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A woman was arrested after a brawl which was sparked in her search for her cigarettes. Destiny Cheyenne Farr, 25, of Summerfield, is facing two counts of battery following her arrest Thursday night by Marion County sheriff’s deputies. Farr, who was arrested in 2020 when she got behind the wheel after a tiff with her girlfriend, was upset because she couldn’t find her cigarettes and was not receiving any help in her search from other members of the household, according to an arrest report. An enraged Farr choked a woman, broke off a door handle and threw it at her....

What qualifies as being literate in the United States? It all depends on your measurement. According to the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), literacy is defined as, “understanding, evaluating, using and engaging with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.” This seems quite broad, yet is used to show the Literacy Gap Map on the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy site. It is here that the map details where 36 million of U.S. population doesn’t meet the threshold for even basic literacy. However, there is...

Washington — The Biden administration plans to welcome some Latin American and Caribbean migrants currently waiting in Mexico into the U.S. through the refugee resettlement program, as part of another effort to offer them an alternative to crossing the U.S. southern border illegally, the White House announced Friday. The initiative will allow eligible migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are living in Mexico to come to the U.S. with refugee status, which puts them on a path to permanent residency and citizenship, and makes them eligible for government assistance through the early resettlement process. The initiative would mark...

In the months leading up to the 2020 election, President Joe Biden denied on multiple occasions that he ever discussed business with his son. One of Joe’s most infamous and specific lies was, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about — China,” which he delivered from the stage during the second presidential debate in October 2020. Five days before the debate, the New York Post reported on emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop detailing how the younger Biden pursued business deals with one of China’s largest energy companies in an...

If you want to conspire with someone, it’s advisable to have a cut out. If it is someone new, you need to test the cut out to verify that there is not a man in the middle. One way to verify is to create and use a nonsense browser as cast. Eg “the fish is red.” Biden’s speeches are chock full of nonsense phrases. One that comes to mind is “dog faced pony soldiers.” This is a mishmash of multiple phrases possibly from a John Wayne movie (“she wore a yellow ribbon”) that almost no one today remembers. Bidens usage...

"Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter," the president said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE President Joe Biden has offered his first statement on 4-year-old grandchild Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity suit against the president's son in May 2019. "This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter," President Biden's statement continues. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.” "You have...

"Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. "But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) challenged Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to a fight on the House floor, according to reports. The situation turned aggressive after Swalwell blasted McCarthy over Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) censure vote. On June 21, the day Republicans voted to censure Schiff, Swalwell was standing in the well of the House near the speaker’s podium and heckled McCarthy. “This is pathetic,” Swalwell yelled at McCarthy, who was presiding over the House at the time. “You’re weak. You’re a weak man.” McCarthy was furious, with one member telling The Daily Beast, “He had a vein popping out of...

Here is Gov. Ron DeSantis on with Megyn Kelly where she asked if he would commit to pardoning President Trump if he is elected President. It is highly unlikely DeSantis will be in that position. He’s losing ground in the GOP Nomination race right now. He doesn’t exactly give a definitive answer here either........

A video capturing a disturbing incident in the Black Sea, where a Russian military vessel was seen menacing a civilian ship, was shared by the State Border Guard Service on Telegram on July 28.“Russian military ships continue to act aggressively and audaciously in the waters of the Black Sea, violating all norms of international maritime law,” the post stated.The video captures a conversation between the Russian ship and the civilian vessel while the latter was passing a Ukrainian seaport. Initially, the Russians inquire about the nationality of the people onboard, followed by questions about the cargo and the presence of...

When you live in a country as seismically active as Japan, thinking about earthquakes (and tsumanis) probably occupies a good deal of your time. Inventor Shoichi Sakamoto took it a step further. He decided to do something about it and invented a technology, remarkably simple in concept, to protect homes from the devastating shaking - an airlift system capable of automatically raising and isolating the whole house until the temblor stops.

Stem cell therapy, also known as regenerative medicine, is one of the medical treatments that show great promise. Back in the 1970’s, skin stem cells were used to grow skin grafts for people with serious burns and today stem cell therapy is used to repair damaged or diseased tissue almost anywhere on the body. Furthermore, this therapy, which is widely considered as a new frontier in transplantation, could be used in the treatment of strokes, a wide range of neurological problems (including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease), spinal cord injuries, keloid scars, pancreatic necrosis, diabetes types I and II, as well...

Ron DeSantis scrapped two Hamptons fundraisers last weekend due to a lack of interest As On The Money previously reported, DeSantis had cut in half — from $6,600 per person to $3,300 — the price to attend the July 20 fundraiser in Southampton. One source blamed Chele Farley, a failed congressional candidate, who promoted herself as the point person behind DeSantis’ cocktail reception.“She cheapened the event by sending it out to everyone on her email list … she scared people away,” Worse yet, the campaign canceled plans for two other events because “they couldn’t find hosts,” a source with knowledge...

@nicksortor The US Senate once again BLOCKED Sen. @RandPaul (R-KY)'s effort to require audits and investigations of the TENS OF BILLIONS the US taxpayer has given to Ukraine. This comes just ONE MONTH after the Pentagon's $6.2 BILLION "accounting error" re Ukrainian aid, yet the majority of both Democrats and Republicans still REFUSE to provide oversight. As a reminder, just last year, the Senate passed a bill to hire 87,000 new IRS agents in order to deeply dig into the finances of everyday Americans. Yet we can't audit the money being printed for Ukraine. WHY DO YOU THINK CONGRESS WON'T...

Police said the body parts were cleanly amputated, suggesting the work of a professional. Fernando Perez Algaba had been staying in Argentina for a week before his alleged murder. Fernando Perez Algaba, the cryptocurrency influencer from Argentina who had been missing for more than a week, was found dead on Wednesday. Police found Mr Algaba's remains inside a suitcase near a stream in Argentinian capital Buenos Aires, according to New York Post. The grisly case came to light after a group of children found the red suitcase filled with body parts while playing by the stream on Sunday, the outlet...

An indigenous transgender woman has slammed Canada's healthcare system for rejecting her euthanasia request despite the pain she endures from a surgically-built vagina. In social media posts, Lois Cardinal, a self-proclaimed 'sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual' said regret over her medical transition led her to apply for a lethal injection in February. Cardinal, who lives on a native reserve near St. Paul, Alberta, posted her medical records from the request online this week to draw attention to radical gender ideology. Her case underscores the perils of Canada's ultra-liberal healthcare system — one of the world's most permissive for both euthanasia...

Traffickers are targeting parentless children on the Ukraine-Poland border, says a group evacuating orphanages in the war zone.A team of US military veterans is helping to organise safe passage for the estimated 200,000 children in Ukraine's orphanages and foster homes.But they say thousands are unaccounted for and fear some may already have fallen prey to people traffickers.Kyiv says it is tightening procedures for vulnerable children.

Matthew 13:18-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus explains the parable of the sower. This parable is reminiscent of another well-known story of Jesus: that of the shepherd and the lost sheep. “What man among you,” asks Jesus, “having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” Can we imagine the shepherds in Jesus’ audience shaking their heads? No shepherd would be so foolish! Which is just the point: God’s love is so extravagant that it breaks all of our categories of what...

MSNBC host Joy Reid garnered backlash after she claimed that members of the Republican Party are no longer allowed to say that slavery was terrible. On Thursday, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swiped at Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., continuing to defend the state's new school history curriculum. DeSantis' comments came after Donalds took issue with one of the lines from the new state standards, arguing "the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted." He called the rest of the standards "good, robust and accurate."

It will come as more bad news to Louisianans, but it nonetheless may be another reflection of the changing climate: A team of scientists say hurricane season should be even longer. The research team made up of climate scientists say the season, which spans six months from June 1 to November 30, is not long enough anymore. One of the scientists is state climatologist and LSU professor Barry Keim. Keim says that they began looking into this in 2020 -- the most active hurricane season on record -- because they noticed that named tropical storms were more frequently occurring outside...