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The shooting death of Kevin Mullins, a district judge in Kentucky, in his office in the courthouse – allegedly by his friend Sheriff Shawn Stines, has been in the headlines for months already.
But the case has taken a new turn as a woman now has charged that the judge was running a "depraved sex ring" from his government office.
The Daily Mail has documented the twist in the case involving the death of Mullins, 54, killed in a shooting in September 2024.
One witness has told police Mullins ran his chambers "like a brothel" and was seen having sex with a girl inside his office in Whitesburg.
"Tya Adams – another alleged victim – has now come forward with her account, saying she first knew Judge Mullins through his former role as an assistant commonwealth's attorney," the report explained.
Adams confirmed the judge introduced her to "his friends."
"And we would do sex parties and perform shows and have sex with them for money, things like that," she charged.
The judge's power came from her fear, and the fear of others, of the powerful legal system and the threat of Child Protective Services.
"They would make sure to make you feel as small and degraded and belittled as possible to take your power away," Adams charged, adding "It was consensual. But it was the thing that we were so young, and then they used it against us to destroy our lives later.
"He's the one with the power; he holds my entire life in his hands. He's the one who makes the decisions over whether I get to keep my children or not. He's the one who makes the decisions on whether I go to jail."
She confirmed she was warned to stay silent.
"And, who would believe it anyway? Because the whole town was doing it. Nobody cares. They're all swingers. It's all a big party to them. It was just normal," she charged.
Further, the Daily Mail said Sarah Davis, a former deputy jailer at Letcher County Jail, said she didn't witness such misconduct firsthand, but said the rumors that reached her were "nasty and sickening," according to a report from NewsNation about the case.
The Daily Mail said Adams' interview "marks the third time a woman has come forward alleging that Mullins' alleged abuse of power extended far beyond just what happened inside his chambers. She claimed it wasn't just her – that hundreds of women, along with men and even children in trouble with the law, were sent to visit him for the same reason."
A further allegation was from Sabrina Adkins, who was raped by Ben Fields – one of Stines' deputies.
News Nation reported she said, "I seen Judge Mullins having sex with a girl… in his office, in the judge's chambers."
The report said Fields later served six months in jail for coercing Adkins into sexual favors within Mullins' chambers.
Stines has pleaded not guilty to murder, charging that the shooting happened in the heat of passion and should be considered manslaughter at most.
The report revealed, "Detectives have been investigating possible motives, with one theory suggesting that Stines may have discovered his daughter's phone number in Mullins' phone – allegedly after Mullins called her just moments before the shooting."
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A Christian revival has begun surging across the United Kingdom, according to multiple reports, with a new documentation showing that those ages 18-24 are leading the way.
"After decades of Christianity declining in Britain – falling to such an extent that the 2021 census found that Christians had become a minority in England and Wales amid the rise of atheism and Islam — there appears to be an indication of a trend reversal and possible revival of the faith in the United Kingdom," according to a report at Breitbart.
And GB News documented how a YouGov tracker of religious belief found people in that age group who professed belief in God rose from 16% in August of 2021 to 45% in January of this year, a stunning 181% explosion in survey numbers that normally move by single digits.
That report described the change as possibly the "most significant generational shift in decades."
Figures from YouGov also found that among those ages 25-49, belief has risen a more modest, but still significant, 21% to 33$.
And church attendance is up, with 56% responding that they attend church at least once a month.
The report noted Naomi Boden, 13, who describes herself as a Christian with a strong faith, told the People's Channel: "Problems in the world are becoming greater, people are looking for somewhere to turn with their problems."
Attending church saw its largest increase among young men, from one in 25 to one in five.
GB News said, "Father Damian Feeney, of Holy Trinity in Ettingshall, told GB News that his Wolverhampton Church is also experiencing a surge among young people."
"Very often it is after a period of absence: those brought up in a church environment may well associate returning to the faith with a more general getting their lives back on track," he said, adding, "The spur and motivation to explore the faith afresh may come from [secularism, uncertainty, or global challenges] but it should be clear that every individual will have their own story, their own journey. My personal view is that secularism seems simply too one-dimensional and beige, with little by way of excitement or mystery, but I would say that, wouldn't I?"
Among the churches, attendance at Anglican churches was down, while Roman Catholic church attendance was up, as was the Pentecostal congregations.
The report notes "hostility" and "apathy" to Christianity seen among older generations are being replaced by "openness" in Generation Z.
Breitbart wrote, "This perhaps belies the folly of the move by church leadership, notably former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, pushing woke ideology in an apparent attempt to court young people. Before resigning in disgrace earlier this year over accusations of failing to investigate child sex abuse, Welby had been a leading advocate of 'social justice' causes such as the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, going so far as to launch a campaign to purge churches of colonial-era statues and monuments as well as starting a church reparations fund for historical ties to slavery."
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Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy and recent appointee to the America 250 Commission, donned a blonde wig and mocked first lady Melania Trump in an Instagram video, reading parts of her recent letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The letter, meant to stress the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on children, was hand-delivered to Putin by President Trump at their meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday and posted online Saturday.
Schlossberg's video includes a photo of Mrs. Trump and her letter floated on the screen.
After reading the letter, Schlossberg asks, still in a fake accent, "What am I saying? This makes no sense." He removes the wig and calls the letter "confusing."
Schlossberg previously has made comments on social media about second lady Usha Vance, saying she is "hotter" than his late grandmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He also has mocked his cousin HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, actress Cheryl Hines.
Last week U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tapped Schlossberg to be his representative on the American 250 Commission, which is preparing for the celebration of the nation's 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
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Despite California's far leftist agenda that involves major outreaches to restrict religious rights, eliminate the benefits of being a family, force the ideals of transgenderism on innocent young children, weaponize the government against conservatives and Christians, and more, there still remain families.
But that might be changing, after Jack Hibbs, the prominent American pastor, founder of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and host of "Real Life with Jack," warned them in a rally in Sacramento that a new bill being considered by majority Democrats would allow just about anyone to take control of children belonging to other families.
A report at Fox News reveals the proposal, AB495, would allow anyone to defeat parental rights and would create circumstances that would make dreams "come true" for any "human trafficker, pedophile, and kidnapper."
The bill would provide that anyone can submit an affidavit and then be allowed to register children in school and make medical decisions for them.
There's no requirement that schools confirm the adult has any such right.
"There is no requirement in the bill for schools to get parental consent, check photo I.D., or do a background check on those who complete the affidavit, Hibbs argued. The affidavit requests a driver's license number, but caregivers may provide a Social Security or Medi-Cal number instead," the report explained.
"Legal experts have concluded that this very well might be the worst, most dangerous legislation that has ever come out of California," Hibbs said. "If this bill passes, you have to grab your kid and leave the state for your child's protection."
The plan, the "Family Preparedness Plan Act," purports to protect immigrant children.
But it simply provides that "a caregiver," anyone some sort of "relationship" with the child could sign an authorization and be handed the legal right to put children in schools, consent to medical care and more.
Fox reported, "He hopes to draw enough attention to the bill to warn families but also hold Newsom accountable if he signs it into law."
"This is where Newsom must be stopped," Hibbs said, referring to the governor's rumored 2028 presidential aspirations. "Let's make him own this bill. Let's tie it around his neck and let it be a letter that he wears that he has no regard for parental rights and no regard for federal law."
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Federal officials say an Indiana woman has been arrested after traveling from New York to Washington, D.C., to "sacrificially kill" President Donald Trump.
Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was taken into custody Saturday after allegedly making disturbing threats against the president on Facebook and Instagram.
"I literally told the FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present," Jones is accused of writing in an Aug. 6 Facebook post.
In an Aug. 14 Facebook post, Jones allegedly urged U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "please arrange the arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump as a terrorist on the American People from 10-2pm at the White House on Saturday, August 16th, 2025."
The Secret Service reportedly arranged to interview Jones on Aug. 15, during which she indicated if she had the opportunity, she would "carry out her mission of killing" the president at "the compound" with a "bladed object."
The suspect told agents she was looking to "avenge all the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic," referring to Trump as a "nazi" and a "terrorist."
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C, Jeanine Pirro said Jones is "charged with two federal crimes for knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the president of the United States."
"She did come from New York to Washington, D.C., and she has been threatening and calling for the removal of the president and even worse as she got to D.C."
"Her threats were on Facebook and Instagram and she continues to call the president a terrorist and was working to have him eliminated. She is now in custody, she will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Make no mistake about that," Pirro added.
"Threatening the life of the president is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution."
In one of her photos online, Jones is shown wearing an image of Bob Avakian, founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
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President Trump is getting ready to officially debut the newly updated White House Rose Garden by testing the new speakers – with Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American," of course.
Video on X Tuesday shows the refurbished area outside the West Wing of the White House, now consisting of white stone pavers instead of grass.
Criticism of the new look began months ago when Trump first talked of redoing the outside space with a more practical ground cover. That area of the executive mansion's grounds, often used for ceremonial and diplomatic events, has had a tendency to display the pitfalls of any American's backyard: wetness, mud and uneven ground.
According to an Aug. 4 report in Newsweek, Trump is more than enthusiastic about the makeover.
"We're getting great reviews of the Rose Garden, and we had to do it," Trump told reporters on Aug. 3, adding that the manicured lawn presented problems when hosting events.
"When we had a press conference, you'd sink into the mud. It was grass and it was very wet, always wet and damp and wet and if it rained it would take three, four, five days to dry out and we couldn't use it really for the intended purpose," Trump said.
The new look has been compared to Mar-a-Lago, the Trumps' "gaudy palace in Palm Beach, Florida," as The Guardian described it.
As Amuse on X points out, the Rose Garden has gone through several different iterations since the early 20th century:
"President Trump's decision to replace the grass lawn with a grid of stone pavers should be understood not as desecration, but as correction, and a long-overdue one at that. If anything, the outrage at this change reveals a profound ignorance of the Rose Garden's true nature. It is not, and has never been, a museum piece. It is a working space. It is a site of activity, visibility, and power. And it has always evolved."
Typical critiques slammed Trump's more practical approach to the space, like this post claiming it "looks worse than anyone could have ever imagined."
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Two internet content creators, Nina Unrated (real name Nina Santiago) and Patrick Blackwood, were testing food in a Houston restaurant Sunday when an SUV crashed through the plate-glass window – and it's all caught on video.
Santiago and Blackwood were sitting down for brunch at Cuvee Culinary Creations when the vehicle, traveling at an estimated 35 mph, hit their table. The two went to the hospital for glass cuts but otherwise are unhurt.
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Judges on an appeals court bench in New York, a judicial system already contaminated by a series of lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, have become "lost in navel-gazing," instead of delivering justice, according to new charges from constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
The fight is over a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who now is under investigation herself on various criminal counts, alleging fraud in Trump's business operations. At trial, it was documented no one lost money, the lenders involved were happy with their deals with Trump and wanted to do business with him again.
Yet a sole partisan judge, Art Engoron, decided to punish Trump by ordering him to pay about half a billion dollars.
Legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano at the time called Engoron's agenda no more or less than "government theft."
He said the case involved no crime or harm.
Engoron openly was antagonistic to Trump during the trial, and he claimed that Trump committed fraud in the way he valued his billions of dollars in property.
Further, he claimed to know more about property values than anyone, insisting that Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was worth not even $20 million. Actual real estate experts said it would be worth 25 times that, or more.
Napolitano said Engoron's decisions violated all the ordinary rules of American jurisprudence.
He found, "The government created a phantom harm by arguing to the court that Mr. Trump's corporation was not fully accurate in its loan applications and thus was charged a lower interest rate on the loans than it should have been charged had it been accurate, and thus, it earned more income on its use of the money it borrowed than would have been the case had it scrupulously reported the value of its pledged assets. And thus — somehow — the government ought to be able to confiscate the excess income plus interest. This, of course, defies the principles of no damages without breach of a duty and no damages without caused harm, which have been the bedrock of American tort law. It also redefines fraud."
Curiously, James now is under investigation herself on federal allegations she lied to government authorities about her own properties, and the relationship with her father – she apparently described him as her "spouse" on one application – all in order to obtain more favorable mortgage interest rates.
Engoron's rulings essentially ignored what should have been a deciding factor in the case, that the banks involved "did their own due diligence on the value of the assets.'
"The government won't say how it was harmed by Mr. Trump's commercial loans because it wasn't harmed by them. The government lawyers made a fanciful argument to the effect that if Mr. Trump had borrowed less because the buildings pledged as security were worth less than he claimed, the banks would have had more reserves available to lend to others. That is nonsense," Napolitano said.
Now Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and popular commentator for multiple forums, cited a report from the Wall Street Journal that the appellate judges hearing the case have let it drop into "some judicial black hole."
"This should not be a close case and certainly should not take this long. The case against Trump was raw lawfare, and the entire trial by Justice Arthur Engoron made a mockery of the court system, particularly his ridiculous half-a-billion-dollar judgment," he explained.
"Yet, weeks turned into months and then into years as the appellate court seemed lost in navel-gazing. There was also a concern over passive-aggressive delays; the long appeal is not only preventing Trump from moving this case toward the Supreme Court but keeps him trapped in an appellate amber."
The Journal report claimed, "A five-justice panel has yet to render a decision nearly a year after taking up the case, leaving him and his business in limbo. Behind the scenes, members of the panel have been divided, and three of them have been writing opinions, according to people familiar with the matter. It couldn't be determined how they are split. Justices do occasionally shift their positions, and the number of opinions could change, the people said."
Turley continued, "It is distressing to hear that some of these judges may be striving to preserve this nonsensical opinion where Trump was hit with half a billion dollars in a case where no one lost money and the banks wanted renewed business with his company. Affirming the decision would be the final nail in the coffin for the New York legal system, which was turned into a farce by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Engoron."
The judges, if they are fractured, he said, "could do us all a favor and allow the case to proceed toward more competent jurists and final resolution."
He warned, "There is certainly no rush by these appellate judges to right any wrong done to Trump, who appears, again, to fall into a special category of persona non grata in the New York legal system. This appellate panel appears content to leave Trump twisting in the wind as it contemplates what to do with a defendant who garners little sympathy from its members.
"Most appeals are measured in months; this seems measured in millennia. Even with the notoriously slow New York legal system, the pendency of this appeal is becoming itself a controversy. It is often said that justice delayed is justice denied. However, delayed and denied justice for Trump appears to be a bedrock principle of the New York justice system."
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President Donald Trump has talked about his hopes for the afterlife, and his eternity, and a commentary at Not the Bee noted, "It isn't every day that you hear a U.S. president's thoughts on death and the afterlife."
His comments referenced his peacemaking work, for which multiple nominators already have suggested he be a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
"If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty – I want to try to get to heaven if possible. I hear I'm not doing well. I hear I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons. I think I saved a lot of lives in India and Pakistan – they were going at it – planes were being shot down. That was going to maybe be a nuclear war if I let that go, and I did that through trade."
Online commenters pointed out that the Bible is quite specific on what is needed to reach heaven, and it's not based on works.
Jesus also famously said in Scripture: "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:17 CSB)
But commenters also noted Trump apparently has come to faith only in recent years.
"Praying for Trump … to establish a very personal relationship with God through Jesus," said one.
"Those are some intense words from Trump," added another.
"He knows it's giving his heart to Jesus right? Some pastor needs to tell him this … ."
Yet another, "Who are we to judge who gets into heaven??? … The lord know his heart."
"Put your faith in Jesus and Heaven is yours. When you do this, good works for the right reasons will follow naturally. He's already doing the works. He needs the faith for Heaven. Someone share the Gospel with him."
Another added a very physical perspective, "No heaven for Trump for at least 15-20 years! … Sorry Mr. President, you're stuck with the rest of us for awhile."
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A new plan has been announced that is intended to weed out "radical leftist ideology" that teachers coming from out of state might bright with them to Oklahoma.
It is Ryan Walters, the public schools chief in the state, who has announced that teachers coming from California and New York states will need to pass an exam to document they are not ideologically warped.
A report at Washington Examiner said those newcomers will need to pass a test conducted by PragerU, a nonprofit founded by radio host Dennis Prager that is known for its short videos advocating for traditional American values and mores.
"As long as I am superintendent, Oklahoma classrooms will be safeguarded from the radical leftist ideology fostered in places like California and New York," he said in a statement.
And department spokesman Quinton Hitchcock said the test already is set up and the requirement will be implemented "very soon."
There will be 50 questions on civics, like naming the two chambers of Congress, providing the number of senators in Congress and reciting the first three words of the Constitution.
There also will be questions about why freedom of religion is important and more.
"We will not allow these leftists' plans and schemes to take place here in Oklahoma," Walters told CNN. "They are trying to warp the minds of our kids to turn them into social justice warriors, instead of kids that are getting the most of their God given talents to go get a good job, to go live a fulfilling life."
As expected, leftists pushing those very ideas were enraged.
Said Randi Weingarten, the controversial chief of the politicized American Federation of Teachers, "This MAGA loyalty test will be yet another turnoff for teachers in a state already struggling with a huge shortage."
The state previously was involved in another controversy, through the state's plan to purchase Bibles to be placed in state classrooms.