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A transgender person (biological male) fatally stabbed a man in South Side Chicago for disrespecting his gender. Kelly Day, 32, stabbed the victim, identified as 50-year-old Larry Young, more than 13 times last Wednesday near a gas station in the 1400 block of East 87th Street. The attack was so brutal and violent that the knife's blade broke off in Larry Young's skull. According to the Chicago Tribune, the stabbing occurred after Day had an encounter with a separate group of people earlier in the day at a McDonald's bathroom. They reportedly mocked Kelly Day for using the women's bathroom...

Most Americans think Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency in unethical or illegal ways and is focused more on his wealth than helping people like them, a new AP-NORC poll finds... 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe he is either illegally profiting or doing something unethical but not illegal. Only about 2 in 10 think the Republican president is doing nothing wrong, while a similar share say they don’t know enough to say... ... Independents and Republicans are much less convinced than Democrats that Trump is breaking the law. Only about 3 in 10 independents and about 1 in...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is heading back to Hollywood for yet another fundraiser, this one headed by Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman and United Talent Agency CEO David Kramer. The fundraiser will be held in Hancock Park on October 19 and will be attended by several Hollywood executives, chief among them being Glickman and Kramer, per Politico: Other listed co-hosts include prominent Hollywood attorney Tom Hoberman, whose clients have included Elizabeth Taylor and Faye Dunaway; Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, the CEO of the Gotham Group management company; and filmmaker Grant Heslov, whose producing credits include Argo and Good Night, and Good Luck. It...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed a new law doubling to 10 years the maximum prison term for sexual acts by same-sex couples. The new law also criminalises the "promotion" of homosexuality, which includes any public representation and financial support by individuals or organisations, and provides for three to seven years in prison for those found guilty. The legislation was a campaign promise of President Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and was approved by parliament last month. It was taken to parliament after a wave of arrests over alleged same‑sex relationships, which were already banned under Senegalese law....

A few days ago, I started a thread about proprietary software from Adobe had been reverse engineered using AI tools. Today I ran across this Github Repo that connects with AI agents from a variety of the leading AI companies and allows anyone using the tool to look at raw binaries, firmware and reverse engineer features without the source code. The tool on Github is called REA or reverse engineer anything and supposedly is blowing up in popularity and now people are now taking the code and enhancing it making the power of products like this and AI Agents grow...

A wave of attacks against the Russian internet giant Yandex has sent shockwaves across the country in recent days and caused major disruptions to daily life. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” provides a range of digital services used by millions of Russians every day. Russian-language media reported widespread outages across the company’s products over the weekend, with people unable to access certain websites and applications. The attacks, which Kyiv says are a retaliation for Russia’s strikes against similar targets, represent a new phase in Ukraine’s air campaign against Russia. Ukraine has increasingly sought to undermine Russia’s economy by...

A city council meeting in Iowa took a dark turn earlier this week when a former member opened the meeting by praising Satan in his invocation. Onetime Ottumwa City Council member Matt Dalbey began the meeting by praying to the “dark father” to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge” before concluding his prayer with “Hail Satan.” But New Life Center Pastor Rick Bick did not go along to get along. As soon as the council concluded their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance following the demonic prayer, Bick interrupted the meeting by demanding that Dalbey’s...

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Hoping someone out there has encountered a similar problem. I recently tore my LCL and MCL. Doctors don't think it's bad enough to require surgery but the pain is excruciating. Even a walker isn't much help. Has anyone had a similar situation? Is there anything out there that takes the pressure off the knee? Braces don't help.

"Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3, emphasis added). Scripture contains everything you need to know for godly living. For many years I've watched with deep concern as a significant number of Christians have drifted from a thoughtful, biblical, God- centered theology to one that is increasingly mystical, non- biblical, and man-centered. One of the most disturbing indicators of this trend is the proliferation of extrabiblical revelations that certain people are claiming to receive directly from God. Such claims are alarming because they dilute the uniqueness and centrality of the Bible...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAfter Jesus had spoken, a Pharisee invited him to dine at his home. He entered and reclined at table to eat. The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not observe the prescribed washing before the meal. Luke 11:37–38Did Jesus break the Law of Moses by failing to observe the prescribed ritual handwashing before sitting down to eat? He did not. This ceremonial washing was not a precept of the Mosaic Law but rather a tradition developed by the elders. It was intended to signify ritual purity before meals. But Jesus rejected it because it...

Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom Google really wanted pioneering AI researcher Noam Shazeer back. The longtime employee left to start his own company but in 2024, Google paid $2.7 billion for him to return to work on cutting-edge projects, including its most powerful AI technology, Gemini. Even that, though, couldn’t ensure that Shazeer got the computing resources he wanted. Less than two years later, he sent a note to one of his teams saying that Google had cut what was allocated to them...

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of all pastoral services to Catholics serving in the U.S. military, said that his fellow churchmen cannot participate in the upcoming firing squad of Nidal Hasan. Controversy erupted last week when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon will be livestreaming Hasan’s execution, which has been scheduled for December 3. Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that killed 14 people — 12 U.S. Army soldiers, one civilian, and an unborn child. Another 33 were injured. In a statement on Monday, Broglio said that Catholics who serve on...

A transgender woman allegedly fatally stabbed a stranger she claimed bullied her about her gender in an attack so vicious that the knife broke off in the man’s skull. Kelly Day, 32, was with her partner and 7-year-old stepson when she allegedly launched the brutal assault on 50-year-old Larry Young after being mocked for using a women’s bathroom at McDonald’s earlier that day, the Chicago Tribune reported. Young was not among the separate group of strangers who allegedly insulted Day hours before Wednesday’s deadly stabbing on Chicago’s Far South Side, Assistant State Attorney Sara Grgurovic told the judge during a...

Everybody with common sense should vote Republican in November! If you don't believe me, just listen to this.. No Socialist/Communist!! https://x.com/Jessie63335515/status/2107945260034785312?

-- Benny Johnson's the host of the Benny Johnson show. So, a lot of push back over this woke BS, isn't there? . -- How about He's calling everybody racist and they're like, "How many black friends do you [laughter] have?" You couldn't name one. Yeah, dude. You love China. How many blacks are living in China today? It's a great question. You're wearing a Mao Zedong outfit. That's supporting a actual genocide state. He continues to scream about genocide[sic]. Maybe it was him in the Jerry Seinfeld show. Have we checked on that guy? Do we have an idea...

Elon Musk is putting more than $276 million behind Republicans ahead of the midterms, and he's doing it without the high-profile campaign appearances that defined his support for President Trump in 2024. The world's only trillionaire is now the biggest known donor of the election cycle, including a staggering $158 million contribution to the main super PAC backing Republican Senate candidates. Another $76 million is going to America PAC, which is rebuilding the massive door-knocking operation it used to help elect Trump in 2024. Musk is also directing $10 million toward a group supporting Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton....

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A fire early on Monday has destroyed the French capital's oldest covered food market, a popular street food venue named after red-clad orphans, authorities said. The Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges (Red Children's Market) in the Marais district of Paris, which has existed since 1615, draws its name from the red outfits that orphans wore at a hospital originally located near the site of the market. The market was given its name at the end of the 18th century after the hospital closed in 1772. The US magazine Food & Wine had ranked it fifth worldwide for street food this...