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Ronald DeFeo Jr., who shot and killed his mother, father, two sisters and two brothers inside their Amityville home in 1974, a case that inspired the book and movie versions of "The Amityville Horror," has died while serving a 25 years-to-life sentence for the murders, New York State officials said. DeFeo, who was serving his sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate Fallsburg, died Friday at age 69, officials confirmed. Officials said DeFeo was transferred to Albany Medical Center and was pronounced dead on March 12 at 6:35 p.m. An official cause of death will be determined by the Albany...

A migrant facility in Texas was at 729% pandemic-era capacity at the beginning of March, as an influx of unaccompanied minors continues along the southern border. "Some of the boys said that conditions were so overcrowded that they had to take turns sleeping on the floor," Neha Desai, a lawyer representing migrant youth in U.S. government custody, told CBS News. The Customs and Border Protection holding facility in Donna, Texas, is designed for 250 migrants for pandemic-era capacity but was holding more than 1,800 people on March 2. Most of the minors Desai spoke to at the facility had reportedly...

Thorntons will permanently close all of its UK stores after more than a century of trading, the company has announced. The chocolate retailer will shut 61 stores, impacting 603 jobs, in the latest round of cuts to the high street amid the Covid-19 pandemic. After 110 years of creating chocolate, Thorntons said the ‘obstacles’ Covid-19 has brought on the high street are ‘too severe’ to survive. However, the retailer said it has seen sales surge online and will now invest in its grocery supply business as part of the company-wide shake-up. Retail director, Adam Goddard, said in a statement: ‘Changing...

The U.S. government plans to use the downtown Dallas convention center to hold up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers as sharply higher numbers of border crossings have severely strained the current capacity to hold youths, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. The announcement comes amid comments from Texas Governor Gregg Abbott on March 9 who called the situation at the border an ongoing humanitarian crisis. “This crisis as a result of President Biden’s policies invites illegal immigration and is creating a humanitarian crisis for Texas,” said Gov. Abbott. “His administration is helping the cartels make money and grow...

Dear Sen. Tim Scott: Sadly, it is no longer much of a surprise when an official of your party says some racially offensive thing. From calling Barack Obama “uppity” and “boy,” to decrying an imaginary “war on whites,” to declaring the world’s Black and brown nations “s---hole countries,” racial offense has become the Republican brand, as much an identifier of the GOP as elephants in straw hats.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) told Breitbart News on Sunday how Rita Hart, her defeated Democrat opponent in November’s election for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, is attempting to overturn the election results and disenfranchise Iowa’s voters. Miller-Meeks explained that her opponent is asking the House Committee on Administration — run by a six-to-three Democrat majority — to overturn the election results. In Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, 394,439 people voted in the 2020 election, with Miller-Meeks ultimately winning by 6 votes. Hart argues 22 Democrat ballots deemed illegitimate should have been counted, giving her the election. “They are disenfranchising 400,000 voters,” Miller-Meeks...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen had gone up against "Unclie Miltie", Milton Berle, and had beaten him in the ratings, so the Archbishop referred to himself once as "Uncle Fultie". In this color video, Sheen explains some of the mystery about the human sense of humor. He refers to a kind of "holy shame", called in French, "pudeur", not so much shame at sexuality or nudity, but a kind of reverence at holy things, of which the Catholic Church taught (until recently), that sexuality had a part in the holiness.Youtube https://youtu.be/MPX_YroRfWQ

Still outraged by Fox News host Tucker Carlson contrasting of China’s push for a “more masculine” military against the U.S. military’s focus on inclusivity for women, an official Marine Corps account and other military officials attacked Carlson throughout the weekend. The controversy comes as a previously classified war game conducted by the Air Force shows the U.S. losing a military to conflict to China.

CAMPUS AFFAIRS: Insufficient campus support for concerned students demonstrates lack of respect, inclusion at UC Berkeley in real timeAmid vehement student protest and the circulation of a petition signed by over 1,500 people, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, canceled its planned appearance at UC Berkeley’s virtual career fair on Thursday. What mustn’t go unnoticed or uncriticized is the fact that it was ICE, and not campus, which decided to cancel the engagement. In fact, it seems campus held little reservations about the circumstances, which is troubling. UC Berkeley students — especially those who are immigrants — have every...

A majority of voters are concerned about the current surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, and oppose plans reportedly being considered by Congress this week to offer amnesty to undocumented immigrants. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 73% of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned about the government’s ability to handle the growing number of migrants at the border while meeting COVID-19 protocols. That includes 48% who say they are Very Concerned. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Border crossings have surged since President Joe Biden was elected, and officials in Texas last week...

VIDEONot too long ago hordes of celebrities were gushing over Andrew Cuomo despite the fact that it was already well known at the time that he forced many infected elderly patients into New York nursing homes. However, we need to now overlook how ridiculous those celebs were and... Aw! Who am I kidding? Those idiotic celebs need to be fully exposed for their blind worship of Cuomo and here at the DUmmie FUnnies we are duty bound to reveal just how foolish they looked even though they now probably wish they had just kept their big fat mouths shut about...

Desiree Andrade, whose son Julien was murdered in California in 2018, told "Fox & Friends" on Monday that she thinks Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is "in the wrong office" and "should be a public defender." "He’d be a great public defender," Andrade told host Ainsley Earhardt. "The district attorney’s office is about protecting us victims. I feel like… nobody has our back and it’s sad." "It’s very sad where you have criminals over victims," she continued. "I don’t understand the world we’re living in right now."

Ashley earned her gun! California criminal defense firm Tully & Weiss has a tradition to celebrate an associate’s first jury trial victory. The firm awarded associate attorney Ashely Bargenquast the gun of her choice for winning a major case. The tradition rewards a great job, as well as encourages their attorneys to practice and celebrate the Constitutional rights they defend. Associate Attorney Ashley Bargenquast won her first jury trial in Shasta County. The case was related to cannabis cultivation, manufacture, firearms, conspiracy, and resisting arrest after a raid at their property which included a very public and substantial medical grow....

The political left has proven itself to be amazingly incompetent when it comes to governing. Examples abound of nations, states, and cities—even those with tremendous wealth, resources, and other advantages—reduced to nightmare zones of poverty, violence, and corruption. Think of Venezuela, Cuba, California, Detroit, and Baltimore. Yet, there is one area in which the left excels to a remarkable degree: the attainment of power and advancement of its political aims. Every year, every month, and every day, somewhere in the nation the left is implementing or proposing some action that will further its agenda. Consider the breakneck speed at which...

But maybe so. David Goldman foresees China vastly outstripping America because it is a merciless meritocracy whereas America increasingly is at war with that very idea (the NFL and other sports leagues excepted). America will no longer offer, as an alternative to China, “a democratic meritocracy that rewards achievement while honoring the rights of the individual.” And since “meritocracy will win, because it always does, and all the more so in a high-tech, winner-take-all world,” the Chinese version of it — “a merciless meritocracy that treats the losers like so much detritus” — will prevail in the absence of a...

JD Vance may be running for the United States Senate in Ohio. The venture capitalist and author of the autobiographical bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, now has a very well-funded Super PAC backing his potential candidacy. According to Cinncinnati.com, “Thiel, a German-American billionaire and early investor in Facebook, gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to support Vance’s possible bid, said Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the super PAC.

Race Neutrality is the New RacismHow Wokeism Turned Against Liberalism and Dr. SuessThis week’s controversy over Dr. Seuss may seem like merely the latest in a series of bizarre cancel culture maneuvers from the radical left. Indeed, it comes after a cancelation extravaganza that has included attempts by Princeton faculty to cancel the literature of Greece and Rome, attempts by Amazon to cancel the book When Harry Became Sally, and even an attempt by our President to cancel women. But in the case of the sudden withdrawal from print of six books from Dr. Suess’s corpus, something deeper is at...

We knew this was coming. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has been extremely clear about what she thinks of Black Lives Matter. “Those protests were dreadful,” she said last month. She’s also been clear about what she thinks of Extinction Rebellion. At a police conference last year she branded its activists “eco-crusaders turned criminals”. Now we see what she plans to do about it. On Tuesday, the Home Office published the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill. It covers a wide range of areas, from sentencing to digital information. But it has a specific section on the policing of protests....

MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - The large influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas now involves Midland. On Sunday, Governor Greg Abbott announced that the federal government planned to move some children from the border to a holding facility in Midland. The migrants arrived in buses overnight. The holding facility is located in the area of FM 1788 and County Road 150 in Midland County. Midland Mayor Patrick Payton confirmed the news to CBS7 on Sunday, saying that city and county officials were scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the issue. Midland County Sheriff David Criner says that...

Defense lawyers for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have requested a delay and a change of venue after news broke that the city paid George Floyd’s family a record breaking $27 million settlement. The legal team put in the request on Monday out of concern that there is no way Chauvin will face a fair trial in the city .The trial was in the middle of jury selection when news of the settlement hit the media. Seven jurors had already been chosen. “I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday related to the civil settlement,” Eric...