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Harry Houdini died 100 years ago on Halloween, and depending on who you ask he either died whilst performing a stunt inside a water torture cell, as the result of being punched in the abdomen, at the hands of spiritualists he had annoyed, or, according to one book, "by a crew of malevolent circus midgets who surreptitiously entered his hotel room to add arsenic to his morning tea". Not to complicate things further, but a recent book has suggested that none of these are correct, and that he didn't even die on Halloween. Harry Houdini used his time here on...

Yes, individuals are significantly more likely to die from complications related to obesity than from crime or homicide. WCNCComparison of NumbersObesity-Related Deaths: Public health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and research studies estimate that obesity and excess weight contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year (such as through heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and related chronic conditions). Some studies indicate that excess weight plays a role in roughly 1 in 6 U.S. deaths. University of Colorado Boulder +2Crime/Homicide Deaths: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) homicide and violent crime statistics show annual...

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s double life is collapsing and her caterer/donor is going to jail for 30 years for $44 million in fraud. Salim Ahmed Said was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was found guilty in 2025 for his role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Said is the former co-owner of the Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis. He and his associates stole over $44 million by claiming to feed up to 6,000 children daily. Omar had her victory party at the Safari restaurant and took part in a video claiming to be feeding people there. But in...

Canadian pro-family activist Bill Whatcott is now in the US – held in an ICE prison facility!Fled Canada after phony "hate speech" conviction to seek US political asylum with “help” from US immigration lawyers.An unbelievable story of dishonesty and incompetence that got him in this situation.Also: Canada is seeking extradition of Bill!October 27, 2026text Bill Whatcott is currently being held in the Northwest ICE Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.This story is so absurd and disturbing that we almost don’t know where to start.Over the years, Canadian pro-family Christian activist Bill Whatcott has been the target of a breathtaking amount of...

Celebrate Halloween with these iconic Looney Tunes moments featuring Bugs Bunny, Witch Hazel, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Daffy Duck. Episodes in order: Transylvania 6-5000 (1963): While tunneling to Pittsburgh, Bugs Bunny mistakenly surfaces in Transylvania. He asks for directions at a mysterious castle, where he meets a vampire named Count Bloodcount. Now, with the count chasing him, Bugs finds a book with magic words that he uses against Bloodcount. Hair-Raising Hare (1946): A mad scientist sends a sexy rabbit-robot to lure Bugs in as food for his monster. Bugs gets lured in by the robot and when he's face to...

The Trump administration is surging federal law enforcement resources to Alaska amid the “troubling new revelations” of an apparent Democratic scheme to siphon votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in the midterm election. The criminal investigation into “Decoy Dan” Sullivan’s alleged sham Senate campaign in the Last Frontier has been ongoing for the last “several months,” but additional assets are being deployed as a direct result of a bombshell New York Times report on the alleged involvement of Democratic Senate hopeful Mary Peltola’s campaign, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), in the plot, Alaska’s top...

One person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in California packed with last-minute Halloween shoppers on Friday night. Gunfire rang out inside the seasonal retail store at the Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield, Calif., at around 8:30 p.m., Fairfield Police Chief Dan Marshall said during a press conference. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, while six others were rushed to a hospital, where three are listed in critical condition. Police did not reveal any description of the suspected shooter, who remains at large, and did not confirm if...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement working with Texas law enforcement arrested more than 4,000 illegal foreign nationals in 10 days in Texas without incident. [snip] Through Lone Star Mission, five ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operations field office staff working with law enforcement partners arrested 4,170 foreign nationals illegally living in Texas. They had removal orders, criminal histories including murder, sexual assault, human smuggling, and multiple illegal entry and illegal reentry charges. The operation took place statewide between Oct. 19 and 29. ICE ERO field offices involved are based in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Harlingen. “When we have cooperation,...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Timothy Courchaine's office is investigating reports about "three non-profit organizations registering non-citizens to vote in Arizona" and has already referred the matter to the FBI, he said Friday night. He also sent letters Oct. 26 to Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes regarding Stand Indivisible Arizona, Worker Power and When We Count, citing "written and video reports" that "personnel acting on behalf" of the three groups "either intentionally disregarded or were recklessly ignorant of" Arizona law barring registration of non-citizens in elections. Courchaine asked them to review...

Radical, offensive Democrat Abdul Muhammed Al-Sayed sat down with Hasan Minhaj for an interview this week. During the interview Al-Sayed thought it would be good to bring up Pete’s mother!

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Citizens groups are volunteering to guard against possible federal interference nationwide CHANDLER, Ariz. — At balloon-adorned tables in red, white and blue, a handful of voters inside a church gymnasium listened as Medina Moore explained what to do if federal agents show up at the polls.Call a hotline, she told volunteers, where attorneys will be ready to respond. Take videos, report what you see and remove yourself from any situation that becomes intense, she advised.It was one of Moore’s final poll monitor trainings in the Phoenix area before election day, preparing a few new “peacekeepers” to join the ranks of...

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place.” Luke 14:8–9 Jesus told this parable during a dinner at the home of a leading Pharisee. We are told that “the people there were observing him carefully.” On one hand, such attentiveness might...

Synopsis Pentagon officials have requested several NATO countries to tone down their public statements regarding Russia's threat. These requests are primarily directed towards Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Concerns have arisen over comments suggesting Russia is cornered due to its stalled invasion of Ukraine. As the Trump administration seeks a negotiated end to the war, pressure is applied on Ukraine as well.

Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery — we investigate. This week, Medick travels to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, to investigate the "Beast of Bray Road." Since the 1980s, residents of the area have reported sightings of a hairy, wolflike creature with glowing red eyes — leaving residents terrified. Resident Lee Hampel is not afraid to take on the beast. A math and computer science teacher who owns a farm along the road, Hampel has spent 13 years...

Saturday morning an attacking Houthi drone downed over eastern Saudi Arabia... The US intends to launch attacks on Iran as early as... Israel the opposition seeking a vote next month to replace the Speaker of... A sampling of US political polls... Poland's Conservative Nationalist President Karol Nawrocki jostled as he arrived at the Constitutional Court...Liberal Secularist Prime Minister Donald Tusk...suspending the court's president... At the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta no group photo... United States approving the sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine... Strait of Hormuz a new attack on an oil tanker... US Embassy in Saudi Arabia...

The month was January 2021, only a few weeks into the mass rollout of the injection called a vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had outsourced its collection of data from the VAERS system – designed to monitor vaccine safety – to General Dynamics Information Technology. GDIT wrote the CDC a memo dated January 15. “The number of incoming COVID-19 reports has significantly exceeded the estimated maximum of 1,000 reports per day,” the memo to the CDC said. “As a result, GDIT is unable to meet processing and other timeframes (data processing, telephone inquiries, clinical inquiries, etc.). GDIT...

The national debt topped the entire gross domestic product (GDP) for fiscal 2026, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). From the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of this year, the country's economic output was more than $32.2 trillion, according to the BEA's non-seasonally adjusted statistics. As of Sept. 30, the final day of the third quarter, debt held by the public was more than $32.4 trillion, per the Treasury Department. Debt held by the public is what the federal government owes to outside entities, including banks, state and local governments and foreign...

Some 263 migrants arrived in the UK on Thursday as Channel crossing attempts continued after a three-week hiatus – with one boat customised in the colours of the Kurdish flag. Several children were among a large group of people wearing life-jackets who were seen being brought ashore in Dover, Kent, as better weather brought calmer crossing conditions. The 21-day break in arrivals is the longest for the year so far amid high sea swell and wind in the Channel. After three boats successfully crossed, the total number of arrivals for 2026 stood at 21,198, according to Home Office figures. This...