Georgia mayor, 23, ousted 10 months after making history as state’s youngest administrator
Georgia’s youngest elected mayor was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged sexually suggestive messages and images with an 18-year-old high school student.
Jayden Williams, who recently turned 23, was impeached by the Stockbridge City Council in the city south of Atlanta after taking office in January.
“The City of Stockbridge confirms that the City Council has taken formal action concerning the Office of Mayor,” the city said in a statement on Sunday. “The Mayor has been removed from office.”
Williams was accused of using his city purchasing card for more than $4,000 in personal expenses, including restaurant meals, clothing, haircuts and a movie, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
Four suspected dealers arrested over death of tragic 16-year-old who took new super drug ‘100 times stronger than fentanyl’
San Francisco cops on Friday busted four suspected dope pushers accused of peddling a horrifying new super drug blamed for the tragic overdose of a beloved teenager.
Police Chief Derrick Lew on Monday said officers arrested the “dealers” in connection with the death of Dante Lacourte, 16, a local student who in April overdosed on a powerful synthetic opioid known as cychlorphine that’s gripped the city in fear.
Infamous for its extreme potency and unpredictable presence in the illicit drug market, cychlorphine just recently surfaced in the city and was present in a counterfeit pill taken by Dante, police said.
The teen was killed by new drugs that are ravaging San Francisco. David G. McIntyre
Lew said the SFPD will continue following leads uncovered through the investigation and follow up on any potential arrests.
“Our investigators will stop at nothing to ensure deadly narcotics are taken off our streets and individuals who peddle them are arrested and held accountable,” he said.
Dante’s heartbroken mother, Christina Lacourte, told The New York Times she found him dead in his room after she went to wake him up for school. “It just takes one pill,” she said.
Cychlorphine and isotonitazene were present in a pill taken by Dante. ABC 7
San Francisco police linked the four suspects to Dante’s death by chasing leads spotted in the boy’s room on the day he was found dead. Cops first identified the deadly pills, and then searched the boy’s phone, zeroing in the dealers believed to be the source of the drugs.
Undercover cops then called the alleged pushers, buying pills laced with the deadly substance to build out thier case.
And then police pounced last week, raiding three San Francisco homes where they found 20,000 pills suspected of containing the drug.
Cops also found 68.5 grams of MDMA, 6.5 grams of black tar heroin, a semi-automatic assault rifle, a semi-automatic pistol and $2,267 in cash.
Homeless in the Tenderloin can be spotted hunched over from the effects of the drugs. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The first two arrests came last Tuesday, when busted 46-year-old Nicholas Wallace on Sept. 8 at his O’Farrell Street home, seizing 34 pills believed to be oxycodone, as well as a quality of cocaine.
Parolee Sharonee Hyson, 44, was also collared in the raid after cops caught him holding 11.7 grams of cocaine base and a loaded gun.
The next day cops raided the San Francisco homes of Leander Pitts, 46, and Starr Lamare, 39, finding more than 20,000 pills, including counterfeit Xanax, oxycodone, hydrocodone, cyclobenzaprine and other deadly narcotics, including fentanyl.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has vowed to tackle the crisis. Getty Images
All four suspects were booked in San Francisco County Jail for a slew of crimes, including possession for sale of narcotics and firearms charges.
Law enforcement officials say cychlorphine, which is roughly ten times stronger than fentanyl, was first identified in the US two years ago.
“The first time DEA saw it was in 2024 at one of our labs down in Florida,” Bob Beris, special agent in Charge of the DEA San Francisco Field Division told ABC.
Berris warned that cychlorphine is not confined to pills alone and can be hidden across multiple street drugs, making detection and avoidance especially difficult.
“It can be mixed into a pill. It can be sold as a powder. It can be mixed in with cocaine. It can be sold as cocaine. Again, just because we haven’t seen some of these examples yet doesn’t mean it’s not out there,” Beris said.
Public health experts say current drug-checking tools may not detect the presence of cychlorphine. It resists overdose reversal drugs like Narcan, requiring multiple doses to be effective.
The killer counterfeit opioid isotonitazene – known on the streets as ISO – was blended with cychlorphine in the pill taken by Dante, San Francisco Health Department officials said in an alert issued the month he died.
ISO is cheap and up to 100 times more powerful than fentanyl – making for a potential crisis.
SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said cops will stop at nothing to rid the city of the deadly narcotics. Getty Images
“Even a single pill can contain a lethal dose,” the officials said in their alert.
A shocking video posted online showed throngs of stupefied users reeling from the effects of ISO in the city’s notorious Tenderloin district.
In the video created by Manhattan Institute writer Christopher Rufo, addicts are seen stooping over from the effects of the powerful drug and even lying corpselike on the sidewalk.
Rufo said a dealer told him ISO is becoming more popular on the streets.
“For the last ten years, it’s been an arms race for increasing the strength of opioids, from heroin to fentanyl, and now, to ISO,” said Rufo. “It’s devastating California cities.”
New bill plots a four-day workweek with no pay cuts — here’s what it would mean for California
A new push in Congress could soon have millions of workers clocking out after 32 hours a week — without taking a pay cut.
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act last week seeking to slash the federal standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 for nonexempt employees.
The proposal would also require workers to receive overtime pay for hours worked beyond the new threshold — with the change phased in over four years.
California already has some of the nation’s strongest overtime protections, requiring generally 1.5 times regular pay after eight hours in a workday or 40 hours in a workweek, and double time for hours worked beyond 12 in a day.
The federal bill would add another major protection: Once fully phased in, California workers would qualify for overtime after 32 hours in a week, rather than waiting until 40.
That means a traditional four-day, 10-hour schedule could become considerably more expensive for employers.
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) speaks with reporters outside of a meeting with Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Mattie Neretin – CNP
Under the proposed rules, the first eight hours of each workday would be paid at the regular rate, while hours eight through 12 would trigger time-and-a-half. Any hours beyond 12 would require double-time pay.
And the bill explicitly bars employers from cutting workers’ regular hourly rates, weekly compensation or existing benefits to offset the shorter workweek.
For example, a worker currently earning $1,000 for a 40-hour week could theoretically work 32 hours while maintaining the same weekly compensation — rather than simply seeing their salary reduced alongside their hours.
The change would not happen overnight.
If enacted, the bill would phase in the new overtime threshold beginning at 38 hours in Year 1, 36 hours in Year 2, 34 hours in Year 3 and 32 hours in Year 4 and beyond.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during his ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 1, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
Takano, whose California district includes parts of Los Angeles, said the nation’s labor laws have failed to keep pace with technology and productivity.
“The 40-hour workweek was established in law nearly 90 years ago,” Takano said. “Since then, cell phones, the internet, and now AI have increased worker productivity, but the profits have been largely concentrated at the top by billionaires and corporations.”
Sanders argued that artificial intelligence and robotics make the proposal even more urgent.
“One important way to do that is through a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay or benefits,” Sanders said.
Samantha Toedter, left, and Kiley Janee Braud, right, join state workers protesting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office policy during a rally organized by SEIU Local 1000 at the Capitol on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in Sacramento, California. Renee C. Byer/ZUMA / SplashNews.com
The legislation has backing from major labor organizations including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, United Auto Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers and National Nurses United.
For California businesses, however, the measure could mean higher labor costs for overtime-heavy schedules and a major rethink of how shifts are structured.
The bill was first introduced by Takano in 2021.
It would need to clear both chambers of Congress and be signed into law before any of the proposed federal changes take effect. H.R. 10323 is currently under consideration by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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