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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – Illinois State Police has arrested a Chicago woman for vandalizing a memorial in honor of slain police officer Ella French. Anna N. Kochakian, 26, is charged with criminal damage to property – defacement of a police memorial, a Class 4 felony. On Aug. 19, State troopers on routine foot patrol at the James R. Thompson Center were alerted that a police memorial honoring French had been vandalized. Authorities say a depiction of French had been “torn down, crumpled, and discarded in a trash can at a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) “L” platform.” Months later, following a...

Nathan Chen put the ghost of PyeongChang emphatically behind him, delivering a whopping 218.63-point free skate to become just the second American man to win men's singles in 30 years -- and cement his status as the best men's figure skater in the world.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadian trucker protesters, “you are breaking laws,” as the Freedom Convoy has created a blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a key shipping route for U.S.-Canada trade. Trudeau said the protesters are seeking to take the economy hostage. He made a distinction between the truckers and those who are fatigued with his onerous public health mandates, even though the protests started due to Trudeau’s mandates.

Harry and Meghan's £11million mansion is apparently engulfed by a foul smell leaving neighbours 'disgusted' The duke and duchess' headache said to have been caused by the nearby Andrée Clark Bird RefugeFoul smell is said to have hit Montecito, also home to Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom and Ellen DeGeneresHarry and Meghan have have to contend with odour issues in the past, including a nearby cannabis base Harry and Meghan’s £11million California mansion is apparently engulfed by a foul smell leaving neighbours ‘disgusted’, it has emerged. The duke and duchess’ headache is said to have been caused by the nearby Andrée...

If you've spent the past few days binge-watching The Tinder Swindler, you're not alone. The Netflix documentary-film centres around titular ‘Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev aka Shimon Heyada Hayut, an Israeli-born conman who used Tinder in order to lure his victims and cheat them out of huge sums of money: amounting to a total of $10 million (£7.4 million) in the years of 2017 alone, according to The Times of Israel. He did so predominantly through operating under a false alias: as the son of diamond trader Lev Leviev. The true-crime docu-film is currently trending in the top spot on the...

The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China. The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism. A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads: Western countries are still struggling to...

A school in San Diego County claims it has removed a “Wheel of Privilege” graphic from its professional development training materials after the image was exposed on social media and parents objected. The image was touted as part of professional development training by the Black Mountain Middle School in Poway Unified School District (PUSD), according to the Californians For Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), whose executive director posted the graphic on Twitter. The “Wheel of Power/Privilege” teaching tool was designed to rank people by power and privilege based on skin color, body size, and gender identity, as well as citizenship, language,...

Apple’s struggles with zero-day attacks on its iOS and macOS platforms are showing no signs of slowing down. For the second time in as many months, Cupertino released iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates to address a critical WebKit security defect (CVE-2022-22620) that exposes Apple devices to remote code execution attacks. “Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the company said in a barebones advisory. As is customary, Apple did not provide details on the scope of the attack, the platform being targeted,...

@nytimes Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, warned that protesters who did not clear transit routes could face a maximum penalty of $100,000, up to a year in prison and the potential loss of commercial and personal licenses.

Actor Seth Rogen has said the quiet part out loud and confessed the truth about self-important Hollywood award shows, like the Oscars: America doesn’t seem to care about them anymore. Speaking with Insider about his upcoming Super Bowl commercial, the Knocked Up star said he does not understand why movie insiders and stars would think the general public cares about awards shows come Oscars season. “I don’t get why movie people care so much if other people care what awards we give ourselves,” Seth Rogen said. “To me, maybe people just don’t care,” he added. “I don’t care who wins...

Nine years ago Nine years ago this very hour I was dressing for work when the announcement came across the radio. It was devastating. I truly thought he was dying or had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and would be gone within the year. I loved him, I trusted him. He was like the grandfather I never knew. As long as I knew he was there, all would be well, or at least I thought. Since that time it has been a horror for the Church, for individual faithful Catholics. It has only become worse. When I look at him,...

Less than 2 weeks after her boyfriend killed 5 people in cold blood, Anne received a package from the grave. It came from the man she’d spent the last year with, Lyndon McLeod. Inside were the rights to Sanction—a three-volume book series McLeod wrote under a pseudonym that graphically details a killing spree carried out by a character who shares his name—and a 47-minute movie he shot and edited in his final days. The film, titled “War Horse,” contains footage that appears to tell the story of McLeod planning and carrying out the attack. The package also contained the books...

Walmart has started securing high-priced steaks inside locked metal cages amid rising crime rates across the U.S., a new viral video has revealed. Michael Fromhold, from Florida, was stunned when he noticed that the meat at his local Walmart had been locked up in what appears to be a rather dramatic attempt to prevent people from stealing it. Michael took a video of it and shared it to TikTok where it quickly went viral - gaining more than four million views in a matter of days - and the clip lead some viewers to lament the fact that such measures...

Rep Liz Cheney’s campaign account and her leadership political action committee gave zero dollars to Republicans in the final fundraising quarter of 2021, Federal Election Commission documents show. The increasingly embattled Republican went from being one of the most prolific fundraisers for Republicans in her capacity as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference to withholding her sizeable campaign coffers. When Ms Cheney was chairwoman, her Cowboy PAC gave prolifically to Republicans. In 2020, it gave $358,700 to House Republican incumbents and challengers alike, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Ms Cheney raised $20.5m between the months of October and...

In 1991, Russian troops refused to fire on demonstrators and strikers, effectively neutralizing the Soviet tyranny. I wonder if Canadian and American troops will respond as the Russian troops did. After all, we're supposed to be the "Free World", right? See the article in the link above for how Russian troops refused to obey what were lawful orders in the Soviet regime.

Inflation is caused by the Fed counterfeiting dollars. No counterfeiter, No inflation. This "system" is unconstitutional and a recipe for severe economic disaster. Money must be sound and counterfeiting must never be legal for anyone. The sooner we adopt sound money, the better. To continue to delay is to continue to recklessly play with fire. Rumble...

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove is under fire hours before he is set to speak at a major gathering of Republicans in Missouri, Breitbart News has learned, all while his failures on redistricting nationwide become clearer. Rove, who is scheduled to keynote the Missouri Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in St. Louis on Saturday night, is a senior adviser nationally to a group called the National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT). The GOP redistricting group NRRT, Rove wrote in a 2021 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal announcing his appointment to it, “was formed in response to Democratic efforts organized in...

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) argued that inflation is due to the pandemic and supply chain issues, “none of which the Republicans choose to do anything about except to blame Joe Biden.” And that companies “could give up some of their unearned profits to help the American people.” Host Ana Cabrera asked, “Americans aren’t happy with the economy right now. I don’t need to tell you that. But they’re blaming Democrats. If things like inflation are still high come November, how do you argue to keep Democrats in the majority?”

[Catholic Caucus] Can Cardinal Hollerich help to reconcile the German ‘Synodal Way’ with the global synodal process?The German “Synodal Way” is moving forward boldly following a decisive meeting in Frankfurt at the start of February. But one important question remains unanswered: how does the initiative fit in with the two-year global synodal process launched by Pope Francis leading up to the 2023 Synod on Synodality?Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, went some way to answering that question at the end of the three-day meeting of the Synodal Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the Synodal Way. “It...