Lawless behavior seems to be a common theme, especially in blue states like California.

Fox News obtained video surveillance that showed three burglars wearing masks who broke into a Southern California boutique last Sunday. They stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods, including high-end handbags and jewelry.

Early Sunday morning, the Bella Abby and Ava Boutique in Newport Beach was broken into. The surveillance camera showed the three criminals breaking in through the front door. They had garbage bags, which they used to fill with high-end handbags.

Jennifer Sprenger, the owner of the boutique, told the local affiliate ABC News 7 that they stole all of the Chanel and Hermes handbags.

Fox News Reported:

Surveillance video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the moments a band of three masked burglars smashed their way into a California luxury handbag store earlier this week, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise.

On Sunday, just before 4 a.m., The Bella Abby and Ava Boutique in Newport Beach fell victim to a heist during which three thieves were caught on camera breaking through the store’s front door and stuffing garbage bags full of high-end purses before driving off.

“They went right to the Chanels. They wiped out all of those. Then they grabbed all of the Hermès, and then they just started throwing things down,” owner Jennifer Sprenger told ABC 7.

“Within minutes, the bandits made off with over $200,000 in stolen luxury items, the outlet reported.” Fox News Reported.

It was reported that the thieves fled in luxury vehicles. A Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 and a BMW 4 Series. It was also reported that the license plates were not identified.

Sprenger explained that she is a single mom and has three daughters in college. She said that the burglars got away with about half the boutique’s inventory.

This location of her business has been there for about one year. She felt that the burglars may have had prior knowledge of the store’s security and layout.

“They knew where the lights were,” Sprenger added, according to ABC 7. “They shut off the video cameras. They turned cameras. How would they know where all this was? It’s like it was a very well thought-out, planned attack.” Fox News Reported.

Jennifer Sprenger hired a private investigator to help find the criminals who stole her merchandise and has offered $10,000 for information that could lead to their capture.

ABC 7 News Report.

Watch:

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The New York Times is dumbfounded as to what could be causing the fall in murder rates across the United States.

The Times was the first to report on the news that the U.S. murder rate had hit a 125-year low after President Donald Trump’s first year back in office.

According to data from the nonpartisan think tank, The Council on Criminal Justice, it is estimated that the homicide rate dropped 21 percent from 2024 to 2025.

“When nationwide data for jurisdictions of all sizes is reported by the FBI later this year, there is a strong possibility that homicides in 2025 will drop to about 4.0 per 100,000 residents,” the organization said.

”That would be the lowest rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900, and would mark the largest single-year percentage drop in the homicide rate on record,” they continued.

NYT: Murder Rate Hits 125-Year Low in Trump’s First Year Back in Office — Biggest Single-Year Drop Ever

However, the paper has now claimed that “no one knows for sure” what is causing the massive decline.

While the Times asserted that Trump would try to take credit for the figures because of his tough approach to law and order, it has suggested that the two things are not correlated.

Their report stated:

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Democrats have been in control of Virginia for about ten minutes now and they are already enacting radically left wing political policies.

In addition to the outrageous changes they’re making in Virginia’s tax policies, they are also going after the prestigious Virginia Military Institute. They can’t stand the fact that the institute doesn’t have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Because of this, they are threatening funding to the school and are even talking about placing it under the governance of Virginia State University, a historically black college.

Cardinal News in Virginia reports:

Pair of bills would look at stripping governance, funding from VMI

Two Democrats in the commonwealth’s House of Delegates have taken aim at the Virginia Military Institute.

The bills follow five years of scrutiny of the culture and leadership of the public military college in Lexington. In addition, Virginia’s new governor has taken action to remake the governing board at the school after Democratic lawmakers have criticized it for being too conservative under former Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Del. Dan Helmer, D-Fairfax County, filed a bill Wednesday that would create a task force to determine whether VMI should continue to be a state-sponsored higher education institution. A bill filed Tuesday by Del. Michael Feggans, D-Virginia Beach, would dissolve VMI’s board of visitors and put the governance of the college under Virginia State University’s board of visitors…

Helmer’s bill, HB 1377, would establish a task force to determine whether VMI should remain a state-sponsored institution.

FOX News has more on this:

Virginia Democrats blasted for threatening historic military college VMI with funding threat over DEI concerns

Virginia Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would establish a task force to investigate the Virginia Military Institute and determine if the historic military college should continue to receive funding.

The move is the latest of Virginia Democrats’ efforts to reinvigorate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy in the state after much of the DEI mandates and policies were revoked after President Donald Trump was elected in 2024.

“This takes away from VMI, takes away from its mission,” Virginia Republican Congressman Rob Wittman told Fox News Digital. “I think that it’s harmful to the Commonwealth of Virginia, harmful to VMI as an institution, harmful to all the incredible military leaders and community leaders that have come out of VMI.”…

Congressman Pat Fallon, R-TX, also serves on the House Armed Services Committee and pointed to newly elected Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger as the culprit of the threat to VMI.

“Less than a month in office as governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger has shown a commitment to turning the commonwealth into California,” Fallon told Fox News Digital. “The left’s renewed focus on VMI is not intended to benefit our military.

Democrats refused to learn anything from the 2024 election and the instant they gained some power again, they showed that they are incapable of change. They’re going to just keep doing what they want to do.

Keep an eye on Virginia. Democrats there are showing what they want to do with the rest of the country.

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Democrats and the media act like ICE was just created last year, under Trump. In truth, they’ve been around for more than 25 years.

What is even more important, is that if you look at the numbers, ICE has a much better record under Trump than it did under Obama. There have been far fewer mistakes under Trump. The left doesn’t care because for them, this is just an excuse to protest Trump.

For them, Obama could do no wrong and Trump can do no right.

But look at this report from the New York Post:

How Trump’s ICE enforcement record blows Obama’s out of the water— by a lot

Let’s set the baseline: Between the president’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration and the end of November, Trump’s administration arrested an extraordinary total of 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000.

The 170 ICE-detained US citizens cited in Stanage’s diatribe included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers, according to the left-leaning ProPublica — justifiable under any reading of the law.

Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE, and just half of those people were held for more than a day; most were released in a few hours.

Any error is serious, but 40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests.

Compare that with the final two years of President Barack Obama’s administration.

In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals.

During those two years, ICE made a mere 239,645 arrests, meaning the 54 mistaken detentions alone produced an Obama error rate of 0.0225% — about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests.

Overall, the error rate under Obama was 3.36 times higher than under Trump.

People are noticing the obvious double standard.

Barack Obama Deportation Record

• 3 Million Formal Removals
• 2.2 Million Returns
• 75% Received NO DUE PROCESS
• 56 Deaths in ICE Custody
• Awarded Tom Homan with highest honor
• Faced 0 Protests

Why the Double Standard with Trump? pic.twitter.com/Nl9DvKJu83

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) January 19, 2026

Barack Obama’s ICE chief received an award for 920,000 removals.

Donald Trump’s ICE chief was called a Nazi.

It’s the same person: Tom Homan.

In 2012, Obama deported 409,000 people.

In 2025, Trump deported 290,000 people.

The difference is mainstream media brainwashing. pic.twitter.com/kFgGmZKFa5

— Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores4TX) January 20, 2026

Weird how nobody had an issue with ICE during the Obama era. It’s almost as though people have been programmed to cry about anything that happens during Trump’s presidency. pic.twitter.com/1buNFd8C1p

— CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN FAN ACCOUNT (@Provokatov) January 20, 2026

The media knows all of this, yet they pretend they don’t. And we all know why.

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We are always happy to highlight it when Bill Maher gets something right. In this case, he called Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, a straight up communist, and he’s right.

Maher zeroed in on many of the comments from Mamdani’s ‘housing czar’ Cea Weaver who has called private home ownership white supremacy.

Of course, in the process Maher had to unfairly criticize Trump and Republicans. For whatever reason, Maher just can’t let go of the belief that Trump is somehow trying to enrich himself through the presidency.

At least he got the part about Mamdani right.

FOX News reports:

Bill Maher calls Mamdani a ‘straight-up communist,’ warns Dems will ‘lose more elections’ if they deny it

Late-night host Bill Maher called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a “straight up communist” and warned Democrats that they will “lose more elections” if they try to deny it.

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Maher noted that “Democrats seem to be having this debate” over whether Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist, and offered to end the debate for them once and for all.

“Let me settle it: He’s a straight-up communist,” he declared.

According to Maher, he knows this to be true by “reading between the lines” after one of the mayor’s advisors, Cea Weaver, said to “elect more communists.”

“Which is fine. It’s fine. It’s a belief system. He’s allowed to believe it, and people are allowed to vote for it,” Maher continued. “But if liberals deny it, like he’s just going through a goth phase, they’re going to lose more elections. This is not a communist country.”

“Really, the choices we get here are either the worst version of crony capitalism or communism, either a side deal for the Trump family every time he does business overseas, or the lady who says, ‘Impoverish the white middle class,’” he said. “Oh yeah, there’s a great campaign slogan for you.”

Check it out below:

Bill Maher exposes Zohran Mamdani as a “straight-up communist” with damning words from his own advisor.

These are real statements from Mamdani’s tenant advocate, Cea Weaver:

• “If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property, it’s over.”

•… pic.twitter.com/pPhaTKXK2U

— Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) January 24, 2026

Mamdani is a communist, and so are many of the people around him. New York City is going to learn some valuable lessons in the coming years.

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