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This senior is officially on the clock. A struggling 92-year-old Florida woman forced to continue working to cover her bills got a shocking financial boost this month, landing more than $65,000 in donations from complete strangers hoping to see her retire. Muriel Connick was manning the dressing room at a Burlington store in Pompano Beach when customer April Steele spotted the elderly employee on her feet. “There was no smile on her face. In fact she looked angry, I thought I would compliment her to try to make her smile, I said good for you to still be working,...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, NC — A Washington woman is behind bars after online records state she kicked a pregnant school resource officer in the stomach during a disturbance at a Beaufort County elementary school. Deputies arrested 44-year-old Khadeeja Muhammad Thursday at John Small Elementary School. She’s charged with assault on a government official, assault on a pregnant woman, resisting a public officer, trespassing, and disorderly conduct at a school. According to arrest warrants, deputies say Muhammad refused to leave the school after being told multiple times. Investigators say she resisted officers who were trying to remove her. Authorities say Muhammad...

Foul-mouthed lefty radicals stormed a Jewish temple to ambush and mock Long Island Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi this week over his initial vote to back a GOP-led spending bill that pumps more cash into ICE. The activists — from the left-wing advocacy group Climate Defiance — caused chaos inside the house of worship in Roslyn where Suozzi was speaking Wednesday night, crudely showing up with diapers and kneepads and cursing the self-described “moderate” Dem for joining his Republican colleagues last week in passing a $64.4 billion funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Suozzi ended up changing his vote...

QUINCY — A routine traffic stop in Quincy escalated into a brief pursuit and physical confrontation Tuesday, ending with a local woman taken into custody and several criminal charges filed, according to the Quincy Police Department and jail records. Police said an officer initiated a traffic stop involving Roxana Marisela Gonzalez Velasquez on Jan. 27. After initially stopping, Gonzalez Velasquez allegedly decided to leave the scene, prompting the officer to pursue her for a couple of blocks. Officers reported that she failed to comply with commands and became physically combative once the vehicle was stopped. During the encounter, police said...

A newly proposed bill would bar ICE employees who worked for the agency under the Trump administration from becoming teachers or police officers in California as hostility toward immigration agents continues to simmer. Assembly Bill 1627, introduced this week by Democratic Assemblymember Anamarie Ávila Farias, would permanently disqualify anyone currently working for the agency from holding any position as a law enforcement officer for state or local police agencies statewide, KTVU first reported. If passed, it would also prohibit current ICE employees from virtually any role in education in the state, including educators or administrators, from kindergarten all the way...

A Delaware Court of Chancery judge has rejected a motion from activist investor HoldCo Asset Management that sought to legally block Fifth Third's acquisition of Comerica.On Jan. 14 -- the day after the deal had received all necessary regulatory approvals and a Feb. 1 closing date was set -- HoldCo filed an emergency motion for temporary restraining order to stall the merger's closing. Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn denied HoldCo's motion Friday."Enjoining a premium merger on the eve of closing will introduce substantial delay and uncertainty," Zurn wrote in a Monday filing explaining her denial. "While HoldCo mourns a topping...

The Supreme Court of Panama has annulled a contract for a Hong Kong company to operate two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, handing President Trump a victory for his security ambitions in the Western Hemisphere and denting China’s influence in the region. The high court said the terms under which CK Hutchison runs the ports of Balboa on the Pacific Coast and Cristobal on the Atlantic side were unconstitutional… (subscription required)

Democratic lawmakers on Thursday slammed President Trump over comments he made about wanting to “drive housing prices up” for people who own their homes, with one congresswoman telling followers that he “doesn’t care about making your life more affordable.”During a Cabinet meeting earlier Thursday, the president said he wants to keep homeowners “wealthy.”“We’re not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn’t work very hard can buy a home,” he said. “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes. And they can...

The long and winding road of Don Lemon's arrest came to an end in Los Angeles overnight. It started at Cities Church in the Twin Cities and wended through three different court venues. The end of the road came at the Grammy Awards, which Lemon apparently had been covering for his YouTube channel. What a long, strange trip it's been, indeed:The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., his lawyer said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate...

@RealAlexJones America is not in a new civil war! America is under a globalist orchestrated color revolution designed to collapse the nation into a neo, communist, corporate run slave state! WAKE UP AND MOBILIZE NOW!!!

🚨 JUST IN: Video shows federal agents SURROUNDING the home of Minnesota leftist activist Georgia Fort, who masqueraded as a “journalist” while attacking a St. Paul church LOTS of FAFO happening today! 🔥 Can’t WAIT to see the video of Don Lemon’s arrest 🤣

Bill Gates slept with Russian girls, got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, extraordinary new Jeffrey Epstein files from the Department of Justice allege. The late pedophile financier made the astonishing claims about the Microsoft billionaire in emails he sent to himself on July 18, 2013, at 11:49am. The lengthy message lashed out at Gates for ending their friendship and says: 'TO add insult to the injury you them (sic) implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to...

Why are scientists surprised that polar bears like to eat reindeer and walruses? https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l1xpz03no #Animals #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environment #GlobalWarming #PolarBears #Science #AOC #GretaThunberg #GreenNewDeal #News #Politics

Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·12hTulsi Gabbard Releases Documents that PROVE it Was Barack Obama who Led the Russiagate Conspiracy and Coup Against Donald Trump – Documents Have Been Turned Over to the DOJTulsi Gabbard: The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirmed that fact.Now that the DOJ has this information let’s see if Pam Bondi has the guts to charge Barack Obama for leading this attempted coup of the Trump administration.Here is video from The Jesse Watters Show.

HILLIARD, Fla. — The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday arrested a former middle-high school bookkeeper for allegedly embezzling more than $140,000 in school funds. Jennifer Folliett, formerly the bookkeeper at Hilliard Middle-Senior High School, faces serious charges including grand theft, organized crime, and official misconduct. According to her arrest warrant, between 2022 and 2024, Folliett made 148 transactions with checks and cash that went into her personal account. Those transactions ranged from $3 to $6,000. Investigators say “numerous ticketing records for school sporting events, such as basketball games, were not properly completed or reviewed.” The arrest warrant also states...

Luigi Mangione won’t face the death penalty for allegedly executing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, a judge ruled Friday — dealing an embarrassing blow to the Justice Department. The 27-year-old still faces the possibility of life in prison without parole if convicted of executing health care honcho Brian Thompson in a December 2024 targeted hit on a Manhattan sidewalk. But Manhattan federal Judge Margaret Garnett threw out the charges against Mangione that could have led to a rare death penalty trial in New York. The jurist found that the death penalty-eligible parts of the case, brought by the US Attorney’s Office for the...

🚨 BREAKING: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill to Launch a Portal to Track & Report ICE Agents “We are going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people. If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out.”

Daily Readings from the USCCBWith many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private. Mark 4:33–34Today’s Gospel begins with two parables about the Kingdom of God, using the familiar image of seeds. Both of these parables point to the Kingdom of God as something that grows mysteriously and abundantly, often beyond human understanding or control. The first parable points to the mysterious growth of the seed that the sower scatters on his fields: “and would...

Call it the Post Powell Panic! After The Fed decided to do nothing at the FOMC meeting. Gold is down -12% from the peak, trading below $5,000. Silver is down -21%, trading below $100 for the first time since Friday, officially in a BEAR MARKET. Rough night in the precious metals market space. An absolute BLOODBATH. Is the top behind us? Gold -6% Silver -12% Copper -4% Platinum -13% Palladium -11% Trillions in market cap wiped out in a few hours. Powell at The Fed FOMC meeting imitating former Fed Chair Janet Yellen. And Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh for...

Rand Paul made his name as a gadfly preaching about the dangers of a tyrannical federal government. Now, after the killings of two Minnesota residents at the hands of Homeland Security agents, the Kentucky Republican has a chance to do something about it. The 63-year-old, who spent years on the outskirts of the party, is now at the center of the Senate’s response to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, which have sparked new criticism of the administration’s immigration enforcement policies and raised many of the same civil liberties questions Paul has long been asking. As chair of...