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Fifty-two years after the body of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith was discovered by hunters in Utah, DNA evidence has now confirmed she was a victim of prolific serial killer Ted Bundy. This is the second time this year that investigators have tied Bundy to a murdered Utah teenager—the other being Lisa Ann Aime, who was also murdered in 1974 at 17 years old, just days after Smith. In fact, police and forensic scientists used insights and evidence from Aime’s now-closed case to make the breakthrough on Smith’s case. Melissa Ann Smith Back in April 2026, the Utah State Crime Lab...

SNIP “Tensions are NOT RISING. Profound differences of opinion are,” Feldshuh, 77, wrote via Threads on Friday, October 30, addressing rumors the cast is feuding. “Please do not conflate the two — And none of it will be brought to the set.” SNIP Last month, Adam Brody, who plays a rabbi in the Netflix series, spoke up about the Middle East strife. “I have spoken a lot about it privately. I haven’t spoken much about it publicly,” the “O.C.” alum shared in GQ. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine. “It’s...

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31 October 2026 Saturday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St. Wolfgang Altar, Regensburg CathedralReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingPhilippians 1:18-26Life to me is Christ;...

The scene spoke volumes about the Democratic Party's strategic shift since the 2024 US presidential election. On October 22, at a rally for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a leading figure on the party's left wing, in a former movie theater in Portland, Maine, a transgender student stood up to challenge her. "Trans people in America feel that we have been upended by the Democratic Party. That we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?" Ocasio-Cortez nodded: "I want to just let you know how shameful and sorry I am that there are...

NASA’s Swift Observatory is expected to plunge back to Earth next week after a failed rescue effort left the aging telescope drifting progressively lower. The U.S. Space Force predicts the telescope will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope should incinerate upon descent, though dense tungsten components and mirror elements could survive reentry, according to NASA's Brad Cenko, the mission’s chief scientist. Any surviving wreckage will likely plunge into the ocean, but portions of Africa, Australia, India, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America remain inside the reentry zone. The Space Force continues to...

Irene Miller, 50, of Kissimmee, was arrested the moment she got off her flight from Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 23. Deputies say her four children had been home alone. The case began on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Just after 8:30 p.m., a child called 911 from a Kissimmee home. Her 9-year-old brother had been hit on the head by a falling dumbbell. Deputies raced to the house and found no adults inside. Four children, ages 14, 12, 11 and 9, were alone. Fire Rescue took the injured boy to Celebration Hospital, where he was treated and released. Deputies reached the...

The United States is warning there is a “credible threat” of a mass casualty event at a tourist hotspot in Moscow on Saturday. “The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event TODAY October 31, at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow at Dolskaya Ultisa 1, Moscow, Russia 11569,” a security alert from the embassy read. The statement warned Americans in Russia to stay alert, avoid the area and crowds, and to keep cellphones charged. Russia’s Federal Security Service stated, “We have received information from U.S. partners regarding plans for a terrorist attack...

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! That’s where we are right now with these offensive, conscience-less Democrats, bringing up Republican moms! He also accused Pete of “riding the pine” or sitting on the bench his entire career. For the record, Pete Hegseth was an all-state basketball player in Minnesota. He was valedictorian of his high school and an all state basketball guard. Pete also played wide receiver in football. Pete was later inducted into his high...

See BS exclusive: "EXCLUSIVE: Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown days before reports about his ties to Peltola's campaign, sources say."

Iran’s strikes on more than two dozen US bases in the Middle East focused on early-warning systems before hitting aircraft and buildings, causing billions of dollars in equipment damage, according to an Associated Press analysis.The AP independently verified damage to American targets using satellite imagery from multiple providers and spoke to four regional officials who were briefed or have firsthand knowledge of what was hit. The AP found that, through August, more than 115 drone or missile strikes claimed by Iran or Iranian-backed militias damaged or destroyed structures on 26 military bases and other sites with US equipment.The AP found...

A federal judge on Friday rejected McDonald’s request to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of defrauding consumers about the content of its McRib sandwich. The plaintiffs accused McDonald’s of intentionally shaping McRib patties with ridges to resemble pork ribs and make diners believe the sandwich contains rib meat, an expensive cut known for its higher fat content and rich flavor. Consumers said McDonald’s actual use of lower-grade pork products including shoulder, heart, tripe or stomach caused them to overpay for the McRib, one of its most expensive menu items.

Things were simmering just below the surface due to pro-EU globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk and a pro-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki both occupying leading roles in government, with a conflicted judiciary stuck between them making decisions about efforts to change the Polish constitution.Tusk supports globalism, Nawrocki supports nationalism, the constitutional judiciary, a tribunal assembly essentially equivalent to the U.S. supreme court, held more nationalist judges than globalist judges – including the tribunal court president Bogdan Swieczkowski (essentially the Chief Justice).LAST NIGHT – Prime Minister Tusk waited until President Nawrocki left the country, then together with aligned ideological judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska,...

These are not just disaffected Antifa dweebs living in mom’s basement. Many of these people were trained for this very purpose by the U.S. government. cabal of hundreds of former American-trained USAID operatives, DSA Marxists, defunded and angry NGOers, and lefty activists, have been organizing and planning the literal overthrow of the U.S. Constitution and American government in favor of an unrecognizable, Third World-style form of decline. Sure, it sounds like a classic John le Carré thriller, but it is not. It is oh so real that it will make your neck tingle, and not for the sake of entertainment....

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV appoints a 🌈 Jesuit - who defended homosexual "marriage" already in 2008 (!) Today, Pope Leo XIV has appointed Jesuit Fr. Giacomo Costa and Salesian Sr. Elena Massimi as undersecretaries of the General Secretariat of the Synod for five-year terms.Costa replaces Spanish Augustinian Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín, appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity in March.Sister Massimi succeeds French Sr. Nathalie Becquart, who had served as undersecretary since February 2021. Cardinal Mario Grech remains Secretary General.Costa defended homosexual “marriages”Fr. Giacomo Costa SJ's involvement in debates over the homosexual civil unions dates...

Dr. Jay Smith examines **external polemics**—the practice of evaluating the claims and history of Islam through evidence outside of Islamic tradition, including archaeology, ancient manuscripts, and historical records. In this teaching, Dr. Smith explores some of the *historical challenges facing Islam* in light of modern discoveries in manuscript studies and archaeology. He examines questions surrounding the transmission and development of Islamic texts, manuscript variations and inconsistencies, and the archaeological evidence connected to the traditional account of Islam’s origins. As modern scholarship continues to uncover and study ancient manuscripts and archaeological sites, what do these discoveries reveal about the early history...

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Justice Department is warning election officials in all 50 states to preserve voting records or face possible jail time. Days before Tuesday’s midterm elections, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent formal letters nationwide telling state officials they must preserve election records for at least 22 months — or else risk criminal prosecution for failure to comply with federal law. Violating Section 20701 — or willfully stealing, destroying, concealing, mutilating, or altering the records — is a federal crime punishable by up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. McCotter said officials are merely...

At least 6,600 non-citizens were registered via Motor Voter in New Jersey. After decades of being told that states have adequate safeguards to ensure non-citizens are not voting in American elections, recent developments and disclosures have proven those assurances false. In my own State of New Jersey, it was revealed that at least 6,600 non-citizens were registered via Motor Voter, although the federal government suspects the number of non-citizen registered voters might be a great deal higher. More troubling is that the Democrats in charge of administering elections in the State have blamed others rather than being transparent about how...

"We said he'll blame Russia on Monday. He didn't even wait that long.) After a full day of silence, Tusk finally spoke for five minutes. If you took a shot every time he said "rule of law," you'd be on your eighth before he got to the Russian bots. His main points: 🔸️The court built by PiS "is not a real court," and Nawrocki and PiS blocked every attempt to fix it. 🔸️His judges were "legally elected" and were "attacked," while the police were there to "protect the court from the attackers." 🔸️"In a state governed by the rule of...

Beloved, as millions celebrate Halloween, children go door to door asking, “TRICK OR TREAT?” Yet behind the costumes, candy, and playful images of death lies a far greater ETERNAL reality! Since Adam's fall, humanity has been under the curse of sin and death. The greatest trick ever played upon mankind was Satan's deception in the Garden of Eden: “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). But Almighty God had declared the truth! Sin brought spiritual death, separation from God, and ultimately physical death into His creation (Romans 5:12). Ephesians 2:1–3 reveals that apart from Christ, humanity is spiritually dead in...