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A New Zealand navy ship carrying 75 crew members and passengers caught fire and sank off Samoa, but all on board are safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said on Sunday.The Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu Island in Samoa while conducting a reef survey.Videos shared on social media show thick plumes of grey smoke rising after the vessel, which cost the New Zealand government over NZ$100m (US$63m), ran aground.

The first weekend of the WNBA playoffs without rookie phenom Caitlin Clark were a bit quieter in terms of attention and viewership. After Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers to her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, while competing with an NFL Sunday, she followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost both those games, however, sending Clark home for the offseason. Now, the remaining teams contending for the WNBA title are the New York Liberty, the defending champion Las Vegas Aces...

The New York City Dyke March deleted and apologized for a post to social media condemning antisemitism and saying that Jews are welcome that was made ahead of Saturday's match in Manhattan. The original... "We have received many messages over the last several months, asking the committee members of Jewish Dykes are safe and welcome to the 2024 NYC Dyke March. The answer is yes. As a committee, we want to reiterate our position that we stand against antisemitism in all forms." The post also acknowledged the "senseless loss of Jewish life" during the October 7 massacre, though it contained...

Connecticut Sun guard DiJonai Carrington unleashed a race-hustling tirade against rookie sensation Caitlin Clark, claiming the Indiana Fever guard’s name is being used to “justify” racism and homophobia against black lesbians in the WNBA. “Dawg. How one can not be bothered by their name being used to justify racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia & the intersectionalities of them all is nuts,” Carrington whined Thursday on X.

The fallout of Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter's hard foul on Caitlin Clark keeps getting uglier. Four days after Carter delivered an unprompted shoulder check in the Indiana Fever rookie, three of her Sky teammates reported being harassed at a team hotel. The Sky face face the Washington Mystics in a road game on Thursday. While Carter is not mentioned by name in any of the tweets, Angel Reese and Isabelle Harrison said one of their teammates was specifically targeted with a camera in her face as the team exited its bus. Michaela Onyenwere said the team's security managed to...

Oh boy! Meet Elvis, 10 weeks, and his 11-day old brother Ezra, who have made British history along with their mums Emily Patrick and Kerry Osborn. The babies, pictured here for the first time, were born to the lesbian couple via IVF. Elvis was created from Kerry's egg which was fertilised and implanted in Emily so she could be his birth mother. Ezra, meanwhile, was created from Emily's egg and implanted in Kerry so she could carry and deliver him. It's the first time the procedure, known as simultaneous reciprocal IVF, has been attempted in the UK - and it...

A lesbian couple seeking to become parents have spoken out about the cost involved with IVF, saying that they have spent over $30,000 since 2020 trying to get pregnant. In an interview with Australia’s 9Honey, Steph and Kayla said in 2020, just one year after they began dating, they knew they wanted to start a family. “We looked into it pretty quickly after getting together, because Kayla didn’t want to be 30 and still trying for a child,” Steph said. Among both gay and straight couples, IVF has become incredibly popular in Australia; according to 9Honey, one in every 18...

EXCLUSIVE The air hostess, the trainee vet and the restaurant manager dreaming of running her own brasserie in London who are among the thousands of Israeli volunteer soldiers poised for battle with Hamas in GazaAn air hostess and a research scientist are among the hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers who are braced for Israel's battle with Hamas fanatics in Gazahttps://youtu.be/fsR4jCAFfq8

GENEVA (AP) — LGBTQ+ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks. The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday. He was ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs (dollars) in addition to the time behind bars.

Christian author and political commentator Eric Metaxas who we last featured after he sucker-punched a passing Antifa protester in the summer of 2020 and then claimed last year that Christian leaders who don’t talk about Hunter Biden’s laptop or the ‘January 6 hoax’ should be compared to cowardly German pastors who stayed silent during the holocaust during WW2, is seen in a newly unearthed video praising drag queen Charles Busch, noting he is a big fan and lamenting that Milo Yianopolous will never be aware of their “genius.” Charles Busch in drag Metaxas: “I was just asking whether Milo knew...

An Indiana Republican politician caused woke leftists to lose their minds when he reintroduced himself as a “woman of color” and “a lesbian” because he is attracted to women. Earlier this month, Delaware County council member Ryan Webb posted a photo to his Facebook account showing him with a pistol in his waistband. The caption read “Ready for an awesome day! Hope everyone has a great day!” The “awesome day” he was referring was him “coming out” as a black, transgender female. The Muncie Star-Press reported Webb posted the following message:

As it turns out, leftists just have to learn the hard way that there’s nothing more domineering and oppressive to the female sex than men in drag.

Two Las Vegas parents sued a school district after their daughter was allegedly required to complete a “pornographic” assignment.Candra and Terrell Evans filed a lawsuit against Clark County School District (CCSD) alleging that their 15-year-old daughter was given an assignment and told to read a monologue in front of her classmates that “contained explicit, obscene and sexually violent material.” The parents alleged that the educators of the district took part in “unlawful grooming and abuse of a minor” involving “pornographic material.”“[The teacher] helped the other student edit their obscenely violent pornographic monologue knowing that it would then be provided to...

One of the big mistakes that gays (as in men) and lesbians (as in women) made was to embrace the so-called transgender movement. Gays and lesbians are about same-sex attraction, a psycho-emotional pull that has been around since time immemorial. By contrast, the so-called transgender movement essentially says that lesbians are actually men, while gays are really women. That is, they’re not same-sex attracted; they’re attracted to the opposite sex with the misfortune of inhabiting the wrong body. Forty years ago, I knew of one man who fully understood this dynamic. I hadn’t met him, but I knew his daughter....

Annabella Rockwell led a life of privilege even before she entered posh Mount Holyoke College in rural South Hadley, Mass. in 2011. The heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune, she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, summered in Newport, RI, and later moved with her family to Palm Beach, Fla. A competitive figure skater who lived abroad for a time in Germany as well as Hong Kong, Rockwell chose Mount Holyoke for its academic rigor and prestige. At the time, she said, she’d grown up in a home with “traditional” values but considered herself open-minded. “I was so excited about...

Voting chart by sex and marriageMarried men broke Republican by 20 ptsMarried women broke R by 14 ptsUnmarried men broke R by 7 ptsBut *unmarried women* broke D "by whopping 37 pts"~ @conncarroll https://t.co/pGchfHnD0W— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) November 9, 2022 Well, it’s official:Democrats are the party of unmarried women whose most important political issue is ensuring the ability to kill their babies.God help us. pic.twitter.com/g0whI1hEuG— Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) November 9, 2022

The descent of academia into the cesspool of ideological effluvia continues apace. (I cracked open my thesaurus this morning). As a refugee from the academic world I am no stranger to the wide weird world of academic life. Both my parents were physicists, and I didn’t escape the college and university environments until I was in my mid-30s. One of the several reasons I gave up on my dream of becoming a political philosophy professor was the increasing momentum of the ideological Left in taking over the academic world. Academics have leaned liberal for as long as I have been...

An Oregon mom in the midst of a bitter custody battle carried out a murder-suicide of her and her two children, police say. On Tuesday police found 31-year-old Ashley Palmer, her six-year-old daughter Kayleana Beatrice Palmer and eight-year-old son Xavier Rayvaughn Danger Palmer dead from apparent gunshot wounds in their Gresham apartment after following up on a welfare check. Police determined that Palmer carried out the gruesome killings before turning the gun on herself as she struggled to deal with the prospect of having to split custody of the children with her ex-wife. In 2018 Palmer separated from her 34-year-old...

"Lightyear" producer Galyn Susman says they're "excited" the creative team was able to restore a same-sex kiss between two female characters in June's upcoming animated Pixar film."Yes, we have a kiss," Susman said when asked about the reinsertion of the scene during a virtual press day for the "Toy Story" universe film in early April that Insider attended."We've always had the lesbian couple. They've always been a part of the film," Susman added. "Being able to put back the kiss was important to us. It's a touching moment."

The Church of St. Francis Xavier’s community group is a part of a collective endeavor to foster an unapologetically LGBTQ-affirming, woman-friendly Catholicism.When Stephanie Samoy first entered the Church of St. Francis Xavier in 2000, she sensed it was a rare community. The smell of chicken noodle soup — fed to impoverished believers during the parish’s weekly food drive — wafted into the church pews. Feeling what she attributed to love or the Holy Spirit, Samoy wept. Samoy moved up to New York City after she graduated college at the University of Arizona, craving distance from her parents after coming out...