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A 22-year-old suspect named Zion William Teasley has been arrested for allegedly murdering Lauren Heike, a young woman who was living in Scottsdale, Arizona. The suspected killer was taken into custody at 6:30 pm on Thursday less than a mile from the location of the murder. His residence was reportedly not far from the trail where Heike's corpse was discovered. Now, new details stemming from a police investigation have revealed that upon seeing a picture of the now-deceased woman, Teasley indicated that he “wanted to look like her," according to AZ Family. He also spoke about being raised as a...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. -- A huge turtle and a man trying to be a hero caused a multi-car crash in Florida on Tuesday, according to Walton County Sheriff's Office. It happened around 6:45 in the morning on Highway 331 in the Florida Panhandle. Dash camera from an 18-wheeler caught the whole thing on video. The 18-wheeler is driving down the divided four-lane highway when it quickly comes up on several stopped and slowing cars. The 18-wheeler cannot stop in time. It veers off the side of the road and then back onto the road where it collides with several of...

The Bilderberg Group, a notoriously shadowy organization with a membership roster that includes some of the world’s most powerful and influential people, are convening their annual meetings this weekend in Lisbon, Portugal. Oddly enough, there is a complete media blackout in the corporate press surrounding the upcoming conference, despite the significant geopolitical ramifications attached to its members and the agenda items being discussed. Your humble correspondent still cannot find a single story previewing the Bilderberg meetings in the corporate media. If you’re familiar with the World Economic Forum’s annual closed-door, invite-only Davos confab, then you can get a sense of...

ransgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney's partnership with Bud Light has catapulted company partnerships into the limelight, and Rose Montoya, a Latinx transgender influencer, thinks the furor could explain why some brands are rethinking partnerships leading up to Pride month. Mulvaney became the subject of widespread criticism after Bud Light sent her a commemorative can with her face on it to celebrate her one-year anniversary of transitioning to a woman. Anheuser-Busch's stock dropped in the wake of the boycott and the company has seen a decline in Bud Light sales, forcing the company to part ways with several executives and walk back...

A new Starbucks India campaign featuring a trans model has caused a stir among social media users worldwide. The two-minute ad, titled “#ItStartsWithYourName,” depicts a Hindi-speaking family meeting at a Starbucks to reconcile a father’s strained relationship with his trans daughter. After brief tension, the man shows his acceptance of his daughter by ordering coffees for everyone under her new name, “Arpita.” “For me, you are still my kid,” the dad says in the ad, translated to English in subtitles. “Only a letter has been added to your name.” The ad has been viewed online millions of times since its...

“Congratulations to a ‘star’ in Kentucky, Danial Cameron, who easily won the Republican Nomination for Governor. He had my Complete and Total Endorsement. The DeSanctimonious backed candidate came in a DISTANT third,” Trump said the morning after Election Day. “Ron’s magic is GONE! He also lost, shockingly, in Jacksonville last night (Mayor),” he added

WASHINGTON — The limping conclusion to John Durham’s four-year investigation of the Russia inquiry underscores a recurring dilemma in U.S. government: how to shield sensitive law enforcement investigations from politics without creating prosecutors who can run amok, never to be held to account. At a time when special counsels are proliferating — there have been four since 2017, two of whom are still at work — the much-hyped investigation by Durham, a special counsel, into the Russia inquiry ended with a whimper that stood in contrast to the countless hours of political furor that spun off from it. Durham delivered...

SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER John 16:12–15Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to guide the Church through time. “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.”Since Jesus is the Son is God, it is impossible for us adequately to interpret him through our own powers of perception. We require a divine pedagogue through which the speech of the Father is to be understood. This is the advocate we call the Holy Spirit.The words of today’s Gospel...

In a week which saw news of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plan to blow up Hungary’s main oil pipeline, a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament took to the airwaves to denounce a campaign of “show trials” by the European Union – against the pro-family country. Speaking to Hungarian outlet Kossuth Radio on March 15, Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said that the EU’s Commission was colluding with left-wing pressure groups in withholding EU development funds from Hungary. “I trust that the Commission will not maintain this unlawful state,” Deutsch told Kossuth Radio, summarizing a perception that “We, Hungarians, have had to...

Thousands of patients are facing delays in getting treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, with drug shortages in the United States approaching record levels. Hospitals are scouring shelves for supplies of a drug that reverses lead poisoning and for a sterile fluid needed to stop the heart for bypass surgery. Some antibiotics are still scarce following the winter flu season when doctors and patients frantically chased medicines for ailments like strep throat. Even children’s Tylenol was hard to find. Hundreds of drugs are on the list of medications in short supply in the United States, as officials grapple with...

We can change this by addressing the pay gap between child and adult medicineA photo of a female pediatrician looking at her laptop while a mother and son sit on the examination table. "Don't waste all that schooling on being a pediatrician. Pick a specialty that will actually pay back your loans." This is something future physicians hear all the time. Pediatricians have an average earning potential 25% loweropens in a new tab or window than their adult physician counterparts. Choosing pediatric medicine over adult medicine is an objectively poor financial decision, especially for students who are financing their education...

"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Revelation, Chapter 5 1 And I saw in the right...

Floods caused by the annual rains have left "a trail of destruction" across Somalia, a United Nations spokesman said, citing inundated homes and farmland as well as the shutdown of health facilities. "According to early estimates by our partners, more than 460,000 people have been impacted, including nearly 219,000 men, women and children who have been displaced due to this (flooding)," Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. At least five people, including three children, have been killed in the flooding, Mohamed Moalim of the Somalia National Disaster Management Agency told The Associated Press.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is notorious for running a top-down operation, consulting on key matters with only a small, select group, including his wife. But as he tries to launch a presidential campaign amid weeks of bad headlines, flagging poll numbers and donors’ threatening to jump ship, his campaign-in-waiting is acknowledging that the closed-off practice isn’t working so well. Behind the scenes, aides are reassuring supporters that DeSantis’ circle of advisers is expanding to add more operatives with presidential campaign experience — and that DeSantis is listening to them, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. “Before,...

The Donald Trump-backed Daniel Cameron offered questionable praise for the former president after winning Kentucky’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.) After thanking Trump for his endorsement, Cameron said: “Let me just say the Trump culture of winning is alive and well in Kentucky.” Cameron’s glowing praise of Trump as a winner doesn’t hold up in the big picture.

6 Freshly Documented Instances Of Systemic Pro-Democrat FBI CorruptionThe Durham report contains more evidence that high-level federal intelligence officials see it as routine to put powerful Democrats above the law.Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann and others lied to the nation about the special counsel report released Monday that deeply documents years of systemic FBI corruption in favor of the Democratic Party. That report reveals and adds detail to multiple instances in which FBI employees used high-level intelligence and law-enforcement positions to promote misinformation that affected at least two presidential elections, always on behalf of Democrats.Special Counsel John Durham’s report...

Anheuser-Busch is reportedly planning a temporary packaging redesign for some Budweiser and Bud Light products, as the brands continue to suffer lagging sales in the wake of the company's controversial partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. A temporary redesign for aluminum bottles of Bud and Bud Light will feature a camouflage print in tribute to the 'Folds of Honor' charity, which provides scholarships to the children of fallen and disabled service members and first responders, a source told the New York Post. The plan was reportedly unveiled during a meeting last week at Anheuser-Busch's US headquarters in St. Louis, where executives briefed...

Republicans are blasting President Biden for leaving Washington for Asia on Wednesday without significant progress on debt limit negotiations, as the country inches toward a deadline on defaulting that could prove catastrophic on the financial system. Biden will be in Japan for this weekend’s Group of Seven (G-7) summit but has canceled the latter portion of his trip, which included stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia, to be back in the nation’s capital and resume talks with congressional leaders.

Miller Lite has hit back after the brewing giant was criticized for apologizing over its history of using bikini-clad women in their adverts. Molson Coors, which owns Miller Lite, was quick to defend its latest one-minute-and-30-second advertisement with comedian Ilana Glazer – with the tagline 'Bad $#!T to Good $#!T' The company released the campaign for Women's History Month in March, in which it bought up old marketing materials to turn them into compost, which could then be used to make fertilizer. But the footage has resurfaced and was criticized in the wake of Bud Light's disastrous campaign with trans...

Notre-Dame Cathedral reconstruction on track, French youth rebuild wayside "Calvaries" Deo Gratias!Remember where you were when you learned that Notre-Dame was in flames? Since then, a massive reconstruction project has been underway and is apparently on schedule. The head of the construction site, ex-general Jean-Louis Georgelin, sees great progress in construction:"Thanks to strict planning, we are confident and determined to make the Paris cathedral open to worship and the public again in December 2024."Examinations of the building's infrastructure have shown that the cathedral's walls have remained stable despite the major fire, as have most of the vaults. The stained glass...