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HOUSTON Since then, there have been two trials, plenty of opinions and some changes to how the mentally ill are treated both in and out of a courtroom. George Parnham is perhaps the man who now knows Andrea Yates best. "Long ago, I crossed the professional line," Parnham said. He was her criminal defense attorney, and is now like family. "I treat her as if she were a child of mine," he said. Since she still turns down interviews, Parnham is the closest you'll get to the now 46-year-old woman. Her address is at Kerrville State Hospital -- a low-security...

Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say — but sometimes they’re just paranoid. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of The Squad, organized 59 Democrats to co-sign her letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened. The document pronounced its signatories “extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country.“ “The series of deaths,“ the letter continues, “raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history.” Pressley and her colleagues call for a federal investigation of every hanging death of...

Setting aside years with late first hurricanes, only two years on record before weather satellites had no hurricanes at all: 1907 and 1914. ======================================================================= The Atlantic has had no hurricanes so far in its 2026 season, with weather experts blaming the situation on El Niño, disruptive wind shear, dry air and Saharan dust, AccuWeather.doc reports Monday. However, forecasters are monitoring a zone near the United States that might have the potential for a tropical development in the coming weeks. The Atlantic hurricane season is from June 1 to Nov. 30. Setting aside years with late first hurricanes, only two years...

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made a bombshell admission this morning, disclosing that there are on-orbit weapons deployed right now to protect America’s interests in space. Those weapons support a Space Control mission set, and the U.S. Space Force has now also shared additional details about that directly with TWZ. Meink first made mention of what he described as “on-orbit space control weapons” during his keynote speech earlier today at the Air & Space Forces Association’s (AFA) 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, at which TWZ is in attendance. As head of the Department of the Air Force,...

President Donald Trump declared that the White House was a “dump” before he began renovating it, accusing his presidential predecessors of neglecting the historic building and claiming his work has left it “in better shape than when built in 1792.” The president offered the take on Sunday night while posting before-and-after photographs of restoration work at the executive mansion, which has undergone a sweeping and ambitious overhaul during his second term. “The White House was in very bad condition, both inside and out. Frankly, it was a “dump!” Past Presidents did not take care of it. I love renovating it...

Summarise the video This video explores the history of Mar-a-Lago, a massive 110,000-square-foot estate in Palm Beach, Florida, built by Marjorie Merryweather Post in 1927 (0:47-1:54). Despite being a national historic landmark, the estate became a "white elephant"—a property so expensive to maintain that it became a burden rather than an asset (3:02-4:07). Key phases in the estate's history include: Post's failed gifting: Marjorie Merryweather Post attempted to leave the estate to the State of Florida, the Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. federal government to serve as a winter White House. Each institution ultimately declined or returned the property due...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has revealed one factor that could tank his expected presidential bid: fellow Democrat Kamala Harris. Newsom was asked in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper about his expected White House run, and he didn’t hold back on how the former vice president, his former colleague and rumored frenemy, could change his decision. “I wouldn’t run if she ran,” Newsom said while fly-fishing with Tapper in Montana. “I wouldn’t do that to her … I wouldn’t waste anyone’s time,” Newsom explained, calling it “mutually assured destruction.” The governor, who recently returned from a much-publicized trip to South Carolina...

This is the story of a largely forgotten disaster that struck medieval Britain between 1315 and 1319. Overshadowed by the Black Death just a generation later, it rarely gets the attention it deserves. 1315 was an extraordinarily bad year. The real problem was… things just kept getting worse. The Disaster BEFORE the Black Death | 10:34 Paul Whitewick | 267K subscribers | 12,109 views | September 13, 2026

Something About Canada's Viking Site No Longer Makes Sense | 8:45 Genefall | 3.37K subscribers | 243,818 views | September 8, 2026 Video Timestamps: 0:00: The Three Seeds That Reopened the Vinland Question 1:03: Why the Newfoundland Landscape Contradicts the Sagas 1:47: The Biological Border: Butternuts in Subarctic Peat 2:56: A Shipyard, Not a Farm: The Bog Iron Bloomery 4:10: The 993 CE Solar Storm: Pinpointing the Year 1021 5:20: The Clean Decommissioning of an Outpost 6:14: American Timber in 14th-Century Greenland Homes 7:38: The Gateway Base: Three Centuries of Silent Resource Voyages

A hate-filled Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a leave of absence as the school probes her “hostile and threatening” social media history, which included calling for a “white man” to die while she danced. Dr. Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born academic who has worked at the elite Pittsburgh research institution since 2021, initially bragged about being untouchable over her hateful online history, which has included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” painful death and celebrating the death of “s–tbag” Charlie Kirk. The school issued a statement announcing the investigation and noting she was on a “voluntary” leave a day after...

FBI agent Pellegrino; "But there were missed opportunities before. And you always have to wonder what else could have been done to possibly have picked him up. And if we had picked him up, I just, I can't imagine that an event like 9-11 would have happened." CBS. Sep 11, 2026. How '9/11 mastermind' slipped through FBI's fingers. BBC. Sep 5, 2021. Mohammed seems to have been tipped off about the US interest in him and fled Qatar, ending up in Afghanistan.''

"The Falling Man" is the most controversial photograph to have emerged from the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City's World Trade Center. Taken by Richard Drew of the Associated Press - and visible at this link - the photo shows a man falling headfirst along the side of the soon-to-be-demolished 110-floor North Tower, momentarily captured in an incongruously serene pose that belies the utter surrounding chaos and his imminent demise. When the photo ran in the New York Times and other papers across the country the following day, many readers complained and accused the publications of exploiting the...

A faction of hardliners inside Tehran took advantage of the country’s phantom supreme leader to launch the summer attacks in the Strait of Hormuz that derailed a peace deal with the US, according to a new report. After the US and Iran agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding in June, Iranian moderates led by President Masoud Pezeshkian believed the cease-fire would create a pathway to permanently end the war. Those hopes, however, were dashed when Iran attacked three vessels sailing in the Strait of Hormuz, an attack greenlit not by Tehran’s army, but by its newly appointed paramilitary chief, Hossein...

This New York pol has a secret BDSM past. Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop, The Post can reveal. Gallant appeared in multiple pics for “Mr. S Leather,” a San Francisco-based purveyor of leather-daddy supplies, wearing collars, leather straps, neoprene, bondage gear, and more. These images of Gallant are no longer on the store’s site, but are still accessible in internet archives, which show they were online between 2011 and 2020. “The...

Democratic Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego appeared on CNN this morning and said the next Democratic President should destroy all remnants of Trump, including the beautification of Washington, DC, once he leaves the White House. Trump has undertaken various projects to beautify DC, including cleaning the vandalism and restoring statues and monuments across the city, fixing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and building a White House Ballroom and a "Triumphal Arch." The Department of the Interior is preparing to break ground on the Arch on Columbia Island, where it will overlook the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial across the...

Of all Jewish observances, the commemoration of the ninth day of the month of Av is the saddest—and one that reflects the passage of sadness through time. On this day, Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn not only the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 C.E., but also the even more ancient destruction by Babylon in 586 B.C.E. It was therefore all the more striking that this year, mere days before Tisha B’Av, Israelis unearthed a remnant of that earlier event. The Times of Israel reported: Archaeologists have discovered wooden beams believed to have been burned during the destruction of the...

Two far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani-backed House hopefuls are plotting a socialist push in DC even before being elected — and it could cost the Big Apple more than $215 million in crucial anti-terror funds, sources say. Leading Democratic Socialists of America candidates Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez have hatched a scheme with congressional “Squad” members to vote down the Department of Homeland Security budget next year as they try to help create a powerful bloc of socialists in office in the nation’s capital, according to insiders. The anti-DHS plan would come at a cost to the local radicals’ de facto...

An American diplomat working at the US Embassy in London was detained and back to the US in a secret operation after authorities allegedly found child porn on his devices, according to a report. The unidentified diplomat is alleged to have received the twisted material from his US-based brother, leading to a raid by US Marines on his London apartment late last month, the UK Sun reported. Now, UK officials and authorities are expressing outrage, who say that the US had no legal authority to seize him, according to the the Sun. On Aug. 24, a day before the dawn...

Former Sarasota, Florida, second grade student Krystal Davis remembers a wave of confusion washing over her and her classmates on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after a suited man whispered into the ear of the president of the United States, who was seated just in front of the students. Then-President George W. Bush was visiting Emma E. Booker Elementary School and had been listening intently to the children in Mrs. Sandra Daniels' second-grade class flexing their reading skills, when the look of admiration on his face suddenly gave way to an expression of concern. Chief of Staff Andrew Card...

Chutz-POW! A host of rabbis recently participated in a five-day “summer camp” featuring extensive firearms training as Jewish leaders from across the US prepared for the High Holidays. The pilot program, run by Los Angeles-based Jewish security organization Magen Am USA, brought together 20 Chabad Hasidic rabbis from 12 states for an intensive crash course designed to help them respond to potential threats at their synagogues and in their communities. The program, which also included emergency medicine and security training, took place in August in Los Angeles. It came as Jewish communities across California and the country grapple with heightened...