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HIALEAH, Fla. – After a burglary victim was injured in Hialeah, Shakala Simone Smith told a detective her sister wanted her Sony PlayStation game console back, according to a police arrest report released on Wednesday. The woman claimed the game console was hers, and she reported Smith’s sister Daneill Dishan Henry threatened to stab her with a knife and a gunman threatened to shoot her over it. The woman also reported Smith, 28; Henry, 25; and another woman broke into her apartment and attacked her. The violence included biting and punching which hurt her hand, foot, and lip, police said....

A Florida woman, 23, accused of pretending to be a 14-year-old to molest a teenage boy has been hit with more charges as victims continue to come forward. Alyssa Ann Zinger of Tampa, Florida, allegedly pretended to be a homeschooled 14-year-old girl to prey on middle schoolers and engage in sex acts with younger boys. The 23-year-old was arrested in November for engaging in more than 30 sexual acts with at least one student as young as 12 from Wilson Middle School. Zinger was taken into custody over claims she posed as a home-schooled teenager to contact the victim...

The Fairview Heights Police Department is taking a “zero tolerance” approach to the unruly behavior of juveniles in public places, its chief said. That includes steps officers were forced to take Saturday when about 500 juveniles assembled at Moody Park to play loud music with vulgar lyrics, drive recklessly, use illegal substances and start fights, police said. Police disbanded the crowd and closed the park for the remainder of the day so they couldn’t come back. Chief Steve Johnson said Saturday wasn’t the first time that unruly juveniles have disrupted others at the park, or the first time police have...

Zach presents a good summary of some unanswered questions and anomalies surrounding the Baltimore bridge collapse. The video runs just over 27 minutes long.

A prominent Long Island pediatrician was killed when she tumbled out of a moving Airstream trailer — still clutching the door’s handle — and onto an upstate highway during a family road trip over the weekend, according to state police and kin. Dr. Monika Woroniecka — a 58-year-old married mom and children’s allergy and immunology specialist with Stony Brook Medicine — was in the 2024 silver trailer with other family members when she fell through the door shortly after 3 p.m. and onto State Route 12E in Watertown in a freak accident, said police and family. Woroniecka’s husband, Robert, 59,...

On Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State sent some very bad news to the Ohio Democratic Party: The deadline for certifying a presidential candidate to appear on Ohio’s ballot is August 7. However, the DNC convention isn’t being held until August 19. Until then, despite his current status as the Democrat frontrunner, Biden isn’t technically the Democrat party candidate. This is a huge egg-on-the-face moment for the DNC. While the situation can be remedied, that it happened reflects the anti-meritocracy that the left has become. Democrats have been holding nominating conventions since 1832. In the ensuing 192 years, late August/early September...

Here's the order from Brazil's Supreme Court opening an investigation into Elon Musk for obstruction of justice. The court is also imposing a daily fine of 100,000 Brazilian Real ($19,777) for every account X/Twitter refuses to block

Whiteness didn’t contribute to Caitlin Clark’s stardom. But it’s certainly the biggest factor in why black analysts and former players hate her so much. These comments/hate would never be directed at any non-white person. 4:25 PM · Apr 7, 2024 · 157.5K Views

Please join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

After years of skeptical study, I became persuaded that Jesus was telling the truth when He said that prophesied “last-things” events would be fulfilled in his generation (Luke 21:22, 32; etc.). This is the preterist view of eschatology. Preterism teaches that most, if not all prophetic events happened with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Books by modern authors such as Francis Gumerlock and Kenneth Gentry affirm that this view has been part of the discussion since the earliest days of Christianity. Indeed, preterists argue that the writers of the New Testament were preterists. It is re-emerging in popularity....

Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year. US authorities say the synthetic opioid is mostly produced in Mexico and trafficked across the border. But addiction and deaths are also on the rise in Mexican towns and cities. When smuggling into the US all but stopped during the pandemic, the cartels unleashed fentanyl on their own population. Now they're trying to clean up the mess. Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos travelled to Tijuana, to see how it's going. His report shows images of drug use.

"Stop Making Sense" is an album and a documentary by the band Talking Heads. It's also a phrase that comes to mind every time Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) opens his mouth these days.It's not that I want him to stop making sense, it's just that I still can't wrap my head around the fact that this is the same guy who on the campaign trail was barely coherent due to complications from a massive stroke and who came off as someone who would end up on the AOC wing of the party. As if to emphasize that impression, he...

@tsarnick Elon Musk says there is no evidence of aliens and we are probably alone

There used to be a saying: "As goes California, so goes the nation." Bear in mind that the first time I remember hearing that the Governor of California was a man named Ronald Reagan, you may have heard of him. These days, we should be terrified at the very idea of California taking its fiscal train-wreck policies on the road. Under the current governor, the impeccably coiffed Gavin Newsom, California has gone from a state with a budget surplus to facing almost $70 billion in debt. Yes, that's "billion" with a "B."That isn't stopping the state of California from coming...

Economists are expressing concern over the increasing number of illegal immigrants in the United States, who they believe are obscuring the actual condition of the jobs market and the U.S. economy.etty Images)For the last few years, the headline employment figure has been impressive. The country has recovered the lost jobs from the government-imposed shutdowns during the pandemic and added a few million more, despite a climate of high inflation and rising interest rates.In 2023, the economy added approximately 3 million new positions. To kick off 2024, more than 800,000 new jobs have been added.The labor market data is critical as...

The VDARE.com website, founded by Peter Brimelow, has been on the internet since 1999. VDARE deals with immigration (legal and illegal), national identity, ethnic identity politics, race and crime, and related topics; especially aspects of these matters that are excluded by the Mainstream Media. That’s why VDARE is under attack and is currently in imminent danger of being abolished. Its payment processing has been shut down repeatedly. It’s been banned from YouTube and Facebook. Sadly, VDARE has been very shabbily treated by the conservative movement itself. VDARE is currently being destroyed by Leticia James, the attorney general of New York....

Lord Cameron will warn that the US is risking the West’s security by holding up a new package of aid for Ukraine when he visits Washington DC next week. During a face-to-face meeting, the Foreign Secretary will urge Mike Johnson, the House of Representatives speaker, to stop his Republican colleagues from continuing to block the support. Earlier this year, the UK announced another £2.5 billion in aid to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion, while the European Union has pledged a further €50 billion (£43 billion). But Joe Biden’s $95 billion (£75 billion) Bill, which includes security assistance to Ukraine,...

A massive container ship lost power in the waters around New York City and was brought to a rest near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Friday night — less than two weeks after failure on another massive cargo vessel caused it to smash into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.The US Coast Guard confirmed that its Vessel Traffic Service received a report that the 89,000-ton M/V Qingdao lost propulsion about 8:30 p.m. as it traversed Kill Van Kull waterway — the shipping lane between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey. An image shared on X by John Konrad, CEO of maritime-focused news outlet...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~HMS GlowwormAll info and photos from this website. HMS Glowworm, (H92) a 'G' class destroyer was launched on 22nd July 1935. She weighed 1,345 tons. She was armed with four 4.7 inch guns; seven anti-aircraft/machine guns; ten 21 inch torpedo tubes and depth charges. She cost £300,000 to build and had a complement of 145. (Picture: Glowworm...

Old Joe Biden has stabbed Israel in the back in order to try to ensure that he carries Michigan in November, but at least some of the Muslims in the Great Lake State don’t exactly seem grateful. Friday was International Al-Quds Day, an orgy of global victimhood posturing and rage over Israel’s refusal to surrender to the Palestinian jihad, and in Dearborn, rallygoers observing the day demonstrated that if Biden actually cared about the wellbeing of the American people, he would have bigger things to think about in Michigan than the presidential election. Dearborn’s International Al-Quds Day rally was streamed...