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A grown man in a Juan Soto jersey intercepted a baseball thrown to a little girl by an outfielder at a Washington Nationals game Thursday night. Avery Hilliard, 10, a youth softball player, came with her glove to the weeknight game - ready to catch a ball. But, when player Joey Meneses lobbed one into the stands where Hilliard and her teammates where waving their arms, an adult man towered over the children, snatching the ball and quickly turning away. 'Out of no where [the man] stands up and takes the ball. He had no remorse and his girlfriend was...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. While the governor and Republican-led Legislature push to expand access to firearms in South Dakota, a majority of voters favors restrictions such as waiting periods and age limits for some gun purchases, according to a statewide poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch. The poll of 500 registered voters showed that 60% of respondents support establishing a two-week waiting period to buy an AR-15 – a semi-automatic rifle originally designed for military use – and 54% support a minimum age of...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said that “We don’t know how many Afghans are in this country who pose a national security threat” and that “we just hope” that the few dozen we know of based on statements by the FBI are being monitored. Portman stated, [relevant remarks begin around 4:35] “In terms of the Afghan refugees, all of us want to take care of the Afghans who helped Americans, who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us, the interpreters, and so on. But remember that chaotic withdrawal,...

BREAKING: Memphis, Tenn. police warn community after gunman is reportedly shooting people at random on Facebook Live

The lawyer for New York City’s sucker punch attack suspect alleged at a hearing Tuesday that his client’s been subjected to "character assassination" by the media, as the brother of the victim left in a coma following the unprovoked beating from the sex offender parolee sobbed in the courtroom. Bui Van Phu, a 55-year-old homeless convicted sex offender, was led into the Bronx courtroom in handcuffs, where the defendant kept his head down. The Vietnamese immigrant, reportedly a member of a street gang, was arrested for the brutal Aug. 12 Bronx attack on 52-year-old Jesus Cortes. The NYPD recommended an...

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info On Tuesday, former attorney general Suella Braverman was appointed Home Secretary in Prime Minister Liz Truss’ first cabinet. Ms Braverman had earlier called for Britain to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which was used to stop the attempted deportation flight to Rwanda, in order to allow the scheme to go ahead. With a new Cabinet...

Armstead attributes the school’s perfect graduation and college acceptance rates to its mission, which includes faith, academic excellence and leadership. “Our goal is to help our students become the best version of themselves. They know early on that there will be a college application process. They know that the grades they make as freshmen will end up on their transcripts. So we set our standards high and stress them to each student,” she said. Although many of the students don’t identify as Catholic, Armstead says the faith component of Cardinal Ritter’s mission is never an issue. “We’re a faith-based school,...

Big Apple students will be forced to hunker down in front of their screens — instead of enjoying a snow day outdoors — when the winter weather is at its worst this year, Schools Chancellor David Banks said Tuesday. “There are technically no more snow days,” Banks said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” ahead of the start of the 2022-23 school year Thursday. “With the new technology that we have — that’s one of the good things that came out of COVID — if a snow day comes around, we want to make sure that our kids continue...

All you need is a simple device, and to know how to use it 'properly'A plumber has shared his advice on how to save money on your gas bill. Tiktok user djmatrix101, a plumbing and heating engineer who shares tips on how to save money on household bills, shared his best "top tip" to save money on your gas bill. All that is required is a simple device called a thermostatic radiator valve. He said that the device can then be installed on every single radiator in the home, and can be used to turn off, or limit, the flow...

A federal judge in Fort Worth agreed Wednesday with a group of Christian conservatives that Affordable Care Act requirements to cover HIV prevention drugs violate their religious freedom. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor also agreed that aspects of the federal government's system for deciding what preventive care is covered by the ACA violates the Constitution. O'Connor's ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans who are on employer-sponsored health care plans. It is likely to be appealed by the federal government. This lawsuit is the latest in a decade of legal...

In a 2021 lecture at Yale University titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani described her “fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor.” Around the same time, a scholarly article in a peer-reviewed academic journal described “whiteness” as “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.” The author, Donald Moss, had also presented his paper...

Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II, often gets lost in the shadow of the Normandy invasions. Dragoon came little more than a month after the Allies crossed the English Channel, on Aug. 15, 1944. More than 151,000 troops cleared the way for more than half a million troops to swarm onto the beaches of the French Riviera. At the same time, tens of thousands of members of the French Resistance finally got the chance to rise up against their German occupiers. Pfc. Stephen Weiss landed on the Côte d'Azur that summer day, with the...

In California this week, there is a heat wave. There have been heat waves before; it’s not unusual for the area. But the energy grid is no longer up to it; so California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, took to the airwaves, to make an impassioned plea. “Everyone has to do their part to help,” Governor Newsom declares, in his new public service commercial. He then goes on to list his expectations for the taxpayers of California. The state already told people not to charge their electric cars. Now, Governor Sunshine says, you should wake up early and run your air conditioning...

The Office of Malaria Control in War Areas sought to curb malaria transmission in the United States.You’ve probably heard of the Cat and the Hat, but you may not have heard of “Bloodthirsty Ann.” Ann, another character created by Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), was a mosquito who transmitted malaria, and she first appeared in a 1943 booklet for American troops during World War II. By the time Bloodthirsty Ann was introduced to readers, malaria had long been present in the southeastern United States. Cases of the deadly disease rose during the Great Depression, and started to wane during the...

ALouisiana-based federal judge ruled that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci will have to turn over emails sent to social media companies on the subject of censorship and misinformation of online content. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who are both Republicans, filed a lawsuit in May accusing President Joe Biden's administration of working in tandem with social media companies to suppress free speech, with specific allegations tied to information regarding elections and COVID-19.

What do you do when there's an earthquake? Well, the safety rules all depend on where you are. If you're in a car, stop the car and stay inside. If you're outside, find an open spot, far from power lines. If you're inside, and your building is damaged, get outside right away, in case it collapses on you... Unless you're in China, under lockdown, that is. Then the safety rules don't apply. Case in point: The politburo in Beijing dictated last week that Chengdu go into lockdown — maybe just for a few days, they said. we'll see how it...

Five officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety will be investigated over their response to the May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, an agency spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday night. Two of the officers were suspended with pay. According to Ericka Miller, a spokesperson with DPS, the five officers “have now been referred to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) where a formal investigation into their actions that day will take place.” Miller did not specify what, if any, were the wrongdoings of the officers. The news of the investigation was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman and...

The U.S. has reached an important milestone in the pandemic, according to federal health officials. Going forward, COVID-19 could be treated more like the flu, with one annual shot offering year-long protection against severe illness for most people. "Barring any new variant curve balls, for a large majority of Americans we are moving to a point where a single, annual COVID shot should provide a high degree of protection against serious illness all year," said White House COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha at a press briefing Tuesday. The federal government has started rolling out a new round of boosters for...

A federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday that a mandate requiring most health insurance companies to cover medicine that prevents HIV infection violates the religious freedom of certain businesses. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor partially resolves a lawsuit brought by Braidwood Management Inc., a Christian for-profit corporation owned by Republican mega-donor Steven Hotze that employs about 70 people. Hotze claimed that forcing his company to cover pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs, more commonly known as PrEP, under the Affordable Care Act would make the company “facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Onward Together, a nonprofit group started by Hillary Clinton after she lost the 2016 presidential election, funneled $75,000 to a far-left group whose affiliate worked on a failed attempt to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department, Fox News first reported. Clinton’s Onward Together gave money to Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Youth Justice between April 1, 2021, and March 31, 2021, according to the group’s latest tax forms, the report noted.