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A 24-year-old Venezuelan migrant was arrested for pretending to be a minor to enroll in an Ohio high school. The Venezuelan man claimed to be a trafficked teenager and enrolled in the school in January 2024. Perrysburg, Ohio, police officers arrested 24-year-old Anthony Labrador on May 19 during a traffic stop after learning of his alleged fraudulent school enrollment. The Venezuelan migrant was illegally present in the United States after his visa expired in 2023. A Perrysburg family with adopted children took the man, claiming to be a 16-year-old boy, into their home, WTVG ABC13 reported. Labrador’s plans came unraveled...

In stark contrast to the previous administration's DEI-ladened grant programs and priorities, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said Tuesday her three priorities for grants are focusing on literacy, school choice, and states’ freedom. McMahon’s “first three proposed priorities” for the U.S. Department of Education discretionary grants include “evidence-based literacy, expanding education choice, and returning education to the states,” according to a news release. “These will be used in grant competitions across the Department to address the urgent needs of our students, families, and states,” the release said. The Department of Education did not immediately respond to The Center Square’s...

A Houston resident reportedly chased a furniture mover he had hired to move a box containing a corpse Friday, leading to a road crash that left the resident injured and in police custody, authorities said. The furniture mover told the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) that Steven Eberly, the suspect, hired him to move furniture at his home, according to a statement published Sunday by HCSO Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The furniture mover allegedly “observed a deceased individual in the boxes he was instructed to help move.” He then fled the residence in the Eberly’s truck with the suspect in its...

Delaware Democrat Gov. Matt Meyer signed a bill on Tuesday legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients given six months or less to live. Meyers claimed the measure, called the End-of-Life Options Act, is about “compassion, dignity, and respect for personal choice.” The bill, which will take effect next year, allows those patients to request a prescription to self-administer and end their lives, Fox News Digital reported. “We’re acknowledging today that even in the last moments of life, compassion matters,” Meyer said at the bill signing. “Every Delawarean should have the right to face their final chapter with peace, dignity,...

A wicked Obama judge is so determined to force the Trump Administration to keep the worst possible illegal aliens in America that he is willing to criminally sanction officials who violate his outrageous order. And Team Trump is rightfully furious. As The New York Times reported, U.S District Court Judge Brian Murphy, an Obama appointee, ordered Trump administration officials to maintain custody of illegal aliens on a deportation flight that the invaders’ lawyers said was headed to South Sudan. Murphy claimed the move likely violated an injunction he issued in April. “Based on what I have been told,” he said,...

Venezuela released U.S. Air Force veteran Joseph St. Clair on Tuesday in a bid to ease tensions with the United States. St. Clair, 33, boarded a private chartered flight in Antigua and Barbuda and arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Richard Grenell, the U.S. envoy for special missions, oversaw the handoff between Venezuelan and U.S. authorities. Nine other Americans remain in Venezuelan custody. St. Clair and eight of the remaining prisoners were declared wrongfully detained by the U.S. State Department on March 3. The ninth is expected to be designated wrongfully detained soon, WSJ...

On Sky News's "Lefties Losing It" program, host Rita Panihi plays a video of Katie Couric interviewing Jake Tapper where Tapper says Hunter was essentially acting as Chief-of-Staff. Fast forward to the 6:14 mark v=phfszGHsL4c&pp=0gcJCY0JAYcqIYzv link

Kay Arthur, a Christian author, Bible teacher and co-founder of Precept Ministries International, has died at the age of 91. Precept announced Arthur's death on its social media pages, saying the “beloved cofounder” had died on Tuesday morning. “We are so grateful for Kay’s gifts and her obedience to God’s call on her life. Her heart for God’s gospel is reflected in the mission of her ministry to this day: engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word,” stated Precept. “Join us as we thank God for the life of His daughter, Kay, and ask Him to comfort...

UnitedHealth shares fell more than 6% on Wednesday after the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported that the company made secret payments to nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers, adding to the woes of the healthcare conglomerate. The alleged action, part of a series of cost-cutting tactics, has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health, the Guardian reported, citing an investigation. The allegations add to the litany of negatives that have hurt UnitedHealth in the last several months, following a massive cyberattack at its Change Healthcare unit, reports of criminal and civil investigations into the company’s practices, including one...

Working fire at night, Two-Alarm fire in the morning. That was the case in the posh Kalorama neighborhood of DC where the new home of Donald Trump''s Navy Secretary caught fire TWICE in 12 hours. After that, we had a murder on the other side of town, but just next to an all-city elementary school track meet, which led to lots of scared kids and parents. PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is...

Top federal health officials actively took steps to “delay warning the public” for months in 2021 about the potential risks of heart-related complications from receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines... Starting in February 2021, federal health agencies had been alerted to “large reports of myocarditis” in young people who received the Pfizer vaccine, but waited until late June that year to adjust the vaccine labels to make that side effect known. On Feb. 28, 2021, an Israeli Ministry of Health official attempted to contact the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about 40 cases of myocarditis and other heart-related ailments in...

A local megachurch is rallying behind three male students at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, who are being investigated for sexual harassment after complaining about a female student who identifies as a boy in the boys' locker room. On Sunday, Gary Hamrick, senior pastor of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, introduced the boys to his congregation and pledged his support for them. "When I had heard about these three young men who attended Stone Bridge High School had been accused of sexual harassment just because they questioned a female in the boys' locker room, I just felt compelled, as...

The pro-life movement is losing the long game. Not because our arguments lack truth or our data lacks integrity, but because we are fighting on the wrong battlefield. For decades, we have reacted to Planned Parenthood’s every move, attacking abortion procedure by procedure, law by law and statistic by statistic. And yet, abortion remains embedded in our culture, now more accessible than ever through telehealth, mail-order pills and blue-state shield laws. The question must be asked: have Christians conceded the moral high ground? Planned Parenthood understands something the Church has forgotten — the real battle is cultural. It is spiritual....

The governor of Virginia asked the attorney general to investigate Loudoun County Public Schools over its handling of an alleged incident involving a transgender student in a boys’ locker room. According to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, three boys at Stone Bridge High School expressed concern about a transgender boy in the locker room in March, and that transgender student allegedly recorded cellphone video of their reactions. Now, a lawyer for one of the three boys says they're under a Title IX investigation for sexual harassment. Youngkin said he’s “deeply concerned” about how Loudoun County Public Schools handled the matter, but LCPS...

WATCH: JFK assassination files hearing with Rep. Luna LiveNOW from FOX Luna Opens Second Hearing on the JFK Assassination Files WASHINGTON—Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on “The JFK Files: Assessing Over 60 Years of the Federal Government’s Obstruction, Obfuscation, and Deception.” In her remarks, Task Force Chairwoman Luna detailed how the federal government has lacked transparency when releasing federal documents that are in the public interest and praised President Trump and his administration for declassifying documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At...

On May 4, a search committee at the University of Florida recommended current University of Michigan President Santa Ono to succeed Ben Sasse as UF’s president. Ono’s appointment is subject to confirmation by UF’s Board of Trustees and the Florida State University System’s Board of Governors. Heretofore, the Board of Governors has wisely confirmed multiple appointments to carry out Governor Ron DeSantis’s praiseworthy vision of a state education system free of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory (CRT), radical gender ideology, and other pernicious policies that have marred education across the United States and the English-speaking world. Yet...

I took up the hobby of woodworking a few months ago. My wife was impressed by my work, so she asked me to make a pair of garden chairs as my next project. I obliged soon after and went about my business, putting in a lot of hard work over the next couple of weeks. When it was time for the final touches, I asked her to pick a suitable color except for pink, which kickstarted an exciting discussion, bringing up the topic of using colors to scare bugs away. Since we didn’t know much about the eyesight of bugs...

Today, I learned that faking town halls for presidential campaigns is a thing, but only when you use that footage on top of real town halls. And not only could Biden not do either, but when he tried to fake a town hall, it was so bad they couldn’t even use the fictitious footage. Some in his campaign tried to chalk it up to bad lighting, despite paying millions to make this happen. Whether or not that’s the case is for you to decide, but the conclusion remains the same regardless of the premise: this was the most pathetic and...

Between the Biden administration’s years-long cover-up of the president’s cognitive decline and likely concealment of his advanced prostate cancer, the Democratic Party has a bit of a PR problem right now, and it may get even worse. While Biden’s inner circle apparently saw no issue with a mentally diminished, terminally ill man controlling nuclear codes, the Clintons are back in the spotlight thanks to explosive revelations from Buzz Patterson, a former senior military aide in the Clinton White House who carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton. In a post on X, Patterson revealed another major Clinton scandal, this time...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV: Peace in the World and Unity in the Church -- by Roberto de MatteiCorrispondenza RomanaMay 21, 2025Two words recur frequently in Pope Leo XIV's speeches from the very beginning of his pontificate: “peace” and “unity.” Peace is what the Pontiff invokes in the face of an international scenario that in the Regina Caeli of May 12 he described as "dramatic." Unity is what the Church needs in order to face a fragmented world, as he explained in his May 18 enthronement speech. The world is indeed torn apart by geopolitical conflicts, but Pope Leo knows well...