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They should have guessed what they were walking into … A sticky-fingered escort is accused of stealing more than $135,000 from men she met at a Miami strip club fittingly named the Booby Trap. Deziree Hood, 21, was already out on bond for a previous robbery earlier this year when she was recently arrested again in what Miami cops labeled “robbery by seduction,” WPLG reported. In the most recent “seductions,” Hood — who is listed as being an “escort” in at least one of her many recent arrest reports — is accused of stealing two gold chains worth about $110,000...

The ability of U.S. families to stay current on their debts worsened over the past three years, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. In the central bank’s Survey of Consumer Finances, researchers found that while wealth disparities narrowed somewhat, the ability to meet debt payments deteriorated significantly. “Families were more likely to be behind on their financial obligations than at any point since the 2010 survey,” stated the survey, a data-rich document the Fed releases every three years to chronicle the nation’s financial health. The country in 2010 was...

I was reading the post and comments concerning Zach Bryan - about him wearing the Free Palestine t-shirt. My thoughts once again strayed to what were these people like back in high school. Were they the ones that joined the Drama clubs, Glee clubs? Were they the ones that were in their own little 2-3 person clique? Were they the ones that looked down on the other students as beneath them, not "educated" like them?

My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.More at link.

Any doubt to her identity was washed away when her name appeared emblazoned across her stern in raised letters: JUNEAU. Several thousand yards ahead of the cruiser, the sky was awash with searchlights, tracers and muzzle flashes exploding on the inky-black night sky like brilliant, violent lightning strikes. In the lead of the second column of American vessels, Seaman Allen Heyn sat in his 1.1 anti-aircraft mount and watched as the ships ahead shot each other to pieces. Through all the muzzle flashes Heyn could see that the Japanese ships were getting closer, yet his ship, the USS Juneau (CL-52)...

France’s revolting students vowed Thursday night they are only getting started and plan to continue their nationwide rioting, blockades, demonstrations and boycotts now and into the foreseeable future. FRANCE24 reports at least a dozen demonstrations supporting the high school students’ anti-establishment movement were planned across France into Friday after a rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris saw tear gas and a water cannon were fired at protesters. The mass mobilisation of students in concert with far-left political parties has seen street violence soar to record levels across France in the past three weeks. Police have made more than...

Country music singer Ella Langley is facing an online backlash. But it’s not about political statements, as is the case with many celebrities. It’s not even about her music. People are incensed at her because she posted pictures of herself posing with deer she hunted. Now, people on social media are all in a tizzy because she enjoys the same activities as many male country singers.

The leaders of France and Britain are calling for censorship regimes because enforcing multiculturalism requires suppressing freedom. Rioting that began late last week in the suburbs of Paris has now spread across France. This week there have been riots in Marseille, Lyon, Dijon, Lille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, and elsewhere. Every corner of the country, it seems, is beset by a coalition of violent left-wing activists and second- and third-generation immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. These rioters are not calling for education reform or protesting poor classroom conditions, despite what the corporate press has reported. These are not...

Either Zach Bryan is indifferent to human suffering and murder, or he just cares about his streaming numbers. I'm not sure that the two are mutually exclusive, mind you, and I can't tell you if one is worse than the other. What I can tell you is that Bryan, a country star who built his reputation on decency and kinship with blue-collar fans, is now parading around Gillette Stadium -- where Macklemore got himself banned from due to his anti-Semitic, pro-Palestine rhetoric, kicking off one of the dumber woke controversies of recent years -- wearing a "Free Palestine" T-shirt. From...

Spain's Partido Popular are currently leading polls ahead of November's snap elections. Recent regional elections also suggest a right-wing bloc, heavily dependent on Vox, could form a new Government. With the Treaty set for ratification weeks before, we spoke to people in Main Street and asked their thoughts on the looming prospect of a new right-wing Spanish Government.

4 minute video at link🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸@Real_RobN·22hThis 👇👇 here 👇👇 is:Capitol CCTV shows Sen. Kamala Harris exiting the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. on January 6. The unelected, illegitimate government filed indictments in January 6 cases against Americans for seditious conspiracy for almost a year, falsely claiming that the bitch was still in the Capitol building.Kamala Harris:“I was at the Capitol on January 6th. I was the Vice President-Elect. I was also an acting senator. I was there.And on that day, the president of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation’s Capitol, to desecrate our nation’s Capitol. On that...

LONDON (AP) — The fate of the Chagos Islands is in the hands of one man almost half a world away. The contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base has been in limbo since U.S. President Donald Trump in January criticized a deal by the U.K. government to transfer sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius. U.K. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said Wednesday that officials are reviewing the pact after Trump renewed his criticism of the U.K.-Mauritius agreement, calling it a “terrible deal,” during his first meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham in New...

Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has died at 86

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14. Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.

Voices From Vietnam@VoicesfromNamApril 1972. Air Force navigator Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton is shot down behind North Vietnamese lines during the Easter Offensive. The air rescue attempts are a catastrophe. Five more aircraft are lost and at least 11 more airmen are killed trying to reach him.So the Navy sends one SEAL, Lt. Tom Norris, with five South Vietnamese commandos, to go get him on foot.One of them was Petty Officer Nguyen Van Kiet, a 27-year-old frogman from the South Vietnamese Navy.They rescued one downed pilot from the river first. But as they pushed deeper to reach Hambleton, two of the...

OAKLAND — To mark the 60th anniversary of when two Merritt College students, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, launched the Black Panther Party, party veterans, scholars and activists from around the country will gather for what’s been called a historic four-day conference and gala in downtown Oakland, Oct. 15-18.

Trump administration imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, Rubio says Reuters reports the sanctions would bar U.S. companies from providing services to the court itself, forcing banks, insurers and software companies to cut ties. That goes beyond earlier sanctions on individual ICC officials

Ethiopia and Eritrea on Friday accused each other of starting a "war of agresson" days after the two countries severed diplomatic ties. Ethiopian officals estimate that up to 8,000 Eritrean soldiers are present in Tigray supporting rebels who last month launched attacks against federal forces. Ethiopia and Eritrea each accused the other of starting a war of aggression on Friday as an internal Ethiopian conflict threatened to escalate into a regional war. Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of backing rebels in its northern Tigray state, who launched attacks against federal forces last month. The two countries severed diplomatic relations, and over the...

President Donald Trump formally established a “committee of inquiry” to investigate allegations that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook made false statements related to “one or more mortgage instruments,” the White House announced Friday. The extraordinary announcement is the latest development in Trump’s long-running effort to fire Cook, a nominee of former President Joe Biden, from the central bank’s board. Trump, who frequently urges the Fed to lower interest rates, recently said the failure to do so by his handpicked chair Kevin Warsh is the fault of a “hostile” board. The committee comprises three executive branch officials, including Kevin Hassett, Trump’s...

Beloved, in these last days, as we witness lawlessness EXPONENTIALLY abounding, moral relativism making demonically drunk the minds of men and women globally, and God-given common sense missing across our land, there is only one place where one can find TRUE safety and surety; and that place is found in the presence of Almighty God and in His infallible Word by faith in Jesus Christ (John 1:12, 3:16-17, 17:17). Beloved, see the ETERNAL from your established position in Christ, where you are seated at the RIGHT HAND of the ALMIGHTY GOD the FATHER. The blood-bought believer today is called by...