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One passenger even claimed to have heard one of the group tell the clerk: 'It's OK, we're doctors'. EasyJet today insisted that the concerned passengers were wrong, the passenger had a fit to fly certificate - and was alive when she boarded the plane. 'I know it's not funny because somebody did actually die, but easyJet ground staff actually allowed someone that looked completely dead onto the plane and then funnily enough, just as we were about to take off, they died. 'Called back to the terminal, whole flight cancelled, everybody pulled off the plane. 'They wouldn't let you on...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a comprehensive report detailing allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct within the Diocese of Grand Rapids. It spans 336 pages, through 51 priests and dates back over seven decades, despite resulting in zero convictions of sexual abuse related to the report. Of the 51 priests listed in the report, 37 of them are known or presumed to be dead. The AG's report stated that the 14 people who are living or assumed to be alive are not currently active in ministry within the Diocese of Grand Rapids. 13 ON YOUR SIDE does not identify...

During a press conference on Wednesday, a Providence-area radio host, Chas Calenda, directly confronted Brown University officials and law enforcement with information he has received about the school intentionally disabling surveillance systems due to DEI concerns. The response from university officials and the Providence Mayor indicate Mr. Chas Calenda’s informed accusation and question is directly on target. WATCH: In addition to information we previously shared {GO DEEP} reflecting requests from various “civil rights” and “humanitarian” groups who demanded Brown University disable their surveillance system, additional information about the issue comes via the Rhode Island ACLU making the same demand in...

In 2014, California passed a bill mandating that all gasoline storage tanks in the state of California be upgraded from single wall tanks to double wall tanks. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2026. As a result of this law, across the state 473 gas stations will close. The law was passed because the single wall tanks during an earthquake would crumble, and then the gasoline would seep into the groundwater or the soil contaminating it. While the law sounds reasonable, the average cost to upgrade a gas station from a single wall tank to a double...

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The Heritage Foundation recently withdrew its shareholder proposal filed with Salesforce, Inc. after the employer software company agreed to end its reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a diagnostic tool for corporate partnerships and charitable giving. The proposal, filed by The Heritage Foundation in October 2025, called for greater transparency about the risks of relying on politicized corporate partners. In a 2022 blog post, Salesforce stated it uses the SPLC list "to identify hate groups and keep hateful material off our platform." Andy Olivastro, chief advancement officer at Heritage, lauded the development. "This is a significant victory,"...

CEO of the Miss Finland competition Sunneva Sjögren (centre), new Miss Finland and former first runner-up Tara Lehtonen (left), and former titleholder Sarah Dzafce, who gave up the Miss Finland title, at the Miss Finland organisation's press conference regarding the Miss Finland 2025 situation and related follow-up measures in Helsinki on 11 December 2025. Photo: Emmi Korhonen / Lehtikuva ============================================================================= Sarah Dzafce has lost her Miss Finland title three months after winning the 2025 competition. The decision followed public criticism of a photo shared on social media in late November. In the image, Dzafce is seen pulling the corners of...

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This video details a woman's harrowing experience, jailed for three months after a bag of cotton candy was mistaken for methamphetamine due to flawed technology. As a criminal law lawyer, I question the justice system's reliance on such unreliable evidence and its profound impact on individuals' constitutional rights. This case exemplifies severe police misconduct and wrongful arrest, reminding us that being arrested doesn't equate to guilt. I’m J. Scott Smith, a North Carolina criminal defense lawyer, and for nearly two decades I’ve defended people accused of serious drug crimes. In this video, we expose how these roadside drug tests work,...

The city of Sacramento reached a $160,000 settlement agreement with the father of a man who was shot to death by Sacramento police on a Regional Transit light rail train in August 2023. The agreement, signed earlier this month, dismisses the federal lawsuit alleging officers should have known Dante Dwaine Day, 44, was having a mental crisis and called for intervention. On Aug. 15 2023, Dante died after he boarded a light rail train at Sacramento City College with a knife and was shot by police.

Conservatives can’t save the country by funding their enemies—defunding the Department of Education would return billions to taxpayers, cut grift, and let education compete. Help your enemies and harm your friends. That’s the kind of big-brain, third-eye-opened, decalcified-pineal-gland (real eyes realize real lies) type of thinking that made the post-war conservative movement into the political juggernaut it is today. I mean, just check out the Conservative Inc. plan to save America: Step 1: Hand out pocket Constitutions. Step 2: Give liberals huge sums of tax money. Step 3: Denounce Trump for being mean. Step 4: Save the Country. Brilliant stuff,...

Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher who for half a century ministered to thousands of children across four states, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday. Campbell was charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, according to the charging document. U.S. marshals arrested him Wednesday morning at Camp Bell, his children's camp in Elkland, Missouri, and took him to the Greene County jail in Springfield, where he was awaiting transfer to Oklahoma. If convicted, he faces up to life in...

Today I'm happy to announce the availability of the book Reflections on Violence, by George Sorel. A lot can be said about this book, but one of the keys to it is that the outlook it carries was instrumental to the syndicalism that motivated radicals in Italy in the early 20th century. It is a little outside of my normal focus but someone else started this work and then abandoned it, and I am aware of this book's importance so I continued its work to completion. It's been somewhat slow over at LibriVox these days, not that I haven't been...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(12/19/25)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Revelation 5:12-1412 In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”14 The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down...

By December 2020 Dr. Michael Yeadon knew that the covid injections would injure, kill and cause infertility. How did he know? Because that’s what they were designed to do. They were designed to make our bodies’ cells manufacture a foreign protein that our immune systems would attack, resulting in autoimmune conditions. They were designed to contain a toxic spike protein. And the mRNA injections were designed to contain lipid nanoparticles that cause infertility. Dr. Michael “Mike” Yeadon is a British pharmacologist and former vice-president of the allergy and respiratory research division at Pfizer until 2011. After leaving Pfizer, Dr. Yeadon...

A Florida Islamic cleric named Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi gave a sermon earlier this month declaring that the US deserves divine punishment from Allah and has only been spared because of devout Muslims living in the country. He also called President Trump “human garbage” and asserted that the dirtiest Somali’s feet are cleaner than his face, while claiming Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “gay,” and that the mere prospect of a caliphate gives him nightmares. A Florida Islamic cleric named Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi gave a sermon earlier this month declaring that the US deserves divine punishment from Allah...

Ahh yes, the study the cheeseheads have been looking for! Rejoice! People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of developing dementia over 25 years, according to a new study. https://t.co/zN2g8XcEua pic.twitter.com/0gyvIcDQ91— ABC News (@ABC) December 18, 2025I didn't even have to be told this. I guess my body's constant desire for fatty cream and whole milk was just a natural desire to fight off dementia. Here's the ABC report: People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of developing dementia over 25 years, while low-fat dairy and other dairy foods showed...

A jury found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing federal immigration agents during an attempt to serve a warrant at a courthouse earlier this year. She faces up to five years in prison on the felony obstruction count. Dugan was arrested in April after helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz avoid plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who were trying to serve him a warrant. Prosecutors said Dugan helped Flores-Ruiz and his attorney exit her courtroom through a back door on April 18, after learning that ICE agents were in the building to arrest him. Under Wisconsin law, Dugan is...

A Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots. These unsigned tapes broke the chain-of-custody and certification requirements under Georgia law, which mandates signed tapes as the sole legal proof of authentic vote totals. During a board meeting on December 9th, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, contends that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Oof. So much...

Apparently blatant editorializing in place of straight news now seems to be becoming increasingly the rule not the exception at the Associated Press.The latest example of AP breaking its own rules against opinionating in news stories is so blatantly absurd as to be laughable. The AP on Thursday actually took the November inflation rate of 2.7% which was below the expected 3.1% and somehow turned that good news into a negative. Check the headline on AP reporters Paul Wiseman's and Anne D'Innocenzio's editorial poorly disguised as an article, "US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted...