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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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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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Two leftist organizations have filed court action because two leftist states are failing to comply with a clearly leftist agenda point.
It is Courthousenews that revealed the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health have sued the Trump administration, through the Environmental Protection Agency, because California and Colorado have air pollution.
The complaint involves the State Implementation Plans submitted by the states.
"To set national air quality standards, each state or air regulator in the U.S. submits a State Implementation Plan with a timeline to tackle pollution," the report explained. "With the EPA's approval within two years of submission of such a state plan, a Federal Implementation Plan is enacted.
"Numerous SIP elements, submitted by both the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (California) and the State of Colorado for the West Mojave Desert and Denver Metro/North Front Range nonattainment areas, respectively, have now languished before EPA, without receiving final approval or disapproval, for years," the lawsuit charges.
"Additionally, EPA has failed to promulgate a FIP for Colorado, after partially disapproving its SIP two years ago."
The claims are that the federal government is underserving the California and Colorado residents.
"Trump's EPA is forcing millions of people to breathe extremely harmful levels of smog, day after day," Ryan Maher, of the Center for Biological Diversity, charged. "As this administration gives handout after handout to the fossil fuel industry and other polluters, we're counting on the courts to step in and protect public health."
Of course, most of the time during which the EPA allegedly didn't act was under the supervision of the Joe Biden administration.
"The plaintiffs say that the agency has sat on plans submitted by California in 2020 and 2023 and failed to take action by May 2025, as the act requires," the report said. Trump had been in office only a few months at that time.
"With regard to Colorado, the 'EPA disapproved the SIP revisions ¬— submitted by Colorado on May 14, 2018, May 13, 2020, March 22, 2021, May 18, 2021, and May 20, 2022 — citing their lack of 'sufficient reporting requirements,' which illegally undermine the ability of the public to enforce the rules being incorporated into Colorado's SIP,' causing further delay and prompted the organizations to file suit," the report said.
So after years of inaction by the Biden administration, the lawsuit now is trying to "push the EPA to act as soon as possible."
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Letitia James, the Democrat New York attorney general who campaigned on a promise to "get" President Donald Trump, then took him to court and obtained a $500 million penalty against him only to see it tossed because of its unconstitutionality, is facing "damning" evidence against her in a mortgage fraud case.
Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney for eastern Virginia, has released a cache of evidence related to the alleged mortgage fraud case pending against James.
According to the Washington Examiner, it is Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who delivered the verdict on the evidence that showed "that she lied to the lending bank, the IRS, and her homeowners' insurer."
Halligan secured an indictment against James last month on counts of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.
"The charges stem from allegations that James lied on a 2020 mortgage application to obtain favorable loan terms for a Virginia property," the report said.
Among the evidence now public is that her "Affidavit of Occupancy" showed her stating under oath her Norfolk residences was a "secondary home," like a vacation home.
Her primary residence, she said, was elsewhere.
But witnesses have confirmed James's niece and three children lived there full-time.
"In her homeowner's insurance application, James claimed that the home would be unoccupied for five months out of the year, despite it being occupied the whole year," the report said. And, "In another insurance application, James claimed only one person would be occupying the house, an adult, and no children."
If convicted, the Democrat could spend years in jail.
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In a state that long has pursued an aggressive anti-Christian agenda through its official actions, including the LGBT activism of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, it now is school children who are being targeted, according to a report from ADF's legal team.
That group now has filed a briefing with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opposing a school district policy that "directs that students should be 'assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share the student's gender identity' rather than rooming by sex."
Further, officials in the district involved, Jefferson County, refuse "to give parents truthful, pertinent information about their children's overnight accommodations, thus hampering parents' ability to make informed decisions about their children's education and privacy."
The school simply lets children say they are boys or girls, and then assigns roommates for overnight outings based on what the children say.
Joe and Serena Wailes, Bret and Susanne Roller, Rob and Jade Perlman, Daniel and Annette Brinkman, and their children are challenging the district's decision to violate "parents' fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing and education of their children."
Colorado's antagonism toward Christianity and Christians dates back more than a decade. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand that a web designer violate up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. Colorado lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether to allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
Further, the state is in court trying to defend its decision to discriminate against Christian preschools. Under a state "universal" preschool program, children are provided free preschool services, unless they choose a preschool linked to the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, and in those cases they are discriminated against.
In the Jefferson County fight, the families are asking the court to stop school-district officials from requiring their children to share bedrooms and shower facilities with students of the opposite sex on school-sponsored overnight trips, ADF explained.
The district's practices violate "the families' free exercise, bodily privacy, and parental rights."
"Parents, not government bureaucrats, have the right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children, and that includes making informed decisions to protect their children's privacy," said ADF lawyer Kate Anderson. "This fundamental right is especially vital for all parents who wish to raise their children according to their religious values and protect their children's bodily privacy. Jefferson County Public Schools claims to 'freely grant accommodations to all,' yet they will not offer equal accommodations to religious students to access educational opportunities without sacrificing their bodily privacy."
The district, in practice, tells parents when their children are on overnight outings sponsored by schools, that "girls will be roomed together on one floor, and boys will be roomed together on a different floor."
But then officials allow a boy who says he is a girl to room on the girls' floor.
The district's operations stunningly assigned a male to share a bed with the Waileses' 11-year-old daughter on a trip.
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Onetime popular entertainer Rosie O'Donnell has become a one-person attack machine against President Donald Trump these days.
She "seems to spend much of her days in a constant rave about Trump, Republicans, and the demise of the United States from her new home in Ireland. That is fine and an exercise of free speech. However, it may have crossed the line into defamation in her latest posting," explained constitutional expert Jonathan Turley in a commentary.
In fact, she said, "Did you think it a million years that they would reelect a man who orchestrated an insurrection against the government? They would reelect that guy with all the charges of sex abuse? — the adjudicated rapist…And then I just saw this thing today about all the cases he's settled with children, children's families, accusations about him, that he chose to settle. … When are we going to be able to go, 'We're grown up enough to understand that this kind of deviant, psychotic, mentally ill behavior goes on at the highest level sometimes, and no matter where it goes on, it is our duty to stop it.'"
Turley, whose expertise in the Constitution and the law has qualified him to advise Congress on those issues, even represent members in court, explained the issue.
"O'Donnell may have supplied the president with another defamation case if she cannot back up sensational claims made against the President to her 2.9 million TikTok followers. She states as a fact that the president is an 'adjudicated rapist' and settled child abuse cases."
Turley noted about a year ago, O'Donnell called Trump a "rapist" and a "serial pedophile rapist."
A previous case involving such allegations resulted in a jury refusing to "adjudicate" Trump a "rapist," prompting a leftist judge to issue his own condemnation of Trump.
"Nevertheless, Trump was not legally 'adjudicated' to be a rapist," the commentary said.
Further, "MSNBC and the show 'Morning Joe,' for example, quickly retracted a statement that Trump was a 'rapist,'" he continued. "The second claim is that Trump settled with the 'children's families' over abuse cases."
O'Donnell wasn't even "clear what the basis for this allegation is," Turley said. "It is not clear if O'Donnell can produce support for the claim. If she cannot, it would certainly constitute 'per se' defamation."
He said, "The common law has long recognized per se categories of defamation where damages are presumed and special damages need not be proven. These include: (1) disparaging a person's professional character or standing; (2) alleging a person is unchaste; (3) alleging that a person has committed a criminal act or act of moral turpitude; (4) alleging a person has a sexual or loathsome disease; and (5) attacking a person's business or professional reputation."
A "couple of these categories" could be triggered by O'Donnell's statements.
"That she said this to millions of followers only magnifies the general damages presumed in such cases. Unless O'Donnell can argue truth as a defense with credible support for such settlements, she may have just given Trump a golden opportunity to pursue his long-time critic."
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The federal food stamp program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, has been victimized by millions, probably hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars in abuse.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there's already evidence of 185,000 dead people registered to get benefits, and more than 500,000 are getting benefits twice. One person had registered the same Social Security number for benefits in six states
And the solution will involve, at least in part, a new program to have beneficiaries reapply for the program.
That cash handout was what was at risk by the Schumer Shutdown, the Democrats' agenda to shut down the government to force Republicans to reach into taxpayers' pockets for $1.5 trillion for the Democrats' specific agenda points.
That didn't happen, but SNAP resumed operations when the Democrats eventually caved in and allowed the government to reopen.
Now according to a report originally in the Washington Stand, the requirement to reapply is coming.
When Rollins took office, letters were sent to state governments requesting information on the program's use of money. Only 29 states responded, mostly from Republican administrations, but even that confirmed there's "a lot of fraud," Rollins said.
She said the stunning results included hundreds of thousands of recipients who are dead, many more getting paid twice.
"Here's the really stunning thing: This is just data from those 29 mostly-red states. Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue-state data, what we're going to find?" she said.
She continued, "The president has made this a priority. We will fix this program."
And that includes people reapplying for benefits to "make sure that everyone who's taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps that they literally are vulnerable, and they can't survive without it. That's the next step here."
She said, "I do think what the Democrats did not include in their calculation, in their insane government shutdown, was the fact that this spotlight was going to [shine] upon one of their favorite government welfare programs that, under Joe Biden, increased 40%. All of this money that the federal government, the taxpayers are paying for food stamps, we don't even know where it goes, what happens, what they're doing with it."
In fact, four in five recipients are "able-bodied Americans" who could work.
"They don't have small children at home, they're not taking care of an elderly parent, they can work and they choose not to work, of course, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer. … So this … is perhaps one of the most corrupt, dysfunctional programs in American history that—we are working now… We are cracking down. We now have a plan to fix it."
A researcher for the Heritage Foundation told the Stand there's probably $9 billion in SNAP overpayment errors for just 2024.
"Individuals commit SNAP fraud by: providing false information on their SNAP applications to increase their benefit amount (e.g., claiming they have lower income and/or higher costs than they actually do or claiming more people live in the household than actually do), stealing another person's identity to claim benefits, selling SNAP benefits for cash or other goods, or running up a balance on their SNAP card and then reporting the card stolen so they can receive more benefits," the researcher explained.
Other parts of the resolution may be to have states fund part of the costs, so they have "skin in the game."
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City officials often boast of their climate, their schools, their community life, their economy, even their sports teams.
However, a new survey has been released by WalletHub that probably will not attract a lot of attention from those public relations offices responsible for touting the benefits of their locations.
It's about the nation's most sinful cities.
It is KDVR television in Denver that noted its city ranked No. 6 overall.
No. 1 was "Sin City" Las Vegas, Nevada.
"The study looked at seven areas of focus: anger & hatred, jealousy, excesses & vices, greed, lust, vanity and laziness to determine the ranking using 37 data points including things like violent crime, obesity rates and online searches for illicit behavior," the report said.
Just what a city wants to be known for: "Online searches for illicit behavior."
After No. 1 Las Vegas came Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Following No. 6 Denver were Miami, Dallas, Phoenix and New Orleans.
WalletHub's goal was to be ranking "the darkest corners of America."
Denver exceled at "anger & hatred," which to state residents isn't a surprise based on the state's long-term agenda to attack Christians and Christianity.
The state's history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Phillips, of Masterpiece Cakeshop, has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
Most recently, the state was sued for an anti-Christian discrimination in a program purportedly providing preschool to children.
The report said, "Data points in the anger and hatred category include violent crime rates, bullying, hate groups, gun deaths and mass shootings. In the lust category, the study looked at adult entertainment establishments, online searches for 'XXX Entertainment' and 'Tinder' and teen birth rates."
Denver was No. 2 among dozens and dozens of cities evaluated for excesses in drinking and vices.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has revealed that a suspect tried to confront Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, entering her office and destroying property there, before fleeing.
That person now is being sought.
"Last night, an individual attempted to confront one of our U.S. Attorneys — my dear friend
@USAttyHabba — destroyed property in her office, and then fled the scene," Bondi confirmed on social media.
"Thankfully, Alina is ok. Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law enforcement agents around the country."
She continued, "We will find this person, and the individual will be brought to justice. Our federal prosecutors, agents, and law-enforcement partners put their lives on the line every day to protect the American people, and this Department will use every legal tool available to ensure their safety and hold violent offenders fully accountable."
The attack comes amid numerous calls for violence against federal officials and law enforcement officers by leftists fighting President Donald Trump's law-and-order agenda.
There have been open calls for violence, there even have been death threats, against federal prosecutors, federal border enforcement agents and more, even from Democrat and other leftist officials in cities and states.
Habba said, in a statement, "I will not be intimidated by radical lunatics for doing my job."
Habba is responsible for federal criminal prosecutions and civil litigations in New Jersey when the U.S. government has an interest.
There are about 150 federal prosecutors and another 130 support personnel working in her office.
Details about the suspect, and the attack that damaged property, were not released immediately.
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California Pastor Greg Laurie and his Harvest Crusade movement will visit the site of Charlie Kirk's assassination – Utah Valley University – to bring the Gospel message.
According to a report in the Christian Post, the event will draw around 10,000 attendees.
Known as "Hope for America," the event will be held on Nov. 16 at the campus where Kirk was fatally shot Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA event.
Harvest Crusade originally had planned to host an event in Utah next summer, Laurie told the paper, but after the assassination, he says, "We immediately reached out to the Utah pastors to offer our support. We asked if there was anything we could do. They responded, 'Come sooner. Our community is hurting.'"
Laurie continued: "We responded by committing to a date only six weeks away. That's a first for us at Harvest Crusades! Normally, we plan events at least a year in advance. But there is an urgency, and we believe the message of the Gospel is the answer."
Laurie, who spoke at a TPUSA Faith event in California in August, was on "The Charlie Kirk Show" earlier this week, where he discussed the event.
"I met Charlie several years ago, and also recently spoke at one of Charlie's pastor conferences," Laurie told the Christian Post. "I have long admired Charlie's incredible work reaching young people and have been a strong supporter of it."
Besides the on-campus event, at UVU, more than 60 congregations in Utah are scheduled to host livestream gatherings.
"Our goal is simple and urgent: to reach as many people as possible with the life-changing message of the Gospel," Laurie said. "We want to offer real hope – hope for this life and the next – that can only be found in Jesus Christ."