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A major incident was averted on Wednesday when a pilot on a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv was stabbed by his co-pilot, triggering a rapid descent and an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Passengers and crew members intervened and restrained the accused pilot, while other pilots on board helped land the aircraft safely. Israeli officials have described the incident as an apparent attempt to crash the plane and kill those on board. The incident has nevertheless raised questions about a possible Iran connection, given the heightened tensions between Israel and Iran and concerns over potential attacks against Israelis. Here's what...

Hollywood just spent a fortune to tell you the fuel that heats your house, moves your food, and keeps the lights on is a moral crime. The audience looked at the trailer, looked at the ticket price, and stayed home. Tom Cruise’s climate sermon Digger opens Friday, and the early math says Warner Bros. is about to bury more than $100 million in a hole of its own digging. John Nolte at Breitbart called the thing what it is. A shrill, unsubtle, 129-minute attack on the people who dare to use oil to make a better life. Director Alejandro González...

Louis Geri will be spending the next five years and ten months in federal prison for threatening to detonate more than 100 improvised explosive devices on the steps of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC. Is that enough time behind bars? Probably not. You see, this wasn’t just a normal bomb threat. On Monday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed that the threat coincided with the annual Red Mass — a service often attended by Supreme Court justices and other senior government officials. Despite Geri’s high-profile targets, violent threats, and outrageous demands, Judge Randolph Moss granted a shorter sentence in response...

Rochester Regional Health officials are responding to recent claims by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Labor. In a post on social media, Anthony D'Esposito asked the healthcare system how many of its incoming class of residents are H-1B and J-1 visa holders. This is regarding a claim that only two of the 82 in the incoming class studied in America. The H-1B visa program allows employers to hire skilled foreign professionals, while the J-1 visa offers temporary, non-immigrant status for approved work and study exchange programs. RRH says it's focused on building its workforce in a time...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Synod commission proposes “complete revision” of canon law — including marriages without a priest. Vatican Synod commission proposes “complete revision” of canon law — including marriages without a priest.A 10-member Canonical Commission established as part of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality has published today proposals to reshape canon law.The report says that in the long term there is an “obvious need for a complete revision” of the Codes. The goal is to reflect emerging “theological and ecclesiological issues.”Among the proposals:• Sensus fidei: Canon 749 would begin by stating that “the entire body of the Christian faithful… cannot...

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in January, has filed federal civil lawsuits against the federal government, federal agents, and officials. “One lawsuit seeks to hold the United States liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the actions of federal agents,” NBC News reports. The lawsuit alleges wrongful death, battery, assault, false imprisonment, emotional distress, and negligence. The second lawsuit names ICE officer Jonathan Ross, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others, alleging a “conspiracy to interfere with...

NASHVILLE, TENN. (WSMV/WVLT/Gray News) - The doctor who oversaw Christa Gail Pike’s lethal injection was also involved in another botched execution earlier this year. Mark Fowler, the doctor who oversaw Pike’s botched execution, was also involved in the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers. His execution was abandoned in May after medical staff failed to establish IV access, a process that took more than an hour. That said, Tennessee did successfully execute an inmate in August. Anthony Darrell Hines was executed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Senate Democrats are blocking the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3, because of “politics that are coming into play.” And if it were up to him, he’d forget the politics and pass the bill.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike will likely have brain damage after her botched execution, during which she chillingly lifted her head and asked if the pain she was feeling was normal. Pike, 50, was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after the Tennessee Department of Corrections administered two doses of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital, but it failed to kill her. The murderer, who was sentenced to death for the monstrous 1995 slaying of a classmate, was “being provided life-saving measures” in the hospital, her lawyers said – but she likely has a brain injury as a result. Emory University...

Russia said on Tuesday that a Tu-95 bomber crashed in one of its eastern regions. At least six crew members died during the crash, which occurred during training, per state media. The crash is a blow to Russia's nuclear bomber fleet, with Tu-95s now out of production. One of Russia's Tu-95 strategic bombers crashed during a training flight in the Amur region, killing six crew members, the country's defense ministry said on Tuesday. The plane was not carrying any ammunition, and a seventh crew member survived the initial crash and was hospitalized, the defense ministry added, per state media.

If you haven’t already heard about an Omani pilot’s attempt to crash a Dubai plane heading for Tel Aviv, you’ve missed a tale of complete evil, epic courage, and sheer luck that most would say could only have been dreamed up by a Hollywood script writer. It’s an amazing, “burning up the front page” story that honest news outlets should have been all over like white on rice

A 4-year-old Texas girl was shot and killed by her mother after the parent lost a custody battle, Lone Star State police say. The victim in the case has been identified as Vivian Savella, the family's attorney revealed in a statement on Tuesday. "Our family is devastated," the statement begins. "Vivian was four years old. She was loved without limit by her father, Aaron, and by everyone whose life she touched. There are no words for what has been taken from us." The mother has yet to be identified and is currently in the hospital after shooting herself, according to...

The U.S. can deport the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on the grounds that he is a threat to national security, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday. Salah Sarsour was detained in Milwaukee in March by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. A federal judge ordered Sarsour’s release in June, saying he raised a “substantial” claim that the Trump administration was targeting him for speaking out against Israel and advocating for Palestinian rights. Sarsour called the ruling “deeply disappointing,” but said he intends to appeal. “I will continue fighting to defend the right to free speech and to stay in the...

The Omani copilot who stabbed the pilot on the flydubai flight yesterday discussed killing Jews on social media, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.The official adds that the attacker asked the Emirati crew members to kill him, citing conversations with passengers on the flight. “This was a person who was willing to commit suicide,” says the official. “His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology. He talks about killing Jews.”“We can’t say for sure until the investigation’s over,” the official continues, “but it certainly seems like he was a suicide actor who...

"[The Bereans] were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so" (Acts 17:11). God honors spiritual discernment. On his second missionary journey, Paul, accompanied by Silas, preached the gospel of Jesus Christ in the city of Thessalonica. They weren't there long before the gospel took root and many turned from their idolatry to serve the true and living God (1 Thess. 1:9). In 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Paul says, "We also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's...

React19 reviewed free-text entries submitted to the CDC’s V-safe vaccine safety monitoring program to document reports in which participants asked for help, described suicidal thoughts, reported that they were dying or nearly died, or reported a death, and to document what participants said about the response they received. CDC V-safe free-text survey responses were produced under FOIA request 24-01322 and published by the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) at icandecide.org/v-safe-data. The CDC released the data in twelve interim and final tranches. This audit uses ICAN’s updated files, which add the survey type, response ID, and response date to each entry....

Democrats are obsessing over high fuel costs, but the historical record and their policy platform strongly suggests that things would be even worse if they were in charge. As November’s midterm elections approach, Democrat candidates have obsessed over rising fuel costs, making the price at the pump the central issue in their closing message to voters as they lambast the so-called “war of choice” in Iran. With the national average approaching $4.50 per gallon, the cost of gas is indeed a real problem for American families – and the war with Iran is indeed the primary reason for it. The...

ennessee has a competence problem on its hands. After the state's attempt to execute Christa Pike went disastrously wrong Wednesday night, attention should now turn to the people and procedures responsible for carrying it out. This isn't complicated. The state knew the execution date. It controlled the drugs, equipment, personnel, and death chamber. It had an established protocol and months to prepare for one of the highest-profile executions Tennessee has carried out in decades. And Pike was still alive after the state tried to kill her. As of this report, Pike was sent to the hospital after the failed attempted...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) mass detention policy, Politico reported. The policy has faced several defeats in lower courts amid President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts. At least one federal appeals court, the Fifth Circuit, has backed the administration, while others have struck it down, creating what is known as a "circuit split." The Supreme Court typically, though not invariably, waits for such a development to hear major cases.

Student protests have escalated into widespread riots in France with schools set on fire and teachers beaten and doused in petrol. Rioters have unleashed chaos in major cities across the country after what started as largely peaceful demonstrations against the state of education descended into violent chaos. Protests began last Monday, when students and teaching staff alike took to French towns and cities to demand the replacement of absent teachers, an increase of educational resources, school renovations and 'decent' learning conditions. But disorder has spread since Tuesday with some 600 arrests and 85 police officers wounded. The unrest gathered pace...