https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/vivek-ramaswamy-alarmed-over-bodyguards-arrest-justin-salsburey-federal-drug-trafficking-charges

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's family said their now-federally charged bodyguard passed all of his background checks and drug tests.

Justin Salsburey, of Bellefontaine, was arrested late last year, accused of using the U.S. postal system for drugs. His wife, Ruthann Rankin, a teacher at Urbana City Schools, was similarly charged in federal court earlier this week.

State and federal law enforcement said they seized counterfeit pills testing positive for the presence of fentanyl, methamphetamine, MDMA, and other "suspected controlled substances and steroids."

Prior to his arrest, Salsburey worked for ARK Protection Group and was on Ramaswamy's security detail, per Connie Luck, spokesperson for Ramaswamy.

"Vivek’s family contracts with a private security firm for protective services and was alarmed to hear this disturbing news. Upon being informed of this matter in recent days, the outside security firm immediately removed the individual from the security detail," she said.

Luck said that Salsburey cleared multiple background checks, including FBI and BCI background checks. He also never failed a drug screening.

"Vivek and his family take matters of safety seriously and support efforts to hold these individuals accountable for these allegations if they are proven."

U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in December amid job losses in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors.

Economists have blamed sluggish job growth on President Donald Trump's aggressive trade and immigration policies, which they say have reduced both demand for and supply of workers.

Businesses are also holding back on hiring, unsure of their staffing needs as they invest heavily in artificial intelligence. The economy is experiencing a jobless expansion, with growth and worker productivity surging in the third quarter, which was partly attributed to AI.

"The weak job-growth story can't be brushed aside. Hiring is still stuck in stall speed, and job growth in the cyclical parts of the economy isn't sending a comforting signal."

The labor market lost considerable momentum last year, with only 584,000 jobs added, averaging 49,000 positions per month. Roughly 2 million jobs were created in 2024

The BLS has estimated about 911,000 fewer jobs were created in the 12 months through March 2025 than previously reported.

With factors like tariffs and AI preventing companies from hiring more workers, economists increasingly view the labor market's challenges as more structural than cyclical, which would make rate cuts less effective to stimulate job growth.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-job-growth-slows-december-unemployment-rate-eases-44-2026-01-09/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-webpage-january-6-attack/

A new webpage under the official whitehouse.gov domain, rolled out five years after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, rewrites the history of the attack on the Capitol that took place as Congress was affirming Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.

The website expresses views long promoted by President Trump that the Jan. 6 attack was a "peaceful march," blames Capitol Police for "escalating tensions," and repeats Mr. Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

"The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as 'insurrectionists' and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump—despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government," the new webpage says.

White House spokesperson Steven Cheung posted a link to it on social media and wrote "Want to know the TRUTH? Get all the facts here." The White House's official X account also posted a link to it, writing "Now see the REAL Jan. 6 story."

Thousands of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol that day and breached the building after smashing through windows on the first floor. They vandalized the Capitol, forced the evacuation of lawmakers and their staff and assaulted police officers on site with flagpoles, bear spray and other objects. More than 150 officers were injured. Five police officers who served at the Capitol died in the days and weeks afterward.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-january-6-remarks-00712597
President Donald Trump continued to deny responsibility for the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on the fifth anniversary of the riot, launching a White House webpage trying to reframe history and giving a speech to House Republicans blaming his political opponents and the media for the attack.

Trump’s actions Tuesday — which came during a broader address during House Republicans’ daylong retreat in Washington — are part of a yearslong pattern of the president downplaying his supporters’ attempt to stop the certification of his 2020 election loss.

Trump on Tuesday accused then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being at fault for much of the fallout and said that the media hadn’t accurately reported statements he made before Congress voted to ultimately certify his 2020 election loss.

“Do you know that the news never reported the words walk or march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol?” the president said. “Do you know that they never reported it? It’s a scandal.”

Also on Tuesday, the White House launched a website that accused Democrats of going after “innocent Americans,” silencing opponents and distracting “from their own role in undermining Democracy.” Pelosi’s face is emblazoned at the top of the site, along with members of the House Jan. 6 committee, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney.

Trump’s opponents, the website claimed, had “masterfully reversed reality after January 6.”

“In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power,” the White House wrote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/rubio-urges-trump-to-leave-unfccc-00487331

President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world’s overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures.

The announcement to sever ties with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change came as Trump quit dozens of international organizations that the White House says no longer serve U.S. interests by promoting radical climate policies and other issues. It was outlined in a memo by the White House. Trump has called on other countries to abandon their carbon-cutting measures, and the move appears to be his latest attempt to destabilize global climate cooperation.

The 1992 UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts by 198 countries to slow the rate of rising climate pollution. It has universal participation. The U.S. was the first industrialized nation to join the treaty following its ratification under former President George H.W. Bush- and it will be the only nation ever to leave it. The move also marks Trump’s intensifying efforts to topple climate efforts compared to his first term, when he decided against quitting the treaty.

"Many of these bodies promote radical climate policies, global governance, and ideological programs that conflict with U.S. sovereignty and economic strength," stated a White House fact sheet.

> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-chief-says-the-u-s-has-legal-obligation-to-fund-agencies-after-trumps-withdrawal-order

UN chief says the U.S. has 'legal obligation' to fund agencies after Trump's withdrawal order

NEW YORK (AP) — The top United Nations official on Thursday said the United States has a "legal obligation" to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it is withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he regretted President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from 31 U.N.-related agencies, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations. The U.S. will also depart from dozens of other global organizations or initiatives not affiliated with the U.N.

"As we have consistently underscored, assessed contributions to the United Nations regular budget and peacekeeping budget, as approved by the General Assembly, are a legal obligation under the UN Charter for all Member States, including the United States," Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for Guterres, said in a statement.

He added that despite the announcement, the U.N. entities targeted will keep doing their work: "The United Nations has a responsibility to deliver for those who depend on us."

The strong retort from the U.N. comes after the world body has spent the better part of the past year in a somewhat hostile and fragile back-and-forth with U.S. officials, who, after Trump's return to office, zeroed in on eliminating billions of dollars in aid and funding to international organizations like the U.N. and humanitarian assistance at large.

In a blow against cancel culture waged by far right conservatives to censor and silence anyone who speaks out against them, a Tennessee Professor was rewarded their job back after unfairly being fired for comments against far right political commentator Charlie Kirk a day after he was killed by another far right gunman.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2026/01/07/austin-peay-professor-clarksville-tn-fired-charlie-kirk-free-speech-social-media-settlement-lawsuit/88065303007/

Days after being reinstated to his position, a theater professor at Austin Peay State University will receive a $500,000 payout as part of a settlement following his firing in September due to comments he made on social media about conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

A lawyer for Professor Darren Michael confirmed to The Tennessean that Michael will receive $500,000, as well as reimbursement for therapeutic counseling services, as part of a settlement agreement with the Clarksville university.

David King, Michael's attorney, confirmed that while the settlement closes the chapter on restoring Michael's employment, they are "exploring future options" against those who "interfered with (Michael's) First Amendment rights."

The settlement deal was first reported by WKRN.

Michael was reinstated to his position at the school on Dec. 30, 2025, three months after he was originally fired due to comments he made on social media about conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, after the school admitted to not following its termination policy.

Kirk, the founder of the conservative Turning Point USA organization, was killed during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. Following his death, Michael shared an article on his personal social media account titled "Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” which discussed controversial comments made by Kirk shortly after the Covenant School shooting.

Tim the Traitor, betrayer of the US, betrays his donors and voters; now listed as a high value target for leftist terrorists, attempts to distance himself from tRump with slogans.

Walz gives order to prepare National Guard after ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/walz-natinal-guard-ice-officer-fatal-shooting-minneapolis/

The State Emergency Operations Center has been activated in response to the incident, and Walz has issued a warning order to prepare the National Guard.

"I remind you, a warning order is a heads-up for folks, and these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops," Walz said.

The shooting comes amid the announced deployment of 2,000 federal law enforcement members in the Twin Cities metro area, who are expected to probe alleged cases of fraud, building on last month's inspection of dozens of sites in the Minneapolis area.

"We've been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety and that someone was going to get hurt," Walz said.

President Trump said on social media Monday afternoon that the incident was "a horrible thing to watch."

"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense," Mr. Trump said on Truth Social.

Witnesses say they saw a Honda Pilot blocked by multiple federal agents, and an agent tried to open the driver's side door. The motorist then put her vehicle into reverse, then into drive. Witnesses said they then heard three shots fired. The Honda traveled another several feet before crashing into another car. Videos posted on social media corroborate their accounts.

Another would be leftist assassin shamefully murders his own parents in the name of orange man bad. He planned to murder his parents, steal their money to fund the assassination of trump, and then flee to Ukraine afterwards


Wisconsin man accused of killing parents to fund Trump assassination plot pleads guilty to homicide
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-deaths-casap-assassination-plot-06d90305e443449b2516530ab3842bbc

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump pleaded guilty to two homicide counts in a deal with prosecutors Thursday, locking himself into two life prison sentences.

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the deaths of his stepfather, Donald Mayer, and his mother, Tatiana Casap, last year. In exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other charges, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.

Each homicide count carries a mandatory life prison sentence. Judge Ralph Ramirez could choose to make Casap eligible for parole after he serves 20 years on each count when he is sentenced on March 5.

Casap trembled in his seat at the defense table as Ramirez asked him if he understood the ramifications of his pleas and whether he shot his mother and Mayer. He responded “Yes, your honor” to everything.

He lived with decomposing bodies for weeks before fleeing across the country in his father’s SUV, $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather’s gun and the family dog.

Detectives found several messages on Casap’s cellphone from January 2025 in which Casap asks how long he will have to hide before he is moved to Ukraine