Update: Three People Killed, Four Are Injured Including Child After Gang-Related Shooting at Bite of Seattle Food Festival
July 27, 2026
The Bite of Seattle shooter was arrested by police following the shooting that left three people dead.
Three people were killed and four others, including a child, were injured after a gang related shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival on Sunday evening.
Multiple people were killed and several injured in a shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival at the Seattle Center in Washington state on Sunday evening.
“The Bite of Seattle is the city’s annual food festival, celebrating 40 years of community, culture, and cuisine this year,” the Seattle Center says on its website.
“The event, hosted at the Seattle Center, features over 300+ vendors, beer and wine gardens, cider tastings, local artisans, and over 65+ musical performers,” the Seattle Center said.
Four people were wounded in the shooting.
One person was arrested at the scene.
A two-year-old boy remains hospitalized.
UPDATE: 3 now dead after a shooting at Seattle Center during the annual ‘Bite of Seattle’ festival.
-SPD says 2 people were shooting at each other. -4 people were treated and released at the hospital -2 year old boy remains at Harborview -2 guns recovered at the scene -1 ‘young… https://t.co/j8YkM1w14Q
The press conference was delayed for five hours so that local “dignitaries” could participate.
UPDATE: 3 now dead after a shooting at Seattle Center during the annual ‘Bite of Seattle’ festival.
-SPD says 2 people were shooting at each other. -4 people were treated and released at the hospital -2 year old boy remains at Harborview -2 guns recovered at the scene -1 ‘young… https://t.co/j8YkM1w14Q
Update: Person Detained in Seattle Festival Shooting
New photos are circulating that appear to show a young person being taken into custody by Seattle police following yesterday’s deadly shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival.
A creator named LEEBO posted a video complaining about security at the Bite of Seattle festival: – Limited security – There was no pat down – No search of bags – No security walking around HE POSTED THIS VIDEO YESTERDAY… wow https://t.co/z8nM9n2Jv7pic.twitter.com/K16hVptyKc
SEATTLE CENTER PRESSER: Sadly, three people have been shot and killed. Multiple people injured including a toddler. They are expected to survive. One person is in custody and being questioned about the shooting. Another suspect is on the run. The “dignitaries” were Governor Bob… https://t.co/NHdlUcsfagpic.twitter.com/dhHjALiDr0
‘It Was Allah Who Made Me Do It’ – French Police Arrest Muslim Man Who Stabbed 3 Women in Paris (VIDEOS)
July 27, 2026
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Another day, another stabbing in Europe by a Muslim attacker.
It used to be that Paris was ‘the city of lights’, one of the most romantic destinations on Earth.
But in ‘Mass Migration Europe’, the French capital, like so many other European cities, has become a place where unprovoked attacks by Muslim individuals have become a sad common-place.
Today (27), it wasn’t any different, as French police arrested a seemingly deranged man after he randomly attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris
— « C’est Allah qui me l’a ordonné » : Une ATTAQUE AU COUTEAU vient d’avoir lieu à Paris, aux alentours de la place de Clichy.
Un individu a poignardé 3 femmes, dont l’une serait enceinte. L’une des victimes est en URGENCE ABSOLUE.
“The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, [Interior Minister Laurent] Nunez said.
The minister said the man had been detained by an off-duty police officer. ‘I pay tribute to him, it was a courageous act’, Nunez added.”
Police could not immediately verify the identity of the attacker, whose declarations were ‘incoherent’ as he was being arrested.
BREAKING:
The man who carried out today’s mass-stabbing against 3 women in Paris says
“[The man] was detained by an off-duty police officer and was taken into custody. As he was pinned down by officers, he said ‘it is Allah who ordered me’, Le Figaro reported.
But Laurent Nunez, the interior minister […] appeared to downplay any terrorist motive, suggesting the attacker had mental health issues.
[…] The women, aged 19, 24 and 36, are being treated in hospital for severe injuries but “their lives are not in danger”, Mr. Nunez, the interior minister, said. One is believed to be pregnant.”
Trump’s Forced Labor Tariffs and the Surge in U.S. Investment
July 27, 2026
President Trump’s tariff regime has been used to negotiate better trade terms with U.S. trading partners while also driving inbound foreign investment. Photo courtesy of Congressman Bennie Thompson.
New tariffs on 60 trading partners took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 24, 2026, under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, the latest expansion of a tariff regime that has coincided with the highest inbound U.S. investment levels since 2021. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer took final action, at President Trump’s direction, imposing the tariffs on the 60 economies for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor.
Per the USTR’s fact sheet, trading partners that have committed to adopt and enforce forced-labor import bans face a 10% tariff, including Canada, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Taiwan, while roughly 41 partners that have not adopted such prohibitions face a 12.5% rate. The fact sheet states the tariffs cover 99.4% of U.S. imports.
The new duties replace the temporary 10% global tariff Trump imposed under Section 122 after the Supreme Court struck down his global IEEPA tariffs on February 20, 2026. The forced-labor investigation began in March 2026, and USTR says the process included two rounds of public hearings and more than 2,100 public comments.
“The United States has had a forced labor import ban for nearly a century and rigorously enforces it. It’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same,” President Trump said. Separately, he signed proclamations imposing new 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods, set to take effect in approximately one month.
The tariff push comes against a backdrop of long-standing imbalance in the U.S.-EU trade relationship, one in which Europe benefits from favorable trade terms and from the security umbrella provided by the U.S. military, while EU officials frequently characterize American tariff policy as isolationist or unfair.
Under the deal reached in 2025, the EU removed duties on U.S. industrial goods and opened preferential access for certain U.S. seafood and farm products, while most EU exports to the United States now face a 15% tariff. EU compliance disputes have continued into 2026, with USTR opening a separate Section 301 investigation into Germany in June over pharmaceutical pricing practices.
The UAE, by contrast, used a July 2026 Washington visit to criticize the EU for stalling its own trade talks with Washington, while reaffirming its commitment to a $1.4 trillion, ten-year U.S. investment pledge.
Trump’s tariff actions against China have run on a separate track from the forced-labor duties, part of a broader effort to pressure Beijing economically. China remains subject to the fentanyl and reciprocal tariffs negotiated over the course of 2025 and 2026, and, as of mid-2026, a final comprehensive U.S.-China trade agreement remained unresolved despite multiple rounds of talks and a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping.
Even as the tariff regime has expanded, it has drawn a parallel wave of foreign investment commitments tied directly to it. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has committed an additional $100 billion to U.S. semiconductor production, bringing its total American investment to $265 billion, the largest foreign direct investment in U.S. history.
The commitment follows the U.S.-Taiwan trade and investment deal signed in January 2026 and will fund four additional facilities, bringing TSMC’s total U.S. footprint to 12 leading-edge semiconductor and packaging plants, primarily in Arizona. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the investment would create tens of thousands of American jobs.
The UAE’s $1.4 trillion pledge, first made in 2025, is advancing ahead of schedule across energy, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and technology. UAE investment vehicles MGX and Mubadala have driven the buildout, including MGX’s participation in multibillion-dollar funding rounds for Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, and a $40 billion acquisition of AI infrastructure firm Aligned Data Centers through a BlackRock-led consortium.
The UAE ambassador to the U.S. said the country was “not hedging” and was “doubling down” on American technology, even amid the financial strain of the ongoing Iran war on Gulf state finances.
SoftBank pledged $100 billion for U.S. investment in December 2024. That commitment has since evolved into the Stargate Project, a joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle, and the UAE’s MGX fund to build AI infrastructure in the United States.
The project has expanded to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and more than $400 billion in investment commitments, with a target of reaching the full $500 billion, 10-gigawatt goal. SoftBank’s cumulative investment in OpenAI alone has reached $64.6 billion, including a $41 billion investment closed in December 2025.
Novartis remains on track with its $23 billion, five-year U.S. manufacturing and research investment first announced in April 2025. The Swiss pharmaceutical company opened its seventh new facility in April 2026, a plant in Morrisville, North Carolina, for active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing. The expansion includes a $1.1 billion biomedical research hub in San Diego and new radioligand therapy manufacturing sites in Florida, Texas, and California, positioning Novartis to manufacture all of its advanced technology platforms domestically for the first time in company history.
Automakers have continued shifting production to the United States following the expiration of USMCA. Hyundai Motor Group raised its planned U.S. investment to $26 billion through 2028, up from an initial $21 billion pledge, including a new steel mill in Louisiana and expanded vehicle and robotics production.
Honda moved production of its next-generation Civic Hybrid from Guanajuato, Mexico, to Greensburg, Indiana, and Ohio, citing tariffs directly as the reason. Stellantis announced a $13 billion U.S. investment in October 2025 to expand plants in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Toyota is shifting Tacoma production from Mexico to a $3.6 billion expansion of its San Antonio, Texas plant, a move Trump credited to his tariff policy, after the administration declined to renew USMCA in July 2026.
While the trillion-dollar pledge totals remain disputed and often unreconciled with the White House’s own published lists, confirmed inflows during the period already exceed three of Biden’s four years and are, based on early 2026 data, on pace to surpass even Biden’s peak year.
By the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s measure of actual new foreign direct investment, which tracks expenditures by foreign investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses rather than pledges, 2025 totaled $232.2 billion, a 49.5% increase over 2024 and higher than any full Biden year except 2021, when FDI reached $333.6 billion.
Federal Reserve data shows FDI transactions running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $434.8 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a pace that, if sustained, would exceed 2021’s total.
The media would have the public believe that President Trump’s tariff regime was a failure. The reality is that while actual cash flows have been lower than the pledged amounts, those cash flows have been substantial, putting the United States on a course for record foreign direct investment (FDI).
Secret Service Agent Arrested, Charged with Five Felonies in Near-Fatal Hazing Incident
July 27, 2026
A Secret Service agent was arrested and charged with five felonies in connection with a near-fatal hazing incident.
Three men, including a Secret Service agent, were arrested in Miami for severely beating fraternity pledges.
The men beat the pledges with paddles and canes. The college and fraternity have not been identified.
The SS Agent, identified as 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, was charged with attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, hazing with a deadly weapon and other charges.
Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with alleged fraternity hazing that left victims hospitalized, Miami-Dade authorities said.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and Sweetwater Police Chief Sergio Diez identified the suspects as 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, 26-year-old Jared Lamar James and 29-year-old Elijah Delano Dyous.
Investigators said the alleged hazing involved prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles. According to prosecutors, the victims were beaten after they failed to correctly answer questions about the fraternity.
The incidents allegedly began April 1 at an apartment in the 400 block of Southwest 183rd Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
Pinder, James and Dyous face various counts of attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm and hazing with a deadly weapon, according to the state attorney’s office.
WATCH:
Last month, RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree reported that a Secret Service Agent was under criminal investigation for a role in a fraternity hazing/paddling incident that was so severe that it sent a pledge to the hospital with kidney damage.
“The fraternity members who allegedly performed the paddling in the hazing incident are affiliated with Kappa Alpha Psi, a prominent historically black fraternity,” Susan Crabtree reported.
Pinder was booked in a Miami jail on Sunday.
BREAKING: Secret Service Agent Marquez Pinder was arrested and charged today with five felonies in a near-fatal hazing incident that took place in April, according to court documents.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Administration Has Faced Over 900 Lawsuits – Most in Districts Full of Obama or Biden Appointed Judges
July 27, 2026
The Trump Administration Has Faced Over 900 Lawsuits Challenging President Trump’s Executive Actions, with Most in Districts Full of Obama and Biden Judges.
The Record: Lawsuits and Rulings Against the Administration
The volume and speed of the legal assault of this Tramp Administration were extraordinary from the outset. By February 20, 2025 — less than one month after inauguration — reporting based on the Just Security tracker documented that 75 lawsuits challenging the new administration’s executive actions had already been filed. These early cases concentrated on birthright citizenship, immigration enforcement, personnel, and DOGE-related actions, and gender-related policies. The pattern reflected a coordinated effort to bog down the administration with litigation and prevent the implementation of the agenda the American people had just endorsed. The same public tracker that cataloged the cases notably omitted systematic identification of the appointing presidents of the judges issuing the early blocks.
Major public litigation trackers, most notably Just Security’s ongoing Litigation Tracker, have since documented well over 800 lawsuits involving the Trump Administration — approaching or exceeding 906 cases as of today. On final merits rulings from district courts, a New York Times analysis of public data has shown plaintiffs winning the large majority of decided cases. When preliminary rulings are included, district judges ruled in favor of the Trump agenda only about 25 percent of the time in 2025.
The administration’s record appears somewhat better, however, if you look more broadly at the number of times Mr. Trump’s policies have been halted. Out of 509 active cases, the administration’s policies have been halted 149 times — about 30 percent of the time.”
Appeals courts treated the administration more favorably overall — closer to 51 percent in its favor in 2025 in available analyses — with a significant portion of that support coming from judges appointed by President Trump during his first term.
Peter Baker’s January 11, 2026, post stated it cleanly:
The higher the court, the likelier Trump was to win rulings in 2025:
After the Supreme Court’s June 2025 decision in Trump v. CASA limiting nationwide injunctions, challengers increasingly turned to class-action certification to achieve similar practical breadth of relief. Congressional Research Service reports have catalogued dozens of nationwide or universal injunctions issued in the early months of the second term.
Where the Cases Are Filed — and Who Sits on Those Courts
A review of a representative sample of 126 case listings drawn from the Just Security tracker performed by this author reveals a striking geographic concentration. Nearly half of the cases in the sample — approximately 44 percent — were filed in a single court: the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Roughly two-thirds of the sampled cases were filed in just four districts: the District of Columbia, the District of Maryland, the District of Massachusetts, and the District of Minnesota. Maryland, Massachusetts, and Minnesota together accounted for about 23 percent of the sample.
This concentration is not accidental. Plaintiffs — particularly advocacy organizations and Democratic-led state attorneys general — have systematically chosen venues they regard as most favorable. The result is a practical form of forum shopping that allows a small number of district courts, and the judges who sit on them, to exercise outsized influence over national policy.
The composition of the active judges on these four key courts further illuminates the pattern. In the District of Columbia, of the 15 active Article III judges, approximately 11 were appointed by Democratic presidents (Barack Obama or Joe Biden) and only four by Republican presidents. In the District of Maryland, the imbalance is even more pronounced: roughly nine of the ten active judges were appointed by Democratic presidents, with only one appointed by a Republican. The District of Massachusetts has a significant contingent of Obama and Biden appointees, including recent additions such as Judge Brian E. Murphy (Biden), who, along with Judge Patti B. Saris (Clinton), issued the July 2026 administrative stays on Temporary Protected Status terminations that DHS counsel characterized as open defiance of the Supreme Court. The District of Minnesota is more historically mixed, yet still contains a substantial number of Democratic appointees among its active judges.
None of this proves that every ruling issued by these judges is partisan. It does, however, explain why plaintiffs concentrate their cases in these particular districts and why the pattern of early, aggressive temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions has been so consistent.
When the courts that receive the largest share of challenges to a Republican administration’s policies are themselves staffed predominantly by judges appointed by Democratic presidents, the appearance of a one-sided judicial resistance becomes difficult to dismiss.
Who Appointed the Judges?
Analyses of the judges who issued the most consequential adverse rulings reveal a clear and politically skewed pattern. In one mid-2025 review of lower-court judges who blocked Trump administration actions, the large majority were appointed by Democratic presidents — especially Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Key findings from that mid-2025 review:
Of 61 lower-court judges who had ruled against Trump administration actions (as of early June 2025), 49 were appointed by Democrats.
Breakdown of the Democratic appointees: – Obama: 21 – Biden: 19 – Clinton: 9 – Carter: 1
Republican appointees: 12 (including 5 appointed by Trump himself).
That produces the “large majority” / roughly 3-to-1 ratio of Democratic-appointed judges among those who issued blocking rulings.
This does not mean every Democratic-appointed judge rules against the administration in every case, nor that every Republican-appointed judge rules for it. It does mean the pattern of resistance is heavily concentrated among judges selected by the political opponents of the current administration.
Concrete examples have included Biden-appointed judges ordering the restoration of DEI funding; an Obama-appointed judge issuing orders that exposed DOGE employees to public identification; multiple injunctions against immigration enforcement measures, personnel actions, and core executive orders; and Clinton- and Obama-appointed judges issuing orders that appear to defy or circumvent recent Supreme Court guidance.
Many of these injunctions were later stayed, narrowed, or reversed at the appellate level or by the Supreme Court — but only after the administration had been forced to pause or reverse course, and only after lower courts had established dangerous precedents. As Stephen Miller observed, under the logic now being applied by some district judges, a single judge in one district could attempt to enjoin troop movements overseas. Judges have no constitutional authority to administer the executive branch or to nullify the results of a national election.
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(@Bubblebathgirl) July 27, 2026
— « C’est Allah qui me l’a ordonné » : Une ATTAQUE AU COUTEAU vient d’avoir lieu à Paris, aux alentours de la place de Clichy.
