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Terrifying doorbell camera video showed how a wide-eyed masked teenager dressed like a clown appeared to go door-to-door before being arrested in connection with an elderly neighbor's murder. The Illinois State Police said officers had responded to an intersection in East St Louis on Monday shortly after 10pm after reports of a body in the road. A 15-year-old, whose identity was not disclosed, was taken into custody on Tuesday as part of a homicide investigation. He was later charge with first degree murder. The victim was identified as John Wesley Allen Sr, 78, by the St Clair County Coroner, according...

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that some federal gun restrictions can no longer stand after Republicans last year zeroed out the taxes that justified their constitutionality. Congress relied on its taxing authority to pass the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA), which established a $200 fee to transfer or make certain firearms. But last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated the tax for short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles and silencers. U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix said that has “constitutional consequences.” The law’s registration and recordkeeping requirements for those guns can’t continue, he ruled. “Because today’s NFA does not generate any...

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Priest says migrants who swarmed Spanish city are ‘saints’Prominent Spanish priest Fr. Ángel García said the Moroccan migrants who stormed Spain’s border are ‘not causing any disturbances’ and downplayed the death and destruction due to the surge.Father Ángel García, the founder of the Messengers of Peace, told reporters that the mass influx of migrants who illegally crossed into Spanish territory from Morocco last week are “saints.”Speaking to reporters following a meeting with the mayor-president of the small, autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta, García called the 50,000–60,000 migrants who rushed into the Spanish territory between July 30–31 “saints,” per Spanish media....

On a cold December night in 2023, the staff at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie, Ore., called local police. They wanted help getting one of their patients, a 26-year-old man named Jean Descamps, out of the emergency room. "He's been evaluated medically. There's no medical problems for him," a member of the hospital team, who NPR has not been able to identify, told police. The moment was captured on an officer's body camera. Records show the hospital's medical staff believed Descamps — emaciated, covered in feces, and often unresponsive — was experiencing symptoms of chronic street drug use, a leading...

Are we about to see a disruption of the avocado supply chain? It's possible. Violent criminal drug cartels are connected with much that goes on in our neighbor to the south, Mexico — and that includes the highly lucrative market for avocados in the United States. At least four drug cartels — designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump administration — operate in the region, profiting not only from narcotics trafficking but also from extortion schemes targeting the lucrative avocado industry. Security threat shuts down avocado pipeline from Mexico to the US https://t.co/zrY4Kn4q3a pic.twitter.com/XGGYFTgr0r— New York Post (@nypost) August...

Grouchy Fauci.Dr. Anthony Fauci looked downright miserable Thursday after a Senate committee voted to hold him in contempt for refusing to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.Just hours after the vote to refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution, a sullen-looking Fauci was spotted frowning as he dutifully wheeled a recycling bin to the curb of the $2.4 million Washington, DC, home he shares was his wife and Georgetown University colleague, Christine Grady.Fauci later hopped in the passenger seat of a vehicle and was driven away by his wife.Grady, apparently enraged by the photographer’s...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania State Police are still working to identify whoever has been cutting down Flock cameras throughout Franklin County this summer as a protest against the cameras is just days away. One of the cameras, located near the Lowes off Lincoln Way E. in Chambersburg, was cut down July 4 and replaced with an American flag. Then, sometime overnight Sunday into Monday, troopers said another Flock camera was cut down off Moly Pitcher Highway in Antrim Township. READ MORE | Cameras cut down, replaced with American flag amid Flock debate in Franklin County Pennsylvania State Police...

A new episode of Forgotten History asks whether the growth of Muslim political power, religiously centered communities and Islamist movements poses a threat to American constitutional government. Written and hosted by military historian Colin D. Heaton, The Muslim Political Takeover Threatening America tracks the rise of Muslim candidates and officeholders from Congress to statehouses and city halls. Heaton argues that those electoral gains should be examined alongside disputes over assimilation, Sharia, election safeguards and organizations accused of ties to extremist networks. From EPIC City to CAIRThe 24-minute episode turns to North Texas as one of its main case studies. Heaton...

He’s a real prima-dani.Social media-savvy Mayor Zohran Mamdani is developing a reputation IRL as “thin-skinned” and hyper-sensitive to public criticism, despite hyping himself online as a smiling and unflappable politician, scores of insiders spilled to The Post.Behind the scenes, Hizzoner huffily badgers critics who dare question him publicly, harbors petty grudges against prominent pols and often only responds to texts when he’s miffed about bad press, according to interviews with more than a dozen elected officials, consultants and other politicos.“I see more and more he cannot handle criticism, but mainly from elected officials who he thinks he can push around,”...

Viagra Plus Statins Tied to Better Cancer Survival Odds, Study Suggests In A Nutshell * Viagra’s active ingredient, sildenafil, appears to trap cholesterol inside cancer cells, potentially limiting their ability to spread. * In mice, sildenafil reduced metastasis across breast, lung, and colon cancer models. * Health records from more than 40,000 male cancer patients linked combined sildenafil and statin use to a 31% lower risk of death within five years, compared to using neither drug. * The findings are observational and come from lab and animal studies, so clinical trials are needed before doctors could prescribe the combination for...

Criminal networks are selling Americans’ white-collar jobs via the huge and complex H-1B visa program, says Anthony D’Esposito, the Inspector General at the Department of Labor. “This is not just fraud: This is a criminal enterprise that stretches far beyond the borders of America,” D’Esposito told Breitbart News during an interview in his D.C. office. He explained: Without revealing too much of an investigation, I think that when complete, one of the things that will probably make the American people most angry… and will probably lead to the biggest change from lawmakers — they will probably bring oversight to this...

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There was nothing much happening in Jerome and Benno Leuer’s yard in Hamel, Minn. on August 11, 1948. It was noontime in the thick of summer and the boys, 10 and 8, were idly playing when, as they later described it, something overhead caught their eyes. They looked up and their jaws dropped. Roughly 12 ft. up in the air was a dull gray, circular object, about 1 ft. thick and 2 ft. in diameter, slowly descending between them. They stood transfixed as the object settled onto the ground, making a clattering sound like metal hitting metal. The object rested...

Since You Went Away is a 1944 drama in which producer David O. Selznick created a memorable view of life among the wives and children left behind on the home front during World War II. Directed by John Cromwell, it is set in a mid-sized American town, where people with loved ones in the armed forces try to cope with their changed circumstances and make their own contributions to the war effort. The town is near a military base, and some of the characters are troops serving Stateside. The film received nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress...

Summary of the video: The speaker delivers a sharp critique of Jason Aday (referred to throughout as a fabricated figure), arguing that his claimed life story is almost entirely invented and that he is a product of a collapsed, morally bankrupt, and intellectually deranged academic culture. Key claims about Aday that the speaker presents as false or exaggerated: Mute until age 11, illiterate until 18 Professional footballer and snooker player Completed 26 consecutive marathons and ran 600 miles in six days Multiple degrees and university positions Survived a brain tumor and stroke while finishing a PhD Sleeps only two hours...

They probably mean well – and you know what the road to h*ll is paved with – but a new move by the University of Michigan is going to backfire spectacularly because coddling young adults is never the right thing to do. UMich recently announced that they're going all-out to "curb" mental health issues in the incoming freshmen class, and they will do that by abolishing the first-semester grades for those enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. And that's likely going to be a good number of kids in the class of 2030 because that encompasses...

Unelectable candidates hurt Republicans then. Now Democrats are building a similar slate. Before the 2022 midterms, most observers were expecting a red wave to sweep Democrats from power on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden’s approval rating had plummeted thanks to his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the highest inflation in 40 years and the worst border crisis in U.S. history, among other disasters. The only question seemed to be: How big would the GOP victory be? It didn’t turn out that way. Biden had one of the best midterm performances of any president since John F. Kennedy. What happened? The GOP...

The Coca-Cola Company has a new promotion available online for its popular soft drink where customers can customize messages featured on a can or bottle. If you thought the marketing executives behind this idea would allow expressions of faith or politics to be featured, you would be wrong. But what they will allow are phrases so absolutely vile that whoever orders them should be on a watchlist. Upon visiting the website and selecting a Coke product to personalize, users will be met with a text box. If a banned word or phrase is used, the following message will appear: “The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since 2022 and allegedly tortured and injected with mind-altering drugs, slipped into a stupor in June and may be close to death, according to two hostage advocacy groups and his sister. The White House and the State Department have urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he can receive urgent medical treatment in the U.S., said Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, an advocacy group representing his family. Gilman is being fed through a tube, he said. A source familiar with the matter told Reuters they had...