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Police are working to identify several children a 63-year-old man is accused of drugging and raping in Franklin, Tennessee. Law enforcement said Camilo Hurtado Campos was a “popular soccer coach” who is currently being held for Rape of a Child and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, the agency announced in a press release Sunday, noting more charges are expected in the case. An image shows the accused: (ON LINK) A local restaurant alerted police when employees found a cell phone a customer left behind. The customer was later identified as Campos. While workers searched through the device to gather information...

You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time. “Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make...

A director of a Kentucky child care center is in custody after being accused of raping a four-year-old girl in his office in May. Adam Weiser, 27, was the site director at One Parent Scholar House in Lexington, 13 News reported. The center provides single parents with affordable housing and childcare while they complete their post-secondary degrees, according to the organization’s website. Weiser was arrested on Friday and was charged with first-degree rape and sexual abuse of a victim under 12 years of age. He allegedly “engaged in sexual intercourse with a 4-year-old victim and subjected the victim to sexual...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state legislator from Atlanta switched to the Republican Party on Tuesday, after being at odds with Democrats for reasons including her support for school vouchers and disciplining prosecutors. Rep. Mesha Mainor becomes the only Black member of the GOP among Georgia’s 236 state lawmakers, and the first Black Republican woman to ever serve in the Georgia General Assembly. Mainor’s defection gives Republicans a 102-78 edge in the House. The tension between Mainor and other Democrats burst into the open earlier this year after Mainor became the only Democrat to vote for a school voucher bill

Three Florida men were arrested on drug-related charges after they were found sleeping at a storage locker facility. James Richard Greer, 56, his son Hunter James Greer, 29, and Matthew Steven Bostrom, 33, all of Key West, were each charged with trafficking methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell, according to deputies. Bostrom was also charged with providing a false name to law enforcement and criminal mischief causing property damage. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Storage Rentals of America property at approximately 10:21 a.m. Saturday regarding a suspicious person sleeping near a rental locker. The...

Fifty years of legalized abortion on demand have turned American values on their head. Discrimination is considered “compassionate” and protecting children’s lives is “cruel” – especially when it comes to unborn babies diagnosed with fatal medical disorders. The message comes from doctors, leading medical groups, politicians and the media, as well as the pro-abortion movement. And their lies and propaganda have succeeded in convincing many vulnerable, heartbroken couples that having their sick baby poisoned or dismembered in the womb is more loving than allowing the child to live and die naturally. Such was the case with a Kentucky couple that...

Explanation: Why is our Sun so active now? No one is sure. An increase in surface activity was expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle -- and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory. Showing a high abundance of sunspots, large individual spots can be tracked across the Sun's disk, left to right, over about two weeks. As a solar...

LifeSiteNews) — CBS News is taking criticism for publishing a laudatory video that celebrates two homosexual men who see “their” newborn daughter for the first time in the hospital. The video actually goes back to 2017 when the girl was born, but CBS News recently republished it, drawing renewed criticism. “This is the moment Ben and his husband Aaron met their daughter Charlotte for the first time [crying emoji, heart emoji],” CBS News tweeted, along with a minute-long video that celebrates the taking of a daughter from her biological parents to be given to two men in a perverse relationship....

A pro-transgender university surgeon says he is performing irreversible sex surgeries on pre-pubescent children who have had no experiences of sexual feelings and little ability to consent or accomplish the required post-surgical procedures. “It’s a very complicated issue,” Dr. Blair Peters, a Canadian-trained “queer” surgeon at Oregon Health & Science University, told a friendly interviewer. “But I think definitely something that we’re going to learn a lot more about in the next five to 10 years as we’re doing just increasing numbers of these cases,” Blair said in the now-archived video. Getting consent and cooperation from the pre-sexual children is...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is pushing for the FBI to build new headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, instead of Washington, D.C., to take politics out of how the agency functions, the The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to the report, Jordan may cut the bureau's funding unless it moves to Alabama's midsized city, roughly 700 miles from the nation's capital.

A man fled a home and hid in a nearby bush after a woman armed with a machete threatened to cut off his genitals. A Marion County sheriff’s deputy responded at about 2 a.m. Tuesday to the couple’s home in Summerfield. The man, who was carrying his infant daughter, was out of breath and soaked in sweat. The man said he had been in bed sleeping when 44-year-old Dawn Marie Hildebrant went through his phone. She smashed the phone and began screaming at the man before grabbing a machete and “threatening to cut off his genitals,” the report said. The...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday picked up on a report about President Joe Biden’s behind-doors volcanic temper, saying voters could apply it to the Democratic president’s economic agenda. Axios published a story with the creative headline “Old Yeller,” saying that some of Biden’s aides fear meeting with him alone because he’s often prone to degrading, profanity-laced tirades...

[Catholic Caucus] Michael Charlier: "Francis Secures His Legacy"Michael CharlierSummorum-Pontificum.deJuly 10, 2023(source)"Francis Secures His Legacy"Or at least that's what he thinks. The increasingly hectic succession of decisions of the pope, who is in his 86th year and severely affected by illness, gives the impression that the big boss is using all the tricks and threats to shuffle and prepare the cards for the next round in the great church game so that nothing else can come out but his will. The Church, however, and the Vatican too, are not a poker game. The Lord is and remains Christ, who died for...

Kevin Costner is on the hook for six-digit monthly payments after a judge ruled on a tentative child support arrangement. The 68-year-old Yellowstone has been ordered to pay his estranged wife Christine Baumgartner, 49, a whopping $129,755 per month in child support payments. That means the figure is considerably more than double what Costner had originally offered his ex, though it is also only a little over half of what she had been asking for. The decision is only tentative and will be reassessed at a later hearing, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.

The wife of the U.S. attorney who is prosecuting the whistleblower who accused President Joe Biden of corruption, worked as the director of education for the Obama Foundation until November 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ wife Jennifer Wynn worked for the Obama Foundation for over three years, and her husband is now prosecuting a whistleblower who alleges Biden and his family have corrupt ties to China’s military, according to a video exclusively obtained by the New York Post. Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft is a crucial witness for Republicans in their Biden family corruption investigation,...

Former President Trump ripped President Biden for his decision to send Ukraine cluster bombs and claimed Biden was “dragging” the United States “into World War III” by making the controversial decision.“Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine—he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration. These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come, long after the war—we pray—has ended,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday.Biden announced...

White House hails debate in Israel over judicial reforms as a 'healthy part of a vibrant democracy' while again warning that they shouldn't be passed without broad consensus The Biden Administration urged Israeli authorities to "protect and respect the right of peaceful assembly" issued as police clashed with thousands of protesters across the country Tuesday demonstrations against the government advancement of the first piece of legislation aimed at overhauling the judiciary. While it didn't go as far, the White House National Security Council statement sent to querying reporters appeared similar to some of the responses the US has issued regarding...

A complex network of tunnels located near the northeastern French town of Braye-en-Laonnois, houses the memories of thousands of World War One soldiers who left their mark on the walls the Froidmont quarry.A maze-like network of tunnels can be found near the northeastern French town of Braye-en-Laonnois.These extraordinary tunnels house the memories of thousands of World War One soldiers who left their mark on the walls of the Froidmont quarry, not far from the scene of the horrific Second Battle of the Aisne.More than 20 kilometres of limestone walls bare over 1,000 inscriptions, drawings and carvings from German, French and...

The judge has issued a Memorandum ruling on the government’s Motion to Stay Injunction in Missouri v. Biden. It’s another amazing day for freedom. The judge first goes through the criteria for granting an injunction. [embedded court document] The court AGAIN states they feel the plaintiffs will succeed on the merits, but he also adds something—that the White House defendants and the Surgeon General Defendants were found to have likely engaged in the coercion of social media companies. He then goes on to AGAIN give examples. [embedded court document] Read this, legacy media. Everyone else should read it too. The...

A helicopter circled my house today five or six times and once was just hovering over it. We were just looking at each other. I have about fifty tomato plants in my backyard. He should have been able to see the tomatoes on the plants. So, a solid 15 minutes of this he takes off. So am I going to get a 4:00 AM no-knock door kicking?