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A high school football game in McKeesport, Penn. was halted Friday night when a gunshot rang out just before 11 p.m., and a 17-year-old suspect was quickly apprehended. Liberty Borough police anticipate filing charges of receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm by a minor, possession of a weapon on school property, reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a license alleged to have fired, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The gun was reported stolen. The game between South Allegheny and Elizabeth Forward high schools was late in the fourth quarter when the incident occurred. The unidentified suspect is...

Radical Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s racially charged swipe at Second Lady Usha Vance is badly backfiring, threatening to alienate Michigan’s 130,000 Indian-Americans and crucial female voters, insiders told The Post. The unprovoked jab at the second lady exposed El-Sayed’s own insecurities said one GOP insider, who accused the anti-Israel Democrat of victimizing women to look tough when he snidely posted to X: “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no …” “I think Abdul has a Napoleon complex and he victimizes women to look tough instead of the actual men...

A woman is drawing massive condemnation on social media after a video surfaced where she said she killed her baby in an abortion because she “loved him.” Describing abortion as supposedly the only way she could protect the baby from a hard childhood, the woman ignore adoption as an alternative or improving the circumstances to welcome a child. “I got the abortion because I loved my baby, and I could not see a better way to love my baby and protect my baby from a childhood in a world that would not be kind to it,” she said. “I knew...

...Republicans have spent years warning that China should not be allowed to buy American farmland. But some Republican insiders are getting paid by the Chinese-controlled company sitting squarely in the middle of that fight.... ...Among them are former aides to Republican Sens. John Warner and Susan Collins, a former House Republican Conference official, and a former U.S. Department of Agriculture official.... ...disclosure lists DeLacy, Ross, Joel Roberson, and former USDA official Peter Tabor lobbying more broadly on “issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land.”..

A band tied to The Satanic Temple released a music video this week that depicts a woman carrying out the group’s “abortion ritual” in a Hobby Lobby women’s restroom and supposedly flushing her baby down the toilet. The clip was posted Wednesday on YouTube for the song “Sam Alito’s Mom” by Satanic Planet, a band that includes Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves. The video shows a simulated satanic ritual inside the Christian-owned store. After taking abortifacient drugs, the woman sits on the toilet and flushes her baby. She then turns to the mirror and says, “By my body, my blood,...

Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by just over 14 days, create a solar and a lunar eclipse. But only rarely is the alignment at both new moon and full moon during a single eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total solar and lunar eclipses. More often, partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But, the last eclipse season of 2026 did produce this fortnight-separated...

It’s been 18 months since residents of Great Oak, a 291-home subdivision south of Manassas, began to hear the mind-numbing noise—a low-pitched roar topped with a tinny screech—from a complex of Amazon data centers next door. Now, after many meetings with Amazon and costly engineering work, the data center operator has managed to reduce the sound by 10 decibels—cutting its loudness in half. The saga also holds some lessons. One is that neighbors who want data centers to change their ways must be “determined and tenacious,’ said Browne. Another is it helps to get public officials involved. A third is...

A Satanic Temple-associated band has released a new music video in which a “satanic abortion ritual” is performed inside the bathroom of a Hobby Lobby. The craft store chain is known for being a Christian company. Satanic Planet, whose members include Satanic co-founder Lucien Greaves, released the video for its song “Sam Alito’s Mom,” in which a woman is seen going into Hobby Lobby’s bathroom to perform the ritual. The video opens with a statement saying that “on Friday, March 13, 2026, a satanic abortion ritual was performed inside of a Hobby Lobby bathroom.” It cuts to numerous Christianity-related decor...

Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and his online arch-nemesis was quick to take credit. Laura Loomer boasted that she was the first to claim Yiannopoulos was in the country illegally just moments after news broke of his detention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The British-born’s immigration status has recently fallen under scrutiny by Loomer and other loyalists after Yiannopoulos began criticizing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Yiannopoulos entered the country legally on May 14, 2019, but that he “chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our...

On Dec. 13 last year, a stranger in a Brown University bathroom noticed a man dressed head to toe in black, wrong for the weather, mere hours before that same man opened fire on Brown University’s campus, killing two and wounding eight before vanishing. Investigators had almost nothing: no name, no plate, just a tip describing a gray Nissan with Florida plates. But that was enough: Providence police ran it through a network of more than 70 Flock Safety cameras, which reached back through 30 days of history, and found the car had passed 14 times since Dec. 1. “We...

Labour MPs are pressing Prime minister Andy Burnham to launch an electoral reform commission within 100 days, fearing first-past-the-post could hand Reform UK power on minority support. Nearly 100 Labour parliamentarians have signed an amendment seeking the commission to examine proportional systems for Westminster elections. The move, tabled to the Representation of the People Bill returning on September 2, is understood to have attracted support from former ministers, centrists and some newly appointed frontbenchers. New YouGov polling of MPs shows majority support across the Commons for a review of the current system. An amendment launching the commission has been backed...

By Dr. John BergsmaIf last Sunday’s Readings were a soft-ball pitch, a nice high arc to knock out of the park, this Sunday’s Readings are a wicked curve ball for the Catholic preacher. Nonetheless, while these readings aren’t the “feel good” homiletical experience of last week’s, the truths are just as important and just as “Catholic.” We begin with a troublesome passage from the prophet JeremiahReading 1: Jeremiah 20:7-9You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped [Heb. patah]; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone...

Democrat gubernatorial candidate David Jolly is sharing the top of the ticket race with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Senate candidate Angie Nixon in Florida, and despite acting as a moderate Democrat, Jolly shares many of the same positions as DSA. Jolly – a Republican turned Democrat – has attempted to position himself as a moderate Democrat, but that is anything but the case. He has openly said he wishes to apologize to the world for Florida’s “culture wars” and sided with disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci during the pandemic, fleeing Florida...

Nowhere else (except maybe North Korea) will you find a town so eager to honour communist icons as Bloemfontein. The provincial government building is named after Fidel Castro. There’s a statue of him too. There are streets honouring Karl Marx and Ho Chi Minh. The ANC set out to turn into a living monument to communism — and ironically, simultaneously, turned the city into a monument of absolute decay. Here’s the story of Bloemfontein’s decline.

Leftist activists in the UK are mourning the apparent suicide of scholar plagiarist Jason Arday. Arday was a fabulist whose rich inner world would put Walter Mitty to shame. Called out for his violations of academic ethics, it quickly became apparent to anyone outside of Cambridge that his outlandish claims, both in academics and his personal life, could not possibly be true.

More than 100 companies have signed onto an open letter calling for greater cooperation and preparation of cyber defenses across governments and other institutions. The signatories include tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, along with financial institutions, telecoms and more. The call comes as the growing capabilities of AI models lower the barrier for hackers to be able to cause disruption with critical infrastructure, important organizations and companies."In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable," the letter says. "The companies and public services our communities...

A product of Greek mythology, the Trojan War tale includes a great deception that ended it. After a ten-year siege of Troy, residents awoke to find a massive statue of a horse outside their city gates with the Greek army nowhere in sight. Assuming the horse was a gift offering to end the fighting, the Trojans brought it within their city walls, and later that night, Greek soldiers exited the statue via a trap door and opened the city gates to the rest of the waiting army. In warfare, deception is the mother of invention—and the greatest opportunity for deception...

29 August 2026 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on Saturday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Front Royal, Virginia: Saint John the Baptist Catholic ChurchReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 1:26-31God chose what is foolish by human reckoning, to shame the wiseTake yourselves for instance, brothers, at the time when you were called: how many of you were wise in the ordinary sense of the word, how many were influential people, or came from noble families? No, it was to shame the...

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28 August 2026 Saint Augustine, Bishop, Doctor on Friday of week 21 in Ordinary Time St. Augustine of Hippo Parish - San Juan, SiquijorReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 1:17-25We preach a crucified Christ, the power and wisdom of GodChrist did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Good News, and not to preach that in the terms of philosophy in which the crucifixion of Christ cannot be expressed. The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on...