her from proceeding upon hitting the accept button, Jedeed told Blaze News:
I do not know what would have happened had I hit that accept button on the ICE portal. It’s possible they would have asked for the paperwork — I certainly hope so. But the fact I already had an EOD date before filling out paperwork which the tentative job offer described as mandatory for proceeding to the next phase of the hiring process (final offer, onboarding), and the fact that my background check showed up as completed, are reasons for concern.
While she was not hired, did not receive a final offer, and has conceded that perhaps what she experienced on the ICE recruitment portal was “some kind of computer glitch,” Jedeed nevertheless suggested in her Slate piece that her recruitment experience is indicative of a broader problem at the agency — a problem that set the stage for Renee Nicole Good’s death.
“How are we to trust ICE’s allegedly thorough investigations of the people they detain and deport when they can’t even keep their HR paperwork straight?” Jedeed wrote. “And if they’re not going to screen me out, what hope is there of figuring out which recruit might one day turn into a trigger-happy agent who would forget that law enforcement officers are trained not to stand in front of vehicles, get jumpy, and shoot a 37-year-old woman to death on the streets of Minneapolis?”
Jedeed, like her fellow travelers in the media, neglected to mention that Good — whom Jedeed claimed was murdered — was shot while driving her SUV into an ICE agent after ignoring multiple lawful orders and interrupting a federal law enforcement operation.
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Kris Bernal on playing a villain: ‘Nagmukha ba kong kontrabida nung nawala na ‘yung chubby cheeks ko?’
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Kris Bernal is open for her career to evolve, admitting she has accepted moving into playing kontrabida characters.
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Rayver Cruz, bagong hurado sa ‘Stars on the Floor” Season 2; P-pop group leaders, sasabak sa dance contest?
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