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A Georgia man allegedly used an AR-15-style rifle in shootings at two Orlando resorts and multiple apartments on Wednesday night, injuring two people. Jailen Rasheed Houston, 19, was arrested in relation to the shootings and was booked into jail on a count of first-degree murder, according to FOX 35.... ...Houston was arrested after he crashed his car near the Osceola County line at about 7 a.m. on Thursday..."When asked how he felt about the shootings, he stated he felt good while shooting at people, and it provided him a sense of relief. When asked if he would conduct similar shootings...

US households are once again able to order free at-home Covid-19 tests, as the government attempts to limit the spread of the virus this winter. The White House said up to four rapid tests could be ordered from the government website CovidTests.gov. It announced that the test programme, which was paused in September, would be restarted on Thursday....

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“The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly” (Proverbs 16:21).

The Department of Social and Health Services, or DSHS, is warning EBT card users that they’re being targeted, and incidents of card skimming are on the rise.A disturbing trend is emerging across Washington: people are having their SNAP benefits stolen right out from under them. According to the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), scammers attach card skimmers to point-of-sale machines and steal card numbers and other information from credit, debit, and EBT cards. The agency says the skimmers are hard to spot, and can be installed in less than a minute. Kelly Cray lives in Lynnwood and says...

A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Jurors also considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him of manslaughter. The conviction comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door. Dean, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison, with the sentencing phase of his trial set...

Hakki Akdeniz is the owner of Champion Pizza, with six shops across New York City and Long Island. He boasts nearly 29 million followers on Instagram as well as celebrity fans like Mike Tyson and Courteney Cox. Not long ago, however, Akdeniz, 42, was homeless and desperate on the streets of NYC. Whether the animated Akdeniz knows a person or not, crossing paths with this Turkish immigrant-turned-total NYC character entails being showered with greetings, food and the occasional reminder that God is indeed great — all before a guest can get a single word in. The pizza man’s meteoric rise...

Drug overdose deaths among US teens doubled from 2019 to 2021 - even as use of illicit substances declined - as fentanyl fueled a nationwide crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that teenage overdoses increased 109 percent over the two years. Deaths caused by fentanyl alone increased 182 percent. Officials warn that many US teens are dying after ingesting drugs like cocaine, Adderall or Xanax that are contaminated with fentanyl. They also warn that social media platforms have become a new marketplace for illicit drugs. The nation's drug overdose crisis has struck everyone, with a...

Efforts to pass legislation making it a federal crime to discriminate on the basis of hair styles or texture — introduced after a New Jersey high school student was told he could not wrestle with locs — failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, the measure’s chief Senate sponsor, had sought unanimous approval to clear the House-passed bill and send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. But U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked it.

The BBC has introduced a catalogue of reforms to its Arabic news service — including dropping the controversial terrorist sympathiser Abdel Bari Atwan as a pundit — in the wake of widespread criticism of the corporation's output, the JC can reveal. The moves are taking place behind closed doors, even as its Director-General continues to publicly defend Mr Atwan, who has expressed sympathy for Sir Salman Rushdie's attacker and defended the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians. "Team leaders in BBC Arabic have told editors to stop using him [Atwan] because he said some problematic things on BBC English," a...

The CDC commissioned the gun use study itself, but removed it last year The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly removed statistics on defensive gun use in the U.S. following pressure from gun control advocates. The stats sourced from a CDC-commissioned study finding that instances of defensive gun use occur between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year. References to that study were deleted from the site following private meetings with gun control advocates in 2021, emails obtained and published by The Reload show. "[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said on Thursday that President Biden should seek reelection in 2024, citing his connection with the American people and his “excellent” first two years in office. The top Congressional Democrats offered their support amid speculation that Mr. Biden could announce his decision early next year. “I hope that he does seek reelection,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” “He’s a person with a great vision for our country. He’s been involved for a long time, so he has great knowledge of the issues and the challenges...

There are plenty of postmortems about Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Republican candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia. Yes, in the same state, Republican Brian Kemp won a decisive victory in the race for governor. And, yes, to be kind, Walker was not a great flag-bearer to draw voters, particularly black voters, to the Republican Party. But let’s ask why voters, particularly black voters, would send Warnock to represent them for another six years in the U.S. Senate. The Georgia electorate is around 30% black, and 90% of them voted for Warnock. What are these...

A federal judge has prevented the Biden administration from ending the “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy introduced by the Trump administration, ruling on Thursday that it should stay in place while legal challenges play out. Under the policy, which was enacted in 2019 and is formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, asylum-seekers — including those not from Mexico — have been sent to Mexico to await proceedings in their cases. President Biden moved to end the policy, under which more than 70,000 asylum-seekers were sent to Mexico from the United States, upon taking office. Texas and Missouri took legal...

President Trump made a major announcement today about his plan to liberate the American people and restore the First Amendment rights that were stolen by “a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media.” President Trump announced yesterday that he was coming out with a major announcement today. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump announced that his team has created digital trading cards for sale. This was not the announcement we were expecting. However, President Trump made another absolutely huge announcement promising, “When I am president, this whole rotten system...

In 2017 President Trump approved the release of approximately 2800 long-classified JFK assassination records. News outlets from around the globe furiously combed through the files in search of more pieces to the puzzling death of President John F. Kennedy. President Trump released a second trove of documents later that year. One of the documents revealed that Democrat President Lyndon Johnson was a KKK member. As reported earlier today – On Thursday the National Archives released thousands of the JFK documents. But the FBI-CIA would not allow the release of all of the documents. Around 3% of the JFK documents are...

More troubles for former Twitter employees continue to surface as now one has been convicted of a serious crime and sentenced on Wednesday in San Francisco, California to 3.5 years in prison, U.S. prosecutors said.All it took for ex-Twitter manager Ahmad Abouammo to abuse his position at the top social media company was a $42,000 watch and a pair of $100,000 wire transfers, to put innocent American at major risk. Now that Elon Musk is in charge and has cleaned house, the company and the country are in a far better position than before, as is becoming evident with each...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Christmas 1776 Washington Crossing the Delaware Christmas 1776 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD....

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