A 29-year-old Florida male allegedly stabbed his grandmother 11 times on Mother’s Day after being asked to help carry in groceries.

The West Palm Beach Police Department said it received a call around 1:26 p.m. from a relative reporting that Keo Nottage had stabbed his grandmother, WPEC-TV reported.

‘Someone is going to die today.’

When officers arrived at the scene on 52nd Street, they found Nottage and his cousin involved in a physical altercation, the station said.

The grandmother — who was attacked during the incident — told officers Nottage’s cousin had just returned from the grocery store to prepare for a Mother’s Day dinner, WPEC said.

When the cousin asked Nottage to help bring in groceries, Nottage allegedly replied, “Someone is going to die today,” the station said.

Shortly afterward Nottage entered the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and stabbed his grandmother 11 times, WPEC reported.

Witnesses told the station the cousin tried to help the grandmother during the attack. According to a WPBF-TV video report, Nottage began chasing the cousin with the knife.

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WPEC said that while the cousin was on the phone with police, Nottage tried to flee the scene.

But the cousin stopped Nottage, which led to another physical altercation between the two and resulted in an injury to the cousin’s hand, WPEC said.

Surveillance video and eyewitness accounts confirmed the sequence of events, WPEC said, adding that police subsequently accused Nottage of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

WPBF said Nottage — who appeared in court Monday — is being held without bond.

The grandmother was taken to a hospital for surgery and was in critical condition, WPEC said.

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Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson (D) took it a little too far last week when he screamed in the face of state troopers unprovoked, all because he disagreed with the result of the state’s redistricting special session.

Pearson not only asked the state troopers what was wrong with them while addressing them as “boy,” but he also yelled, “You stupid motherf**ker!”

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is disturbed by the outburst.

“What a juxtaposition, what a transformation that we went from the 1960s, where law enforcement was speaking disrespectfully to black protesters and black people and calling them ‘boy’ and being intimidating to in 2026, we have an elected official, a college-educated person, someone in a suit and tie that is supposed to be a professional person shouting ‘boy’ and dropping ‘MFs’ and all of this other stuff,” Whitlock comments.

“Like, wow, things have changed. And people want to pretend like things haven’t changed, but clearly they have,” he adds.

Whitlock explains that while black politicians like Pearson are framing the redistricting as a “black-white thing,” it’s actually “a Democrat-Republican thing.”

“Republicans, I believe, have a black woman that they want to put in that seat,” he continues, adding, “This is crazy.”

“He’s very dramatic,” Anthony Walker agrees.

“That video was just appalling to me because … if you’re really trying to fight for voter rights, what does this behavior do to support any of that? All it does is support the stereotype. All it does is support, you know, just foolishness,” he adds.

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The man arrested for shooting at security officers at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the alleged assassination attempt.

Cole Tomas Allen is charged with one count of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, one count of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, and two counts of a gun charge.

Public defender Eugene Ohm said that it would be ‘wholly inappropriate’ for two attorneys general to be victims in the case while directing the prosecution’s case.

Allen was captured on surveillance video running through a security checkpoint before he fired his shotgun and was shot by an officer who saw him approaching. Investigators allegedly found a handgun and knives in his possession as well.

Investigators found a note allegedly written by Allen where he appeared to apologize in advance to his family for the assassination plot. He also left a manifesto and a long digital footprint documenting his hatred for the president and other members of his administration.

On Monday, he pleaded not guilty in court.

Allen’s attorneys have filed a motion to disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from the case as well as the other attorneys general from the Washington, D.C., office. They argue that Pirro’s statements to the media suggest they are “purported victims and witnesses” of the alleged assassination plot.

Public defender Eugene Ohm said that it would be “wholly inappropriate” for two attorneys general to be victims in the case while directing the prosecution’s case.

The government has until June 22 to respond to the motion.

If convicted, Allen faces life in prison for the charges.

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Many were outraged when Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui apologized to Allen over the conditions of his imprisonment at the Washington, D.C., jail. He was placed on suicide restrictions, despite being cleared as a suicide risk.

“These conditions are excessive restrictions on his liberty that serve no justifiable purpose and deprive Mr. Allen of dignity while incarcerated,” his attorneys argued.

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Former FBI counterintelligence agent Wayne Barnes says one of the best ways to catch a spy is to ask a simple question — like when his birthday is.

Barnes, whose new book “A Traitor in the FBI: The Hunt for a Russian Mole” came out last month, spent nearly 30 years in counterintelligence, where he debriefed a record number of Soviet and Soviet-Bloc assets. In an interview with Align, Barnes described the psychological tactics, subtle tells, and ethical contrasts that defined Cold War espionage.

‘You have to have the straightest poker face you could ever imagine.’

Born yesterday

While Barnes acknowledges that his career could occasionally involve the kind of dramatic deception shown in the movies, he often employed more mundane subterfuge.

Take the man from Afghanistan who applied to join the FBI in the 1980s. While his background could have made him a useful asset, Barnes, then working as a security officer in Washington, D.C., wanted to vet him first.

The interview happened in late December. Noticing that the man had listed his birthday as January 1 on his application, Barnes decided to see how he handled a simple question.

“I asked, ‘Do you have any plans for your birthday?’ and he said, ‘Why’d you ask that?’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s in a couple weeks.'”

Without thinking, the man corrected Barnes: “Oh no, my birthday is July 6.”

“For most people, the day they were born is a day that they won’t forget,” Barnes remembers telling the applicant.

From there, the man’s story began to fall apart. Eventually the agency concluded that the applicant was working for the Afghan mujahideen.

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Poker face

Barnes describes his interview technique as a “verbal polygraph”; it’s not an exact science, but if you know what you’re doing, it will “ferret out” a lot of people.

That required intense discipline from FBI agents themselves. When debriefing Soviet intelligence officers or defectors, Barnes says agents had to carefully conceal what they already knew.

“You have to have the straightest poker face you could ever imagine,” he says.

Agents would sometimes spread out photographs of Soviet embassy personnel they suspected of spying and casually ask whether the subject had seen them at a restaurant, training class, or bar. Every response mattered — not just what was said, but how long someone spoke, how nervous they appeared, or whether they seemed too rehearsed.

“[Did] he talk about him too long? Did he talk about him too short?” Barnes explains. “Debriefing intelligence officers is very tricky … and … very narrow.”

Barnes also notes that it was standard for agents from the Soviet Bloc to claim they had already compromised Western forces.

“Whether the Romanians or Czechs, or Poles or Hungarians, they always say, ‘Oh, we have you penetrated.'”

On the hook

Barnes also describes how Soviet operatives recruited Americans willing to sell secrets.

“Follow a guy from the Soviet embassy in his car. He leaves at 5:30, and [you] see he lives in a garden apartment someplace in Alexandria, Virginia,” Barnes details.

“He goes inside, and you have a note in your hand, and you put it under his windshield wiper, and the next morning he gets it. It says, ‘I have secrets to sell …'”

“The Russians almost always followed through,” Barnes says.

At first, the payments were small — just enough to create leverage.

“They’d say, ‘This was good stuff, but it’s only worth $5,000. If you want another $5,000, you need to bring more.'”

Once an American accepted money, Barnes says, fear and blackmail often kept them cooperating. In reality, however, the chances of the Russians exposing a spy were slim.

“The Russians won’t turn him in,” Barnes explains, as their priority is to extract as much information as possible.

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Moral difference

The Soviets were also not above pressuring their own agents by threatening family members, Barnes says.

“If your brother’s in college, his life is over,” Barnes says. “That’s the leverage [they] had on the KGB people.”

For Barnes, that dynamic highlighted what he viewed as a major moral difference between the United States and the Soviet Union. While Soviet intelligence services allegedly threatened defectors’ families, American handlers often tried to help them — including offering medical assistance or protection.

Many Soviet defectors, Barnes adds, changed sides not because of ideology, but because they realized they had been lied to about life in America.

“They’d come here and see stores full of food — entire stores just selling cheese,” Barnes says. “It was a, ‘They’ve been lying to me,’ sort of realization.”

That contrast, he says, often planted the seed for future cooperation with American intelligence.

“We live in a land of freedom,” Barnes concludes. “Compared to the Soviet Union, there’s nothing like America. … Their system was set up in such a way that was so different than ours. … So it was really a terrible place.”

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A German couple has been sentenced on charges related to the horrific abuse of their three children out of fear of the coronavirus pandemic.

Police said they rescued the three children in April 2025 from their home in Oviedo, Spain. They arrested the two parents after discovering the disturbing living conditions in the home.

When they were allowed outside, the kids touched the grass.

The children hadn’t been seen outside for years, and police reported that when they were allowed outside, the kids touched the grass and began breathing “as if they had never done so before in their lives.”

They also saw a snail and “were completely fascinated.”

Police reportedly found bags and bags of garbage inside of the home, and the children had no devices, no television, and didn’t even have shoes in their sizes. The children were reportedly kept in diapers and sleeping in cribs.

The children, who were between the ages of 8 and 10 at the time, were reportedly hunched over and bow-legged when rescued. The Sun published some of the shocking photos of the conditions inside the home.

Christian Steffen, 54, and Melissa Ann Steffen, 49, were arrested and charged with child abuse, domestic violence with habitual psychological abuse, and illegal detention.

Prosecutors sought 25 years in prison for the parents, but the Provincial Court of Asturias sentenced them on Monday to only two years and 10 months in prison each.

Police believe the children were locked up from 2021 until their rescue in 2025. They were tipped off by a neighbor who had catalogued the suspicious activity at the home in a notebook.

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The couple also had their parental rights stripped for three years and four months, and they were forbidden from communicating with the children. In addition, they have been ordered to pay the children the equivalent of $35,000 each.

The children are receiving psychological treatment and are in the care of child protective services.

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