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Namaste away from the bad vibes. Thousands of yogis Om’ed together in Bryant Park Wednesday to shake off the bad juju that Mercury in retrograde wrought this summer — which manifested for some in injuries and bouts of inexplicable hysterics for some participants. The serenity-seeking fitness buffs were eagerly reaching for some “retroshade” in the aftermath of the rough near-month-long planet alignment, notoriously believed to cause misfortune by those into astrology. “Mercury retrograde usually is not a good time, but I guess the yoga helps to balance my emotion and the body as well. I hope this is going to...

Prophetess Katie Souza’s bio says she was a “career criminal most of her life,” being “convicted of a number of felonies and sent to federal prison to serve almost twelve years” before God saved her nearly twenty years ago. In reality, it should read that she’s still a career criminal, with her crimes no longer being drug possession and gun running, but rather a criminal mishandling of God’s word- certainly a theological felony- demonstrating that the grift never ended. After leaving prison, she wrote a bunch of books and founded Katie Souza Ministries. She now hosts the TV show ‘Healing...

MARYLAND (WBFF) — Federal officials are investigating a former Maryland PTA president for allegedly embezzling over $900,000 to live a lavish coast-to-coast lifestyle that included luxury trips, gambling benders and Voodoo sex spells — including a curse to break up the marriage of her alleged lover. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland opened a criminal case against LaTonja Carrera, 51, who served as state PTA president from November 2020 to October 2022, according to D.C. attorney and former federal prosecutor Seth Waxman. The state organization oversaw about 800 local PTA chapters and 130,000 volunteer members. The investigation is looking at...

...Beginning by setting parameters to strip away ideologically driven answers, Smith asked Grok to apply only strict logic, mathematical probability, and observational science in its answers....

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:An Australian scientist says probabilities are the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. And he’s not the only one.Add in suspect weather, and iffy plane and boat piloting, and Karl Kruszelnicki believes there’s no reason to believe in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.While the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle has existed for decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and Lloyd’s of London has long championed the same ideas.Pick any one of the more than 50 ships or 20 planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. Each...

A startling phenomenon has occurred in the Sea of Galilee, Israel, where patches of its surface have turned blood-red, sparking widespread concern and comparisons to a biblical plague. While the striking red hue has prompted widespread discussion, authorities have quickly offered a scientific explanation, reassuring the public that the waters remain safe. According to the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Water Ministry, the coloration is the result of a massive overgrowth of a green algae species known as Botryococcus braunii. This algae, which has multiplied in recent years, produces a natural pigment that intensifies and turns red when exposed...

A group of teenage boys murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl and left her body in the woods to decompose in a sickening plot to 'earn a ticket to hell.' Elyse Pahler was killed in Templeton, Florida, on July 22, 1995, by her fellow Arroyo Grande High School pupils Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt, and Joseph Fiorella. She was stabbed to death as a sacrifice to the devil before her body was hidden in a field. Elyse's death is now the subject of ID's true crime documentary series A Killer Among Friends' latest episode, Devil in the Hallways. The episode lays bare the...

Uranus has entered Gemini for the first time in 84 years, and astrologers and social media users are panicking about this transition, believing that it could herald turbulent times. The Context On July 7, 2025, Uranus entered Gemini. The planet will briefly retrograde into Taurus on November 7 and reenter Gemini in April of 2026, where it will stay until May 2033. What To Know So what does this mean and what (on earth) does it have to do with politics and world events? All the planets in the solar system will eventually return to a certain spot they were...

Fox News host Mark Levin gives his take on the America First Committee and Iran’s nuclear enrichment on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’ #foxnews #news #fox #levin #iran #politics

Report: Iran ordered materials from China to produce hundreds of ballistic missiles Iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile components from China, with the aim of rebuilding its military power, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the details of the deal between the two countries. The same sources said that in the coming months, shipments of the compound ammonium perchlorate are expected to arrive in Iran, which, when combined with fuel, can propel hundreds of ballistic missiles. According to one source, some of the materials may even be sent to pro-Iranian militias, including the Houthi...

Hyderabad: A six-month pregnant tribal woman passed away in Hyderabad after her husband allegedly forced her to unknowingly consume abortion pills. Pravalika, 23, and Sepurwar Prashanth, both natives of Adilabad, had been married for three years with a two-year-old son. She was in the sixth month of her second pregnancy. The couple were constructing a new house in Maharashtra. According to a police complaint registered by Pravalika’s brother, V Rajesh, the husband and his family held superstitions, believing it was misfortune for a woman to undertake part in the rituals of a new house while pregnant. On May 30, Prashanth...

With a public apology secured, Claire Mitchell KC & Zoe Venditozzi fight on for a pardon and are spreading the word with a podcast and tartan memorialAre you female, have one or more moles and are capable of expressing yourself? Perhaps you have a cat, are maybe single by design or circumstance, and given to bestowing well-meaning medical tips? Then you might as well get yourself a pointy hat and broomstick because turn back the clock a few centuries and you’d find yourself accused and convicted of witchcraft and in a burning bucket of tar surrounded by a braying mob...

The Fort Worth Police Department is investigating a homicide that happened before 1:30 a.m. on Friday, April 18 in the 9900 block of Farmers Branch Street. "It was an exorcism" What we know: According to police, an anonymous caller called 911 and said they received a photo in a group chat on Snapchat of a woman on the ground covered in something red, possibly blood, the arrest affidavit shows. The anonymous caller gave police the address of the 9900 block of Farmers Branch St. in Fort Worth. They said this was the address of the person who sent the photo....

Historically, April 15 has not been a good day. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in the head the previous evening. Researchers and historians have long debated the claim that John Wilkes Booth was the assassin…and that there was a much darker truth to the story, involving a “deep state” conspiracy that the official history books will never tell us. On April 15, 1912, 1500 people died when the Titanic sank, after hitting an iceberg. The story of Titanic has captivated hearts and minds ever since this epic disaster took place. Again, many researchers and historians...

If you came into contact with someone with a face that looked like a demon and eyes that were completely black as night, what would you do? Encounters of this nature are popping up on social media at the exact same time that the mainstream media is trying really hard to convince all of us that anyone that is seeing black-eyed demon faces has a “disorder”. In fact, if you type “demon face” into Google News, you will literally get hundreds of articles about a disorder known as prosopometamorphopsia. But this is a very, very rare disorder. At this point,...

The Israelis have astounded the world in recent weeks with several unparalleled feats of wartime ingenuity, most notably the explosion of thousands of pagers that belonged to high-level Hezbollah operatives. Topping even that was the elimination of arch-terrorist and media darling Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, who had been in hiding for nearly two decades and was in a bunker sixty feet underground when the Israelis found a way to take him out. One Muslim cleric in Iran, however, is certain that the Israelis’ success can’t be ascribed to their ingenuity; he thinks they had some help. Help, that is, of...

Strap yourselves in for this one, folks. You think you know TDS, but the witch community — it exists, and they outnumber CNN viewers — hate Donald Trump so much that they're attempting to cast spells on him in order to force him to lose the 2024 election, or maybe even possibly, a lot more than that. Witches Claim They're Finding It Too Hard to Cast Spells Against Trump Because of Some 'Protection' By Brandon Morse | 10:11 AM on October 23, 2024The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP...

Perhaps the most notorious case of mass hysteria in colonial America, the Salem witch trials saw around 200 people accused of witchcraft, with 19 found guilty and executed. Another man was crushed to death for refusing to plead, while five others died in jail. The incident began in February 1692 when a group of young girls claimed to have been possessed by the devil and accused other women of being witches. Hysteria spread through colonial Massachusetts and a special court was convened to hear trials of those accused. By September public opinion turned against the trials and they eventually closed...

Are witches real? Of course! Witch historian and modern practitioners share history, types.

Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and rats being tortured, mutilated or killed in “twisted” religious rituals in parkland surrounding Jamaica Bay, The Post has learned. In a little over a month, at least nine wounded animals or carcasses have been discovered in the federally-managed Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel — including five live pigs with partially severed ears. Creatures recovered from the revolting scene also include a near-dead baby rat tied up in a bag with chicken bones; a freshly-decapitated chicken head; a live hen in...