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A special education teacher and dance team coach faces criminal sexual conduct charges after she allegedly had sex with one of her students and bought alcohol for minors. Ann Margaret Bacon, 24, told cops she had sex five times with an 18-year-old student in a hotel room in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, according to the criminal complaint. She was charged on Monday in Ramsey County District Court with felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Bacon soon resigned from her position at Tartan High School, located in Oakdale, the principal of the school announced in a statement on Tuesday. Although the student was...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted twice to convict former President Trump on impeachment charges, is ruling out voting for Trump in 2024, citing a court’s finding that the former president sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. Romney’s announcement that he won’t vote for Trump isn’t surprising. But it does show him sharpening his rhetoric against the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination by saying the reason for his opposition is a Manhattan jury’s finding last year that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages. A New...

The Republican House had unceremoniously sent forward a bill that would reauthorize Section 702, a highly-controversial provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), but yesterday, over a little too much negative press, they temporarily shelved the vote. Without congressional intervention, Section 702 is set to expire in a little over two months.FISA was originally meant to target noncitizens abroad, especially suspected terrorists, but somewhere along the way, the trawl net snared suspicious, non-woke, non-PhD, MAGA-like, presidential candidates who talked about draining the swamp of Washington D.C. and rooting out the corruption plauging the people.Some federal agencies, and even entrenched...

New Haven mayor tells The Daily Wire his city is 'reviewing the matter' as Jewish residents say community is 'very shaken and felt targeted' Thabisa Rich outside a Jewish family’s home alongside a professional photo on her LinkedIn. (Source: Courtesy and LinkedIn) A New Haven, Connecticut city official with an anti-Semitic social media history chanted ethnic cleansing slogans with a megaphone outside a Jewish family’s home, and encouraged others to return with her, according to video obtained by The Daily Wire. Thabisa Rich, New Haven’s Community Outreach Coordinator for the Department Arts, Cultural and Tourism, set up outside the home...

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Friday that he is not running for president, according to his spokesman Jonathan Kott. Manchin announced his decision in a speech at West Virginia University, as part of a national listening tour he was making. “I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential run,” he said in his speech in Morgantown. The centrist Democrat who often bucked his party's leadership had been considering a run for the presidency and had said he thought it would be clear by March if there was a path for a...

A former Meta engineer, his data scientist wife, and their 4-year-old twins were found dead inside their $2.1 million California home. Police investigating the incident are treating it as a murder-suicide. Anand Sujith Henry, 37, allegedly shot dead his sons and fatally shot his wife, Alice Benzinger, before turning the gun on himself, according to KTVU. The couple was found dead inside the house with gunshot injuries besides a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine inside the bathroom after police were called on for a welfare check on Monday. The former Meta engineer’s two sons were found dead inside one...

Almost 70 percent of Americans say the U.S. would benefit from new curbs on migration at the southern border, according to an Economist/YouGov poll of 1,671 citizens. The February 11-13 poll asked, “If Congress passes a new bill restricting the admission of new migrants at the border, do you think this would be good or bad for the United States?” Sixty-nine percent of the Americans responded that it would be “good,” while only 14 percent predicted “bad.” That result shows five Americans believe migration curbs will benefit America for every one American who believes migration curbs would be harmful. The...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging two Maryland residents with the burglary of a federal firearms licensee (FFL), conspiracy to steal firearms from FFLs, and interstate transportation of stolen firearms and stolen vehicles. According to allegations in the indictment, Cedric Minger, 21, and Victor Jones, 22, stole more than 50 firearms—including pistols, rifles, short-barreled rifles, and silencers—from Dominion Defense, an FFL in Springfield, Virginia, on April 29, 2023. According to the indictment, Minger, Jones, and two co-conspirators traveled from Washington, D.C. to Dominion Defense in a stolen Acura ILX. After breaking the business’s exterior...

ESG (Environmental, social, and corporate governance is a losing game. Two of the world’s largest financial institutions cut ties Thursday with Climate Action 100+, delivering the latest setback to the world’s biggest coalition of investors pressuring corporations to ditch fossil fuel assets. The asset management arms of JPMorgan Chase and State Street dropped out of Climate Action 100+, home to more than 700 investment firms totaling $68 trillion in assets under management. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, with more than $10 trillion in assets, distanced its U.S.-based operations from Climate Action 100+ by transferring its membership to BlackRock International....

Daily Readings from the USCCB“The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” Matthew 9:15Our appetites and fleshly desires can easily cloud our thinking and keep us from desiring only God and His holy will. Therefore, in order to curb one’s disordered appetites, it is useful to mortify them by acts of self-denial, such as fasting. But during Jesus’ public ministry, when He was daily with His disciples, it appears that self-denial was unnecessary for His disciples. One can only speculate that this was because Jesus was so intimately present to them...

Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis reportedly campaigned in 2020 in not “engaging in sexual misconduct.” Willis’s campaign promise was ironic to say the least, follwing allegations of her own affair along with financial implications. When Willis was asked about her qualifications to be elected Fulton County’s prosecutor, she said: “Because they deserve a DA that won’t have sex with his employees, because they deserve a DA that won’t put money in their own pocket when it should go to benefit children.” “Because we deserve better.” WATCH VIDEO: https://twitter.com/i/status/1758180907796598934 Willis ultimately won the general election on November 3, 2020, replacing longtime...

'ZIP' IT: Fani Willis appeared flustered, mentioned rushing to take the stand when she was called, and according to some who watched the hearing online, appeared to be wearing her dress backwards. https://t.co/c620ASDDVT pic.twitter.com/cukkXCiRUo— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2024

Azov Neo-Nazi “ Relief” Brigades get clobbered, 7-10K trapped. History Legends always has the best geo-located video footage and commentary.

A recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates shows that 86% of voters want only U.S. citizens to be allowed to vote in elections. The poll was conducted in late January and released by the group Tea Party Patriots Action. The poll also showed that 87% of voters believe that proof of U.S. citizenship should be required to vote in U.S. elections. “It’s simple. Americans want to protect American democracy and American elections from the foreign interference of allowing non-citizens to vote. American voters want to protect their vote from being canceled out by the vote of non-citizens," McLaughlin &...

As usual, “HistoryLegends” presents a very good (and OBJECTIVE) strategic assessment of developments in the Ukraine war. For those interested in understanding the military and historical flow of events, listening to his assessment is beneficial.

A five-time deported illegal alien is now accused of killing a 10-year-old boy walking home from school in Midland, Texas, in a hit-and-run crash. Rogelio Ortiz-Olivas, a 50-year-old five-time deported illegal alien from Mexico, has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and causing a fatal hit-and-run crash that ultimately killed 10-year-old Alex “AJ” Wise, Jr. Midland is less than four hours from the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the Midland Police Department, on Feb. 8, Ortiz-Olivas was driving a truck when he hit Wise, who was walking home from school. Immediately, police said, Ortiz-Olivas fled the scene, leaving Wise in...

Discover the fascinating ties between Gloria Steinem, a leading figure in the feminist movement, and her recruitment by the CIA, as Eric Hunley interviews @JohnnyVedmoreof @NEWSPASTEHQ. This video delves into Steinem's enigmatic past, highlighting her involvement with the CIA in India, her influential return to the U.S., and her pivotal role in the Independent Service for Information at Harvard. Join us as Johnny Vedmore provides a compelling narrative on Steinem's intricate relationship with the CIA, her contributions to feminism, and her connections with controversial figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates. Unpack the "unholy trilogy" of Steinem, the CIA, and...

Fr. Murray tells Raymond Arroyo ‘women deacons’ would be ‘serious moment of heresy’‘This is all an attempt to use modern feminism as a new criterion for determining the meaning of revelation and Church teaching. It has to be rejected,’ Fr. Gerald Murray declared.Prominent canon lawyer Fr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo that “female deacons” would be a “serious moment of heresy in the life of the Church.”On the recent edition of Raymond Arroyo’s show The World Over, Fr. Murray and Catholic author Robert Royal discussed the meaning of the claim made by a nun who recently spoke in the Vatican...

The City of San Francisco is poised to issue a formal apology to black residents for decades of racial discrimination against them throughout its history, according to a resolution introduced Tuesday that the Board of Supervisors is likely to approve. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: Dozens of people packed the San Francisco Board of Supervisors chamber Thursday to hear for the first time a resolution apologizing for the forced removal of Black communities from historic neighborhoods, ongoing tensions with the Police Department and underinvestment in key public services. A task force set up by the city released recommendations last summer...

On Wednesday, February 7th, St. Mary’s College hosted a lecture on “reproductive justice.” The speaker was a member of Catholics for Choice, a pro-abortion group that also claims to be Catholic. The talk was entitled, “Structural Change for Reproductive Justice: Insights from Catholic Feminism.” Students and pro-life groups protested, saying that a Catholic speaker should never advocate for abortion, as abortion is directly contrary to Catholic teaching, as stated in the Catechism and Humanae Vitae. In section fourteen, Humane Vitae explains, “Therefore, we base our words on the first principles of a human and Christian doctrine of marriage when we...