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<p>SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Someone threw an explosive device onto the porch of The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts at a time when no one was inside, and the device and damage it caused were not found until nearly 12 hours later, police said. No injuries were reported.</p>

An attempted bombing investigation is now underway in Salem, Massachusetts, after someone allegedly threw an explosive at the Satanic Temple. The FBI is now joining other law enforcement agencies for this investigation. The device was left at the Bridge Street temple at about 4 a.m. Monday, damaging the building, Salem police said. Neighbors reported hearing a bang, but thinking it just sounded like a truck hitting a pothole. The temple wasn't open at the time and no injuries were reported. A staff member discovered the failed explosive about 12 hours later. Members of the temple said it's not uncommon for...

A Black Lives Matter activist, who was instrumental in organising the infamous protest that saw the statue of Sir Edward Colston torn down and thrown in the Bristol Harbour, has been jailed for fraud after using donations intended for a children’s charity on herself. Xahra Saleem, born Yvonne Maina, a founding member of the BLM offshoot All Black Lives Bristol activist group, has been jailed for two and a half years after being found guilty of stealing £32,344 in charitable donations to a local children’s group, Changing Your Mindset, which had planned to use the money to fund a trip...

Salem police received a report Monday from a man who said his nephew confessed to killing his girlfriend, identified by prosecutors as 20-year-old Nayeli Nieves, of Salem. Advertisement According to a police report, 33-year-old Pablo Vicente, of Salem, said he killed Nieves in the Pope Street home they shared with their two children during a fight about whether she was cheating on him. According to a police report, Vicente choked Nieves and she lost consciousness. He said he did not call 911, he tried to perform CPR on her, but she died. The police report states that their children were...

(Catholic World Report) — The people of Salem were told they could save their souls and lives by confessing to be a witch. Today, teenage girls are told they will feel much better about themselves once their breasts are removed. And so-called adults call it “affirmative care.” For the last couple of years, J.K. Rowling has been the victim of a witch hunt. The author of the Harry Potter series has been harassed, hounded, shouted down, and targeted with numerous death threats. Rowling is not being hunted down by church folks with pitchforks. Instead, the woman who did more to...

A new exhibition on the Salem witch trials explores how the meaning of the word “witch” has evolved through the centuriesFrances F. Denny (b. 1984). Shine, (New York, New York), 2017, from Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America series. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of Frances F. Denny and ClampArt, New York, NY Kate Wheeling In 1692, a panic swept through Salem, Massachusetts. More than 200 people—mostly women—were accused of witchcraft; 20 were executed, and five more died in prison. What led a quiet New England town to turn against itself, and why, three centuries later, do these trials continue...

SALEM, Mass. — Police arrested a homeless man in connection with vandalism of the "Bewitched" statue in downtown Salem on Monday. Police were called out to the intersection of Essex and Washington streets late Monday afternoon after a witness called in "saying someone was spray-painting the statue," said Salem police Lt. Dennis Gaudet

The last Salem “witch” to be exonerated has been pardoned more than 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials. On Thursday, Massachusetts lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr of witchcraft, making her the last “witch” to be pardoned. Between 1692 and 1693, dozens of women were hanged for witchcraft and hundreds more were accused of being “witches” at the trials in Salem.

A business owner in Salem, Oregon, painted a mural honoring the American flag and the Marines who raised it at Iwo Jima. Most observers considered it a beautiful memorial and an attractive use of an otherwise nondescript wall. The owner of the business commissioned a local artist to create the tasteful and fetching display of patriotism. The Salem City Council has ordered him to remove it, or face fines of up to $200 per day. The artist, Mario De Leon, raised the alarm in a Facebook post: "What’s up everybody. The city of Salem is forcing @valleyroofingoregon to remove the...

Human Events contributor Charlie Kirk’s radio show will broadcast on Salem Radio Network’s 77WABC and 107.1 FM WLIR from 12-1p.m. EDT—filling the coveted time slot of radio icon, Rush Limbaugh.The show will begin airing on Monday, April 12th.New York’s 77WABC was Limbaugh’s flagship radio station for decades, having aired his nationally syndicated hit show, The Rush Limbaugh Show beginning in August of 1988.“I am thrilled and honored to take the same time and station where my friend and American hero Rush Limbaugh launched his national radio show in 1988,” said Charlie Kirk. “I am so impressed with what John Catsimatidis...

During a patriotic cruise through Salem, Oregon, several black bloc clad antifa terrorists turned out to head off what they, for some reason, think are a bunch of racist white supremacists, one old man got caught up in fray. His truck was pummeled by debris, shattering windows and hitting him. As he gets out of his truck, the terrorists continue to throw objects at him as they close in. Surrounded and under direct threat, the old man draws his pistol and racks a round. Now the big bad antifa thugs realize they’ve messed with the wrong guy, and they quickly...

This is not America’s first brush with cancel culture, but we can bring it to a better, quicker end if we show courage now rather than hoping it burns itself out. In 1692, a group of hysterical teenage girls in Salem, Massachusetts, began denouncing girls from rival families as witches. Accusations of witchcraft soon multiplied and spread throughout the town; some of the accused were as young as four years old. Ultimately, 200 people were tried, and dozens executed, for fictitious crimes. The court did not require evidence, as the accusations themselves were considered proof of guilt. There are obvious...

The father of a woman whose body was found in a Staten Island park last year has been extradited from the Middle East and charged with her murder. Suspect Kabary Salem had been indicted in the murder of his daughter, Ola Salem, 25, by a Staten Island grand jury Nov. 5, law enforcement sources told The Post. The NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked him down Dec. 3, and brought him back to New York on Friday, sources said. Salem had fled the U.S. immediately after his daughter’s body was discovered in October 2019 by a jogger in Bloomingdale Park...

Some of the patriots are armed and a tad ticked off. Talking about creating a Patriot Autonomous zone HERE

(WBUR)For the next two weekends in October, (Salem MA) mayor Driscoll says all city and private garages and lots will close to traffic at 2 p.m. Friday and at noon on Saturday and Sunday, and for the next weekend. Only downtown residents and those with reserved parking spaces can enter.Cars will be ticketed and towed on residential streets if they don't have a valid residential parking tag, she says. For the weekends, the commuter rail trains won't stop at Salem. The city is also asking downtown businesses to close by 8 p.m. People are still coming up for the weekend,...

On Monday MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough compared President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again rallies to the “Salem witch trials.” The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard drew attention to Scarborough’s comparison, writing it up as his weekly “Liberal Media Scream” pick and delivering a rating of “four out of five screams.”

A Salem police officer was shot early Friday, and the suspects remain at large. Salem police said the officer, who has not been publicly identified, is being treated at a hospital. He is expected to survive. The officer was shot during an encounter near Mission Street Southeast and 17th Street, according to police, who didn’t provide further details. The suspect or suspects in the shooting fled, according to police. Officers are working to apprehend them, and SWAT officers could be seen in video footage from the area. Police said there’s no public threat, though didn’t say why they believe that....

PORTLAND, Ore.—In separate criminal cases, three men, Mitch Bryan Schoonover, 37, of Portland; Isaiah Holt, 32, also of Portland; and Jay Rodney Ferdig, 44, of Salem, Oregon; were sentenced this week to federal prison for illegally possessing firearms as convicted felons, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.“The goal of the Project Safe Neighborhoods program is to reduce violent crime and victimization across Oregon,” said U.S. Attorney Williams. “A key pillar of our strategy is to reduce illegal gun ownership. With the assistance of our federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, we have made significant progress toward this...

Says no arrests or tickets for no mask, but her order 'is enforceable' SALEM, Ore. (AP/KTVZ) — Beginning next Wednesday, Oregonians in some of the state’s most populous counties will be required to wear face masks when they are in public indoor spaces, such as grocery stores and shops, to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The new face covering mandate pertains to residents in Clackamas, Hood River, Lincoln, Polk, Marion, Multnomah and Washington counties. Although the new requirement is set to go into effect in less than a week, it remains unclear what repercussions people face if they do...

On this date in 1692, the pious folk of Salem, Mass., hanged their first witch. Local bawd Bridget Bishop, pushing 60 and onto her third husband, was a natural target for the emergent civic insanity. She liked living it up down at the tavern with a red bodice and the occasional game of shuffleboard. When she entered the courtroom, all the little brats with the sorcery stories (strangers to the accused before all this started) fell down and howled. When the Salem goodwives were tasked with groping her for bodily disfigurements that might be a witches’ mark, they...