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8 People Rescued After Apartment Building Partially Collapses In Iowa

Authorities in Davenport, Iowa are conducting a massive search and rescue operation after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed Sunday evening. So far, authorities have not released the number of any possible casualties or injuries. It’s unclear what caused the building to crumble, but officials say that they found a gas leak and water leaking when they arrived at the scene. Eight have been saved so far. 

Debt Deal Latest

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevi. McCarthy (R-CA) struck a deal over the weekend to raise the nation’s debt ceiling – with the clock ticking down on default. The Democratic president and Republican House speaker reached a final agreement late on Sunday, as negotiators scrambled to draft and submit the bill text for review. The text includes various spending cuts and increased work requirements for food stamp recipients, which Democrats had initially called a non-starter. Congress has until June 5th to vote on the measure. We’ll discuss the latest on the negotiations tomorrow morning. 

Target Down $10 Billion

Retail giant Target has lost $10 billion in market capitalization in ten days, apparently due in large part to the backlash over prominent LGBTQ+ PRIDE displays – including transgender-friendly clothing items for children. As of Monday morning, the stock price had dropped to under $140 per share which translates to a 14% decrease in value for the Minnesota-based company.

Idaho Murder Victims’ Families Want Death Penalty

The families of two of the four victims slain in the University of Idaho killings last year reportedly have signaled that they support the death penalty for the 28-year-old man accused of the quadruple murder. The suspect was indicted on charges including first-degree murder of four friends and college students — Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen — who were stabbed to death on November 13, 2022. 

Texas AG Impeached

Following an investigation into allegations of corruption, the Texas House of Representatives took the unprecedented move to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday.  

The vote triggered an automatic temporary suspension of Paxton until the state senate trial is over. Paxton faces 20 articles of impeachment — including accusations of violating the state’s whistleblower law, entering into a settlement agreement with the whistleblowers that provides for payment of the settlement from public funds,” violating the Securities Act, and more. Paxton has slammed the impeachment as “illegal, unethical, and profoundly unjust” after the vote. Now, the state senate will begin its trial which requires two-thirds support for the removal of the attorney general. We’ll have a full report tomorrow morning. 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan  Re-election

Turkey’s incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan cruised to re-election in a historic run-off vote over the weekend. Turkey’s Supreme Election Council declared Erdogan the winner on Sunday, and he will now remain in office until 2028. Ergodan, who has been in office since 2008, said “The only winner today is Turkey.”  His supporters filled the streets of Turkey in celebration.

BREAKING — Erdogan declares victory in Turkey’s runoff elections

“The winner of this election is all 85 million strong Turkish nation,” he says

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— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) May 28, 2023

A New Jersey woman incarcerated at a state women’s correctional facility alleges a male transfer who identifies as female assaulted her after several instances of sexual harassment.

Shakira Reed, an inmate at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, told Reduxx in an exclusive report that a trans-identifying male named Jermain Gibson allegedly repeatedly punched Reed in the head, resulting in a broken nose and two black eyes in a scene that witnesses described left “blood everywhere.”

“I was attacked because I didn’t want to have sex with him,” Reed told Reduxx.

Prison authorities transferred Reed to Hunterdon Medical Center, where she received medical care before returning to the correctional facility’s on-site hospital unit. Following the assault, authorities punished both Gibson and Reed in holding cells in a 90-day “lockup” away from other inmates.

Reed said the assault occurred after weeks of sexual harassment from Gibson, including the inmate exposing himself to her as she walked past his cell. She reported the incident to authorities but said Gibson was not punished.

An anonymous female inmate told Reduxx that she witnessed Gibson sexually assaulting Reed.

“I lived on the wing with both of them. Gibson continuously harassed Reed and would often speak in his man voice because he thought it was funny when he was asked not to because it had made the women uncomfortable,” she said, according to the outlet.

“During the days leading up to the actual incident, he kept egging her on. When it actually took place, I could hear it. I didn’t see it, but it was so loud we heard them down the wing, and this took place in the rec room. We could hear Shakira yelling, ‘Stop hitting me!'”

“The recent events here are just unimaginable, and honestly, if I wasn’t living them, I wouldn’t even believe them. People need to know what this has been like for us because no one has ever come to ask us how we feel about them being here. This is misogyny within misogyny.”

Gibson, who is serving a mandatory minimum term of five years in connection with robbery charges, is one of over two dozen men who identify as female that have been transferred into the women’s correctional facility, Reduxx reported.

Multiple women have provided testimony to the outlet detailing ongoing sexual harassment and other related experiences by the male transfers at the women’s only prison.

Last year, another male inmate who identifies as a woman reportedly impregnated two females being held at the women’s only prison.

The double pregnancy occurred less than a year after the state began adopting new radical gender theory practices in its prison system, including placing inmates in the facility based on their gender identification.

Dan Sperrazza, New Jersey’s Department of Correction’s external affairs executive director, told NJ.com last year that “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person” likely led to the two becoming pregnant.

In 2021, the state of New Jersey began enforcing radical gender theory in its correctional system. The change occurred after the state was sued by an anonymous prisoner who was being kept in men’s prisons despite identifying as a female.

Tim Meads contributed to this report.