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A 10-year-old battling terminal cancer passed up the chance of going to Walt Disney World to become the youngest officer to be sworn into U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Devarjaye Daniel is now a sworn officer of nearly 400 law enforcement agencies, far surpassing his wish of being sworn into 100. “This is right up his alley,” Theodis Daniel, Devarjaye’s father told CBP. “He turned down a trip to Disney World because law enforcement is all he wants to do.” “It was my distinct pleasure to welcome ‘DJ’ into the CBP family,” said CBP Port Director Shawn Polley after administering...

NASA scientists plan to launch pictures of naked humans into space in the hope of luring aliens to us. The depictions will also include an invitation to respond should an intelligent alien race find the space nudes. Fortunately, the hypothetical aliens shouldn’t be too shocked by the unsolicited nudes. The pictures aren’t graphic photographs of naked humans but a drawing of a naked man and a woman next to a depiction of DNA. The man and woman are waving in an attempt to look more inviting.

The world might never know what exactly happened to a golf champion who announced he was kidnapped, beaten, robbed, thrown into the trunk of a car and dumped at a Hawaii park. SNIP What the world knows is in January 2015, Allenby missed the cut at the Sony Open and went drinking with then-caddie Mick Middlemo and pal Anthony Puntoreiro. Allenby said he believes his drink was spiked at the bar, and he awoke — discovered by a homeless woman — bloodied at a nearby park without his credit cards, wallet and phone. SNIP Allenby posted a selfie of his...

A woman who claimed an intruder busted into her California apartment and killed her boyfriend more than two decades ago has been charged in the cold-case slaying after an anonymous letter was sent to investigators, police said. Jade Benning, who was living in Santa Ana in January 1996, told cops a black suspect forced his way into the apartment she shared with her 22-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Hervey, and stabbed her partner several times during a 3 a.m. attack, killing him, cops said Tuesday. Benning, also 22 at the time, gave “general statements” to investigators about the alleged break-in — during...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

THIRD WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 6:35–40 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is the bread of life and promises eternal life to all who believe in him. Many of the Church Fathers characterized the Eucharist as food that immortalizes those who consume it. They understood that if Christ is really present in the Eucharistic elements, the one who eats and drinks the Lord’s Body and Blood becomes configured to Christ in a far more than metaphorical way. The Eucharist, they concluded, Christifies and hence eternalizes. If the Eucharist were no more than a symbol, this kind of language...

Democrats and media personalities on Tuesday acknowledged Donald Trump’s impact on Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance’s GOP primary win.In April, Trump endorsed Vance. Polling showed Trump’s immediate impact on the race, and Vance never looked back.Tom Nichols, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, gave Trump the credit for Vance’s win in the hotly contested primary.I am torn by Schadenfreude about Vance vs Mandel; two truly terrible people who both stuck their heads deep into Donald Trump's colon, and only one of them could win, so I was gonna hate it no matter who won, but my God, both souls went...

While he was in the White House, they continued to fight tooth and nail against him, even those who were supposed to be on his side. This even came during the pandemic from the people who were supposed to be focused on getting rid of it.

SEATTLE — Passengers on a Carnival Cruise Ship that docked Tuesday in Seattle say more than 100 people aboard the ship tested positive for COVID-19 and the ship was overwhelmed. Multiple people say they’re in quarantine at Seattle-area hotels after testing positive or being exposed to someone with COVID-19. Carnival Cruise Line would not confirm how many people tested positive, but said there were a number of positive cases, KING5 reported. Darren Sieferston, a passenger on the cruise from Miami to Seattle, is in quarantine after testing positive. He said the crew’s response was chaotic. “They didn’t have enough staff...

It is a central principle of law: Courts are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve current disputes. But it’s inevitable that sometimes, the precedent has to go, and a court has to overrule another court, or even its own decision from an earlier case. In its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court faces the question of whether to overrule itself on abortion rights. Recent laws in Texas and Mississippi restrict the right of women to terminate pregnancies in ways that appear to challenge the long-standing precedent of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade,...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday described the conflict in Ukraine as a historic “inflection point [that] comes along every six or eight generations,” and described the US’ role in the conflict as fighting the first “real battle” in a civilizational struggle versus Russia and China. Biden also promised to send billions more dollars worth of aid to Kiev.

Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) hit President Joe Biden over his time in office so far. Jordan, pointing to the record-high inflation, gas prices, record crime rates and the border crisis, described it as “the worst presidency in history.” “What we have had under Joe Biden now for, what, almost 16 months is the worst presidency in history,” Jordan asserted. “And I have said this so many times, but it’s the truth, and the country gets it. I always say there is a reason 67% of our fellow citizens think our country is...

An angry Stephen Colbert launched a ten-minute rant against the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday’s episode of CBS’ The Late Show, targeting several Supreme Court justices over a leaked draft opinion showing the high court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Ukraine - Russia War: Today a Ukrainian Rocket Attack Hits Major Oil Plant Near Donetsk Killing At Least One Civilian.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that she believed Democrats had to make the 2022 midterm election “a battle over abortion.” Discussing the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v Wade, guest-host Peter Alexander said, “Senator, let’s focus on the raw politics of this if we can. Democrats, as you know well, do not have the votes right now to try to overturn the filibuster. Isn’t trying to eliminate the filibuster a fool’s errand.”

(Reuters) - Levi Strauss & Co said on Wednesday it will reimburse travel expenses for its full- and part-time employees who need to travel to another state for health care services, including abortions. The apparel company best known for its jeans is the latest U.S. company to offer the benefit as various states clamp down on access to abortions. And now, the U.S. Supreme Court looks set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a leaked initial draft majority opinion published by Politico on Monday. "Given what is at stake, business leaders...

John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability. The gift, which Doerr is making with his wife, Ann, is the largest ever to a university for the establishment of a new school, and is the second largest gift to an academic institution, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Only Michael Bloomberg’s 2018 donation of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, ranks higher. The gift establishes the Doerrs as leading funders of climate...

What are “Negative Rights”? We all have rights as human beings in the United States. We have the right to attend school, go to college, work to obtain money, own property, and defend ourselves, but where do these rights start to infringe on others’ freedom? Negative rights define our freedoms and our right to have something without interference from outside forces. To define negative rights in the simplest manner, it’s one person’s right not to have another person interfere with their own liberties.

It is well established that older adults are more susceptible to infection and their immune systems less capable of generating a strong immune response. Findings suggest that lymph nodes, which are critical for maintaining and revving up the immune response during infection, age at different rates. Lymph nodes closer to the skin deteriorate two to three times more quickly than those deeper in the body. White blood cells, specifically T cells, are the soldiers of the immune system. T cells are made by the thymus, a gland that sits below the chest bone and above the heart. The thymus quickly...

Attendees of Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner have started testing positive for COVID-19, after the comedic headliner Trevor Noah joked that they were attending 'the nation's most distinguished superspreader event.' Most notably, ABC News' Jonathan Karl tested positive Monday night, Politico first reported, after being seated next to Kim Kardashian at the dinner and briefly interacting with President Joe Biden. 'He tested positive for COVID Monday night, but tested negative on Saturday afternoon before the White House Correspondents' Dinner by medically-supervised staff,' a person familiar with the matter told Politico. 'He had no symptoms on Saturday. Jon is currently...