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A son and mother found shot to death on their Lowcountry property. News of the deaths of Paul Murdaugh, 22, and Maggie Murdaugh, 52, has led to national headlines. Not only for the mystery surrounding their murders but for the ties to other death investigations in the area: Stephen Smith in 2015, Gloria Satterfield in 2018 and Mallory Beach in 2019. 1920-2005: For three generations, members of the Murdaugh family serve as the South Carolina 14th circuit solicitor, the top prosecutor representing Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale and Colleton counties. July 8, 2015: Stephen Smith, 19, is found dead on Sandy...

WHERE'S HIS PARENTS? GEN Z IS ******! Freepers I came across this video, don't know this youtuber. Some punk kid, about 13 years old (?), won't let an adult pass at a park somewhere. Then the kid starts hitting the man. So the man knocks him to the ground and the kid cries like a bitch. "This is gold bro" Where are his parents?

Turkey has been hit by a second massive earthquake, hours after an earlier catastrophic quake devastated the region and killed more than 1,700 people. The 7.8-magnitude night-time tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the civil war in Syria and other conflicts. The later 7.5 magnitude quake struck at 1.24pm (1024 GMT) two-and-a-half miles southeast of the town of Ekinozu and around 60 miles north of the first quake that has wrought devastation across Turkey and Syria. Hundreds are...

A Chinese spy balloon crashed into the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii four months ago, U.S. officials say. Fox News has also learned that at least one Chinese spy balloon flew over portions of Texas and Florida during the Trump administration, despite the former president's insistence it never happened. The White House said that Biden followed the advice of the Pentagon and top military leaders not to shoot the craft down over the U.S. in case it caused civilian casualties and other collateral damage. Biden administration officials claimed that Chinese surveillance balloons also briefly transited the continental U.S. at...

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake at 6:15 a.m. centered on the northeastern edge of West Seneca, near the Lackawanna border. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said shortly after 6:30 a.m. that he had spoken with his county emergency services department and confirmed the initial reports showed the quake had been "felt as far north as Niagara Falls and as south as Orchard Park." Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told WBEN Radio that no injuries have been reported. “It was a heavy vibration that shook the whole house. It was crazy,” said Jim LiPuma of Academy Road.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern province of Kahramanmaraş, claiming the lives of at least 1014 people and injuring more than 5,000 others, while tremors were also in nine other provinces in the country. The magnitude 7.7 quake struck 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) below the surface in Kahramanmaraş’s Pazarcık district on Feb. 6 at 4:17 a.m., according to Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD). After multiple large and small tremors, another 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaraş at 1:26 p.m. Many buildings damaged in the first major earthquake collapsed by the impact of the second major earthquake. The...

ADANA, TURKEY — An earthquake rattled this southern city Saturday, killing at least 108 people and injuring about 1,000, including several Americans at a military base, officials said. Among those killed in the magnitude 6.2 quake were 37 people who lived in the slums of Adana, a city of 1 million, said Deputy Gov. Ardahan Totuk. At least 30 people were reported dead in the nearby town of Ceyhan, site of an oil terminal, the Anatolia news agency said. It was not clear whether the oil pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey had suffered any damage. State radio said 108 people...

That’s what great powers do, so get used to it ... Consider this: The Chinese military has operated such endoatmospheric satellites over the hotly contested South China Sea for years. These balloons are cheap but effective tools for surveillance– and targeting. They are used by China to track US Navy warships transiting the South China Sea. The surveillance equipment is provided by China’s major technology firm Huawei. To protect its own wounded political image at home, the Biden Administration has since released information that China launched three similar balloons into the United States during the Trump administration and the forty-fifth...

One state even wants to make it a felony to fight voter fraud. But the technology to expose the bad guys isn't going away. The narrative about "free, safe, secure elections" changed 180 degrees since November 2022. Almost nobody is crazy enough to say America has free, fair elections. After Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, the most wimpish George Bush RINO hesitates to say "elections are fair." Since our team processed billions of election roll "snapshots" taken since 2020, we run the largest election database in the world. We concluded that U.S. elections are rigged by both parties, and they...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 2Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were...

We have files of Richmond and other Southern papers to the 3d inst. The Richmond papers of the 3d give an account of the affair off Charleston harbor, which is essentially the same as that already published, but with this addition: RICHMOND, Saturday, Jan. 31. The Secretary of State has notified the British and French Consuls of this city that he has received official information of the opening of the blockade off Charleston. "We also learn," says the editor of the Dispatch, "that a steamer was dispatched from Charleston, after the raising of the blockade, to Nassau, to convey to...

China’s exports to Southeast Asia jumped by 20% in 2022, despite a year-on-year decline in China’s total exports driven by a 19% drop in exports to the US and a 17% drop in exports to the European Union. Southeast Asia’s 700 million people stand at the cusp of an economic transformation comparable to the rise of the “Asian Tigers” – Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore – during the 1980s and 1990s. China’s leading position in digital as well as physical infrastructure has created a natural economic partnership with Southeast Asia, which represents a vast pool of young workers to replace...

Influence by the CCP and its functionaries must be pushed out of the darkness and into the light. Democrats and neocons proclaim that Russia represents the primary geopolitical threat to American interests. They are wrong. In fact, it is China that has demonstrated its blatant willingness to manipulate the American psyche through direct intervention of the American media. Much of China’s power is exerted in the shadows, through subversion and infiltration. Still, they are also mastering the art of lawfare and the use of frivolous legal threats to enact their agenda of silencing opponents and quashing harmful information. The Chinese...

In Ada, Oklahoma, at about 9 p.m. on December 31, 2022, a few hours before the new year, Jassmone Ashton was minding his own business outside the Sunset Market Valero gas/convenience establishment. Jassmone had filed a protective order against Denavarie Brooks in 2021. Jassmone is 35 years old. Denavarie Brooks was 37 years old. It is not clear what the issues between them were. According to police, who did a 10-day investigation and intensely examined surveillance video, Jassmone was pumping gas at the Valero store before the shooting. From the prosecutor, District Attorney Erik Johnson:“It’s obvious by watching the video...

There’s a new abortion service coming soon to New Mexico, but don’t expect to see Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the grand opening. The Satanic Temple is planning to open a telehealth clinic staffed by medical professionals, including former Planned Parenthood employees, offering prescriptions for abortion pills free of charge for those willing to perform the organization’s spoken-word “abortion ritual.” The specter of Satanists getting into the abortion business sounds like something ripped from the pages of the Babylon Bee, but Erin Helian, the Satanic Temple’s “religious reproductive rights director,” insists that the project isn’t satire.

Are the borders of country 5,000 miles away more sacrosanct and more worth taking existential risks than our own airspace and southern border? One of the strangest things about the American response to Ukraine has been the willingness of the Left and the establishment Right to discount completely that the war is heading toward a rendezvous with ever-deadlier weapons and staggering fatalities—even as we witness increasing nuclear threats from a weakened and adrift Vladimir Putin. They insist that Putin is merely saber-rattling. And he might be. Supposedly, in his diminished and discredited state, Putin would not dare to set off...

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6 February 2023Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs on Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time 26 Martyrs Nagasaki Museum and Monument Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingGenesis 1:1-19 ©God saw that it was goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from...

Me: In a hypothetical scenario in which everyone on the planet died tomorrow with the exception of all the climate scientists who continued to gain access current and historical temperature data, would they have any idea how the climate of the planet would continue to trend? If your answer is that they would be unable to do so, how can you be so certain that they can accurately predict future climate trends with 7.8 billion living people on the planet? OpenAI: Climate scientists use models to make predictions about future climate trends based on multiple factors, including historical temperature data,...

n a recent addition to the “Twitter Files,” Matt Taibbi revealed to the public how Twitter — the preferred social media platform of politicians, academics, and journalists — co-opted the algorithmic blacklist of a bipartisan neoliberal propaganda outfit known as Hamilton 68. Hamilton 68 was a digital dashboard that, as my colleague Emily Jashinsky recently discussed, was used to perpetuate and mainstream the myth of Russian interference in American politics through algorithmic censorship and suppression. But it wasn’t just egghead professors, left-wing activist journalists, and the tragically narcissistic (Adam Schiff) who perpetuated the thoroughly repudiated lie that Russia determined the...