Paul Kessler’s Killer Gets Probation — Judge Bypassed DA to Offer the Deal

Today's lead: a California judge bypassed prosecutors to offer Paul Kessler's killer probation and up to one year in jail — a sweetheart deal the DA and the victim's family opposed. Also tracking Mamdani's hedge as mobs target Park East Synagogue with terror chants, and Georgetown Law purging its Jewish speaker and installing a critic of antisemitism hearings. In the wire: Pelosi backs anti-Israel Dem in Houston; the White House names the Muslim Brotherhood as the root of all modern Islamist terror; AI-generated fake rabbis rack up 10 million TikTok likes pushing antisemitism; and East Palo Alto adopts IHRA.