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The mother of the Oklahoma girl who fatally stabbed her younger brother to death earlier this year in a “demonic” rage said the pre-teen “never had behavioral issues” in the past and blamed the attack on the effects of medication. Heartbroken mother April Lyda shared an update about the family this week after her 12-year-old daughter, whose name has not been shared publicly, stabbed her brother, Zander, 9, in the chest on Jan. 5 at the family’s home in Tulsa’s St. Thomas Square neighborhood. The siblings “loved each other and always got along until the very end,” she wrote on...

An Oklahoma parent is suing her school district after her 15-year-old daughter was “severely beaten” in the school bathroom by a 17-year-old transgender student. The lawsuit, which was filed on May 25 by the victim’s mother Theresa Gooden, states that the attack occurred at Edmond Memorial High School on October 26, 2022. It alleges that the transgender student had “made previous threats of violence” against the victim and had previously been searched for weapons by police following these threats. In the police report filed after the bathroom assault, the transgender student is referred to as student “A” and the victim...

A group of African American academics is pushing for a UN 'reparations tribunal' to make Washington pay multimillion dollar sums to black citizens for slavery-era abuses, DailyMail.com can reveal. Justin Hansford, a professor at Howard University School of Law, led the charge for $5 million payouts to black Americans at the UN this week, flanked by colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

What you eat and how your body uses the nutrients in your food also matters to mental health. A growing amount of research suggests that one key nutrient—iron—plays an important role. People with mental health conditions may specifically want to ask their doctor or other health provider to order a blood test that measures their iron levels in a particular way. If the result on that test—called a ferritin test—is low, it's important to increase iron in the diet. In addition to its well-known role in helping red blood cells perform the critical function of ferrying oxygen around the body,...

A British team has reported hitting a major milestone...heating a nuclear reactor to the "magic figure" of 100 million degrees Celsius...The British company achieved the milestone using a "spherical tokamak" called ST40...Due to its design, the ST40 is "compact" – less than three feet across – and reaches around 13 feet in height.

Russia’s shadow army boss has apparently made himself a new enemy as he continues to vent frustrations with the country’s fledgling war effort: the Chechens. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s henchman is now demanding a face-to-face meeting with Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Magomed Daudov, the chairman of the Chechen Parliament, tore into Prigozhin in a video shared on Telegram on Thursday. “You don’t need the details of our missions. The command knows,” Daudov said, apparently in reference to Prigozhin downplaying the role of Chechen battalions sent to the Donbas to replace Wagner. “Our fighters also have problems, but that doesn’t...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading an 18-state lawsuit against the Biden administration over its handling of the border crisis. The lawsuit specifically focuses on a new policy called the “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways,” which the Department of Homeland Security says intends to “expand safe and orderly pathways for migrants to lawfully enter the United States.” The rule was put in place following the expiration of Title 42 in early May and led to a massive influx at the southern border that the Biden administration has struggled to contain. The lawsuit argues that the policy, which is also referred...

Police investigating burning of a Pride flag (4"x6") at an elementary school as a hate crimeNBC News OUT reports that Los Angeles School Police will be providing additional patrols around the elementary school as they continue the ongoing investigation of the burning of a Pride flag at the school.Antonio Planas and Colin Sheeley report:A spokesperson for Los Angeles Police said Wednesday the incident is being investigated as a “vandalism hate crime.”Alan Hamilton, a deputy chief with the LAPD’s Valley Bureau, said in a statement Wednesday that the Pride flag was in a potted plant.“There was a small potted plant that...

In their 2010 sunshine pop song “San Francisco,” The Mowgli’s declared that they lost their heads in San Francisco. Now, it seems like San Francisco Travel has joined them, but in an unromantic and oblivious way. The tourism organization released an ad begging for tourists who're understandably avoiding the city because of its woke policies and their consequences to come back. Their strategy? Displaying how wonderfully woke the city truly is. “Always San Francisco” features, among other things, a dancing drag queen and a man in a wheelchair pretending to be a woman. The ad has gotten plenty of backlash...

A video posted on social networks shows a person carrying a military-grade grenade launcher during a checkpoint in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The weapon, which is only sold to armies and has been widely used during the invasion of Ukraine, was in the hands of a hitman from Los Escorpiones, a cell of the Gulf cartel, which operates in Reynosa. These are weapons that cost between $20,000 and $60,000 on the black market , with shots that can cost approximately $30,000 per ammunition and require specialized training to operate. The armed civilian who boasts an embroidered emblem of Los Escorpiones, in addition...

A Florida federal jury on Thursday found a Miami city commissioner liable for $65.3 million in damages over using his office and government resources to systematically target a pair of business owners after they supported a political opponent during a runoff election in 2017. The jury handed down its verdict in Fort Lauderdale after deliberating since Wednesday afternoon, finding Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo liable for using his office to target businesses associated with Little Havana developers William Fuller and Martin Pinilla II after supporting Carollo's opponent while running for the District 3 position in November 2017. Carollo, who previously...

Whether we agree with the rules around guns or not, we have to decide whether we’re going to follow them or whether we’re going to do no such thing. For some, they’re more than willing to be a test case for challenging gun laws. For others, not so much. Then there’s Hunter Biden. For him, it sure looked like he didn’t care about the laws on the books in pretty much any way, but particularly for the laws regarding the ownership of firearms by habitual drug users. And now he’s facing potential charges for violating that law, as is only...

Researchers have investigated how junk food affects sleep. Healthy participants consumed an unhealthier as well as a healthier diet in a randomized order. After the unhealthier diet, the quality of participants' deep sleep had deteriorated, compared with those who had followed the healthier diet. Each study session involved several days of monitoring in a sleep laboratory. In random order, participants were given both a healthier diet and an unhealthier diet. Among other things, the unhealthier diet contained a higher content of sugar and saturated fat and more processed food items. The meals of each diet had to be consumed at...

Kayleigh McEnany was a Never Trumper and open borders supporter during her time working for CNN.Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany backed open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens on CNN in 2015, telling Don Lemon that illegals are “here to stay” and that deportation is “not the American way” as she bashed the border hawk policies of then-candidate Donald Trump.Kayleigh McEnany served as a token Republican on CNN before her time with the Trump White House and took up the mantle of Never Trumpism and Koch Brothers-style open borders during her time on air. Now, a video compilation...

An FBI whistleblower knows where the evidence is buried — and Sens. Chuck Grassley and James Comer have brought their shovels. After a confidential human source claimed then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions, FBI agents used what’s called an FD-1023 form to record the allegation. Now FBI Director Christopher Wray is defying a May 3 congressional subpoena to provide this form. On Tuesday, in response to Wray’s refusal to hand over the documents, Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer announced the House will move to hold the FBI director...

The California Senate on Tuesday voted to pay $300 weekly checks to unemployed illegal immigrants even as the state faces a roughly $31.5 billion deficit and mass illegal immigration. Democratic state senators passed Senate Bill 227 by Sen. María Elena Durazo (D.) with a 30-7 vote, sending the measure to the Assembly for approval. The legislation would offer undocumented aliens up to 20 weeks of unemployment benefits if they meet minimal work requirements. California’s unemployment insurance fund, which was defrauded of some $31 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, would be in charge of dispensing the checks. California employers are on...

Some of the range was designed by Erik Carnell, a trans man and 'Satanist' Retail giant Target's market value plummeted on Wednesday by $13 billion as shares dropped by for the ninth consecutive day by a further 2.14 percent. It comes as the chain seeks to recover from backlash against its female swimwear range which gives adult wearers the option to 'tuck' male genitalia. The company's market value had been $74 billion - with shares trading at $160.96 - as of May 17. But stock fell later that week when it made 'adjustments' to its Pride merchandising plans, including removing...

(May 31, 2023) — The Democrats and complicit Republicans fear Trump mostly because he is the only candidate who openly said he does not believe Obama is eligible and that Obama is an identity fraud. Trump is correct. That is a big deal because both parties did nothing to stop Obama from being sworn in, meaning both parties committed treason and must now protect Obama and others who could lead to Obama to protect themselves. In my view, this was and is obvious, clear and easy to understand from day one, and the actions and inaction of both parties have...

“I’m tellin’ ya straight up, I’m not a fool,” Bielecki said. That’s when he used the n-word to say what else he wasn’t; besides a fool. Some audience members gasped and yelled out in shock and disbelief. “Oh!” .... The tall, affable deputy, who’s stood as silent sentry for probably thousands of hours’ of board meetings, told Jones he would not remove Blayz because he’d done nothing wrong. That deputy deserves accolades for standing up to Jones, for knowing the rules and speaking the truth, even to the board chair who happens to be a literal gun dealer. ...

Stocks have climbed in 2023 after suffering through a bear market in 2022. But according to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the next downturn could be more painful. In a recent interview with Real Vision, Rogers explained why his outlook is so bleak. “[In] 2008, we had a bear market because of too much debt,” he said. “Look out the window since 2008, debt everywhere has skyrocketed.” And that does not bode well for investors. “It’s a simple statement that the next bear market will be the worst in my lifetime because the debt has gone up by such staggering amounts...