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One person was killed, and two others were injured after a shooting near the late rapper Nipsey Hussle’s restaurant in Long Beach. The shooting was reported around 3:32 p.m. on Pine Avenue during the grand opening of of Marathon Burger, a fast-food chain founded by Hussle and his family. … The restaurant is known for its gourmet smash burgers, which feature a special secret sauce.

The Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" (BBB) enacted last year cut the nationwide federal tax burden by billions of dollars. In Oregon that amounted to more than $300 million in cuts. Rep. Nancy Nathanson (D-Eugene) introduced state legislation to convert the federal cuts into state tax increases, saying "enriching taxpayers is not a high priority for us in Oregon. Folks who previously paid higher taxes to the feds can afford to keep paying those higher taxes to the state government." The Representative dismissed the intent of the BBB to stimulate business investment as "not as important as funding increased budgets for...

The Brief A motorcyclist is dead after a hit-and-run involving a tow truck. An SUV detached from the tow truck and crashed into the motorcycle. Police say the driver of the tow truck fled the scene. PHILADELPHIA - A motorcyclist is dead after a tow truck incident in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood this weekend, and now police are looking for a driver they say fled the scene.

President Trump told The Post Monday that he’s not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary” — adding that Operation Epic Fury was “way ahead of schedule” by taking out dozens of Tehran’s top officials. “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” Trump said after launching strikes Saturday to decapitate Iran’s military and political leadership. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.'” Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday...

A woman named Stephanie Minter was stabbed to death because Fairfax County, Virginia, refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Abdul Jalloh, who had more than 30 previous arrests, including 4 previous stabbings.How many stabbings does a person have to commit before they get locked up for life?https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/long-criminal-history-tied-to-fairfax-county-bus-stop-stabbing-suspect/4068060/

Donald Trump will not rule out putting troops on the ground in Iran while warning that the next 'big wave' of strikes is impending. The President said on Monday that he would allow for US service members to enter Iran 'if they were necessary.'

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Promotes Amazon Archbishop - Open to Married Priests and Amazonian RiteLeo XIV has appointed Archbishop Mário Antônio da Silva, 59, as the new Archbishop of Aparecida. The archdiocese is significant because ithouses Brazil's National Shrine.Born on October 17, 1966, he was ordained a priest on December 21, 1991, for the Diocese of Jacarezinho. Benedict XVI appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus in 2010. Francis promoted him to Bishop of Roraima in 2016 and to Archbishop of Cuiabá in 2022.He is President of Caritas Brazil.Monsignor da Silva participated in the Amazon Synod in October 2019. He...

~I was out of it for most of last week, due to a car accident and another heart attack within seconds of each other, both pretty serious. So I was hoping to emerge to a reasonably relaxed environment with plenty of time to get myself up to speed on what I've missed. Alas, the news cycle had other plans. One worries in such circumstances that one is projecting outward one's own intimations of mortality. As I have maintained for God knows how many sodding decades, in a certain sense the Iranian revolution is where our present era began, and not...

MANASSAS, Va. – For many, the war with Iran — and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — might seem like the climactic end to a long, brutal reign of terror by the theological clerics who have run the country since 1979. But a Fox News Digital investigation reveals that, for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times. In this prophecy, Mahdi will emerge to battle Dajjal, the Islamic...

The overnight shooting at a boxing gym run by a well-known activist for Iranian freedom is being investigated by York Regional Police. Advertisement 2 Story continues below Article content But since it occurred just hours after the announced death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following military strikes by the United States and Israel on Tehran, a call to the federal government and CSIS as well would seem to be appropriate. Article content Article content On social media, Salar Gholami, a Canadian cruiserweight champion who grew up in Iran and runs the Saliwan Boxing Club in York Region, recorded...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:36What is mercy? How is the Father in Heaven merciful? Suppose someone lived a life contrary to God’s will. When that person dies and stands before the Judgment Seat of God, will God, in His mercy, say, “That’s okay, you can enter Heaven even though you do not deserve it”? Or in our lives, if someone is living an openly sinful lifestyle that is objectively contrary to God’s moral law, should we say, “If living that way makes you happy, then I’m...

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.Psalm 119:144Your Righteous Testimonies are Everlasting, And Your Decrees are Binding to Eternity.

Genesis 12:1-3 King James Version 12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Only God would have Israel save Iran from the false prophet’s cult...

Genesis 1:11,12 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. By that Gen 1:11,12 God put a system or operation in effect. Leviticus 26:4 says, Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her...

In the dark of the night, 10 minutes before President Donald Trump even announced that the U.S. and Israel had attacked Iran, a network of U.S. nonprofits aligned with China, Russia and Tehran activated foot soldiers to hit America's streets. Groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based, American-born tech tycoon, which regularly parrot messaging from America's adversaries, swung into action even as the initial bombs were dropping. The nearly instantaneous response was the latest salvo in an information war on the U.S., with foot soldiers called upon to converge in protests and echo anti-U.S. talking points. At 2:34 a.m....

CNN’s Jake Tapper delivered a blockbuster report about the United States’ ongoing military operation in Iran after a private interview with President Donald Trump on Monday. Anchor Kate Bolduan paused an interview with John Bolton to allow Tapper to call in before asking her colleague about his conversation with the president. “I just got off the phone with President Trump. It was a nine-minute phone interview, and we talked just about the war in Iran. I’m going to share some of it with you right now. The president said, quote, ‘We’re knocking the crap out of them. I think it’s...

Iranians and Jews took to the streets of Golders Green on Saturday night to celebrate Israel's elimination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian. Videos from the massive street party show hundreds of local Jews and Iranian expatriates dancing to "Am Yisrael Chai," chanting Iranian protest songs, and waving Israeli and Iranian flags. Dina, who lives locally and was at the celebration, told The Jerusalem Post that It was "really incredible" to see Golders Green Road, which is one of the main Jewish roads in the north-west London community, come alive with celebration and solidarity. "It was...

I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue.

Stena Bulk has confirmed that a commercial vessel hit in an Iranian missile attack in Bahrain early on Monday was one of its own ships, known to be in the employ of the US Navy. TradeWinds reported that the vessel hit in the strike that left one Asian maritime worker dead and two seriously injured, could be the US-flagged, 49,800-dwt Stena Imperative (built 2016).

WATCH: In a Facebook Live stream, Sinclair-owned CBS Austin multimedia journalist Vinny Martorano refuses his bosses' order to spin and downplay the rally in support of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. In the video, Martorano is seemingly practicing for a live shot and noting that people were "celebrating the attack. He's then hand a phone: CREW MEMBER: [Hands him a phone] MARTORANO: What does that mean? CREW MEMBER: It means they don't want us to focus on this. MARTORANO: [Shrugs] All right. [Hands the phone back] Well, I am. RALLY CHANTS: Thank you Trump! Thank you Trump! Thank you Trump!...