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The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood. A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang for refusing to let them stay in a vacant apartment they had taken over. The Brooklyn-based company claimed that the gang effectively stole entire apartment complexes out from under it by threatening employees and tried to extort it for a cut of the rent in exchange for being allowed to keep operating...

For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. Now, the company is finally delivering: it’s launching the new Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, a device that has a lot in common with the new Paperwhite, except instead of black and white it’s color all over. The Colorsoft costs $279.99 and is available for preorder today, with shipments starting October 30th. Making the Colorsoft happen, Amazon executives said at a launch event on Tuesday in New York City, required a lot more than just swapping in a new display. “Frankly, the technology just wasn’t ready”...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodality is the common thread linking the many controversies of the Francis pontificateAs Cardinal Joseph Tobin stated in 2021, 'synodality is, in fact, the long-game of Pope Francis.' The process of 'listening and dialogue' leading to doctrinal revolution and relativism is the string which ties together not just previous synods, but the last 11 years.Through the process and style of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis appears to be subtly but firmly trying to irreversibly implement the more controversial focus points of his papacy.“The Synod on the Amazon has opened the path for the Synod on Synodality,” Cardinal...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a fatal disease that caused its first New York state death in nearly a decade last month — marking a startling resurgence that’s left health officials baffled. The mosquito-borne illness is a rare but “severe” disease that targets the brain, causing rapid physical deterioration and lifelong disabilities — if it doesn’t kill you first. “I’m not joking when I say your life can change in...

Taxpayers are picking up the tab for Big Abortion in a big way — probably bigger than anything the average taxpayer would imagine. Taxpayer dollars are not only directly funding abortion, but are also paying for abortion facilities, abortion referral hotlines, abortion websites, and even abortion training in several states. MILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING Taxpayers in various states are now funding abortion, as private donations to abortion funding agencies allegedly dry up. National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) President Andrea Miller admitted as much in an interview with NPR, stating, “We’ve seen unrivaled action across states and localities at the...

Israel's latest offensive has raised concerns that the country is implementing a "surrender or starve" plan to push Hamas out of northern Gaza. Many residents there are being forcibly displaced.The Israeli military's latest invasion of Jabaliya in northern Gaza could not be more catastrophic for residents, who have already endured the bombardments and hardship of the Israel-Hamas war, now in its second year. "It's dangerous here. Nobody can move. It's risky and unsafe. They asked us to leave, but there was no time. All of a sudden, the area was surrounded and under fire," said Mohammed, who didn't want to...

(Asked of independents) As of today, do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party? 2024 Oct 1-12 Republicans/Republican leaners49 Democrats/Democratic leaners 42 2024 Oct 1-12 Republican 31 Democrat 28 Independent 41

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] should remember that.” Yet the thin-skinned and triggered Biden’s prickliness poorly hid—or perhaps revealed—the truth: This current administration knows that it is responsible for the current explosion of the Middle East and the particular dilemmas of Israel.

There’s “a monumental presidential election approaching,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Monday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” and pro-lifers in 10 states have the opportunity to stand up and protect life, or see countless pro-life protections erased. One of the 10 states with abortion-related ballot initiatives is Missouri with its Amendment 3. According to Perkins, this initiative, “if passed, would enshrine a deregulated industry of abortion and gender transition into Missouri’s state constitution.” Chris Williams, pastor of Kansas City’s Abundant Life Church, insisted that “we need all hands on deck to defeat this ideology trying to get a...

USA Today’s headline on the FBI’s reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime that fell, but that is not the same as all crime nor is it the only measure of reported crime. So they could have written, the FBI’s measure of reported violent crime fell in 2023. The second error is that they are wrong claiming that this was the second straight year, where an adjustment in the...

This is for the cheese heads in the north. Any counties or cities that have not gone all progressive (leftist). Saw an article the other day that was promoting their new progressive woman sherif. I'd like to come back but want to avoid all of that as much as possible. I believe it was Rhinelander; they used to make good beer. Yes I do school board meetings, and do all the political stuff possible.I'm not a communist and we have to go out and be active. Unless you are John MicCain, Mit Romney, Lindsey Gram, Liz Cheney... You get the...

To some of us, the unholy marriage of the Democratic Party and the pornography industry may seem like an obvious one, almost an inevitability, but it was still “newsworthy” that a coalition of pornography producers, distributors, and “performers” officially launched an online ad campaign urging porn-watchers to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. The $100,000 ad campaign is based on the fear that former President Donald Trump — according to The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a program which Trump has repeatedly disavowed — might ban pornography and jail porn producers if he were returned to office. The ads label...

The Republican National Committee (RNC), along with the Georgia Republican Party and the Fulton County Republican Party, is suing Nadine Williams, Director of Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections for refusing to hire Republican poll watchers. Under Georgia law, election officials are required to ensure balanced representation from both parties at polling places. Williams scoffed at the lawsuit, saying "Ill hire whoever I please. Before this case can be heard the election will be over and the Democrats will have won. All the Republicans involved in this suit will prosecuted by the Fulton County District Attorney for attempting to...

CNN’s Daniel Dale said Wednesday on “Newsroom” that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims former President Donald Trump would cut Social Security in a second term are false. Dale said, “She’s been saying that at a bunch of events dating back to July, that Project 2025, this conservative think tank plan that sets up proposals for a next Republican administration, says that Social Security should be cut under the next administration.” In North Carolina, at a campaign rally, Harris said, “Donald Trump will give billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts, cut Social Security and Medicare and make it...

The daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick broadcast her approval of Donald Trump using her father's famed antiwar film 'Full Metal Jacket' in a video that bashes a 'woke' military. Vivian Kubrick, 64, weighed in after Trump aired a video at a campaign rally that drew on scenes of a actor R. Lee Ermey portraying relentless Drill Sgt. Hartman in the 1987 flick, contrasted with images of men in drag and what Trump calls an increasingly 'woke' military. In a post on X, Kubrick, who worked with her father and had small parts in some of his iconic films, called...

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies. What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events. Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side....

People are making up excuses for Pittsburgh teenagers who commit crime.Here are two examples:“More activities for them, instead of coming downtown wreaking havoc,” said Payne.“There’s nowhere near as much things for these kids to do recreationally. If they turn one of these into a YMCA center or something down here for the kids, I guarantee you there’d be more for them to do,” said Banks.Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/11-investigates-exclusive-teens-causing-211541770.htmlThese excuses are ridiculous. Most teenagers somehow manage to avoid committing crime because their parents raised them properly. The idea that teenagers commit crimes because there aren’t enough government-run babysitting services is ridiculous. These are...

A report into clergy abuse across multiple dioceses in Massachusetts, based on investigations that took place years ago under then-Attorney General Maura Healey, is still not available to the public. Andrea Campbell, the state’s attorney general since January 2023, said Tuesday that it’s out of her hands when or whether to release the findings. Appearing on Boston Public Radio, Campbell fielded questions around why the office she’s led since January 2023 has yet to make the document public. Survivors and advocates told New England Public Media last year that investigators from the state attorney general’s office interviewed them 2021 about...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is feeling confident heading into the 2024 Presidential Election ... voicing her belief Kamala Harris will emerge victorious this November. We caught up with the U.S. Representative from California at LAX Monday, where she explained why she is feeling good about the Harris-Walz ticket ahead of Nov. 5.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s wife discussed sexual orientation in the classroom as a high school teacher, and spoke to at least one student about his sexuality before he had told his parents he identified as gay, the student said during a campaign event aimed at LGBTQ voters. Jacob Reitan, a former student of Gwen Walz when she taught at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, has said on numerous occasions that Gwen Walz told his entire class “on the very first day” of sophomore year that her class was a safe place for any student that identified as...