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  • Jane Fonda pops up at NYC’s annual animal blessing event — then chows down on some Harlem fried chicken

    10/20/2025 1:59:02 AM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/19/25 | Cindy Adams
    This time it’s Jane’s jungle Earlier this month, NYC’s largest Gothic cathedral celebrated the annual feast day of St. Francis of Assisi and his ancient Blessing of the Animals. For 11 years, until the pandemic, I hosted a similar animal’s holiday at St. John the Divine. We loved all — the young, babies, healthy, strays, police dogs, the sick, frail, old, rescues, a frog, fish in containers, turtles, horses outside, sheep, pigs, cows, camels, donkeys, chickens, goats. Even a choir and a rabbi for the Jewish animals. Police rerouted traffic. I remember His Eminence Cardinal Dolan flat on the floor...
  • Healthcare exec, husband charged after allegedly leaving sleeping 6-month-old daughter alone at beach

    10/19/2025 11:01:39 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 19, 2025
    A healthcare company’s regional president and her husband are accused of ditching their 6-month-old daughter in their tent on the beach during her nap time while the rest of the family went on a long walk along the shore Friday afternoon. Sara Sommers Wilks and her husband, Brian Wilks, were both arrested shortly after police responded to reports of an abandoned baby at Florida’s Miramar Beach around noon Friday. Sommers Wilks, 37, and Wilks, 40, told police that they’d “lost track of time” while on a walk with their three older children, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook....
  • South Dakota man waits 50 years to get revenge on school bully by shooting him twice in the face

    10/19/2025 4:02:34 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 122 replies
    MSN ^ | October 4, 2025 | Charlie Jones
    A man waited more than 50 years to carry out his vengeance after being bullied at school. South Dakota man Carl Ericsson never forgot how his bully Norman Johnson pulled a jockstrap over his head in a high school locker room when he was younger. Retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson had answered his front door only to get shot twice in the face.
  • Trump calls Democrats ‘kamikaze pilots’ as shutdown standoff hits third week with no end in sight

    10/19/2025 11:55:52 AM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/19/25 | Madison Colombo
    President Donald Trump blasted Democrats for prolonging the government shutdown in an interview on Sunday, vowing to permanently eliminate what he called Democratic "welfare programs." "The Democrats are kamikazes right now. They're kamikaze pilots right now. They have nothing going. They have no future," Trump said during an exclusive interview on "Sunday Morning Futures." Trump argued that Democrats lack strong leadership and viable candidates for upcoming elections. He said the shutdown stalemate gives him leverage to cut billions in programs Republicans have long wanted to eliminate. "They didn't realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans...
  • Trump administration freezes $11 billion in blue state infrastructure projects, blames Democrats for shutdown

    10/19/2025 5:51:05 AM PDT · by Libloather · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/18/25 | Michael Dorgan
    The Trump administration is freezing $11 billion in federal funds earmarked mostly for Democrat cities’ infrastructure projects as the government shutdown rolls on with no end in sight. Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), made the announcement Friday while pinning the shutdown on Democrats, whose actions he said left him with no choice but to halt the spending. "The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects," Vought posted to X. "The Corps will be immediately pausing over $11 billion in lower-priority projects and considering...
  • Louvre museum closed after robbery, French official says

    10/19/2025 5:27:41 AM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/19/25 | Stephen Sorace
    Thieves broke into the Louvre museum in Paris and stole priceless jewelry before escaping on motorbikes, French officials said Sunday. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called the heist a "major robbery" that "lasted seven minutes." Speaking to France Inter, he said the thieves "entered from the outside using a basket lift" and "a disc cutter" to slice through glass panes containing precious jewels. "The investigation has begun, and a detailed list of the stolen items is being compiled," the ministry said in a statement. "Beyond their market value, these items have inestimable heritage and historical value." The museum posted on X...
  • Fox Exclusive: Nationwide human trafficking bust targets Chinese organized crime networks

    10/18/2025 6:17:33 PM PDT · by Libloather · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/17/25 | Brooke Taylor
    Fox News exclusively embedded with the Austin Police Department as part of a nationwide human trafficking operation targeting illicit Chinese massage parlors. A loudspeaker blared, "Austin Police! Search warrant! Come out with your hands up," as detectives from the Human Trafficking Division swept one illegal parlor. Inside, a sign advertised spa services, and another ironically warned against human trafficking. However, it didn’t take long to sense there was something much darker going on. The rooms were disheveled with mattresses, towels and shower beds. Simultaneously, officers raided a second illicit massage parlor minutes away, where a woman was found sleeping and...
  • WATCH: 'No Kings' protesters at massive NYC rally reveal motivation for taking to the streets: 'Disgusting'

    10/18/2025 5:30:40 PM PDT · by Libloather · 37 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/18/25 | Andrew Mark Miller, Deirdre Heavey
    NEW YORK, N.Y. — At least 100,000 people descended upon New York City’s Times Square on Saturday for a "No Kings" protest, and Fox News Digital spoke to more than half a dozen of them about why they took to the streets to rally against President Trump. "Because I'm an American, and I learned from history, unlike a lot of other people in this country. History repeats itself," a man named Ed told Fox News Digital when asked why he joined the rally. "People don't seem to understand that, and we're going down a slippery slope, probably halfway down there...
  • Speaker Johnson blasts Chuck Schumer for 'shameless' support of 'No Kings' protests

    10/18/2025 5:00:01 PM PDT · by Libloather · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/18/25 | Alexandra Koch
    House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Saturday, accusing him of siding with communists by backing the nationwide "No Kings" protests—a sweeping movement against the Trump administration. The social media smack down happened after Schumer posted to X Thursday encouraging "Americans who love this country" and "care about democracy" to march peacefully during the weekend rallies. "The No Kings rally says that in a very strong way, where millions of Americans will come together to say just that—that we don't want kings in America," Schumer wrote. "And I say to my fellow citizens: do not...
  • Report: Taxpayers Could End Up Footing the Bill for Obama Presidential Library (Center)

    10/18/2025 5:16:40 AM PDT · by Libloather · 46 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9/27/25 | Lowell Cauffiel
    Chicago taxpayers could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars for the costly Obama Presidential Center after new tax filings show the Obama Foundation has only deposited $1 million into its promised $470 million reserve fund. That’s the conclusion of an in-depth report by Fox News as it looked at what it described as a “sweetheart deal” to create the reserve fund “to spare taxpayers should the project ever go belly up.” **SNIP** He said that “the city never should have signed over the large section” of the park. “They put a million dollars into a $400...
  • Longtime activist reflects on decades of protest, the current political climate ahead of No Kings rally (WI)

    10/17/2025 7:01:43 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 54 replies
    WTMJ News ^ | October 17, 2025 | WTMJ Staff
    MILWAUKEE, WI — A Wisconsin activist who began protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s says today's political tensions remind her of the anger and frustration she witnessed during that turbulent era. Connie Hughes, who has participated in demonstrations for more than five decades, recalls her first protest at the University of Wisconsin with about 100 people expressing outrage over young Americans being sent to war. "There were probably about 100 people, as I recall, and a lot of anger, because, of course, the people that were going to the war were our age, and they were being killed," Hughes...
  • Triple murder suspect hospitalized after crashing into Buc-ee's in Ennis and shooting himself, officials say

    10/17/2025 1:04:50 PM PDT · by DFG · 11 replies
    WFAA (DFW) ^ | 10/17/2025 | Rachel Snyder
    ENNIS, Texas — A man suspected of fatally shooting three people in Henderson County early Friday was hospitalized after he crashed into the Buc-ee's in Ennis, injuring a pedestrian, and shot himself, officials say. Henderson County deputies tell WFAA that Christopher Kyle Reid Jr., 29, of Hubbard, is suspected of fatally shooting three people at a home in the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision in Mabank before 2:30 a.m. The three who were shot weren't identified. Later Friday morning, officials allege Reid drove a 2003 Dodge Caravan into the southwest entrance of the Buc-ee's in Ennis around 5 a.m., hitting and...
  • Chilling doorbell footage captures trio in Halloween masks threaten to kill widow, family

    10/17/2025 1:01:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 23 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/17/25 | Richard Pollina
    Halloween mask–wearing creeps terrorized a widow in Virginia as chilling doorbell footage showed the trio trying to break into her home and threatening to kill the occupants inside. The three suspects showed up at the Alexandria home — about eight miles from Washington, DC — around 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to the homeowner’s daughter, Shayla, WUSA9 reported. “At first I thought it was just a Halloween joke, a little prank,” Shayla said. “So I said, ‘Happy Halloween.’” But when the masked intruders refused to leave, she warned them she’d call the police — a threat that failed to scare them...
  • NOAA: La Niña-fueled winter outlook highlights polar vortex intrusions, extra northern chills for the US (only 5.27 years left)

    10/17/2025 11:15:24 AM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    Fox Weather ^ | 10/16/25 | Emilee Speck
    A cold winter is likely in store for those in the northern U.S., with milder temperatures across the southern tier, according to NOAA’s National Weather Service winter outlook issued Thursday. The outlook indicates the arrival of a La Niña climate pattern will have a heavy hand in the winter weather patterns from December through February. After water temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean dropped to 0.5 degrees Celsius below average (-0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) NOAA's National Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña Advisory in October. Who will have bone-chilling cold and snow? The Northern Tier and Upper Midwest are looking...
  • Planned Parenthood's primary care clinics to close in Orange and San Bernardino counties

    10/17/2025 11:14:43 AM PDT · by Morgana · 8 replies
    NBC Los Angeles ^ | October 14, 2025 | Helen Jeong
    Affordable primary care clinics run by Planned Parenthood will close their locations in Orange and San Bernardino counties as the Trump Administration blocks federal funding for the nonprofit, the organization announced Monday. Melody Health is a branch of Planned Parenthood, and the impacted locations include Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Bernardino and Upland. As the Trump administration is preventing abortion service providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving federal grants, the nonprofit said it cannot afford to keep the door open at Melody Health clinics. The last day of operations for the clinics will be Dec....
  • Top Dem (Jeffries) leaders refuse to call on disgraced AG nominee to drop out of Virginia race

    10/17/2025 5:45:45 AM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/17/25 | Peter Pinedo, Alec Schemmel, Alex Miller
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., stood by Virginia’s embattled Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones who sent text messages fantasizing about putting "two bullets" in his Republican rival's head and also suggested his ‘fascist’ children should die as well. As Jones faces mounting calls to drop out of his race because of the text scandal, with his GOP opponent going so far as saying he should disqualify himself at a Thursday night debate, Jeffries suggested that Jones already did the right thing by apologizing. "The attorney general candidate has appropriately apologized for his remarks, and I know his remarks...
  • US military drone strike on drug 'submersible' in Caribbean leaves survivors, official confirms

    10/17/2025 5:08:45 AM PDT · by Libloather · 49 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/16/25 | Jasmine Baehr, Lucas Y. Tomlinson
    A U.S. military drone strike in the Caribbean on a drug smuggling vessel Thursday left two to three survivors, a U.S. official tells Fox News. The partially submerged vessel, described by the source as "big," was operating in international waters when it was hit. The U.S. military launched search and rescue assets, including a rescue helicopter, but it is not clear if any of the survivors were rescued, the official said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known, the official added. As Reuters first reported, Thursday's incident marks the first known instance of survivors since U.S. forces began...
  • Zohran Mamdani dodges attacks, straight answers — and can’t say how he’ll pay for socialist proposals in heated NYC mayoral debate

    10/17/2025 4:26:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 45 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/16/25 | Craig McCarthy, Hannah Fierick, Matthew Fischetti, Vaughn Golden, Matt Troutman
    Socialist Zohran Mamdani skirted tough questions and offered few specifics as he smoothly swatted off a barrage of attacks from ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a heated first general mayoral election debate Thursday. The rat-a-tat verbal brawl between the three contenders – including a zinger-lobbing Curtis Sliwa – from a 30 Rockefeller Center stage made for good TV, but arguably left New Yorkers without an idea how their next mayor would handle the nitty-gritty while governing the nation’s largest city. The front-runner Democratic candidate Mamdani stayed on his “affordability” message, but could offer few details of how he’d actually put his...
  • Washington state says its stockpiled abortion pills will expire soon

    10/16/2025 10:33:47 PM PDT · by Morgana · 24 replies
    Live Action News ^ | October 16, 2025 | Carole Novielli
    ashington state's attempt to become an abortion pill vendor has allegedly failed after it spent millions to stockpile the drugs, which are soon set to expire. Key Takeaways: * A recent op-ed from an abortion provider laments the fact that Washington state stockpiled a large number of abortion pills that are set to expire soon. * The state reportedly paid a higher rate for the drugs than abortion providers, and a statute requires the state to sell the drugs at the state's cost plus a handling fee; this has made it difficult for the state to offload the drugs to...
  • Pro-abortion groups to launch campaign in Michigan about availability of chemical abortion drugs before pregnancy

    10/16/2025 10:21:02 PM PDT · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Catholic Vote ^ | October 15, 2025 | McKenna Snow
    A campaign to encourage people to order abortion pills by mail even before they are pregnant is about to hit Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, putting more women and unborn children at risk of serious harm and even death. Shout Your Abortion, Hydra Mutual Aid Fund, and Plan C are launching the public service announcement (PSA) campaign aiming to raise awareness of the abortion drugs, according to an emailed Oct. 21 press release from Shout Your Abortion. The initiative is set to release two “cinematic PSAs” about a single mother and a teenager facing unexpected pregnancies. The videos will direct viewers to...