20+ min ago   (140+ words) As previously reported, a 2-year-old child was found unresponsive in the basement of a Frankfort, Illinois, home on Tuesday. The child was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The mother, Corie Walsh, 38, was charged with murder on Friday. A 17-year-old…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (122+ words) At least 10 killed and 62 wounded in an explosion at a military base in Bolivia... At the Pentagon about 50 officials for the Joint Chiefs of Staff given polygraph... Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky says that President Trump's executive order on…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1104+ words) Growing up in rural Western New York, the Very Rev. Micah Cronin couldn’t have imagined his present role as dean of the Episcopal cathedral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in more conservative churches, and as a young adult, “I…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (184+ words) Having been chosen as a navigator to deliver the atomic bomb, Dutch Van Kirk recalls the precautions that were taken to ensure his aircraft would not be harmed by the blast. Comparing the differences between the B-17 aircraft he flew in…...

3+ hour, 28+ min ago   (994+ words) The following is the full question I asked: "In his book "A letter on the abolition of the slave trade", why did William Wilberforce defend abolitionists, though not excuse abolitionists, who decided to continue personal slave ownership through their fight…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (939+ words) Maine’s highest court has ruled that a father can prevent his daughter from attending a Calvary Chapel with her mother in a contested custody case after a lower court accepted an expert's claim that the congregation is akin to a…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (493+ words) While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the…...

8+ hour, 8+ min ago   (458+ words) FREEQs and FREEPERS, we're 2/3 of the way through the quarter and we've only collected 1/3 of the funds, and our Credit Card processor just shut down Free Republic's account! It's almost like someone doesn't like us sharing information. Please support the…...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago   (165+ words) A Virginia mother of five was convicted of "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" last week for allowing her 5-year-old son to walk from home to a nearby pond to collect goose feathers in their gated community earlier this…...

5+ hour ago   (264+ words) Washington — Some of the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a sweeping leak probe after highly sensitive classified details about the nation's stockpiles of sophisticated weapons were reported in the media, U.S....