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A Florida man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he said owed him money more than 30 years ago was put to death on Thursday, extending the record number of executions carried out in the Sunshine State to 11 so far this year. Curtis Windom, 59, died by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke on Thursday, according to The Associated Press. He was convicted in the Nov. 7, 1992, killings of his girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin and Johnnie Lee, who he claimed owed him $2,000. Windom's face was...

Deranged Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman blamed his mother for his decision to kill “so many people” at a Catholic school after she warned him that he would regret transitioning to female — while in the next line discouraging people from letting their kids transition.In his disturbed manifesto, Westman, 23, claimed to be anxious about a visit from his mother in an entry dated July 1, where he recalled her concerns about him transitioning. “Your words, mother, made me stay in my discomfort unable to ask for help to avoid admitting defeat. You were right mama, but the way you handled...

Deranged Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman blamed his mother for his decision to kill “so many people” at a Catholic school after she warned him that he would regret transitioning to female — while in the next line discouraging people from letting their kids transition. In his disturbed manifesto, Westman, 23, claimed to be anxious about a visit from his mother in an entry dated July 1, where he recalled her concerns about him transitioning. “Your words, mother, made me stay in my discomfort unable to ask for help to avoid admitting defeat. You were right mama, but the way you...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) joined other Democrats in mocking the idea of prayer in the wake of the mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis this week, noting that the children were praying at the time.In a post on X, responding to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claim that “prayer works,”, Newsom said: “There children were literally praying as they got shot at,” implying that prayer does not work.

Government agencies from around the world, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA), shared a new advisory Wednesday warning of China's "global espionage system." The advisory details how state-backed threat actors, including Salt Typhoon, penetrate networks around the world, as well as how defenders can protect their own environments. The document was cosigned by nations including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. The advisory tracks this cluster of activity to multiple advanced persistent threats (APTs), though they say it partially...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with President Xi Jinping in China next week, attend a security summit, and be the "main guest" of Xi's at a military parade on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the Kremlin said on Friday. -snip- Ushakov said Putin would be attending as "the main guest" and be seated on Xi's right, while North Korea's Kim Jong-Un would sit on Xi's left.

German investigators' prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be released from prison in a matter of weeks, local authorities have confirmed. Christian Brückner, who is serving a sentence in northern Germany for a rape conviction, will be released by 17 September at the latest, the lead prosecutor investigating the toddler's disappearance told the BBC. Hans Christian Wolters also said that he believed the 48-year-old German national was dangerous but that the current legal situation meant he must be released from prison without delay. Brückner has never been charged with any crime in relation to Madeleine's disappearance and...

Gaining residency—the legal right to live in another country long-term—is a cornerstone of most offshore diversification plans. A second residency opens you up to more of the world’s possibilities and enhances your freedom. In times of crisis at home—whether social unrest or another pandemic—it provides a legitimate fallback location. On a practical level, it allows you to stay in a country you enjoy for as long as you wish, without the constraints of tourist status. A second residency can also unlock strategic advantages: preferential tax treatment, access to affordable health care, local discounts, and lower-cost education. While there are many...

The percentage of the U.S. population that smoked tobacco in 1975 was 40%. That figure has declined steadily in the intervening years, and today, only 11% of the population are smokers. Knowing what we do about tobacco’s risk to health, we can confidently identify the decline in smokers as progress in the realm of public health. However, over the same period, the percentage of the U.S. population defined as obese has climbed from 12% of the U.S. population to 42%. Rarely, does one find a correlation as striking as the inverse correlation of -.98 between the smoking and obesity rates...

VIDEOImagine a White House press conference in the near future. The reporters are fervently raising their hands desperately hoping to be called upon to ask a question. At the podium, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt or perhaps even President Trump points at Olivia Rinaldi of CBS News and says "TAYLOR SWIFT." What does poor Olivia do? Does she correct either Leavitt or President Trump or is she just grateful she got called upon and asks her question? Either way, it is an hilarious way of emphasizing how unserious our news media has become.There is a YUUUUUGE upside to this....

Volodymyr Zelensky has, quite bravely, been playing the part of a military commander, but he’s never had a workable strategy for winning or even ending the war. Donald Trump’s pragmatism is forcing Zelensky to face reality, which may ultimately save Ukraine from having Russia seize it inch by inch in the coming years.In the Age of Chivalry, bravery won wars. At the Battle of St. Jacob an der Birs in 1444, Swiss freedom fighters suicidally fought a much larger French invading force, outnumbered 20-to-1, resisting down to the last man. This persuaded the French to stop waging war on the...

Until the introduction of the Quickstrike-ER in 2014, aviators continued to train for aerial naval mining at the same low altitudes and speeds.14 The mine is equipped with the Quickstrike Target Detection Device fuse, which detonates the mine when a vessel is within range. It also has the GPS guidance of a Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), and wing kits that extend its launch range. The JDAM GPS guides accurate field-laying and allows aircraft to release mines from higher altitudes and at greater speeds. The Quickstrike-ER can provide aircraft with a standoff range of up to 50 nautical miles.A carrier’s...

This week, another transgender shoot-up of a Christian school provides more chilling evidence that the culture war is a spiritual war. The Minneapolis shooter’s actions and Democrats’ interpretation of them both demonstrate this. The New York Post published excerpts of the shooter’s journal posted on YouTube that include a drawing of him communing with a Satanic figure in a mirror. As I’ve written before, Satan-worshippers can be startlingly more direct than many Christians about the connections between their spiritual and political beliefs.

Admiral Samuel Paparo authored a powerful, yet succinct message: “The carrier is still indispensable.” Citing the unparalleled magazine capacity and reload-at-sea capability, mobility as an enabler to survivability, and the fact that carriers have continually adapted to threats through time (and budget cycles.Relying predominantly on distributed networks and assets without proximate “nodes” in vicinity compounds the challenges. Each node or layer of a disaggregated system of systems introduces its own vulnerability and set of variables that an adversary could exploit. For an unmanned system commanded remotely, the vehicle requires satellite coverage throughout its route. It also requires the weather at...

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Kentucky US Senate candidate @NateMorris is lying in a new fundraising email, saying he is “Trump endorsed”. President Trump has not endorsed a candidate in the Kentucky US Senate race, and this is incredibly deceptive. The email says “your contribution will benefit Morris for Senate”. How can voters in Kentucky trust a candidate if they lie about being endorsed by President Trump? Bad look!

It turns out Ms. Monarez really wanted to keep pushing the dangerous COVID vaccine, and that’s what got her tossed. CDC Director Susan Monarez has been OUSTED by RFK Jr. after she attempted to push for the COVID vaccine, per multiple reportsMultiple other top CDC officials are out as well, as they too complained about rescinding approvals for the vaccineGood riddance!

Less than 1 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with the direction of the country, according to a new Gallup poll. Why It Matters This is the lowest level of satisfaction among Democrats in at least 25 years, according to Gallup's polling, and it comes at a time when Republican satisfaction is near record high levels. The polling shows that Democrats' satisfaction with the direction of the country quickly dropped after President Donald Trump, a Republican, returned to office in January, while GOP supporters' satisfaction spiked. According to Gallup, 31 percent of Americans currently say they are satisfied with...

"It's an invasion," Dinah Bentley tells me, standing next to a cardboard cut-out of Nigel Farage. The 78-year-old retired teacher says she "doesn't laud" the Reform MP, whose grinning likeness is a permanent fixture in her West Yorkshire conservatory, but he "says what I believe". "Everybody talks about migration, but our country's ruined," Dinah adds. "They've ruined it." The "they" in her mind? People who have crossed into the UK on small boats. We have seen asylum hotel protests intensify over the summer and wanted to speak to the people who've joined them.

Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a Thursday press briefing that federal law enforcement arrested a juvenile on Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C.'s Ward 7, who had threatened violence against a school. He was found in possession of seven different firearms and arrested for threats to kidnap and injure, receiving stolen property, possession of a large capacity feeding device or high capacity magazine, and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) announced that archaeologists unearthed a rare 1,600-year-old stucco plaque featuring a Christian cross on the island of Sir Bani Yas near Abu Dhabi. The discovery was made during the first major excavation campaign at the site in over three decades, after a Christian monastery was first identified on the island in 1992. Current archaeological work at the complex is focused on a group of courtyard houses where the monks resided. The 10.5-by-6.5-inch plaque was likely used by monks for spiritual contemplation. The object features what appears to be...