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CHICAGO -- A 10-year-old boy fired a shot at Chicago police officers during a standoff with officers called to the scene after the youth opened fire inside a home, police said. No one was injured in Monday's shooting and the boy was taken to a hospital for observation, police said. Officers responded to a home in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood about 11:20 a.m. after learning the boy had fired shots inside the residence and was experiencing “mental distress,” police said in a statement. Chicago Police Deputy Chief Migdalia Bulnes told reporters at the scene that the boy stepped out onto a...

An attorney for a House Republican accused a law firm representing Hunter Biden of impersonating his office. A Biden lawyer said it was just a mix-up. Kittila then accused a staff member in Clark's office of impersonating someone from Kittila’s staff in a call to the clerk of the Delaware court and asking to have the letter removed from court filings. Clark responded by acknowledging that someone from one of the firms representing Hunter Biden had called the clerk but said that she did not misrepresent herself and that she said who she was and why she was calling. The...

Ladies, if you’re hitting up a Chipotle in Fort Myers, Florida you might want to reconsider sending your husband to pick up the order. There’s allegedly a husband stealing employee at one of the locations. According to several Yelp reviews there’s a woman by the name of Lucy who likes to seduce married men. The controversy appears to have started last month when the first review warning women of the husband stealing employee popped up. The warning was not the only one. There were several all pointing the finger at a mystery employee named Lucy, who allegedly has a thing...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

In the twilight of last summer, just as I boarded a flight, I glanced down at my phone to see four missed calls from Frankie, a good friend in Los Angeles. I hurriedly called back. “He’s dead,” she shrieked. “He’s dead, and I need to learn to protect myself.” Once Frankie finally calmed down enough to articulate what was going on, I learned that one of her closest friends in the city’s downtown area was walking to the gym one sunny morning when an assailant struck him down in an apparent act of random violence. Frankie, who lived alone and...

For many years, Pastor Charles Henrickson has posted a good Scriptural sermon here on FR. Please pray for him. He has a health challenge; that's all I can say. Some laudable things about Pastor Henrickson: - he has posted a very good Confessional Lutheran sermon here every week for a long time - he uses his real name - he's openly being a member of Free Republic when so many, even in a conservative church body, would look down upon him for that. I don't know any other MO Synod pastor who does this, and I know quite a few....

For several years now, the news from Israel has included reports on judicial battles between the Knesset and Israel’s supreme court. The supreme court strikes down laws passed by the Knesset, supports an explosion of harassment cases against the legislature and the Prime Minister himself… and generally acts as a partisan political body would. So, after much debate and considerable public outcry, the Knesset finally passed a set of judicial reforms on July 24, 2023, to curtail some of the powers of the supreme court. It is difficult for us in the United States to appropriately judge this action, until...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaking with his Israeli counterpart Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding Democracy in Israel... A former US Marine jailed in Russia and freed in a prisoner swap wounded in the Ukraine War... The Russian military in Syria recording 12 violations of Syrian airspace by British, French and US warplanes today... In Boise, Idaho the jury in the civil suit against Ammon Bundy and Diego Rodriguez ruling against the defendants... Protesters torching Islam's holy book The Quran (Koran) in Copenhagen, Denmark today... UPS and the Teamsters Union reaching a contract agreement ... In Argentina business organizations say...

FUBAR Ukie Situation... "ukraine" Is about where Japan was after Curtis LeMay figured out how to use fire bombs. The only rational option they have is surrender.

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Attack! Can Ukraine Handle it? Big mobilization in Ruzzia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMm-enYU0tE The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine as of 24th July 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). Reports of repelled Russian attacks by Ukrainian General Staff are for the last 48 hours. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-516-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Three people found dead in a vehicle at a North Carolina gas station Sunday were Marine lance corporals based at Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.

The Mark of the Beast is not my number, your number, or the number of anyone that can be identified at this time. It is not my driver’s license number, Social Security number, National or global ID number, or anything like that. It is not a different number for different people. It is the same Mark, name, or number for everyone. It is the Mark, name, or number of a man called the Antichrist. Notice what the Bible says in Rev. 13:16-18 (KJV): “And he [the False Prophet] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,...

A federal judge has voided former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial sentence and subsequent rulings on the case by military judges, setting up the possibility that he could request a reinstatement of rank or change of status for his dishonorable discharge. Senior Judge Reggie Walton, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order Tuesday that partially granted the federal government's motion to dismiss the Bergdahl case. But Walton ruled in favor of Bergdahl's argument that the Army judge in his case failed to disclose a possible conflict of interest -- that he had applied for a civilian...

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St. James’ courageous martyrdom has inspired the conversion and pilgrimage of manyLet us today hail the bright star which once made Compostella so resplendent with its rays that the obscure town became, like Jerusalem and Rome, a center of attraction to the piety of the whole world. Let us today hail the bright star which once made Compostella so resplendent with its rays that the obscure town became, like Jerusalem and Rome, a center of attraction to the piety of the whole world. As long as the Christian empire lasted, the sepulcher of St. James the Great rivaled in glory...

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MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Tuesday on “Deadline” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had said “we should erase” black and LGBTQ people. Sharpton said, “When we look at the president and vice president, they stood there today with the survivor of the Till family, talking at that very moment in Florida, you have a state Board of Education that is saying that we are going to change how black history is taught. You have a governor who has said that we don’t need to say anything that makes others uncomfortable when it comes to blacks or, for that matter, LGBTQ...

CNN political analyst David Axelrod said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that House Republicans who want to impeach President Joe Biden were not serious people. Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “The White House says it’s for Republicans to decide whether to go ahead and try to impeach President Biden. What do you make of that strategy to deflect away from this escalation by House Republicans?”

The high this afternoon in Phoenix ticked up another degree to 119°F. This is the 3rd occurrence this year, 5th occurrence on record, and ties as the 4th warmest high temperature on record.

Careful what you wish for: synodality and the latest Syro-Malabar controversiesROME – Though it’s always presumptuous to assert what Pope Francis must be thinking, I’m still willing to bet good money that when he sat about the “synodalization” of Catholicism, the current tempest raging in India’s Syro-Malabar Church is not exactly what he had in mind.The irony is that the Syro-Malabar Church is already governed by a synod, but one which its critics accuse of behaving in anything but a synodal fashion.In effect, what’s happening right now in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, the largest jurisdiction within the Syro-Malabar Church and...