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So, I'm flying out of San Diego at 6:00 am this morning. I got to the airport much earlier. There's an Anabaptist couple. Man and woman, early-mid 20s. He's wearing traditional garb. Abe Lincoln beard. Flat-brimmed straw hat. She's wearing a long dress with a white hair covering. I assumed they were Amish. Except.... Both were wearing tennis shoes. And I couldn't help to notice that she was wearing a very colorful set of yoga pants under her dress. Also, she was listening to an iPhone. She had earplugs in her ear. I wish I had talked to them. I...

She was just plane rude. Passengers on board a plane bound for Las Vegas scolded a fellow flier after she refused to disembark the aircraft for disorderly conduct. The unidentified woman was caught on camera berating other travelers prior to takeoff from an airport in California last Friday, with her meltdown filmed by Amanda Grasham. Grasham claimed to Newsflare that the woman was “visibly intoxicated” and was “acting aggressively to staff” before she was asked to leave the plane. “Y’all can’t even tell me what I did,” the woman can be seen screaming at other passengers in the footage. “Who...

A woman on a Memorial Day weekend trip to Little Rock, Arkansas was forced to shoot a man in self-defense after he attacked her and her husband in a parking garage while the couple was packing up their vehicle for the ride home. According to Little Rock police, the suspect first approached the husband as he was putting some items on the roof of their vehicle, coming up from behind and striking him several times before making a move towards the driver-side door. Another victim, who was in the passenger’s seat of the car, told officers that the suspect got...

Amish communities rejected Covid vaccines, refused to wear masks, and went about their normal daily activities while the rest of America was turned upside-down.According to the CDC and mainstream media, the Amish were set to suffer from excess death due to Covid. In reality, the exact opposite happened.The mainstream media will not touch this story because it completely dismantles the entire establishment narrative. It shows that all the COVID interventions were completely unnecessary…

At least nine people were shot Monday night when gunfire erupted near a popular Florida beach packed with Memorial Day revelers, authorities said. The shooting was sparked when two groups got into an altercation, police said during a press conference. One person of interest was arrested, Hollywood Police spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi said during the news briefing. Another suspect is still on the run.

U.S. Park Police identified the driver of a U-Haul truck that rammed into security barriers near the White House as 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri. The Secret Service detained Mr. Kandula late Monday after the truck crashed into the security barriers along a park near the White House. Investigators searched the truck and found nothing dangerous inside, though they removed a Nazi flag. The red, white and black flag was placed on the sidewalk and can be seen in footage posted by Fox 5. The U-Haul truck hit the barriers on the north side of Lafayette Park at...

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. — A Fayette County man is facing child sex crime charges, false imprisonment and assault charges after starting a standoff when he was caught in bed with a child. Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Marie Broder says Christopher Smith pleaded guilty to several charges related to a November 2022 incident. The DA’s office says that a woman and her 9-year-old daughter were living with Smith from September to November of 2022. One November morning, the woman says she came home to find Smith naked and in bed with her frightened daughter, who was also naked. When she...

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The advent of abortions in Lancaster, Pennsylvania demonstrates the abortion industry’s relentless drive to expand abortion in the Commonwealth. This bucolic community, best known as a sanctuary for the Amish population and a lovely tourist attraction, is now home to a Planned Parenthood that advertises chemical abortion on its website. The opening of an abortion center in the heart of the homeland came despite a groundswell of opposition from the area. It is unbelievably sad that abortion totals in Lancaster will now rise from zero to who-knows-how-many. Abortions have been on the rise in the Keystone State, with totals topping...

Why isn’t this story making national headlines? A pregnant North Carolina woman lost her unborn baby after being shot by a gang member in front of a Fayetteville convenience store. Brittany Rich, 25, pulled up to a North Carolina convenience store in late February to make a quick purchase when she was shot 7 times by a gang member. Rich is seen on surveillance video exiting the convenience store when she was ambushed by a group of men standing in front of her car. One of the suspects pulls out a gun and shoots her multiple times. The young woman,...

Pittsburgh Police have arrested two teens in the fatal shooting of an Oliver Citywide Academy student last year. Police charged Eugene Watson, 18, and his brother, Brandon Watson, 17, both of the city’s Crafton Heights neighborhood, with criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy, and two firearms violations. They are both charged as adults. The Watsons were both in the Allegheny County Jail without bond on Friday, court records show. They are charged in connection with the Jan. 19, 2022 shooting death of Marquis Campbell, 15. Campbell was shot as he sat in a van outside the school in the city’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood....

Alabama authorities announced Wednesday that two teenagers have been arrested and charged in the Dadeville mass shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party last weekend. Four people were killed, and another 32 people were injured when gunfire erupted at approximately 10:34 p.m. Saturday at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio, located in the 200 Block of Broadnax Street in Dadeville, in Tallapoosa County about 62 miles northeast of the state capital of Montgomery. Days later, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, were both formally charged with four counts of reckless murder. The teens...

Chicago's mayor-elect said the city should not demonize the teens who organized a 'Teen Takeover' of the Loop over the weekend, even after the event turned violent with cars burnt cars and minors shot.

The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590. The gun death rate among children and teens – a measure that adjusts for changes in the nation’s population – rose from 2.4 fatalities per 100,000 minor residents in 2019...

A crowd of more than a hundred rowdy teenagers turned violent in Downtown Chicago on Saturday night as dozens torched and smashed cars while blaring music in a 'teen trend' that left two with gunshot wounds. Shocking footage showed some teenagers jumping on top of a bus while others started a massive brawl after descending on Millennium Park and attempting to breach barricades. Gunshots rang out with some rounds striking two teenage boys aged 16 and 17. The two youths were transported to a nearby hospital in fair condition. A total of 15 people, nine adults and six children were...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (WRBL) – A gathering turned deadly in downtown Dadeville early Sunday morning as a shooting left more than 20 people injured according to law enforcement on the scene. We do not know if a person(s) of interest or suspect(s) is in custody. We cannot confirm how many have died at this hour. Crime scene tape surrounds a building on N. Broadnax Street next to the PNC Bank. A tarp hangs over the glass front door and white sheets can be seen inside covering the floor. Several yellow police placards litter the front sidewalk. Investigators report a suspected altercation...

CHICAGO - Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. At least one person in a car was attacked. Shots were fired near the corner of Madison and Michigan, and FOX 32 Chicago decided that it was unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene

Florida retiree says lesbian squatters with '15' pit bulls trashed rental property she owns to tune of $38,000 after lying to cops they'd paid deposit and showing fake receipt Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they had two people illegally living in their Jacksonville rental home more than 40 days ago A Florida retiree said lesbian squatters, who own up to 15 pit bulls, caused $38,000 worth of damages at her rental property after lying to police saying they paid a deposit and had been scammed by the landlord. Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they...

The Missouri amusement park is requiring all people age 15 and under to have an adult with them past 4 p.m.

Six suspects between the ages of 11 and 14 are now in custody in connection with the brutal beating of a woman on a Philadelphia street that left the victim unconscious late last month, police told WPVI-TV. Police told the station five of the six suspects in custody surrendered, while the sixth suspect — a 14-year-old female — was arrested at her home. There are eight suspects total. Investigators added to WPVI that there's a warrant for another 14-year-old female and authorities are still working to identify a juvenile male suspect. What's the background? The department said several people in...