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Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Tennessee’s Evolve Bank & Trust, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him propositioning a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old boy on gay dating app Grindr. On Oct. 19, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation logged onto Grindr while pretending to be a teen boy, and a user called “Tomm” wrote a message to that person saying, “Hey any chance u would hu with an older and chill guy,” according to an affidavit from a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was unsealed on Tuesday. The two discussed...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The former CEO of Evolve Bank sought sex from someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy whom he met on Grindr, according to court documents submitted by an FBI agent. The FBI agent said that they signed onto Grindr on October 19, 2025, and pretended to be a 15-year-old boy. They said they received a message from someone on Grindr going by the name "Tomm." That user asked the agent, pretending to be a 15-year-old boy, "Hey any chance u would hu with an older and chill guy?" according to the agent. Authorities later identified "Tomm" as...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg alleged on Tuesday that she and other detainees of the Gaza flotilla were subjected to torture in the Israeli prison they were held. Thunberg told a news conference in Stockholm that she and others were “kidnapped and tortured” by the Israeli military. She declined to elaborate, adding when pressed that she didn’t get clean water and that other detainees were deprived of critical medication. “Personally, I don’t want to share what I was subjected to because I don’t want it to make headlines and ‘Greta has been tortured’, because that’s not the story here,” she said,...

The Taliban is at it again in Afghanistan, killing Christians from America because the Taliban perceived these foreigners to be a threat to their way of life, even though they were only in Afghanistan to render services as medical professionals, doctors and dentists, to poor people in need. The Muslim extremists did not seem to care about that. Their primary concern was to keep the Americans from sharing their Christian faith. They were afraid these foreigners were trying to lure Muslims away from Islam; however, they were members of International Assistance Mission (IAM), a non-profit Christian organization whose members purposefully...