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This is the horrifying moment a man's wife allegedly flew into a jealous rage and set him on fire at a fish market she owns in Brazil. André Chapeta, 50, died on Friday less than a week after sustaining devastating burn injuries. The incident took place Monday at a store in Rio de Janeiro when Ana María Paixaõ spotted Chapeta sitting at a table. A surveillance camera showed Paixaõ walking past the counter and appearing to open a bottle before dousing a flammable liquid over his body. The woman allegedly then flicked a lighter and set him on fire. Chapeta...

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Tuesday that the terror threat facing the United States has reached unprecedented levels since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Wray to describe the current "threat matrix" facing the United States at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "What I would say that is unique about the environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now, I've never seen a time where all...

An 11-year-old girl was told by her school to share a bed with a transgender child during an overnight school trip. The girl was so terrified she hid in a closet and called her parents for help.oe and Serena Wailes say at no time did Jefferson County Public Schools alert them that their fifth grade daughter would be sleeping in the same bed with a boy.Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the family and they sent a letter to the district warning that its policy of hiding information from parents and lying to students is unconstitutional.

TULSA, Okla. — A 15-year-old boy is charged with first-degree murder after a shootout led to the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man. The shooting also left three others injured. Tulsa police said the shooting happened at a home near north Harvard and Apache at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 19. The shooting began during a family gathering when an argument broke out between three young men who were invited to the home and family members of the home. Court documents identified the three teens as Tyrell Junior, Michael Thomas, and another boy named "Marco." The three...

According to the Department of Education, “misgendering” a student could violate federal civil rights law. Last month, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced the resolution of its investigation of California’s Taft College for creating a hostile environment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. OCR investigated the school after a male student was “misgendered” by his professors. The student, who did not notify university administrators that he identified as female, told his professors that he was “trans-femme” and preferred to be addressed by plural pronouns. (Because I’m not employed by a university and am therefore not legally...

A 5-year-old boy died after being stabbed by his twin brother during a fight Wednesday near Santa Cruz, officials said. Deputies from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office arrived on a report of a stabbing at the 200 block of Tucker Road, in an unincorporated area in Scotts Valley near Highway 17. Officers on the scene discovered that a 5-year-old had stabbed his brother with a “small kitchen knife,” the sheriff’s office said in a Thursday statement. When law enforcement arrived, they said they learned the twins had been fighting, “as siblings sometimes do,” the sheriff’s department said in the...

This is the shocking moment a 17-year-old shot a 14-year-old dead on the streets of DC while his mother stood by and did nothing - before he was caught bragging about the shooting online. Surveillance footage shows the teen, believed to be Lorenzo Thompson, 17, in a black hoodie and balaclava raising a gun outside the Crown gas station at 14th and Euclid streets NW in Columbia Heights at about 11:30pm on November 3. The woman with red braids and wearing a white coat, believed to be Thompson's mother, watches on but does nothing to diffuse the situation.

This story isn’t making national headlines. Four women were injured in a stabbing spree at Louisiana Tech University on Monday morning.

(KTXL) — Retail crime has been on the rise in the U.S., forcing some major retailers to even close locations in response. A new report shows some U.S. cities have been especially hard-hit by organized retail crime. The National Retail Federation (NRF) — the world’s largest retail trade association, according to its website — recently released its 2023 Retail Security Survey. The report contains insights from 177 retail brands, which accounted for $1.6 trillion of annual retail sales in 2022 and represent more than 97,000 retail locations across the U.S. Overall, retailers that participated in the survey reported that inventory...

Monday, October 23, to Sunday, October 29, marks PrEP Aware Week 2023, a public health campaign to boost awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV. “The theme for PrEP Aware Week 2023 is ‘PrEP is for Every Body,’ which references two social movements: sex positivity acknowledging that all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy; and body positivity, celebrating all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities,” explain the campaign’s organizers on PrEP Aware’s website PrEPforSex.org.

An 11-year-old Florida boy has been arrested and charged after allegedly shooting two of his 13-year-old teammates during a fight over food after their football practice. The boy is charged with second-degree murder after he opened fire at his pals Monday night at Field of Fame in Apopka, about 20 miles from Orland, Florida. 'It's a shame. No one wants to arrest an 11-year-old by any means,' said Apopka Police Chief Mike McKinley. The youngster allegedly went to his mother's car to grab an unsecured gun and fired at two 13-year-old boys - after a bag of chips was slapped...

A simple favor to ask a moviegoer to sit in his assigned seat turned into an all-out brawl at a Florida movie theater — with the incident being captured on camera.The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released cellphone video of the altercation, which captured 27-year-old Jesse Montez Thorton II violently attacking 63-year-old Marc Cohen at the AMC theater in Pompano Beach on July 10.Authorities say that Cohen told police that he bought VIP tickets that included advance seating for the film for him and his wife.

A dispute over sauce outside a Washington, D.C., McDonald's escalated into the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old, police said. Naima Liggon, of Waldorf, Maryland, died in the violence early Sunday, Washington Metropolitan Police said in a news release. Police said she was stabbed outside a McDonald's in the 1900 block of 14th Street NW. Liggon was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle, police said. Officers responded to the hospital just after 2 a.m. for a report of a teenage girl with stab wounds. Despite lifesaving efforts, she died. Later Sunday, police said, a 16-year-old girl, also of Waldorf,...

Multiple students at a Florida high school are facing charges after fights broke out on the grounds on September 12. District spokesperson Corey Dierdorff confirmed that 14 students were involved in two brawls that broke out at Zephyrhills High School in Pasco County at lunch time. One brawl took place in the hallway and the other in the cafeteria. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, 13 students are now facing charges which include battery and disruption of school function. The students could also face 'discipline' from the district. Cell phone videos of the fights were being heavily circulated on...

Subway service on the W line is resuming Wednesday night after it was suspended most of the day following a vandalism spree on Tuesday evening. The MTA said a vandal or vandals smashed 78 windows on 35 trains from the inside. It appears it happened while the trains were in service. Service was suspended overnight Tuesday and for most of the day Wednesday up until the evening commute. So many windows were damaged that officials said they were running out of spare glass to make repairs. By around 11 a.m. Wednesday, 25 trainsets had been repaired, but hundreds of thousands...

Thieves are arriving at night aboard small watercraft and using bolt cutters and other break-in tools to gain access to unoccupied boats. Several sailboats have been stolen, as well as small watercraft, dinghies, tools, and outboard motors.

Disturbing footage shows a man hitting a 60-year old woman more than 50 times with her own cane in a Harlem subway station. The attack happened on Friday just before 3:30 a.m. when the woman was walking at the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station, NYPD officials told The Post. The shocking two-minute video showed the unidentified male lunging at the woman with an umbrella and the woman trying to fight him off with her cane. The suspect was able to grab the woman’s cane as she fell to the ground screaming. The man then struck the woman with...

A train operator was beaten by an unhinged pipe-wielding man, and a straphanger was stabbed by a stranger in separate attacks on the subway system over the weekend, cops said Tuesday. The most recent of the two incidents took place at the 168th Street-Washington Heights station around 11:45 p.m. Sunday when a passenger began arguing with the subway worker as he cleared a northbound C train that was taken out of service, police said. The rider refused to get off the train and flashed a box cutter and a metal pipe at the 37-year-old male worker, who had ordered him...

A San Francisco store clerk has died from his injuries five days after he was brutally beaten with a baseball bat while trying to stop a thief stealing just two bottles of beer. Yowhannes “John” Tewelde, 60, never regained consciousness after suffering a major brain injury during the attack late Thursday at Richmond Market and died at a local hospital shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, his family announced. “John was a beloved member of the community, and even more loved by his family and friends,” a neighbor posted on a GoFundMe that raised money for his medical bills. Tewelde...

Why are so many conservatives bent out of shape about "cancel culture"? [supplemented, and orginal slightly edited] .... while all cultures engage in censorship to varying degrees, rather than a formal system of jurisprudence and judgments based upon a codified system of traditional basic morality, to perpetually offended liberals violations of the ever-morphing values of liberalism (such as gender being defined by feelings, vs. biology) that have come to dominate most of American cultural institutions are increasingly not those of anything remotely resembling an actual moral offense. And which has often resulted in what author Anne Applebaum describes: “Instead of...