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Bolanle Fadairo, 38, has been charged with two counts of murder and tampering with evidence He is accused of shooting Michael Essien, 38, multiple times before making off in his SUV Essien's son, Micah, 2, was in the back seat of the car when Fadairo stole the vehicle He was found unresponsive five hours later after being left in the sweltering heat, with officers pronouncing him dead at the scene Houston Police swooped on Fadairo's home at 4am on Wednesday to arrest him in connection with the deaths

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests. The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting. Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a massive conscription drive is leading some Russians to leave the country, in an attempt to avoid being drafted for the ongoing war with Ukraine. The Russian defense ministry is preparing to conscript some 300,000 men for army duty, after President Putin announced Wednesday that the country would undertake a “partial mobilization.” "I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to conduct partial mobilization in the Russian Federation," Putin said. The announcement sparked anti-war protests Wednesday in 38 cities across Russia. More than 1,300...

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A letter has been uncovered that shows that Barack Obama maintained classified records in an unsecured storage facility in a furniture warehouse. Yet, the FBI never raided the warehouse? The FBI raided President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago in August. This corrupt gang under Biden AG Merrick Garland claimed they were after classified documents. It was also reported that the FBI was after nuclear-related documents but that was a lie. Biden’s White House claimed they didn’t know about it. This was also a lie. Never in US history had a President’s home been raided by the FBI. It was clear that...

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time, a demographic milestone for a state that was designed a century ago to have a permanent Protestant majority. Results from the 2021 census released on Thursday showed that 45.7% of inhabitants are Catholic or from a Catholic background compared with 43.48% from Protestant or other Christian backgrounds. The 2011 census figures were 45% Catholic and 48% Protestant. Neither bloc is a majority. ... Higher birth rates among Catholics gradually closed the gap, a closely watched metric since they tended to identify as Irish while Protestants tended to identify as British....

<p>The demonstrations in Iran began as an emotional outpouring over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman held by the country's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly enforced dress code.</p><p>Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend, according to a tally on Thursday by The Associated Press.</p>

Democratic North Carolina Senate nominee Cheri Beasley leads her Republican opponent, Ted Budd, by 1 percentage point, according to a new Civiqs poll. The survey, which was released on Thursday, found 49 percent of likely voters in the state indicated support for Beasley, compared to 48 percent for Budd, a gap well within the margin of error.

The New Jersey Department of Education will intervene in school districts that do not implement the state’s new sexual education standards that teach 10-year-olds the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity.

Job Creators Network has launched the “American Small Business Prosperity Plan” with the help of Newt Gingrich, members of Congress, and small business owners to put American entrepreneurs first. The “American Small Business Prosperity Plan,” which was announced during a press conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, includes an eight-point plan giving Congress and congressional candidates what JCN calls “a positive, pro-growth economic agenda and specific policies to enact into law in the next Congress.” “Small businesses across the country are suffering as they endure 40-year high inflation, the lingering consequences of the pandemic lockdowns, labor shortages, and...

US universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions, according to a study1. The finding suggests that prestige is overvalued in hiring decisions and that academic researchers have little opportunity to obtain jobs at institutions considered more elite than the ones at which they were trained. Specifically, the study, published in Nature on 21 September, shows that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions across the country between 2011 and 2020 (see ‘Hiring bias’). No historically Black colleges and universities or Hispanic-serving institutions...

House Republican leaders on Thursday morning unveiled to GOP members at a conference meeting the party’s new “Commitment to America” agenda, a core group of policies that fit on a pocket card designed to help them and their candidates communicate the GOP’s vision effectively in the midterm elections. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and thirty or so of his colleagues will travel to the Pittsburgh area in Pennsylvania on Friday to formally roll out the vision to the American public, but members got a preview of it on Thursday morning in their conference meeting.

China on Wednesday called on Ukraine and Russia to kick-start peace talks just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated the war by mobilizing conscripts to join the fight. "We call on the parties concerned to resolve the issue through dialogue and negotiation and find a solution that accommodates all parties’ legitimate security concerns," Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin told reporters. "We also hope the international community will create conditions and space for that."

Senate hopeful John Fetterman has cast himself as a champion of Pennsylvania's public schools, telling voters he will "make sure our public schools have the funding they need." But his tax records tell a different story. In fact, as mayor of Braddock, Pa., Fetterman failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on time to his local school district, one of the poorest in the state. Woodland Hills School District, which serves Braddock, placed nearly three-dozen tax liens against Fetterman totaling $18,692 for unpaid property taxes from 2006 to 2019, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free...

The Border Patrol has nabbed 78 people on a terrorist watch list so far this fiscal year, according to new Department of Homeland Security data. Twelve were caught in August alone, the second highest monthly total since numbers began to be released earlier this year. The new numbers represent a sharp increase as the Biden administration faces growing pressure to tighten security at the border: Just 15 suspected terrorists were caught in all of the fiscal year 2021, and just 11 were caught in total from 2017 to 2020. Counterintuitively, catching more of those on the watch list is bad...

Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York, lashed out angrily at President Joe Biden and other Democrats for abandoning him during the sexual harassment scandals that toppled him from power. Cuomo was asked by New York Post columnist Cindy Adams if any friends had stood by him as his office began to collapse under the weight of the numerous accusations of sexual harassment and assault. "Nobody," he said. "It was tough. Traumatizing. Biden, a friend 20 years, not knowing details, immediately said about me, ‘He’s got to go.’ Biden had troubles years before and I stood by him,"...

On September 15, a video of an unidentified flying object that crashed in Stavropol, Russia, around 350 kilometers (220 miles) from the Ukrainian border, went viral on the internet. The Russian media reports initially led people to believe it was a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Later, Twitter users noted similarities between the wreckage and the Russian Kinzhal missile. A Twitter user going by the handle LotA shared a video of the incident, which happened on September 14. According to the user, the unidentified object was a Russian Kinzhal missile. “If anyone wondered what crashed today in Russian Stavropol region...

Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend, according to a tally Thursday by The Associated Press. The scope of Iran’s ongoing unrest, the worst in several years, still remains unclear as protesters in at least a dozen cities — venting anger over social repression and the country’s mounting crises — continue to encounter security and paramilitary forces.

Shannon Brandt posted $50,000 bond after fatally striking Cayler Ellingson with his vehicle following 'political argument,' police records show

A new study reveals that those "smart" thermostats installed, often at great expense, in homes actually cause the energy consumption to rise, not fall. "Engineering estimates from the California Technical Forum …. predict that smart thermostats will produce substantial reductions in energy consumption," the report, called "The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments," said. It was released by authors from Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, University of Southern California and University of Alabama. They studied the smart thermostat impact on energy consumption using data over an 18-month period including more than 16 million hourly electricity use...