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The State Department reportedly told staffers in a memo they should avoid using gendered phrases like “mother” or “father” for fear of offense.

Alexei Navalny's body has gone missing from the morgue where it was officially being held, his team have said as his mother arrived at the brutal IK-3 Polar Wolf penal colony this morning. Navalny's lawyer, who arrived in the town of Salekhard with Navalny's mother on Saturday, called a number for the morgue and was told that 'Alexei's body is not in the morgue', as claimed by the prison where he had died, the team said on Telegram. Alexei Navalny's spokesperson this morning confirmed the Russian opposition leader had died and said that his body is with investigators. Kira Yarmysh...

On Monday, January 22, 2024, Carroll County Deputies responded to a call for help. The caller who was at work in Greenwood reported that a knife wielding man was attempting to enter his home in the Gravel Hill area of Carroll County. He further stated that his wife and three children were inside the home hiding in a closet. The caller identified the suspect and gave a description of the vehicle. As deputies responded to the scene, they came upon a vehicle fitting that description. Deputies conducted a felony traffic stop in the parking lot of Acy’s Store, but the...

An Ohio mother was arrested Monday for running a Dee Dee Blanchard-esque grift in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer. Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly masqueraded on the internet as a blind and sickly child suffering from a trove of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukemia and regular seizures. Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said. Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and...

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A fourth-grade teacher in Tennessee could face 25 years behind bars after she was arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old and befriending other former students online. Alissa McCommon, 38, was arrested outside her home Friday by Covington Police Department and booked into the Tipton County Jail. The mother-of-two has been accused of sexually assaulting a former student in 2021 in her home, Covington Police Chief Donna Turner said. The Charger Academy teacher admitting to inappropriately communicating with students, the police said. McCommon was suspended without pay on August 24 after a parent came forward with the allegation, according toAfter the...

A mother of four fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after the lawmaker shared a video that said inflation was "propaganda." "I'm just wondering how she thinks it's propaganda," Amber Bergeron said Friday on "Fox & Friends First." "Has she checked her electric bill? Has she looked at the cost of groceries compared to last year? If you get on the Walmart app, she can take a look and see the difference. I'm wondering what her budget is that that's not something that she's concerned about. It's obviously not a worry in her household. It's not something she's having...

Former Vice President Mike Pence, a candidate for the GOP nomination, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that that he was “confident” former President Donald Trump would not be the 2024 GOP nomination. Pence said, “Well, look, I signed a pledge to be on that stage to say I would support the Republican nominee. I remain confident, more confident after Wednesday night, that Republican nominee will not be the former president.”

Deputies in the Sunshine State claim he drove to the Home Depot on the 5300 block of Davis Highway, entered the building, and made his way down aisle 52, where he encountered Sims, who worked at the business as a contract employee, according to arrest documents obtained by WEAR. Two witnesses reportedly told investigators that Keith Agee said something to Sims before opening fire five times. Sims died at the scene. Two other victims, who are reportedly both employees, received graze wounds while fleeing. Deputies arrested Keith Agee at the Mellow Mushroom restaurant located a mile from the Home Depot....

The mother of a man accused of murder in the Florida panhandle is now also behind bars after police discovered text messages allegedly showing her plan the shooting death of a woman working inside The Home Depot. Keith Agee, 20, was arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office Friday afternoon in connection with the deadly shooting of 18-year-old Brooklyn Sims hours earlier at the home improvement retailer on Davis Highway in Pensacola. Police did not share the relationship between Agee and Sims, but Pensacola news outlet WEAR said the two share a 2-year-old daughter together. **SNIP** WARNING: The following conversation...

The mother of a Michigan man accused of threatening President Biden and other prominent Democrats has been charged with making false statements when purchasing firearms later found in her son’s possession. Prosecutors claim in charging documents unsealed Tuesday that Michelle Berka, 56, knowingly lied when she bought five guns and said they were for her, when really they were for someone else. The indictment does not say to whom Berka gave the firearms, but her son was arrested in March with four of the same guns. Randall Berka II was charged earlier this year with illegally possessing firearms after having...

Kimberly Mata-Rubio, the mother of one of the victims in the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, has announced her plans to run for mayor in a special election. Rubio, whose ten-year-old daughter Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio died in the shooting, announced the launch of her campaign through her city’s local newspaper, The Uvalde Leader-News, on Thursday. Rubio, an advertising executive at the Uvalde Leader-News, told the local media outlet that she wants to represent her community, serving as a voice for the underserved whose voices have been long underrepresented.

It’s extraordinarily well-documented how much of a disadvantage children from single-mother households have over children whose parents remain together, but less well-documented is how much of a disadvantage they have over single-father households. For example, studies have found that children that from single-mother households are 5 times more likely to commit suicide than children from both unbroken households and single-father households, 9 times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape, 20 times more likely to end up in prison and 32 times more likely...

Simon & Schuster EXCLUSIVE: Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence will co-author a new book with his daughter, Charlotte Pence Bond, on the importance of family and faith amid balancing the demands of life. The book, titled "Go Home for Dinner: “straightforward advice and personal storytelling,” he shows readers how to do the same.

A New Jersey mother who was reported to local police by a military official after criticizing her child's elementary school for displaying posters in the hallway about sexual preferences has filed a federal lawsuit claiming her civil rights were violated. Angela Reading, a third-year law student and mother of two, filed a federal lawsuit against the high-ranking military, police and local government leaders, claiming she was treated like a terrorist for questioning offensive signs at the North Hanover Township Elementary School last November. The law firm Thomas More Society filed the lawsuit on the mother's behalf in the U.S. District...

A mother, protecting her young children, faced off with a crook who forced his way into their home. After the brave woman put up a fight, she fatally shot the suspect, who had a history that will make any reasonable-minded person livid and proved he should have never been let loose on our streets.Robert Rheams came face to face with a mom who was willing to do whatever it took to protect her children. Robert Rheams, a 51-year-old armed robber, met his match when he broke into a Louisiana home early on a Sunday morning and came face to face...

Part of my ongoing experiment in how to pass family history on to a younger generation that won't ask the questions until their sources are gone, and seem not that fond of reading. Requires a cheap video editing program, an editing party with appropriate beverages, lots of photos, and a techie young relative.

Mary, you are great because of your relationship with your Son and fidelity to the will of God. May I seek no other greatness. If we encountered the mother of our Lord in the street as a young woman of Nazareth, would we recognize her greatness? She who was set apart by God (made holy) for the accomplishment of His will wasn’t accompanied by retinues nor carried on litters. We would simply see a young mother going about her daily duties in service to her family—shopping in the market, collecting water, washing garments, et al. Just as our Lord was...

The 22-year-old suspected of opening fire in Club Q Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was charged with felony menacing in the summer of 2021. NBC News reports that Saturday night’s shooting suspect was “arrested by sheriff’s deputies last year after a bomb threat was made in a residential area just outside Colorado Springs.” FOX News notes that the suspect’s mother told police on June 18, 2021, that her son was “threatening to cause harm to her with a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition.”

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