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A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her son, whose behavior demonstrated plans for a "mass targeted violence" aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit obtained by ABC News.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump directs the DOJ to free Gold Star mother Tina Peters from Colorado prison. 7:35 PM · May 5, 2025

A 42-year-old British childminder, Lucy Connolly, was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a social media post supporting mass deportations following a mass stabbing in Southport. The post, published on X and deleted within hours, led to Connolly’s conviction under the Public Order Act for inciting racial hatred. Connolly, described by local families as a respected caregiver to children of various ethnic backgrounds, was arrested at her home while caring for children after she called for “mass deportation,” and said “set fire to all the f-cking hotels full of the bastards for all I care,” adding, “If that makes...

If you’ve read “Hillbilly Elegy” or seen the movie — or if you’re familiar with Vice President JD Vance’s story in any way — you’re aware of the struggles that his mother, Beverly Aikins, has had with substance abuse. Her addiction loomed over so many areas of her life, but she has managed to triumph over it. She reached the ten-year milestone of sobriety at the beginning of this year. Her 10th anniversary of sobriety fell on the day before the inauguration, which was also her birthday. She attended the inauguration and spoke at an event in Ohio the night...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) supported a Democrat Senate bill that would replace the word “mother” with the word “inseminated person,” and replace the word “husband” with the word “spouse.” Dan O’Donnell, the host of the Dan O’Donnell Show shared an excerpt of Senate Bill 45, Section 3106, which also replaces the words “man” and “wife” for “person.” The bill, introduced on Friday, is about “state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature,” according to WSAU News. According to the Wisconsin State Legislature website, 2025 Senate Bill 45 was “Introduced by Joint Committee on Finance.”

e says her husband’s well-paying job has come at an incredibly sad cost — her own career. “My husband earns well, not loads, but realistically it’s always going to be more than me. It naturally means my career has had to take a back seat while I’m at home with the kids,” she explained. “But we’ve got no additional support, and someone does need to do the child-related things. This lands on me.” Currently, the mother works part-time, but she isn’t satisfied. “Sometimes I wish I had the luxury of working more,” she said. “I miss my job and independence.”...

President-elect Trump will use a Bible that was given to him by his mother, as well as the Lincoln Bible, for his swearing-in Monday. Trump’s late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, gave him the Bible in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, N.Y., according to the Trump Inaugural Committee. The inside cover of the Bible is signed by church officials and inscribed with Trump’s name and details of when it was gifted to him. He will also use the Lincoln Bible, which was first used for President Lincoln’s 1861 swearing-in and...

Chuck Norris said his mother, Wilma Norris Knight, has died at age 103. In a Facebook post on Friday, Norris announced his mom’s death, describing her as “a woman of unwavering faith, a beacon of light in our lives, and her love reflected God’s grace.” She died Wednesday. SNIP “From my earliest memories, she taught me the importance of kindness and compassion. I am so thankful for the countless lessons she shared, the prayers she lifted for us, and the way she embodied the love of Christ every day,” Norris wrote. “We love you, Mom. Until we meet again.”

Penelope Hegseth joins 'Fox & Friends' to defend her son's character and discuss his nomination by President-elect Trump to be defense secretary.

Penelope Hegseth, the mother of President-elect Donald Trump‘s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, defended her son after a 2017 email surfaced in which she claimed he had abused women. The New York Times reported last week on the elder Hegseth’s email, in which she said, “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” as the younger Hegseth and his then-wife were going through a divorce in 2017. Penelope Hegseth said Wednesday on Fox News’s Fox and Friends that...

Former President Donald Trump visited a grocery store in Pennsylvania on Monday where he gave $100 to a struggling mother of three. The former president was visiting the Sprankles grocery store in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, when he turned to a mother at the checkout stand to give her a little gift. “Here, it’s going to go down a little bit,” the former president said, referring to her grocery price tag. “It just went down $100 bucks.”

The mom of the 14-year-old alleged Apalachee High School shooter is now facing charges of abusing her own mother. The New York Post reported that Marcee Gray was indicted for allegedly abusing Deborah Polhamus. WSB-TV noted that Gray’s specific charges are “exploitation and intimidation of a disabled adult or elderly person, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property in the second degree, and theft.”

A report from the Washington Post, confirmed by the Associated Press, claims the alleged Apalachee High School attacker’s mother warned the school of an “extreme emergency” half an hour before shots rang out. The Associated Press (AP) reported that the 14-year-old attacker’s aunt, Annie Brown, said the boy’s mom “spoke with a school counselor and urged them to ‘immediately’ find her son to check on him.” The Tennessee Star noted that the Post zeroed in on text messages that “show that the school and family were in contact about [the mental health of the 14-year-old].”

Q: What are your thoughts about the guilty verdicts? A: It’s an interesting verdict. As we were going through the trial, we saw that the prosecution would not let us in with any of our affirmative defenses. Much excluded evidence was kept from the jury. For instance, the codemonkeyz video that they kept talking about — that was so “damning” — they never would let the jury see it. If they would have seen it, they would have seen there were no passwords in there. Speaking to the passwords, when I took that video, it was because Conan (Hayes) was...

With the ideological left’s attempt to erase women, whether through sports, attempting to add “birthing people” in our laws, or denying natural distinctions between men and women, we are grateful Governor Youngkin is doing the opposite. The Governor vetoed a bill (HB 781, D-Herring) this year intended to initiate a task force to evaluate maternal health in Virginia but ridiculously replaced “mothers” with “birthing people.” Last week Governor Youngkin issued Executive Order 32 to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, and he did it without including contraceptive mandates or woke language such as “birthing people”....

A woman in the Karnataka state of India is accused of tossing her six-year-old son, who had special needs, into a canal on Saturday where he was reportedly half-eaten by crocodiles. Police said the incident allegedly happened after the woman, identified as Savitri, had a fight with her husband whose name is Ravi Kumar, NDTV reported Monday, noting they have another son who is two years old. An image shows a woman who is reportedly the child’s mother: In a tragic incident in southern India, a mother was arrested for allegedly throwing her six-year-old disabled son into a crocodile-infested canal...

The State Department reportedly told staffers in a memo they should avoid using gendered phrases like “mother” or “father” for fear of offense.

Alexei Navalny's body has gone missing from the morgue where it was officially being held, his team have said as his mother arrived at the brutal IK-3 Polar Wolf penal colony this morning. Navalny's lawyer, who arrived in the town of Salekhard with Navalny's mother on Saturday, called a number for the morgue and was told that 'Alexei's body is not in the morgue', as claimed by the prison where he had died, the team said on Telegram. Alexei Navalny's spokesperson this morning confirmed the Russian opposition leader had died and said that his body is with investigators. Kira Yarmysh...

On Monday, January 22, 2024, Carroll County Deputies responded to a call for help. The caller who was at work in Greenwood reported that a knife wielding man was attempting to enter his home in the Gravel Hill area of Carroll County. He further stated that his wife and three children were inside the home hiding in a closet. The caller identified the suspect and gave a description of the vehicle. As deputies responded to the scene, they came upon a vehicle fitting that description. Deputies conducted a felony traffic stop in the parking lot of Acy’s Store, but the...

An Ohio mother was arrested Monday for running a Dee Dee Blanchard-esque grift in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer. Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly masqueraded on the internet as a blind and sickly child suffering from a trove of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukemia and regular seizures. Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said. Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and...