A tranquil camping trip turned into a tragic nightmare for an Ohio man in Puerto Rico, as it has emerged he was killed execution-style during the outing.

Tyler Wilkin, aged 35, who had relocated from Ohio to Puerto Rico in 2024, was discovered deceased with a fatal gunshot wound to the back of his head earlier this month.

According to reports from WKRC, friends and family revealed that Wilkin had been camping at Playa La Selva, a secluded beach near Luquillo, prior to his murder.

Puerto Rican news source TeleOnce has reported that the authorities found a body in the mangroves of the beach on July 10.

A woman who said she was Wilkin’s girlfriend, Iva Mo, told FOX 19 Cincinnati that Wilkin had been texting friends from the campsite about hearing eerie howling outside his tent and what sounded like fireworks.

The following night, he texted another unsettling message, saying “the howler is back,” Mo said.

About two hours after that, he texted that the person was “getting rowdy lol.”

Wilkin’s loved ones have organized a fundraiser to help pay for the hire of a private investigator in the case.

The fundraiser page said in a recent post, “We are determined to leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of the truth, and these additional funds will help us cover any and all expenses that may arise during the private investigation. Tyler deserved a full life, and he deserves for every possible avenue to be explored.”

An obituary for Wilkin says he was born in Wilmington, Ohio and is survived by his parents and four siblings.

“He enjoyed life by the beach playing tennis, hiking, rock climbing, and activities to spend quality time with friends. Yet no matter where life took him, he was never too far from home. He made frequent trips back to be present with those he loved most,” the obituary said.

A Facebook user named Trigger Ray, who said he was Wilkin’s friend, created a post linking to the fundraiser that said in part, “Tyler was an awesome guy and a great friend, incredibly intelligent with more opportunities ahead of him than most folks I’ve ever met.”

News Media has reached out to Policía de Puerto Rico for more information on the case.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) often resist being labeled as Communists. However, there’s an apparent alignment with leftist sentiments, as exemplified by influencer Hasan Piker’s remark, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.”

Regardless of the label they prefer, the DSA’s initiatives are unmistakably revolutionary in nature.

Among their bold proposals are the abolition of the US Senate and restructuring the executive branch and the Supreme Court to operate under the authority of the House of Representatives.

Functioning akin to a party within a party, the DSA is increasingly seen as the Democratic Party’s youth faction, advancing its progressive agenda.

With figures such as Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gaining prominence, the influence of DSA-aligned officials suggests they are forging the future path of the Democratic Party.

Yet the DSA’s ideas are remarkably old-fashioned — so old, in fact, they were refuted by John Adams in 1787.

That was the year he began publishing a multi-volume work called “A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America.” (It was so long ago Americans still spelled “defence” with a “c.”)

The book refers to “constitutions,” plural, because Adams hadn’t seen the new US Constitution drawn up in Philadelphia that year: He was actually defending the state constitutions against French intellectuals who insisted they should be more radical.

That was just two years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, with all the murder and mayhem it would bring.

The old French versions of today’s DSA schemers condemned bicameral legislatures for the same reason Mamdani and AOC’s fans do now: Their idea of “democracy” called for centralizing power in a single body.

No checks, no balances and certainly no federalism — the whole nation was to be personified in an omnipotent unitary legislature.

Adams, who’d been one of the first American revolutionary leaders to call for independence from Britain, was no enemy of popular self-government.

But pure democracy would be as bad as any other kind of centralized despotism — so he defended the “mixed” constitutions of the states, almost all of which had separate upper and lower legislative chambers and divided legislative, executive and judicial power.

The federal Constitution was drawn up on the same principles — and combined with them with a division of powers between the states and national government.

A glance at how the Constitution has performed for the last 239 years, compared to the chaos and bloodshed that engulfed revolutionary France once the proto-DSA types started getting their way there, shows who was right.

But the DSA, not content with dreaming of an end to capitalism, wants to end constitutionalism as well.

Revolutionary parties, like Russia’s Bolsheviks, have often had such farfetched goals; the point isn’t to achieve them so much as it is to wreck whatever already exists.

The DSA’s first step is to radicalize the Democratic Party, making previously outrageous ideas like packing the Supreme Court seem mild by comparison to the Democratic Socialist program.

Abolishing the Senate may be politically impossible, but delegitimizing it is a way to de-legitimize obstacles to centralized power — not just the Senate itself, with its equal representation for all states, large or small, but the very principle of federalism.

Why should North Dakota have a government of its own?

What gives the people of Idaho a right to govern their own territory?

California has the largest absolute number of Republicans in the country, but because they live in what operates as a massive one-party state, they not only lack adequate representation, but what representation they have can be snatched away by the Democratic majority — as is happening now thanks to the congressional gerrymandering championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

DSA wants to make the whole country like California, only worse.

That’s their idea of democracy — the socialist version.

It’s the revolutionary French version as well, and it’s as un-American as anything can be.

Yet it’s a magnet pulling the Democratic party hard to the left.

Notoriously, the DSA has a disproportionate number of highly educated but low-paid or unemployed members.

Like the Marxists of the last century or the French philosophes of the century before that, they’re sophisticated enough to seem like they know what they’re talking about, if you haven’t learned how disastrous their ideas have proved to be in practice.

But American education doesn’t teach much about the horrors of Communism or France’s Reign of Terror.

Radicals occupied the educational establishment early on, and now they’re reaping political rewards for the ignorance they’ve fostered in the public.

According to recent Cato Institute polling, Generation Z — Americans between ages 14 and 29 — favors socialism over capitalism 53% to 45%, though the “Democratic Socialist” label polls less well.

Despite having “democratic” in their name, however, the DSA doesn’t need majority support to bring about revolutionary change for the worse: A motivated minority is enough when the majority is unaware of its danger.

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.

In a twist of fate, a New York City lawyer recently caught in a romantic entanglement on a Central Park bench has been grappling with the shadows of family heartache. Nearly two decades ago, a profound tragedy struck his family with the sudden passing of his younger brother, the Daily Mail has uncovered.

Nathaniel D Cullerton’s younger brother, Eric Cullerton, met a tragic end at the tender age of 24. The fatal incident occurred in 2007 when Eric was involved in a devastating head-on collision near their Connecticut home.

Local reports reveal that Eric had just wrapped up his morning shift at a Ridgefield Starbucks when tragedy struck. His 1990 Nissan Sentra veered into oncoming traffic, resulting in a collision with a Jeep.

Back then, a heartbroken Cullerton, who was 26 at the time, was among those who honored his brother’s memory. He remembered Eric as a remarkably talented young musician whose abilities left a lasting impression on those around him.

“Eric played in many local bands, embracing blues and rock,” Cullerton told The News-Times shortly after the heartbreaking loss, paying tribute to his brother’s enduring passion for music.

‘He toured the US with the Murali Coryell Band for the last year and a half. He had recorded and produced a couple of solo albums. He wrote (music) all the time.’

An obituary in the local paper, too, described his musical talents, noting he would travel with a ‘small cassette recorder everywhere he went to record his ideas and songs.’

‘Eric loved his family. He loved France, where he spent every summer with his cousins and grandparents on his mother’s side.

‘He loved music and lived through it. He was an artist with the gentlest soul. He felt all the pain that is in this world, but also saw and rejoiced in all its beauty.

‘He was deeply loved by all who met him. In the words of a dear family friend, “He moved through life a head taller and several times more humorous and contemplative and kindly than almost every one else, making music and friends wherever he went”.’

The harrowing details of the dark family tragedy surfaced soon after Cullerton, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, became embroiled in a public scandal in wake of his dalliance with a much younger co-worker. 

The high-flying lawyer was recently caught-on-camera smooching Kelsey Borenzweig, 29, near the luxury $2.3 million apartment he shares with his attorney wife. 

The tryst was exposed when a TikTok comedian named Jay Guapo shared the footage of them French kissing with his 3.5 million followers last Thursday.

At one point, Guapo could be heard telling the lovers to ‘get a room’ before a shame-faced Cullerton tried to shoo him away and order him to stop recording them. 

The clip quickly spread like wildfire on social media as online sleuths outed the sheepish lovers as Cullerton and Borenzweig. 

The pair both work within the law firm’s litigation department.

This spring, the firm helped OpenAI boss Sam Altman defeat a civil lawsuit brought by Elon Musk. 

Neither Cullerton nor Borenzweig have addressed the viral controversy. 

Cullerton, for his part, has been married to Moira Penza, a 42-year-old partner at another top law firm, Wilkinson Stekloff, since 2026.

Before moving into private practice,  Penza worked as a federal prosecutor and led the case against NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere. 

She also appeared on an episode of the HBO series The Vow, which investigated the secretive cult.

Penza has been tight-lipped in the wake of the cheating scandal. 

Her sheepish husband was spotted looking stressed as he broke cover late last week traveling back-and-forth between his Manhattan digs and the couple’s home in Connecticut, where he is originally from.

He was seen arriving at the $1.4 million second home he owns with Penza in Wilton before heading back to the Upper East Side in his luxe Range Rover. 

He ignored a Daily Mail reporter’s questions about whether his wife had seen the clip.  

Borenzweig, meanwhile, was snapped with her parents in Manhattan soon after news of the scandal broke. 

The associate was most recently in a relationship with a fellow lawyer but the romance ended a few months ago, a source told the Daily Mail. 

It is unclear how long Cullerton and Borenzweig have been romantically linked.   

The Daily Mail has repeatedly contacted Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for comment on Cullerton and Borenzweig’s relationship but hasn’t received a response. 

The pair worked closely together to win the Altman case against Elon Musk.

A photo taken during the trial in May captured Cullerton smiling as he walked into the federal court building in Oakland, California, with Borenzweig trailing just a few steps behind. 

Cullerton’s meteoric rise to success saw him obtain his Juris Doctor (JD) from Georgetown University in 2013, before clerking at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Borenzweig’s legal pedigree is just as impressive.

She received her JD from New York University School of Law in 2022 and also spent time clerking before joining Wachtell.

She grew up in Malibu, California, in a sizable $2.7 million midcentury home moments from the Pacific Ocean.

The pair’s kiss has drawn comparisons online to an infamous clinch caught on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert near Boston last summer when Andy Byron, then CEO of data software firm Astronomer, was filmed cuddling the firm’s HR executive Kristin Cabot.

On Wednesday, a man was found guilty of federal terrorism charges related to the 2022 stabbing of renowned author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie has long been under threat due to his controversial novel “The Satanic Verses.”

The jury unanimously convicted Hadi Matar on all counts, including the serious charge of engaging in transnational terrorism.

Requests for comments have been directed to Matar’s legal representatives.

At 28, Matar is already serving a 25-year term in New York state for attempted murder following the August 2022 attack, which occurred on stage at an amphitheater. His recent federal conviction could potentially extend his imprisonment for life.

Rushdie was about to deliver a talk on the importance of writers’ safety when he was brutally attacked, enduring 15 slashes before an audience in shock. The assault left him with severe injuries, including the loss of vision in his right eye.

Matar’s defense: No evidence of his state of mind

Prosecutors asserted that Matar was motivated by the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ’s 1989 call for Rushdie’s death because of “The Satanic Verses.” Defense lawyer Nathaniel Barone countered that the government had no proof of what was in Matar’s head.

Matar himself declined to testify. Rushdie did, telling jurors: “I can’t say what his ambitions or his aim was, but the wounds were dispersed across my body.”

Rushdie won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for his 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” about his native India. “The Satanic Verses,”a novel of magical realism about the lives and dreams of two actors who survive a plane explosion, followed in 1988.

It drew critical acclaim in the United Kingdom but engendered protests around the Muslim world over what some believers saw as blasphemous suggestions about Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, particularly in a dream sequence. Over the ensuing years, at least 45 people were killed in riots over the book, a Japanese translator was stabbed to death, an Italian translator was attacked and survived, and the book’s Norwegian publisher survived a shooting.

Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim family, has said the dream sequence was just that. But he went into hiding for years, gradually emerging after Iran’s government distanced itself in 1998 from Khomeini’s fatwa, or religious edict.

“For two decades or more, I led a public life without a hint of trouble,” Rushdie testified at the trial in Buffalo, New York.

Yet the fatwa was never rescinded; indeed, Khomenei’s successor, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, indicated in 2017 that it remained in effect. An Iranian foundation has offered a more than $3 million bounty for killing Rushdie.

Prosecutors: Matar’s messages showed him zeroing in on Rushdie

Matar repeatedly broached the fatwa with contacts in messaging apps in 2021 and 2022, according to exhibits shown in court. The messages showed Matar fuming that he felt Rushdie had attacked Islam and, by surviving, emboldened others to insult the faith. Matar alluded to a 2006 comment along those lines by the late Hezbollah militant group leader Hassan Nasrallah, the messages showed.

Born in the U.S., Matar also holds citizenship in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based. Prosecutors said that photos in Matar’s New Jersey bedroom and on his computer indicated his support for Hezbollah, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.

Matar aimed to fulfill the fatwa and “wanted everyone to know he was doing this for Hezbollah,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Lynch said in an opening statement July 22.

The messages showed Matar initially talked about wanting to “expose” Rushdie, then about taking his life. In a private note to himself, he wrote: “We need to kill him ASAP,” according to Lynch. The prosecutor said Matar framed the planned killing as part of what he considered a jihad, or holy war.

By spring 2022, the electronic chats showed, Matar wrote that he had discerned where Rushdie lived and was tracking his public appearances, eventually pointing out his scheduled August 2022 talk at the Chautauqua Institution, a western New York arts and intellectual center.

As Rushdie was being introduced, his attacker climbed on stage behind him, then stabbed him 15 times as the audience gasped. Spectators and another speaker, Henry Reese, scrambled to aid Rushdie. Law enforcement officers, assigned to the event, arrested the attacker — soon identified as Matar — after civilians restrained him.

Rushdie published a 2024 memoir about the attack, then returned to fiction with last year’s “The Eleventh Hour.” The author, who was knighted by Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth II, received a Dayton Literary Peace Prize lifetime achievement award in November.

In a fiery Capitol Hill session on Wednesday, Republican Senator Rand Paul made a startling disclosure concerning Bill Gates. During a discussion with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Paul revealed that the prominent businessman and philanthropist held a top-level security clearance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Bill Gates was given Q security clearance from 2014 to 2021,” stated Paul as the hearing drew to a close. This clearance, initially granted during the Obama administration, signifies a considerable level of trust and access.

A Q security clearance, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE), allows access to classified information, comparable to a Top Secret clearance from the Department of Defense.

Gates acquired this high-level clearance due to his connection with TerraPower, a company at the forefront of nuclear technology innovations.

Earlier in the session, Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott inquired whether Dr. Fauci had collaborated with Bill Gates on vaccines or global health initiatives, or if he knew of any collaboration between Gates and China on sensitive research projects.

Fauci refused to answer both questions.

Scott then further pressed Fauci on Gates, asking if he was involved in any classified government programs, used research such as countermeasures or gain of function, and even asked if he maintains an active national security clearance. 

Fauci provided no answers.

Gates and Fauci have shared ties for over 20 years. Beginning in 2003, Fauci served on a scientific advisory board that received partial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

In 2010, he also became involved in an initiative backed by the foundation and global health organizations, including the World Health Organization, to develop a Global Vaccine Action Plan. Gates noted in 2021 that the two remained in regular contact and spoke frequently throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In total, Fauci refused to answer 111 questions about COVID-19 origins during an explosive hearing where he blasted Republicans’ ‘unhinged obsession’ with him.

The former chief medical advisor invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination in the opening round. He then continued to do so over 100 separate times when interrogated by lawmakers on the committee.

‘On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,’ Fauci told Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul numerous times in the opening round of questions.

During his opening statement, Fauci earlier accused Paul of having an ‘unhinged obsession’ with him.

‘Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me,’ Fauci noted.

‘The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words ‘behind bars,’ Fauci continued.

‘Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to the same conclusion,’ he added.

Earlier, Fauci’s attorney David Schertler was physically removed by security after attempting to speak on his client’s behalf.

‘I didn’t invite you here to testify,’ Paul snapped as officers moved in.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, later read a statement from Schertler accusing Paul of mounting something other than ‘a serious effort to seek information’ and of having ‘built a personal brand’ around his prosecution of the doctor.

Paul hit back, noting that in ‘no courtroom in America’ could a witness plead the Fifth and then have his lawyer testify for him.

‘The attorney is complaining and testifying, saying you didn’t do it. The prosecution is unfair. You don’t get to do that. That’s one thing you give up when you take the Fifth Amendment,’ he said. ‘He was not invited to testify, he was out of order, and it was appropriate to have him ejected.’

Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, accused Fauci of using federal staff to enrich himself during the pandemic by soliciting awards recognizing his work.

‘You turned your staff into a full-time application machine. You actually wrote to people and said, ‘Do you think maybe I qualify?’ And you got cash for all of this,’ Hawley said. ‘You used eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash for that.’

Fauci again invoked the Fifth.

Hawley argued the pardon had stripped him of that protection, citing Brown v. Walker, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling holding that a pardoned witness ‘may not stand upon his privilege.’

Legal scholars are divided on the point, with some arguing the privilege survives where a witness still faces state charges or perjury exposure.

 Fauci’s personal diaries were released earlier this week, showing how he delighted in his interactions with celebrities as America went through the death throes of the early COVID-19 pandemic.

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who also became chief medical advisor to Joe Biden, Fauci achieved remarkable fame of his own during the lockdowns in 2020, a fact that was raised throughout Wednesday’s hearing.