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Dad ‘died of grief’ after daughter, 12, was raped and beheaded by migrant in France, her mom reveals The father of a 12-year-old girl “died of grief” after his daughter was kidnapped, raped, tortured and then beheaded in France by a sadistic Algerian migrant, the girl’s mother told a court. Lola Daviet’s body was found horrifically mutilated and partially decapitated in a suitcase after she was murdered in 2022 — in a case that shocked the nation and sparked protests over lax immigration enforcement. Dhabia Benkired, 27, a prostitute who overstayed her visa in France, was convicted of the killing.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, October 20, 2025. Evaristo Sa / AFP. The persecution of ordinary citizens on behalf of the LGBT movement will be funded by the state—that is, by the taxpayers being targeted. President Lula da Silva’s Brazil has taken another step towards totalitarianism with the launch of a massive platform designed to streamline the prosecution of those who criticize LGBT ideology. With Orwellian irony, it has been called the ‘Platform of Respect.’ “The Ministry of Human Rights, in partnership with the NGO Aliança Nacional LGBTI+, launched a platform aimed at holding legally accountable authors of...

It’s time to make men “dangerous” again. Father and son Matt and Maxim Smith join Glenn to break down their epic alternative to a college education. While most young people descend into debt to prepare for jobs already threatened by the rise of AI, 19-year-old Maxim has spent what would have been his college years becoming an EMT, wrangling horses in Wyoming, sailing the Falkland Islands, earning a pilot's license, learning Muay Thai in Thailand, and more as the first beta tester for “The Preparation,” an adventure designed to make young men “confident, competent, and dangerous.” In a culture that...

Jets legend Nick Mangold died on Saturday night from complications of kidney disease just two weeks after he publicly revealed he needed a kidney transplant. Mangold was 41 years old. On Oct. 14, Mangold announced that he had been diagnosed in 2006 with a genetic defect that led to chronic kidney disease. He said he had a “rough summer” and was undergoing dialysis while seeking a kidney transplant. Mangold, who played center, was a first-round pick by the Jets in 2006. He went on to be one of the key pieces in a team that went to the playoffs three...

A woman and her four-day-old newborn have died after her boyfriend allegedly strangled her and set fire to their home in New York while the child was still inside. Kidane Haile, 30, was indicted and arraigned for second-degree murder on October 23 in Erie County after allegedly killing his girlfriend, 29-year-old Kathleen Carrig, and his infant son, Noah, according to the district attorney's office. District Attorney Mike Keane said Haile 'is accused of intentionally killing his girlfriend prior to the fire,' and added that his office anticipates filing additional charges after further

Vice President JD Vance skewered Big Apple mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after the lefty-pol delivered a teary speech about his Muslim aunt’s fear in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance wrote Saturday morning on X, sharing a clip of the socialist candidate choking back tears as he recalled the anti-Muslim bias his family experienced in the aftermath of 9/11. Mamdani – who beamed in a photo with an unindicted co-conspirator from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – vowed...

A high-ranking Kremlin official has hinted at a potential breakthrough in ending the war in Ukraine. Kirill Dmitriev, a senior Kremlin official, expressed optimism that Russia, Ukraine, and the United States are "quite close" to reaching an agreement to end the ongoing conflict, now in its fifth year.

A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a girl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence. Dahbia Benkired was handed an “irreducible life sentence” for killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in the French capital in 2022, in a case that horrified the country and sparked anti-immigration fervour because the woman did not have the right to be in France. The sentence is the harshest under the French penal code. “We believed in justice and we got it,” said Lola’s mother, Delphine Daviet, following the...

Megyn Kelly and Meghan McCain went back and forth on X on Thursday after the latter criticized Tucker Carlson’s behavior during his stand-in appearance for Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA’s debate/speaking event at Indiana University on Tuesday. Man: "You’re worth $50 million dollars…" Tucker Carlson: "I'm not worth $50 million dollars… get off the f*cking Internet son…" Man: "You're got real defensive there… Jesus Christ, calm down." Carlson: "Don't use that phrase! We're done!" “Every single thing about this is the polar opposite of how Charlie Kirk debated people who disagreed with him,” McCain said in an X post...

It’s not just women that Cartel Medicine feeds on, although it does prefer them. Men are also meat for the grinder, especially when their privates are involved. The screening hoax we witnessed with mammograms has a counterpart with prostates and the PSA test. The predation here is especially synergistic as the maiming and destruction caused by prostate interventions feed two sub-Cartels: those of erectile dysfunction and incontinence. The adult diaper business is thriving because of this butchery. Urologists, not wanting to be left behind by pediatricians, psychiatrists, cardiologists, dermatologists and dentists have their own cozy racket. With thanks to Richard...

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy indicated Sunday that the Democrats would likely be willing to end the government shutdown for about $20 billion, a figure far lower than previously requested. Democratic leadership has publicly demanded a permanent extension of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, a reversal of the GOP-backed Medicaid reforms, and other concessions, which would cost an estimated $1.5 trillion over the next decade. “We could probably come up with something pretty quickly,” Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “The president just announced $20 billion going to bail out the Argentinian economy.” “For $20 billion, we could...

A top House Republican is criticizing one of Democrats’ senior leaders for saying the government shutdown and its effects are a "leverage point" to accomplish their goals on healthcare. "It's appalling to see the number two House Democrat openly admit that the left is weaponizing hardworking Americans as 'leverage' for political gain, even acknowledging families will suffer in the process," Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. "This isn't governance — it's calculated hostage-taking, with struggling families caught in the balance as Democrats attempt to force through their radical agenda. Families are seen only as leverage...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has become one of President Trump's most high-profile adversaries, told "CBS News Sunday Morning" in an exclusive interview that he will consider whether to run for president after the 2026 midterm elections. In an interview taped Thursday in San Jose, Newsom was asked whether he would give "serious thought" to a White House bid once next year's midterm elections are over. "Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise," Newsom replied. "I'd just be lying. And I'm not — I can't do that." Newsom, whose term ends in January 2027 and is prevented from running again due...

The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test has screened 30 million American men annually for over three decades. The man who discovered PSA in 1970, Richard Ablin, now calls mass screening “a public health disaster.” Two landmark 2012 studies found no survival benefit from radical surgery compared to watchful waiting. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded PSA screening does more harm than good. Yet the $3 billion annual industry continues largely unabated. These revelations emerge from three insider accounts: Ablin’s The Great Prostate Hoax, urologist Anthony Horan’s The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam, and oncologist Mark Scholz’s Invasion...

Go to the Major Events Timeline on the About The White House web page. Scroll through the timeline to the right, using the arrow on the text below the pictures. You'll discover that Trump's White House trolls have been hard at work.

Christianity is growing at an unprecedented rate in several regions around the world, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, known as the Global South. From the spread of passionate faith-based communities to the establishment of thriving churches in urban centers, Christianity’s growth rate continues to climb. “According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary”, these trends indicate that Christianity is expanding in new and dynamic ways...Factors like migration, high birth rates, and the influence of revivalist movements are all contributing to the rapid growth. Let’s examine where in the world Christianity is growing...

For nearly two centuries, the Henry family has worked the same soil in Bedminster, New Jersey — a 175-year-old farm passed from one generation to the next. But earlier this year, their heritage came under attack. Local officials, invoking the state’s “affordable housing” laws, sought to seize part of the Henrys’ land through legal maneuvering that would have handed it to developers. The battle lasted months. It was draining, personal, and emblematic of a deeper national struggle between individual liberty and government overreach. At its heart was a simple question: do Americans still have the right to protect their property...

It’s close, but Muslims in New York may now outnumber Jews. It’s a demographic race with political implications. Analysts trying to understand why Canada, Britain, and France are moving to recognize a Palestinian state have pointed to demographic shifts and growing Muslim populations in those countries. The Canadian government reported this year that “the proportion of Canada’s population who reported being Muslim has more than doubled in 20 years,” to “4.9% (1,775,715 people) in 2021” from “2.0% (579,640 people) in 2001.” In Britain, the census reported that the Muslim population in England and Wales had soared to “3.9 million, 6.5%...

Like many Americans, James Fishback, the CEO of investment firm Azoria, appears to be highly critical of the H-1B visa because he feels that foreign workers are stealing American jobs. -snip- Fishback, the initial developer of the “DOGE checks” tool, has been publicly denouncing the H-1B program in interviews ever since US President Donald Trump slapped $100k fees on H-1B visas. He has lambasted businesses for employing Indians, especially when they claim they “can't find Americans for these jobs” and are forced to use H-1B visas. Targeting H1-B Visa, Fishback took to X and wrote: “The H-1B scam is hurting...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector.’” Luke 18:10–11What a sad prayer. Of course it wasn’t even a prayer to God since the Pharisee “spoke this prayer to himself.” The prayer of the tax collector, however, was a perfect model for all prayer. We read that the tax collector...