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Police and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have arrested an Arizona man for allegedly making expletive-laden death threats against President-elect Donald Trump and his family and attempting to illegally buy guns. The suspect, Manuel Tamayo-Torres, also posted photos from a Trump rally in August in Glendale, according to court documents – a rally that took place less than six weeks after the first assassination attempt on Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

MOORHEAD — A warrant filed in Clay County Seventh District Court for the suspect in the death of a 14-year-old Moorhead girl earlier this week showed the two were quarreling over a recently-ended romantic relationship before he stabbed her multiple times. About 90 minutes later Walker's mother filed a missing person report with Moorhead police and directed officers to look for her daughter in a wooded area near a bike trail on Elm Street and Sixth Avenue using Snapchat location services. Officers found Walker's body in that location. There were "substantial sharp force injuries to her back, torso and neck,"...

Already bracing for funding cuts under a new Trump administration, U.S. Treasury officials are calling on Congress to unlock $20 billion in IRS enforcement money that is tied up in legislative language that has effectively rendered the money frozen.Hoping to unlock the funds in upcoming budget negotiations, Treasury officials are rushing for action before President Joe Biden's term ends.The $20 billion in question is separate from another $20 billion rescinded from the agency last year. However, the legislative mechanism keeping the government afloat inadvertently duplicated the one-time cut.There would be 6,000 fewer audits of wealthy individuals and 2,000 fewer...

Federal prosecutors seek to silence Eithan Haim and his attorneys after they exposed major problems in the Biden Administration’s criminal targeting of the Dallas surgeon who blew the whistle on the mutilation of minors. Last week, federal prosecutors filed a Motion to Gag both Dr. Haim and the lawyers defending him against criminal charges the Department of Justice filed against the Texas physician in May 2024. The Biden Administration indicted Dr. Haim on spurious grounds after he leaked evidence a year earlier to journalist Christopher Rufo that the Texas Children’s Hospital was removing the healthy breasts and genitals of children....

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The peculiar layers could explain the ice giants' magnetic peculiarities. Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) are the ice blue giants in the outer Solar System. Image credit: Patrick Irwin/University of Oxford/NASA Uranus and Neptune were only visited once by human spacecraft when Voyager 2 passed by them almost 40 years ago. During those visits, scientists measured peculiar magnetic fields unlike those seen around other planets. A recent paper suggests that the Uranus measurements might have been messed up by the Sun, but in general, it has been difficult to explain the behavior. New research suggests that the magnetic weirdness might...

Yesterday, it was CNN scaremongering Trump's tariffs, absurdly claiming they would raise Walmart prices by 250%. Today, it was Morning Joe's turn to trash Trump's tariffs. The show ran a segment on the tariffs featuring Hallie Jackson of NBC News. Every point Jackson made about the tariffs was negative. [snip] Jackson offered her notion of an economics lesson: "Remember, tariffs are a tax on things other countries send here. And those other countries don't pay the tax directly. It gets passed down to companies instead—and often to you.That last warning was accompanied by a finger literally pointing at the viewer...

The Key to Understanding the Synod: “It Is a Continuation of Vatican II”Above: Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Fr. Vimal Tirimanna of Sri Lanka. (CNS/Vatican Media) Fifty years ago, in November of 1974, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre penned a brief but powerful Declaration — a manifesto against “the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.”“This Reformation,” he wrote (alluding to the Protestant revolt), “born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even...

U.S. — Vice President Kamala Harris released a video to let followers know that with the Presidential race over, she is now completely unburdened by sobriety. Kamala called for supporters to imagine what could be, such as getting totally blitzed on a random Tuesday -- unburdened by what has been, such as not drinking two bottles of merlot and washing it down with a Dixie cup full of trash can punch. "You guys... you guys. You're so powerful, and pretty, and UGH! Don't, don't--burp--don't, don't ever let anyone take your power from you. Don't you leave your power lying around,...

A brother and sister in North Carolina are claiming their late father is the mysterious plane hijacker DB Cooper after finding a parachute in their father’s home. Rick McCoy III and his sister Chanté claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the notorious plane hijacker who leaped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with $200,000 after taking crew and passengers hostage in 1971. ...MORE The siblings discovered the parachute in their father’s home years ago but waited until their mother’s death to reveal their findings out of fear their mother could be indicted as an accomplice. Shortly after their...

NATIONAL BAVARIAN CREAM PIE DAY Each year on November 27th, National Bavarian Cream Pie Day recognizes a pie that makes a grand entrance. This rich and delectable dessert is possible, thanks to the French chef, Marie-Antione Carême. In the early 19th century, Carême established many of the French cooking techniques still used today. He's even given credit for abolishing some practices from his kitchens. One dessert Carême receives credit for includes the creation of Bavarian cream. Perhaps he didn't create it but perfected this gelatin-based pastry cream. Initially, gourmet restaurants and luxury hotels served Bavarian cream pie in France in...

Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced in a chilling post on Wednesday that members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have been targeted with “violent, unAmerican threats to their lives” and left open the possibility that more are still to come. Leavitt, who Trump announced this month will become the youngest White House press secretary in history, made waves with a statement Wednesday morning acknowledging that death threats are being factored into the team’s return to power. “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and...

A strong majority of Americans still pray and express gratitude during Thanksgiving dinner, a Pew Research Center poll found. While some polling within the past decade has shown a decline in adherence to religion, surveys have also shown that Americans are a people of faith, with strongly held beliefs in heaven, angels, the power of prayer, and the supremacy of a higher guiding force. That belief in prayer still extends to Thanksgiving, a holiday steeped in tradition where Americans gather and give thanks for the blessings in their lives.

[Catholic Caucus] Do Catholics Need to Flee from Vatican II and Its “Reforms”?Vatican II and its aftermath has demonstrated to us that we must always fight for the immutable Catholic Faith, especially when false shepherds are attacking it.In his March 26, 1961 pastoral letter from Dakar, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre began by echoing a message from John XXIII:“His Holiness Pope John XXIII’s Christmas Letter to the world this year was on the subject of ‘Truth.’ I should like to re-echo for this diocese the Holy Father’s most timely message, and to draw your attention, my dear people, to the necessity to...

Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics at Penn State, called it the “million dollar question.” How did the Democrats lose the presidency, the House, and the Senate in a race where pollsters had Vice President Kamala Harris neck-and-neck, and at some points leading, President-elect Donald Trump? And what can the party do better next time to win back core parts of their base — working class voters, union laborers, and voters of color?

A petition demanding a fresh general election will be debated in Parliament in the New Year after numbers signing neared 2.8million. The Petitions Committee has announced that the call will be considered in the Westminster Hall chamber on January 6. The chair and Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone will lead the debate. However, under procedural rules it will be on a 'neutral' motion - and cannot trigger a national poll. The petition was posted on the Parliament website by pub owner Michael Westwood and complains that Keir Starmer has 'gone back on promises'. It has been shared by acting legend...

VIDEOCan you feel it? It's in the very air we breath. A Thanksgiving that seems more joyous than any other Thanksgiving in memory. In fact you could call it a "Trumpsgiving" with President Donald Trump about to return to the White House. So enjoy this Thanksgiving like no other Thanksgiving because it is Trumpsgiving and be THANKFUL for the return of all that seems right again.

Pope Francis: Mission AccomplishedAbove: when Time Magazine named Pope Francis person of the year in November 2013. On May 9, 2019, I argued that the way to wreck the institutional Catholic Church would be to use the Church’s own weapons against herself, especially the power and primacy of the pope.The Catholic Church, of course, is indefectible; but I argue now that Francis has accomplished the mission of ruining the temporal manifestation of the Church. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen had foreseen, we now have the “ape of the Church… emptied of its divine content.”“That’s a bit dramatic,” you’re thinking. “Did Francis...

Millions of Americans across the US have started to pack the roads and airports ahead of Thanksgiving, but a powerful storm moving from coast to coast could snarl travel before the holiday and as people begin their journeys home after celebrating with family and friends. The first half of the busy Thanksgiving travel week includes storms dumping rain and mountain snow in the West, while the eastern half of the country deals with rain, freezing rain and snow.

Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and administration appointees have been the targets of "violent" threats, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Thursday