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A 79-year-old woman on hospice got her final wish – to see her beloved horse one last time. Karina Courtmanche’s dying wish was to be reunited with her horse Bella, who lives on a small farm in Bethany, Connecticut. Courtmanche has owned 30-year-old Bella since the horse was a baby. Courtmanche is in hospice care with not much time left, her caretakers said. Michelle Walker, RN Case Manager for Connecticut Hospice, said Courtmanche told her of her wish to see her beloved horse again. “We were talking with her, and she kept talking about her horse Bella, that she wanted...

It’s been a busy few weeks for Stephen Bassett, Washington’s veteran UFO lobbyist. Early last month, an ex-U.S. intelligence official who once worked with the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force went public with claims that the federal government has recovered non-human spacecraft. The former official, David Grusch, does not claim to have seen the crashed spacecraft himself. Rather, in an interview with The Debrief, he said he had heard accounts of their existence over the course of his work. And in an interview with NewsNation, Grusch went even further. “Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either...

My wife, teenage sons, and I returned home last night from a packed preview showing of the inelegantly named “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” and we were all smiles. The short version is: This is a perfect summer popcorn flick. Continue on for the slightly longer review with only the tiniest of spoilers that you might already have gotten from the trailer. The movie makes us wait before seven-time star Tom Cruise emerges from the shadows as superspy Ethan Hunt. The action, however, kicks off right away on board an undetectable Russian attack submarine somewhere in the Barents...

No search results. Using statistics from the Department of Labor, The Wall Street Journal reports that real hourly wages during the Biden presidency have declined. When Biden took office in January 2021, the average hourly wage adjusted for inflation was $11.39. Now, 29 months later, it stands at $11.03, a 3.16% decline. Stephen Moore of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reports that the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that in the month of June, the largest growth in employment in the U.S. economy came from government. Government net increase in employment in June was 60,000...

A Texas couple surrendered their hour-old infant to employees at a medical supply store, with the mother telling them she didn’t even know she was pregnant. After hours of calls and customers, Angela Owens assumed the teenage boy who walked into Hieline Mobility Solutions around 2 p.m. Wednesday was just another customer. But when he said his baby and girlfriend needed help, she ran outside, assuming the child was choking. “I open the passenger door to see a young girl sitting there with a newborn baby in her lap, wrapped in a towel,” Owens said. The parents said the baby...

Anson Frericks spent eleven years working for Anheuser-Busch, serving as president of operations until April of last year. In a new interview on Monday, Frericks admitted that he was “shocked” by how much money his former company had lost since the Mulvaney campaign. “I think I’m even more shocked, though, about the lack of clear response that the current CEO has delivered during this crisis,” Frericks told Fox Business... Frericks went on to say that Whitworth “had had three chances now” to speak out, “most recently in the week leading up to July 4 — the No. 1 beer-selling week...

Not that it will be easy to get consumers to give up their gasoline-powered cars. Mr. Mills writes: . . . policies unprecedented in scope and consequence are planned to ban the sale of the type of vehicle that 99% of people use—that is, vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Instead, government policies are being launched to mandate, directly and indirectly, electric vehicles (EVs). Rarely has a government, at least the U.S. government, banned specific products or behaviors that are so widely used or undertaken. Indeed, there have been only two comparably far-reaching bans in U.S. history: the...

Following a number of incidents involving a particular sea otter acting aggressively towards surfers in Santa Cruz, California Fish and Wildlife are looking to capture it. The sea otter, which is often sighted near West Cliff, can easily be identified by the blue tag on its left fin. Although no injuries have been reported, Fish and Wildlife said the sea otter is on their radar and that a team of trained experts are working to capture it. It’s a 5-year-old female that was born in captivity, according to Fish and Wildlife. They added that her mother had been removed from...

At least one state, Montana, has had enough of ALA’s marxist ways. On Tuesday, a seven-member commission voted to immediately withdraw the Montana State Library from membership in the American Library Association. The commission citied ALA President Emily Drabinski’s public affirmation of her Marxist beliefs as one of the concerns with ALA. During the meeting, commissioner Tom Burnett requested a letter be sent to the ALA clarifying that “our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist.”

ZELENSKYY: “I want to thank all Americans...I understand that it's all your money, but you have to know that you spend this money for not just for fighting. You spend this money for our lives.”

The 127-year-old maker of the influential beer Anchor Steam files for a form of bankruptcy amid a prolonged pandemic impact in San FranciscoAnchor Brewing Co., the self-proclaimed first craft brewery in the U.S., said it will “cease operations and liquidate the business,” about 127 years after being incorporated. “This was an extremely difficult decision that Anchor reached only after many months of careful evaluation,” said Anchor Brewing Spokesperson Sam Singer. Anchor, whose beer lineup includes Anchor Steam, Old Foghorn and West Coast IPA, has decided to begin the assignment for the benefit of creditors, or ABC, process, which is a...

With all of Major League Baseball's power brokers traveling to the West Coast for the All-Star Game, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao decided it was time to take a big swing. On Sunday, Oakland's 51st mayor boarded a plane to Seattle and headed to the Four Seasons where MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem were taking up temporary residence. Advertisement Equipped with a small pulley cart loaded with 32 thick documents, Mayor Thao wheeled Oakland's plans to keep the A's into a private meeting room and proceeded to clear the air with MLB's top officials. Manfred and Halem...

Jonah Hill’s ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady claims the movie star was “emotionally abusive” to her when they were together. The surfer alleged in a series of Instagram Stories Friday that the “You People” star, 39, would “gaslight” and “manipulate” her into removing photos of herself surfing in a swimsuit. Jonah Hill’s ex Sarah Brady is calling out the actor for “abusive” behavior. Brady — who did not accuse Hill of any physical abuse — shared a screen recording of a message her ex allegedly once sent her, in which he stated that some of her Instagram pics were inappropriate.

Three “fairly mummified” bodies were discovered in a remote Rocky Mountains campsite in Colorado this week — and may have been there since last year, authorities said. One of the bodies was located by a hiker on Sunday, while two others were found by authorities on Monday, Gunnison County Sheriff Adam Murdie said. Two of the bodies were found inside a small, zipped-up tent while the other was outside in the camp. The bodies were found in a wooded, remote area, away from areas typically frequented by hikers. “This is not a typical occurrence anywhere, by any means,” Murdie said.

Evelyn Waugh and "The Bitter Trial" of the Council: What is Old Is NewIn reading A Bitter Trial, the collection of letters by Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Second Vatican Council, what is striking is how similar our present day is to the tumultuous mid-1960s. In 2011, when the expanded edition was put together, it may have seemed as though the Church had recovered from the shocks of the Vatican II and the difficult decades that followed. But events of the last few years-- Traditionis Custodes, attempting to suppress the Traditional Latin Mass, and the Synod on...

The recent arrest of three Transportation Security Administration officers reveals critical safety vulnerabilities at America’s airports, experts told The Post. TSA officers Elizabeth Fuster, Labarrius Williams and Josue Gonzalez are facing felony charges of organized scheme to defraud following Thursday’s bust at Miami International Airport. Surveillance video from checkpoint E caught the trio conspiring to “distract passengers as they were being screened,” to steal cash from bags, according to arrest affidavits obtained by The Post. Fuster, 22, and Gonzalez, 20, confessed to “numerous thefts” from travelers, admitting to stealing an average of $1,000 daily while working together. Williams refused to...

A former marine and Trump supporter is suing Fox News for defamation over claims he helped incite the January 6 riots. Ray Epps claims in a new lawsuit that he became the subject of various conspiracy theories after comments by the network's former host Tucker Carlson. The suit states: 'Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th. 'It settled on Ray Epps and began promoting the lie that Epps was a federal agent who incited the attack on the Capitol.' Carlson, who was sacked...

Some 717 million years ago, glaciers covered the globe. Earlier eruptions may have triggered the event. CLAUS LUNAU/SCIENCE SOURCE ***************************************************** About 717 million years ago, a climate catastrophe struck the planet, as temperatures plunged and glaciers enveloped the globe. The cause of this “Snowball Earth” episode has been mysterious, but it took place around the same time as a massive outburst of volcanism. Many researchers thought there might be a connection. But the timing was uncertain. Now, more precise dates, reported last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and in November 2022 in Science Advances, show the eruptions...

FBI Director Christopher Wray fired back at two GOP congressmen Wednesday over their criticisms of the agency with him as director, pointing to an increase in applications from Florida and Texas under his tenure. Wray was appearing before the House Judiciary Committee as part of regularly scheduled congressional oversight. He opened his comments with a strongly worded defense of the bureau from Republican criticisms of what they see as politically motivated actions. During GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Wesley Hunt’s (Texas) time questioning Wray, the representatives argued that the public does not trust the FBI. “People trusted the FBI...

On May 31, a man approached the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia and tore down a trans pride flag that was hanging from its facade alongside a LGBT pride flag. The incident was caught by the gallery’s video surveillance. Last week, the local police department shared images of the man with the press in the hopes of apprehending him. Soon after, he was found, according to a story by Kelowna Now. The Kelowna Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told local reporters that the investigation is ongoing and that they would not release the man’s identity. Amazon Prime Day Starts...