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Illinois police sergeant Marlene Rittmanic was begging for her life moments before she was shot dead with her own firearm by a gunman in a hotel last week, according to documents obtained by Fox News. On Monday, Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe said in court that Sgt. Rittmanic was pleading with the suspects at the time Sullivan fired the fatal shots into her. Sgt. Rittmanic was begging the suspects to just leave, saying ‘you don’t have to do this, please just go, please don’t please don’t.’ She was desperately pleading for her life.” On December 29, 49-year-old Bradley police...

Molly agreed with her mother, Beth Davis, that mothers know best. That includes placing a billboard ad in Times Square when it comes to finding a man for daughter Molly. Mom Beth did just that last week by placing a 47-foot-by-25-foot ad at the crossroads of the world, right above Tonic. The ad includes a photo of 30-year-old Molly, a headline that reads “Date my daughter,” and the URL for her dating profile. The 61-year-old from Boston, Massachusetts, had been battling breast cancer since 2004 and was treated with chemotherapy.

All human cultures have traditions around death. In the western world, we have wakes and funerals, obituaries and tombstones, private or public burials. Famous people get retrospectives on the evening news; prominent politicians may lie in state at a capitol rotunda. It’s the printed word, however, that’s most interesting to me. There’s a rule that governs all these retrospectives and obituaries: Never speak ill of the dead. It’s a reasonable standard, clearly written with some eye – conscious or no – to the Golden Rule. We hope nobody will speak ill of us when we die, so we don’t speak...

A desperate mother has just abandoned her baby in a cardboard box in Alaska with a heartbreaking note from her saying she could not afford to feed the baby. The baby was rescued around 2 p.m. on New Year’s Eve after Alaska state troopers responded to a report of an abandoned baby found, officials confirmed in a statement. Fairbanks resident Roxy Lane discovered the baby, who was swaddled in blankets and cooing softly and posted a video of the note and the baby on Facebook.

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Beginning with “We the People,” the Constitution is a compact, an agreement among equals, the people of the American civil society. The events of 1787-1788 could have been scripted straight out of John Locke’s Second Treatise. A preexisting civil society came to the conclusion that its current form of government was inadequate to secure its unalienable rights, which, per the Declaration (also a Lockean document), is the broad purpose of government. Through state sponsored conventions, special delegations of the sovereign people debated the pro/con of establishing a new government. Just as Locke described the steps that men, emerging from the...

Glastonbury, Connecticut — An 8-year-old Boston terrier named Henry has been praised by its owners for saving the life of their 9-month-old baby. Henry’s Owners, Kelly and Jeff Dowling said their pup would not rest on Monday night when he multiple times barged into their daughter’s nursery and tried to wake the baby. The parents told ABC 6 that their dog usually puts himself to bed and kind of keeps to himself. However, Henry refused to go to bed that night, and according to his owners, the dog was headbutting the door open and going into the baby’s room and...

Lookalike duo Joleen Diaz and her daughter, Meilani Parks, are both single and ready to mingle. A 44-year-old California mother dubbed “the hottest mom in the world” is now going on double dates with her daughter. The age-defying woman, Joleen Diaz, 44, went viral last year after Instagram fans noticed she and her 21-year-old daughter, Meilani Parks, bore a striking resemblance. The lookalike duo, who are often mistaken for sisters, now have accounts on dating apps and occasionally join forces on their romantic outings in order to approve each other’s prospective partners.

An animal shelter in Kentucky is overrun with dozen of displaced after deadly tornadoes left the state devastated, with dozens of scared pets without a home. The Board President of the Mayfield-Graves County Animal Shelter, David Spalding, described how the shelter was struggling to remain standing but now is tasked with welcoming dozens of animals until there is not enough room. Photos show the displaced animals being held in crates as they hope for their owners’ return. Workers and volunteers were seen getting dogs and cats ready for major transportation out of the Kentucky shelter as it expects to be...

The CEO of New York-based online mortgage lender Better.com has sacked a total of 900 employees with immediate effect during a now-viral Zoom call. Better.com’s chief executive Vishal Garg has slammed the ex-workers for allegedly stealing from customers by not being productive. During the announcement of the mass firings in a Zoom call, Vishal Garg struck an unapologetic tone to the shock of the affected workers, a recording of which was later posted on various social media platforms, including TikTok, YouTube.

My daughter is 24 and graduating college this year. I want to get her a magazine subscription for young ladies. A lot of women's magazines lean heavily left even thought they're not supposed to be political. Can anyone recommend a young women's magazine that's fun to read and that might lean conservative?

So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog and slapped a big, red “dangerous webpage” warning label on it. (You may not see it wherever you live, and you certainly won’t if you’re not using Norton, but quite a lot of people do use Norton, so that’s kind of a problem for an author like me.) Now, I’m sure this is (a) just...

LogocideOne of the distinguishing features of authoritarian societies is the language becomes lifeless and dull. At the same time, the public space is filled with the language of the authoritarian ruling system. The people at the top give long arid speeches and their propaganda organs fill the spaces in between with official noise. Fidel Castro would give speeches that lasted half a day. Stalin would deliver long harangues to the Party Congress for no other reason than to fill the room with words. In America, this started to creep in after the Cold War. Bill Clinton would give long speeches...

Back on October 1st, Richmond, Virginia public schools superintendent Jason Kamras followed President Joe Biden’s lead and announced a vaccine mandate for all teachers and staff in his district. Those failing to comply would have their pay withheld and could potentially face the loss of their jobs if they didn’t come into line with the policy. But that was then and this is now. The schools were already struggling to fill more than 100 vacancies, almost all of which were driven by the mandate. This week, on Monday night, the School Board was forced to approve 29 more resignations, so...

Love is truly blind! A Big Apple man left blind after being stabbed in the eye by a subway robber has revealed how he found love in the aftermath of the horrific attack. In January 2020, The blind man, identified simply as “K” for privacy reasons, was reportedly the victim of a random subway robbery, in which the attacker used a screwdriver to gouge out his left eye.

Parents reveal sleazy details of how they helped capture the California mom hosting sex parties for underage children. Shannon O’Connor usually communicates with teenagers via Snapchat, according to parents. Details are surfacing about how parents helped expose a mother from Silicon Valley area who was accused of hosting wild, drunken sex parties for teenagers in her multi-million dollar California home.

As any mother to a child knows, you certainly are a busy woman with a lot on your to-do list. However, imagine having 21 babies of your own – that’s Kristina Ozturk’s life. The 24-year-old mom of 21, from Batumi, Georgia, and her 57-year-old husband, Galip, a millionaire businessman, have spent $195,500 on surrogacy between March last year and July this year.

A young fan holding a “Tom Brady Helped Me Beat Brain Cancer” sign breaks down in tears when Tom Brady gives him a signed cap. Tom Brady shared the heartwarming moment with the young fan, who is a cancer survivor, on Sunday night as the team was closing out a victory over the Chicago Bears.

Here’s what Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito looked like on some of their cross-country road trip stops. These photos might be the last ones Brian and Gabby have taken together during their final road trip stops.

I am not an atheist, nor even an agnostic. Keep that in mind, because I am not saying the Bible promotes atheism. Quite the opposite, of course — but there is a passage in the Bible that helps us Jews and Christians to understand why some people are atheist/agnostic and why we cannot persuade them otherwise. The reason may humble us. From 1 Corinthians 2:14 (King James Version): [T]he natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. This passage rebukes atheism,...