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NEW ORLEANS (TND) — A New Orleans teenager was reportedly convicted of second-degree murder Monday for killing a 73-year-old woman in a gruesome carjacking. John Honore, 18, faces a mandatory lifetime prison term for his role in Linda Frickey's March 2022 death, according to WVUE. Honore's accomplices –- 17-year-old Briniyah Baker and 16-year-old Lenyra Theophile and Mar’Qel Curtis -- reportedly received 20-year prison terms after pleading guilty to attempted manslaughter last week. The foursome approached Frickey's car last year before Honore pepper-sprayed the grandmother, according to WVUE. Honore reportedly pulled Frickey partially out of the car before stomping her head...

A new lawsuit alleges that a Taco Bell holiday party last year went off the rails and devolved into employees getting drunk, having public sex, and vomiting in a guacamole bowl. The suit was filed by a woman who worked at a Taco Bell in San Pedro, California, at the time and attended the holiday party. The lawsuit alleges that she reported the incident and was retaliated against by people associated with the defendants of the case. The suit alleges that the woman's supervisor invited her to the party at the Taco Bell restaurant they worked at in December 2022....

An appalling video shows the moment several men in rapper Nardo Wick's entourage beat up a young fan after he asked for a photo. George Obregon Jr, 20, was left hospitalized in critical condition - with a severe concussion and brain bleed - after he was brutally assaulted by the 21-year-old rapper's companions, according to his family.

Several soldiers hurt after 3 explosives detonated next to IDF soldiers in Gaza, terrorists open fire on troops. Hamas denies responsibility Over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the framework of the operational pause. In one of the locations, terrorists also opened fire at the troops, who responded with fire. A number of soldiers were lightly injured during the incidents. In both incidents, the troops were located in positions as per the framework of the operational pause. The three explosions occurred during the fifth...

An Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly lying to police about being the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime. Hesham A. Ayyad, 20, told the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that a driver had hurled anti-Palestinian slurs at him and hit him with his car, according to an Oct. 23. CAIR press release demanding an investigation into the incident. North Ridgefield police arrested Ayyad on Tuesday and said he lied about the encounter and that his injuries had come from a fight with his brother, Cleveland.com reported. Ayyad told CAIR officials that he was walking home...

'Pizza Banksy' strikes twice in Westchester, latest tag at Broadway Pizzeria in White Plains Nov 22, 2023, 9:46amUpdated 6d ago The elusive "Pizza Banksy" has continued their graffiti spree, marking two pizzerias this week. The most recent hit was at Broadway Pizzeria on North Broadway in White Plains. Known for their pizza slice graffiti, this artist previously targeted Hawthorne Pizzeria on Elwood Drive and Pepe's Pizza in Yonkers in early October.

The National Christmas Tree toppled over on Tuesday amid high winds at the White House. About 5 p.m., the tree was on its side with its lights still on. A crane loomed over the tree, behind a white picket fence. Authorities prevented bystanders and media from approaching the scene.

The huge outdoor White House Christmas tree has been blown over by the wind. The rainbow themed tree It is now being held up by a crane.

Hundreds of students at a Florida high school staged a walkout on Tuesday after their principal and several other school officials were reportedly reassigned over a transgender student’s participation on the girl’s volleyball team.

A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files....

Actor claims it was secretly 'EDITED' behind his back De Niro, 80, struggled to get through his speech before claiming it was cut down He still went back and read his comments blasting former President Trump The actor later said he didn't 'feel like thanking' the sponsors: 'How dare they?' Robert De Niro was fuming on Monday night when an allegedly edited speech he was delivering via prompter caused him to mess up his lines. The 80-year-old acting icon was on hand at Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York City to deliver a speech in tribute to his critically...

Meet a man, get married, have a family. That’s the timeline women have historically been sold as the most successful pathway to a happy life. But despite that messaging being shoved down our throats at every conceivable opportunity, women have had enough. New data has revealed women are sick of the constant pressure to follow traditional relationship timelines, with 1 in 3 now stating they’re “no longer focused” on achieving the societal milestones. The findings, uncovered in the 2024 annual dating report from Bumble, shows women are “pushing back” and are instead prioritizing finding the right partner instead of rushing...

For many people, it’s the splitting red wine headache that follows soon after. Medical researchers and wine lovers alike have tried for thousands of years to determine what causes some people to get a throbbing headache after drinking even a small amount of maroon-colored vino. Theories abound: Some people blame sulfites, which are naturally present in wines and are added by some winemakers as a preservative. But sulfites are also present in foods like fruits, especially dried, and soy sauce, as well as in white wines — but those aren’t typically linked to headaches.

Soon after boarding an international flight earlier this month, an expectant mother was forced to totally wing it when she unexpectedly went into labor and gave birth aboard the aircraft. “Yay!” cheered applauding passengers on a Pegasus Airlines plane set to fly from Istanbul to Marseille, France, as paramedics at the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport marched onto the sky bus to assist the unidentified woman, who’d welcomed her child moments before takeoff. Footage of the high-octane event showed awestricken flyers craning their necks for a glimpse of the impromptu birth. One big-hearted passenger is seen collecting what appears to be...

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1729608772190879898 Hi @GretaThunberg 👋 Is 🇵🇸 the new flag of the climate cult? So befitting that a cult that wants to economically bankrupt the West, also supports genocide against the West. Well done 👏

Yesterday, President Trump’s legal team submitted a motion to compel discovery in the Washington DC case in which he is charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. Trump’s attorneys state that the case in Washington DC “reflects little more than partisan advocacy designed to sabotage President Trump’s leading campaign for the 2024 Presidential Election.” ... To which Trump’s counsel responded: “…the government appears to have looked with tunnel vision at limited issues it believed were relevant.” and that “The Indictment in this case adopts classified assessments by the Intelligence Community and others that minimized, and at times ignored,...

He couldn’t get chopsticks out of his head — and we’re not talking about the piano tune. A man in Vietnam who had experienced severe headaches for five months was flabbergasted after discovering that he had a pair of chopsticks lodged in his skull. The unnamed 35-year-old patient had reported to the Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi on November 25th after suffering from the aforementioned headaches as well as fluid discharge and fluid loss, The Metro reported. There, doctors conducted CT scans, which revealed that the man was suffering from tension pneumocephalus, a rare but potentially life-threatening neurological condition...

A New Orleans teenager has been found guilty of murdering grandmother Linda Frickey who had one of her arms torn off in a violent carjacking in March last year. It took a jury less than four hours to convict Honore on Monday. He now faces a mandatory life sentence on a charge of second degree murder.

BURBANK, CA — In what the United States Government hopes will be the start of a long and fruitful partnership, The Walt Disney Company has been awarded a lucrative Department of Defense contract after overtaking Lockheed Martin in the production of bombs. "This is a momentous day for our company," said Disney CEO Bob Iger. "We now have a useful channel to funnel our bomb-making efforts. Though the fact that we have been producing bombs of immense scale for the last decade has previously only resulted in losing hundreds of millions of dollars, we can now actually make money with...

America’s Founders fought a bloody revolution in order to escape the “absolute despotism” to which they had been reduced under the hereditary monarchy of the British government, a system that Thomas Paine said “laid the world in blood and ashes.” After that revolution was won, the Founders’ singular focus was to create a republic that would safeguard individual freedom and state sovereignty by vesting only limited, specifically enumerated powers in a federal government. The Constitution’s first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights), Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, as well as the Ninth and Tenth Amendments establish clear limitations...