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A 32-year-old transgender woman stabbed a man to death at an Avalon Park gas station after he allegedly made comments about her gender, prosecutors said, as her spouse and 7-year-old son looked on. Surveillance video allegedly showed Kelly Day stabbing 50-year-old Larry Young 13 times, pausing once to adjust her grip on the knife. Prosecutors said Day had been mocked by unidentified people for using a women’s restroom on the evening of October 7. She later told her spouse she was “tired of all these bullies making comments about her gender,” according to the detention filing. About 7:30 p.m., while...

Leo XIV praises foundational Lutheran document: The Augsburg Confession by MelanchthonLeo XIV praises foundational Lutheran document: The Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon.Today, Leo XIV received a delegation of the Lutheran World Federation. He said: “Renewed communion in the apostolic faith, in the sacraments [!], and in the ministries is the goal of our ecumenical journey of grace.”Leo XIV focused particularly on the year 2030, which will mark the 500th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, presenting it as an opportunity to advance Catholic-Lutheran ecumenism and the pursuit of “full, visible unity.”He claimed: “The Augsburg Confession was originally intended as a document of...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Florida man just casually walked away with a full Flock surveillance camera… still bolted to a 12-foot pole… while draped in the American flag 🇺🇸 Security followed him like lost puppies. This is either the most based thing You’ll see all year or pure chaos. Is this what peak freedom looks like in 2026? Would you have the balls to do this? Hero… or criminal?

Suddenly, the stories began trickling in. One after another, their patients – male and female alike – started to tell them about depths of human evil that are hard to fathom. And they – who thought that they had heard it all, who dealt with every kind of life-altering trauma – realized that something entirely different was happening here. That in Israel, too, a phenomenon known as ritual abuse exists – and that almost no one is talking about it. Now, they say, they have collated testimonies from more than 50 victims and are ready to end the conspiracy of...

I hesitated to make this post. I've been watching along the sidelines the past 2.5 months, waiting to see what happens to this website. Free Republic relies on donations to keep itself operational, but, more and more, it looks like this quarterly donation period will not reach its goal. My question then is, "then what?" Let's face it, financial times are hard. People are not able to donate as they once did. In addition, many of the old guard have passed on to their rewards. And there are other reasons, to be sure. At the end of the day, I...

Göbekli Tepe was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018, and it's not hard to see why. Image credit: Resul Muslu/Shutterstock.com ============================================================================ Did a cataclysmic comet impact 13,000 years ago spark the rise of civilization? That's the explosive claim behind a study of carvings at the world-famous site of Göbekli Tepe, which researchers say encode not just a catastrophic comet strike, but the world's oldest solar calendar. Located in southern Türkiye, Göbekli Tepe is a pre-pottery Neolithic complex that is estimated to be around 12,000 years old. Analyzing an intricately carved pillar at the site, the study authors propose...

A genetic study of the remains of four 2,000-year-old dogs recovered from two archaeological sites on the Korean Peninsula suggests that the canines belonged to a lineage separate from other dog populations in East Asia, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily. It had been previously thought that dog populations in East Asian shared a single lineage. Hyeongcheol Kim of the Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Suyeon Kim and A-reum Yu of the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, and their colleagues determined that ancient Korean dogs resembled the Australian dingo and the New Guinea singing dog. Korean dogs...

Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials. According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this planet.

Hantavirus, the WHO, and the Conflicts in Weighing MortalityYesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough. About 4,000 people died of tuberculosis (TB), including many young adults leaving orphans. This happens every day. Progress in reducing these numbers is stalling, as partly due to the continuing economic damage from the Covid-19 response. In the past two weeks three tourists unfortunately died among about 150 passengers and crew on a cruise ship MV Hondius off the west coast of the African continent where most of those malaria...

Black women have a higher murder rate than white men.

A new observational study of 197 cancer patients taking a combined ivermectin + mebendazole protocol is going viral on social media — and for understandable reasons. At six-month follow-up, 84.4% of respondents reported clinical benefit (no evidence of disease, regression, or stable disease), and nearly half (48.4%) reported either tumor regression or no current evidence of disease. The combination was well tolerated, with only mild, mostly gastrointestinal side effects. The paper, posted on Zenodo about a week and a half ago, is the largest structured real-world look at this specific repurposed-drug pairing published to date.This post is a summary. The...

CEO Chris Breed reports that people quickly form attachments. “You do feel a little accountable to the AI,” he said. “They’re your friend.” The avatar blinks, pauses, and responds in multiple languages. Technical limitations remain obvious—lip movements often lag or fail to sync. A monthly package offers 45 minutes for $49.99. Similar tools simulate Buddhist monks, Hindu gurus, and other figures, turning spiritual guidance into a scalable product.

A Paris court on Monday began hearings in a major trial involving 22 suspects accused of murder and other serious crimes on behalf of a mafia network inside the Athanor Masonic Lodge in the Paris suburb of Puteaux. The accused include police officers, former French intelligence agents and businessmen. Twenty-two people went on trial in France on Monday on charges of murder and other serious crimes centred on members of a Masonic lodge accused of running hit squads. Thirteen of the defendants face life imprisonment. Those in the dock include four military personnel from France's foreign intelligence service (DGSE), two...

Fresh out of wisdom‑teeth surgery, one man took a look at his dogs and was certain he’d stumbled into the Mesozoic Era—an anesthesia mix-up that has millions howling. Tommy DiScipio, known on TikTok as @scipioskincare, recently shared a throwback clip filmed seven years ago after he arrived home from getting his wisdom teeth removed. Stbut I certainly ill heavily under the lingering effects of anesthesia, his brain began filling in its own storyline.

..without disks? It's a unique program that I bought ~30 years ago. PC Study Bible. I bought the original version and have paid for the upgrades plus optional add ons. The owner/operator passed and PC Study Bible ceased to exist. Now I want the ability to transfer the program in its entirety from one PC to another.

While pretending that ICE agents are doing something wrong, liberals stridently demanded they wear bodycams to document their misdeeds. Then Kristi Noem said sure. So now, via Politico: A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters. Naturally, ICE agents still manage to be the bad guys according to the liberal narrative. This happened before, during the George Floyd riots. The liberal establishment screeched that local police were oppressing blacks. Officers were made to wear bodycams, which then...

Used my Linux Mint 20 Pc to post some text the other day and it disappeared. That supports the theory that it was not just a Windows 11 problem. Rather than wasting any more time with disappearing text, I'm going to retire from Free Republic. RIP.

AI’s abilities have suddenly skyrocketed — is anyone else noticing this?Earlier today I was reading Twotone's post about a BCC piece AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?. The article talks about how some AI systems now fall for the same visual tricks we do — the Moon looking bigger on the horizon, that sort of thing. Interesting enough on its own.But that’s not what really got my attention.What it triggered was a much bigger question I’ve been sitting with for a while now: why does it feel like AI’s abilities have...

"Next time, I'm going to kill them," she said. "Don't come back. Don't come back to my house." A Los Angeles mother — on the road and speaking on the phone with her mother, who suddenly started screaming in fear — raced home and rammed a car being used by burglars, video of dramatic confrontation showed. The woman had just gone out to grab coffee at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday and was on the phone with her mother when two masked burglars appeared outside the back sliding door of their house in Sherman Oaks, the family said. "My mom is...

A human heart macrophage assembloid is shown using immunofluorescent microscopy imaging. The red color marks the heart muscle cells, the green color marks the macrophages and the blue color marks all cells. The scale bar in the bottom right corner of the image is 200 micrometers, or 0.2 mm, in length. Graphic courtesy of the Aguirre lab at Michigan State University. ================================================================ These tiny hearts may help develop new AFib treatments without any human (or animal) patients In a Nutshell * Researchers added immune cells called macrophages to lab-grown mini-hearts, creating a more realistic model of human heart tissue that...