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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he must pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation’s deadliest school shooting was a hoax. The total — $49.3 million — is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators killed in the...

The war in Ukraine is raging with no end in sight. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is ready to sit at the negotiation table. Both claim that their goals are absolute and non-negotiable. With negotiations not an option, both are determined to exhaust the enemy’s resources, manpower and technological potential, and to finally “throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance,” in the words of Clausewitz. In the meantime, Russia’s actions in Ukraine paint a clear picture of Moscow’s doctrinal thinking about warfare, and illustrate that Ukraine is only one part of Russia’s broader economic and geopolitical objectives....

NATO surveillance planes and fighter jets are patrolling around the clock to protect the airspace of member states amid fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war could spread beyond Ukraine's borders. NATO on Thursday shared a video on Twitter regarding the effort, showing its planes and pilots in action. A series of captions included in the video explained that NATO is working to protect the skies of its allies in Eastern Europe "with more jets flying from air bases and aircraft carriers across the alliance" and by "bringing additional deterrence and defensive capabilities." The video said that NATO is also...

Keith Kellogg, a onetime national security adviser to former President Donald Trump and ex-Vice President Mike Pence, recently backed up Trump's long-standing claim that the National Guard had been offered to U.S. Capitol Police days before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.When he retweeted a Washington Times Opinion tweet covering congressional investigations and taxpayer transparency, Kellogg dropped this nugget on July 29.The retweet-text: "Great OpEd. Reinforces my earlier comment on 6 Jan Cmte. Has quote from DOD IG Report regarding 3 Jan 2021 meeting with Actg Def Secy Miller/CJCS Milley in the Oval on the 6 Jan NG...

Most men occasionally struggle to get or keep an erection due to stress, tiredness, anxiety or drinking too much alcohol. The National Institutes of Health reports that around 30 million men have erectile dysfunction, with it being most common among the elderly. It can be caused by high blood pressure or cholesterol, hormone problems or side effects from medication. Some younger men also suffer from 'performance anxiety', where mental distractions and other issues have give them trouble Medicines containing sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, are often used to treat the condition. It expands blood vessels and boosts blood flow...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taipei on Tuesday after weeks of international speculation and threats of retaliation from the Chinese Communist Party. Pelosi was the first US House Speaker to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich in 1997. -snip On Wednesday Nancy Pelosi gave a speech to the Taiwanese where she started babbling in confusion. Pelosi went off script and started talking about President “Benjamin Franklin” who was an inventor and statesman but never a president. This was frightening. Crazy Nancy almost sparked World War III.

Republican Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake criticized Republican governors who are bussing illegal immigrants to major cities at Friday’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

I am a minor-league philanthropist. I give modest sums to animal shelters, the preservation of wildlife, children’s hospitals, my local public library, the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation and several other organizations and institutions. I don’t give to universities, lest they think I encourage their wanderings from their true mission—although I have considered giving $5,000 to Northwestern University, where I taught for 30 years, and earmarking the money to be spent exclusively on a Jewish tight end for the football team. I have never given money to politicians or political parties. Yet I am about to send a $200 check to Liz...

Aug. 4—A jury found a Dayton man guilty Wednesday in a gunpoint robbery in February at a carryout. Timothy C. Lewis, 38, was "on triple probation" in three criminal cases at the time of the Feb. 15 robbery at the Delphos Carryout, 2903 W. Third St., according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office. He will be sentenced Aug. 15 following his conviction for two counts of aggravated robbery and one counts of grand theft — motor vehicle. Lewis was inside the victim's vehicle when Dayton police found it following the robbery. Lewis had the victim's wallet when he was arrested,...

Former iCarly star Jennette McCurdy has written a memoir titled "I'm Glad My Mom Died," in which she details her life as a child star, her relationship with her mother, and her experiences with Nickelodeon. In the book, which hits bookstores August 9, McCurdy details the humiliations and mistreatment she endured while growing up in the public eye. According to the New York Times, McCurdy writes about being photographed in a bikini at a wardrobe fitting and being encouraged to drink alcohol by a person she simply refers to as the "Creator." Although she doesn't reveal the Creator's identity, she...

Paul Newman's drinking was so bad that his long-suffering wife Joanne Woodward once found him lying insensible on the floor, his head bleeding after falling out of bed. She came close to leaving him that night. 'It was one of many, many scenes,' she said. When she did finally snap, bundling their three young daughters into a car and driving to their Malibu beach home, Newman came in hot pursuit, banging on the door and shouting to be let in. She refused and Newman, the blue-eyed actor lusted after by women worldwide, spent several nights sleeping in his car on...

The career crook whom Mayor Adams dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” as a symbol of the city’s revolving door of criminal justice has been identified as Harold Gooding, a 53-year-old serial shoplifter — who has been arrested 101 times. “How many crimes do you think he really committed? Two hundred? Three hundred? A thousand?” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said at a news conference Wednesday. “And guess what? He’s walking around the streets of New York City today, probably committing another crime as we speak.” On Wednesday, sources identified Gooding as the unnamed person at the top of...

Another $1B President Joe Biden’s administration is prepared to send Ukraine a $1 billion weapons package as early as Monday, according to a Reuters report. (snip) The $1 billion weapons package would come just days after the Pentagon announced it would send Ukraine arms and equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense inventory worth up to $550 million. “The United States continues to stand with Allies and partners from more than 50 countries in providing vital security assistance to support Ukraine’s defense of its sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russia’s aggression,” a State Department press release said.

This date in 1549 was disgraced in England by one of the bloodiest battlefield atrocities in that realm’s history: the Clyst Heath massacre. On Whitsunday of that year, two-plus years after the Catholic-except-for-the-Pope king Henry VIII had taken to the grave his restraining orthodoxy, the late king’s reformist archbishop Thomas Cranmer introduced to English churches his magnum opus: the Book of Common Prayer. Rudely replacing the hodgepodge of old services consecrated by tradition, not to mention the Latin tongue in which they were conducted, with the novel vernacular composition of Anne Boleyn‘s house vicar was not wildly popular in the...

A woman who has been classified as a “sexually violent predator” by the state of California is living in Sonoma County, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. Charlotte Thrailkill, 62, a white woman who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 130 pounds with blue eyes and red graying hair, is living in Boyes Hot Springs, just north of Sonoma, according to authorities. In 1988, Thrailkill was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, and one count of the same charge but with force, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office. She...

Three of the four people who apparently were hit by lightning near the White House on Thursday have died, Washington, D.C., police said in updates Friday. James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, tourists to D.C. from Janesville, Wisconsin, were killed, police said Friday morning. A 29-year-old man also died, police said later Friday. His name was not immediately released. The Muellers were semi-retired high school sweethearts visiting D.C. for their 56th wedding anniversary, their niece told News4. James Mueller owned a drywall business, Donna Mueller was a teacher, and they had five children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. ..

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for doctors who perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors to be sued at a Wednesday press conference. “They talk about these very young kids getting gender-affirming care,” DeSantis said, who used air quotes while using the phrase. “What they don’t tell you what that is is that they are giving very young girls double mastectomies, they want to castrate these young boys — that’s wrong.” Several of DeSantis’ press reps have questioned the “gender-affirming care” phrase in recent months, arguing that it doesn’t specify the procedures being performed in some cases. And in April, Florida...

Castro, Ortega, Bergoglio. The Pope’s Bad FriendshipsChina and Russia are today invading almost all of the comments on the Holy See’s international policy, in both cases anything but brilliant.But there are other countries in the world where the Catholic Church lives in no less dramatic situations of authentic persecution. And yet the pope is keeping quiet, as in the case of Nicaragua. Or, at the other extreme, he overdoes it in obsequious loquacity, as in the case of Cuba.*His admiration for the Cuban regime has never been something Jorge Mario Bergoglio has kept secret. In the photo above he is...

A Christian pastor of a trendy Miami church has been forced out for allegedly having steamy affairs with three women from his congregation, two while he was still married, DailyMail.com can reveal. David Stocker, 46, was fired from Brave Church in the city's Westchester district in April after its overseeing body – the Peninsular Florida District Council of the Assemblies of God – found him guilty of 'gross sexual misconduct and immoral actions.' The clergyman, who had preached at the church since 2014, is also accused of using the church's credit card to fund some of his illicit encounters, including...