From the Trenches World Report

ABC News

Pope Francis donated $500,000 to Mexico-based projects to help migrant communities as media attention has faded, the Vatican said Saturday.

The funds will be distributed between 27 projects associated with 16 Mexican dioceses and congregations, all of which asked for help to continue providing food, lodging, and basic necessities to those fleeing their home countries through Mexico.  Continue reading “Pope Francis donates $500,000 to migrants at US border”

Yahoo News

INDIANAPOLIS—In a surprising move, Oliver North announced that he has been ousted as president of the National Rifle Association, going on the offensive to warn that the powerful gun rights group is in “clear crisis.”

In a letter read by the group’s vice president Saturday morning to kick off the second day of the group’s annual meeting, North said that he will not be renominated to serve as NRA president as infighting and controversy have taken hold at the gun rights group’s annual meeting.  Continue reading “NRA President Oliver North Ousted, Will Not Be Renominated for Post”

ABC News

A woman was fatally shot and three others were injured in a shooting during a Passover celebration at a San Diego synagogue Saturday, officials said.

The shooting happened about 11:30 a.m. local time at the Chabad of Poway synagogue.

The male suspect, a white 19-year-old San Diego resident, appeared to fire more than 10 rounds before leaving the synagogue, a law enforcement source told ABC News, noting that it all happened very quickly.  Continue reading “1 dead, 3 injured in shooting at San Diego synagogue during Passover celebration”

NBC News

More alarming details have surfaced about how many people were listed in the Boy Scouts of America’s “perversion files,” according to lawyers who demand the full release of thousands of names of alleged offenders in the files. Nearly 200 of them are from New York and New Jersey.

Though allegations came to light Monday night, a victims’ rights attorney who compiled an “incomplete” list of former Boy Scout leaders accused of abuse in New York held a press conferences Tuesday to discuss what he claims to be a widespread pattern of abuse. He also asked more victims to come forward.  Continue reading “More Details Emerge on Boy Scouts’ ‘Perversion Files; Thousands of Boy Scout Leaders Face Child Sex Allegations”

Breitbart – by John Binder

The United States Chamber of Commerce is vowing to continue fighting President Trump’s shaping of the Republican Party into a pro-U.S. worker party of blue collar working and middle class Americans.

In an interview with the Washington Post, numerous Chamber of Commerce officials said the organization’s corporate lobbying efforts would soon attempt to court more elected Democrats to support their economic libertarian agenda of more free trade and increased legal immigration.  Continue reading “Chamber of Commerce Demands More Immigration: ‘U.S. Is Out of People’”

AOL

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Hours after a mass escape from an immigration detention center in southern Mexico, throngs of detained migrants raised their fists in the air Friday and chanted “We want food! We want out!”

It was the largest mass escape from a Mexican immigration center in memory and the latest example of how the government has become overloaded by a flood of Central American, Cuban and Haitian immigrants.  Continue reading “Hours after mass escape, migrants chant for food, freedom”

Daily Mail

A once-prominent New York City surgeon who told police officers ‘I’m the hero’ during a parking ticket dispute in 2016 won a $1.2 million lawsuit on Friday, after successfully arguing the cops used excessive force.

Rachel Wellner, 43, initially filed a $30 million suit against the city, claiming her civil rights were violated when an officer allegedly pushed her and grabbed her arm during a traffic stop in Midtown, three years ago.  Continue reading “Surgeon who told police ‘I’m the hero’ during a traffic dispute and then hit a cop with her car as she tried to flee the scene wins $1.2 million lawsuit after claiming officers used excessive force”

TribLive – by Chris Pastrick

For the past 10 days, climate change protesters have been causing havoc in central London.

Protesters — organized as the group Extinction Rebellion — have been disrupting traffic and bus routes by blocking bridges and major intersections in non-violent gatherings. Continue reading “Demonstrator glues her breasts to road in climate protest”

News Wars – by Dan Lyman

A Los Angeles business owner says she is at her wits’ end as local streets are piled with garbage and flooded with “raw sewage” by homeless people and squatters while lawmakers turn a blind eye.

Karen Hix, a lifelong resident of the area whose family has owned a business in the same location for over 100 years, says transients are being allowed to create a “health crisis” by officials in the sanctuary city.  Continue reading “Los Angeles Business Owner: “Raw Sewage” in Streets Creating “Health Crisis””

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

A massive caravan of approximately 10,000 migrants traveling through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States is expected to arrive in Mexico City this week, according to local media reports on the group’s movements.

The group has been described by Mexico’s Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero as “caravana madre,” which has been widely referred to as the “mother of all caravans” in American media.  Continue reading “‘Mother of all caravans’ heads north: 10K migrants due in Mexico City any day”

Daily Mail

In January 2017, Joe Tippens was certain that he would die of small cell lung cancer.

But then a veterinarian suggested he try something unconventional, to say the least: a drug for dogs.

The medication, fenbendazole, is an anti-worm compound used to treat hookworms, roundworms and other gut parasites in animals, primarily dogs.  Continue reading “Oklahoma grandfather who claims a drug for DOGS cured him of cancer is tumor-free”

TxDPS

Texans will be able to stock-up on select emergency preparation supplies and not have to pay taxes on the items the weekend of April 28-30. The bill for the sales tax exemption was passed in the 84th Legislature.

This year’s holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, April 28, and ends at midnight on Monday, April 30.  Continue reading “Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday! April 28-30”

This is Tara, she’s an 8 week-old German Shepherd.

I bought Tara as a surprise for my wife, but it turns out she is allergic to dogs so we are now looking to find her a new home.  Continue reading “Great Dog Story”

Yahoo News

TAPACHULA (Reuters) – More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit.

More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo XXI facility in the border city of Tapachula in Chiapas state, but about 600 are still unaccounted for, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.  Continue reading “Over 1,000 migrants break out of southern Mexico detention center”

ABC Action News

A Florida man has been hospitalized at a Tampa hospital after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating bacteria while fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mike Walton is being treated at Tampa General Hospital for flesh-eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that’s extremely rare in the United States.  Continue reading “Flesh-eating bacteria infects Florida man fishing off coast of Palm Harbor in Gulf of Mexico”