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The effects of fentanyl are considered the cause of death for Adam Rich, the child actor known as "America's little brother" for his role on the hit family dramedy "Eight is Enough." The former television star's death this January has been ruled an accident by the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner's office, according to an autopsy report.Rich died in his Los Angeles home at age 54. His stardom came at just eight years old as the mop-topped son raised by a widower newspaper columnist, played by Dick Van Patten, in ABC's "Eight is Enough." He went on to appear in...

Vaso Stamatiou, the last Greek woman to survive Auschwitz, has died. At the age of just nineteen, on March 28, 1944, she was captured by the Germans and detained in a series of prisons until she was eventually transferred to Auschwitz. However, Stamatiou survived the ordeal and later returned to Greece. Many others were not so fortunate. Historians estimate that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz in just under five years. Most of the Greek victims who were sent to Auschwitz and other concentration camps were Jewish. By the end of the Second World War, most of Greece’s Jewish...

"The Ed Sullivan Show": Looking back after 75 years Between 1948 and 1971, millions of TV viewers made an appointment every Sunday night to watch Ed Sullivan present a cavalcade of variety acts on CBS – from rising and established musicians, to dancers, comedians and plate spinners. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks back at the legacy of an entertainment kingmaker with Andrew and Josh Solt, who oversee the massive Ed Sullivan archives; and talks with Otis Williams of The Temptations, who appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" six times. [This story was originally broadcast June 18, 2023.]

Three thousand elite Chechen troops took up positions in Moscow early on Saturday morning to defend the Russian capital against advancing mutineers from the Wagner mercenary group, the Chechen state broadcaster "Grozny" said on Saturday night. "The fighters have been at their positions in Moscow since early morning and are ready to carry out any order from Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin," it said on Telegram. On Saturday afternoon, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to call back his armed convoy approaching the capital with the aim of toppling the military leadership, under an agreement brokered by the...

Today the LA Times published the results of a poll taken earlier this month in California. The poll found that most people who live there are happy about it but at the same time fully 40% were thinking about leaving.About 70% of residents said they are happy living here, a new statewide poll shows, crediting the state’s diversity, economic opportunities and an enjoyable lifestyle as reasons to stick around.Yet large swaths of residents are also considering packing up and leaving. Many also believe that the state is headed in the wrong direction, and are anxious about the direction of the...

They’re the stories that you’re not supposed to talk about in today’s woke society lest the trans activists swoop in and have you canceled for “hate speech” or whatever. Gender-confused children and many adults are “transitioning” in record numbers and bringing in a fortune for the medical industry in the process. But what happens to those who come to regret their decision and want to return to their natural gender? They are the detransitioners, and it happens more than you might suspect if you only listen to the mainstream media. Most of their stories are tragic, but also very educational...

Hikers on Saturday discovered human remains on Southern California's Mount Baldy, officials said, the same mountain area where British actor Julian Sands went missing more than five months ago. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported that the remains were reported by hikers at about 10 a.m. Deputies responded and transported the victim's remains to the county coroner's office for identification, the sheriff's department disclosed. The 65-year-old Sands was reported missing on the night of Jan. 13 on Mt. Baldy, a popular hiking area located in the San Gabriel Mountains, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Sheriff's officials...

INVERSION OF ROLES: After taking control of America, Marxists are using the power of the White House to spread Marxism around the World. Biden is using Ukraine as an excuse to remove Putin and return Marxism to Russia By Ezequiel Doiny Important background information: Please read my article below about the Marxist takeover of America: ARTICLE 1 "Night falls in America: STALINISM in Biden's America. Persecution of Kulaks (white middle class small businesses), brainwashing in schools, Political repressions through widespread intimidation, arrests, and imprisonment" https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4161260/posts ARTICLE 2 "Instead of stopping the Iranian nuclear program the Biden regime is using the...

If this is the end of the coup attempt, talk about anti-climactic. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner Group, a Kremlin-backed mercenary army, seemed poised to create a political crisis when his troops began to march north toward Moscow from southern Russia. They had reportedly seized some cities in the Lipetsk province. Putin reportedly fled Moscow earlier this morning while security forces were on high alert. Most of Russia’s forces are bogged down in Ukraine, which made this situation more perilous for Putin and his allies. Prigozhin has close ties to the Russian president, nicknamed “Putin’s chef,” due to his catering...

As RedState reported, AG Merrick Garland answered questions on Friday related to the sweetheart deal that was recently given to Hunter Biden. Despite five years of investigation and numerous other possible chargeable crimes, including drugs, sex trafficking, false statements, and tax fraud, the president’s son escaped with two misdemeanors, pre-trial diversion, and no jail time.How did things get to that point? An IRS whistleblower named Gary Shapley has been at the center of exposing the DOJ’s cover-up of the matter, and Garland’s response was to call him a liar without actually saying it directly.Garland responds to the IRS whistleblower who...

With all of that going on I was almost surprised to read that former GOP pollster superstar (now shunned by most of the GOP base) Frank Luntz, is worried about this country being torn asunder. Of course, not by any of the Biden or Democrat scandals, just by the possibility of Donald Trump becoming the 47th President of the United States.He vented right here about it, and I almost had trouble taking a nap after reading his concerns.Almost.“I now have to acknowledge that it is a distinct possibility that Donald Trump could be elected president – I did not believe...

Professional Dominican basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames died this week after an apparent heart attack while he was possibly undergoing a stress test. According to a social media post from Dominican sports commentator Héctor Gómez, the 28-year-old's stress test was being performed at a health center in Santo Domingo. Cabrera Adames is believed to have suffered from myocarditis. The disease can weaken the heart and its electrical system, which decreases the heart's ability to pump blood, according to the American Heart Association. Following his death, social media posts surfaced in which Cabrera Adames suggested he developed the rare heart disease...

U.S.A. — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst introduced a bill last week titled “Why does the IRS Have Guns Act,” which would prohibit the IRS from buying or storing guns and ammunition, transfer all IRS firearms to the General Services Administration so they could be auctioned off to licensed gun dealers to reduce the national debt, and move the agency’s Criminal Investigation Division to the control of the Justice Department. “The taxman is fully loaded at the expense of the taxpayer,” Ernst said in a statement. “As the Biden administration has worked to expand the size of the IRS, any...

Former President Donald Trump believes President Joe Biden’s family corruption is “100 times bigger than Watergate,” according to his prepared remarks for an address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, just days after an IRS whistleblower made shocking revelations about the Biden family. Trump’s speech begins by highlighting the recent IRS whistleblower who revealed that Biden was seated next to his son, Hunter, while Hunter demanded to be paid by CCP-linked Chinese businessman Henry Zhao in 2017. Trump’s remarks say: Just two days ago, an IRS whistleblower revealed that Crooked Joe sat in a room while his son Hunter messaged...

This is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin regardless of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s decision to turn around last night. That may seem an odd thing to say. But Putin’s power rests on projection, on propaganda, on the image of invincibility. Now, all of a sudden, the curtain has been snatched back, revealing the Wizard of Oz as a small, mediocre, frightened man.From the outside, dictatorships can look monolithic. One of the reasons that Western Kremlinologists failed to predict the end of the Soviet Union was that they knew little of the necessarily secret rivalries within it. None of them...

Luke 1:57-66, Luke 1:80Friends, today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. From time immemorial, God has sent messengers, prophets, and spokespersons. Think of that whole line of prophets and the patriarchs of Israel.John the Baptist sums up all of these figures. In the Gospel of John, the Baptist identifies himself as “the voice of one crying out in the desert, The point John makes is that Jesus is not just one more biblical figure. He’s something altogether different—not just a speaker of the Word but the Word himself.We are destined for union with the...

Update from Ukraine | The Failed Military Coup in Ruzzia | Debrief | Prigozhyn lost the war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCiO-pYBrRs The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 24th June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-486-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Consuming omega-3 fatty acids—particularly alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), a nutrient found in foods including flaxseeds, walnuts, and chia, canola and soybean oils—may help slow the progression of disease in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study. The researchers conducted a study among 449 people living with ALS who participated in a clinical trial. As part of this trial, the severity of their symptoms and the progression of their disease were tested and then scored from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating less severe symptoms of the disease. The researchers measured the levels of omega-3 fatty acids in...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.