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A 20-year-old man convicted in a Minnesota court of criminal intercourse with two girls, aged four and nine, will spend a maximum of 176 days in jail. Mohamed Bakari Shei entered a type of plea allowed under Minnesota law in December 2022 that maintains his innocence while acknowledging the evidence against him would lead to a conviction by a jury if the case went to trial. ... Mohamed Bakari Shei, 20, of Rochester was convicted of raping two girls ages approximately 4 and 8 years old when the abuse began. Charges say the sexual assaults occurred multiple times. He was...

Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC's upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations. The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.

The 2023 Pro Bowl introduced a new format that eliminated the traditional tackle football all-star game that we’ve seen in years past. With players putting forth only a marginal effort and so many players opting out in the name of health and safety, the Pro Bowl simply hasn’t meant what it did in years past. The NFL’s attempt at fixing this event featured skills challenges for several major position groups on Thursday night, then capped things off Sunday with three flag football games coached by the Manning brothers and a few more skills competitions. Yesterday, Chris asked if you guys...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding records related to the CDC’s “self-assessment tool” urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to advocate LGBT causes in school. “It’s abhorrent that federal tax dollars are going to pay for a dangerous ideology that experiments on children and undermines the rights of parents, the vast majority of whom do not support this agenda,” Ian Prior, senior adviser at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.

Wyoming continues to be the fossil-fuel burr in President Joe Biden’s green energy saddle. Last week, according to Politico, state officials in Wyoming dismissed the Biden administration’s plan to build charging stations for electric vehicles because so few state residents actually own EVs.

The bill passed with 43 "yeas" and only 15 "nays.".. The Canadian Senate on Thursday voted to pass online censorship Bill C-11, sending the controversial piece of legislation back to the House of Commons and one step closer to becoming law. ... The text of the bill describes the plan by Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party to increase the government's ability to censor controversial and unpopular speech on the internet, stating that the legislation would "specify that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission… must regulate and supervise the Canadian broadcasting system." ... the OSA will empower the CRTC to assume jurisdiction...

"Turn on your Heart Light" My proximity to you is an eternal embrace so let go of your life for it is in my hand and your destiny is everlasting as long as you love to forgive with a true heart found only through me for my love is the window to your peace and joy found in the power of Virtue for holiness must be the voice in your mind perpetually to see as I see and hear The Shepherd of your heart light !

Documents provided to UncoverDC from a whistleblower at the FBI reveal that the Bureau has combined the “Insider Threat” annual training module with the “Whistleblower” training module. This is as the Bureau takes further actions against legally recognized whistleblowers who have provided protected disclosures to Congress. Bureau sources tell UncoverDC that this is the first time FBI training has combined the two modules. It is perceived as a subtle but unmistakable sign from the FBI that protected whistleblower disclosures are considered in tandem with Insider Threat actions. “Unauthorized Disclosure” is now listed on the wheel of potential insider threats, something...

Henrietta, N.Y. — In response to the numerous thefts of Kias and Hyundais, both in our area and nationwide, Rep. Joe Morelle sent a letter to those car manufacturers demanding action. A quick guide on how to steal a Kia or Hyundai through viral TikTok challenges is what jumpstarted this trend. The target audience for these challenges, is children and teens -- and this is starting to raise some concerns among lawmakers. According to the Rochester Police Department, 116 of the first 168 cars stolen in 2023 were manufactured by Kia or Hyundai. Certain models of those cars more vulnerable...

Around 4 in 10 Americans in a new poll feel the state of the U.S. union is strong ahead of President Biden’s annual address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. A Monmouth University poll found just 39 percent of Americans think the union is strong, down from 46 percent who said the same in March of last year. Of this year’s 39 percent, just 7 percent think the union is “very strong,” while the rest say it’s “somewhat strong.” Democrats view the union under Biden more positively than Republicans, who felt more favorably when former President Trump held...

Xi Jinping has established dominance over Joe Biden and all it took was a balloon. China sent a highly sophisticated maneuverable surveillance balloon sailing over the United States. It crossed into US airspace over Alaska on January 28th, crossed into Canada and then back over the US, pausing over a number of US military installations. Joe Biden says he was notified on Jan 28th but he waited until Wednesday the 1st to order it shot down, but it was not until the 4th that the balloon was shot down. The balloon was taken down in international waters, resulting in a...

Americans think President Joe Biden has not accomplished much during the first two years of his presidency, the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll states a day before he is set to deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. With the looming State of the Union speech this week, the poll found that a majority of Americans, 62 percent, think Biden has accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing” as he passes the two-year mark of his presidency. In comparison, 36 percent of the respondents say Biden has accomplished “a great deal” or “a good amount.”...

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A higher percentage of women agreed Canada is broken than did men, and more in the youngest age brackets than among the oldestA majority of Canadians looking at the country they see around them say everything seems to be broken. Concerned about rising costs, the state of health care, affordable housing, jobs and more, half of us are also angry about the way Canada is being run, a national opinion poll says. But before settling on the easy image of old, malcontent men skewing the survey, consider this: A higher percentage of women agreed Canada is broken than did men,...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Biden administration's slow response to a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States is the latest example of failing to do "the simple things to protect the country." Pompeo, considered a potential contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, appeared on Hugh Hewitt's podcast on Monday and was asked if he had been "amazed at the incompetence" of President Joe Biden's team in dealing with the balloon. "I am but we've seen this," Pompeo told Hewitt. "This isn't the first demonstration of the inability to do the simple things to...

(snip) Waltz then dropped this bomb. Rep. Waltz said that General Mattis was Secretary of Defense at the time and decided not to inform President Trump because the Pentagon thought Trump was “too provocative and aggressive!” (snip)

In September 2021, the CDC held a meeting discussing the potential to track the unvaccinated. See video.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office officials in Baltimore announced they had arrested two individuals, a man and a woman, with extremist views who were allegedly attempting to attack the power grid in Maryland. FBI officials told reporters they believe this was a "real threat" that had been thwarted. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, of Orlando, Florida, are charged through a federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, and Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski, of the FBI Baltimore...

Daniel O’Donnell Left Heartbroken After Sudden Death of His Sister Kathleen (Can only be posted, per FR rules)

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Local officials in East Palestine, Ohio, have ordered roughly 2,000 residents, about half the town's population, to evacuate their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire. Gov. Mike DeWine urged all residents living within a mile of the derailment to evacuate "immediately" Sunday night, "due to the potential of a major explosion."