A criminal investigation into the Archdiocese of New Orleans is based on a suspicion that it may be linked to child sex trafficking, according to allegations presented in a search warrant granted to Louisiana State Police. The affidavit requesting the search warrant, first obtained by the New Orleans-based WWL Radio, alleges that multiple sex abuse victims provided statements that claim they were transported to other parishes and outside of Louisiana, where they were sexually abused. It further alleges a scheme within the archdiocese in which abused children were instructed to provide "gifts" to certain priests, which were meant to signal that the children were targets for sexual abuse. According to the allegations in the affidavit, multiple victims reported that they were brought to the New Orleans Seminary, where they were instructed to "swim naked in the pool and would be sexually assaulted or abused.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes confirmed this week that Mark Meadows " who served as chief of staff in former President Donald Trump's White House " has been officially served on nine felony charges related to her office's ongoing fake electors investigation.
Legal news website Law & Crime reported Friday that the charges against Meadows have now been made public after it was previously reported that he and 17 others were the targets of a massive criminal probe. Meadows' attorney, George Terwilliger, called the indictment a "blatantly political and politicized accusation," and said the charges "will be contested and defeated." The ex-president has not been indicted, but has been confirmed to be an unindicted co-conspirator according to investigators.
Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts. She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time. "When I let myself think about the devastation of what this has done to my life, and how much I've lost, sometimes it feels even too hard to comprehend," said Dr. Zimmerman, who believes her injury is due to a contaminated vaccine batch.
President Joe Biden has bestowed the highest civilian honour in the US on activists, astronauts and Olympians at the White House. Among the 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was Jim Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal. He died in 1953. Mr Biden also recognised the most decorated female swimmer in history, Katie Ledecky. Read more
The Israel/Hamas conflict is stimulating growing unrest across the nation. Although the conflict in Gaza is the current motivation for protest, unrest in major U.S. cities is a recurring dynamic. And while causes may differ, the formula employed to incite unrest follows a standard "playbook" that has proven effective dating back over three-quarters of a century.
China has launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, in what is being billed a world first. An uncrewed rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 probe blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center at about 17:27 local time (10:27 BST). The 53-day mission aims to bring around two kilograms of lunar samples to Earth for analysis. It will try to relaunch from the side of the moon facing away from Earth. Read more
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks, who was involved in discussions on suppressing negative stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election, has taken the stand.
President Joe Biden's administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children access to federally run health insurance, the White House said on Friday, addressing a sensitive issue ahead of the November elections.
Yemen's Houthis will target ships heading to Israeli ports in any area within their range, the group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree has said in a televised speech. "We will target any ships heading to Israeli ports in the Mediterranean Sea in any area we are able to reach," Saree said on Friday, adding that the decision will be implemented "immediately, and from the moment this statement is announced". Read more
One of the Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants at the border in Texas and chastized by president Biden himself, has now been given an award by the same government. The agent " whose name has been withheld since the September 2021 incident to protect his identity " received a Border Patrol Achievement award from the agency Thursday morning, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told The Post
A police officer who pulls over speeding black motorists"and only black motorists"isn't protecting "law and order." He's engaging in invidious discrimination. So too the university administrators who suddenly discover they are free speech absolutists only when student protesters call for the death of their Jewish classmates. In January, a junior at Columbia University, Khymani James, told a disciplinary committee at the school that Zionists "don't deserve to live." "Be grateful that I'm just not going out and murdering Zionists," he instructed them. Then, James headed back to campus, scot-free
"The recent coverage of college campuses reminded me of an important life lesson. I don't know about you, but the coverage started frustrating and angering me. So, I've been trying to abstain from the sensationalist headlines and rage porn saturating my newsfeed. Did you know that there are stories that don't involve pepper bullets, riots, antisemitism, Islamophobia, mass arrests, and violence? In fact, several colleges don't involve *any* police action whatsoever. Take a moment and read what's happening at Brown, Middlebury, and UVM. Rather than allow tensions to fester and escalate, some college administrations agreed to"gasp"meet with students and hear them out. Some colleges have ongoing discussions and negotiations, while others have reached agreements and ended the encampments." Read more
A video of what is purported to be Ukrainian soldiers burning Donald Trump in effigy is causing quite a stir. Read more
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A runaway driverless truck mows down 29 schoolchildren at a festival in Krygyzstan. The truck was being used by an ice cream seller, but suddenly started moving downhill into a crowd of thousands. Eighteen children were hospitalized, with seven in intensive care. Read more
