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man suspected of carjacking a woman who was left with a fractured skull has been arrested by the New Orleans Police Department. Tyrese Harris, 18, was booked on charges of attempted armed robbery, armed robbery with a firearm, principal to carjacking, aggravated criminal damage to property, illegal use of a weapon and illegal carrying of weapons. The arrest is in connection with Tuesday's carjacking of Kelleye Rhein, a local real estate agent and mother of two, at the Costco store on South Carrollton Avenue while she was pumping gas. Rhein was pumping gas on the passenger side of her vehicle...

The police crackdown against the Trucker Freedom Convoy in Ottawa got off to an early start Sunday evening with the seizure of more than 800 gallons of fuel at a baseball stadium outside the downtown area...(CTV News) This video clip shows police in tactical gear at the stadium... Fuel was also seized in downtown Ottawa at the corner of Metcalfe and Albert Streets. Four arrests reported at that location based on a reporter's observation of four people in a police vehicle. Police have prevented people carrying fuel containers from entering Wellington Street near Parliament Sunday evening...(TVA Quebec News) In the...

“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words” (Proverbs 7:1-5).

Police in Chicago are searching for a man who threatened a group of Jewish students at a school last month, yelling "all of you should be killed." The incident happened just before 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 13 outside the Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Academy on North Carolina Avenue, Chicago police said. The suspect, described as a Black male between 40 and 49 years old with a black mustache and beard, yelled profanities and threats at a teacher her students, according to authorities. As the suspect walked by, the victims told police that he yelled "all of you should be killed." The...

Adams' mandate requires kids to wear masks 'on school grounds,' apparently with little or no exception for the outdoors -------------------------------- New York City Mayor Eric Adams went maskless indoors days even though a statewide indoor mask mandate is in effect and the mayor requires the city's school students to mask up. "Earlier today the Belmont [Business Improvement District] welcomed @nycmayor, NYC Council Members, @nycsmallbiz and @thenycalliance to Arthur Avenue to speak with our restaurateurs about the outdoor dining program and issues the industry is facing," Bronx Little Italy posted on Instagram with photos of the mayor and others without wearing...

Can anyone tell me where I can find the video of Savannah Guthrie taking the Chinese side at teh Opening Ceremony, defending using a Uyghur to light the flame?

How far can you go on a single tank of gas........... From an email: Poor Brad: Brad lives in California. He was sick of the world, of Covid-19, of Trump, Russian belligerence, China, global warming, racial tensions, and the rest of the disturbing stories that occupy media headlines. In short, he was despondent. Brad drove his new car into his garage and sealed every doorway and window as best he could. He got back into his car and wound down all the windows, selected his favorite radio station, started the car and revved it to a slow idle. He simply...

A presser from the freedom convoy addressing some of the concerns including the Ottawa Mayor declaring a state of emergency. Also discussed is the actions taken by the Ottawa police and how it impacts the convoy.

A ten-year-old girl miraculously survived a ferociously cold night in a snow blizzard in Russia by clinging on to a stray dog for warmth. Vika Z was found with frostbite hugging the 'fluffy' abandoned pet following a frantic search by police, officials and volunteers. She had got lost half a mile from her home as she returned from school in Uglegorsk on Russia's largest island, Sakhalin, in temperatures that plunged to minus 11C, said police.

"When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." "When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." "Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons...

HARRISBURG, Pa. – The five-member commission redrawing the boundaries of Pennsylvania's state legislative districts voted Friday to approve new maps for the next decade, with a focus on the state's fast-growing Latino population that could change the face of the predominantly white House and Senate. The Legislative Reapportionment Commission voted 4-1 during a meeting in the Capitol, with chair Mark Nordenberg, the Senate Republican leader and the House and Senate Democratic leaders voting for it. A lawsuit challenging it, however, is likely. The vote came after nearly a year of meetings, hearings and closed-door discussions to carry out the constitutionally...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency on Sunday due to the ongoing Freedom Convoy demonstration. The 43-mile long Freedom Convoy started in Vancouver more than a week ago and reached Ottawa last Friday night. Heavily armed Ottawa police officers removed all fuel and propane tanks from the Freedom Convoy trucks after Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of an emergency. No arrests were made during the fuel seizure.

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'I Urge, then, First of All, that Requests, Prayers, Intercession and Thanksgiving be Made for Everyone: for Kings and All those in Authority that we May Live Peaceful and Quiet Lives in All Godliness and Holiness.' 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.Psalm 112:1-3Blessed is the Man that Feareth the Lord, and Delighteth Greatly in His Commandments.His Seed shall be Mighty upon Earth: the Generation of the Righteous shall be...

It would hit Alina Black at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl. Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would remain through her lifetime and the lifetime of her children. She longed, really longed, to make less of a mark on the earth. At the age of 37, these conflicting forces were slowly closing on her, like a set of jaws. In the early-morning hours, after nursing the baby, she would slip...

The San Francisco Chronicle just published a lengthy multimedia report about the most devastating public-health crisis currently afflicting the city. And no, it's not COVID-19. It's the rash of super-potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are causing a surge in deaths among the city's vast homeless community, as well as among others.Nearly 3/4ths of the thousands of drug overdoses that have been reported in the City by the Bay have involved fentanyl; for the last two years, Fentanyl has been killing far more people in San Francisco than COVID. It's not even close, really.In San Francisco, roughly 1,310 people died...

Some Ottawa seniors are afraid to leave their homes alone, so residents are accompanying them for neighbourhood walks. Other individuals need help with grocery deliveries. And at least one health care worker asked for rides to the hospital because he no longer feels safe travelling alone. People in the city are dealing with the emotional and mental toll of a protest that has occupied downtown Ottawa over the past week as trucks blare their horns at all hours, streets are blocked by large vehicles, and some report physical and verbal abuse from protesters. Experts worry that the stress could have...

Thousands of people in Canada are protesting vehemently against government orders like making vaccines mandatory and COVID restrictions. People are holding rallies and blocking roads in different cities of Canada. These demonstrations are peaceful but the number of people is so much that the police seem helpless. Police said on Saturday that some 5,000 people demonstrated in Ottawa. At the same time, hundreds of protesters gathered in Canada’s largest cities such as Toronto, Quebec City, Fredericton and Winnipeg. Speaking to Reuters news agency, protester Robert in Toronto said that we are fed up and tired of mandates, threats and living...

Make no mistake, the recent Joe Rogan vs. Spotify scandal is not about COVID and what constitutes proper medical protocols to fight it. It’s about the future of free speech in America. White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s statement on Tuesday, directing Big Tech and Spotify to do “more” to eradicate alleged COVID “misinformation” on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, suggests that the future of the First Amendment is bleak. A representative of a ruling party dictating to a private company what content is “accurate” and what is not, is a clear sign that the US government has embraced censorship....

New York Democrats are going big on gerrymandering as they seize control of redistricting. But they may get bitten by their assumption that they have a permanent lock on non-white voters. Consider the two new state Senate seats in the city, one in heavily Hispanic parts of Queens and Brooklyn, another in heavily Asian parts of Brooklyn. Dems clearly think those minority votes belong to them by default. But do they? Perhaps the biggest political story of the past four years has been the realignment of Hispanic and Asian voters across America with the GOP.

BREAKING: Spotify CEO apologizes to staff for continuing to host Joe Rogan, says he will continue contract while investing $100M in artists from 'marginalized groups'