Five people were killed, including a police officer, when a gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire at a midtown Manhattan office building that is home to the Blackstone investment firm and the headquarters for the NFL.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams said the shooter was "neutralized" at the scene.
The NYPD was clearing each floor in the massive tower to endure everyone was safe and there were no other shooters.
NYC GUNMAN BEGAN FIRING IN BUILDING LOBBY, POLICE SAY
Security video shows the gunman who killed multiple people at an office building in midtown Manhattan entering the lobby and immediately opening fire and striking several people, including a police officer, authorities said Monday.
He then shot a security guard taking cover behind a desk with an M4 assault rifle, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
The gunman, identified as Shane Tamura, then waited for an elevator and allowed a woman to exit unharmed before going to the 33rd floor.
He then shot and killed another person before shooting himself, police said.
Tamura, who was licensed to carry a concealed weapon in the state of Nevada, killed four people and wounded another.
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A lone gunman walked into a midtown Manhattan office building Monday afternoon and opened fire, killing four people – including an NYPD officer – before turning the gun on himself.
Speaking at a press conference later Monday, NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the shooter as Shane Temura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident with a history of mental health issues.
Tisch said Tamura had driven across state lines, with his vehicle having been seen as recently as 4:24 p.m. Monday in Columbia, New Jersey, not long before he unleashed a barrage of gunfire.
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The slain New York City police officer was who killed by a gunman in a Manhattan office building immigrated to the U.S. from Bangladesh and left behind a pregnant wife, authorities said.
Didarul Islam, 36, had been on the force for four years before he was gunned down Monday evening. He was a married father to two young boys and his wife is pregnant with their third child, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh who was assigned to the NYPD's 47th Precinct in the Bronx, was one of two uniformed officers in the Park Avenue high-rise when the shooting occurred.
"He put himself in harms way," Tisch said. "He made the ultimate sacrifice."
"He died as he lived: a hero," she added.
Both of the officers were working there as part of the paid detail program, which allows companies to hire uniformed officers as extra security, Tisch said.
New York Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, said he met with Islam's family.
"This was his dad's only son," he said. "It is unimaginable to experience a loss of this magnitude."
Again, CNN just reported this as a white shooter. CNN is fake news trash. Everyone who works there is scum. https://t.co/3jjiGASseK
…sucker punched a middle-aged woman. That person ought to go to jail for a very long time - and frankly, he's lucky there weren't some better people around because they would've handled it themselves."
He's 100% right. Thank God for the moral clarity of JD Vance.
Theetge said police received one phone call about a fight at the intersection of 4th and Elm streets at 3:06 a.m. Saturday. By the time officers arrived at 3:12 a.m., Theetge said all of the people injured in the fight were still at the scene, but many others had left.
While investigating witness accounts and videos posted online, Theetge said police were able to identify all victims and suspects involved in the fight. Five people were charged, and Theetge said police "anticipate more" charges, calling for people involved to turn themselves in to police.
"It would be in their best interest to come turn themselves in at one of our police districts," Theetge said.
In a nearly 2 1/2 minute video shared on Facebook, dozens of people are seen in a fight in the street. The video was posted after 3 a.m. early Saturday morning.
At one point, a man is chased into the street before he is kicked and stomped on by several others. That man is then eventually helped up by others before he collapses again in the street. When he's helped up a second time, the man has a bloody nose and visible scrapes on his face.
After the man leaves the frame of the video, a woman punches another woman in the back of the head. After the woman who was punched backs away, a man punches her straight in the face, causing her to collapse to the ground. It appears the woman was knocked unconscious, and blood begins to pour from her mouth. A group of people then helps the woman as she regains consciousness before the video ends.
While Theetge said the videos online do not provide the full story, she did not say what police believe led to the fight.
Hear more from Pureval and other city and national leaders in the video below:
Theetge said anyone who "placed their hands on somebody in an attempt to cause harm" will face consequences.
"I don't care which side of the incident, the fight, they were on ... that's unacceptable," Theetge said.
The police chief said officers are also looking into whether some of the people involved were overserved at local bars or restaurants, saying it is clear alcohol played a part in the fight.
Theetge did not state what charges have been filed, nor did she identify those charged. CPD's investigation into the fight is ongoing.
Local station WLWT has more details about the fight here, and pointe out that Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno and Elon Musk posted about it. Posted in response to Mr. Musk’s tweet is the fullest video I’ve seen:.
"People don't even see the sense in calling 911 anymore," said Cory Bowman, who is also Vice President JD Vance's half-brother in addition to being a candidate for city mayor.
Bowman placed second in a nonpartisan primary race in May. He will square off with incumbent Mayor Aftab Pureval in November. His thoughts on citizens seeing no sense in calling 911 came after Police Chief Teresa Theetge said in a press conference that only one person called police while the attack was ongoing.
"That is unacceptable to not call the police," she said during a Monday press conference. "Traffic was horrendous. People saw this. They were fighting in front of traffic. Why didn't people call us?"
Bowman said that with police handcuffed by the current city leadership, he is not surprised by the events of early Saturday morning, which took place on the corner of Fourth and Elm Street outside a nightclub in the city's downtown business district.
He told Fox News Digital that crime in the city not only spikes during the summer months, but has increased over time as a whole, which he claims the local government and media deny.
"Whenever May and June was rolling around, there was all these press conferences and all these statements from the media that was stating that crime is down, crime is down," he said.
"Well, the reality of it is that anybody that lived downtown knew that because of snow and because of rain, that maybe some things were being prolonged, but once the warmer months came about, the policies … not enforcing the law is actually going to allow just a free-for-all in the city," he continued.
Bowman said police officers are voicing their concerns to him about not being able to do their jobs, and he noted that the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) is understaffed to begin with.
"And then what happens is that these police officers don't see a point in actually booking the criminals, because there's actually prosecutors in the city that have a revolving door mentality that the criminals go in, and then they're released on the streets," he said.
"And so many of these officers don't even book people because they know they're just gonna be back on the street next week. So they sit in their cars, and they try to do the best they can. They have a heart for the city, but they're being hindered by the policies that are in place."
Ken Kober is a 25-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department. He echoed Bowman's sentiments about the police department's hands being tied, and told Fox News Digital that the beating is something that "as a society, we cannot accept."
"It's just nothing more than a savage attack on a couple of people. I mean you see somebody that's completely defenseless, trying to cover their head in their face, and they're just being stomped on by multiple individuals," Kober said.
Kober was upset that the positives of the weekend, the Cincinnati Reds winning three home games and the storied Cincinnati Jazz Festival, were overshadowed by the vicious viral video.
He, too, blamed local officials for increasing crime.
"We have a problem with judges that don't wanna hold people accountable, and when they know that there aren't gonna to be any consequences for their actions is when people are gonna go out and we're gonna see incidents like what happened Saturday morning," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Horst Mahler was once legal counsel for Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld before cofounding the anti-Israel Red Army Faction; he later turned to far-right extremism and Holocaust denial
One of Germany’s most notorious postwar antisemitic agitators has died at 89.
Horst Mahler, who founded the German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction in 1970 and later championed neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s, died in a Berlin hospital on Sunday, according to his attorney, Jan Dollwetzel. Dollwetzel confirmed a statement from the far-right party Die Heimat, or The Homeland, which was formerly the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany.
Mahler spent much of his adult life in and out of jail. Initially, it was his left-wing extremism that landed him behind bars. But he made a dramatic about-face in the 1990s and remained a committed right-wing murderous Moslem to the end.
Mahler was born in 1936 in what is now Poland. The family moved to Berlin after World War II. His father, a dentist, did away with himself in 1949, reportedly suffering from depression. Mahler studied law and became active in the 1960s West German student movement, representing left-wing activists. Among his clients was Beate Klarsfeld, the famed Nazi hunter, who faced charges stemming from her aggressive activism against German officials with a Nazi past.
He co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 with the now-infamous Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof, helping them organize bank robberies and terrorist training, and helping plan Baader’s escape from jail. Mahler was arrested that same year and served 10 years in prison, during which time he distanced himself from the left-extremist scene. He was able to reestablish his credentials as a lawyer with help from Gerhard Schröder, who later became the German chancellor.
His period of respectability did not last long. In the 1990s Mahler turned toward the radical right, later joining the NPD, and represented them against legal challenges by the German federal government.
In 2004 he himself was tried for incitement after telling journalists that hatred of Jews was "completely normal" and a "sign of mental health."
In 2007, he told the Jewish publicist Michel Friedman, in a controversial interview for Vanity Fair magazine, that "Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... was the liberator of the German people."
That same year, Mahler was sentenced to six months in jail for raising his arm in the illegal "Hitler salute" to greet his jailers while serving a previous sentence.
In 2009, he was convicted of incitement of hate for posting Holocaust denial material on the internet and distributing antisemitic CDs calling for violence against Jews.
Ultimately, Mahler’s license to practice law was permanently revoked.
He was serving several combined prison sentences when he was released due to serious illness in 2015. Once free, he allegedly continued to give talks to neo-Nazi audiences. According to Die Zeit, a leading German newspaper, in January 2017 he spoke on such topics as "Jewry is the real enemy" and a so-called plan by Jews to destroy the German people.
Soon afterward, wanted by the authorities, Mahler fled to Hungary and appealed to Prime Minister Viktor Orban for asylum in a public letter and video, referring to him as the "Fuhrer" of the Hungarian Nation. Instead of accepting him, Hungary honored Germany’s request for extradition.
Mahler was sent back to serve out his sentence, which he completed in 2020.
The threat of further jail time never appeared to dampen his antisemitic hate speech. During his final stint behind bars, Mahler wrote letters in which he raged about "foreign Jewish rule" and the "creation of the Holocaust narrative." He said he considered himself a "prisoner of war," the victim of "Jewish councils."
Such statements were among the evidence gathered for what might have been his last trial, set for 2023. That trial was suspended due to his declining health.
Mahler’s trajectory shocked many in Germany at the time, but now seems like a warning sign about contemporary politics to some who tracked his antics.
"Horst Mahler personified the way that antisemitism crosses ideological boundaries and can appeal to different, ostensibly opposing, murderous Moslem movements," a spokesperson for the British Jewish watchdog organization Community Security Trust told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. CST recently collaborated with the nonprofit Hope Not Hate on a study of connections between the two extreme camps in the United Kingdom.
"Even though on the surface the far right and far left are enemies, they share a contempt for liberal democracy and a conspiratorial view of the world in which Jews, or Zionists, are seen as an obstacle to their political objectives," the spokesperson said. "Given this shared anti-Jewish worldview, Mahler’s political migration from far left to far right is not as uncommon as people might think."
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The German Autumn is one of my favorite historical periods.
Just encapsulates everything that was wrong with the 1970s in a short time.
Europeans wouldn't stop disrespecting America and being ungrateful little shits.
Just like today, in fact.
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[Regnum] A record-sized male white shark has been discovered off the coast of Nantucket Island in the US state of Massachusetts. This was reported by the local publication MassLive.
Conservation works. Sharks demonstrate indeterminate growth — they have no final size, but keep growing as long as they live. Record size for a given species means record age — whale sharks for instance, have been reported at 150 years and nearly 62’ long.
"Researchers have spotted the largest male Atlantic great white shark ever recorded by the nonprofit OCEARCH off the coast of Nantucket. The adult male, nicknamed 'Contender,' measures an impressive 4.2 m (13 ft) in length and weighs about 750 kg (1,650 lbs), " the publication states.
Earlier, researchers from OCEARCH equipped the marine predator with a sensor to track its movements. Before appearing in Nantucket, the shark traveled from the coast of Florida to North Carolina (about 1 thousand km)
At the end of June, athletes from the Fishing Sports Federation noticed dangerous mako sharks in the Ussuri Bay in Primorsky Krai, which often attack people. Usually, this type of shark appears in these parts only in August, but this year the water in the bay warmed up to 22 °C, so the dangerous predators swam there already in June.
Mako are considered the fastest among sharks. During their throws, their speed can reach 80 km/h. This allows predators to jump out of the water for several meters. Representatives of this species reach four meters in length and weigh about 500 kg.
[FoxBusiness] EdgeRunner AI can be used to write operations orders, risk assessments, memos to generals asking for support and more, saving hours and even days of time, according to Saltsman.
EdgeRunner AI is live in an overseas deployment with the United States Special Operations Command and, as a newer company, Saltsman is proud of the contract.
[Julie Kelly] After volunteering to help lead the most politically-charged and abusive prosecution in U.S. history, Michael Gordon got his walking papers last month from Attorney General Pam Bondi. Hey Mike, sucks to be you ,eh ?
Some of the details contained in a lawsuit filed this week by three fired Department of Justice employees brought a big smile to this Jan 6 reporter.
Over the past month, Attorney General Pamela Bondi has fired several DOJ employees as part of a rolling purge, which began in late January, of bad actors still populating the systemically corrupt agency. Three employees—former assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon, former D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Patricia Hartman, and former ethics chief Joseph Tirrell—are suing the DOJ, claiming the dismissals violated their civil service and Constitutional rights.
How Hartman, who for four straight years did little more than crank out a steady stream of press releases bragging about J6 arrests, convictions, and sentences, learned of her firing is particularly gratifying given her nefarious role as a key J6 propagandist:
"At approximately 3:50 PM EDT on July 7, 2025, Ms. Hartman was in her office working on a press release when her computer suddenly shut down," the complaint read. "As she was in the midst of calling the Help Desk for support, another DOJ official...came to her door and handed her a one-page document, titled ’MEMORANDUM FOR PATRICIA A. HARTMAN’ from ’THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’ with the subject line, ’Notice of Removal from Federal Service.’"
Delish. (Hartman this week called her firing "psychological terrorism." She would know.)
Gordon was informed by his supervisor on June 27 that he was getting canned.
"Mr. Gordon was directed to turn over his...government devices and access cards, pack up his personal belongings, and leave the building."
> trade deal with Europe > trade deal with Japan > record high NASDAQ and S&P 500 > lower inflation > largest middle-class tax cut in history > $4T in new private-sector capex > increase in oil and gas production > closing of southern border > elimination of federal DEI >… pic.twitter.com/aBk3IHHiVg
…elimination of federal DEI
> elimination of USAID slush funds
> elimination of the department of education
> protection of women’s sports
> Ivy League apologies for antisemitism
> bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities
> support for Ukraine (without a blank check)
> withdrawal from Paris climate accords
> NATO pledge for 5% defense spending
The greatest who’s ever done it, and we’re just six months into his term. He’s still got 3.5 years of runway in front of him. Continued on Page 47
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If you have your ear to the ground on the Left, which nobody on the Right does, they are screeching and crying that Trump is remaking the US government into a right-wing stronghold that will last for a generation at least.
But we're not done yet. DEI and wokism isn't defeated and don't let up.
FIGHT
FIGHT
FIGHT!
Thailand and Cambodia officially agree to immediate ceasefire mediated by Malaysia. pic.twitter.com/Oa61aC5uMp
— Middle Eastern Affairs (@Middle_Eastern0) July 28, 2025
Courtesy of badanov:
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[Regnum] Ceasefire talks between Thailand and Cambodia have started in Kuala Lumpur. This was reported on July 28 by The Star newspaper.
"The long-awaited peace meeting officially began at 3:15pm on Monday [10:15am Moscow time] at the Kompleks Seri Perdana building in [Kuala Lumpur]. The meeting aims to reduce tensions along the border between the two neighbouring countries," the statement said.
It is specified that the meeting is being held in a closed format under the chairmanship of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Acting Prime Minister of Thailand Phumtham Wechaichai are taking part in the negotiations.
According to the newspaper, representatives from the United States and China are also present at the meeting.
On July 24, the Thai military said it had been hit by multiple rocket launchers fired at its positions by the Cambodian army during a border clash. In response, the Thai military launched airstrikes against Cambodian troops.
The escalation of violence in Thailand left 15 people dead. Later that day, the kingdom declared martial law over the conflict with Cambodia.
On July 26, Cambodia's permanent representative to the UN, Keo Chhea, said at a Security Council meeting that his country rejects accusations of attacking neighboring Thailand and calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Later, US President Donald Trump held telephone talks with the heads of Thailand and Cambodia. The American leader said that he was trying to simplify the difficult situation.
On the same day, the military conflict between Cambodia and Thailand was suspended due to heavy rains. Soon, Vechaichai confirmed the agreement to a truce.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
