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The alleged incident involving sexual conduct with a minor happened in 2019. According to court documents, a 16-year-old boy said he previously lived with Navarette and says he woke up to Navarette touching him inappropriately and then performing sex acts on him. This allegedly occurred more than five times and began when he was 12 to 13-years-old and lasted until the victim was 15.

Seen from the sky, these exclusive pictures and video show the sprawling set-up of Barrack Obama's 60th birthday celebrations - and on the ground some of the crème de la crème of the entertainment, sports and political worlds are starting to arrive. With canopies and catering stations that dwarf the Obama's mansion, DailyMail.com can reveal the true scale of the party that, according to the former president's spokesman, was scaled back from a 500-person extravaganza to a small affair only for family and close friends Stars also began rolling into Martha's Vineyard Friday afternoon, with the island's airport abuzz with...

People who have received a COVID-19 vaccine have more protection against the SARS-COV-2 virus than people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to a new study.The odds of getting infected with the virus, which causes COVID-19, were 2.3 times higher among people who had been infected before when compared to those who were fully vaccinated, according to the new report.Researchers in Kentucky teamed with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials to carry out the case-control evaluation of the link between vaccination and infection.They used Kentucky’s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System to find COVID-19 cases and checked for people...

Novavax announced that it will delay the submission of its Covid-19 vaccine to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization until its fourth quarter. Shares of the biotechnology company slipped 10% after the bell. The company has filed for regulatory approval in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Plans to submit the vaccine for emergency use listing at the World Health Organization are set for August, Novavax announced. Approval by the WHO will allow the vaccine to be distributed globally via vaccine sharing initiatives at the global agency. Novavax data from clinical trials indicate that a booster dose of...

We rightly criticize and condemn China for sending more than one million Uighurs – Muslims – to “re-education” camps. At the “camps” the Uighurs are “educated” in a process their Chinese elders describe as “washing brains, cleansing hearts, strengthening righteousness and eliminating evil.” Again, this is sick and wrong, a human rights abuse, something that should disgust us all. But we have our own, milder, version of “re-education” camps that indoctrinate, all for a supposed good, evolved cause. We call our re-education camps public schools. Here is one example, from Evanston, right outside of Chicago, of what first and second...

VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 545,338 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 12,366 deaths and 70,105 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 30, 2021. Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed the total number of reports (including foreign and U.S.) of deaths following COVID vaccination, across all age groups, surpassed 12,000. The data comes directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.Every Friday, VAERS...

Go USA - in First Place!!! Pos. Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States 155 108 31 294 2 China 180 78 17 275 3 Russia 85 69 22 176 4 Great Britain 90 60 20 170 5 Japan 120 33 16 169 6 Australia 85 18 21 124 7 Italy 50 30 18 98 8 Germany 45 33 16 94 9 Netherlands 45 30 12 87 10 France 35 33 9 77 11 New Zealand 35 18 6 59 12 Canada 30 18 10 58 13 Republic of Korea 30 12 9 51 14 Hungary 25 21 5...

On Aug. 1, Benedictine monks moved into the emblematic Solignac Abbey in west-central France after a 230-year absence. It is the first time since the French Revolution that the Benedictines have returned to this historic Christian site, established by St. Eligius in the 7th century. This event, regarded as providential by local Catholics, does indeed have a symbolic significance, especially at a time when many religious buildings in France are left to decay, condemned to disappear or be bought for secular purposes. The monks’ return was recently announced by the Diocese of Limoges in a press release co-signed by local...

Wiretaps show Italian priest used cell phone apps for sex with teen boysPERUGIA, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - Italian paramilitary police have arrested a priest for "aggravated child prostitution" after electronic surveillance generated evidence of the homosexual cleric soliciting sex from underage boys "on a daily basis." Father Vincenzo Esposito, parish priest of San Feliciano in Magione, Perugia, over a hundred miles north of Rome, used digital phone applications like WhatsApp or Messenger to make sexual video calls to male minors from Termini Imerese and neighboring areas. The arrest has embarrassed the Conference of Italian Bishops (CEI) as its pro-gay president, Cdl....

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared on Thursday that his country would bar LGBT+ activists from schools under a new law restricting promotion of homosexuality, despite pressure from the EU to rescind the legislation. In a post shared on his official Facebook page, Orban responded to the European Commission’s decision to open an inquiry into the country over the legislation that prohibits the promotion of homosexuality within schools. “The European Parliament and the European Commission want that we let LGBTQ activists and organisations into the kindergartens and schools. Hungary does not want that,” Orban said, standing by the legislation. Orban...

One of the greatest questions of our time, something truly unanswerable and impossible to imagine the consequences of, is: “what could possibly go wrong if I stick my hand into a big cat enclosure and taunt a jaguar?”. A man from Florida took it upon himself to decipher the riddle, and reportedly stuck his hand into the jaguar enclosure in Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Florida on August 3. The big cat responded as most big cats would when confronted with an uninvited stranger in its territory and clawed his arm, leaving behind a trail of blood and a wounded man,...

An Oklahoma County judge granted a preliminary injunction filed against Gov. Kevin Stitt, ordering him to reinstate the extension on the weekly $300 CARES Act federal unemployment benefits that he ended. Oklahoma County District Judge Anthony Bonner Jr. made the decision Friday in response to a lawsuit filed by Oklahomans against the state for ending the federal unemployment benefits early. Brendan McHugh, co-council for the petitioners, argued that some 74,000 Oklahomans are still relying on the extra $300 a week. Stitt said in May the added federal benefits were disincentivizing people from working. He announced federal benefits would end three...

AsiaNews reported that Fr. Joseph Liu of the diocese of Mindong was arrested Tuesday as a result of refusing to join the government-run independent church, formally known as Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA).July 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — On the day a Chinese bishop was consecrated under the terms of the secret Vatican-China agreement — an event heralded by the Vatican — a faithful Catholic priest was detained by the police and tortured for 10 hours after refusing to join the church recognized by the Chinese authorities. AsiaNews reported that Fr. Joseph Liu of the diocese of Mindong was arrested Tuesday...

A woman called out for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as she was being arrested at the Fruitland Park Library. A staffer spotted 41-year-old Stephanie Doretha Rucker of Leesburg at the library Wednesday morning and remembered that she had been trespassed in December from the library. Instead of confronting Rucker, the staffer called the police. When Fruitland Park officers arrived on the scene, they attempted to take her into custody on a charge of trespassing. She said she “owned the library” and didn’t need “permission” to be there, according to an arrest report from the Fruitland Park Police Department. She...

Responding to questions from state lawmakers, Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said Friday there are no plans to implement a statewide masking requirement for students in schools. However, Beam stressed state officials are strongly recommending school districts decide on their own to have students wear masks in schools. Combined with vaccines and social distancing, Beam stressed masks can help reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. The Senate Education Committee held a hearing in the state Capitol Friday afternoon on school policies, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have risen in Pennsylvania and nationwide. The hearing again illustrated the tensions...

With the latest weekly update of container shipping rates showing that prices – already at all time high – simply refuse to back down, as rates from China to the US surpassing a record $20,000, a new threat looms which could send already sky high prices into orbit. As the delta variant spreads on the mainland, most Chinese ports are now requiring a Covid test for all crew, with vessels forced to remain at anchor until negative results are confirmed, and requiring ships to quarantine for 14-28 days if they previously berthed in India or changed crew within 14 days...

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Recently surfaced video from a July political fundraiser in Alabama featuring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) showed attendees cheering when the GOP lawmaker pointed out that the state had one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country. The video, shared on Twitter by progressive political commentator and radio show host David Pakman, showed Greene speaking from a podium at the July 23 fundraiser, which the Alabama Political Reporter noted was held by the Alabama Federation of Republican Women. The footage from the Dothan, Ala., event, which was closed to the media, started with Greene saying, “You lucky people...

[Catholic Caucus] Schneider Has the Proof: Not A Single Infection Through RECEPTION of Holy CommunionIt is an episcopal abuse of power to impose grabbing Communion with the hand under the pretext of Covid-19, Bishop Schneider told Mia Barhouche in a French interview during a recent visit in Lebanon (video below).Schneider stresses that grabbing is not "safer" than receiving Holy Communion and doesn't protect better against a virus infection, on the contrary. In Kazakhstan, the bishops have only allowed receiving Holy Communion: “No one has been infected until now. Not a single case of a contamination.” Schneider calls this an “empirical...

Mitch McConnell is reportedly deeply concerned about a Georgia Senate bid from football star and longtime Trump pal Herschel Walker, fearing Walker’s potential campaign would fizzle and hand the seat over to Democrats for six years. McConnell is said to be considering Loeffler along with David Perdue, per CNN. The former Georgia Republican senator lost his seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff – who won’t have to defend himself until 2026 if he chooses to run again.