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A funeral home in Poland issued an unusual apology on Saturday after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south-eastern Poland, when he first saw a sheet on his car window. When the sheet slid down, he saw a body lying on the road. For a moment the driver feared that he had hit the person. Local media published an image of the corpse lying on a white striped pedestrian crossing where it tumbled out...

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Prime Minister Meloni's flagship policy in doubt after the first batch of migrants sent to Albania are returned to Italy following a court ruling. The Italian coast guard took 12 migrants back to Italy on Saturday from newly opened asylum processing centres in Albania following a court decision in Rome. The ruling is a key hurdle in the administration’s plan to outsource some of its migrant processing to Albania. The 12 were part of the first batch of 16 migrants to be sent to the two centres that opened last week under a five-year deal to host 3,000 migrants per...

Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea Belle O’Donnell was arrested for child neglect and possession of drugs after police reportedly found her 11-month-old son near a meth pipe last month. The 27-year-old was charged on Sept. 17 with four felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and THC, the latter of which is commonly found in cannabis, according to court docs obtained by In Touch Friday. She was reportedly also hit with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs.

Throughout American history, business leaders have been able to assume that an American president of either party would uphold the rule of law, defend property rights and respect the independence of the courts. Implicit in that assumption is a fundamental belief that the country’s ethos meant their enterprises and the U.S. economy could thrive, no matter who won. They could keep their distance from the rough-and-tumble of campaign politics. No matter who won, they could pursue long-term plans and investments with confidence in America’s political stability. In this election, American business leaders cannot afford to stand passive and silent. Donald...

The countries that comprise BRICS—which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and now five new members—are an informal grouping of emerging economies hoping to increase their sway in the global order. Established in 2009, BRICS was founded on the premise that international institutions were overly dominated by Western powers and had ceased to serve developing countries.

While the WNBA is getting sellout crowds for the finals between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx, the league’s owners will not be making a return on their investment for the foreseeable future, sources close to the situation said. The NBA owns nearly 60 percent of the league. When one combines the NBA owners’ personal stakes in WNBA teams and the WNBA itself, the amount rises to 75 percent, a source with direct knowledge of the numbers said. The NBA team owners have invested hundreds of millions in the WNBA since its 1996 formation, per sources.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that she would not criticize President Joe Biden when asked about policy. Reporter Peter Alexander said, “President Biden said every president has to cut their own path. What is one policy you would have done differently over these last three and a half years than President Biden?” Harris said, “To be very candid with you, even including Mike Pence, vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. I think that really, actually, in terms of the tradition of it and also just going forward, it does...

Attention McDonald's fans: Your tweets, prayers, and angry letters have been answered. The McRib is officially making a comeback. But, naturally, there is a major catch. On Wednesday, The Independent reported that the McRib, which was first introduced in the early 1980s, is back on the menu in McDonald's locations across the United Kingdom after being pulled from permanent circulation nearly a decade ago. “It is more than just a sandwich; it’s a phenomenon. We have heard our fans loud and clear — the fan petitions and pleas on social — and after almost a decade of anticipation, we are...

On Oct. 16, Catherine Banks, a Marine Corps veteran, was asked to get off her flight, which was departing out of San Francisco International Airport. Once she exited the plane, the flight attendant explained that Banks needed to change because her shirt was “threatening,” Banks told NBC Bay Area (KNTV). It featured a message about veteran suicide rates in the U.S. “Do not give in to the war within,” the shirt read. “End veteran suicide.” Banks said that after informing the flight attendant of her service, she was still forced to change on the jet bridge and had to turn...

The Readings for this upcoming Lord's Day focus on the themes of suffering and leadership: in particular, how Christ, our definitive leader, embraced suffering on our behalf, and so modeled true leadership for all who would follow him. 1. Our First Reading is Isaiah 53:10-11: The LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity. If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him. Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering,...

Israel plans to retaliate for the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah, a diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday night, explaining that ultimately Tehran was responsible. The source spoke after a Hezbollah-launched drone hit a building in Caesarea. Israel has claimed that it was fired at Netanyahu’s home in that city but that neither the Prime Minister nor his family were home at the time. It has not been confirmed whether the drone hit his home. “Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran, so Iran is also responsible for this incident,” the...

While the causes of the crisis are multifaceted, the country-wide blackout is a new low for the government — and those Cubans still living on the island. Amid growing desperation, an unprecedented number of Cubans are trying to migrate to the U.S. by any means possible. The island has lost an estimated 10 percent of its population over the last three years.

Three weeks ago in Nevada, in the American Thinker/Rasmussen Reports poll, Trump was up by one point, and the Republican senatorial candidate, Sam Brown, was down by ten. It turns out that things can change a lot in three weeks. Not only has Trump advanced to a two-point lead in the latest poll, but Brown now leads by two points as well. It turns out that voters who increasingly distrust the government and are dismayed by the quality of their lives want to “turn the page”...away from Democrats and toward Trump. Rasmussen Reports polled 748 Like Voters (“LVs”) in Nevada....

Hanabi Lager Co. is creating craft lager out of ancient, heirloom grains.Hanabi Lager Co. shocked the beverage world when it released its first beer in late 2020, charging $90 for a six-pack. It was a pilsner, a style people expect to cost around $1 a can. Hanabi was charging $15 per bottle, plus the cost of shipping. Facebook commentators mocked the company. VinePair said it sounded like a spoof. But beer fans responded differently. These days, Hanabi’s lagers can sell out within an hour. Hanabi is succeeding at producing incredibly expensive beer even when the rest of the craft...

PHILADELPHIA — Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are worried Vice President Kamala Harris’ operation is being poorly run in the nation’s biggest battleground state. They say some Harris aides lack relationships with key party figures, particularly in Philadelphia and its suburbs. They complain they have been left out of events and surrogates haven’t been deployed effectively. And they’ve urged Harris staff in private meetings to do more to turn out voters of color. Some are even pointing fingers at Harris’ Pennsylvania campaign manager, Nikki Lu, who they say lacks deep knowledge of Philadelphia, where the vice president must drive up voter...

In 2008, Barack Obama and his new running mate, Joe Biden, kicked off their general-election campaign in Beaver County, Pa., a culturally conservative area northwest of Pittsburgh where the shuttering of steel mills years earlier still stung. In 2020, Mr. Biden was in Beaver County hours before Election Day to make his closing argument. And in August, the first stop for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on a Western Pennsylvania bus tour was in Beaver County. Each time, the Democrats were angling for the loyalties of the working-class, predominantly white voters who live in Beaver...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that we learned from 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview with the Fox News Channel that “her go-to when attacked for her own actions is usually, Trump is worse.” And said that she needs to say, “I wish we’d tightened the border sooner, as we have done now, and trust me, I learned my lesson and that’s never going to happen again.” During his closing monologue, Maher argued that no October surprise could be the thing that keeps 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is investigating an incident of animal harassment in Monterey after a man was caught on camera whipping sea lions with what appeared to be caution tape. The incident was recorded at Sister Park in Monterey. The man climbed over a fence near Fisherman's Wharf and scared the sea lions. "They should rename this from Sister City Park to Sea Lion Park whenever this happens," a local resident said. "Oh my God!" said a person reacting to the video. "I saw that this morning, and man, I hope they're not a local. That's pretty lame,"...

“But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness” (Romans 6:17-18). True freedom comes from being a servant of Jesus Christ. I once knew a man who, though intellectually convinced that the gospel was true, balked at committing his life to Jesus Christ. When I asked him why, he replied, “Because I don’t want to give up my freedom.” He understood clearly that genuine saving faith requires submission to Christ’s...