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Parker County Sheriff's Office investigators allege that a 12-year-old Texas girl shot her father and then herself in a murder pact she made with a friend. The sheriff's office posted about the ongoing investigation on Facebook on Thursday afternoon, accusing the young girl from Weatherford, Texas, of shooting herself and her father. Around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, authorities found the 12-year-old girl lying in the street near her home. She had an apparent gunshot wound to her head, and authorities discovered a handgun underneath her. Her father, 38, was discovered inside their home, suffering from a gunshot wound to his...

Democrat Gabe Vasquez called to defund police in interview he gave under fake name, investigation shows New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez gave a fake name during an anti-police rant to a journalist at a Black Lives Matter protest in the summer of 2020, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found. Now, the congressional hopeful is burying the evidence. During a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Las Cruces, N.M., a local reporter interviewed one attendee who furiously expressed his desire to defund police. "We need serious police reform in this country," the man said over chants of "no justice, no...

Graphical absract. Credit: Developmental Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.08.011 Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in people. In a study recently published in Developmental Cell, the researchers explained how they identified the autophagy pathway in hair cells that's linked to permanent hearing loss brought about by aminoglycosides—a class of antibiotics. The researchers also developed one of the first laboratory models that's insusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. "This work identifies multiple potential therapeutic targets for preventing hearing loss caused by aminoglycosides," said Bo Zhao,...

Israel’s Ministry of Health commissioned researchers to investigate Pfizer’s Covid-19 ‘vaccine’ for adverse events in December 2021, a full year after rolling out the mRNA shots, but the research was shut down after a video was leaked with the lead researcher discussing the ‘medical-legal’ consequences of making the research findings public. Despite a near-total media blackout of the scandal, it is a real story that has been commented upon by highly credentialed medical researchers, such as Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale. Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz, the medical researcher who broke the news story, joined GB News’ Neil...

B> For more than 50 years, his identity has remained a maddening riddle. But now an L.A. novelist-turned-amateur sleuth may have finally cracked the case, revealing who was behind some of the most notorious serial slayings in California history The Hawaiian rainforest where Gloria Doerr has lived since 2017 is a sort of magnet, she says, for people who are running away from something. But even there, in the shadow of an active volcano, sometimes things catch up with you. For Doerr, 70, it happened this past April. She was spending a tranquil afternoon at home when she learned that...

Do you get mail? Of course, you do. You have a mailbox for your house, apartment, or condo, or you have a post office box. Everybody gets mail. But does everybody get their mail monitored? Well, if you’re a Second Amendment supporter or you don’t like Joe Biden, you may have somebody watching your mailbox. The Washington Times noted that Patrick Eddington of the Cato Institute obtained redacted documents showing that U.S. Postal Service inspectors monitored the mail of some American citizens. The impetus for the move? These people were gun rights activists and had issues with the election of...

California residents can now acquire a state ID regardless of immigration status under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. “We’re a state of refuge – a majority-minority state, where 27 percent of us are immigrants,” Newsom said after signing the legislation. “That’s why I’m proud to announce the signing of today’s bills to further support our immigrant community, which makes our state stronger every single day.” A law passed in 2013 allows California residents to obtain a driver’s license, but the bill that was signed Friday will allow non-driving residents to acquire a government-issued ID, even if...

illustration of a magnetar flaring. The central star gleams in the darkness, with a ring of expanding light around it Still from a NASA animation of a magnetar emitting a powerful flare. (NASA) We have detected a strange new signal from across the chasm of time and space. A repeating fast radio burst source detected last year was recorded spitting out a whopping 1,863 bursts over 82 hours, amid a total of 91 hours of observation. This hyperactive behavior has allowed scientists to characterize not just the galaxy that hosts the source and its distance from us, but also what...

The fabled and beloved family-style Italian restaurant Bacchi's Inn, tucked away in North Lake Tahoe's Lake Forest neighborhood, shut its doors for good on Sept. 11 after one final Sunday dinner service. With one last service to a full house of mostly locals there to pay homage, the restaurant — which had just celebrated its 90th birthday — quietly shut its doors on Sept. 11 for good. Set back from a little inlet in a neighborhood called Lake Forest, the fabled Italian restaurant came to life on the lake’s North Shore, starting as a summer haunt during the basin’s rise...

President Joe Biden appeared meandering and confused during a White House event on Monday celebrating the Atlanta Braves and their World Series victory in 2021. After the president finished speaking, the team presented him with a team jersey with his name on it. “Well folks, guess we’re going to do something now, that is uh … a reception,” he said to the team, who remained in position for the photo. When the group reminded him that they had to take a few pictures first, Biden agreed but held his jersey folded up at his waist as the cameras clicked. The...

Former President Bill Clinton did his part to propagate Democrat messaging for the midterm elections at an event Saturday with Tom Hanks, telling the audience that democracy is fragile and must be saved. Clinton appeared Saturday at A+E Networks and the History Channel’s History Talks, according to a Variety report. Along with Hanks, the former commander in chief was joined by his daughter, Chelsea, and celebrity chef José Andrés. “What’s more important? Our common humanity or differences?” Clinton reportedly said on stage. “And what works better to build the kind of future we all want? Does cooperation work better or...

The so-called "referendums" of 4 Ukrainian regions are coming to an end. Information has already appeared in the official Russian media that laws on the admission of new territories to the Russian Federation will be adopted within the next few days after the announcement of the results. But what will happen next? Naturally, in any situation there are several options for development. 1. The most likely one is that Putin will start waving a "nuclear club" and demand the withdrawal of the Armed Forces from the territory of these regions. First of all - Donetsk and Lugansk. Parts of the...

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI-08) imploded during a television debate when a Michigan news anchor pressed her about the recent bombshell report revealing she resides in an apartment owned by a “lobbyist” and campaign donor, who is also registered — with his family — to vote at the same address and works for a company receiving tens of million in government funding. WDIV-TV held a television debate on Sunday between Slotkin and her Republican opponent state Sen. Tom Barrett. The anchor in charge of asking questions brought up the recent report that revealed Slotkin moved into a residence owned...

This was psychological warfare at its best. The world found Xi Jinping trending on Twitter on Saturday (the third top trend in India), albeit for reasons that did not make the Chinese happy. Twitter was full of unverified rumours about Xi being placed under house arrest in a palace coup. The reports said the Chinese president was detained after CCP seniors removed him as head of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The coup reports emerged after Xi’s return from Samarkand in Uzbekistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO). ... One of the reasons why the disinformation campaign around Xi's house...

Saturday afternoon, Aaron Judge went homerless, leaving his record at 60 homers, which ties with the greatest and most important player in baseball history, Babe Ruth. Judge still needs two jolts to surpass Roger Maris and take sole leadership of the most home runs in a season in both New York Yankee and American League history. However, while 62 homers are impressive, they still significantly trail Barry Bonds’ 73 homers in 2001. Even if Judge reaches 62 sometime in the next 11 games, he’d still be only seventh on the single-season list trailing Sammy Sosa (63 in 1999, 64 in...

A third retired command sergeant major is speaking out against Gov. Tim Walz, saying he “let his soldiers down” by avoiding a deployment to Iraq in 2005 before running for Congress. Doug Julin worked his way up to division command sergeant major (CSM) before he retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2012 after serving 35 years. “This was a backdoor deal,” Julin said of Walz not going on the mission. Julin is the third retired CSM to speak with Alpha News this month about a story that all three say deserves more attention. Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen...

When America was formed, the foundation was God; the Founding documents were drawn from a Judeo-Christian ethic. Today, God has been shown the door, along with right and wrong. Today, everything is right and nothing is wrong. The distinction between good and evil is passé. When Time magazine's 1966 cover asked, "Is God Dead?," many cheerfully shouted "YES!," but they had no idea what they were cheering. God is not dead. He is very much alive and doing what He does — He acts. He has kept America alive as a free nation for now. God is not only not...

President Biden hosted the Atlanta Braves, who won the 2021 World Series, at the White House on Monday, quipping that he also knows “about being counted out.” Biden called Atlanta’s World Series win “one of history’s greatest turnarounds.” “I know a little something about being counted out, and I know in Georgia, you show up when it counts,” the president said. The team gifted Biden a Braves jersey with the number 46, which the president held up and showed around the room before taking a photograph with the team. The president said the Braves will be “forever known as the...

President Donald Trump isn't even currently in office but his mere existence has such a powerful effect on Politico founding editor John F. Harris that he wants to drastically rewrite the U.S. Constitution. Rather than be embarrassed about wanting to upend the document that guarantees our freedoms and form of government, Harris proudly declared to the entire world on Thursday, "The Best Way To Save The Constitution From Donald Trump Is To Rewrite It."

"Are you for the withdrawal of the Zaporozhye region from Ukraine, the formation of an independent state by the Zaporozhye region and its entry into the Russian Federation as a subject of the Russian Federation?" — it was these words (with one syntactic error in the Russian-language version and one grammatical error in the Ukrainian-language version) that turned the topic of "referendums" in the "new Russian territories" from the senseless chatter of journalists and political strategists into the menacing roar of a nuclear apocalypse. It is pointless to talk about the legal side of "referendums" in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and...