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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A day after winning the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in a dramatic playoff, ozeki Terunofuji said Monday it took every ounce of effort to claim his second straight championship. The 29-year-old Mongolian was thrust down by fellow ozeki Takakeisho in the final scheduled bout of the 15-day meet at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sunday, leaving the pair tied with a 12-3 record, requiring a playoff to determine the champion. Terunofuji turned the tables in the sudden-death decider, keeping his rival at arm's length before slapping him to the sandy surface of the ring. The victory earned Terunofuji...

As a social media platform, Twitter is regularly wielded as a political battleground and debate forum. But it also presents an opportunity to inspire kindness and encourage heroic actions – actions that reveal the goodness of humanity. Joanne Mason – a self-identified Christian wife, mother, and daughter – recently took that opportunity when she asked others on Twitter to share their personal “stories of kindness.” She started with her own: She remembered when she once “burst into tears” in public after her brother died. Her tears moved an “elderly gentleman” to reach out, hold her hand, and sit with her....

Police in Minnesota have used forensics to determine that the creator of an Instagram account from which racist private messages to black students was a black female student at White Bear Lake High School. ========================================================================= Police in Minnesota have used forensics to determine that the creator of an Instagram account from which racist private messages to black students was a black female student at White Bear Lake High School. In yet another "hate hoax" incident, it appears that the girl was sending racist messages to other black female students, although police could only confirm that she was the one who...

You could tell the mayor was clearly flabbergasted. “We’ve worked so hard to get guns out of the hands…” A flummoxed Mayor Bill DeBlasio appeared to have indigestion at the idea that he could somehow be overruled on his narrow view of guns. The mayor of New York was more or less going full 'woke' on the suggestion that the Supreme Court of the United States had announced that it will proceed on hearing a case that amongst other outcomes could produce a ruling on the constitutional right of every law-abiding American to own and carry a gun. Of course,...

No. It's not a case of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg'. Seeing the horrific Arab Muslim attacking Jews, even in the US, at times with 'allahu akbar,' under banner of do called "free palestine," reminds us to refresh our memory. Hatred came before grievances... Here are highlights of Arab attacks on Jews before 1948. * Arab attack on Jews 1886 Petach Tikwa. * In 1914 'Filastin' was banned by the Turks for inciting racial hatred. * 1920, al-Husseini instigated killing Jews. Firing up with jihadi calls to kill. > * In 1929, Mufti al-Husseini instigated an all...

Carjacking is a dangerous proposition … just ask this man who got trampled by a pissed-off driver, and it’s all on video. The attempted carjacking went down last year but started trending this morning because the video was released for public use yesterday. In the video you see a black man trying to stop a car by standing in the middle of the road as he pulls out a gun. The would-be carjacker receives instant karma as the driver of the car hits the gas and sent him flying down the street. The moment of impact did some heavy damage...

Washington Post columnist George Will said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” roundtable that Republican lawmakers would not investigate the Capitol riot on January 6 because of the “terror it feels for its own voters.”

Editor's Note:This is an exclusive excerpt adapted from "The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court" by Jack Phillips, releasing May 25, 2021 (Salem Books). The gavel came down. A door opened behind the bench, the red curtains were swept aside, and the nine justices filed into the room, taking their seats with barely a glance toward the waiting audience. The justices sit in order of seniority: Chief Justice John Roberts at the center, the longest-serving justice to his right, the second-longest serving to his left, and back and forth,...

DENVER — A plan to help homeless people during the pandemic by letting them set up camp in a church parking lot has forced residents in an affluent neighborhood to question their progressive values and commitment to helping ease social ills. “When I bought in Park Hill, it wasn't because there was a homeless encampment one block from my front door,” said Jon Kinning, who lives a block away from the church. “If I wanted to live in downtown Denver and near homelessness in my face every day, having people sleep on my patio or go to the bathroom on...

Excerpted:“Even after a person is accused of a crime, in the U.S. legal system, under our Constitution, every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” Evans wrote to us in a statement. “While a case is pending, under the law, judges must impose the least restrictive pretrial conditions possible that ensure the defendant’s return to court and protect public safety. Jail is the most restrictive condition, depriving the accused of liberty, as well as access to jobs, education, family and the ability to aid in their defense.”

LONDON — A British Black Lives Matter activist is fighting for her life after being shot in the head during the early hours of Sunday morning. Sasha Johnson, a 27-year-old mother, is in a critical condition after the incident, which comes amid “numerous death threats,” according to a statement from the political party she is affiliated with.

HB 596 was passed on 5 May 2021. It is a fairly good Constitutional Carry bill with a 21-year-old age limit and a requirement to reveal to peace officers your condition of being armed. Voting was 73 to 26 for final passage. From the advocate.com:A bill that would allow citizens 21 and older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit breezed through the Louisiana House on Wednesday.The measure, House Bill 596, won approval 72-28 after a short but spirited debate.It next faces action in the state Senate, which approved a similar bill last week by an equally lopsided margin.Eight...

SPECIAL DISPATCHES FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 23. The steamship Pocahontas and the river steamer Mount Vernon, sail to-night down the Chesapeake. They will be gone a week. The detachment of the Seventy-first, under Lieut. PENDERGAST, goes on the Mount Vernon. They will sail almost direct for Fort Monroe, in order to support the forces there, in case of a movement on the Gosport Navy-yard. I am authorized to state that there are now two hundred and fifty thousand men under arms that are in the pay of the United States Government. These are all equipped, or will be by...

Etienne-Benjamin Deschauffours (or Duchauffour) was burned at Paris’s Place de Greve on this date in 1726. Although executed on a sodomy conviction, it wasn’t mere same-sex indulgence but a monstrous, Jeffrey Epstein-like project of elite sexual depravity that cinched his fate, at least if the trial records are to be believed. “Under a variety of pseudonyms, and in various lodgings, Deschauffours earned a living by spotting ‘likely lads’ and supplying them on payment of commission to wealthy clients, both French and foreign (perhaps some 200 in all),” quoth Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 74Psalm 74 A maskil[a] of Asaph. 1 O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt. 3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary. 4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs. 5 They behaved like men wielding axes to cut...

Police were called to the amusement park to break up large groups of teens fighting.

All part of Biden's war on the little guy. Joe Biden wants to know what's in your bank account, and he'd like to keep watching. That's the alarming issue Reason magazine has explored, noting that buried deep within Biden's much-touted tax-hikes-for "infrastructure" American Families Act unveiled last April 28 is a sneaky Democrat plot called the American Families Tax Compliance Agenda. That will force the IRS to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, all of them armed with vast, new and expanded surveillance powers. Biden tax plan would cull financial data on masses of law-abiding, tax-compliant Americans. In the name of...

It was like a story torn from a rom-com movie — except for the ending. A Florida author flew across the country Friday to spill her guts to “the love of my life” – only to end up heartbroken and alone Saturday morning in a “s—-y” Oregon motel. The romantic drama captivated Twitter over the past 24 hours as it was shared by Rebecca Renner, a contributor to National Geographic and author of the upcoming book “Gator Country.” “I asked him if we could try again and he said no,” Renner, 31, of Orlando, told The Post Saturday morning by...

The latest example is “porn literacy” education at a pricey New York City private high school – and parents aren’t happy. Humans have two biological imperatives: eating and procreating. Veganism isn’t sexy but sex is…sexy. That’s why leftists constantly impose sex on kids. It makes kids associate leftism with pleasure and the abandonment of sovereignty over one’s body. The latest example comes from yet another pricey private school in Manhattan, this one teaching juniors “porn literacy.” In 2010, when I was still publishing as Bookworm, I wrote a post called “Sex and State Power.” I argued that leftists thrust sexuality...

In the minds of progressives — in culture, government and religion — truth is purely subjective. Except when it comes to bolstering an agenda. Our nation's issues have nothing to do with preferred pronouns or fake insurrections or manic pushes for equity. They stem from an application of subjective truth to virtually everything. Consider our founding charter. Progressives say the Constitution is a living, breathing document that must adapt to the times. As if the principles of liberty require adjustment because things have changed so much in a mere 234 years. Do progressives truly believe we should reinterpret the Constitution...