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Another teen murder suspect has landed himself in adult jail for an alleged assault while in juvenile detention. Jacob Lovato is accused of biting and punching corrections officers inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center and throwing a chair at them. The alleged fight happened after he turned 18 years old, leading him to be charged as an adult and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center. Lovato’s brush with the juvenile justice system started in Feb. 2023 when he was charged with battery on a peace officer and illegally possessing a handgun. He was granted supervised release from the YSC....

Chuck Norris said his mother, Wilma Norris Knight, has died at age 103. In a Facebook post on Friday, Norris announced his mom’s death, describing her as “a woman of unwavering faith, a beacon of light in our lives, and her love reflected God’s grace.” She died Wednesday. SNIP “From my earliest memories, she taught me the importance of kindness and compassion. I am so thankful for the countless lessons she shared, the prayers she lifted for us, and the way she embodied the love of Christ every day,” Norris wrote. “We love you, Mom. Until we meet again.”

Well-coiffed woman in pearls sits, happy and in control, (not sick and elderly, confined to a hospital bed under psychological pressure to sign), gazing wistfully from her writing desk ready to sign her "living will" (authorization to Dr.s to euthanize her). Her desk fades into a happy, soft image of a man--presumably her son--explaining to a boy--her "grandson"--"Grandma loved us so much that she wanted to have something to leave us, and she didn’t want to burden us by trying to cling to life after she had lived her time."

The Guardian reports that a section of wall stretching for nearly one-half mile was found in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off the coast of Germany, during a survey conducted with a multibeam sonar system. Inspection of the wall revealed that it was made up of about 300 boulders connected with some 1,400 smaller stones. The structure is thought to have been constructed more than 10,000 years ago, near a lake or marsh. Jacob Geersen of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde suggests that the wall may have been part of a driving lane used by hunters in pursuit...

The Biden administration boasted in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released Thursday about the unprecedented prosecution of a California man for “smuggling greenhouse gases” across the border from Mexico and selling them online. Michael Hart, 58, was arrested in March and pleaded guilty in September to charges related to transporting refrigerants into the US to peddle on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and other online vendors between June and December 2022. Biden’s EPA touted the crackdown on Hart, the first-ever person charged for climate change-related bootlegging of refrigerants — namely, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HFCs) — without the agency’s approval, in its report. When...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday... Biden, 82, “wrestled” with the decision to pardon his son for any and all crimes he committed between 2014 and 2024 — but it was a visit by Clyburn, 84, that tipped the scales and led the president to go back on his repeated promises not to do so.

Around midmorning on Thursday, parents across Montana started receiving texts from their children that schools were in lockdown. Schools quickly confiscated students’ phones, and parents panicked as they couldn’t find out anything more about what was happening. Schools statewide received threats of a suicidal person with a gun. Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, and Kalispell all received threats. Fortunately, there was no such gunman. The threatening phone calls originated from a foreign country, with schools receiving the same message. But the incident raises the question of what Montanans can do to keep schools safe . . . Instead of using...

In the waning days of the failed Biden administration, the current president has decided to forgo all norms and test the constitutional limits of his pardon power. It started when President Joe Biden issued a broad and sweeping pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. The get-out-of-jail-free card came just days before Hunter was set to be sentenced for tax evasion and also wiped away a number of felony gun charges normal Americans usually serve hard time for. The details of Hunter's deal from "The Big Guy" were astonishing. After all, Biden granted Hunter immunity from all crimes he may have...

Tony Soprano once famously said, “'Remember when' is the lowest form of conversation.” This never dawned on Kiss’ Gene Simmons, whose recent “rock is dead” rant amounted to little more than waxing nostalgic about the days when his band ruled the roost — and revealed his ignorance and disinterest in the current state of the genre. Simmons made his latest proclamation on an episode of The Zak Kuhn Show. When asked if he believed rock was still dead, Simmons replied: "It is. And people don't understand how I can say that when we all have our favorite songs and we...

The plans follow campaign promises from President-elect Trump and a congressional probe into U.S. Capitol Police and January 6. Donald Trump and his political allies are promising law enforcement reforms and to fight crime in Washington, D.C., when he takes office again in January. Already, allies on Capitol Hill are preparing to launch investigations, new committees, and detail new priorities as the former president prepares to take the reigns on the executive branch for the second non-consecutive term. Some initiatives are taking aim at the nation’s capital, following promises from Trump on the campaign trail to clean up the city....

In 1984, John Shepherd was a young actor looking for his first big break. It seemed to arrive in the form of a leading role in a film called Repetition. "I read the character breakdown and I thought it was so cool," he later recalled in the book Crystal Lake Memories. Eager to land the role, Shepherd went "very method," by his own admission. He wore sweats and a heavy coat while running up 10 flights of stairs jus prior to his audition. "Then when I went into the reading, I took of my jacket and just started sweating. I...

Democrats have told us identity matters above all else. Well, former President Barack Obama didn’t get the memo, or did he? His identity laundry list seems to be missing something. Oh, we see what happened. He took his list and applied some Wite-Out to get the ‘white’ out. Apparently, he’s now magically 100% African-American, plus a lot of other non-racial stuff. (WATCH) Obama lists his 'identities' but leaves out the fact that he's half white: "We have to acknowledge that we all have multiple identities. I am 63 year old African American man, husband, father, Christian, writer, Bears fan." I've...

Is he the Ghost of Christmas Past — or just another Scrooge? President Biden shocked attendees at the White House’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday night when he doffed his stocking cap to reveal long, wispy locks — appearing more like a character out of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic than the commander-in-chief. His white, billowy hair stood on end from the wool cap’s static electricity, spooking the White House press corps by making him seem older — and ghostlier — than usual. The shocking portraits of the 82-year-old president immediately began circulating online, earning him comparisons to the...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is very concerned that President Trump will return the illegal migrants to Mexico. Perhaps Mexico should have thought about this before allowing millions of illegal migrants to travel through their country on the way to the U.S. southern border. President Sheinbaum is now telling people she wants an agreement with President Trump so that her country does not suffer from millions of illegal aliens swarming Mexico. The irony is too thick.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a high-profile case brought by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT). The decision mandates the FDA to release the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) file for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine no later than June 30, 2025. The case stemmed from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the PHMPT, which sought comprehensive data related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA initially claimed it would need up to 75 years to process and release the requested documents....

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is apparently enraged after “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Donald Trump, according to The U.S. Sun. Scarborough and Brzezinski, who have slammed Trump for years, last month met with the president-elect to "restart communications.” They told viewers it was time to take a new approach. "It was such a stupid thing to do," an insider told the Sun. "They have bent the knee to ensure not being targeted by Trump and the whole MAGA world." The fallout from the meeting has apparently created a “very tense situation,” according to a...

Every year the age when American retirees can begin to claim Social Security benefits without a penalty has been getting higher. Here’s what it is in 2025 The new year will bring a series of changes to Social Security. Every year the Social Security Administration announces a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) which applies to beneficiaries’ payments starting with the disbursement that corresponds to January. The increase this year was 2.5% which will also raise the amount contributors must earn for each Social Security credit, also known as a “quarter of coverage,” as well as the wage cap for Social Security taxes....

Sudan's civil war...seven killed in an air strike on a mosque... ...in South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol saying he is 'sincerely sorry'... The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying he supports the advance of the jihadist opposition forces into Syria... In Oregon an internal investigation...regarding sexual misconduct at St. Helen's High School... The US Department of Agriculture ordering bird flu testing...milk supply... Riot police in Tbilisi, Georgia pushing back the anti-government... The military government...Burkina Faso dismissing the interim prime minister and... ...the trial of Daniel Penny...the judge in the case deciding to dismiss... In Boston Democrat City Councilor Tania...

Had you have taken a direct flight from London to Seoul yesterday afternoon, by the time you would have landed you might have been none the wiser that anything had happened at all. At near midnight South Korean time, President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed martial law across the so-called “land of the morning calm.” Only six hours later it was subsequently, and pointedly, revoked. As South Korean citizens continue with their daily lives, the political establishment has once again entered a period of precarity. Yoon has scored a significant own goal; its implications do not end there. It is no understatement...

As those who have seen the film or read the book know, “2000 Mules” was based on cell phone geolocation data collected and reviewed by True the Vote. An analysis of this data revealed highly suspicious patterns of certain cell phones, which were recorded in the location of ten or more dropboxes. This data was the premise of the film. During the production of this film, as a supplement to the geolocation data, True the Vote provided my team with ballot drop box surveillance footage that had been obtained through open records requests. We were assured that the surveillance videos...