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A 10-year-old Miami boy was shot after his father took him on a faux drive-by shooting with a paintball gun — and a frightened homeowner returned fire with real bullets, according to authorities. Michael Williams, 26, allegedly gave in to his son’s pleas late Sunday to take him on a paintball “drive-by shooting,” where police said the boy fired off the unlethal rounds into a crowd gathered in the front yard of an Opa-locka home, the Miami Herald reported. But the homeowner, identified as Gregory Barns, thought the gunfire was real and that “he and his family were under attack” — leading him to return fire with a real round, striking the boy, police said. The youngster, who was not publicly identified, was then run over by his father’s van after being shot and losing his balance, police said. The boy was hospitalized after the shooting, but was expected to recover as of Monday afternoon, WSVN reported. Williams told the station that a group of neighborhood kids were running...

Fifth-graders at Maugham Elementary School in Tenafly, N.J., were tasked to write about the accomplishments of notable people and to dress up as their selected person. One student chose Jim Carrey, while others wrote about Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart. Another child picked Adolf Hitler. “I was pretty great wasn’t I?” the student wrote in pencil, using Hitler’s voice and highlighting his rise to power. “I was very popular and many people followed me until I died. My [belief] in antisemitism drove me to kill more than 6 million Jews.” That essay hung on school walls among others in April, according to Lori Birk, an Englewood mother who on Sunday posted the image of the essay on her Facebook page. Parents and community members in Bergen County, outside New York City, have called and written school officials, demanding answers and accountability. In response, Tenafly Public Schools began an investigation Friday evening A child writing about Hitler hurts the still-healing...

SAGUACHE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Seven people with suspected ties to the “Love Has Won” cult are facing charges after the body of the religious group’s leader was found at a home in Colorado. Amy Carlson, 45, who was known as “Mother God” by her followers, was found dead in a home in the small, rural town of Moffat on Wednesday, April 28, according to arrest affidavits for the suspects, who are each charged with abuse of a corpse. The remains were found in a back bedroom lying on a bed wrapped in what appeared to be a sleeping bag. What appeared to be glitter-type makeup was found around the woman’s eyes. The body was decorated with Christmas tree lights and “appeared to be set up in some type of shrine,” the warrant said. A follower told investigators he knew the woman as Lia Carlson, and a Saguache County sheriff’s corporal wrote in the affidavits that Carlson is believed to be the group’s leader. It’s unclear why the follower provided the name Lia. A spokesperson said the...

Last fall, parents at the posh $55,000-per-year Dalton School got wind of their first-graders being taught sex-education lessons that included masturbation. They complained to school administrators, but were told they had simply “misinterpreted” what Dalton’s now-notorious “health and wellness” educator Justine Ang Fonte — who last month led a controversial and explicit “porn literacy” workshop at another elite prep school — was teaching. But after The Post’s exposé last week on the porn class, Dalton parents “bombarded” the school with more complaints about Fonte’s curriculum, sources told The Post. The Post viewed video of a cartoon Fonte used in one of her sex-ed classes for 6-year-olds showing little kids talking about “touching themselves” for pleasure. “Hey, how come sometimes my gets big sometimes and points in the air?” asks the little boy in the cartoon, leading to an explanation of what an “erection” is. The boy nods and says, “Sometimes I touch my ...

A Belgian military intelligence officer told VICE World News Jurgen Conings had been demoted over apparent far-right ties, but still had access to an armoury from which he stole firearms and anti-tank rockets. Belgian police and special forces, backed by armoured vehicles, are hunting for a rogue soldier with ties to violent right-wing groups for a third day. Jurgen Conings, 46, disappeared earlier this week after making a series of social media threats related to COVID restrictions. A former military shooting instructor, Conings stole body armour, an automatic weapon, and at least two anti-tank rockets before disappearing. The search currently centres around a national park in northern Belgium close to the border with the Netherlands. Members of the public have been urged not to approach Conings but to report any sightings to police immediately. Conings had been a top marksmanship instructor for the Belgian military before revelations about his ties to extremist groups came to...