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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt used his authority to spare the life of Julius Jones on Thursday, just hours before his scheduled execution that had drawn widespread outcry and protests over doubts about his guilt in the slaying of a businessman more than 20 years ago. Stitt commuted the 41-year-old Jones’ death sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He had been scheduled for execution at 4 p.m. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility...

Network producer caught tailing jury bus, taken into custody udge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC journalists from the courthouse during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial after a network producer was taken into police custody for "trying to photograph jurors." The Kenosha Police Department announced Thursday morning that it arrested James J. Morrison, who said he is a producer employed by MSNBC News, for running a red light while tailing the jury's bus Wednesday night. Schroeder said MSNBC will no longer be allowed in the courthouse and that the act was "a very serious matter." This was apparently the second day in a...

With just under a year to go until the 2022 midterms, a new poll indicates that a plurality of Americans say they would like to see Republicans win control of both chambers of Congress in next year's elections. The national survey, released on Thursday by Quinnipiac University, indicates President Biden dropping to his lowest level of public support since taking over in the White House in January. And the poll also indicates that more than two-thirds of Americans are changing their spending habits due to rising prices. Democrats will be defending their razor-thin House of Representatives and Senate majorities in...

"We will rebuild from the Biden economy"

BREAKING: Former New York Jets running back Zac Stacy viciously attacks his ex-girlfriend in front of their 5 month old son.

Matt Gaetz says that Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse ‘deserves a not guilty verdict’ in his murder trial and that the accused vigilante ‘would probably make a pretty good congressional intern.’ ‘We may reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in helping the country in additional ways,’ the Republican congressman who represents Florida’s western Panhandle told Newsmax on Wednesday. Jury deliberations in the Rittenhouse trial entered their third day on Thursday.

THIRTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 19:41-44 Friends, in today’s Gospel passage, Jesus laments over Jerusalem because it failed to acknowledge him. He says, “They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.” This is a thunderclap, a shock, a highly subversive thing to say. It would be something like a president-elect coming upon the White House in the midst of a crowd of his supporters and saying, “All of this will be destroyed.” But this...

A career criminal and convicted felon with an open domestic violence charge has claimed to be the unidentified male at whom Kyle Rittenhouse shot twice at close range but missed, on the night of August 25, 2020. Rittenhouse has been charged with First Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety of the man known in trial only as 'jump-kick man,' for the flying kick he took at the teenager's head as Rittenhouse was attacked minutes after he shot Joseph Rosenbaum dead. Now Maurice Freeland, 39, has admitted that he was the one who kicked Rittenhouse in the head and narrowly avoided being shot...

During the signing ceremony for three bills designed to support law enforcement and first responders, President Biden took some time to speak to the 7-year-old son of an officer who took his own life in 2019. Biden signed the Protecting America’s First Responders Act of 2021, the Confidentiality Opportunities for Peer Support (COPS) Counseling Act, and the Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila Federal Officers and Employees Protection Act on Thursday morning. All three serve to support law enforcement through increased benefits, peer support, and granting the US extraterritorial jurisdiction over certain crimes against federal officers or employees abroad. Shortly after...

Republicans attacked President Biden's controversial pick for banks regulator Saule Omarova at her nomination hearing on Thursday, accusing her of planning to nationalize the U.S. banking system with her 'socialist manifesto.' The Cornell University law professor, who grew up as a Young Communist and wrote a thesis on Karl Marx at Moscow State University, denied being a communist and walked back her claims she wants to bankrupt oil and gas companies to help climate change. 'I've never seen a more radical nominee to be a federal regulator,' said Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey during his opening statement

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott thinks border states must take action in the face of federal inaction. But is it too little, too late?DEL RIO, Texas — What happens in border states when the federal government refuses to enforce immigration laws amid a record surge of illegal immigration? Are those states, and the elected officials charged with maintaining law and order in them, supposed to stand back and accept the ensuing chaos in their communities? Or do they have a right, even a duty, to take action and fill the void left by the federal government?In Texas, where the border crisis...

Reeling from Republican wins in elections earlier this month, Democrats are pounding the pavement ahead of next year's midterm elections. In a series of ABC News follow-up interviews with poll respondents who were Biden voters but expressed disappointment with the state of the economy. Judith Steele, a registered Democrat from California, told ABC News she feels the Biden administration did a bad job in preparing for economic woes faced by Americans. "His administration has been behind the curve in anticipating how bad this was going to get for lower- and middle-class families. Norman Hall, an 82-year-old Pennsylvania voter who has...

Ana Navarro told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that she believes because only two House Republicans voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) that shows the party is “broken to the core” after the presidency of Donald Trump. In a speech on the House floor, Gosar said, “If I must join Alexander Hamilton, the first person attempted to be censured by this House, so be it. It is done.

The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of September 2021: Muslim Slaughter of Christians.. Afghanistan: Muslims linked to the Islamic State murdered four Christians. While trying to escape the country, a Christian family was intercepted by the jihadists. According to a local source, “ISIS asked them, ‘we have tape about you that you are no longer Muslims. So is it true that you are not Muslim?’ They said, ‘Yes, we are not Muslims anymore. We are Christians.’ So the men of this family were killed at the spot. The children and women, they let...

First came the lockdown for unvaccinated people in Austria, now two regions of the country have announced a general lockdown: Upper Austria and Salzburg. The new infections in the state keep reaching record levels. In Austria, new corona infections are increasing day by day. Today for the first time, over 15,000 new infections are reported-more than ever since the outbreak of the pandemic...

An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of three in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children. This is the first known case of the federal government making good on its promise to not only intimidate but actually carry out a raid on a mom who was involved in her local school board politics, said Brannon Howse, who interviewed Sheronna Bishop on his live broadcast at Lindell TV Wednesday night. Sheronna broke the story on Lindell-TV an hour earlier on the...

Months after striding into the Capitol in a horned headdress, Jacob Chansley piled praise Wednesday on the federal judge who would sentence him to prison in connection to the January 6 riot. Chansley, more widely known as the QAnon Shaman, noted Judge Royce Lamberth's past military service and said he regretted meeting a "man of your honor and stature" in the context of his sentencing. And while Lamberth kept Chansley locked up for months as he faced criminal charges, that did not stop the QAnon Shaman from thanking the judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan for granting his request for...

Pfizer told the world 15 people who received the vaccine in its trial had died as of mid-March. Turns out the real number then was 21, compared to only 17 deaths in people who hadn’t been vaccinated. On July 28, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech posted a six-month data update from their key Covid vaccine clinical trial, the one that led regulators worldwide to okay the shot. At a time when questions about vaccine effectiveness were rising, the report received worldwide attention. Pfizer said the vaccine’s efficacy remained relatively strong, at 84 percent after six months.

Until recently, boys grew up emulating real-life heroes who seemed larger than life. Coonskin caps and six-shooters were the uniforms of boyhood. Boys were enthralled with tales about Daniel Boone, John Glenn, and Davy Crockett. Flannelgraph images taught us about the courage of Noah, the faith of Moses, and the collapse of a giant at the hands of a young shepherd boy. We celebrated in the heroic deeds of George Washington, Paul Revere, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. We reveled in stories about the Sons of Liberty, the Green Mountain Boys, the Rough Riders, and...

Today was supposed to be a joint press conference between the Three Amigos: Joe Biden, the puddingheaded president of the United States; Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexico Prime Minister who once called Biden the migrant president; and Justin "I Feel Pretty" Trudeau, Canada's walking pile of soy and hair goop. They were SUPPOSED to hold a joint press conference, but the White House canceled it. Bloomberg's Justin Sink asked what's up with that: "The most recent data point is yesterday where you guys had to clean up not only this Olympic comment, but his comment on the timing for...