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Fire officials say a 13-year-old boy trying to kill a bed bug sparked an apartment building fire that displaced eight people and caused $300,000 in damage in Cincinnati. Officials say the fire was reported around 11 p.m. Tuesday and began when the teen lit a match after dousing a bed bug with alcohol. Six apartment units were damaged in the fire.

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert on Friday mocked President Trump’s recent string of anti-Muslim retweets and asked the United Kingdom to “take us back.” In his opening monologue, Colbert addressed Trump's rebuke of British Prime Minister Theresa May in a tweet to stop focusing on him, rather than radical Islamic terrorism, after she called his recent anti-Muslim retweets “wrong."

He said it. Is he a racist, bigoted Islamophobe? Where did he get this idea, anyway? From “Islamophobic literature”? Or has he imbibed the culture of violence created by a religion that sanctions the beating of women? The mandate to beat one’s wife is in the Qur’an: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds...

A Coptic Orthodox priest was slaughtered in the street in the Egyptian capital last month, horrifying Christians in the country. This week the priest’s killer, 19-year-old Ahmad Saeed Ibrahim al-Sonbati, was sentenced to death for the horrific attack, which also left another priest injured. Open Doors, a Christian persecution watchdog, said priest Samaan Shehata was “attacked with a cleaver” when he was visiting Cairo for a conference. The group, quoting local press, said the killer had been looking for “any priest” to kill when he stumbled across Mr Shehata. He noted Mr Shehata’s attire and chose him as a target,...

The Ronald Reagan Christmas tribute. Classic in its elegance, this should be part of our American heritage in perpetuity. . Ronald Reagan Christmas Tribute

Analysis of the PARTNER 2A trial and the SAPIEN-3 Intermediate Risk registry found transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) to be highly cost-effective compared with surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in intermediate surgical risk patients with aortic stenosis. Findings were reported today at the 29th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium. Sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), TCT is the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine. Researchers led by Dr. David J. Cohen (Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO) used data from the PARTNER 2A randomized trial and the SAPIEN-3 Intermediate Risk registry...

The live-in boyfriend of Mariah Woods' mother has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of the 3-year-old - and police believe the child is dead. Mariah Woods is believed to be dead, her mother's boyfriend has been arrested +7 Mariah Woods is believed to be dead, her mother's boyfriend has been arrested At 2.30am, WCTI12.com announced that Earl Kimrey had been taken into custody and charged for concealing a death and the obstruction of justice. There is no indication as yet that Mariah's body has been found but police believe she is deceased. The 32-year-old man was taken before...

A kidnapping victim was found partially clothed by a group of people who were looking for a Christmas tree. The 25-year-old woman told investigators she was forcibly taken during the afternoon on November 26 by known acquaintances, Johanna Knighten, 33, and Fred Sanderson, 44. The victim said Knighten drove her in a white van, and Sanderson physically assaulted her, holding her against her will. She told authorities the suspects believed she had stolen narcotics from Sanderson. Fred Sanderson When the suspects arrived at the remote location, the victim was forced to undress and then left alone wearing only a pair...

The man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge as part of fighting ALS has died. Anthony Senerchia, a husband and father, lived with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, for 14 years. He was the inspiration behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, which went viral on social media. People around the world would dump ice water on themselves in hopes of raising money to fight ALS. More than $220 million was raised. Senerchia’s wife told Inside Edition she was grateful and overwhelmed at the support. “It was surreal, we just couldn’t even believe it, that this is...

A McDonald's manager will get a $110,000 reward for tipping off police about a man accused of killing four people and terrorizing a Florida neighborhood for 51 days. Tampa police chief Brian Dugan said at a news conference Friday that Delonda Walker will receive "every penny" of the reward money. Her tip to police on Tuesday led to the arrest of 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III. Donaldson is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. His victims were apparently randomly shot during October and November. Donaldson worked at the McDonald's. He left his loaded gun in the restaurant. In a...

Fellow Freepers, I have posted before and will post again, the music coming over the Spanish-language stations in the United States is largely intolerable in its content. You need to get a fluently bilingual friend to listen to the Norteno-type "country" Mexican music and report what is heard. Just this afternoon, driving home from work, the music coming from a station in Austin, 107.1 FM, was so bad that I wanted to shut the station down immediately. If such music were produced in the English language with the same messaage towards the Spanish-speaking community as they sing out over our...

<p>J.C. Penney Co. pulled a Russell Simmons menswear line after the media mogul was accused by two women of sexual misconduct.</p> <p>The department-store chain introduced the Simmons-created Argyleculture line in September 2016. The collection of sweaters, polos and blazers was part of the chain’s push to attract more young men to its stores. The products were being sold on J.C. Penney’s website and at about 80 of the chain’s 875 stores, according to a company spokeswoman.</p>

On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She took her seat in the ‘colored’ section, but as she rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home, the bus began to fill. The Montgomery city ordinance allowed bus drivers to assign seating. However, it did not permit them to demand a passenger give up their seat. Despite this, bus drivers had customarily required black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers when the public transportation became full. When Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat, she refused. She...

Found this on liveleak. Weirdness starts at 1:07.Video here.Obligatory condemnation to save you the time from posting it: Yeah, the NFL is evil, I'm not gonna watch them anymore, paid extortionists, they ruined it for everyone, SJW a-holes, millionaire goons, blah, blah, blah, etc. ad nauseum.

Kim Jong Nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader, was carrying an antidote to the nerve agent that killed him when he was attacked in February in Kuala Lumpur's international airport. Two women, Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian national, and Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese national, have been charged with conspiracy to murder Kim. They are alleged to have worked with four North Korean agents to smear the banned chemical VX on his face as he was transiting the airport in the Malaysian capital on Feb 13. Just prior to an extended adjournment, the courtroom in Kuala Lumpur heard testimony...

Full title..................Roaches in the dining room, mice in the Situation Room and Trump's broken toilet seat: How the White House is infested and falling apart....................... Roaches were infesting the West Wing's private basement dining room The high-stakes Situation Room had a rodent problem Chief of Staff's office had ants President Trump asked for a replacement toilet seat in his private bathroom Maintenance staff fields hundreds of requests including fixes for ceiling leaks

The Christmas Story begins 2,000 years ago with a mother, a father, their baby son and the most extraordinary gift of all—the gift of God’s love for all of humanity. Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of his life...  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/936395008139198464

The Kate Steinle verdict is being handed down now. Live on Fox News

The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea launched on Wednesday appears to be significantly larger and more powerful than previous versions, according to independent analysts. "It's a monster," says Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT who tracks the North's nuclear capabilities. The missile is so much larger than previous versions that Narang suspects it could carry a powerful thermonuclear weapon, regardless of whether the North has managed to make a compact, missile-friendly version. "They wouldn't have to miniaturize much," Narang says. Other analysts are less sure about what the missile could carry and where it could reach. David Wright,...

Foster Brooks roasts Don Rickles...