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Another biological man has dressed up like a woman, but this time it's not for the typical reason. This incident involves a man posing as his own mother to collect her pension – all after she had died.
According to The Telegraph in the U.K., the alleged crime has been dubbed to as the "Mrs. Doubtfire" scandal, a reference to the 1993 hit film starring Robin Williams portraying an elderly housekeeper.
An unemployed 56-year-old Italian man allegedly dressed up as his dead mother, including lipstick and pearl necklace, as a means to collect her pension.
According to a report in Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, the out-of-work nurse managed to pocket thousands of euros before the ruse was exposed.
In addition, he allegedly concealed his mother's body in his home, so long so that it became mummified. The woman, Graziella Dall'Oglio, is said to have died three years ago.
The Telegraph reports the man cut his hair in a similar style to his mother as he visited a government office to collect his mother's money. An alert employee apparently noticed his "low voice and thick neck," and the jig was up.
"He came into the council offices wearing a long skirt, he was wearing lipstick and nail varnish, a necklace and old-style earrings," Francesco Aporti, the mayor of Borgo Virgilio, told the Italian newspaper.
The man's total income, including his dead mother's pension, was €53,000, which is more than $61,000.
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In a shocking case of "I'm not dead yet," a woman was found alive in a coffin just moments before she was set to be cremated.
The incident took place in Thailand as Tham, a Buddhist temple in the Nonthaburi province on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, "revealing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pickup truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered," according to the Associated Press.
The 65-year-old woman's brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated, the temple's general and financial affairs manager Pairat Soodthoop told AP.
And that's when they heard a faint knock coming from the burial box.
"I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled," Pairat said.
"I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time."
The brother indicated the woman had been bedridden for two years and became unresponsive. He believed she had stopped breathing and therefore presumed she died.
He then placed her in a coffin and made the 300-mile journey to a hospital to fulfill her wish of donating her bodily organs.
The hospital refused since there was no official death certificate.
The woman was sent to a nearby hospital, and Pairat said the temple would cover her medical expenses.
CBS News reports: "Similar instances of a person being found alive at funeral homes or morgues have been reported in the past."
In June 2024, a 74-year-old Nebraska woman declared dead at a nursing home was found breathing at a funeral home two hours later.
In January 2023, a 66-year-old woman was pronounced dead at an Iowa care facility after an employee said she "did not feel a pulse" and that the woman was not breathing. After she was taken to a funeral home, the woman woke up "gasping for air."
That same year, a New York funeral home found an 82-year-old woman alive and breathing shortly after she was declared dead at a nursing home.
In 2002, five officials in Shanghai, China, were punished, and a doctor had their license revoked after a video showed funeral parlor workers returning a body bag containing a live person to a retirement home.
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In a discussion concerning who is President Trump's heir apparent to lead the Make America Great Again movement, fired MSNBC host Joy Reid is pushing the possibility that Vice President JD Vance might throw his "brown" Hindu wife Usha "under the bus" to hook up with "white queen" Erika Kirk, the widow of slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk.
"They can't have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife," Reid speculated. "They're also Christian nationalists. That ain't gonna work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus."
Leftist podcaster Jennifer Welch chimed in to describe Vance's Oct. 29 hugging of Mrs. Kirk at the University of Mississippi, saying: "Playing slap and tickle with Erika Kirk is the weirdest s*** I've ever seen. She's like in her Tammy Faye [Bakker] era."
Reid added: "Holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head."
"You not doing the right thing. You supposed to be a widow. You wearing leather pants! That's not widow-wear."
"But wouldn't it be the most perfect fairytale, MAGA fairytale, if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu? I'm not saying that's happening."
Reid said in her analysis of the vice president: "Vance has a problem in that the base of MAGA is fundamentally racist," claiming both the tea party and MAGA movements are motivated by "race and hatred of non-white immigrants."
"They're obsessed with non-white immigrants and undocumented people. They use the term 'illegals' which is just the N-word for brown people. If you want to say the N-word and it's about brown people, you say 'illegal.'"
Reid said other potential MAGA leaders were Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson.
Erika Kirk addressed the famous hug with Vance, telling journalist Megyn Kelly: "Anyone whom I have hugged, that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, 'God bless you.' That's just me. If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead."
Kelly clowned that commentators were acting as if she had grabbed the vice president's "ass."
"I feel like I wouldn't get as much hate if I did that!" Kirk responded.
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A U.S. congressional caucus, being labeled the "Seditious Six," released a video undermining the command structure of the U.S. military by telling soldiers they don't have to follow "illegal" orders from President Donald Trump, but refusing to identify any.
Already, the Pentagon is investigating one member, Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, as he potentially could be recalled to active duty.
And now the FBI is working on interviewing the other five.
A report at KDVR television in Denver explained one of those other members, Democrat Rep. Jason Crow, confirmed that the FBI apparently is working on a possible inquiry.
Crow defended his apparent attempt to disrupt protocols already established in the military for illegal orders.
He claimed that President Donald Trump, who has warned that the traditional penalty for treason or sedition is serious, of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress.'
Another video participant, Michigan Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin, claimed, "last night the counterterrorism division at the FBI sent a note to the members of Congress, saying they are opening what appears to be an inquiry against the six of us."
The six have been unable to interviews to identity what they think is an "illegal" order from the president, and their stunt largely is viewed as another political attack on Trump.
FBI chief Kash Patel said in an interview that since the controversy is "ongoing," he would not comment.
According to the Washington Examiner, Trump administration officials are calling the group the "Seditious six."
Others on video were Reps. Chris Deluzio, Pa., Maggie Goodlander, New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan, Pa., all Democrats.
From War Secretary Pete Hegseth was a statement, "The despicable video urging @DeptofWar troops to 'refuse illegal orders' may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military. This was a politically-motivated influence operation: It never named a specific 'illegal order.'"
He warned the statements created "ambiguity rather than clarity. It used carefully scripted, legal-sounding language. It subtly reframed military obedience around partisan distrust instead of established legal processes. In the military, vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermines trust, creates hesitation in the chain of command, and erodes cohesion. The military already has clear procedures for handling unlawful orders. It does not need political actors injecting doubt into an already clear chain of command. As veterans of various sorts, the Seditious Six knew exactly what they were doing — sowing doubt through a politically-motivated influence operation. The @DeptofWar won't fall for it or stand for it."
The DOW earlier confirmed it had gotten "serious allegations of misconduct" against Kelly.
"In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality."
The DOW pointed out the law bars "actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. … All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful."
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A federal judge has issued a ruling protecting Democrats James Comey and Letitia James from prosecution for now.
Comey, the ex-FBI chief, played a massive role in the Democrats' lawfare against President Trump, and was indicted for lying to Congress. James, who brought a fraud case against Trump's companies, obtained a half billion dollar judgment, then saw it tossed for being unconstitutional, was accused of mortgage fraud for lying on legal documents.
It was Cameron Currie, a South Carolina judge, who dismissed both cases that were being prosecuted by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
"I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid," the judge wrote. "And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice."
Cases dismissed without prejudice ordinarily can be refiled, and the Department of Justice has the option to appeal the ruling from the judge at the entry level of the federal court system.
Currie, appointed by Bill Clinton, and was brought into the Virginia disputes because they were a conflict for judges in that state.
The cases ended up being consolidated.
A DOJ lawyer had said if there was a mistake, it was no more than "at best a paperwork error."
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A Teacher of the Year at an Alabama Christian School is now out of jail after posting bail following her alleged savage beating of her 12-year-old son caught on camera.
44-year-old Nicole Staples was fired from her second-grade teaching position at Cottage Hill Christian Academy after video of the belt beating went viral. She is now charged with willful abuse of a child under 18 and was released from jail Wednesday after posting a $7,500 bond.
"Discipline is supposed to be for corrective action. That went way beyond that," Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told WALA-TV.
"Snatch him up by his hair and yell and curse the way that she did, working for a Christian school, I thought was repulsive. It's sickening to see somebody do that to their child."
Burch told NBC 15: "It's almost like a dual personality. Because by all accounts, I'm told she is a good teacher and well respected. And yet what happens in the home is clearly opposite of that."
The sheriff's office issued a statement indicating: "A video recorded by a family member appears to show Randi Nicole Staples instructing her 12-year-old son to lay across the arm of their sofa inside the residence in Grand Bay, Alabama."
"Staples then allegedly struck her son on his bottom and legs approximately 20 times with a belt, during which the son can be heard pleading for her to stop."
"You're not f***ing sorry," Staples yells while repeatedly striking her boy as he screams in pain with each lash of the belt.
"Because if you were f***ing sorry … you wouldn't make extra work for everybody in this house because you won't clean up after yourself. You don't do what you're supposed to do."
The victim's brother, 24-year-old Jackson Staples who no longer lives at home, told Fox10 he was the one who forwarded the video to Cottage Hill Christian Academy, where his mother was awarded Teacher of the Year this past May.
"I didn't feel like, you know, she should be working at the school or even doing that to my little brothers," said Jackson Staples, claiming his mom had "done it to me my whole life."
The Academy told NBC 15 that it is "committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and Christ-centered environment for all students," and that, "This commitment guides every action our school takes regarding student welfare and staff conduct."
"On November 19, 2025, school leadership was made aware of concerns involving the off-campus conduct of an elementary teacher toward her minor child at her personal residence. Although the incident did not occur on school property, the nature of the information required immediate administrative action."
"Upon learning of the alleged misconduct, the school acted swiftly and decisively, relieving the teacher of her duties and placing her on administrative leave pending a full review," it continued.
"Following the findings of law enforcement, which determined that the teacher had engaged in improper conduct unrelated to her school responsibilities, an arrest was made and Cottage Hill Christian Academy terminated her employment in accordance with institutional policy."
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President Donald Trump's use of tariffs to pursue his national security and economic agendas is pending before the Supreme Court, as a number of special interests claimed that only Congress could determine those components of the president's agenda.
He has been successful in reaching a long list of international trade agreements that actually create a more fair platform for American manufacturers and consumers.
And now Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is predicting the president will win that fight.
"Tariffs are going to be a part of this administration's national security and national economic protection of the American people," Lutnick told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo.
"We are gonna win the case, it's pretty clear."
The Fox Business report said the White House needs access to tariffs to defend American manufacturing from unfair foreign competition.
If the ruling goes against Trump?
"Lutnick said President Donald Trump has 'all sorts of policies and tools' available, referencing provisions in U.S. trade law such as Sections 232, 301 and 338, which allow the government to impose tariffs or other restrictions in the name of national security or to counter unfair trade practices," the report said.
Lutnick was speaking from Brussels where he was meeting with European leaders, including discussions about the cornerstone of Trump's economic agenda.
"One of the ways to prove to the American people how great tariffs are is to have them share in a part of one year's income from these tariffs and that's $2,000 a head for people who need the money," Lutnick added, referencing a plan raised by Trump some weeks ago about a $2,000 dividend from tariff revenue to low and middle income Americans.
Also possible is using the funds to pay down the nation's $38 trillion debt.
Tariff revenues for America have surged since Trump started using them several months ago, a total of $215.2 billion in fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30. Trump's tariffs only were begun a few months earlier.
The few weeks of fiscal 2026 already have produced more than $40 billion, the report said.
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The Somalian community in Minnesota has been in the headlines recently, with a report showing massive financial support coming from it for terrorists in Africa, and President Donald Trump's decision to end protected status for the immigrants there.
But now a video has surfaced in which a Minnesota sheriff is trying to reassure the community.
In fact, he's promising that he, as a Somalian, and other Somali police officers, are there to protect Somalians.
"As Somalian police officers, we work for you (Somalians) day and night, we stand for you and serve you," he said. "You know, we came to this country as refugees. There were no Somalian police officers, so now that we have been hired, it means we are working for our own people (Somalians). We understand the culture, we understand the language, we understand the way of life.
"That's why we are different from foreigners or white officers. We help bridge that gap. Know this, every Somalian police officer, whether you're in the homeland or aboard, works for you (Somalians)."
The sheriff was speaking Somalian during his announcement.
Social media comments included, "Minnesotastan" and "His priorities are misaligned. He should be concerned about every citizen…"
Another said, "There is a problem in Minnesota."
Actually, a recent research project by City-Journal is charging that because of the huge Somalian community that has moved into Minnesota as well as its reliance on public programs, and the ability to channel money back to Somalia, Minnesota state taxpayers now are the biggest single source of funding for the Muslim terror network of al-Shabaab.
The report charges the Minnesota social programs are drowning in fraud, and "Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots."
The schemes involve hundreds of millions of dollars.
Because of the reporting, Trump ordered an end to the Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota.
Federal officials may designate that status if nationals cannot return safely to their home countries.
"Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately the Temporary Protected Status (TPS program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In fact, a Somali police officer a few years back was accused of shooting and killing a Minneapolis woman who had called police for help.
Justine Diamond had recently gotten engaged. She called police twice to report what apparently was an attack in her neighborhood, and as she approached the responding police car, Mohamed Mohamed Noor, an officer, shot and killed her. He was convicted of murder but was later sentenced to prison for manslaughter, and he has since been released.
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An expert on China and its antagonism toward Christianity has testified that the communist regime there, under Xi Jinping, has now entered a new phase, a higher level of persecution.
"[T]he CCP under this dictator, Xi Jinping, has launched a war against the faith," explained Bob Fu, the founder of the Christian human rights group ChinaAid, in a congressional hearing.
"Instead of the old paradigm of controlling Christian churches and other independent religions in the past, now they [have] launched the all-out war to eliminate any independent Christian churches and even … the thoughts of independence and other religious minorities as well."
A report in the Washington Stand explains he continued, "When Xi Jinping took power, he launched three or four wars. [The first] war [was] against the cross and the forced demolition of the cross campaign. All of a sudden, the wooden cross was declared as the enemy of the state, as a national security threat. It really shows how fragile, actually, how fearful this militaristic, atheistic regime [is], and thousands of crosses were taken down. If you don't take down the cross voluntarily — these are government sanctioned churches — the pastors were even arrested. Some were sentenced to 12 to 15 years imprisonment.
"And then [there was] the war against the Bible, especially the access of the Bible to children. Millions of Chinese Christian children were ordered to sign a Communist party-prepared form to renounce their faith in public, and the Bible was totally forbidden to be in the hands of the Chinese children. And then, of course, the [current] war against the Christian leaders."
The subject of the communist regime's crackdown on Christians and other faiths, revealing the campaign is not only a human rights issue but is a threat to U.S. national security, appeared during a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing.
There Muslim and Buddhist advocates joined Christians in testifying against the brutal repression to which ordinary Chinese people are subjected for simply choosing to practice their faith.
"Former senator and international religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback noted that despite the Xi Jinping regime's imprisonment of 10 Catholic bishops and countless other Christians, the communist government 'has not paid a dime' for its religious freedom abuses even though it has been officially designated as a 'Country of Particular Concern' (CPC) by the U.S.," the report explained.
Fu, who also explained the surging anti-faith agenda in China on "Washington Watch," said the latest targets are Christian leaders.
"[T]wo days ago, all 18 of the criminally detained [Zion Church leaders] were formally arrested," he reported. "That means they will go to trial and face a long sentence. And the CCP even criminalized the tithes and offerings — [a] Christian practice for centuries. Many pastors were arrested for simply receiving or organizing the tithing and offering of the church. The pastor Yang Rongli and her husband received 15 years and nearly 10 years, respectively … and other pastors also received various years of sentence for being accused of fraud. So this [is] the new trend."
The looming national security issues were cited by Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of imprisoned Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the report said.
He was among about two dozen pastors and workers of Zion Church, a non-government-approved house church with 10,000 members, arrested just weeks ago.
The communists viewed it as a threat since it didn't agree to install government-operated spy cameras at its locations.
Drexel explained she's been subjected to harassment in the United States from those who claim they are U.S. federal agents.
Fu also noted the transnational implications.
"[W]e have seen [that] the Communist Party is not satisfied by just controlling the churches and synagogues and mosques and Buddhist temples inside China, but they also extend their long arms overseas [to] American soil by establishing their overseas police stations."
He said, "[CCP operatives] surrounded my own home in West Texas and forced my whole family into exile from [our] home for three months back [in] 2020. Their only purpose [was] to intimidate and to silence our voice for freedom for the persecuted brothers and sisters and many Chinese pastors, even in the U.S."
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A school has gotten caught promoting online pornography as "art," and then concealing that agenda from parents.
And officials with the American Center for Law and Justice aren't letting it slide.
"Our clients, Stephanie Boyanski and Jessy Roberts, were horrified to learn that their seventh-grade children were assigned to visit an unvetted website containing graphic sexual images as part of an art project. The teacher, Ms. Bridgette Gates, displayed these images on a Smart Board in class, acknowledged that 'some images were inappropriate,' and then instructed students to 'ignore them and be mature,'" the ACLJ explained about the dispute that has arisen in Watertown City School District in New York.
There, students in seventh grade were ordered to see pornography "under the guise of an 'art lesson.'"
"This wasn't an accident. Students viewed this explicit material repeatedly over the course of approximately two weeks, for a graded assignment. No parental notice. No opt-out option. No filtering of graphic content. No alternative assignment," the legal team explained. "One of the students involved is a survivor of sexual assault. This assignment triggered traumatic memories, and this student is now in counseling as a direct result of the school's actions."
The lawyers said they are taking action, beginning with a formal demand letter to the superintendent outlining the district's constitutional violations and its failure to protect students from exposure to pornographic material.
"We are demanding a formal reprimand in the teacher's file, a clear policy barring teachers from showing sexually explicit content to children without parental notification, mandatory parental consent and opt-out procedures, and district-funded counseling for students traumatized by the assignment," the ACLJ explained.
It's a district with which the ACLJ is familiar, at it earlier refused to provide legally required access to a religious group.
The report noted the parents only found out about the violations by accident, through parents who reviewed an assignment on their students' school laptops and found the "sexually explicit" material.
The teacher at the time blamed the IT department for not blocking it, but the school then refused to let parents meet with the teacher.
The district then claimed the students had "come across inappropriate content," but that, the ACLJ said, wasn't the case.
"That phrasing was deliberately misleading. Students did not 'come across' anything. They were assigned to view this graphic content by their teacher."
When the dispute came before the school board, "The president of the teachers' union mobilized teachers to attend the meeting in 'solidarity,' canceled after-school activities to ensure staff attendance, and distributed 'Fact Over Fiction' pins – an unmistakable message aimed at parents. He went so far as to compare concerned parents to vandals of his Little Free Library outside of his home and dismissed them as 'internet warriors,'" the legal team explained.
But the law is on the side of the parents, the report said. "For over a century, the Supreme Court has affirmed that parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children."