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A Florida man booked for alleged drug possession was also carrying much larger contraband — a thermos that he apparently shoved up his rectum before he was captured, authorities said. Walter Frymire, 51, was arrested for the 26th time Saturday evening after someone called in reports of a naked man in a restroom at a public park. An X-ray of Frymire clearly depicted a foreign object lodged in his body and poking from his hip up to his rib. The foreign object was a thermos that Frymire said he “didn’t swallow.” “You might have thought Walter was bringing drugs into...

Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman accused of killing her most recent husband with a fatal dose of insulin two years ago, was convicted of murder Wednesday. The verdict came after about an hour of deliberations and seven days of testimony in a trial that focused almost as much on allegations from Hartsfield’s past as it did on the death of Joseph Hartsfield — her fifth husband — on Jan. 15, 2023. In her closing argument Wednesday, Chambers County Assistant District Attorney Mallory Vargas said Sarah Hartsfield believed she’d get away with her husband’s murder “because it’s what she’s always done.”

Kennedy didn’t hold back as he read aloud what Democrats are fighting to restore. “We found that under President Biden, they were spending $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia,” he said. “We took that out. The congresswoman says, ‘We’re gonna shut down government until you put that back in.’” And that was just the beginning. “We found $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in Rwanda...” “We found $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti. I kid you not. I’m not making this up. It was in the budget...

Fifty years ago — Oct. 1, 1962 — the first black student was admitted to the University of Mississippi, a bastion of the Old South. The town of Oxford erupted. It took some 30,000 U.S. troops, federal marshals and national guardsmen to get James Meredith to class after a violent campus uprising. Two people were killed and more than 300 injured. Some historians say the integration of Ole Miss was the last battle of the Civil War. It was a high-stakes showdown between President Kennedy and Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett. "I'm a Mississippi segregationist and I am proud of it,"...

If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she might never have discovered a groundbreaking treatment for liver cancer. As a PhD student in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan in the US during the early 2000s, Xu was trying to find a way for doctors to destroy and remove diseased tissue without the need for invasive surgery. She'd landed on the idea of using high-frequency sound waves – ultrasound – to mechanically break up tissue and was testing her theory on pig hearts. Ultrasound isn't supposed to be audible to human ears, but Xu was using such a...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/9/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJob 8:11-1311 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water? 12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass. 13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

An Australian woman has sparked a heated online debate after calling out members of the Indian community in Melbourne for allegedly dumping trash into a local water body following a festival. Her post, which quickly went viral on X, drew both outrage and reflection from users worldwide. The woman, who goes by @TruthFairy131, did not hold back in her criticism of residents in Mernda. Referring to them as “filthy pigs,” she wrote: “Shame on you for dumping all of your rubbish into our waterways after your Indian Festival last Saturday. You would want to get down there ASAP & collect...

Every road death they cause is an indictment of the Democrats’ desperate efforts to flood the country with illegal aliens. In 1965, Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, a book attacking the automobile industry’s resistance to making cars safer. That title got stuck in my head when I read, within minutes of each other, two stories about illegal aliens causing deadly car crashes. The people that Democrats deliberately imported into the country and whom they’re fighting to keep here are making our roads less comfortable and more deadly. As readers know, I...

The United States issued nearly one-fifth fewer student visas in August compared to the same month in 2024, following a crackdown by the Trump administration. A sharp decline in student visas for Indian nationals was the most significant contributor to this drop, with India overtaken by China as the leading source of foreign students. According to data from the International Trade Commission, the US issued 313,138 student visas in August, marking a 19.1% decrease year-over-year. India, which had been the top source of foreign students to the United States in 2024, saw a staggering 44.5% decline in student visa issuance....

A 64-year-old man was beaten to death on a New York City subway on Tuesday by a sword-wielding monster with at least 33 prior arrests. David Mazariegos, 25, beat a complete stranger to death on the subway in downtown Brooklyn because he didn’t like the way he looked at him. Mugshot of a young man with short hair and a mustache, displaying a serious expression against a neutral background. NYC subway killer David Mazariegos According to reports, Mazariegos became angry after the unidentified victim held the subway doors open for him. The act of kindness set him off and he...

A 72-year-old man, Vernon Patton, was working on a gravel road with his tractor when a 70-pound juvenile male black bear attacked him. The attack happened on September 3, 2025, in the Mulberry Mountain area of Arkansas. The attack occurred near Highway 23, just south of the Mulberry Mountain lodge. Vernon’s son came by to check on him. The son saw his father being attacked and drove off the bear by throwing rocks at it. From foxnews.com: A 72-year-old man had to be airlifted to the hospital this week after he was mauled by a 70-pound bear in Arkansas, state...

9 October 2025 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time St. John Henry Newman Catholic Church, TorontoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingMalachi 3:13-20The day that is coming will burn up the wickedYou say harsh things about me, says the Lord. You ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ You say, ‘It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? Now we have reached the point when we call the arrogant blessed; yes, they prosper, these evil-doers; they try God’s patience and yet go...

A favorite subject of mine over the years has been the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. NYCHA operates hundreds of buildings housing some 500,000 people, in some 170,000 +/- apartments, mostly built from the 1950s to the 1970s. Organized on a pure socialist model of public ownership with heavily subsidized rents, NYCHA has followed the trajectory of all socialist schemes ever attempted, having gone from an excited beginning into a long, slow death spiral that has now been ongoing for at least two decades. When NYCHA was building the buildings, everyone seems to have assumed that bricks and...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has become the third U.S. state to designate Diwali — the Hindu “Festival of Lights” — as an official statewide holiday. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Tuesday to go into effect on Jan. 1. It would authorize public schools and community colleges to close on Diwali. State employees could elect to take the day off and public school students will get an excused absence to celebrate the holiday. The new law recognizes that Diwali is also celebrated by Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. Pennsylvania was the first U.S. state to make Diwali a...

The left’s house of cards incinerates under scrutiny, and Trump lit the match. Democrat politicians and left-leaning journalists use loaded questions like weapons. Thankfully, conservatives have found a powerful model in President Donald Trump. He has inspired a new generation of fighters to push back against dishonest attacks. Conservatives have stopped playing defense, flipped the script, and gone on the offense. Directly countering the left’s playbook of preordained conclusions cherry-picked with selective facts, conservatives are increasingly using unvarnished evidence leading to clear truths. The days of polite deference are over, as Trump himself demonstrated in the Oval Office when he...

As the federal government shutdown drags on into a second week, a critical animal recovery program based in Colorado has ground to a halt, delaying a reintroduction plan that could be crucial to the survival of an endangered species. Fewer than 1,000 black-footed ferrets remain on the planet, including around 280 captive-bred ones currently being housed at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Carr, Colorado. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had planned to reintroduce them at 15 sites across federal, tribal and private lands this fall, according to the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife. Instead, the creatures are...

Context: Gulf Arab nation is trying to act as a mediator in the conflict between the United States and Venezuela. The Trump administration is more focused on military options than on diplomacy. Marco Rubio has been trying to craft a strategy to oust Mr. Maduro through military pressure. President Trump has refrained from asking Qatar to play a significant diplomatic role. Dive Deeper: Qatar is stepping up as a mediator in the conflict between the U.S. and Venezuela, despite President Trump's focus on military action in the region. The Venezuelan government, led by President Nicolás Maduro, is open to Qatar's...

Last month was the third-warmest September on record globally, behind 2024 and 2023, according to new data analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The planet’s average surface air temperature was around 61 degrees Fahrenheit. While global air and sea surface temperatures are currently falling short of new record highs, climate scientists warn the pause in record-breaking warmth is unlikely to persist as human-caused greenhouse gas emissions continue to drive the long-term warming trend.

Officials say the demonstration turned violent after protesters refused to clear the roadway and surrounded police cruisers.Thirteen people were arrested in downtown Boston Tuesday night after a pro-Palestinian demonstration turned violent — a chaotic scene that also left four Boston police officers injured, according to officials... “When officers attempted to move the group to the sidewalk to allow emergency vehicles to pass, protesters surrounded police cruisers, kicked vehicle doors, and resisted dispersal efforts,” the department said in a statement. “Several officers were assaulted during this period, including one struck in the face. Protesters also ignited smoke devices and flares, further...

Ignore the Left-wing naysayers, Israel is winning this necessary war.By Richard Kemp. The Telegraph. May 30, 2025 — And Israel has had unparalleled success. They have killed something like 20-25,000 Hamas terrorists, including many senior commanders.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/30/ignore-the-naysayers-israel-is-winning-this-necessary-war/[Ambassador of Israel 🇮🇱 to India 🇮🇳 & Non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan 🇧🇹 & Sri Lanka 🇱🇰].🇮🇱 Reuven Azar @ReuvenAzar:What is shameful is your deceit. Israel Killed 25,000 Hamas terrorists. The terrible cost in human lives derives from Hamas’s heinous tactics of hiding behind civilians, their shooting of people trying to evacuate or receive assistance and their rocket fire. Israel facilitated 2 million tonnes of...