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ORLANDO, Fla. — On Tuesday evening, Orlando police say a man performing a ritual inside a home became angry, brandished multiple weapons and hurt people living there. Around 9 p.m., officers were dispatched to a residence following reports of gunfire. Officers encountered Fenel Dalexis, 46, who reportedly fired his gun within the home. Police guided everyone out, and an injured female victim emerged. Dalexis was scratched up so badly that he and the injured female were taken to the hospital. According to the report, Dalexis engaged in a “voodoo style” ritual in the home. A fight broke out when the...

A Dutch researcher predicted that an earthquake would hit the region, highlighting with almost exact precision the epicenter of the quake that would soon strike. A Dutch expert published a tweet on his Twitter account three days before the earthquake in Turkey on Monday, predicting that a powerful earthquake would happen imminently in Turkey. He even attached an aerial photograph and marked the area where the disaster would happen. Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets, who works for the Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGS) in the Netherlands, predicted the earthquake in Turkey on February 3. The prediction On his Twitter account, the...

The festival is drawing people of African descent to discover the religion and land of their enslaved ancestors.Every year in Benin, locals celebrate a festival in tribute to the deities of Voodoo, the Indigenous religion that worships natural spirits and reveres ancestors. Increasingly, the festival is drawing people of African descent from the US, Brazil and the Caribbean seeking to discover the religion and land of their ancestors who were enslaved and shipped away from the beaches of west Africa. Voodoo, known locally as Vodoun, originated in the Dahomey kingdom – present-day Benin and Togo – and is still widely...

Philip Perry is a partner at Latham & Watkins, which works on behalf of foreign entities, including some flagged as threats to U.S. national security. ==================================================================== Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called on the U.S. to stand up to the "generational threat" posed by China while unveiling a major report on Beijing's "malign behavior" at the same time her husband's law firm was working on behalf of companies linked to China's military, intelligence, and security services. As Cheney stood at the podium, her husband Philip Perry’s law firm was cashing in on legal and lobbying work that his employer — Latham...

There has always been a strong belief amongst Nigerians in the old ways, including voodoo and black magic. There still is: The hunt for Nigerians who can change into cats.Belief in African traditional religions and its juju components are widespread in Nigeria, with many combining them with either Christianity or Islam, according to a 2010 report by the Pew Research Centre. Many Nigerians believe that magic charms can allow humans to morph into cats, protect bare skins from sharp blades and make money appear in a clay pot.Questioning supernatural capabilities is taboo in much of Nigerian culture.While this belief system...

In Benin, worshippers of Voodoo, a religion that worships gods and natural spirits, have gathered to pay their respects to the deities. The meeting takes place on the beach in Ouidah, a former slave trading hub, by the Atlantic Ocean. Mami Wata is the most revered deity. Lydia Bourgade is a tourist and followed the ceremony from a distance. "It's interesting for me since it's the first time I've seen this, so it's my first festival. I hope I will learn a lot about what Voodoo is and the different branches it can have", sha said. Mami Wata represents the...

A Rhode Island hospital is dealing with a Covid-19 outbreak with patients after it asked staff who had tested positive, but were asymptomatic, to come in due to a staffing shortage. Eleanor Slater Hospital, a state-run facility with campuses in Cranston and Burrillville, reported it had 28 infected patients as of Thursday, according to the Boston Globe. The hospital has roughly 200 patients. On Saturday, the hospital had two Covid-positive staff members come into work and three on Monday, according to a memo posted on the official Rhode Island state website. "The decision to utilize covid-positive staff who are asymptomatic...

A Jamaican preacher and 41 of his congregants were arrested last week after two people were killed during an alleged “human sacrifice.” Kevin O. Smith, a self-proclaimed “prophet,” and the church members were arrested for slitting the throats of 39-year-old office worker Tanecka Gardner and an unidentified man. Friends told the Jamaica Observer Gardner had been buying “essentials” in the weeks before her death, as Smith told his congregants that a flood was about to sweep in. “Even recently, she has been stocking up on kerosene oil and cooking oil,” a friend told the Observer. “She told me that the...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday reacted to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pushing for people to get vaccinated amid the recent uptick in coronavirus cases. McConnell criticized people for giving bad advice regarding vaccines and COVID-19, blaming them for low vaccination rates across the country. Scarborough set aside McConnell’s comments regarding the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 to commend the Kentucky Republican for being “very consistent” regarding getting people vaccinated instead of having them listen to the “voodoo science” and “cult leaders.”

It is hard to believe, and it is certainly new, that a virus can actually cause long-term changes to an infected person’s genes. It’s incredibly scary that results from a new cell study found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can bring about long-term gene expression changes even when exposure is minimal. Moderna’s mRNA-1273 consists of a strand of mRNA that tells the body to produce the spike protein the coronavirus uses to latch onto human cells. The strand is like one side of a zipper; the “teeth” are a sequence of chemical letters that cells read to produce the 1,273...

Alice Hines goes all in on a journey to the outer limits of obsession.Season 1 Episode 1: “QAnon” Alice investigates what causes people to think that storming the U.S. Capitol seemed like a good idea. What draws people to the cult of QAnon?

A Sonoma County man who was fully vaccinated against the coronavirus died of complications from COVID-19 last week, marking the first county resident who was inoculated to die from the disease, county officials said. The county reported the death, the first since April, late Monday, bringing the local coronavirus death toll to 315.

A West Alabama man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting and killing a man. Hernan Diaz Diego of Mexico City, Mexico was shot and killed in April of 2019. His body was left in the middle of a Pickens County Road. Authorities say Zocimo Hernandez and Diego knew each other and got into an argument. “This was purportedly Diego believing that Hernandez had placed a voodoo curse on him,” said 24th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Andy Hamlin.

...the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that 18% of all COVID-19 cases were reported in children during the month of April. Michigan, where COVID-19 is surging, saw a 237% increase in pediatric hospital admissions between mid-February to mid-April. Children usually have mild reactions to COVID-19, but a small percentage develop potentially deadly multi-system inflammatory syndrome or MIS-C. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there were 3,185 confirmed cases of MIS-C in the U.S. since May 2020, and 36 deaths as a result of the syndrome, says GMA.

A herb dealer, Rofiat Biliameen, has petitioned a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her two and a half-year-old marriage to estranged husband, Ahmed Biliameen on grounds of deception and distrust. Rofiat told the court that her husband was also blackmailing and threatening to kill her. “In 2018, when I was looking for an apartment to rent, I informed Ahmed as one of the landlords at Ayegun-Olomi, he promised to get me an apartment which he did. “However, he soon started wooing me because according to him, nobody would give an apartment to an unmarried woman in that community....

Doctors have risked their necks coming forward with what they know about how effective Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin has been when used in the initial stages of Covid-19 prior to the time that ones immune system goes into overdrive trying to fight the virus. The success rate has been PROVEN to be incredible yet many states and government agencies have banned its use. The media has joined in with the misrepresentations as well and the results have been that many Americans have simply been sentenced to death by their own government.It's easy to blame the Democrats, Liberals, Dr. Fauci,...

Reports Friday from multiple trials in the United States and abroad indicate a drug already approved by the FDA to treat parasitic infections is showing “astounding” results, and could represent a breakthrough in efforts to vanquishing the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the heart of the global pandemic.*snip* In a separate trial on the other side of the globe, a team of doctors in Bangladesh reported Friday that they administered a combination of ivermectin and doxycycline, a common antibiotic, to 60 coronavirus patients there.That team reported that within 72 hours after receiving the drug, their patients tested negative for the virus, and...

WARNING: Some pictures in the following story may be disturbing for some viewers. The remains of a mutilated animal left rotting in the street can be both disturbing to see and in some cases, illegal. But law enforcement rarely pursues charges in these cases which are more common than you might think. CASE IN THE ACREAGE Dorcas “DJ” Web has lived in the acreage for nearly 30 years. It’s an area she considered peaceful and quiet until she made a gruesome discovery down her street. She saw four cardboard boxes; one placed on each corner of the intersection. At first...

Man discovers ‘strange doll made out of coconuts’ with human teeth, snakeskinHistory shows you can find just about anything on Florida’s beaches. Some things are obvious about what they are, but what a beach walker found Thursday is much more mysterious. "It was a rather strange doll made out of coconuts," Bruce Robertson described. Initially, at Cherie Down Park, Robertson said he was creeped out. "What was really sort of terrifying or horrifying or interesting was it had actual human teeth," he remembered. His pictures also show snakeskin and the item has arms and legs with feathers on them. Robertson...

......Enter The New York Times’ former executive editor Jill Abramson, who wrote that she carries an Obama doll in her purse as a symbol of hope in the Trump era. It’s easy to look at what’s happening in Washington DC and despair. That’s why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump’s America.