Top Threats

Every week, you’ll receive an expanded Top Threats feature that highlights the most important and impactful threats to our freedoms. If you want a deeper dive into some of the issues that influence American freedoms today, these articles are for you.

In Top Threats, we’ll tackle ongoing threats to personal freedoms. We will also share information about regulations that tie our hands and prevent us from living and working freely. Together, we’ll defend and preserve the American rights we hold dear.

Termites Devour Grandmother’s Life Savings Meant for Mecca Pilgrimage

In a bizarre incident, a Malaysian grandmother’s life savings were completely destroyed by termites. The story, shared by her grandson, Khairul Azhar, on Facebook, has since gone viral. The elderly woman had reportedly saved RM30,000 (approximately $8,700) for a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2024. However, her dreams were shattered when she discovered that her savings, stored in a box, had been reduced to shreds by termites. The accompanying photos on the Facebook post showed the …

Witchcraft Suspected in Gruesome Grave Desecration of Murdered Woman

Authorities in Brazil are currently on the hunt for an individual suspected of practicing witchcraft, who is believed to have desecrated the grave of a murdered woman and stolen her head. The victim, 31-year-old Sabrina Tavares de Almeida, was killed in August 2022, and her grave was discovered to have been violated in March of the following year. The cemetery, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, reported the incident to the police, who …

Madonna Found Unresponsive, Hospitalized in ICU

This past Saturday, Madonna was found unconscious at a residence and urgently taken to a hospital in New York City, where she was intubated in the ICU overnight. Her long-time manager, Guy Oseary, has reported that she suffered a serious bacterial infection which was the cause of her stay in the ICU. After being moved to a regular ward, her eldest daughter, Lourdes Leon, has been with her through the entire episode. The type of …

Panda Express Manager Told Cook to Get an Abortion, Then Assaulted Her

Romerian Logan, a 19-year-old pregnant cook at a Panda Express in New Jersey, has recently filed a lawsuit claiming her supervisor, BiQing Liu, told her to get an abortion and physically assaulted her after she informed him of her pregnancy. The expectant mother began working at the franchise located in the Newport Centre mall in Jersey City in 2019. Last July, Logan shared her news with Liu, who responded by making “negative comments” and suggesting …

Woman Found Tortured, Strangled, and Stabbed With Scissors; Daughter Arrested

Johana Ramos, 31, was taken into custody by the Northern York County Regional Police on Friday, charged with criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, without bond. The arrest was in connection with the murder of her mother, Lourdes Ramos Baez, 67. On June 6th, police responded to a disturbance call at a home in Dover, Pennsylvania, when they encountered Ramos and her husband, William Emilio Torres Gautier, 42. Gautier allegedly became agitated …

Man Uses Drone to Peer into Woman’s Bathroom

On Wednesday evening, police in Cranston, Rhode Island responded to a call from a woman who reported that a drone was hovering outside of her bathroom window. As she had just arrived home from work and was preparing to take a shower, the woman heard a buzzing noise and went outside into the backyard, upon investigating, noticed the drone. She managed to grab the drone before it could take off and disabled it by submerging …

Mass Shooting at Large Street Party, Suspect at Large

Tragedy struck in Saginaw, Michigan on Friday night, as two people were killed and fifteen more were injured in a shooting that occurred at a large street party. The event had been previously advertised on social media, with the estimated attendance ranging from 300 to 500 people. Local police agencies had tried to disperse the crowd at different locations throughout the evening but were unsuccessful. The deceased were a 19-year-old male and a 51-year-old female, …

Teen Shot in Head Near Park, Ex-Boyfriend Arrested

An investigation in Kentucky is underway after a sixteen-year-old high school student was reportedly shot in the head and killed near a park on Wednesday. The Daviess County Sheriff’s Office verified that Gaymee Paw, an Owensboro High School student, passed away in a hospital after police were called to the scene of the shooting at 12:30 pm. The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was homicide due to a single gunshot wound to the …

Toddler Dies After Being Left Alone for 10 Days While Mom Vacations

Kristel Candelario, a 31-year-old mother from Cleveland, Ohio, was taken into custody on June 18th and has been charged with murder concerning the death of her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn. On June 16th, Candelario came home to find her daughter unresponsive. She told police that she had traveled to Michigan and Puerto Rico while leaving her daughter alone at home for ten days. When she returned, it was discovered that the playpen that Jailyn was left …

State Employee Beats Newborn to Death

Kevin Van Streefkerk, a 37-year-old father and state employee in the California governor’s office, now faces several felonies after allegedly killing his five-week-old baby. On Tuesday, he was apprehended and charged with one count of first-degree murder, intentional murder, heinous murder, and assault on a child aged eight or younger, leading to death. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office stated that deputies were called to a location in Cameron Park, approximately 30 miles east of …