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A former US postal investigator who oversaw the fraud department has been charged with stealing more than $330,000 from packages mailed by victims and using the money for home renovations, vacations and escorts, according to the Justice Department. Scott Kelley, 51, of Massachusetts, was charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Boston Friday with wire fraud, mail fraud, mail theft by a postal officer, theft of government money, money laundering, structuring to evade reporting requirements and filing false tax returns. After allegedly stealing cash from packages, Kelley laundered it and used $15,400 to pay for sexual...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this week’s tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted. Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that he agrees with President Trump and Kennedy on making the public “healthy again,” but warned that the problem is that “since coming into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite.” “Despite the overwhelming opposition of the medical community,...

Lee Roy Jordan, whose ferocious play in the 1960s and ’70s made him one of the most feared linebackers in college and the NFL and the dean of the Dallas Cowboys’ fabled Doomsday Defense, died Saturday in Dallas hospice of kidney failure, his son, David, said. He was 84. Over a career in which he played an integral role in Bear Bryant’s first national championship at Alabama as well as the Cowboys’ first Super Bowl win, Jordan raised the standard of play with relentless effort and preparation, and by demanding the best from his teammates.

By now, we are getting used to lower courts misappropriating their roles, acting as if they occupied that of the chief executive. As these cases reach the Supreme Court, they are being overturned, but not without a cost to the president’s agenda or to the respect to which we’d normally accord the judiciary. The notion of a judicial coup is not far off, and people like Elon Musk suggest it’s time for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against the worst offenders. This week, there are several examples of cases where the courts have been asked by plaintiffs to assume presidential...

An Ohio man accused of gunning down his pregnant ex-girlfriend with two of his pals — just hours before she was scheduled for induced labor — allegedly requested bereavement leave from his job before her death, prosecutors say. Kayvon Warren, 30, allegedly asked his employers for time off before he enlisted Robert Ervin, 20, and Lamar Morris Suggs, 22, to help kill India Kinamore, 26, on March 4, 2023, in Hamilton County, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer and local CBS affiliate WKRC. The outlets have been in attendance for Warren's court appearances for his multiple charges, which include aggravated murder...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday afternoon aimed at holding federal law enforcement in the city to municipal rules on policing while also keeping tabs on new deployments and informing citizens of their rights. The order, the “Protecting Chicago Initiative,” comes after the Chicago Sun-Times first reported that Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago was being considered as a possible staging ground for an immigration blitz that could bring more than 200 federal agents to the area from Tuesday to Sept. 30. On Saturday night, two sources familiar with base operations confirmed to the Sun-Times that the...

Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge. And there’s ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war. “The use of FPV drones in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones by terrorist groups such...

Representatives of the Jewish community in Iran strongly criticized the Australian government’s decision to expel the Iranian ambassador over allegations of Iranian involvement in the Melbourne synagogue attack last weekend. They claimed that the decision was based on prejudice against Iranian Muslims. The representatives spoke to Iranian state media and noted that about 15,000 Jews live in the country and there are one hundred active synagogues in various cities. They also claimed that synagogues in Iran are open without security, unlike in European countries where police protection is required. .....

“Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them” (Matthew 9:36). Examples in the gospels of Jesus’ compassion are notable. When He saw Mary and others weeping for the deceased Lazarus, “He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled” (John 11:33) and wept with them (v. 35). The phrase “deeply moved in spirit” connotes physical as well as emotional and spiritual anguish. As He saw Lazarus’s friends and family grieving, He entered into real crying with them. When arrested in the garden, Christ was more concerned about the disciples than Himself: “If you [soldiers] seek Me, let these go their...

One international student after another told the University of Central Missouri this summer that they couldn’t get a visa, and many struggled to even land an interview for one. Even though demand was just as high as ever, half as many new international graduate students showed up for fall classes compared to last year. The decline represents a hit to the bottom line for Central Missouri, a small public university that operates close to its margins with an endowment of only $65 million. International students typically account for nearly a quarter of its tuition revenue. “We aren’t able to subsidize...

Forget thoughts and prayers, stop grooming future trans killers. After Robert ‘Robin’ Westman shot up a Minneapolis church, local authorities and law enforcement refused to discuss the transgender child murderer’s motive, but instead spent a lot of time prattling about the weapon as if the rifle had climbed off the shelf and then opened fire. Much as with Audrey ‘Aiden’ Hale, the transgender child murderer who attacked the Covenant School in Nashville a few years ago, killing three children and three staff members, there is an active coverup of what would make a young man or woman want to murder...

The video had not been released publicly until widow Sabine Taasa, who also lost her oldest son to the terrorists, became determined “to show all the world the truth that October 7 happened in Israel.” -snip Shot on home security footage, the terrifying encounter showed Sabine’s 46-year-old husband Gil desperately rushing his sons, Koren, 12, and Shay, 8, out of their home in Netiv HaAsara, a community just north of Gaza, as Hamas soldiers stormed the building around 6:30 a.m. The trio, in just underwear, attempted to flee to the home’s bomb shelter in the backyard — but were immediately...

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Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was released Sunday from a prison in northern Mexico where he was sent in August after being deported from the United States. The boxer, son of Mexican boxing great Julio César Chávez, is awaiting trial on accusations of involvement with cartels and illegally trafficking arms into Mexico. Chávez was released after a judge in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo said he wouldn’t have to remain in custody while awaiting trial, but that he was prohibited from leaving Mexico, a federal agent told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized...

The United States is strengthening its naval presence in the waters off Venezuela to counter threats posed by drug cartels. More than 4,000 personnel will be deployed to the area, amid growing tension between Washington and Caracas. The U.S. government has not indicated any intention of a land incursion into the South American nation. The news follows confirmation last week of three U.S. Aegis guided-missile destroyers being deployed to the waters. Then, more recently, Venezuela announced it would send military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and elsewhere to help combat drug trafficking. According to the U.S. Navy’s new chief of...

The Oregon Duck lost his head in the run up to the team's opener against Montana State on Saturday. No, it wasn't out of excitement for the game. The mascot was running out on the field at Autzen Stadium when he tripped and the head of his costume flew off. The headless Duck sprinted back into the tunnel while a helper grabbed the head and ran after him. Moments later the Duck returned to the field, fully restored. It is not the first time the Duck has had a wardrobe malfunction. He also lost his head when he tripped on...

“We’re not like them. We’re not like Israel, we’re not here to cause fights” Protestors attempted to disrupt Kneecap‘s Rock en Seine performance this weekend – see what happened below. Yesterday (August 24), the Irish rap trio took to the Rock en Seine stage following weeks of tension due to their controversial remarks aimed at Israel. Following the group’s explosive set at Coachella earlier this year – where they hit out at Israel and several governments for their support of Israel in the Israel-Palestine conflict – calls were made to remove the group from several festival bills across the...

A process server and private investigator reached out to me with disturbing video footage of him being attacked by a trans activist in Aurora, Colo. The incident happened on June 1, but process server Craig Smith decided to go public after the Minneapolis trans mass shooting. The individual in the video is a leftist activist who goes by “Amber Lynn Estes.” His prior name was Brandon T. Estes. When Smith attempted to serve him court papers, Estes pretended not to be the person listed and then turned his anger on the server. Estes is being taken to family court for...

Newsdump Alert: Israel Plans Aid Cutoff In Northern Gaza In Conjunction With Escalation Of Gaza War... Newsdump Alert: Former Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Shot Dead... ...I've heard Hell described as isolation and for me shutting off others offering the blank stare too often my true story. I say hello to folks everyday whoever they happen to be even the 'trans' people out there although I get the blank response more often... Back in the day Rush had a parody of James calling the Special Prosecutor who looked into the Clinton's... Fast Forward to today and wow James Carville has some pretty...

The Rev. Hunt Priest, founder of the ‘Christian Psychedelic Society’ Ligare, was deposed from the Episcopal Church’s ministry by Bishop Frank Logue of Georgia earlier this week, concluding a 13-month Title IV disciplinary process. The action followed a complaint by the Rev. Joe Welker, a Presbyterian pastor and former Ligare intern, who accused Priest of endorsing illegal psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, and leveraging his priestly authority to promote Ligare’s mission, which the diocese deemed outside sacramental ministry. In 2015, Priest was reading the progressive Christian magazine The Christian Century when he came across an advertisement for a study by researchers at...