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Two children have been charged with the rape and attempted murder of a five-year-old girl. The youngster was left completely 'unrecognizable' after a gang of bullies not only beat her, but also scalped her last month in Cleveland, Ohio, her mother previously said. On Wednesday a ten-year-old girl and nine-year-old boy were hit with various charges, including four counts of rape, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said. The unidentified minors also face one count of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of kidnapping and one count of strangulation. 'Given the sensitive nature of this case, we decline...

An Illinois police officer living in the United States illegally has been arrested by immigration authorities, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday. Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro who was working as a sworn police officer with the Hanover Park Police Department, was taken into custody during Operation Midway Blitz, which targets illegal immigrants living in Illinois because of the state's sanctuary policies, federal officials said. Fox News Digital has reached out to the police department and the office of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump and his immigration policies. "J.B. Pritzker doesn’t...

2022 NCAA women’s swimming champion William Thomas, who claims to be a woman, will be the recipient of the Voice of Inspiration Award at Rainbow Labs’ Violet Visionary Awards on Thursday. Mr. Thomas’ national title sparked nationwide backlash and is considered one of the catalysts in the battle over transgender athlete participation in girls’ and women’s sports. The award "honours an individual whose story and actions ignite hope and courage within the (sexual perversion) community," according to Rainbow Labs' website.

A precious baby girl with beautiful blue eyes was killed by her mother after she tossed her into a shed that drops into a river, a court heard. Halo Branton, a 10-month-old from Hudson, New York, was found dead underneath drainage pipes on March 10, 2024 on General Electric’s Schenectady campus. The helpless baby was found unresponsive after her mother, Persia Nelson, then 24, left her for dead, according to prosecutors. Halo died from exposure and hypothermia. Nelson, now 26, appeared in court Wednesday in Schenectady wearing a white top and black blazer as closing arguments wrapped up in her...

Passengers at airports in Pennsylvania and British Columbia were stunned Tuesday when loudspeakers suddenly blasted pro-Hamas messages and slurs against President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Videos posted by travelers showed the unauthorized recordings echoing through terminals at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania and Kelowna International Airport in Canada. Screens at Kelowna also flashed messages praising Hamas and calling for “Free Palestine,” according to officials and witnesses. Airport authorities said the digital break-ins targeted both public address systems and flight information displays — a form of cyber-vandalism that disrupted boarding and startled passengers but caused no flight safety...

June Bunyan, 37, was tragically murdered by her husband just weeks after giving birth to their daughter. Reports state he killed her after becoming upset about her pregnancy weight gain. Key Takeaways: * June Bunyan was choked to death and dismembered by Jonathan Renteria, 25, in their Los Angeles apartment. * It has been reported that he was upset about the weight she had gained during pregnancy. * Homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. The Details: June Bunyan, a native of the Isle of Arran in Scotland, where she earned a law degree...

A Florida man was sentenced to death for murdering his 9-months pregnant secret lover just days before she was set to give birth. Jose Soto-Escalera, 49, was convicted in 2018 for the murders of 23-year-old Tania Wise and their unborn son. On Friday, Judge Lawrence Mirman sentenced Soto-Escalera to death after he was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. Wise was just one week away from giving birth to what would have been her second child, Josiah, when she was killed after reportedly refusing to get an abortion. Her body was discovered in a ditch on the side of...

It is perfectly fitting that Down Syndrome Awareness Month coincides with Respect Life Month every October. Our brothers and sisters with Down syndrome can teach us many lessons about life. They encourage us to cherish the gift of life, but also not to take ourselves too seriously. They approach life with some of the greatest exuberance and joy. And they remind us that we may each have different abilities, individual gifts, and unique challenges but every human life is valuable. Life with Down syndrome is not without its challenges. People with Down syndrome experience cognitive and developmental delays as well...

According to OregonLive, Chezarae Walter got pulled over speeding out of a WinCo Supermarket while driving a stolen vehicle she had put through the wringer. But despite the prosecution's objections, the judge let her off... ...with the payment of one Baja Blast Mountain Dew. Why one Baja Blast? The owner of the stolen vehicle, Peter Higginbotham (yes, really), recognized his 1996 Toyota Camry because it had a funny bumper sticker that read: "The book value of my car is one Baja Blast." Being a typical bleeding heart Portlander, Higginbotham didn't want to see Chezarae go to jail for stealing his...

A long weekend away from Washington, D.C., did little to soften Senate Democrats’ resolve as they again blocked an effort to reopen the government for an eighth time Tuesday. The beginning of mass firings promised by the Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought over the weekend also failed to sway Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. One pressure point was alleviated for both sides, however, with President Donald Trump’s directive to move money around at the Pentagon to pay military service members. Their paychecks are due Oct. 15. Still, another...

Los Angeles County leaders declared a local state of emergency in the region Tuesday, according to local officials. News of the proclamation was shared in a news release online by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath's office. The measure was said to be a response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across LA County, which is home to more than 10 million people and one of the U.S.'s largest immigrant populations. The county can now offer to support residents financially who have been impacted by the raids, including rent relief and accessing state funds for any legal aid. "What’s happening...

Bitcoin valued at $15 billion has been seized by the Department of Justice (DOJ) from a massive "pig butchering" network, and in what officials say is the "largest forfeiture action in U.S. history." Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging Chen Zhi, also known as "Vincent," leader of the Prince Holding Group, in connection with the crypto scam scheme, based out of Cambodia. Zhi, 37, who is still at large, is also accused of directing Prince Group’s operation of forced-labor scam compounds across the country. The DOJ said Zhi used violence to discipline workers. Images of...

LOS ANGELES — Mitt Romney’s brother filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife plunged to her death from a California parking garage – and tried to make sure courts awarded her nothing in the split, according to documents. George Scott Romney, 81, filed the case against 64-year-old Carrie Elizabeth Romney on June 12, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to court documents obtained by The Post. Despite being married more than eight years, starting in 2016, he said that they had no shared property that needed to be divided by the courts. Romney also sought to “terminate the court’s...

The family of Kingsley Bimpong filed a wrongful death suit against Eagan and Dakota County police in federal court after officers arrested the man for intoxication when he was having a stroke. KSTP reports the 50-year old man left work early on November 16, 2024 with a headache and blurred vision. On the way home, he turned his car into oncoming traffic, crashing into the center median. Police at the scene noted that Bimpong had aphasia and weak muscles, which they assumed was due to drugs. But just to be sure, the officer requested a Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) to...

The Democratic Socialists of America — the organization backing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — denounced the “conditional” cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas and called for continued resistance against the Jewish state in a statement released Monday. The DSA declaration titled “Until Palestinian Liberation” came days after Israel and Hamas agreed to halt fighting and begin exchanging hostages and prisoners under a US- and Arab-brokered deal. The far-left group said the truce “will not end Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people or the theft and occupation of Palestinian lands,” describing it as a “conditional cease-fire” that “does...

In February 2024, we reported that Mason Herring, a Houston attorney, had pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant woman. As part of a plea bargain, Herring was sentenced to a slap on wrist–180 days in jail and 10 years of probation–for secretly drugging his wife’s drinks multiple times to induce an abortion while she was pregnant with their third child. Herring admitted spiking water with the abortion drug misoprostol, which Catherine Herring told the court resulted in her giving birth 10 weeks early. Fortunately, the unborn child survived. But last week, KTRK, a Houston...

The United Kingdom has slapped 4Chan with a £20,000 (around $26,000) fine in a bid to clamp down on platforms that are hindering Online Safety Act (OSA) investigations. UK telecoms regulator Ofcom says the fine was issued after the controversial social media site ignored “legally-binding information requests” related to global revenue and its illegal harms risk assessment. Starting from tomorrow, 4Chan additionally faces a daily penalty of £100 (around $133) for either 60 days or until 4Chan complies with the information requests, up to a maximum of £6,000 (around $8,000). “Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly...

Bodycam footage shows Erika McGriff arguing with Officer Randy Holton outside IDEA Charter School in Jacksonville, Florida, moments before the confrontation turned violent. A chaotic scene unfolded outside a Jacksonville charter school Tuesday afternoon, and for the first time, police enforced Florida’s new “Halo Law,” which makes it illegal to interfere with law enforcement officers within 25 feet of their duties. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, 39-year-old Erika McGriff, a habitual traffic offender with a revoked driver’s license, sparked the incident after leaving her running car in the middle of an intersection near IDEA Charter School on Bassett Road,...

Virginia’s races for governor and attorney general, newly jarred by a turbulent debate and a texting scandal, have suddenly changed three weeks before Election Day, giving new hope to Republicans. After sitting in a holding pattern for months, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has cut Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s lead in half, and Attorney General Jason Miyares, running for reelection, has overcome Democrat Jay Jones’ lead. In a new Trafalgar Group poll of likely general election voters completed Friday, Earle-Sears trailed Spanberger by just 2.6%, 47.7% to 45.1%. And Miyares has overtaken Jones, 48.9% to 43.1%. Earle-Sears, who dogged...

October 13th is the day that marks the death of one of the most important defenders of Macedonia’s struggle for freedom, the Hellenic Army Officer Pavlos Melas. Melas, born in 1870 in the French city of Marseille, was the son of Michael Melas, an elected MP for Attica and mayor of Athens. At an early age, Melas decided to go to Athens to study and later joined the Hellenic Army, graduating from the Hellenic Army Academy as an artillery lieutenant at age 21. In 1892, he married Natalia Dragoumi, the daughter of a famous politician from Macedonia’s city of Kastoria,...