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An Illinois father, who drowned his three children in a bathtub and then placed their bodies in the bedroom of his home, has been charged with murder. Jason E. Karels, 35, of Chicago, drowned his children one-by-one in the bathtub of his Camden Lane home on Monday after he and his wife Debra recently split up, a prosecutor said at a bond court hearing on Wednesday. His children - Bryant, 5; Cassidy, 3; and Gideon, 2 - were spending the weekend with their father when their mother, Debra, found their bodies in the bedroom after calling for a welfare check...

Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office said the mayor of Sviatohirsk, Volodymyr Bandura, is being investigated for suspicions of treason committed under martial law. On Tuesday Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office said the mayor is under investigation for “moving to the side of the enemy” and spreading through the media “an appeal in which he promoted the ideas of the Russian world.” Russian forces recently captured Sviatohirsk. CNN was unable to reach Bandura directly. In an announcement on the website of Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor accused Bandura of agreeing to the proposal by the Russian Federation to take a position to...

In Gorsuch’s opinion, full citizenship and privileges should be conferred onto all residents on American territory, which would expand birthright citizenship. For instance, those born in American Samoa do not currently receive this benefit, but under the Gorsuch doctrine, they would, even though they do not pay federal income taxes. Gorsuch feels this is necessary to correct the supposedly racist actions of America’s past. Racism is the only reason America would deny these privileges to the territories, according to Gorsuch. Activists have already filed cases to test this opinion and fundamentally change American law.

While expected, it is still unwelcome news. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real-time GDP forecast for Q2 just sank into negative territory at -0.002%. Let’s see how Real GDP does if The Fed actually withdraws its stimulus needle. And consumer purchasing power keeps diving as The Fed keeps printing money.

Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z are facing questions after launching an educational program in a Brooklyn public housing complex the billionaires say will help marginalized communities achieve financial independence through cryptocurrencies.

"We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves," and then they stated their threats. Pro-abortion militants Jane's Revenge has declared that their 30 days of patience and mercy have come to an end. "Your thirty days expired yesterday," they state in an open letter proffered on June 15. "We offered an honourable way out. You could have walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to...

President Joe Biden will use a speech on Wednesday afternoon to announce plans to roll back hundreds of 'extreme MAGA' laws across the country that he says unfairly target gay and transgender people. Administration officials say they are causing a mental health crisis and raising the risk of suicide. The president is due to welcome activists to the White House and will sign an executive order protecting children from what officials see as 'legislative attacks.' It includes a 'full court press' against the discredited practise of conversion therapy - training programs designed to change sexual identity - which could include...

Adam Laxalt, a former Nevada attorney general, won the state’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday.Laxalt’s win sets up a fierce showdown with incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) in November.The high-stakes race is expected to play a tremendous impact on the outlook of the legislative body after the midterm elections.RACE CALL: The Indy is calling the Republican U.S. Senate Primary for Adam Laxalt. pic.twitter.com/eUs1fOt6qG— Nevada Independent (@TheNVIndy) June 15, 2022Laxalt takes the stage for his victory speech. Laxalt thanks Trump for his endorsement and gives a shoutout to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as well. pic.twitter.com/wsNyaO7Zmf— Musadiq Bidar (@Bidar411)...

The City of Portland, Maine has opted to raise property taxes in order to provide free housing for asylum seekers. The average home price in the City is $475, 000. Up to now the tax on such a house has been $5,200. The expected additional annual levy is in the $350 range. Portland Mayor Kate Snyder said "so-called asylum seekers are being sent here without us being consulted or even getting any prior notice from the Biden Administration. Housing them has become a significant financial burden." "The property tax hike was just one of the options the City Council considered,"...

President Joe Biden’s economic advisor told CNBC that the White House didn’t miss “much at all” on inflation. That was despite inflation firing up in June for the fastest increase since December 1981.

A 25-year-old YouTuber and boxer seems to have found a new political punching bag: President Joe Biden.

Robert Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, were captured while fighting for the Ukrainian army last week The pair were part of a ten-men squad which encountered Russian forces in Kharkiv They disabled a Russian tank but then were lost in the fog of return fire then disappeared, comrades say Drueke served in Iraq in the US Army but Huynh, a former Marine, has never been in active combat before He gave an interview before he ventured to the region in which he said he was prepared to die Now, there are fears they may be given the same death...

There are few American actors more iconic than Clint Eastwood. His iconic "Man With No Name" character is the face of the American West for a generation of men. Dirty Harry is perhaps the most recognizable fictional police officer in American history. And the man who played them? Well, he spent some time as a small-town mayor in California.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pushed back against the notion that there were too many regulations on oil refineries, and that was behind the lack of production. Host Joe Scarborough asked Granholm if President Joe Biden should “level with the American people” and admit that overregulation was an issue.

Two former US servicemen have been captured during fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine, The Telegraph has been told. Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, had been serving as volunteers with a regular Ukrainian army unit. A comrade of the two men, who asked not to be named, told The Telegraph said that they had been captured after running into a much larger Russian force during a battle last Thursday. "We were out on a mission and the whole thing went absolutely crazy, with bad intel," he said. "We were told the town was clear when it turned out...

NEW YORK CITY- Fear not, America. While you’re paying $5 a gallon for gasoline, can’t find baby formula in most states, and are paying $24 for an order of chicken wings, sleep soundly knowing the city of New York feels your pain. In yet another case of the government apparatus pissing away taxpayer dollars on dumb stuff, such as conducting torturous experiments on poodles, giving smartphones to illegal aliens, abandoning $80 billion in sophisticated military equipment in Afghanistan, and indoctrinating school children to hate America, there is the Big Apple. According to the New York Post, the city that never...

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP (snip) The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation. They don’t, so they use the illegally-constituted committee to put on a smoke and mirrors show for the American people, in a pitiful last-ditch effort to deceive the American public…again. Our Constitution protects the right to confront accusers, honors the right to fair trials, and holds the right to legal representation as paramount in our justice system. Equal representation and the opportunity to offer rebuttal evidence...

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. Our GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available economic data for the current measured quarter. There are no subjective adjustments made to GDPNow—the...

This qualifies as a political earthquake. In a special primary election to fill out the term of former rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned his House seat in March, GOP candidate Mayra Flores received 50.98% of the vote, making a runoff election unnecessary. Rep.-elect Flores will represent the Texas 34 Congressional District that runs along the Gulf Coast to the Mexican border, and which is 84.54% Hispanic.Source.Hispanic voters are dumping the Democrats, a trend that has the potential to doom the party at a national level.🚨BREAKING🚨 The first Mexican-born woman ever elected to Congress is REPUBLICAN @MayraFlores2022 who ran on a...

It may not look like it at first glance, but a headstone on the Warren-Powers Cemetery in Polk County has a hidden message. "Forever in our hearts, until we meet again, cherished memories, known as our brother, father, papa, uncle, friend, and cousin," said Lindsay Owens, daughter of the late Steven Owens. If you pay special attention to the headstone, you'll notice that the first letter of each phrase reads 'F--- off.' It's something that Steven Owens' family members say he often said jokingly. "It was definitely his term of endearment. If he didn't like you, he didn't speak to...