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Unattractive women who “look like a thumb” shouldn’t complain about losing abortion rights because they’re the “least” likely to get pregnant, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said in a jaw-dropping speech to college students at a conservative conference in Florida on Saturday. “Have you watched these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies?” Gaetz asked the crowd at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa. “The people are just disgusting. Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?”…

On Saturday, former President Donald Trump appeared at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit on behalf of Turning Point Action in Tampa Florida, and spoke on the decline of the United States under the Biden administration and through actions by the radical left.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A wave of violence is rocking Baltimore City. In the past 24 hours at least a dozen people have been shot and two of them were killed. It was just last night that Baltimore reached the gruesome milestone of 200 homicides, when a 52-year-old man was shot in Northeast Baltimore. Homicides are up in more than half of the city police districts according to crime statistics.

“I was told that I would die. [My fingers] were turning green and black I guess," Jeff Diamond said. For 60 years, Jeff Diamond has been known for his extraordinary guitar-playing talents and signature soulful voice. He says countless audiences around the world call him “the human jukebox.” The Minnesota-native has performed all the hits from feel-good oldies to R&B, soul, country, and even hip-hop. While Diamond is skillful at most instruments, he especially has a love for the guitar. ... At just 70-years-young, Diamond said he still has unfinished business touring and performing at all sorts of venues, but...

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 11, 1862. Ordered that Major-Gen. HENRY W. HALLECK be assigned to the command of the whole land forces of the United States, as General-in-Chief; and that he repair to this Capital so soon as he can with safety, to the positions and operations within the Department now under his special charge. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July 23. The following is a joint resolution of Congress, approved July 12, 1862: Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to furnish extra clothing...

Three men were shot in one incident in Manhattan on Sunday morning and two others were shot in the Bronx and Brooklyn, cops said. The bullets flew at 112th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem around 2 a.m., leaving a 30-year-old shot in the right foot, a 29-year-old struck in the right shoulder and left leg and a 26-year-old hit in the right arm, cops said. The older man was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan and the two younger men were taken to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital. All of them were expected to survive, police said. They were all...

Russian defense ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets. “In the seaport in the city of Odesa, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse with Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the U.S. to the Kyiv regime,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a daily briefing. The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that Moscow had attacked Odesa’s sea port with...

CHICAGO -- At least 51 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, police said. A group of people were changing a tire on the street in Homan Square's 3300 block of West Harrison Street at about 3:19 a.m. Sunday when a dark SUV approached, police said. An unknown man got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots at the victims before fleeing northbound on Homan Avenue. A 30-year-old man was shot in the face and was pronounced dead on the scene. Two other victims, one who sustained seven gunshot wounds to the...

Regarding diversity, Alba, 41, said Marvel movies are "still quite Caucasian." She said not much has changed since she starred in the "Fantastic Four" franchise.

Here’s my rule: Any person, place, or thing that has sex as its central focus is something that is not healthy, whether for itself or for others. American corporations would do well to remember that—but of course, now that their entire management staff is filled with people who have graduated from college in the last 20 years years, they are incapable of keeping sex and sexuality out of their sights. The latest to fall is Crayola, which for no reason whatever decided that the way to celebrate crayons—a product associated with children—was to rhapsodize about a bearded lady who likes...

I got monkeypox and it’s been a total nightmare. When New York Pride festivities kicked off on 24 June, I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men – but I was also under the impression that the number of cases in the city was relatively small. What I didn’t understand was how absolutely dismal testing capacity was: at that point, the city only had capacity to process ten tests a day. I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued. I had...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) continues to search for one of two suspects wanted in the brazen, July 13 shooting of mother and grandmother Karen Baker. Baker, 48, was attempting to withdraw cash from an ATM on the 9600 block of University City Boulevard in Charlotte just before 6 a.m. when someone approached her and shot her to death. The suspect then fled the scene in a black, 2011 or 2012 Dodge Charger with factory rims, according to police.

The demons at The New York Times have moved on eating grubs and bugs. Their latest fetish is cannibalism – and they insist “The time is now.”

Connecticut police have announced three new arrests in connection with a high school brawl that left Shelton lacrosse player James McGrath dead in May. The suspects, two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old, surrendered voluntarily, according to the Shelton Police Department. The three of them allegedly attacked a 16-year-old male, with one of them striking him with a helmet outside a home on Lazy Brook Road.

Joe Biden is filling up Maine Hotels with his illegal migrants.

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE ESTHER DEFEATS HAMAN, THOROUGHLY E S T H E R CHAPTER 7 So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther, and as they were drinking wine on that second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.” Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, O king, and if it pleases your majesty, grant me my life—this is my...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

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Ukrainian soldiers who lost their limbs fighting to defend their country from Russia’s invasion over the last few months have arrived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they will be fitted for prosthetics. The five Ukrainian soldiers arrived at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Saturday and were greeted by dozens of Ukrainian-Americans and others, who sang Ukraine's National Anthem. The greeters also held up signs that read, "Welcome Heroes," with balloons reflecting Ukraine's iconic blue and yellow. Minneapolis’ FOX 9 reports the trip was initiated by Minneapolis prosthetist Yakov Gradinar of Limb Lab, a Rochester-based prosthetics service.