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Sen. Patrick Leahy has reportedly been taken to the hospital for a sudden illness on the day senators were sworn in for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump."This evening, Sen. Leahy was in his Capitol office and was not feeling well," spokesman David Carle wrote in a statement, per reports. "He was examined in the Capitol by the Attending Physician. ... The swearing in and Leahy's illness come one night after being assigned to preside over the trial.

Hunter Biden spent several thousand dollars at a Manhattan strip club during a pair of visits — including one that sent a staffer scrambling to buy a sex toy so strippers could use it on him, sources told The Post on Wednesday. Biden — who’s been dogged by a series of strip-club allegations uncovered by The Post this week — was accompanied by a woman both times he went to Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club NYC in Hell’s Kitchen about a year ago, the sources said. On each occasion, he and his companion holed up in a private room, where they...

George Soros has repeatedly called 1944 "The Best Year of his Life." 70% of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect. When Hitler’s henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that country’s Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary...

What else needs to be said. This man is disgusting! Pure evil.

As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. < snip > ... no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police,...

Upholding a conviction of “aggravated sexual assault of a child,” on July 8, the Texas Court of Appeals rejected an HIV-positive defendant’s claim that he was “overcharged” for the offense because his penis and body fluids do not constitute “deadly weapons” within the meaning of the Texas Penal Code. Defendant Jimi Hofmann learned that he was HIV-positive in 1992. The incidents leading to criminal charges against him took place ten years later. During 2002, Hofmann initiated unprotected sexual contact with his daughter, A.K., then about age 15, telling her that he was not actually her biological father, although he was...

COVINGTON, Ky. -- A 20-year-old man has admitted raping and killing his 3-year-old stepsister, News 5's Juliette Vara reported. Police said Jeff Bailer killed his stepsister, Cameron Stull, in their apartment at 9th and Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon. According to police reports, Bailer said he smothered the girl by covering her mouth and nose and admitted to sexually assaulting her. Bailer's 17-year-old sister said he admitted it to police. Cameron was face-down on the couch when the sister got home from school, she said. Family members thought the child was sleeping and left her alone. Later, someone flipped her over and...

KLAMATH FALLS - The man accused of raping two nuns and strangling one of them with her rosary beads in Klamath falls was arraigned today. Maximiliano Silerio Esparza appeared in Klamath County Circuit Court on 14 counts including aggravated murder for which the district attorney has said he will seek the death penalty

Man arrested for burning kitten on grill July 16, 2002 Posted: 4:03 PM EDT (2003 GMT) A neighborhood friend of Sherry Scott holds the kitten they named 'Lucky,' in a recent handout photo. LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement. A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said. "They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick,"...