2+ hour, 20+ min ago (743+ words) Duffy wants to bring back civility and style ahead of the Thanksgiving rush, when the TSA is expecting to screen nearly 18 million fliers. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy ruffled feathers among the professionally offended last week by noting that "traveling has become more uncivilized." Duffy cited Federal Aviation Administration data indicating a 400% increase of in-flight outbursts, including physical violence since 2019; 13,800 reported unruly passenger incidents since 2021; and a doubling last year of unruly passenger events compared with 2019. 'Did people start kind of acting more like animals because they were treated more like animals?' As part of the Department of Transportation's broader effort to usher in a "Golden Age of Travel for the American people" " which dovetails with an initiative to beautify and restore key transportation infrastructure " Duffy kicked off a campaign on Wednesday aimed at jump-starting "a nationwide conversation around how…...

3+ hour, 50+ min ago (164+ words) She was dropping off a donation when the scuffle broke out. Father Jesus Salda'a, 72, was arrested and charged with two felonies for the Nov. 5 incident at the St. Kevin Catholic Parish involving a woman described as a senior. The church was collecting donations to help hurricane victims in Cuba. A verbal altercation ensued that allegedly turned physical. Salda'a allegedly damaged the car's gear selector, broke off the rearview mirror, and then grabbed the woman's purse and dumped out its contents in order to look for her phone, according to police. He was charged with burglary of an occupied conveyance, battery on a person 65 years or older, and criminal mischief involving property damage of $200 or less. RELATED: 'Pure evil': Feds charge alleged leader of 'unthinkably depraved,' violent group involved in child sextortion The woman was admitted to a hospital over cardiac…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago (599+ words) Allie Beth Stuckey interviews Judd Saul on the genocide of Nigerian Christians at the hands of militant Muslim groups. While the mainstream media consistently denies or downplays the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, Judd Saul, founder and director of Equipping the Persecuted, who consistently does mission work in the country, assures us that Christians and churches are being wiped out by militant Islamic groups while the Nigerian government turns a blind eye. On a recent episode of "Relatable" with Allie Beth Stuckey, Saul unveiled the gut-wrenching reality of what is really happening to our Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria. "What's happening right now is a real-life systematic jihad against Christians perpetrated by radical Islamists from the north," he says. The Fulani, Saul says, practice the same kind of radical Islam as Isis and al-Qaeda that demands death to any…...

5+ hour, 20+ min ago (523+ words) The PAUSE Act would deliver on every conservative immigration priority of the last decade " if the GOP has the nerve to pass it. Let's face it: Republicans are staring at a wipeout in the midterm elections. The economy is battered, GOP leadership looks unfocused, and swing voters show signs of fatigue with the endless drama surrounding Trump. The trend lines point in one direction. But another truth sits alongside it: Republican voters still want a reason to show up. The base will not match the left's turnout intensity unless the party gives them a fight worth having. And no issue energizes the conservative electorate more than immigration. If Republicans intend to use their remaining political capital, this is where to use it. At a minimum, Trump should return to his original 2015 promise: Pause immigration and restore sanity to a system…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago (294+ words) DHS says about 70% of ICE arrests involve people with criminal charges or convictions. Immigration detainees from this weekend include some of the "worst of the worst" criminal suspects, according to exclusive information from the Department of Homeland Security. Critics of President Donald Trump's order for mass deportations claim that federal officers are targeting people based solely on their illegal status, but the report from DHS documents some of the heinous criminal allegations tied to them as well. 'ICE arrested sickos who sexually abused children, raped innocent women, and committed murder.' In one case, criminal illegal alien Javier Salvador Morfin from Mexico was convicted of assault with intent to commit a felony and attempted rape by force/fear in Los Angeles, California. "Thanks to the Biden administration open-border policies, every town is now as a border town flooded with worst-of-the-worst criminal…...

12+ hour, 15+ min ago (541+ words) Meta strongly denied the allegations. A former safety lead for one of Mark Zuckerberg's social media apps alleged the company is not very strict when it comes to those who engaged in human trafficking. The claim comes from a plaintiff's brief filed as part of a lawsuit against Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube. The lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California alleges that the social apps "relentlessly" pursued growth at all costs and "recklessly" ignored the impacts their products have on the mental health of children. 'You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation.' Vaishnavi Jayakumar, Instagram's former head of safety and well-being, testified that she was shocked when she learned Meta had a "17x" strike policy toward those who reportedly engaged in "trafficking of humans for sex." "You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon…...

12+ hour, 30+ min ago (495+ words) The 'buy in' leads to clogged lines at the Southern California store. A "buy-in" protest against federal immigration operations at Home Depot has led to clogged lines at a store in Southern California, where a man allegedly being chased by officials was killed after running onto a freeway. About a hundred protesters stood in line to buy one item, an ice scraper, at the store in Monrovia and then waited in line to return the item, worth about 17 cents, according to a Los Angeles Times report. 'Buy it and try to collapse their system for a moment, or for some time, with the group of people that are witnessing and are willing to stay, to stand up for the human rights of day laborers.' Home Depot has denied involvement in the operations, but the company's critics say that Home Depot…...

13+ hour, 15+ min ago (302+ words) The man was a 'prolific producer' of anti-Semitic and other violent content online, according to the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that a man who made heinous threats against federal immigration officers and their families was arraigned in court on Monday. John Paul Cupp, 45, is accused of making the threats to officers outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland on Oct. 14. He also allegedly repeated the threats online. 'Cupp is a prolific producer of online content and regularly posts aggressive rhetoric, calls for war against the United States, antisemitic threats, and threats of violence.' "Cupp threatened to kill law enforcement officers, sexually assault their wives, and harm their children," reads the FBI statement from a post on social media. He posted those threats in a video on Nov. 3 and then did so again in…...

15+ hour ago (390+ words) Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez released the accused attacker after a previous attack that was caught on video. Last week, a woman was lit on fire while riding the Blue Line in Chicago during an unprovoked attack. Now new evidence has emerged that this was not only a preventable attack, but a judge let the accused attacker off easy after a brutal assault that was caught on camera back in August. And the judge, Teresa Molina-Gonzalez, has apparently proudly spoken about her unconventional approach to criminal justice in her position of authority. 'However, I had a chance as a prosecutor to make a difference as to what cases come in.' Libs of TikTok posted a video of Judge Molina-Gonzalez apparently boasting about her soft-on-crime approach in a 2021 speech about the "power of diversity," according to a screen slide. RELATED: Chicago mayor obliterated…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago (414+ words) The teddy bear would come up with new sexual topics on its own, according to a watchdog group. A teddy bear with artificial intelligence integration was pulled from an online store after a report said it was capable of making sexual suggestions as well as plans for violence. The "Kumma" bear sold by FoloToy cost only $99 online, but a report from the Public Interest Research Groups said the toy didn't have proper safeguards against access to harmful content. FoloToy is based in Singapore. 'Kumma discussed even more graphic sexual topics in detail, such as explaining different sex positions, giving step-by-step instructions on a common "knot for beginners" for tying up a partner and describing roleplay dynamics involving teachers and students.' "We were surprised to find how quickly Kumma would take a single sexual topic we introduced into the conversation and…...