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A young mother has been accused of second-degree murder and child abuse after she left her two young children alone and one of them overdosed on children's Tylenol. Sara Lashae Harris, 24, was arrested last week after leaving her infant and 17-month-old toddler alone for 37 hours to go have a sexual encounter and visit a nightclub. Phoenix, Arizona police wrote in their arresting documents that, on July 30, they arrived at Harris' home at around 9.40am after a one-month-old infant was reportedly found unresponsive and not breathing. Fire Department officials responded first and found the baby lying on a...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police say nine worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. Authorities responded to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights on Monday afternoon. Motti Seligson, a spokesperson for Chabad, said a "group of extremist students" had secretly broken through the walls of a vacant building behind the headquarters, creating an underground passage beneath a row of office buildings and lecture halls that eventually connected...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could be on the verge of facing a no-confidence vote through the same process that removed his predecessor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), as speaker last year. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said on Tuesday that he would not rule out using the “motion to vacate” mechanism against Johnson amid objections to a government spending framework released by congressional leaders over the weekend and a warning about an impending border security deal. “I’m leaving it on the table. I’m not gonna say I’m gonna go file it tomorrow night. I’m...

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed “all” the criminal charges against former President Donald Trump are “well founded.” Anchor Ali Velshi said, “Let me show you what Donald Trump has said about this. He says, ‘We can’t have every four years there’s a cycle of political recrimination where one administration attacks the prior administration. We open the Pandora’s Box to political prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution. In fact, Joe Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next president of the United States.’ It’s nonsensical because that’s...

"This emergency move was accurately predicted by critics of the Floyd Bennett Field as a location to be used as a migrant shelter." Nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants being housed at a shelter in Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field are being evacuated ahead of a storm traveling up the East Coast, sending them to James Madison High School in anticipation of the less-than-ideal weather. According to the New York Post, the city is expected to see torrential downpours and 70 mph winds on Tuesday night into Wednesday. The illegal immigrants were being housed in a massive tent at the exposed airfield. “To...

33-year-old Roya Heshmati accused by Tehran’s judiciary of having ‘encouraged permissiveness’ after violating mandatory dress code in public... TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for “violating public morals” and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said. “The convicted, Roya Heshmati, encouraged permissiveness [by appearing] disgracefully in busy public places in Tehran,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said late on Saturday. “Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the law and with sharia,” and “for violating public morals,” Mizan said. Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw identified Heshmati as...

On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee learned in testimony from the owner of Hunter Biden’s art gallery that a majority of the first son’s artwork was purchased by Joe Biden’s Democratic donors.The art gallery owner—Georges Bergès—also told the committee that he never communicated with the White House about the supposed ethics agreement that the Biden Administration previously claimed was governing Hunter Biden’s “work within his profession,” which included his art career.“The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication...

Russia's military sector is overshadowing civilian industries, a former Russian central bank official wrote in Foreign Policy. Moscow has allocated more of its 2024 budget to defense than social spending. Russia's sanctions-hit economy appears resilient as it's driven by wartime spending. Russia is spending so much on its war in Ukraine that the effort is draining resources from the rest of the economy, according to Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official. "Russian industry has been transformed, with defense sectors now overshadowing civilian industries," Prokopenko wrote in Foreign Affairs on Monday. Moscow's current military spending has overshadowed social spending...

In 2023, McDonald's made the headlines quite a few times, whether it was for Grimace milkshakes, limited-edition meals, or its brand-new sister restaurant. But in the midst of all the excitement and newness is a story that seems to have been lost in the shuffle: when the fast food chain promised to make its burgers bigger and better. Back in Spring 2023, McDonald's announced it was tweaking its Big Mac to taste even more delicious, with softer buns, better tasting toppings, and even more of that sweet, sweet Big Mac sauce on every burger. And just last month, McDonald's CEO...

It was one of those commercials designed to tug at the heart. The urgent voice-over…the medical-looking footage…the appeal for donors to give just $19 a month…everything was meant to build on the charitable instinct of the viewer. But the organization soliciting the funds was not working toward a cure for pediatric cancer or immediate medical care for children. In fact, the organization actually eliminates children while they are still in their mothers’ wombs. I was shocked when I saw the Planned Parenthood commercial over the holidays. Rather than spreading good cheer, the organization takes the lives of hundreds of thousands...

A new analysis of the U.K. car market shows that consumers’ interest in electric vehicles has fallen sharply amid turbulent local economies, sticker shock, waning government rebates, and a dearth of charging ports. The Daily Mail looked at EV purchases across the U.K., concluding that sales were down double digits in 2023 compared to the previous year. In total, 23 percent of all car sales in 2023 were EVs, representing 71,984 out of 314,687 vehicles sold that year. That’s a steep decline from the 33 percent in sales in 2022, when 88,910 EVs were sold. Trouble on the car lot...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin might well be gone from the Pentagon by the end of the week. A good case can be made that he should be. In the new year’s strangest bureaucratic mystery (and one of the strangest in any year), Austin, who is 70, was hospitalized on Jan. 1, but nobody in the White House—not even President Joe Biden—knew of the fact until Jan. 4. The deputy secretary of defense, Kathleen Hicks, who would stand in for him in an emergency, didn’t know until Jan. 3, and even then, she didn’t know he was in the...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 6. THE PERILS OF TRAVELERS BETWEEN NEW-YORK AND WASHINGTON. The monopoly line of road between New-York and Washington yesterday furnished a new proof of its utter incapacity to bring either mails of passengers to the National Capital. The freight train which passed over the road immediately after the night express on the queer ferry-boat arrangement, was tumbled by a fool or a drunkard of an engineer into the deep water ahead of the boat. The landing, of course, was obstructed. No one knows when this clog will be removed. In the meantime passengers have to walk the...

After the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, Kyiv finds itself at a major crossroads and with no easy options. The demand late last year by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the mobilisation of an additional 500,000 troops over the next few months signals both resolve and desperation. It will likely make Ukrainian domestic politics more fractious but it could also buy Zelensky time to reconsider his own endgame and how to get there. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces have had a strength of around a million soldiers, with continuous regular mobilisation...

Post See new posts Conversation Miranda Devine @mirandadevine BREAKING 🚨 Georges Bergès, Hunter Biden’s art gallerist has told @GOPoversight that he never had any communication with the White House about a so-called “ethics agreement” governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. It was a sham. “The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people,” says Chairman James Comer. “Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art...

When Heidi Murphy was 47 years old, she began experiencing some health complications. What she thought was the start of menopause was instead an unexpected pregnancy. Despite the initial shock, Heidi and her husband were elated to be bringing a beautiful new life into the world. During the first ultrasound around 15 weeks, the technician told the expecting parents that there was something wrong with their baby, evident by a surplus of fluid around the little one’s head. When talking to the doctor, who was not yet sure what the diagnosis was, they were told that “they deserve a good...

Investigators say a door plug on Alaska Airlines 1282 came loose from fittings meant to hold it to the plane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have discovered loose parts on Boeing BA -1.41%decrease; red down pointing triangle 737 MAX 9 jets that they have inspected after a near-catastrophe on a flight Friday, signaling Boeing’s issues go beyond the aircraft that made an emergency landing. The disclosures came shortly before investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board said that dangerous episode on an Alaska Airlines jet occurred because an emergency exit-sized door plug blew out at around 16,000 feet after...

Dr Anthony Fauci evaded more than 100 questions about Covid, the lab leak theory and his ties to Wuhan during a landmark Congressional hearing Monday. House Republicans who quizzed the ex-White House advisor said he 'played semantics' to avoid conceding that he funded dangerous research in China that is feared to have started the pandemic. Dr Fauci, 82, also admitted that he signed off on millions of dollars worth of grants without reviewing the proposals - and appeared to admit his agency had little oversight of the foreign labs it bankrolled. The all-day probe on Monday will be followed by...

Cruelty can manifest in various forms and across different contexts. Some examples of behaviors and actions that are often considered cruel are leaving pets out in the cold, hitting a child, or abusing a spouse. Physical abuse, verbal abuse, bullying discrimination, animal cruelty, torture, harassment, and turning a blind eye to suffering. Those are some of the things people might say are examples of cruelty. But for Kamala Harris, cruelty is protecting babies from abortions. Never mind that abortion is physical abuse, torture, or harassment. Never mind that Harris is turning a blind eye to the suffering of babies killed...