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Springfield, Ohio in a rust belt town hollowed out by industry offshoring, with a population of 58,000. The Biden-Harris regime decided that what they needed was a bunch of migrants, so they directed 20,000 migrants from Haiti to Springfield. They have turned the town into a Third World hell hole. The Biden-Harris regime has used a number of loopholes, including their made-up-out-of-thin-air "parole pipeline" to allow Haitians into the US One of the problems has been housing, but cultural differences are also a huge problem. The Haitians seem to view any animal they encounter as something for their dinner table,...

Kyliel Denzel Arceneaux, 21, faces several charges, including capital murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Nelson Beckett's HOUSTON — A man has been arrested and charged in the killing and carjacking of a 90-year-old Navy veteran over the weekend, Houston police announced Wednesday. Kyliel Denzel Arceneaux, 21, faces several charges, including capital murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence. Arceneaux is accused of shooting and killing Nelson Beckett on Saturday outside an assisted living apartment complex off Westbrae Parkway in southwest Houston. Police said after he pistol-whipped...

The man accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnast Kara Welsh has been identified as a former wrestler at the college, police said. Chad T. Richards, 23, of Loves Park, Illinois, was arrested Friday night after allegedly shooting the award-winning gymnast multiple times at an apartment about a block from the university’s main campus, the Whitewater Police Department said. Whitewater police have requested charges from the district attorney’s office of first-degree intentional homicide, endangering safety by the use of a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct while armed, cops said.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Authorities arrested a 17-year-old girl this week and accused her of making online threats against a northeast Austin elementary school, according to the suspect’s arrest affidavit. The FBI received a tip about an Instagram user, later identified as 17-year-old Giana Castillo, “making concerning statements online… regarding the planning of an active shooter event,” at Graham Elementary School. FBI agents tracked the IP address of the account to Castillo. While analyzing the account, investigators found “the user had an active interest with previous active shooters and posted concerning statements,” according to court documents. The affidavit also stated she...

Austin Pride said Saturday evening that it met with community leaders to discuss recent controversy over how it selects sponsors and allegations that it banned the Palestinian flag and pro-Palestinian symbols, according to a social media post. In that post, Austin Pride said it met with leaders from the Austin For Palestine Coalition, Jewish Voices for Peace and other local community leaders. “We acknowledge that we made a mistake and want to clarify that symbols of Palestine or pro-Palestinian liberation are not antisemitic or anti-Jewish,” the post reads. “We deeply regret how we handled this situation and sincerely apologize for...

The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run civil defense agency claimed over 90 people were killed in the airstrike, describing the incident as a “horrific massacre.” Several Western diplomats, the Egyptian and Qatari mediators of ceasefire-for-hostage talks and numerous Muslim countries denounced Israel over the airstrike. The White House said it was “deeply concerned” about the airstrike and was...

Israeli forces killed a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit in a drone strike over southern Lebanon on Monday, officials say. Video of the attack shows the moment the Israel Defense Force drone focuses on the car carrying Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad on a dirt road in the village of Aabba, with a missile fired within seconds to blow up the vehicle. The car erupts into fire and smoke, leaving only debris in its wake as the blast manages to avoid the vehicles driving in front of Jawad’s.

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LOCAL NEWS Father charged with first-degree murder in shooting death of wife, 3 daughters in suburban Chicago chicago By Elyssa Kaufman, Jermont Terry Updated on: January 23, 2024 / 2:20 PM CST / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS)-- A father has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his three daughters and wife inside a home in Tinley Park on Sunday. Maher Kassem was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. At his initial court appearance, prosecutors an argument led to Kassem using two guns to first shoot his wife...

Seven people were found shot to death in two homes in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois, on Monday in what one official described as the "worst crime scene I've ever been associated with." The suspect in the horrific crimes, Romeo Nance, died of a what is believed to have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Monday night after launching a search for the suspect. Police identified Nance, 23, after they discovered the bodies of five victims in one home and another two in a nearby residence Monday morning.

Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were killed Monday when they came under attack in the southern Gaza Strip, triggering a blast that collapsed two buildings with soldiers inside them, the military said Tuesday morning. The buildings were being rigged for demolition by troops when Palestinian gunmen fired an RPG at a tank securing the forces. A second blast then occurred in the buildings, possibly as a result of a second RPG, leading to their collapse.

MILITARY NEWS WORLD NEWS BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed Reports of Pakistan’s Strike Against Iran – What We Know So Far BY NEWSTEAM 1 HOUR AGO SHARE POST 3 MIN Islamabad, Pakistan – Unconfirmed reports have emerged regarding a series of Pakistani raids using ballistic missiles, fighter jets, and artillery targeting terrorist group bases inside Iran as a response to its recent missile attacks. This development, if true, could mark a significant escalation in cross-border tensions. These reports, which surfaced a few hours ago, suggest that the Pakistani Air Force may have conducted operations against groups it holds responsible for instigating unrest...

Commanders and advisors from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea. The IRGC has stationed missile and drone trainers and operators in Yemen, as well as personnel providing tactical intelligence support to the Houthis, U.S. and Middle East officials told Semafor. The IRGC, through its overseas Qods Force, has also overseen the transfer to the Houthis of the attack drones, cruise missiles, and medium-range ballistic missiles used in a string of strikes on Red Sea and Israeli targets in...

A senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his car in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source told CNN on Monday, as fears of a wider regional conflict escalate. The official, Wissam Tawil, is the most senior member of the Shiite militant group to be killed in an Israeli strike since Hezbollah and Israel began trading fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border on October 8, the day after Hamas carried out the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history. In a statement, Hezbollah also acknowledged the death of Tawil, who also went by the nom de guerre Hajj...

According to news sources in the Gaza Strip, Ali Salem Abu Ajawa, the grandson of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, was killed on Sunday. According to the reports, Ajawa was killed in an IDF airstrike. The reports claimed that the arch-terrorist's grandson was employed as a journalist. One additional individual was killed in the airstrike. He, too, according to the reports, worked in journalism.

The cheerful language with which tech companies describe their platforms is often in stark contrast to the dark possibilities lurking within them. Meta, for example, describes its virtual world, the metaverse, as “the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet”, a place where “virtual reality lets you explore new worlds and shared experiences”. But for a young girl in the UK recently, that “shared experience” was an alleged gang rape. British police are investigating the sexual assault of the girl, identified only as being under the age of 16, in what is said to be...

FORT WORTH - "My son had a lot of dreams and he was so talented," said Latoiya Landers. "I don't get it." Landers' 14-year-old son Devin Baker was shot and killed Thursday morning after allegedly attempting to break in to a home in the Rosemont neighborhood. Now, Fort Worth police are investigating. Police say they were called to the 5200 block of Southcrest Ct. in the Rosemont neighborhood of Fort Worth early Thursday morning for a call about a prowler. When they got there, a woman told them several people were attempting to break into her home but they had...

The casting of award-winning actor Denzel Washington as the legendary ancient general Hannibal Barca in an upcoming Netflix project has reportedly outraged Tunisians who argue it is racial recasting that erases their history. Netflix touted the film in a press release, about "the Carthaginian general who famously led an army of warriors and elephants across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War." Hannibal’s home region of Carthage is now within Tunisia, the northernmost state in Africa and considered to be part of the Arabic world. According to an English translation of French-language Tunisian news outlet...

A merchant vessel sailing in the southern Red Sea was struck by a land-based cruise missile fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen, according to a U.S. official. The incident is the latest escalation from Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, who have launched missiles and drones targeting ships sailing in the region in a show of support for Hamas in the war with Israel. In mid-November, Houthi commandos seized the Bahamian-flagged Galaxy Leader while it sailed in the Red Sea, claiming it was linked to Israel. The ship and its multinational crew remain in the port of Hodeida in Yemen, where they were...

I think at some point, all of us started referring to [Barton] spring as ‘The Spring,’” said Pedro Villalobos, Chair of the Parks and Recreation Board. “That’s because of the baggage that it carries with it.” We are recommending based off of William Barton’s known ownership of enslaved people – and given the Confederate Monument Resolution passed by City Council – we are recommending that there be an effort to rename Barton Springs,” Villalobos, who served on the working group, continued. William Barton was known as someone who wanted to participate in the extinction of Native Americans,” Marshall said in...