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President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will make the headquarters of his 2024 campaign at his longtime private residence of Wilmington, Delaware, because it is steeped in his “family values.” “My family’s values, my eternal optimism and my unwavering belief in the American middle class as our nation’s backbone comes from my home — from Delaware,” Biden said in a statement, Politico reports. “That’s why there is no better place for our reelection campaign to have its headquarters,” Biden further boasted as he unselfconsciously claimed to be so proud of his family and all they represent.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in mid-July that some Muslims’ opposition to LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 education is being fueled by American right-wingers, video shows. Just when you thought Trudeau couldn’t offend any more people, or do something even stupider than that haircut he got in 2022, he outdid his own stupidity in spectacular fashion. While speaking with Muslim Canadians at a mosque in Calgary in mid-July, he seemingly lectured his constituents on why they feel the way they do about Pride events in the education system, according to a video shared on social media. “People on social media,...

On his Wednesday night show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes and his liberal guest trashed the backlash to children attending drag shows as "scary," "bizarre," "disgusting" and "violent." Journalist Parker Molloy told Hayes that conservatives and Republican politicians who oppose children at drag events view LGBTQ people "as a threat to be around children." On screen it read, "The far right threat: Right wing extremists ramp up LGBTQ hate." The pair complained about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signaling he would be open to signing a bill that would punish parents who took their children to drag shows. "You have multiple lawmakers...

Former Vice President and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was confronted by protesters who called him a “pervert,” “Quid Pro Joe” and told him to “stop touching kids” at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Sunday. Biden is infamously inappropriate with women and children in photographs and recently told a story about how he likes when children sit on his lap.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday, just hours after new allegations that he had sexually abused a younger cousin decades ago in New York. Murray, a former Democratic state legislator elected mayor in 2013, said in a statement he is resigning effective 5 p.m. Wednesday. “While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City government to conduct the public’s business,” Murray said in a statement, adding he was proud of his accomplishments while in office. The mayor stayed in his office Tuesday and didn’t address his...

Jurors returned a guilty verdict Wednesday against a Santa Rosa man who claimed he could not be held responsible for molesting a 13-year-old girl because he was sleepwalking. Loren Rodriguez-Martinez, 60, now faces up to eight years in prison and lifetime sex-offender registration for the Aug. 4, 2014, assault at a Santa Rosa motel. Prosecutors said the man was alone in a room with the girl when she awoke from a nap to find him molesting her. He claimed he also had been napping in a separate bed and had no memory of the attack. The man presented testimony during...

ONTARIO -- An Ontario man was charged with sexually abusing a child for more than a year, according to Fontana Superior Court records. Alberto Olegario Diaz Munos, 54, was arrested this week after the parents of a 13-year-old girl learned Diaz Munos had allegedly been sexually abusing their daughter for more than a year, Ontario police Sgt. David McBride said. "She recently came out and told them about it," McBride said. Police officers found enough evidence to arrest Diaz Munos on suspicion of continued sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child and lewd and lascivious acts...

Imagine if you caught a man molesting your five-year-old daughter. Or if you discovered that a man was pimping out your 17-year-old daughter. What would you do? When a 23-year-old Texas father heard his little girl crying behind a barn, when he saw her being sexually violated by Jesus Mora Flores, he beat the deviant to death. And when San Francisco parents Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado were unable to rescue their teen daughter from her pimp, Calvin Sneed, by peaceable means, they shot and killed him. Both the Texas dad and parents Gilton and Mercado were accused of taking...

Last month, Jose Luis Hernandez-Dominguez, 47, was sentenced in a Maui courtroom to 10 years in prison for the repeated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl. . . prosecuting attorney Robert Rivera explained: “He (Hernandez-Dominguez) told her, ‘If you tell your mom, the police will come and get you.’ And that caused this 5-year-old girl to remain silent and go through these sexual assaults that this man perpetrated on her week after week after week.” . .Through an interpreter, Hernandez-Dominguez told the court that though he did molest the girl and had been on Maui illegally for the last six...

BANGOR, Maine — A former sheriff said he had concerns years ago about the Rev. Robert Carlson — who committed suicide Sunday by jumping from the Penobscot Narrows Bridge — and his relationship with young boys. Former Penobscot County Sheriff Timothy Richardson, who was hired as a deputy in the early 1970s and was sheriff between 1980 and 1984, said he questioned actions by Carlson in the 1970s. Carlson, a prominent community leader, was administrator of the jail in the 1970s and later became its chaplain. Richardson said Carlson “would come into the control room [at the Penobscot County Jail]...

John R. Cappelletti - Retired PSU & NFL Football Player, Heisman Trophy Winner R. R. M. Carpenter, III - Former Owner, Philadelphia Phillies James E. Ford - Retired Vice President, Kmart William A. Gettig - President, Gettig Technologies, Inc. Jack Ham - Retired NFL Player, Pittsburgh Steelers, Hall of Fame Franco Harris - Retired NFL Player, Pittsburgh Steelers, Hall of Fame Dr. Bryce Jordan - Retired, Penn State University President Willi Maier - President, Omni Plastics, Inc. Matt Millen - ESPN Football Analyst Arnold D. Palmer - President, Arnold Palmer Enterprises Andy Reid - Head Football Coach, Philadelphia Eagles Dr....

Andy Warhol's portrait of Michael Jackson in his classic style has sold for over a million dollars. The Long Island gallery owners who were auctioning off the iconic work said that the high bidder is a speculator -- not an art or music collector -- but would not reveal the buyers name. They also did not disclose the exact price, saying only that "in a competitive battle, he paid over $1,000,000.00 for the unique work of art." The Jackson portrraid had sold in May for $278,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. Warhol's highest selling portrait to date, "Lemon...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose officials in the past have been convicted for being associated with Muslim terrorist groups, said it will announce at a news conference Tuesday that it is launching an “education campaign” and will distribute 100,000 copies of the Koran to local, state and national leaders. The books will provide an English translation and commentary. CAIR said the distribution is prompted by U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent speech in Cairo, in which he said he wants to reach out to Muslims throughout the world. He praised the Muslim community in the U.S, whose values he...

A former middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student took her own life, police said. The chief deputy coroner said Angela Simmons Lindle was found at her Donalds home with a single gunshot wound on Saturday. Her death is being ruled a suicide. Lindle was arrested in February and charged with seven counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

A Contra Costa Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced a former Richmond man to death for raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl three decades ago. Joseph Cordova, 63, leaned on his elbows in a Martinez courtroom and showed no emotion as the judge condemned him to die for the 1979 killing of Cannie "Candy" Bullock. "At no point has Mr. Cordova evinced any remorse for the crime, not only denying that he perpetrated it in the face of all-but-conclusive DNA evidence to the contrary, but not even showing any sympathy for what happened to the child," Judge Peter Spinetta said...

Sentencing Postponed For South S.F. Child Molester Family members of a 42-year-old computer technician who pleaded no contest to molesting his niece asked for leniency from a San Mateo County Superior Court judge Monday morning, saying his behavior had been very "out of character." The sentencing of John Olp, a computer administrator at a South San Francisco business, was rescheduled this morning, until next week, in order to allow defense attorney John Runfola time to review a probation report. According to prosecutors, Olp molested his sister's daughter over a five-year-period, beginning when the girl was 9 years old. Olp was...

Devlin also is under investigation in the 1991 disappearance of another Missouri boy who still has not been found, The Associated Press has learned. Michael Devlin is the "most viable lead" in the case of Charles Arlin Henderson, who was 11 when he disappeared in 1991 and has never been found, Lincoln County sheriff's deputies said. ... Investigators began re-examining the 1991 case after Devlin's arrest. Detective Chris Bartlett said a witness saw a man snapping photos of Arlin before the Moscow Mills boy vanished. Arlin's uncle, James McWilliams, said the boy came home from school a few months before...

Michael Jackson (L) reaches to hug the Reverand Al Sharpton after arriving for the public funeral service for singer James Brown at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia December 30, 2006. REUTERS/Tami Chappell (UNITED STATES)

Daniel Ortega, the former leader of the Left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua and one of the United States' most reviled Cold War enemies, appears to be on the brink of making a spectacular comeback.Twenty years after his Sandinista government fought a bitter civil war against American-funded ''Contra" rebels, he is leading in the polls for the presidential elections on Sunday. But now he has ''found God" and talks of ''peace and love" not Marxist-Leninist ideals. In a final frenzy of campaigning, the podgy, balding 60-year-old, is spreading what he calls a "spiritual revolution", "full of love and hope" around this country,...

October 17, 2006 -- THE death over the weekend of former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, is a stark reminder of how much all those howls of Democratic outrage over the Mark Foley scandal ring so hollow. The Massachusetts Democrat is being hailed by national political leaders, including Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, as a "role model" who "gave a lot of people courage" by coming out of the closet. Yet Studds openly declared his homosexuality only after an investigation revealed he'd had a sexual relationship with a male teenage congressional page and propositioned two...