Country Captures Notorious Drug Lord’s Nephew Wanted By US, Official Says

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Authorities captured the nephew of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman during a recent criminal operation, a Mexican official said Tuesday.

Mexican Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Omar Garcia Harfuch said the suspect, identified as Isai “N,” was detained in Nogales, a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, according to a translation of his X post. The criminal operation that led to the suspect’s capture was coordinated by multiple agencies, including the Mexican National Guard.

In addition to the suspect’s capture, authorities executed a search warrant in Tapachula, Chiapas, and seized 687 kilograms of cocaine, 151 firearms, 363 magazines and 18 grenades, Harfuch said.

“These actions reflect the permanent coordination of the Mexican State to apprehend priority targets and weaken the operational capabilities of criminal groups. We thank the support and collaboration of the authorities of the Government of Chiapas,” his statement on X read in part.

The suspect’s uncle, El Chapo, got involved in drug trafficking in the late 1980s and eventually became the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, according to an archived version of the State Department’s website. He was arrested in June 1993 in Mexico and sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges related to murder and drug trafficking. El Chapo escaped from a federal maximum security prison in January 2001 before he was re-arrested in February 2014. He escaped from prison again in July 2015. (Read more from “Country Captures Notorious Drug Lord’s Nephew Wanted By US, Official Says” HERE)

Report: Two New York Democrat Candidates Want Federal Funds for Childrens’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ Program

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Two New York Democrats running against each other in a congressional primary reportedly want to subsidize the program known as “Drag Story Hour” for school children, the news coming as the program has already been a drain on taxpayer money.

Incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman and former city Comptroller Brad Lander have reportedly expressed support for throwing federal funds at the program, the New York Post reported Tuesday:

“Unfortunately, the Majority does not allow funding from Members of Congress to support LGBTQIA+ programming,” Goldman wrote on a questionnaire from the Jim Owles LGBT Liberal Democratic Club in response to a question about whether he had “hosted, funded, or otherwise supported” a Drag Story Hour.

“However, once we take back the House, I certainly cannot wait to fund programs like Drag Story Hours and other programs,” added Goldman, who is seeking a third term.

In addition, a Lander spokesman told the outlet that if the Democrat won election he was looking forward to “funding affordable housing, health care, child care, USAID, libraries, and lots of arts and culture programs, most certainly including Drag Story Hour.” (Read more from “Report: Two New York Democrat Candidates Want Federal Funds for Childrens’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ Program” HERE)

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Epstein Reporter Says They Were ‘Permanently Injured’ after Alleged ‘Pulsed Energy’ Attack; Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb

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By Raw Story. Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who last week revealed she was “fleeing the country” after claiming to have been targeted by “direct energy weapon attacks” linked to her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, said Saturday that the alleged attacks have since left her “permanently injured.”

“We should all understand this is real. These are the most cowardly weapons ever created,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a social media post on Substack Saturday evening.

“They attack you at your most vulnerable and trusting, in your home, in bed, and do not kill right away. They plant pain and illness that can take years, months, weeks, days to kill, and do it in a manner intended to gaslight the target into doubting their own experience, as the pulsed energy can hit one person and not the others.”

While Valdes-Rodriguez did not provide evidence to support her claim, direct energy weapons are a real technology used by some U.S. law enforcement agencies, and the White House earlier this year promoted a claim that the Trump administration had used a secret “sonic weapon” – a type of direct energy weapon – in its attack on Venezuela, allegedly causing Venezuelans to bleed from their noses and vomit blood.

Valdes-Rodriguez’s reporting has largely centered around Epstein’s mysterious compound in New Mexico, having uncovered several previously unknown details about the disgraced financier, including that his compound may have been used to surveil two U.S. nuclear weapons labs. (Read more from “Epstein Reporter Says They Were ‘Permanently Injured’ after Alleged ‘Pulsed Energy’ Attack” HERE)

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Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb

By The Daily Beast. Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that Melania Trump “knows” Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running his child sex abuse ring alone.

Massie, 55, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and confirmed that he personally planned to reveal more names from the Epstein files after a lack of clear action from the acting attorney general.

“Todd Blanche is violating the law. There’s still millions of files they haven’t released,” he said.

“We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know the files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this.”

The Republican, who lost his House primary last week, added, “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI director, Kash Patel, at the top, because they have effectively both perjured themselves by saying there’s nobody else in the files.” (Read more from “Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb” HERE)

Megyn Kelly Gets Personal in Utterly Scorching Criticism of Trump — Claims He’s ‘Cheated on Every Wife He’s Had’

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Megyn Kelly went scorched earth on Donald Trump during an appearance on the Hodgetwins Podcast and accused the president of cheating “on every wife he’s had” — including First Lady Melania Trump.

The subject came up as the hosts spoke about Joe Kent, Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, whose wife Shannon died in a suicide bombing while serving with the U.S. military in Syria in 2019. . .

When speaking with reporters about the fallout, Trump said he was “not a fan of” Kent, and took a stab at him for remarrying “fairly quickly” after Shannon’s death. Kent married his current wife, Heather Kaiser Kent, more than four years after Shannon’s death.

Trump’s criticism did not sit well with Kelly, at all.

“Talk about a glass house!” Kelly exclaimed. “I mean, Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had. I mean, he met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers.”

(Read more from “Megyn Kelly Gets Personal in Utterly Scorching Criticism of Trump — Claims He’s ‘Cheated on Every Wife He’s Had’” HERE)

Top Psychiatrist Reveals How Reciting a 2,000-Year-Old Biblical Prayer Rewires your Brain

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A leading psychiatrist has claimed that reciting a 2,000-year-old biblical prayer may physically reshape the human brain.

Dr Daniel Amen was a recent guest on the Mature Me podcast, hosted by Florida pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr, where he detailed the science behind saying the Lord’s Prayer.

The Lord’s Prayer, also known as the Our Father, is a foundational Christian prayer that, according to the Bible, Jesus taught his disciples when they asked him how to pray.

Amen, who is a devout Christian, broke down the prayer line-by-line, starting with the verse: ‘Our Father, in heaven, hallowed be your name.’

‘Right away, it activates your prefrontal cortex,’ he said, explaining that the opening lines of the prayer may activate the brain’s attachment systems and help shift the mind out of a threat response into a calmer state associated with safety and emotional stability. (Read more from “Top Psychiatrist Reveals How Reciting a 2,000-Year-Old Biblical Prayer Rewires your Brain” HERE)

US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline

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The U.S. is facing a worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts.

While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate.

The U.S. general fertility rate was 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 2025, down from 53.8 in 2024, according to National Center for Health Statistics data published in April.

“While there are many factors contributing to the declining birth rate, three reasons stand out to me: First, there is the influence of smart phones and social media,” Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Emma Water told the DCNF. “Since the introduction of the iPhone, [every] country has seen a marked decline in births that doesn’t look like it is reversing any time soon, including the U.S. … we are seeing more men and women replace meaningful time with others with scrolling, screen addictions, or a sense that there is too much to be done.”

“Second, we cannot discount the role of abortion, birth control, and reproductive technologies,” Waters said. “While we can have a meaningful conversation about the morality of each separately, the statistics don’t lie: The last year that the birth rate was above replacement was 1972, and since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade erroneously created a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, the birth rate has never recovered.” (Read more from “US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline” HERE)

Country Bans Nicotine Pouches

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France’s health ministry banned multiple nicotine products, with potential violators facing large fines and jail time.

The European country’s ban took effect April 1 and applies to nicotine sachets, or pouches, and beads, along with other oral nicotine products, according to the French Republic’s website. It represents one of the strictest bans against the pouches in Europe, covering import, use and possession of pouches as well as their sale, The Financial Times (FT) reported. Potential violators face up to 5 years in prison and an approximately $436,000 fine. The ban does not include certain medical products or chewing tobacco. Cigarettes and vape products also do not fall under the ban, which targets Zyn as one of the prohibited products, according to the New York Post.

In October 2024, then-French Health Minister Genevieve Darrieussecq said more teenagers were calling to report sometimes dangerous “nicotine syndromes linked to the use of e-cigarette pouches” during a Le Parisien interview. “It is our duty to ban their sale,” she said.

Nicotine pouches were used by around 0.3 percent of the adult European populace in 2021, though that rate was anticipated to triple by 2025, a European Parliament report found. Adolescents and young adults were the main users. The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety alleged advertising of nicotine pouches and products like them was flooding social media and targeting younger people in November 2023, the New York Post reported.

The rule from the country’s health ministry labels nicotine a “toxic substance,” citing health concerns such as addiction and episodes of “acute nicotonic syndromes.” The latter can result in serious vomiting and the possibility of dehydration, seizures and additional symptoms, according to the ministry. (Read more from “Country Bans Nicotine Pouches” HERE)

US Launches Self-Defense Strikes on Mine-Laying Boats in Southern Iran, CENTCOM says

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The US military launched “self-defense strikes” against Iranian boats that were reportedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz Monday, according to Central Command.

CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said US military “eliminated” two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats that were seen setting mines in the strait, and also took out a surface-to-air missile site in Bandar Abbas, according to Fox News.

The missile site based at Iran’s primary naval station was reportedly targeting US warplanes, Hawkins said. He insisted that the “self-defense strikes” were conducted “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.”

“U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Hawkins said in a statement obtained by the outlet.

The US strikes — and mine-laying efforts by the IRGC — are both violations of a tenuous cease-fire that appears on the cusp of being extended after a framework to end the Iran war surfaced following whirlwind negotiations over the weekend. (Read more from “US Launches Self-Defense Strikes on Mine-Laying Boats in Southern Iran, CENTCOM says” HERE)

Gunman who Believed He was Jesus Christ Opened Fire on White House Checkpoint, Shot Dead by Secret Service

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A crazed gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quickly taken down by a barrage of shots from the Secret Service, sources said.

Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.

At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.

The sound of shots from the incident terrifed members of the press who were doing their normal reporting at the White House, including one ABC reporter who was seen diving for cover during a live stream.

“I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots,” said Selina Wang, a senior ABC White House correspondent. (Read more from “Gunman who Believed He was Jesus Christ Opened Fire on White House Checkpoint, Shot Dead by Secret Service” HERE)

One Type of Sitting may Pose Greater Dementia Risk than Others, Study Suggests

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For years, researchers have believed prolonged sitting could raise dementia risk — but new findings suggest the type of sitting may matter more than previously thought.

The research, which was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in March, found that replacing mentally passive sedentary behavior with mentally active sedentary behavior was associated with a significant reduction in dementia risk.

Mentally active sedentary behaviors could include reading, office work and other activities that keep the brain engaged while sitting, while mentally passive behaviors may include watching television or other low-engagement screen activities.

To gather the findings, Swedish researchers analyzed data from more than 20,000 adults between ages 35 and 64 who were tracked over a 19-year period, between 1997 and 2016, according to a press release.

Participants answered questions about their sitting habits, physical activity and other lifestyle behaviors, while dementia diagnoses were identified using Swedish health and death records.

Mentally active sedentary behavior was associated with “a significant reduction in dementia risk” compared to more passive sitting activities. (Read more from “One Type of Sitting may Pose Greater Dementia Risk than Others, Study Suggests” HERE)