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Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Trump border czar Tom Homan took a jab at Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo for saying she would make ICE jail a “prison for American Zionists.” Homan called her an “idiot,” adding that the Trump administration was enforcing laws as they were enacted. “I also want to ask you about this, because there’s been a lot of attention on this Democrat down in Texas, and she’s a House candidate, and there’s been a focus on the antisemitic part of her comment, rightfully so,” guest host Kayleigh McEnany said. “But there’s another portion…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The head of a far-left Greek militant group that killed 23 people – among them industrialists, diplomats and a CIA station chief – has been released from a maximum-security prison, officials said Friday. The decision is now being reexamined by a senior prosecutor. Alexandros Giotopoulos, the 82-year-old convicted leader of the armed group November 17, was released Thursday from a prison in Athens. A judicial panel approved his conditional release on grounds of advanced age, deteriorating health and good behavior during his incarceration. But the decision has triggered renewed scrutiny. A prosecutor at Greece´s Supreme Court…

Republican Senate candidate Derek Dooley suggested that he supports allowing illegal migrants to stay in the United States, asserting that he is “very sensitive” to “both sides on the issue.” When asked about amnesty and a path forward for illegal migrants, Dooley – a former college football coach who is backed by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) – said, “I think, obviously, we think they should have some penalty because they came here the wrong way.” When asked to describe the potential penalty, Dooley did not offer a concise answer, ultimately brushing it off for a debate at another time. “That’s…

Mental disorders have almost doubled over the last three decades, affecting one in seven people worldwide The most widespread and threatening illnesses aren’t ebola or the hantavirus, but mental health disorders, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal. With more than a billion people affected, should you be worried?Published on Thursday, the study found that nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had a mental disorder in 2023, an increase of 95% since 1990. Out of 12 disorders studied, the researchers found the sharpest increases in anxiety disorders and major depressive disorders, which rose by 158% and 131%,…

You expect the death of a spouse, parent or other close relative to be emotionally wrenching. What catches many survivors by surprise are the daunting and draining administrative, tax and practical tasks that follow–from tax returns and probate to sifting through a lifetime of papers and possessions. When my dad died suddenly last October, I was intellectually prepared for these tasks, since I’m a tax and estates attorney as well as a journalist. Yet my own family’s experience reminded me that the complicated rules don’t always line up or work smoothly. After I wrote about how my widowed mother went…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced the arrest of Adys Lastres Morera, sister of the recently sanctioned President of the Cuban communist regime’s GAESA conglomerate, Ania Guillermina Lastres. Adys Lastres Morera was arrested in Florida and will remain in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pending deportation proceedings after Sec. Rubio issued a determination of deportability under applicable U.S. law. She entered the United States as a “lawful permanent resident” on January 13, 2023, during the administration of former President Joe Biden. Sec. Rubio terminated her U.S. Green Card. Sec. Rubio said in a statement: For…

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard will resign her post at the end of June, citing her husband’s “extremely rare” form of cancer. Gabbard informed Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, and her last day will be June 30. She said in her formal resignation letter that she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and the for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.” Tulsi Gabbard’s speaks in the Oval Office following her swearing in ceremony as Director of…

The government of the now-infamous city of Wuhan, China, is reportedly investigating a sodium silicate factory for dumping toxic chemicals into the water and soil of a village called Huangtupo, allegedly producing a massive spike in cancer and leukemia among the villagers. Wuhan was the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which killed millions of people around the world and inflicted trillions of dollars in economic damage. Despite efforts by the Chinese government to obfuscate the true cause of the pandemic, health experts and intelligence agencies in other countries believe the pandemic was unleashed from the virology lab in Wuhan,…

A 20-year-old woman is facing murder charges after her newborn baby girl was found dead in a field.  Jordyn Kauffman, of McVeytown, is facing charges for murder in the first degree, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, abuse of a corpse, concealing the death of a child, and recklessly endangering another person, ABC27 reported, citing court records.  Charging documents reportedly detail how State Police received a call from a Lewiston Geisinger Hospital nurse on May 15 who said she was told about a baby who was left in a garbage bag in a field. The criminal complaint alleges that…

President Xi Jinping has ordered an all-out rescue operation after a blast rocked the Liushenyu mine in the northern part of the country At least 82 miners have been killed after a gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern Shanxi Province, China, with rescue efforts still underway, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday.The blast occurred on Friday evening at the Liushenyu mine operated by Shanxi Tongzhou Group in Qinyuan County. According to Xinhua, 247 workers were on duty underground at the time of the incident. CCTV said nine people are still unaccounted for.The cause is still unclear, with…