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The death of a Royal Caribbean passenger has been ruled a homicide after crew members allegedly served him nearly three-dozen drinks at the ship’s bar before he died, according to a new lawsuit. Michael Virgil, 35, was served 33 drinks at one of the ship’s bars on the day he died in custody in December 2024, according to a wrongful death lawsuit recently filed by his fiancé and obtained by TMZ. Virgil was detained during a drunken rage, in which he allegedly attacked and threatened to kill crew members and passengers. But he died within hours after being restrained and...

On Saturday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a home in Burnsville and detained four people, according to family members at the house.... Angel Alvarado, Sofia's brother, said ICE agents took his sister, mom, daughter and niece into the kitchen... He said all four are U.S. citizens and were able to show their paperwork to ICE eventually.... Sofia said it all started when the couple renting on the lower level was headed home from the grocery store... She said the family is here illegally from Honduras for work and that ICE told her to voluntarily self-deport. A translator said,...

Some health experts worry that the variant GII.17 responsible for last year's spike may have mutated and become more contagious.A nasty, highly contagious form of norovirus called “winter vomiting disease” is spreading across the country, according to an analysis of wastewater at NUMBER surveillance sites in the state. Norovirus cases typically spike after Christmas and New Year’s gatherings, but the number of new cases in November showed a notable increase, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The CDC tracks norovirus through voluntary reporting from clinics and state health departments, but says such data is unreliable because most...

Trump officials have been accused of bigotry after the portrait of former President Joe Biden's transgender assistant secretary for health was altered to reflect her birth name. Admiral Rachel Levine's portrait has hung in a hallway of the Humphrey Building in Washington DC - the Department of Health and Human Services's headquarters - since she became the first trans woman to win Senate confirmation in 2021. Following the 68-year-old's four years of service under the Biden administration, her name was reverted to Richard Levine, the name she was given at birth. Levine's dead name - a trans person's original name...

Explanation: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth's thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and...

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic governors met this weekend in Arizona, looking to parlay last month's big victories for the party in New Jersey and Virginia into campaigns for next year's midterms, when a majority of governor's seats will be up for election. Those elections helped Democrats zero in on what they see as a strategy to help grow their ranks in office and recover from big losses in 2024, when voters put Donald Trump back in the White House and gave Republicans majorities in both houses of Congress. The plan is to focus intently on making life more affordable, a...

WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) has released a new report detailing the extent of LGBTQ+ themes in children’s programming on Netflix, and showing that Netflix is an “active driver” of the LGBTQ agenda. CWA’s analysis of Netflix programming rated appropriate for children reveals that 41% of G-rated series, and 41% of TV-Y7-rated series on Netflix contain LGBTQ+ content. “Netflix’s anti-child, anti-family agenda has finally been exposed – its children’s programming has been infiltrated by adult preoccupations with sexual preferences and gender identity. Our new report reveals that children’s programming is not exempt from identity politics – a...

President Donald Trump is poised to roll out a $12 billion farm aid package to support farmers, according to the White House. The aid package will provide up to $11 billion toward the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) new Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which is designed to provide single payments to row crop farmers, while the remaining $1 billion will go to farmers whose crops do not qualify for the program. Further details will be hashed out as the USDA continues to evaluate market conditions, according to the White House. The president is expected to unveil the new aid package...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system. Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on a “criminal legal system” committee for his transition team as he prepares for the move to City Hall next month. “This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of black and brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and...

Greene, who is set to retire from Congress when her term ends in January,

A transgender woman lands her dream job of working in a carbon mine, but after having the sex-change surgery must face a superstition that bans female workers from entering the underground galleries.

A procurement forester was preparing to clear timber from part of some 300 acres of Mississippi land in August. But when he passed along the coordinates of the land parcel to the buyer – a standard traceability practice – the buyer suddenly asked a question he wasn’t expecting.The buyer was Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of paper, pulp, tissues, packaging and other forestry products, and the predominant buyer of Mississippi-grown timber. But the company had noted that the landowner had converted some land from timber production to another agricultural use in 2024. If the owner had...

EXPOSED: Deputy AG Todd Blanche is hunting the people who reportedly bypassed him—while 47 leakers who sabotaged the Letitia James prosecution go untouched. Full Investigation🔗https://whitecollarfraud.com/2025/12/08/is-todd-blanche-undermining-the-letitia-james-prosecution/ Let me show you the receipts. March 21, 2025: ONE leak to the NYT. Blanche declares war: "We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump's agenda by leaking." He opened a criminal investigation. Sept-Dec 2025: FORTY-SEVEN leaks to 9 newsrooms. Grand jury secrets. Internal deliberations. Prosecution strategy. Every single one helped Letitia James. SIX made Todd Blanche the hero—the "reasonable" man who "questioned the legal viability" of the...

Just a thought for this Christmas season. One of the greatest myths in all of Christendom is that Mary (Miriam) - the young Jewish girl of king David's line - who gave birth to the Savior of the world was sinless. I myself was taught this as a boy in the Catholic church and it wasn't till I was born again and started reading the Holy Scriptures for myself that I saw the true folly of such a myth. My dear friends, no greater lie could ever be told or fantasy ever believed! When this lie is embraced it derails...

VATICAN CITY — Catholics and Protestants around the world expressed concern this week, as Pope Leo XVI gave his recommendation that Christians pray the rosary while facing in the direction of Mecca. The pontiff made the proclamation after visiting Turkey and Lebanon, stating that not only should the West be less fearful of the spread of Islam, but all Christians should seek to live more peaceably by facing toward the holiest of Islamic sites when they pray the rosary. "This is an important step toward helping the Muslims conquer us all," Pope Leo said. "I do not think that Christians...

Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Congress, but not before one of the best investment runs ever by a sitting politician. …Several outlets have reported a pre-Congress net worth of $700,000 — a figure that appears to refer only to her stock holdings. Her 2020 disclosure makes clear she was already a multi-millionaire before taking office. …Greene will leave Congress in January with an estimated net worth of $25 million according to Quiver Quantitative (1). That’s a 33% increase in overall wealth — but the real story is in her stock portfolio, which has ballooned to an estimated $2.6 million to...

This is the terrifying moment a huge knifeman with a face contorted with rage stabbed a diminutive policewoman's head, leaving her with a bloody wound. PC Holly Matthews, who is 5ft 2in, bravely grappled with 6ft 4in Declan Diedrick after she and another officer were called to an address. In extraordinary scenes shown to jurors, she desperately tried to subdue the 25-year-old as they stumbled from the hallway and into the kitchen. They eventually tumbled out into the garden where Diedrick stabbed at the officer, narrowly avoiding her eye as he slashed above her ear. He was eventually brought down...

CALGARY - A Canadian pipeline boss led a new report advising the Trump administration on how to more quickly build new oil and gas infrastructure in the United States amid a push north of the border to do the same. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright requested the study on permitting from the National Petroleum Council, which includes 200 members he appointed from both inside and outside the oil and gas industry. The body was formed just after the Second World War. .... The fact that Wright gave the council five months to put together the report — work that would...

From London, another story about disgusting protesters: “‘Tax the rich’ activists vandalise Crown Jewels with crumble and custard.”Police arrested four people after officers rushed to the Tower following reports of an incident shortly before 10am.They found that food had been thrown onto a case containing the State Crown, which is used at coronations and state openings of Parliament.A group calling itself Take Back Power staged the attack, with members of the group filmed unfurling a sign reading: “Democracy has crumbled – tax the rich”.Anyone who thinks Britain’s problem is that it doesn’t sufficiently tax the “rich” is an idiot. And...

Those television shows featuring LGBT characters are being canceled right and left, and that means nearly half of all LGBT characters will be disappearing from television next season, a Protestia report revealed. The confirmation actually comes from GLAAD, a high-profile LGBT lobbying group. Among those departing will be 61% of transgender characters, the report said.