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A Kentucky woman has been arrested after her child severely burned an 11-year-old boy by pouring boiling water on him as a part of the dangerous 'Hot Water Challenge'. Billy Oliver was sleeping over at his friend's house in Manchester when his pal woke him up around 2.30am and threw boiling water on him on July 23. Billy suffered horrific second and third-degree burns that peeled his skin across his neck, back and shoulder in the shocking water attack. His friend splashed him with the scalding liquid as a part of the 'Hot Water Challenge' where kids boil water to...

In the decades prior to the Revolutionary War, tensions arose between the two largest global powers: BRITAIN, led by King George II, and FRANCE, led by King Louis XV. Because of their alliances with other nations, fighting escalated into the first global war -- the Seven Years War, or as it was called in America, the French and Indian War. The conflict included every major power in Europe as well as their colonies from the Caribbean, to India, to the Philippines, and to Africa. Over a million died. It was sparked by the ambush in 1754 of a French detachment...

LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (FOX 9) - Authorities say the murders of four people in two separate shootings in western Wisconsin over the weekend may have been an attempt to copy the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs last fall. Sunday night, law enforcement officers learned two people were found dead and two more were injured at a home in Lake Hallie. A short time later, three more people were found dead in a duplex in the nearby town of Lafayette. The suspected shooter was among the dead. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk identified the suspected shooter in all four murders as...

President Trump doesn’t mince words, so he called the city of Baltimore what it is: a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” And it is. It really is. Trump over the weekend called out Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represents the district in the House, for the dismal state of affairs in the city. The president was, of course, labeled a racist for his criticism of the black lawmaker and the majority black city, but on Tuesday, Trump said black residents of the city have a different mindset. “They are so happy, because I get the calls,” Trump told reporters...

House Democrats may be united in their hatred of President Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean drama can’t engulf the party. It’s now a two-front war. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who tried to create a buffer zone between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her crew, was forced to embrace them when Trump attacked them on social media. This Leninist Girl Scout Troop is starting to be viewed as the face of the Democratic Party, along with all of their left-wing proposals that are not viewed favorably by the electorate, especially Independent voters. For swing voters in the competitive House races...

The Democratic Party will hold a presidential primary debate over two days in Detroit, Michigan, on July 30-31, 2019. It is the second of 12 Democratic primary debates scheduled for the 2020 presidential election. The debate is limited to 20 candidates with 10 candidates participating each night. Click here to see the qualifications for the debate. This page provides an overview of the hosts, venue, moderators, qualifications, and participants. HIGHLIGHTS Date: July 30-31, 2019 Location: Detroit, Michigan Venue: Fox Theatre Partners: CNN

The Trump administration gained a rare victory this summer in the most unlikely of venues—the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is widely viewed as the most liberal federal appeals court. One big reason: President Donald Trump’s appointments to the 9th Circuit have moved it closer to ideological balance. The court, long known for being both liberal and among the most overturned circuits, has been a thorn in Trump’s side, ruling against the president multiple times, mostly on immigration policies. The confirmation of Trump nominee Daniel Bress in July gave the president his seventh judge on the court. It...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) agreed with a radio host's description of Israel's treatment of Palestinians as "criminal" during an interview Tuesday and suggested Palestinians had no recourse but violence. On his hip-hop program "Ebro in the Morning," interviewer Ebro Darden said there was a collection of "corrupt" governments in Israel, the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, "all working in concert," and referred to White House policy adviser Stephen Miller as a white supremacist. "How do you have white supremacist Jews?" he asked. "How do you have people like Stephen Miller? How do you have these individuals who are...

A small North Carolina gun shop has drawn criticism from gun control advocates and progressives for a billboard calling four Democratic minority congresswomen "idiots." The sign advertising Cherokee Guns in Murphy, 240 miles west of Charlotte, features photos of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. The group of freshman lawmakers is collectively known as the "Squad."

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-contraception priest invited to teach at new John Paul II Institute in Rome  ROME, July 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — An Italian moral theologian who has argued that “responsible parenthood” can obligate a married couple to use artificial birth control has been invited to teach at the newly established John Paul II Institute in Rome, LifeSite has confirmed. Two informed sources in Rome told LifeSite that Fr. Maurizio Chiodi, a professor of moral theology at the Northern University of Milan and new member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has been invited to teach at the new institute, but his...

Anti-Trump Hollywood actor Tom Arnold professed his undying emotions Tuesday for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who’s spent her short tenure in Washington advocating radical far-left policies and pushing antisemitic tropes, saying he would be “lucky” if he and the “Squad” member “[fell] in love.” “She’s beautiful, smart & brave. If I’m lucky we’ll fall in love,” Arnold wrote on Twitter of Ilhan Omar, before launching into a defense of the Minnesota Democrat for promoting the actor’s remarks justifying Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) neighbor’s vicious assault against the libertarian-leaning lawmaker last year. “Rand Paul is a horrible neighbor a terrible Senator...

In lieu of watching tonight's Regressive Socialist 'RAT debate, what will you be doing? Or if you do watch, do so with the sound off and supply this thread with the imagined debate dialogue (fake, but accurate).

The last time Nashville’s mayor’s office made national news - a scant seventeen months ago - then mayor Megan Barry resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft relating to an extramarital affair she had with the police officer in charge of her security. This time it’s for a better reason. After David Briley served as interim mayor, a full-term election is now in progress. And that election is being shaken up by Carol Swain, a woman who is - of all things in traditionally Democratic Nashville, a blue stronghold in a red state - a no-holds-barred black, Christian Republican conservative....

A judge in New York has granted a request from prosecutors to keep secret documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 sexual abuse plea deal, on the grounds that the materials could hamper their investigation of others in the financier’s milieu. The documents, which will be shared with Epstein’s attorneys, are believed to concern not only the deal itself, which allowed Epstein to plead guilty to low-level state solicitation charges, but also a clause that granted immunity to any and all potential co-conspirators and named four women suspected of facilitating or participating in alleged crimes against minors. The documents may...

I’m going to be scarce today. Old friends from Dallas are visiting. They are immigrants from Ukraine. I’m going to be showing them around St. Francisville. Last night, after jambalaya, we were all drinking a bit and telling stories. Vladimir told a great one about how his father, during Soviet times, solved the family’s toilet problem. When the family’s toilet bowl cracked, you couldn’t just go to the hardware store and buy a replacement. What hardware store? The government installed that toilet, and it was the government’s responsibility to replace it. But good luck getting on a list to have...

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is blaming President Trump and racism for the city of Baltimore’s well-documented crime, poverty, rodent, and despair problems. He is doing this even though, by any objective measure, Trump has done more for black Americans than any president in decades, including our first black president. Thanks to Trump’s economic and immigration policies, black unemployment is at its lowest level EVER. And I add “immigration policies” to that mix because illegal aliens are helping to devastate the inner-cities that are all run by Democrats who give sanctuary to the same illegals who steal countless starter jobs from...

Why do we see color in a black-and-white snap? Upon closer inspection, one can see that the students are actually covered in streaks of red, blue, yellow, orange and green lines. The brain is tricked into filling in the blanks with the mind, giving the illusion of solid colors where there are none. 'Only the lines have color. What you "see" is what your brain predicts the reality to be, given the imperfect information it gets.' . 'An over-saturated colored grid overlaid on a grayscale image causes the grayscale cells to be perceived as having color.'

In order for the great ‘falling away’ to be complete, the professing end times Christian church, the church of Laodicea, there must be a full-on inclusion of the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile community into the church and for the church to be ‘welcoming and affirming’. The angel Gabriel said to the prophet Daniel that in the last days, ‘knowledge shall be increased’ and that certainly has come true in spades in our day here in the 21st century. But one of the problems with such a vast expanse of news and information is the news cycle is so short that we...

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 third quarter ended June 29, 2019. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $53.8 billion, an increase of 1 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.18, down 7 percent. International sales accounted for 59 percent of the quarter’s revenue. “This was our biggest June quarter ever — driven by all-time record revenue from Services, accelerating growth from Wearables, strong performance from iPad and Mac and significant improvement in iPhone trends,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “These results are promising across all our geographic...

A new poll found that 30 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent voters say that few or none of the 2020 presidential hopefuls share their values. In a Hill-HarrisX poll released Tuesday, 4 percent of Democratic voters said that none of the more than two dozen contenders running for the party's 2020 nomination share their values. Six percent of them said that all of the candidates share their values. The poll found that there was a small difference in men and women voters, with 32 percent of female voters saying that few or none of the White House hopefuls share...