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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana sentenced to minimum of 52 years for murder of three girls at a dance class in 2024 He is given 52 years. Mr Justice Goose adds: “It is highly likely that he will never be released.”

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Wednesday criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for defending President Trump’s recent pardons for rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “I’m speaking as a Christian here, I saw Speaker Johnson say, ‘We believe in redemption,’” Kinzinger said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” “How dare you use the Bible in this?” “I mean, don’t talk about repentance, Speaker Johnson, defend this,” Kinzinger added later. “Go out and defend that there’s these criminals on the street now, do that. I’ll respect if you do it.” Kinzinger’s remarks were first highlighted by Mediaite.

Ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband made $38 million worth of stock trades in the weeks leading up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration — including an investment in a once-obscure artificial intelligence firm whose shares have soared nearly 50% in the past week. Paul Pelosi, the venture capitalist who is married to the Democratic lawmaker whose 11th congressional district encompasses San Francisco, sold $24 million worth of Apple stock as well as $5 million worth of shares in AI chip-maker Nvidia. Both of those lucrative transactions were executed on New Year’s Eve, according to government filings. Nancy Pelosi is legally required...

2024 was an eventful year in politics. Around half of the world’s population was called to the polls for presidential or parliamentary elections. For the first time in the history of Western democracies, every governing party lost support in the elections. Among all the changes of government, Donald Trump’s return to the White House stands out, especially as the Republicans also hold the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives. A few weeks ago, the German traffic light coalition collapsed after long squabbles. Germany is now voting prematurely at the end of February. For gold investors, 2024 was...

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman told President Donald Trump in a phone call his country hoped to invest at least $600 billion in American ventures in the next four years, the Saudi Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday. Mohammed bin Salman held a congratulatory phone call with Trump and separately spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, celebrating the “strength of the U.S.-Saudi partnership in this time of momentous change.” The Crown Prince is widely considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia representing the interests of the elderly King Salman. The optimism and hopes for...

First responders got a call where a man was "stabbed multiple times." An Afghan refugee allegedly tracked down and stabbed an immigration caseworker multiple times in Michigan on Wednesday. The Orion Township caseworker's job was to help immigrants assimilate into the country. According to WXYZ, first responders answered a call where a man was "stabbed multiple times” on Red Boot Road near E. Silverbell and Kern roads in Oakland County, Michigan. The suspect in the case reportedly took off in a car but was later arrested and identified as a refugee from Afghanistan who was getting help from the victimized...

The city Department of Sanitation is considering whether to enlist a fleet of drones to help it enforce new trash rules and perform inspections alongside its human inspectors on the ground. “This is extremely preliminary – really just in the early planning stages,” a DSNY spokesperson told The Post. “But we are investigating whether this technology may be useful for things like building maintenance inspections or for enforcement of basic cleanliness rules.” Drones could be used to scour for illegal dumping acts and help spot people leaving trash bins out earlier than permitted. They could also help inspect agency vehicles,...

VIDEOThe best thing about the yearly World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland is the exposure of the fools and hypocrites there by Rebel News of Canada. While most of the other news outlets serve as not much more than dutiful PR machines for the WEF agenda there, Rebel News shows us what is REALLY happening. For example Rebel News exposed Greta Thunberg at Davos as nothing more than a giggling airhead who is helpless without her handlers telling her what to say. This year, one of the people exposed by Rebel News at Davos was the Keir Starmer loving...

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Jews seem to generate a lot of negative emotions among non-Jews. While it's become particularly intense since Israel began retaliating against Hamas, it's been going on for a long time.The Romans fought three wars against the Jews, who had been a civilization for over a millennium before the time the Romans touched the sands of the Middle East. The first of those wars, the First Jewish – Roman War 66-73 AD, which ended with the deaths of defenders of Masada resulted in the destruction of the Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple, the death of 50,000 Jews and absolute Roman control...

The Oscar nominations are here. Despite the debate over whether the big show should go on amid the devastation in Los Angeles from the wildfires, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pressed ahead and the Academy Award nominees for 2025 were announced on Jan. 23. [SNIP] Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night, Shiva Baby) and Bowen Yang (Wicked, Saturday Night Live) helmed the early morning nominations ceremony at the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater and announced the 23 categories. The presentation was livestreamed on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the academy’s social media accounts, and aired on ABC’s Good Morning America. Emilia Pérez...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former aide Brian Hook, both of whom served in his first administration, the New York Times reported on Thursday.Representatives for the White House could not be immediately reached for comment on the report, which citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Trump on Tuesday said he had withdrawn protection for his former national security adviser, John Bolton.

Daily Readings from the USCCBHe told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. Mark 3:9–10It’s fascinating to ponder the enthusiasm that so many people had toward Jesus. In the passage above, we see Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that He would not be crushed as He taught the crowd. He had been curing many who were sick, and the crowd was...

CNN — The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday and it was a big morning for “Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked.” After acknowledgement of the impact of ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles by Academy leadership, Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees for the film industry’s top prize, previewing the race that will play out in the weeks to come, culminating at the March ceremony.

Ford Motor is recalling 272,817 vehicles in the United States due to concerns over battery failure, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday. The recall affects certain 2021-2023 Bronco Sport and 2022-2023 Maverick vehicles. The 12-volt battery may experience degradation and suddenly fail, which can result in a loss of electrical accessories, including the hazard lights, or cause a loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash, the US auto safety regulator said. Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, replace the 12-volt battery free of charge, it said

Russian propagandists expressed their outrage about President Donald Trump's recent statement regarding Moscow-U. S. relations. -snip- "Trump has threatened us twice in 24 hours. No illusions. A capitalist who doesn't give a damn about other countries. No matter, Russia is like a KAMAZ, the more you load, the better it goes. How tightly you can blockade 1/6 of the planet Earth's land mass." Sladkov added that he was "also outraged by Trump's lie: 'Russia helped us win the war (the Great Patriotic War)'" as "in 1944, we barely persuaded these Anglo-Saxons to take part in military operations in Europe. They,...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Commerce and Interior secretaries to reroute more water from Northern California to other parts of the state. This move aims to address water shortages affecting Central Valley farmers.

well the Trump effect has been instant for me our sales rep has been bombarding me yesterday and today with new PO's to process and order. I was a zombie last week watching youtube much of the day and now i'm overloaded and have to ask my colleague for assistance which has never happened except for emergency or vacation perhaps we're trying to get our orders from Mexico and China (which are many of them) into the US before tariffs get enacted (right now only a few items we bring in from China are subject to tariff)

Illegal aliens fearful of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids under President Donald Trump are staying inside, reportedly causing foot traffic to drop by 50 percent in a busy Chicago shopping district known as “Mexico of the Midwest.” Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores “turned into a ghost town” by Monday afternoon, after Trump was sworn into office, according to a report by Bloomberg. By Tuesday morning, several shops in Little Village, which is also known as the “Mexico of the Midwest,” were closed. “Business was just down, people were staying home, people were...

A South Carolina utility wants to restart construction on a power plant that was mothballed eight years ago after running over budget and pushing an iconic American company into bankruptcy. Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to help finance and complete the two reactors at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station, the Wall Street Journal reports. Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station is a single reactor power plant. Santee Cooper was spearheading the construction of two new reactors, an expansion that began in 2008. The unfinished project was...