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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man with a lengthy criminal record has been charged with multiple counts of rape. The most recent charges against 36-year-old Lorenzo Mckinney are from July of 2022. On July 2, Memphis Police said a 15-year-old girl flagged down officers after being raped at a house on Almo Avenue. The girl told police that two men, one of whom she knew as “Fro” raped her at that house after talking to her on Facebook for some time. The girl told police that, after the first man raped her, “Fro” threatened physical violence if she did not...

resident Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer will represent him in matters related to the classified documents found in his office at the Penn Biden Center and at his Wilmington, Del., residence, the Biden administration confirmed on Friday. Bauer, White House counsel in the administration of former President Barack Obama, has been a key player in Biden’s orbit for years. Bauer helped spearhead issues around voting ahead of - and after — the 2020 election and also helped vet Kamala Harris for vice president. He was a central figure in Biden’s debate preparations ahead of his 2020 clashes with Donald Trump,...

Elementary school-age children with developmental disorders are more likely to have allergic diseases, according to a study published in the January issue of Pediatrics International. Masafumi Zaitsu, M.D., Ph.D. and colleagues assessed the prevalence of allergic diseases in elementary school-age children with developmental disorders by grade and sex. The analysis included 446 lower-grade and 312 upper-grade elementary school-age children. The researchers found that the prevalence of allergic diseases was significantly higher in lower-grade boys and girls with developmental disorders versus those without developmental disorders (odds ratios, 3.22 and 3.87 for boys and girls, respectively). Similar results were seen for higher-grade...

INVESTIGATION IS ABOUT INCREASED RISK OF ISCHEMIC STROKE IN PEOPLE OVER. 65(FOX NEWS) – The Centers for Disease Control says that a preliminary COVID-19 vaccine “safety signal” has been identified and is investigating whether the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 and older. In the statement, the CDC says that the preliminary signal hasn’t been identified with Bivalent Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. “Following the availability and use of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there...

In November 2013, Yanukovych refused to sign the long-awaited Association Agreement with the European Union, shortly thereafter receiving a loan from the Kremlin. His refusal to sign the agreement sparked protests all over the country, with the largest demonstration taking place in Kyiv on Independence Square, known in Ukrainian as Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The protests would turn into a revolution that lasted until February 2014, ending with Yanukovych fleeing to Russia.

CDC is investigating a potential link between COVID mRNA injections and ischemic strokes

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) issued a joint statement Friday calling on Congress to avoid a potential default “forced by extreme MAGA Republicans,” the opening salvo in what will be a months-long battle over raising the federal debt limit. Lawmakers in both parties predict the Democratic-controlled White House and Senate are headed for a showdown with newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the debt limit after McCarthy pledged to House conservatives last week to attach spending reforms to debt limit legislation. Schumer and Jeffries called on Republicans to move quickly on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Friday that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Yellen said her actions will buy time until Congress can pass legislation that will either raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing authority or suspend it again for a period of time. Those measures include divesting some payments, such as contributions to federal employees’ retirement plans, in order to provide some headroom to make other payments that are deemed essential,...

President Biden is burning rubber away from the midterm campaign trail. The 79-year-old took his 1967 Corvette Stingray for a spin on an episode of CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Garage” that aired Wednesday night. Biden’s green convertible, featuring a 350-horsepower V-8 engine and a four-speed manual transmission, was no match for Michael Powell’s more powerful automatic 2015 Stingray

In late 2023, a new book on law and legal education is coming out (Legally Blind). In the book, I explain how ideology is affecting legal theory, teaching, and the larger law industry, including its entrenched ways of doing business. This all starts with the law schools, and fixing the problem will involve reconsidering how such institutions are categorized and ranked. At present, law-school rankings function mostly as sales and branding mechanisms rather than providing an actual managerial report that reflects institutional performance. They speak very little, if at all, to the way a school is run operationally and its...

Jim Jordan's first investigation as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will examine President Biden's "mishandling" of classified documents and the Justice Department's investigation. The investigation led by Jordan, R-Ohio, comes one day after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to examine the matter, former U.S. attorney Robert Hur. The Justice Department escalated it to a special counsel investigation from a mere review Thursday after a second stash of classified documents was found inside the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home. The first documents were found inside the Washington, D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank....

Your prayers have been so much help. Sepsis and an advanced bile duct cancer diagnosis to this. God is incredible and prayer works. Chemo has actually improved his liver numbers which has baffled his doctors. A long road ahead beating this pernicious and aggressive type of cancer, but I just have to kneel and beg God to bless you all for your prayers. Please continue to pray for my honey-badger of a brother. Also pray for Andrea's father. He is also battling the scourge of cancer and is another honey-badger of a man. Pray I become a stronger man. Prayer...

Robbie Knievel, the son of the famed stuntman and daredevil Evel Knievel, has tragically died aged 60. The news was first reported by TMZ, which reports that a source close to the family revealed that Robbie Knievel had been receiving hospice care as he battled pancreatic cancer. Knievel reportedly died on Friday morning (January 13), with his daughters by his side. Following in his father's footsteps as a thrillseeking performer, Robbie rode his first bike when he was just four years old, and went on to perform at his father's Madison Square Garden show when he was just eight. Throughout...

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday a new rule targeting pistol attachments known as "stabilizing braces," implementing a key move in the Biden administration's efforts to beef up gun control regulations. A stabilizing brace is an attachment to a pistol that functionally turns it into a short-barreled rifle, similar to a sawed-off shotgun. Such weapons are considered particularly deadly as they offer the power of a traditional rifle, but are much easier to conceal. For decades, short-barreled rifles have been subject to strict regulations, including a law known as the National Rifle Act, which...

Severe flooding hit California’s Salinas Valley on Thursday, as the Salinas River burst its banks, flooding farmland and threatening to cut off access to the Monterey Peninsula. Several levees have broken along the banks of the Salinas River, located just south of the Bay Area, with footage of the destruction going viral on Friday morning. So much water is pouring out of the basin that the entirety of the Monterey Peninsula risks being cut off entirely from road access, NBC News reported.

It’s 2028. Our non-binary Emporer/Empress Kamala Harris has outlawed guns, meat, combustible engines, gas stoves, and testicles. Americans are starving except for those lucky enough to live in the Great Plains states, where federally-sanctioned locusts are mercifully plentiful this year. The Billboard # 1 song is “I’m dreaming of a Diverse Christmas” for three years straight until Christmas is outlawed. Auto insurance and driver’s licenses have been banned so as not to offend those who prefer to drive without them. Thankfully, a quick scan of the chip in your head will tell the ESG police everything they need to know...

Some Freepers will find this uplifting. Some will probably not like it.I found it to have a very positive kick at the end.I would tell you what it's about but it would spoil the ending. And it's only 30 src.

U.S. — Male M&M's everywhere rejoiced after the announcement by Mars, Inc. that the female M&M's are getting their own bag. The male M&M's hope this change will finally give them some much sought-after peace and quiet. According to sources, the red, yellow, blue, and orange M&M's are hoping this means they can finally get a little rest and relaxation, lounge around all day, and just hang out with the bros without being nagged to death. "Yeah! Um, 'Empowered Women Empower Women' or whatever it is, right guys?!" said the Red M&M. "It's more important than ever to support women...

He’s going from one big house to another. A failed lawyer and movie executive from Florida has been sentenced to 8½ years in prison for stealing $7.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds, which he used to buy luxury cars and a 12,500-square-foot mansion on a 12-acre estate. Don Cisternino, 47, of Chuluota, Fla., pleaded guilty in September in federal court in Orlando to wire-fraud and identity-theft charges for the scam in which he submitted applications for pandemic aid programs. Cisternino claimed he had a film and theater production and marketing business that had 441 employees, when in reality it had...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) issued a joint statement Friday calling on Congress to avoid a potential default “forced by extreme MAGA Republicans,” the opening salvo in what will be a months-long battle over raising the federal debt limit. Lawmakers in both parties predict the Democratic-controlled White House and Senate are headed for a showdown with newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the debt limit after McCarthy pledged to House conservatives last week to attach spending reforms to debt limit legislation. Schumer and Jeffries called on Republicans to move quickly on...