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Anthony Loffredo, 33, has already covered his body - including his eyeballs - in tattoos and removed his nose and top lip in his bid to look like a 'black alien'. The Frenchman, who documents his dramatic physical alterations for his 1.2 million followers on Instagram, now wants to go one step further by amputating his leg from the knee down. Loffredo, who has previously revealed his extreme look has hindered him from finding work, said: 'It's something really hard because I have a healthy leg, and an amputation is something big.' (Also a video at site)

A Republican lawmaker attended his gay son’s wedding just three days after joining the majority of his GOP colleagues in voting against a House bill that would codify federal protections for same-sex marriage. The gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., confirmed to NBC News on Monday that he “married the love of [his] life” on Friday and that his “father was there.” NBC News is not publishing the names of the grooms, neither of whom is a public figure. Thompson’s press secretary, Maddison Stone, also confirmed the congressman was in attendance. “Congressman and Mrs. Thompson were thrilled to attend...

A woman who fired several shots in the air near a ticket counter in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas, before she was shot by a police officer has been pictured. Portia Odufuwa, 37, opened fire and shot several rounds of a handgun just before 11am this morning as terrified passengers hid under chairs and were evacuated amid the active shooting. Shortly after opening fire, a police officer at the scene confronted the woman - shooting and injuring her. She was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she remains, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration also issued a ground stop at...

DC parish rues Latin Mass ban, warns of financial and membership lossesThe inside of St. Mary Mother of God Parish in Washington D.C. during a Mass (Photo courtesy of St. Mary’s)NEW YORK – The community at St. Mary Mother of God appealed to Cardinal Wilton Gregory during an archdiocesan synod listening session not to ban the Traditional Latin Mass at the parish, mainly because it would mean potentially losing about half of the parishioners.That appeal failed. The listening sessions concluded in May, and Gregory announced July 22 that the Traditional Latin Mass would be restricted in the archdiocese to three...

For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. Residents, about half of whom are seniors or disabled people on fixed incomes, put up with the first two increases. They hoped the latest owner, Cook Properties, would address the bourbon-colored drinking water, sewage bubbling into their bathtubs and the pothole-filled roads. When that...

Yet another Washington Post article on the DC Latin Massacre If you are a liberal archbishop of a prominent archdiocese, the last thing you probably want to see is the liberal newspaper in your city run three pieces in the last few weeks on your DC Latin Massacre. Especially when all of the media coverage shows clear sympathy toward practicing Catholics being evicted from their parishes.Today's Washington Post has an article by a reporter, William Wan, who visited Saint Mary Mother of God parish in DC yesterday morning. Planning his article on Friday and doing the necessary research on...

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Monday that she recently tested positive for COVID-19.

President Joe Biden on Monday said the country is not going into a recession, doubling down on his administration's insistence that two quarters of economic decline isn't one - even though it meets the technical definition. ‘We're not coming into recession in my view,' he told reporters during a virtual meeting at the White House. 'The employment rate is still the lowest we've had in history. My hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth. And so we'll see we'll see some coming down. But I don't think we're going to, God willing, I don't think we're...

"No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Luke, Chapter 11 1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a...

MOSCOW, 25 July. /TASS/. The FSB of Russia disrupted the operation of the Ukrainian military intelligence to hijack the planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which was supervised by the NATO special services. This was reported to TASS on Monday at the Center for Public Relations (CSP) of the FSB of Russia. "The Federal Security Service uncovered and stopped the operation of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to hijack combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, supervised by NATO special services," the CSO noted. The FSB reported that "Ukrainian military intelligence officers, acting on...

The war in Ukraine is in its sixth month, and there’s no end in sight. Here’s what we know… Almost everything you heard about the war in Ukraine from U.S. media over the course of March, April and May was a lie. You heard that Putin was losing the war. You heard that Russians had poor training and low morale and were deserting in droves. You heard that Ukrainians were destroying Russian armor in large numbers to blunt the Russian advance. None of this was true. In fact, Russian troops have achieved major victories in Mariupol, Kherson, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and...

Jared Kushner was diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer while working in the White House. Kushner wrote about his cancer scare - which never leaked to the press - in his forthcoming memoir, Breaking History: A White House Memoir. The New York Times reported on an excerpt of the book on Monday. In it, Kushner recalled a conversation he had with White House physician Sean Conley on an October 2019 trip to Texas. 'On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical...

Media content start-up Latino Media Network (LMN) raised $80 million to launch and secure a $60 million cash deal with TelevisaUnivision to purchase 18 radio stations in the top Latino markets. Forbes stated that LMN's debt financing came from Lakestar Finance LLC, an investment entity affiliated with Soros Fund Management LLC. The recent wave of Hispanic voters shifting their support to Republican candidates has leftist activists concerned about the future of elections. While the FCC still needs to approve the purchase of the stations – this process may take a year – Democratic politicians are already celebrating the win. In...

The vaccine campaign will go down as the biggest scandal in medical history. Moreover, it will be known as the biggest crime committed on humanity" -- Member of European Parliament Christine Anderson @AndersonAfDMdEP

The Kyler Murray contract has become official. And it officially contains a term that one source with extensive knowledge of player contracts has deemed to be unprecedented. The deal requires that Murray engage in at least four hours of “Independent Study” during each week of the season, from the Monday after training camp ends through the last game on the schedule, including any postseason games.

Earlier this month, the people of Sri Lanka showed the world what real insurrection looks like. The reason: they’re starving. The cause: disastrous farming policies enforced by that country’s government, ostensibly to counter “climate change.” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ban on chemical fertilizer has brought biblical famine to the land, with food prices soaring 80% and more. Protestors swarmed Colombo, stormed the presidential palace and torched the prime minister’s residence. If only the madness was confined to Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa wants to replace far superior synthetic fertilizer with manure and return to “all natural organic” farming. But he is far from...

Incoming University of Michigan medical school students staged a walk-out during the pro-life keynote speaker's speech during their White Coat Ceremony. Hundreds of students had previously petitioned to get Dr Kristin Collier, assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, removed from the initiation because of her anti-abortion stance. But after their first protest failed, dozens of students got up from their seats and left the auditorium as Christian Dr Collier took to the stage to address them. Footage shows some of those present clapping as Dr Collier starts her speech, but others stood and filed out as she continued to speak....

Joe Biden did not declare a climate emergency last week, as many in his party urged him to do. One Democratic senator claimed that the changing climate required “bold, intense executive action” from the president. Another said Biden needed to move because “the climate crisis is a threat to national security.” But there’s no emergency. It’s a wholly manufactured charade. Though he put off an executive action, Biden said last Wednesday that he has “a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger. And that’s what climate change is about. It is literally,...

Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's 'catastrophic' policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. 'I am deeply sorry,' Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members gathered at a former residential school south of Edmonton, Alberta. The visit, part of a greater tour across the country for the pontiff, marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church's missionary legacy in the Americas, and was spurred by Francis and the discovery of hundreds of...

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Sunday that climate change deniers were the same as the Uvalde, Texas law enforcement men and women who did nothing as school children were being slaughtered under their watch. "Climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred," said Gore. The remarks were released as part of a pre-recorded segment of NBC's "Meet the Press." The failed presidential candidate continued, "And confronted with this global emergency, what we're doing...