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With security threats to Supreme Court justices still fresh memories, Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday praised programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.” Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of the court’s decision that ultimately stripped away constitutional protections for abortion. Justice Samuel Alito has said that the leak made conservative justices “targets for assassination.” And in June, a man carrying a gun, knife and zip ties was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after threatening to kill...

This incident took place on United Airlines flight UA839, which operates the 7,488-mile journey from Los Angeles (LAX) to Sydney (SYD). Specifically, this involves the flight that was scheduled to take off at 10:55PM on Thursday, December 29, 2022, and land in Sydney at 9:15AM on Saturday, December 31, 2022. Presumably most of the 230 passengers onboard were excited to celebrate the new year in Sydney. The flight was operated by a seven-year-old Boeing 787-9 with the registration code N38955. For roughly the first seven hours, the flight operated as planned, flying southwest over the Pacific Ocean, including flying to...

My daughters asked me where to get some good ones.

Et tu, Ron? Wait: I thought it was those ee-vil conservatives who use violent imagery in political talk! But on Ali Velshi's MSNBC show this morning, Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali fantasized about Ron DeSantis assassinating Donald Trump, Brutus/Julius Caesar style.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

... Williams, who died unexpectedly at age 29 on New Year’s Day in 1953, will be honored with an annual wreath laying ceremony Sunday at his grave in Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery.

Here is a look back at the key dates and events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI:1927 — Joseph Ratzinger is born on Holy Saturday, April 16, in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, Germany, and is baptized on that same day. 1936 — Ratzinger makes his first Communion in the parish church of the Assumption of Our Lady on March 15. 1937 — Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber administers the sacrament of confirmation to 10-year-old Joseph Ratzinger on June 9 in the Traunstein, Germany, parish church of St. Oswald. 1939 — At age 12, Ratzinger enters a minor...

Vatican City, Dec 31, 2022 / 10:00 am Benedict XVI will be buried in the crypt under St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said Saturday afternoon. Benedict’s death, at the age of 95, was announced in Rome on Dec. 31. His body will lie in state in St. Peter’s Basilica from the morning of Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, until his funeral Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Jan. 5, 2023. The tombs in the Vatican crypt are close to the remains of the Catholic Church’s first pope, St. Peter the Apostle. Benedict XVI’s remains will stay at Mater Ecclesiae Monastery until...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Russia that “no one will ever forgive you” for spreading terror following a series of missile attacks on New Year’s Eve. Zelensky said in an address on Saturday that the missile attacks will not mark the end of the year but the outcome of Russia’s fate in that it will not be forgiven. He mentioned that Russia launched missile attacks during the war at other holidays such as Easter and Christmas. “They call themselves Christians. They are very proud of their orthodoxy. But they are following the devil. They support him and are together with...

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) argued that we can’t be successful in controlling drug smuggling or the flow migrants at the border “without taking on the cartel in a greater sense, with the cooperation of Mexico, we have to use tools that are at our hands in order to pressure Mexico to do more. That is the biggest challenge that we face.”

What a twisted society we have become. We stir up wars in other people's countries and praise ourselves for doing it. But there is no political reward for protecting our own people against crime and disorder on their streets and in their homes. It is no longer clear if anyone is governing the country at all, so busy are we putting other nations to rights. Burglaries go unprevented, uninvestigated and unpunished, in colossal numbers. Our capital city seethes with uncontrolled knife crime and stinks of marijuana. Christmas brings news of terrible ultra-violent crimes in supposedly peaceful suburban areas. Migrants stride...

Troops, Veterans, Families, Allies, and FRiends.....The FReeper Canteen Presents.....HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023!!Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. “May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.”-D. Simone Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops...

He definitely has a case of the Mondays. A former Seattle software engineer has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 from the web site Zulily in a scheme inspired by the 1999 cult movie “Office Space.” Ermenildo Valdez Castro, 28, a former employee for the online shopping company, allegedly began siphoning off money from his employer this spring by making alterations to the company’s software, CNN reported. Castro installed three types of malicious code, which targeted a small portion of Zulily customers and diverted their shipping fees to a bank account he controlled, KIRO reported. Castro also double-charged some...

The show will open by examining three American Revolutionary War battles: the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Battle of Brooklyn, and the Battle of Yorktown. After that, the show will look into the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution, followed by three episodes on the American Civil War (focusing on the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, and the Siege of Vicksburg). The final episode features a spotlight on the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the American Indian Wars, per Fox Nation. “Kelsey is a legend in the entertainment industry, and we are proud...

Count Vlad has edited his version of "Black Mountain Side" by "Led Zeppelin." If there are any Freepers that play tabla and would like to record the tabla part for this tune, please let me know. We can exchange MP3 files. If you like the music, please subscribe.

Florida prosecutors are trying to find a missing Scientology leader who is listed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit concerning child trafficking. David Miscavige, chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center, is the leader of the controversial Church of Scientology and the sect’s company Sea Org, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Process servers visited 10 Church of Scientology properties and have made 27 attempts to serve Miscavige, but the church leader has been missing for months, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Plaintiffs Gawain and Laura Baxter and Valeska Paris, former Scientologists, claim in the lawsuit...

The upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos summit will see this organization further promote a future global metaverse, as it presents two briefing papers from its “Defining and Building the Metaverse” initiative.The WEF has for a while now worked to position itself as, to all intents and purposes, a self-appointed authority on the direction in which the metaverse should develop.This is expressed through the initiative, whose papers will be presented at a press conference in Davos dubbed, “How to Build a Metaverse for All.”Announcing the event details, the WEF claims that the papers on interoperability in the metaverse from the...

Pyrethroids are extensively used insecticides by virtue of insecticidal activity potential in Asia, especially India, and in different nations worldwide to counter mosquitoes and insects for household or agricultural needs. The continuous widespread and uncontrolled use of pyrethroids and its derivatives have influenced multiple deleterious effects resulting in a potential risk factor causing damage to organ systems. Allethrin and prallethrin are extensively used, yet their influences on human primary cells are very limited or under-reported. The potential mechanisms by which allethrin and prallethrin modulates human primary cells, especially the molecular mechanisms or interconnectivity of autophagy-apoptosis, and their clinical relevance in...

Hello Friends! To Celebrate the beginning of a New Year we present to you the full recording of our epic show at the Musikprob Brassfestival in Pfullendorf, Germany that was one of our highlights of the year! Special Thanks to Mr. Ewald Restle for stellar production of the festival and this concert recording! We wish you all the happiest New Year and may it bring lots of happiness, love and dreams coming true! (and great music too, of course!) We can’t wait to meet again! ❤️ Happy New Year! 🎉🎇🎉 PS. If you would like to help support the band...

Fox News co-host Judge Jeanine Pirro joins 'The Five' panelists to react to police arresting a suspect in the slayings of University of Idaho students. The suspect arrested in connection to the murders of four Idaho college students was nabbed at least in part thanks to "genealogical DNA" evidence, sources told Fox News' Judge Jeanine Pirro. "[M]y sources are telling me that there is genealogical DNA that was established in this case that led the police to this particular suspect," Pirro said on "The Five" Friday. ... Pirro, who formerly served as a Republican district attorney in Westchester County, N.Y.,...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is causally associated with lung cancer risk, according to a study. Lin Li and colleagues employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to examine the causal relationship between GERD and lung cancer. Independent single nucleotide polymorphisms that were highly linked to GERD were identified in a sample of 129,080 GERD patients. Data from genome-wide association studies were used to assess outcomes for lung cancer, including squamous cell lung cancer (LUSC) and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) in 11,348 patients. To examine the potential causative association between GERD and risk for lung cancer, three MR statistical techniques were used....