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A Texas man on trial for murdering his two daughters in “honor killings” because they were dating American boys was called the “devil” in court Thursday by the girls’ mother, who detailed 15 years of abuse during their marriage. Patricia Owens, Yaser Said’s former wife, had not seen him since New Year’s Day of 2008 — when he took their daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, to dinner and insisted on going alone so they could talk. Instead, prosecutors say, Said shot the girls multiple times in the cab he drove and left them for dead outside a hotel in...

These are the top 4 cop shows I have watched more than once. A bit obscure and you won't find them on network tv. Violence, bad language, drug use, sex, and corruption, foreign and domestic.

Joe Biden hosted a White House meeting with two Chinese energy executives with ties to his son Hunter back when he was vice president in 2014, records show. The president, who still insists he never spoke to Hunter about his son’s overseas business dealings, met the two executives from Wanxiang — a major Chinese company — in the West Wing on July 25, 2014, according to White House visitor logs. Wanxiang America president, Pin Ni, and Wanxiang Resources Co. president, Youhong Han, were at the White House for just over an hour — after the last-minute meeting was scheduled a...

But insider accounts obtained by veteran war reporter DAVID PATRIKARAKOS expose unimaginable evil - and the awesome courage of the Ukrainian resistance A cloud of thick smoke hangs over the occupied city of Kherson in Ukraine. Its very stench is evidence of Russian war crimes, on a scale almost too sickening to contemplate. The smoke comes from mobile incinerators that are running night and day. Vladimir Putin's paranoid soldiers are burning the corpses of Ukrainian citizens tortured and murdered on suspicion of helping the resistance. And they are dispatching the bodies of their own comrades too — hundreds of them....

"Recidivist #1," who boasts 101 arrests, has been convicted 15 times, including three for felonies, police said. Two of those convictions were allegedly for violent felonies. They failed to appear in court "at least 14 times," police said. "Recidivist #1 was arrested for petty and grand larceny 74 times, all in Manhattan, the department said. The person with the second-highest number of arrests – "Recidivist #2" – boasts 96 arrests, including 67 since bail reform was enacted in 2020, police said. They have been convicted a staggering 44 times, garnering the nickname of "predicate felon" from the police department. They...

Oregon’s Driftwood Public Library is teaming up with a local high school to establish a “gender-affirming” closet for students, designed to help children circumvent their parents in identifying as the opposite sex, asking donors for a series of items including “trans tape.” The public library recently announced the “Gender Affirming Closet Donation Kickoff,” which takes place Thursday, August 4. The donations are part of an effort to establish a “gender-affirming” closet at Taft High. “Many students that are transgender and/or nonbinary are not supported by their parents nor can showcase it with their daily clothing choices,” the library’s announcement reads....

Climate change alarmists are now blaming global warming for making the earth “spin faster” in their latest effort to convince people to lessen their output of carbon dioxide. In an article in Mic Thursday titled “Climate Change Is Literally Making the Earth Spin Faster,” writer A.J. Dellinger cites a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Earth, which “found that our planet is spinning faster than ever, resulting in our days being shorter than ever.” Whereas a normal day on earth is made up of 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, June 29 saw “our shortest day on record,” Dellinger writes,...

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For a very long time in America, academics were complicated: Schools offered multiple subjects for which challenging assignments and tough tests were the norm. Concerning sex, however, things were simple: There were boys and girls and XX/XY chromosomes — a small point of fact among many things covered in biology class. As for sexual activity, it wasn’t spoken about to children.Now, education appears to have flipped: Sex has been upstaged by “gender identity,” and it’s considerably complex. Moreover, all manner of carnal activity is promoted in class. Academics, by contrast, have been simplified — if the nation’s tanking test scores...

The Kremlin said Friday that it's open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue....Lavrov said Moscow was "ready to discuss" a prisoner swap but that the topic should only be discussed via a dedicated Russia-U.S. channel that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to establish when they met in Geneva in June 2021."If the Americans again try to engage in public diplomacy and make loud statements about their intention to take certain steps, it's their business, I would even say their problem," Lavrov...

‘Traditionis Custodes’ One Year LaterBishops seeking to faithfully fulfill the Pope’s call for greater regulation of the traditional Latin Mass are grappling with tough decisions that have real pastoral consequences.Vatican August 5, 2022 More than one year has passed since Pope Francis’s 2021 apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of Tradition), and as U.S. bishops implement the papal decree limiting the use of the 1962 Roman Missal for Catholic communities, new pastoral realities and challenges are arising.For the most part, the 150,000 U.S. Catholics who regularly attend Mass celebrated with the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly called the traditional Latin Mass or...

Blake Masters is projected as the winner of the hotly-contested race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Arizona's primary elections.Decision Desk HQ, Newsmax's elections results partner, called the race for Masters a 35-year-old venture capitalist endorsed by former President Donald Trump early Wednesday morning.The call put Masters over solar energy executive Jim Lamon, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and retired Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire, setting him up to challenge Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., this fall. Kelly ran unchallenged in Tuesday's primary. Kelly has been in office since 2020 when he was elected to finish the rest of...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's carefully assembled house of cards is collapsing around him. And it's not really that surprising when you look at the hand he's been dealt. For those that haven't been following Intel product roadmap that closely, here's a quick recap of where things stand today. The company is stuck on an aging 10nm process; its desktop CPUs are ludicrously power hungry; its dedicated GPUs aren't particularly competitive, even when their drivers do work; its upcoming processor families are hopelessly behind schedule; and it just killed off Optane, which was arguably its most promising development in recent memory....

North Korea has offered to send 100,000 soldiers to bolster Russia’s invasion attempt in Ukraine, Russian state TV has claimed. The pariah state’s offer of military assistance could not be immediately verified, but it was seized upon by Russian defense pundit Igor Korotchenko There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict,” Korotchenko said on Russian Channel One. Korotchenko was notably interested in what he called the North Korean’s “wealth of experience with counter-battery warfare” — a telling remark given reports of Ukraine’s long-range artillery success since acquiring US-made HIMARS rocket...

DEF CON may be about to blow lid off security hole The US government is warning of critical vulnerabilities in its Emergency Alert System (EAS) systems that, if exploited, could enable intruders to send fake alerts out over television, radio, and cable networks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an advisory it was recently informed about the flaws in EAS encoder and decoder devices, adding that they were successfully exploited by Ken Pyle, a security researcher at cybersecurity firm CYBIR. There is a sense of urgency to the advisory because the exploit "may" be presented, with proof of...

Before an enthusiastic crowd, the Christian flag was raised this week on the Boston public forum flagpole as we celebrated our right to freedom of speech and our historic 9-0 victory at the Supreme Court.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday over his suspension of a prosecutor who said he wouldn’t enforce Florida’s laws against abortion and gender-affirming care for minors.

A 41-year-old Hamilton man is under arrest and is facing hate crime charges following an incident aboard a public transit bus earlier in the week. Police say a video posted online shows a man making transphobic and homophobic slurs towards two unknown people on a Hamilton Street Railway bus on August 1. He then goes on to direct several other racial slurs to other passengers as he leaves the bus in the area of Gage Park at the Lawrence Road entrance. Police said they were made aware of the social media post through an online reporting tool by a third...

Anger can be constructive; it can motivate people to fight noble battles and right egregious wrongs. Anger can also be nonconstructive. It can distract people from genuine problems while driving them to unproductive extremes. Nonconstructive anger often starts with a fiction. Like how a false narrative about police shootings can motivate a certain easily-led demographic group to violence. In this way, BLM is similar to the 1/6 rioters. Both groups were “traumatized” by a loss (George Floyd, the election) that was exploited by their leaders to birth an explosion of nonconstructive anger. And when it comes to nonconstructive anger, 1/6...

Federal agents have arrested a black man in Buffalo, New York, for making a false threat against black people to see whether racists on social media would support him. According to WIVB-TV in Buffalo, Rolik Walker, 24, of Buffalo, was arrested for a tweet he supposedly published on May 16 from an anonymous account. In the tweet, he reportedly threatened that he and his "associates" would be "targeting" Buffalo-area grocery stores and that they were "only looking to kill blacks." Walker, who is black, allegedly issued the tweet under the Twitter handle @ConklinHero just two days after white man Payton...