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A teen sought by authorities after two of his relatives were found dead Tuesday in Acton, Massachusetts, has been charged with murder, and investigators say he was using artificial intelligence to make searches about the killing of his family, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan initially said Tuesday that authorities were looking for 17-year-old Arjun Aravind, who lives in the Martha Lane house and was unaccounted for after a woman and male teenager were discovered dead there just after 6:30 p.m. He was found early Tuesday morning and taken into custody in Wayland.

Residents of an affluent Utah community are furious over a proposal to dramatically raise property taxes just months after their new city was formed. The proposal has particularly angered residents because they voted to create Ogden Valley City after being told it could support itself without raising taxes. Nearly 68 percent of voters backed incorporation in November 2024, according to KSL, and the city officially formed on January 2. Ahead of the vote, an independent feasibility study commissioned through the Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office projected the city could maintain services with at least a five percent budget surplus and would...

With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win. Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat team, since the following are their apparent rules of campaign communication: 1. Republicans can’t call Democrats “communists.” This applies even if you make campaign appearances with someone like Hasan Piker, who thinks mass-murdering communist Mao Zedong is “one of the great leaders of this world."...

What if the Migrant Invasion of Ceuta Is Only the Beginning? Considering Spain’s late response and the EU’s vain squabbling, there is every reason to worry that the migrant invasion of Ceuta will happen again.When people saw the videos of a horde of North African migrants storming the Spanish-held peninsula of Ceuta, many immediately recalled a famous scene from the film World War Z where a horde of zombies mount a border wall and flood one of the last remaining uninfected cities. Here was a real-life violent invasion of heedless military-aged men stampeding through a small, vulnerable Spanish town, resulting...

The Ottoman Jihad - Turkey's Genocide: The Systematic Annihilation of 2.5 Million Christians (1914–1923) Between 1914 and 1923, successive Ottoman and Turkish nationalist regimes carried out a systematic campaign of extermination against the empire’s Christian minorities. Driven by an ethnonationalist ideology aimed at homogenising Anatolia, the authorities executed these campaigns through direct massacres, forced labour battalions, weaponised starvation, and brutal death marches. The collective human toll of these coordinated operations is estimated by international historical consensus to include approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians, and 750,000 Greeks: Armenians (1.5 Million): Representing the vast majority of the pre-war Armenian population, these...

South Carolina Republicans will return to the polls on August 25 for a runoff that will determine the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham. Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Darline Graham Nordone emerged from a crowded Republican field on Tuesday, with Graham Nordone finishing first and Norman advancing in second place. Graham Nordone received roughly 33 percent of the vote, while Norman finished with approximately 24 percent. The result sets up a two-candidate showdown and gives South Carolina Republicans another opportunity to decide who should represent the Palmetto State in...

Paramount boss David Ellison is considering moving CBS News out of the Big Apple as his legal battle with New York and California’s attorneys general is heating up, The Post has learned. One point of leverage for Ellison is potentially moving his news operations out of New York City as California AG Rob Bonta leads a coalition of 12 lefty states in an effort to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, people close to Paramount told The Post on Wednesday. Pulling CBS News from the city would mark a seismic change to the local media landscape —...

RFK Jr. revealed the Biden administration gutted anti-fraud oversight at his agency. There used to be 80 people watching over $2.2 trillion in annual payments across 50 states. Xavier Becerra transferred 76 of them out. When RFK Jr. took over, only six were left. He said it was an open invitation for fraudsters. Fake hospices billed for thousands of phantom patients. Durable medical equipment and autism services scams ran into the tens of billions, especially in LA. The old policy was literally “pay and chase.” Send the money first, then try to get it back later. Writer: Sol https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2087350391990050980/video/1

Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Chief Financial Officer Heidi Beirich was arrested on Wednesday, with authorities alleging that she made secret payments to informants in white supremacist groups.The Department of Justice brought charges against the SPLC earlier this year over fraudulent payments. Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest in a press conference.

Million Dollar Weekend (1948) is a film-noir crime drama starring Gene Raymond as Nicholas Lawrence, a stockbroker who embezzles a million dollars and attempts to escape to Shanghai. Key plot developments so far (0:00 - 11:21): The Embezzlement: Nicholas plans to flee town with the embezzled money after finalizing his arrangements at the airport (2:44 - 4:41). The Encounter: While boarding his flight to Honolulu, Nicholas unexpectedly crosses paths with Cynthia Strong (Osa Massen) and a man named Alan Marker (Francis Lederer) (8:55 - 9:36). The Blackmail: It is revealed that Marker is blackmailing Cynthia, claiming he witnessed her murdering...

Interesting subject • There IS Life After Death – NO FEAR OF DEATH after this experience of being clinically dead for hours, then coming back. • Thousands of cases documented by doctors & the individual o All across the world not just in certain countries. o Medical records confirm the declared deaths o NO compensation for a person’s recorded interview. o Some can describe the operation that was performed in great detail. o Some described friends and family in the visitation room. o A common description of the other side was how brilliant light is seen, peacefulness, no shadows, a...

Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran.Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and the Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier...

timeanddate.com’s live stream of the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, which will be visible from parts of Russia, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.

This video argues that even if the current AI market is experiencing a bubble similar to the dot-com crash of 2000, SpaceX is uniquely positioned to dominate the future. The host posits that while many AI companies may fail, those with robust business models, profitability, and genuine innovation will emerge as industry leaders. Key takeaways include: Vertical Integration: SpaceX is described as the only company that owns the full infrastructure stack: rockets for deployment, satellites for global connectivity, ground networks, and massive AI compute capabilities (8:15 - 9:02). The Infrastructure Play: SpaceX is building a global internet backbone via Starlink,...

NEW YORK CITY, NY — After rumors circulated that she had split with her boyfriend, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video explaining how she had actually frozen him just in case she might still want him in the future."I'm doing this to keep my options open," said AOC, happily surveying the block of ice containing ex-boyfriend Riley Roberts. "As a working woman and someone who has given her life to serving the public, I have very little time right now for personal life stuff. In a few years when things calm down, I might want to get back together with...

Regardless of your age, chances are you know at least one person in your life who loves video games, and a recent campaign by the U.S. Department of Transportation shows that those skills might be useful at your nearest airport. In April 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a new campaign aimed at hiring the “next generation of air traffic controllers,” citing an increased focus on skills often synonymous with frequent gaming, such as increased problem-solving skills and multitasking abilities. That strategy appears to have paid off. In a social media post made Sunday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy...

Please join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

One day President Trump wants to dial down hostilities with Iran. ‘We’re low-keying’ the conflict, he said on Sunday. A day later, though, he was keyed up. After Tehran demanded reparations from Washington as part of its attempt to resurrect June’s Memorandum of Understanding, Trump said on Truth Social that it was the Iranians who should: “Compensate America for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands...

President Trump claimed Wednesday that the US has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, one day after Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed increasing oil exports from the crucial waterway as Iran’s economy continues to free fall. “The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!” Trump proclaimed on Truth Social. “Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, ‘A WALL OF STEEL,’ and there is nothing Iran can do about it,” he added. ***“On Sunday alone, over 20 million barrels left the Arabian gulf region, which is above the pre-conflict average.” Only...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) denied that it was sending any personnel as security for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, when she will travel to Syria and Lebanon next month, The New York Post reported on Tuesday. The New York Post reported on Monday evening that Duwaji would be protected by police officers assigned to her as taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail during her trip to the Middle East, citing a source in the New York City Hall. Both countries are on the United States' "Level 4: Do not Travel" list for citizens. Lebanon's Level 4...