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Texas troopers pulled over a white Lexus and when the driver refused to let them search his vehicle, a Border Patrol K-9 was brought in. The canine alerted the agent to the car’s trunk and upon opening it, found two illegal immigrants from Nicaragua packed in the tiny trunk. The driver claimed they were his cousins and that they wanted to ride back there. Border Patrol took the immigrants into custody and charged the driver and passenger with two counts of smuggling.

21 June 2025Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious on Saturday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Side Altar of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, located at the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Corinthians 12:1-10'My power is at its best in weakness'Must I go on boasting, though there is nothing to be gained by it? But I will move on to the visions and revelations I have had from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago, was...

An Ohio man was hauled into court Friday after a Thursday incident in which Rep. Max Miller, a Republican from Ohio, says he was run off the road. The driver of the other car allegedly shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Miller. Feras S. Hamdan faces a misdemeanor charge of menacing with an ethnic intimidation specification, because Miller is Jewish .... At Hamdan’s arraignment, Rocky River Municipal Court Judge Joseph Burke set the suspect’s bond at $500,000. Rocky River Prosecutor Michael O’Shea had sought a $25,000 personal recognizance bond. “Threats against elected officials — I’m just not gonna tolerate that,” Burke said,...

BAYTOWN, Texas – It’s the end of an era for ExxonMobil as the company is scheduled to demolish their old 10-story Main Office Building in Baytown on Saturday. Known as the “White House,” the building has played a role in the company since it opened in 1971. The building, located at 2800 Decker Drive, will be coming down this Saturday at 6:30 a.m. as the company implodes it. While there will be no designated viewing areas available for the public to view the implosion, the company says they will be posting a video of the demolition online after it happens....

Isolationists seek to discredit warnings about the great dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran as “warmongers” or “neocons.” Yet history proves the opposite: Isolationism allowed Nazi Germany to arm and vastly expand its war machine, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. In reality, isolationists are the most dangerous war-mongers. Their intent to keep the U.S. out of military conflict (short of a direct attack on the U.S. homeland), virtually ensures a catastrophic war.

Eight people are dead after a hot air balloon carrying 22 people crashed in Praia Grande, Brazil

With the Israel-Iran war stretching into its second week, commentators from all sides of the political arena have been delivering their optimistic, pessimistic, and realistic opinions on the conflict. Here are the facts: The war is going in Israel's favor. There’s a 50-50 chance of regime change, but only a 25% chance the new leaders will be better than Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A lobbyist has been charged with threats of violence after sending text messages threatening to carry out a shooting at the Minnesota State Capitol. Jonathan Michael Bohn, 41, made his first court appearance Friday morning. The charges come less than a week after the assassination of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shootings of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. According to a criminal complaint, a resident of Waconia contacted authorities on Wednesday, saying that Bohn had sent him threatening text messages. The victim said he hadn’t spoken with Bohn in a “considerable amount...

Six B-2 stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri appear to be en route to a U.S. Air Force base in Guam, according to flight tracking data and voice communications with air traffic control. The bombers apparently refueled after launching from Missouri, suggesting they launched without full fuel tanks due to a heavy onboard payload, which could be bunker-buster bombs. The B-2 can carry two 15-ton bunker-buster bombs—which only the U.S. possesses. Experts say the bombs could be critical to targeting Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear site: Fordow.

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that it’s now time for the U.S. to call for the total end of Iranian uranium enrichment “and to say that the inspections would be broader, deeper, more continuous, and that they would abandon all of their nuclear enrichment program. And that would require them opening up all of their sites to continuous monitoring, and, frankly, actions to decommission what’s left of their nuclear program.” Co-host John Berman asked, “[I]s there a red line for you in these negotiations? Is there any — in other words, if Iran...

Car burglars fired at least 30 shots at a 27-year-old man who confronted them during a vehicle break-in... If you discover a theft in progress, do not exit the house to confront an offender. Instead, fire your home defense weapon out a barely opened window while crouched down low. A rifle would work best in terms of accuracy, but a shotgun loaded with slugs would be as good. Handguns are an iffy proposition in these types of events. If it's a catalytic converter thief, try for the lookout first....or the getaway driver. Those are the ones who might shoot back....

Mohammad Saeed Izadi, the commander of the Palestine Corps within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and the key coordinator between Iran and Hamas, was killed on Saturday, both the military and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced. Izadi, according to reports, helped finance and arm Hamas in the lead-up to the October 7 massacre. He was reportedly behind the "plan to destroy Israel" by coordinating assaults on Israel from multiple fronts. Izadi was killed in an apartment in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, by an attack by Israel Air Force fighter jets following an intelligence-gathering effort, the...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/21/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleDeuteronomy 8:6-86 Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out...

If there’s one place to find unexpected food combinations, it’s social media. TikTok recipes abound with weird combos like chamoy and pickles, whipped cream and lemonade or Jell-O mix and grapes. The mashup going viral right now is wine with jalapeños. People drop a few thin slices of fresh jalapeño into a cold glass of white or rosé and rave about the taste. At first, this pairing seems ridiculous. But I’m a certified taster and the author of How to Taste, and I can tell you that there’s solid logic behind this trend.

Scholars have long debated the origins of the House of Piast, Poland's first royal dynasty, who ruled the nation from the tenth through the fourteenth century. Some believe they were Slavic nobles, others Moravian exiles, and still others say they were Viking warriors. The Conversation reports on new DNA analysis that has revealed shocking new information concerning the Piasts' genetic background that might potentially rewrite history. Researchers led by molecular biologist Marek Figlerowicz of Poznań University of Technology extracted DNA from 33 individuals, 30 men and three women, belonging to the Piast dynasty. Most of the deceased, who lived between...

The year 1973 was full of change and entirely groovy. The U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Roe v. Wade shook up the courts, and gas lines stretched for blocks as the oil crisis took hold. On the flip side, bell-bottoms were in full swing, Pink Floyd dropped “The Dark Side of the Moon,” and a little horse named Secretariat ran straight into the history books. These 1973 photos represent how electric the year was.

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco leaders gathered on the steps of City Hall on Friday to denounce a recent string of antisemitic attacks. Joining them were residents and business owners who have found themselves targeted.

Researchers have determined that a nearly five-inch-tall limestone figurine of a woman found by a farmer near the city of Kołobrzeg in 2022 dates to more than 6,000 years ago, according to a report in The Art Newspaper. The statuette was dubbed the "Venus of Kołobrzeg," a reference to similar Neolithic figurines with accentuated breasts unearthed throughout Europe that scholars believe were fertility symbols. The oldest known example, which was found in 2008 at southern Germany's Hohle Fels Cave, is some 40,000 years old. The Kołobrzeg Venus is the only such figurine discovered north of the Carpathian Mountains. Researchers noted...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24Mammon is another word for money. Jesus is clear that you must choose to serve either God or money, but not both. A divided heart does not suffice. Saint John of the Cross, in His spiritual classic “Ascent to Mount Carmel,” explains something similar. He says that our desires must become completely purified to the point that all we desire...

It's amazing to watch and see him use the same tactics over and over and the retards on the left predictably losing their minds over and over as if on cue. The man is the maestro before a symphony of media. Playing them like it's Wagner. And since very few other world leaders are even comprehending what he's doing, he's rolling them in tariff negotiations. Big wins. Little wins. Incremental wins. Wins. It's Hamiltonian ideas painted by a pugilist. The man is inspired. He's right. And history will remember him more highly than most.