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Police in the village of Robbins, which is southwest of Chicago, announced that no charges have been filed against three teenagers who stole a Kia in February and then crashed it into 70-year-old Donald Carter’s car, killing him. Carter’s family has been outraged that no charges have been forthcoming against the teenagers. Robbins Mayor Darren Bryant fired Police Chief David Sheppard in April following the incident after the chief repeatedly questioned behavior coming from the mayor’s office, according to The Southland Journal. According to the Chicago Tribune, Sheppard said he believed that his questioning of directions he received from Bryant...

... A Once-in-a-Century FigureTrump vs DeSantis has long been billed as a battle between heavyweights. But is that putting too much expectation on the Florida governor?... The polls show the hill DeSantis has to climb.Right now, RealClearPolitics polling averages show Trump with a massive 37% lead over DeSantis, sitting at 56.3% support of GOP voters. DeSantis has dropped to 19.4%, Pence at 5.6%, Nikki Haley at 4.3%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 3.6% and Sen. Tim Scott at 1.8. (The poll period was from 4/21 to 5/18, before Scott’s announcement.)Which gets to our major point:DeSantis Has to Win the Not-Trump Position FirstDeSantis’s...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Welcome Aboard! Future service members participate in a swearing in ceremony held during the 2023 Wings Over Wayne air show at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, May 21, 2023. The Wings over Wayne Air Show and Science and Technology Expo is a biennial event and has grown to be the largest free air show in North Carolina. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Leighton Lucero) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring...

Bucking the trend of other reliably red states adopting restrictions on young transgender people, a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee voted Wednesday to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Proponents of Louisiana’s failed bill, which would have prohibited hormone treatments, gender-affirming surgery or puberty-blocking drugs for any transgender minor, say they fear that the state could draw minors from surrounding states — where there are bans — seeking gender-affirming health care. Those in Louisiana’s LGBTQ+ community say gender-affirming care in the state is not as easily accessible as conservatives make it seem. The...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh police said that a student was shot and killed by another student near the front steps of Oliver Citywide Academy on Wednesday morning. Officials said the victim is 15-year-old Derrick Harris while 15-year-old Jamier Perry is in custody. Perry is facing homicide and gun charges. He is in the Allegheny County Jail. Pittsburgh Police Commander Richard Ford said the shooting happened just before 7:30 a.m. as students made their way to school. They then received a ShotSpotter alert for at least 11 rounds fired. Police said as they were helping the victim, they saw a juvenile...

U.S. officials reportedly believe that Ukraine was likely behind the failed drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month, along with a number of other killings and incursions on Russian territory. Intelligence officials do not know which unit was behind the drone attack, and it’s unclear if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky knew about it beforehand, The New York Times reported.

The town manager wants a review of how the state police handled a street takeover last weekend when officials say as many as 200 people drove recklessly, blocked an ambulance and surrounded, kicked and jumped on a woman's car. Connecticut State Police troopers were aware of at least three takeovers that occurred Sunday night and watched as the car stunts were pulled off in Vernon, Manchester and Tolland, according to a report obtained Tuesday by Hearst Connecticut Media Group. ... The Mustang, whose driver state police later identified as Duron, left the Vernon lot and headed farther east to Route...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, and currently serves as the show’s Economic Analyst, acknowledged that, according to estimates by both the government and the private sector, the green provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act are going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars more than originally estimated.

The entire beer industry is floored that Bud Light is still taking heat over its now-infamous promo with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and the backlash has put rival beers in high demand, according to the publisher of prominent trade publication Beer Business Daily. "The whole industry is in shock. Even Bud's competitors aren't really dancing on the grave because they know it could have happened to them," Beer Business Daily editor and publisher Harry Schuhmacher told Fox News Digital. "This particular promotion just really struck a chord. It was just a bridge too far, apparently, for consumers… we’re in week...

Respected Portuguese media outlet Expresso has reported the search operation is taking place following a tip from a 'very credible' German police informer, it was claimed today. The informant gave detectives 'details' they took 'very seriously,' it said. Who is Christian Brueckner? The prime Madeleine Mccann suspect The disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the popular holiday resort in Portugal's Algarve has confounded detectives for more than 16 years. No one has ever been charged in connection with the disappearance of Maddie, who would now be almost 20. However, German prosecutors believe they have an answer to the 16-year-old mystery: convicted...

The Planned Parenthood abortion business will fire approximately 15% of its staff nationwide as more states pass laws protecting babies from abortion. Nearly one year after the Dobbs decision allowed states to legally protect unborn children, Planned Parenthood officials say they’re preparing to restructure the organization’s national office and lay off dozens of staff members. About 80 people are expected to be let go as Planned Parenthood cuts 10 to 20% of its employees. America’s biggest abortion business says it’s going to focus more on helping its local affiliates and more on telehealth – which likely means pushing the dangerous...

Chronic wounds are open sores or injured tissue that fail to heal properly. These types of wounds are notoriously challenging to treat because of bacterial infections like Staphylococcus aureus, or S. aureus. To defend itself from our immune system, S. aureus can band together, creating a slick, slimy forcefield—or biofilm—around itself. The biofilm barrier is so thick that neither immune cells nor antibiotics can penetrate through and neutralize the harmful bacteria. Researchers have developed a method that combines palmitoleic acid, gentamicin, and non-invasive ultrasound to help improve drug delivery in chronic wounds infected with S. aureus. Using their strategy, researchers...

America's biggest children's hospital has announced plans to halt its gender reassignment treatment for children as the deadline to comply with a new Texas law looms and damaging claims from whistleblowers emerge. Mark Wallace, CEO of Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), on Wednesday wrote in an internal hospital memo that it would stop prescribing hormones to minors and help them get gender-affirming care, as it is known, across state lines. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the Houston-based facility, saying puberty blockers and other trans 'medical experiments' violated state rules. A whistleblower claims the hospital was...

Despite ongoing customer boycotts against Bud Light and a new controversy with Target’s latest Pride Month push, outdoor sports gear brand The North Face just debuted an over-the-top “Summer of Pride” promotion on social media. As of Wednesday afternoon, Instagram comments were still turned on for the post. The video clip features drag queen and self-described environmentalist and community organizer Pattie Gonia. The influencer co-founded the non-profit organization The Outdoorist Oath The video promo boasted that the event “Summer of Pride” would include “hiking, community, art, lesbians” and “lesbians making art.” The company sponsored the same event last summer in...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement was mired by repeated technical glitches on Twitter Wednesday evening, in a black eye for the social media platform. The highly-anticipated announcement, set to be made via a conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks on Twitter's "Spaces" feature, was delayed as it appeared the platform was overwhelmed. Twitter's mobile app repeatedly crashed and users complained that they were unable to hear the broadcast. Whoops! We couldn't access this Tweet. Nearly 700,000 users logged in to hear the announcement roughly 20 minutes after it was launched. The event...

To be a black, Hispanic female, social justice warrior professor is to sit pretty close to the top of the victimhood pyramid. (She just needs be a disabled lesbian to hit for the cycle.) Given those exalted victimhood credentials, you have to wonder: How bad would her transgression have to be to get her fired?Well, we now have an answer! You have to hold a machete against a reporter’s neck on camera.We’ve found the line!The manic Manhattan college professor who threatened a Post reporter with a machete has been fired, the school said Tuesday — as it emerged she is...

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday threatening Wray with being held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over a subpoenaed FBI form FD-1023 that a whistleblower claims documents intelligence that then Vice President Biden took a cash bribe from a foreign national in exchange for favorable policy decisions. Comer expressed dissatisfaction with Wray’s response so far and gave a May 30 deadline to comply with the subpoena. Comer dropped two bombshell’s in Tuesday’s letter. In discussing the FBI’s complaint that the search terms for...

In an effort to delay or possibly even reverse decrepitude, 45-year-old tech mogul Bryan Johnson has tapped his son's veins. Johnson sold his digital payments company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, then started the brain-machine interface company Kernel. The technologist's millions reportedly did not bring him peace. Instead, he was left depressed, bordering on suicidal, haunted by the inevitability that the march of progress would one day leave him behind. TheBlaze reported earlier this year that Johnson had assembled a team of 30 doctors and was poised to spend $2 million a year on his body, admitting,...

A secret recording of a George Soros-backed, Northern Virginia prosecutor captured her railing against efforts to oust school board members following a rape coverup scandal, even though she insisted in court she was unbiased and capable of overseeing the recalls. Loudoun County prosecutor Buta Biberaj is heard on the recording blasting conservative activists who collected signatures to trigger a process in which the prosecutor is supposed to make the case to a judge that a politician should be removed. Parents believed that the far-Left prosecutor would deliberately botch the recall if she were in charge of it. The recording leave...