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ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio -- The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. "We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!" the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. He later posted the clip to social media. The case tested the limits of parody and the license artists can take in social commentary directed at public figures. The deputies, collectively, sought...

Britain’s border security chief has quit after failing to bring down the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. The Home Office confirmed Martin Hewitt will leave his post as border security commander at the end of March after just 18 months in the job. The Prime Minister appointed Mr Hewitt, a former senior Metropolitan Police officer, shortly after Labour won the general election. He was tasked him with curbing the rising number of small boats landing on British shores from France. But since he took on the roll in September 2024, crossings have surged, with almost...

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators will hold talks in Miami on Saturday that a source familiar with the matter said could lay the groundwork for another meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy told reporters Friday that the U.S. and Ukrainian working groups would focus on bilateral documents and discuss a wide-ranging drone deal during the weekend meeting. Ukraine, eager to capitalize on its expertise in defending against Russian drone attacks, is also working to finalize agreements with eight Middle Eastern countries as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran escalates, the source said. Zelenskyy told reporters Kyiv has...

In A Nutshell: Researchers developed a breath test that detects bacterial infections by measuring a carbon-13 signal produced when bacteria consume specially tagged sugar compounds injected into the bloodstream. In infected mice, the signal tracked bacterial load in real time and dropped sharply after antibiotic treatment, suggesting the test could tell doctors whether a drug is actually working. The approach successfully detected infections in multiple tissues, including muscle, lungs, bone, and blood, using portable, inexpensive equipment. All findings are currently from animal studies, and significant testing in humans is still needed before the method could reach clinical use. Antibiotic resistance...

Under the decisive leadership of President Donald J. Trump, Operation Epic Fury is delivering overwhelming, devastating success against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. In just three weeks, America’s unmatched military has obliterated the Iranian regime’s air and naval capabilities, demolished its ballistic missile arsenal and production facilities, annihilated more than 7,000 targets, and crippled its ability to fund and arm terrorist proxies.Despite a relentless campaign by the Fake News and the Radical Left to manufacture tales of “division” to distract from this historic triumph, it is clear the American people — and President Trump’s base — stand firmly...

President Donald Trump’s top official overseeing disaster response insists he was once teleported to a Georgia Waffle House.Gregg Phillips, appointed in December to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Office of Response and Recovery, made the claim during a January 2025 episode of the podcast Onward, CNN reported on Friday in a deep-dive profile of the top official.“Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said on the podcast, co-hosted by conservative activist Catherine Engelbrecht. “It was real.”Phillips, a longtime conservative activist who repeatedly shared conspiracy theories on social media before being appointed to a top FEMA position, described an incident in...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic podcaster Anthony Stine calls Pope Leo’s participation in Pachamama ritual ‘an act of apostasy’Stine cited two moral theologians who say active participation in a Pachamama rite is ‘intrinsically and gravely evil,’ given that it ‘expresses a belief in the false creed symbolized.’Traditional Catholic podcaster Anthony Stine decried Pope Leo XIV’s recently surfaced participation in a pagan Pachamama ritual as “an act of apostasy.”Photo and book documentation unearthed by Father Charles Murr shows then-Father Robert Prevost, OSA, kneeling in what is described in a photo caption as a “Celebration of the Rite of Pachamama (Mother Earth).” Other photos...

The Greater Springfield NAACP wants colleges — including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College and Holyoke Community College — to address surging Turning Point USA chapters on their campuses. The conservative group ramped up here and around the country after founder and spokesman Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at a Utah university in September.

Please pray for the peace of the Church is not in the Bible. Pray for the peace of Jer6 is. Pray for the peace of Israel. Just another proof that the Church and Israel are not the same. The command to "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem" , found in Psalm 122:6. While the specific phrase "pray for the peace of Israel" is not a direct command in scripture, similar blessings and calls for peace are found throughout the Psalms and prophetic books: Psalm 122:6: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee". Psalm 125:5 &...

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…. In Timisoara, a small protest against the eviction of a dissident Hungarian pastor from his church-owned flat quickly escalated into a huge anti-government demonstration. Ceaușescu allowed the police, the armed forces and the Securitate to open fire on the crowds and many men, women and children were killed or injured. When dissenting voices began to be heard across the country about the Timisoara massacre and who was ultimately to blame for it, Ceaușescu …held an open-air meeting in Bucharest three days after the massacre, blaming anti-Romanian troublemakers for the uprising. The crowd was having none of it, and what...

It’s become practically normalized these days that ignorant influencers and populist politicians abroad will regularly proclaim that Israel dragged America into the war with Iran; that the Islamic Republic didn’t pose any “imminent threat” to the US; that the war is illegal. These armchair analysts claim that US President Donald Trump has no idea what he’s doing – it’s all to cement his reputation as an international bully – and that the war will bring nothing but higher gas prices and soaring inflation to the US, all to support another country, Israel, which is pulling the strings. What these pundits...

President Donald Trump says the US is considering "winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East," he wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday. "We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran," he said in a post.

A Los Angeles County jury has awarded a former LAPD commander $5.7 million on Wednesday, finding her in favor in a lawsuit against the department that claimed she was wrongfully fired over an alcohol-related incident in April 2018.

The U.S. Treasury has authorized the purchase of Iranian oil that's already at sea, exempting buyers from the tight sanctions that have restricted the country's oil industry for years — a move aimed at stemming soaring prices amid the U.S.'s war with Iran. The sanctions license allows oil from Iran to be purchased if it was loaded onto a ship by 12:01 a.m. ET on Friday. The authorization lasts until April 19. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Thursday morning Fox Business interview that "we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water," estimating that it could free...

Joseph Duggar's wife Kendra has been arrested in Arkansas, TMZ has learned. A warrant was issued for Kendra Friday … police went to the Duggar family compound in Washington County, Arkansas earlier Friday with a warrant for Kendra's arrest ... but she was not there. But, now she's been taken into custody, according to the Washington County Detention Center. She was wanted for allegedly endangering the welfare of a minor and false imprisonment. As for Joseph, he was arrested Wednesday in Tontitown, Arkansas, and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor ... this after a now-14-year-old girl told...

Feds investigate alarming near miss between Alaska Airlines jet, FedEx plane at busy Newark airport Federal authorities are investigating after a "close call" was reported Tuesday night at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey involving a commercial jet and cargo aircraft. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials confirmed the "close call" happened when an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 overflew a FedEx Boeing 777 while both jets were attempting to land on crossing runways. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that, at about 8:15 p.m., an air traffic controller instructed Alaska Airlines Flight 294 to perform a "go-around" because FedEx...

DONALD Trump has slammed the UK’s “very late response” after Starmer agreed to let the US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting a key shipping route. The US President said the UK “should have acted a lot faster” in allowing America to use British bases after accusing NATO allies of cowardice over the deepening Strait of Hormuz crisis. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump said: “It’s been a very late response from the UK. “I’m surprised because the relationship is so good, but this has never happened before. “They were really, pretty much our first ally,...

A U.S. Air Force Base that houses B-52 bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons detected "multiple unauthorized drones" in its vicinity earlier this month, a base official confirmed to Fox News Digital. "Barksdale Air Force Base detected multiple unauthorized drones operating in our airspace during the week of March 9th," a Barksdale AFB spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday. The spokesperson added: "Flying a drone over a military installation is not only a safety issue, it is a criminal offense under federal law." Base officials are working closely with federal and local law enforcement agencies to investigate the drone...

[Catholic Caucus] New archbishop of Vienna suggests ignoring Church law for divorced and ‘remarried’ peopleAbp. Josef Gründwidl proposed disregarding canon law for people in sinful sexual relationships and changing ‘centuries-old traditions’ to involve women in Church ‘decision-making processes.’Archbishop Josef Grünwidl of Vienna, Austria, has suggested that Church teaching could be neglected in certain cases, e.g., women in “leadership” and divorced and civilly “remarried” couples, if it benefits the “salvation of souls.”Grünwidl, the recently consecrated archbishop of Vienna, gave a homily during the Spring Plenary Assembly of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference on March 11 at the parish church in Pischelsdorf, Styria....