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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The mother of the woman charged in the fatal stabbing of 7-year-old Eddimar Hernandez says she is sorry for the child's death and believes years of efforts to get her daughter mental health treatment went unanswered. Speaking by phone and asking that her name and image not be used, the mother of Shavon Gayden said she wanted to express sympathy to Eddimar's family. "I am so sorry. I am so sorry for that family. The little baby didn't deserve it. My daughter was not in her right mind," she said. According to police, Gayden approached Eddimar near...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis-era progressives dominate Pope Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit The Vatican’s 8-day summit marking 10 years of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ will feature prelates and experts closely associated with Pope Francis’ synodal and pastoral vision.The Vatican’s newly published program for Pope Leo XIV’s eight-day summit marking ten years since Amoris Laetitia gives prominent roles to a series of prelates and experts closely associated with Pope Francis’ synodal and pastoral vision for the Church.On October 3, the Vatican released the official schedule for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming conference in the Paul VI Hall from October 7 to 14, exposing a tightly controlled...

The Biden administration’s effort to combat alleged threats against school boards amid a wave of heated parent protests triggered sustained internal resistance within the Justice Department and FBI, documents released by the DOJ show. "Five years ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memorandum at the urging of the National School Boards Association and White House officials, directing the FBI and United States Attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech," Blanche posted to X on Monday, when the DOJ released the "Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against...

The U.S. military fired upon a suspected drug boat operating in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 4, killing four. “Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking,” the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a press statement announcing the strike. “The operation killed four narco-terrorists.” Along with the statement, SOUTHCOM shared footage purporting to show the moment the suspect vessel was bombed. The military command did not provide any additional identifying information about those killed aboard the vessel or their affiliations. Since early 2025, the State Department has designated several Latin American drug trafficking cartels as foreign terrorist organizations....

U.S. officials are tracking a possible plague case in Russia, they confirmed on Oct. 5. “CDC is monitoring the situation closely with the State Department and our other interagency partners,” a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Epoch Times in an email. “The safety and security of U.S. citizens is our highest priority,” the spokesperson added. Russia’s consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor reported over the weekend that a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in southeastern Siberia was...

“The H-1B program is completely broken, and I’d be very supportive of just eliminating it,” Vice President JD Vance said on October 1. Vance is gradually expanding his criticism of the white-collar replacement programs, in step with expanding support from Silicon Valley investors who want a compromise reform amid increasing public opposition. “He’s certainly trying to gain more attention to this,” said Chris Chmielenski, a founder of the Immigration Accountability Project (IAP) advocacy group. “The vice president is a strong messenger for conservatives … [and] this would be a natural area for [Democrats] to also speak out on,” he told...

And its crisis goes a long way to explaining why the American left remains a longshot to take power durably, despite the big gains it will probably make next month.Update on Europe, The World’s Progressive Dream (TM), the place all those Gen Z ladies say they’ll move when they stop being too sad to get out of bed. The Spanish government — loved by annoying lefties everywhere — just collapsed.The French are doing what they do best, rioting. In Germany, anti-immigration conservatives keep gaining ground. Of the four countries that dominate continental Europe, only Italy has a stable government —...

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Brazilian assets rallied on Monday after right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed opinion polls to finish first in the first round of Sunday's presidential election, with the Bovespa (.BVSP), opens new tab ‌benchmark stock index gaining more than 8% and the country's currency strengthening against the US dollar. The eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro won 47% of the votes cast and will face leftist incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who secured about 45% of the vote, in a runoff on October 25. Polls had forecast Lula would lead the first round...

Florida Democrat Gubernatorial candidate David Jolly went on the record last week openly “begging” national Democrats to pour money into his race against Republican Byron Donalds. However, Jolly made a habit of staying in Ritz Carlton hotels in at least six separate cities with donor funds during his campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures. Jolly has stayed at Ritz Carlton locations during campaign travel in Miami, Washington, D.C., Naples, Fort Lauderdale, Boston, and New York City. Average room rates range from $500 to over $1,200 during peak times in most of the locations in which Jolly has stayed. X user...

The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Zhang's husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when reached by phone Sunday: "I don't know anything yet," and declined to comment further. It was not immediately clear if Zhang...

Eating processed meat may be to blame for a boom in bowel cancer, according to a scientist. Prof Chris Elliott, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, said that chemicals found in bacon and ham are “one of the main suspects” for increased cases of the disease. Early-onset bowel cancer has increased substantially in adults under 50 across the world since 1990. Studies suggest the UK has one of the fastest-rising rates, with estimates putting the increase at around 60 per cent. Speaking to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Prof Elliott said the...

A group of professional skydivers with Skydive Milwaukee were getting ready for their jump when they spotted a small plane crash into a cornfield near East Troy Municipal Airport on Sunday afternoon. One of the skydivers, John Bechtel, recalled the moment in an interview with WSMV, saying of the other plane, He kind of banked up a little bit, and then he disappeared behind the trees. We were all sitting there waiting for him to show back up somewhere and he never did. We all just kind of looked at each other like, ‘Did we just see a plane crash?'...

Luther’s Shadow in ‘Amoris Laetitia’—Rome Bishops’ Meeting Pope Leo XIV has called the presidents of bishops’ conferences to Rome from Oct. 7—14 for a weeklong gathering on Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia. He says: “In light of the changes that continue to impact families, I have decided to convene the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences from around the world in October 2026, in an effort to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken in order to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in light of Amoris laetitia and taking into account what...

After being mistakenly served a lawsuit meant for one of the suspects in the alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University, a U.S. Marine staff sergeant and his family are facing threats.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wrote a 26 page "open letter" to the American people saying "Islam requires believers to stand up to tyrants. By electing Democrats who will oust Trump from office the people of America will prove themselves worthy of membership in our faith and will not be killed after an Islamic regime supplants the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America's current state." The letter went on to assert that "the defeat of Zionist candidates by democratic socialists in this year's Democratic primary elections shows that more Americans are aligning themselves with the...

Sen. Sergio Moro, who rose to prominence as the judge who greenlit and oversaw the sprawling “Operation Car Wash” corruption investigation, was elected governor of Paraná state, Brazil, on Sunday.Moro rode a wave of right-wing support in the general election, which also featured contests for seats in the Brazilian congress and the presidency. At the top of the ticket, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair, won the election, but came under the 50-percent threshold to outright win the presidency. He will face socialist incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a runoff election on October 25.

The East-West line is the Kingdom's bypass of the Strait of Hormuz, carrying crude from the eastern fields to Red Sea export capacity, and headlines confirming it is flowing normally tend to appear only when some disruption or threat to Gulf transit is already in the price. In past episodes of Gulf supply anxiety, the market's sensitivity has split between actual interruption to flows, which is rare, and the perceived risk premium around chokepoints, which is common and has historically faded once continuity of throughput is confirmed. Confirmation of normal operations typically works to unwind whatever premium the disruption story...

A Moscow drone slammed into Kyiv’s key Northern Bridge on Sunday, leading to a fiery explosion during a visit from Germany’s top official — as Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing a mass military mobilization. Dramatic footage from the Ukrainian capital showed a Russian drone crashing into the busy span during morning traffic, with a large fireball erupting from the explosion. Cars could be seen rushing through the blast area to get to the other side as fire and black smoke overtook one side of the bridge. Miraculously, only two people were injured in the incident, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy...

A hypothermic hiker called for a rescue on the Pacific Crest Trail near Washington’s Goat Rocks over the weekend after a winter storm brought 60 mph wind gusts and snow to the area, collapsing his tent.Ongoing weather challenges kept helicopters grounded. Instead of relying on air support, a five-person Tacoma Mountain Rescue team hiked 8 miles overnight to reach the hiker. By 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, they successfully located the hiker, who was in his 20s, and began efforts to warm and stabilize him. Two rescuers stayed overnight with the hiker in a two-person tent. The following morning, the rescuers...

A viral video captured an Arizona college cheerleader being violently slammed to the ground and pummeled on top of a bicycle by cops after she allegedly interfered with an arrest. Arizona State University senior Eryn Bonner was hit with two misdemeanor charges last week in Tempe after a harrowing video captured cops allegedly leaving her covered in bruises during an arrest in July, according to the Tempe Police Department and ABC15. Bonner, a member of the ASU Stunt team, was seen in the early morning of July 19, reapproaching officers who were arresting another individual after being told to get...