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From 2015 to 2017, El-Sayed ran the Detroit Health Department. That put him in charge of the city’s Animal Care and Control operation during some of its ugliest years. According to records obtained by the Daily Mail, nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized while he held that post. In 2015 alone, the shelter killed 1,988 dogs and 272 cats. That was more than a quarter of every dog put down in the entire county that year. The live-release rate sat at a miserable 20 percent. Four out of five animals that walked through those doors never walked out.A former...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday that his office is joining two other states in issuing a subpoena to Dr. Anthony Fauci, alleging that he "profited" from the recommendations he gave during the handling of the Covid pandemic.Uthmeier, joined by West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, said in a news release that he was issuing an investigative subpoena to Fauci for "an official investigation into awards, professional opportunities, financial incentives, grants, and Covid-19 guidance that impacted Florida businesses and consumers.""Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if...

The father of a six-year-old Kentucky boy stabbed to death in his own bed is publicly breaking down after the man who did it was released from prison for the second time, this time with no supervision. Dean Tipton took to Facebook on Wednesday and wrote that the killer of his son Logan being released again may be his breaking point. Tipton wrote that the justice system handed his family a life sentence while giving the killer, Ronald Exantus, a slap on the wrist. Exantus broke into the Tipton family’s Versailles home on December 7, 2015, stabbed Logan Tipton to...

Killer Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet. Anthony, now 19, sobbed, and his family burst into tears as the judge read the verdict on Tuesday. The jury deliberated for less than three hours after the defense and prosecution delivered closing arguments. Anthony claimed he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Metcalf, 17, with a folding knife after a heated argument at the high school event in Frisco in April 2025. The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught....

Four siblings who were part of Michael Jackson’s “secret family” revealed in an interview Sunday the vile ways the late pop star allegedly groomed and sexually abused them as children. The Cascio family sat down with “60 Minutes Australia” on Sunday night to describe how Jackson allegedly sexually abused all of them as children and supplied them with copious drugs and alcohol after wooing their family with lavish gifts and fame. The four siblings filed a lawsuit in February, alleging Jackson was a serial child sex predator who sexually abused victims at the homes of Elizabeth Taylor and Elton John....

Sightings of pink, horned creature began in 1953 on Lake DexterDecades ago, a 35-foot-long creature was allegedly seen along the St. Johns River in Astor, sparking rumors of a mysterious beast lurking in the waters nearby. Boaters who saw the so-called “St. Johns River Monster” described it as grey, horned, four-legged, and with an appetite for hyacinths. Strangely, witness accounts reported seeing it either in the river or on land. According to newspaper articles from 1953, the beast — theorized by some to be a prehistoric creature that had survived to modern times — had been reported by witnesses ranging...

By 2021, Robinson was shown moving into Utah State University (USU), "Utah State University confirms that Tyler Robinson, the suspect arrested in the killing of Charlie Kirk, briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021. We can also confirm that he was a pre-engineering major and took classes consistent with that major for his one semester,". USU spokesperson Amanda DeRito told Fox News Digital that Robinson was awarded the school’s Resident Presidential Scholarship, its highest scholarship. She said Robinson had no disciplinary record during his time at the university. According to USU, the scholarship is reserved for top...

A new project pro-abortion activist billionaire Bill Gates is funding raises pro-life concerns. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a new project that involves embalming deceased newborn babies to harvest tissues and organs for artificial intelligence research, according to a report by Modernity News. The initiative, which focuses on using the remains of infants who die in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), could spark outrage among those who view it as a disturbing exploitation of vulnerable lives. The project, detailed in the report, is a collaboration between the Gates Foundation and various research institutions. It aims to develop...

The Cosmic Horseshoe is a monster within a monster. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI If size doesn’t matter, then explain this: The Cosmic Horseshoe is a gravitationally lensed system with the foreground galaxy being one of the heaviest in the known universe, hundreds of times our own galaxy. It is so heavy that it warps space-time to such a degree that the light of a background galaxy is distorted into a horseshoe. Inside that galaxy sits an equally impressive supermassive black hole. According to the latest study, this could be the biggest ever found. There have been several claims in the last...

Monster and CareerBuilder, once two of the most popular websites for job seekers at the height of the dot-com era, have filed for bankruptcy. The two sites, which merged last year to become one entity named Monster + CareerBuilder, voluntary filed for Chapter 11 Tuesday, announcing that the company is selling various parts of its businesses to several buyers as part of a court-supervised process, a press release said. Monster and CareerBuilder were some of the biggest companies in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the former brand so popular that it often bought Super Bowl commercials promoting its...

When a Kansas child complained to the babysitter of a monster under the bed, she wanted to prove to the child no one was there. But there was. ... Barton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were sent to a home near Great Bend at about 10:30 p.m. Monday ... “Upon arrival the deputies contacted the victim who stated she was babysitting children at the residence. When putting the children to bed, one child complained there was a ‘monster’ under their bed,” .. “When the victim attempted to show the child there was nothing under the bed, she came face-to-face with a...

Trevon Woodards, 27, was arrested on Friday after being accused of attacking 27-year-old Canada Rinaldi on March 22, four weeks before her wedding. Dash cam footage from a passing Uber captured Rinaldi's bridesmaid, Kelly Peralta, trying to save her but found herself also being punched by Woodards. Currently, a possible motive for the attack has not been released.

March 10 (UPI) -- Former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was arrested Tuesday morning in Manila on an International Criminal Court warrant for crimes against humanity over his bloody war on drugs. He was arrested at 9:20 a.m. local time after he arrived in Manila from Hong Kong aboard Cathay Pacific flight CX 907, the Philippines government said in a statement. "The former President and his group are in good health and were examined by government doctors to ensure his well-being," the statement said. This is a developing story.

On Friday, the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump saw one of the most impassioned defense arguments given at such a hearing in years … from the judge himself. Acting Justice Juan Merchan admitted that the case was “unique and remarkable” but insisted that “once the courtroom doors were closed, the trial itself was no more special, unique, and extraordinary than the other 32 cases in this courthouse.” If so, that is a damning indictment of the entire New York court system. Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined...

A mammoth sinkhole opened along a major New Jersey interstate Thursday morning, closing several lanes and pushing motorists onto local roads to avoid the pit. The sinkhole — which appeared large enough to swallow several cars — opened on the shoulder of Interstate 80 in Wharton sometime around 7:45 a.m., according to NJ.com. Construction crews swarmed the area around Exit 34 as they tried to work out a solution to the post-Christmas surprise. Meanwhile, the state’s Department of Transportation closed the eastbound lanes — leading to a lengthy backup that clogged the highway. “Motorists should expect delays or plan an...

Billionaire Bill Gates has provoked a widespread and escalating backlash after he admitted that he’s been using India as a “kind of laboratory” to test his “vaccines” and conduct other experiments on Indian citizens.Gates made the remarks during a recent interview with fellow Jeffrey Epstein-linked billionaire Reid Hoffman.The Microsoft co-founder gloated during the interview that he uses India as “a kind of laboratory to try things.”Gates claims that his experiments on Indians will ensure that people are “better off” in the future.“And it’s kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India you...

A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine has mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building. Vladimir Shklyarov, a married father of two, plummeted around 60 feet to the ground from a building on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where the 39-year-old was the highest-ranking dancer, told Fontanka. Russian authorities initially labeled the fall an accident, blaming the painkillers he was taking before a complex spinal surgery. However, he joins numerous other critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin who have met untimely ends —...

Russia will work with any US president, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his conversation with the heads of international news agencies on the sidelines of the 27th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will work with any US president elected by the American people. On Wednesday, President Putin holds a conversation with the heads of major international news agencies on the sidelines of the 27th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), including with representatives of unfriendly countries. "For us, the end result, we believe, does not matter much. Russia will work with any...

Actor Robert De Niro said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that former President Donald Trump’s rise was like that of Adolf Hitler’s in 1930s Germany. De Niro said, “He is sick, he is genuinely a sick person that somehow has been allowed into our system. I’m not calling him names, he just can’t be anywhere near the office of the presidency.” He continued, “I don’t understand it. I don’t I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president. I don’t think they really understand. And historically, from what I see, even...

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