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Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots Victoria Bekiempis Thu 18 Dec 2025 21.23 EST A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday. The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (Idepsca), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home...

LifeSiteNews) — A Texas family is seeking answers after their infant daughter’s body was transferred to a funeral home without her organs following the baby’s sudden death at a Fort Worth hospital. Samaria Bates and her fiancé, Kenneth Sauls, welcomed premature twin girls on October 23, 2025, when they were born at 29 weeks at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital. Thankfully, the infants had no major health problems, but they were kept in the neonatal intensive care unit to grow older and stronger before being discharged home. For six weeks the babies did well. However, when their father arrived on...

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan has been found guilty of one count against her and not guilty of another. She was found guilty of impeding a proceeding, a felony, but not guilty of the less serious misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual to prevent his arrest or discovery. The jury announced the decision after 8:30 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee. The charges stem from an April 18 incident, in which Dugan led a man through a side door of her Milwaukee County courtroom. That happened after federal agents showed up at the courthouse to arrest the man for...

INSANE! Dick Durbin THREATENS to prosecute federal law enforcement officers for enforcing the law if Democrats gain power.

A man from the United States made the following post on Reddit under the headline “My girlfriend saw the fetus come out at 17 weeks”: I’m in dire need of some advice. My girlfriend and I of 6 months discovered she was pregnant for 4 months and we found out just a few weeks ago, and honestly we were thrilled until reality set in. We talked for about a week deciding whether to keep the baby or not… Due to our cultural, family, social, and economic conditions we decided to abort. We’re in a very long distance relationship and both...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not be releasing the full Epstein files to Congress on Friday as required under new legislation, instead sending over a partial batch. Blanche told Fox News the Justice Department would release “several hundred thousand” documents on Friday, “and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more.” Blanche attributed the delay to the need to redact any names or identifying information about witnesses, but failing to turn over the full unclassified files could run afoul of the law, which gave the department 30 days to...

The Department of Justice faces its legally mandated deadline to release the Jeffrey Epstein files..."I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today"...Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said during an interview on Fox News.

President Donald Trump's promised one-time $1,776 payment for U.S. service members dubbed a “Warrior Dividend” is being framed as both a financial boost and a symbolic gesture tied to the nation’s founding. The announcement made Wednesday evening during a nationally televised address immediately sparked questions across the force—not just about the money itself but about who actually qualifies, when it would show up on paychecks, whether it would be taxed, and whether it would affect existing pay and benefits. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video posted Thursday morning on X, said the payments will be tax-free and issued to...

... As I have had cause to remark a thousand times, nothing works anymore. When I observe that of the UK, English readers get mildly peeved. When I observe it of the Fifth Republic, French readers start gabbling and waving their Gauloise-stained hands around so animatedly their strings of onions fall from their shoulders. And, when I observe it of the United States, American readers get particularly chippy. But I'm an equal-opportunity civilisational doom-monger: we're all going over the falls, and arguing that the canoe of the Euro-pussies or the tight-assed Brits is a foot-and-a-half ahead isn't really much consolation....

On November 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Three weeks later, Qatar—considered the world hub for the Muslim Brotherhood—hosted two major international conferences. The 23rd Doha Forum drew 6,000 participants, including Bill Gates, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, Jr., Hillary Clinton, and Tom Barrack. One week later, the United Nations’ Eleventh Conference on Corruption (CoSP11) brought representatives worldwide to discuss transparency and ethical governance in Doha.[…]The paradox reveals the success of Doha’s da’wa—the Muslim Brotherhood’s nearly century-old methodology for power. Originally an Arabic term meaning “invitation” or “call,” referring...

Explanation: The image was timed to capture a total lunar eclipse -- but it came with quite a twist. First, the eclipse: the fully Earth-shadowed Moon is visible as the orange orb near the top. The eclipsed Moon's orange color is caused by a slight amount of red light scattered first by Earth's atmosphere, adding a color like a setting Sun. Now, the twist: one of the apparent double helix bands is the Milky Way, the central disk of our home galaxy. The second band is zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust in our Solar System. The reason they cross...

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — A shooting involving three local sailors left two female sailors dead and one male sailor in Clay County Jail. Taylor Marques Lomax, 22, has been charged with two counts of 2nd-degree murder and is being held without bond after Clay County sheriff’s deputies allege he shot and killed 21-year-old Noely Makenda and 20-year-old Jordyn Forrestier in the Savannah Glen neighborhood of Orange Park, Wednesday night. According to the sheriff’s office, Lomax’s wife came to the home shared by Lomax and the two victims that night and began arguing with his two female roommates. A fight between...

The husband says he never agreed to do household labor himself, even when his wife chose not to hire outside help and kept the chore money instead. NEED TO KNOW A man who routinely pays for household help says his wife agreed to take over chores in exchange for the money he used to spend on snow removal Tension erupted after she kept the snow shoveling money and expected him to clear it instead, despite his long-standing refusal to do manual chores He asked Reddit if he was wrong for insisting that taking the money also meant taking full responsibility...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - A Citrus County woman accused of killing both of her ex-husbands in separate shootings on the same day is now at the center of coordinated homicide investigations in two Florida counties. Investigators say 48-year-old Susan Erica Avalon shot and killed an ex-husband in Manatee County Wednesday afternoon, then another ex-husband in Tampa. The Manatee County shooting happened around 3 p.m. in a residential neighborhood. Detectives say Avalon used stolen food from a Panera Bread restaurant as a ruse to get the victim to open his front door.“When this victim opens the door, suspect starts to fire...

European Union leaders have struck a late-night deal to lend Ukraine €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) over the next two years, after failing to agree on using frozen Russian assets. Ukraine was set to run out of cash by next spring, and European Council chief António Costa said the loan would be paid back only when Russia paid reparations for its full-scale war. "We committed, we delivered," said Costa, while Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Svyrydenko praised the deal as "a decisive step for economic resilience". A bid to use €210bn in Russian cash frozen in the EU, mainly in Belgium, ultimately failed...

Daily Readings from the USCCBBut the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord.” Luke 1:13–15Unlike Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Zechariah doubted the angel of the Lord’s revelation. Our Blessed Mother encountered the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation and responded, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be...

A woman who berated a Target employee for wearing a Charlie Kirk t-shirt was investigated after sharing footage of the altercation online. In a since deleted viral video, Michelea Ponce confronted elderly Chico Target employee Jeanie Beeman over her choice of attire. Beeman was wearing a bright red T-shirt with a white American flag and the words 'Freedom' and 'Charlie Kirk' printed on the front. 'Why the f*** would you wear that? You're at work. At Target...You support a racist,' Ponce said in the footage, moving the camera so that Beeman's outfit could be seen from all angles. 'It's a...

Frustration had mounted that the murderer had managed to get away and that a clear image of his face hadn't emerged - until a Reddit post finally put police on his trail.The suspect in the Brown University shooting was found after police received a tip referencing a post on the social media platform Reddit, they have revealed. Two students, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, were killed and nine were injured during the shooting inside a classroom building at the Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday. Frustration had mounted in Providence that the murderer had managed to...

Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts, while also confirming he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Valente, a Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night following a nearly weeklong manhunt spurred by the shooting Saturday that killed two Brown students, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez announced at a press conference. The 48-year-old former graduate student was discovered dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility,...

PROVIDENCE, RI — Leadership at Brown University, frustrated with the lack of progress in tracking the shooter who killed two students and injured many more on December 13, has reportedly recruited Police Chief Clancy Wiggum of Springfield to assist in the case. "Two deaths and nine injuries — sounds like the work of rowdy teens!" Wiggum said in a press conference as he laid out his progress on the case. "I talked with the FBI profiler, and she said it was some lone nut, but that's nuts." Chief Wiggum has been busy since arriving in Rhode Island just days ago....