Common Medicine Found in Millions of Homes Now Being Abused by Teens, Data Shows

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America’s youth have been increasingly abusing common over-the-counter medications, according to poison center records.

A health advisory from America’s Poison Centers, representing 53 poison centers across the country, alerted a “concerning rise” in cases of diphenhydramine abuse among teens ages 13 to 19.

Diphenhydramine is commonly found in allergy and sleep medications such as Benadryl and Zzzquil, as mentioned in the advisory.

From 2024 to 2025, the total exposure to any substance among teens in this age group reportedly increased by 5.1%.

But cases involving diphenhydramine alone increased more rapidly, from 10,068 to 13,284 cases, a 32% spike. (Read more from “Common Medicine Found in Millions of Homes Now Being Abused by Teens, Data Shows” HERE)

Trailblazing Trans Lawmaker Sentenced To Over 33 Years For Child Exploitation

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The first transgender lawmaker elected to a state legislature was sentenced to 33 years in prison Thursday for charges of child exploitation after convincing his “former intimate partner” to take explicit photos of children at a daycare.

Stacie-Marie Laughton, a 42-year-old man who claims to be a woman, faces more than 33 years in prison after convincing his former partner, Lindsay Groves, to take photos of children at the daycare where she once worked. Groves took nude photos of children estimated to be between the ages of three and five during bathroom breaks and diaper changes, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), before sending them to Laughton via text.

Groves’ and Laughton’s phones contained over 10,000 text messages between them in just one month in 2023, which included discussion and transfer of explicit photographs of the children.

Laughton was originally elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2012 but later announced he would not take office, pointing to three felony convictions related to credit card fraud in 2008. Laughton, who reportedly had plans to become a minister, later served in the House from 2020 to 2022.

Laughton pleaded guilty in November 2025 to three counts of sexual exploitation of children and now faces over 33 years in prison. Groves also pleaded guilty in October 2025 to three counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of distribution of child pornography, later being sentenced to nearly 22 years. (Read more from “Trailblazing Trans Lawmaker Sentenced To Over 33 Years For Child Exploitation” HERE)

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‘I’m Not Alleged. I Did It’: Newly Released Video Shows Karmelo Anthony After Fatal Stabbing

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A Texas court released a series of audio and video recordings from the murder case involving Karmelo Anthony, providing the public with its first detailed look at materials presented during trial proceedings.

The newly released records include surveillance footage, police body-camera videos, photographs, emergency call recordings, and other investigative evidence tied to the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Anthony was convicted earlier this month and sentenced to 35 years in prison. His legal team has indicated that he intends to challenge the verdict on appeal.

Among the materials made public is surveillance video recorded near the scene of the stabbing. The footage shows activity beneath a tent at Memorial High School in the moments leading up to the confrontation. After a brief disturbance, an individual identified by investigators as Anthony is seen leaving the area and running down the nearby bleachers.

The court filing also contains body-camera footage recorded by responding officers during Anthony’s arrest. In the video, Anthony is restrained while officers secure the scene. Although the camera later turns away from him, audio captures a voice stating, “I’m not alleged. I did it.”

(Read more from “‘I’m Not Alleged. I Did It’: Newly Released Video Shows Karmelo Anthony After Fatal Stabbing” HERE)

‘The People There Are Terrible’: Bezos Reportedly Confided To Trump That He Hated The Washington Post

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos branded The Washington Post the worst bet of his career during a private meal with President Donald Trump weeks before he carved up the newsroom.

The billionaire vented on the paper at a December 2024 dinner, according to the New York Post, citing the forthcoming book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” authored by New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman. “The people there are terrible,” Bezos told Trump, per the Post. He griped that the publication’s leadership ignored his guidance. “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen,” he said.

Notably, The Washington Post has suffered significant financial difficulties in recent years — a point of contention for Bezos, especially with the business side of his newspaper property. In 2024, The Washington Post lost more than $100 million.

Trump used the same dinner to air his own complaints, the New York Post reported. “This Washington Post is really unfair. You’ve got to take better care,” he told Bezos. The two men landed on common ground despite different grievances.

A murkier motive surfaced in Swan and Haberman’s casting of the conversation. “In Trump’s telling, Bezos told him he had lost half his friends over the investment,” the authors wrote, according to the New York Post. Bezos disputed that account to others, saying confidants had pushed him to sell rather than that friendships had collapsed.

(Read more from “‘The People There Are Terrible’: Bezos Reportedly Confided To Trump That He Hated The Washington Post” HERE)

Mark Levin Calls Out JD Vance Directly as MAGA Civil War Heats Up

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By Mediaite. Shortly after Vance made his comments, Levin fired off a tweet that read, “I think it’s terrific that people who will likely seek the GOP nomination for president are revealing themselves. Amazing how Iran is being talked about as increasingly reasonable and moderate as Israel is being smeared left and Woke Right.” . . .

Shortly after Vance made his comments, Levin fired off a tweet that read, “I think it’s terrific that people who will likely seek the GOP nomination for president are revealing themselves. Amazing how Iran is being talked about as increasingly reasonable and moderate as Israel is being smeared left and Woke Right.”

“Here’s a novel idea: stop bullying our ally and cozying up to our enemy,” he added in a follow-up.

In an earlier tweet on Thursday, Levin responded to Vance’s declaration that he is “not uncomfortable” with the idea of a photo op alongside Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf.

“Fwiw, bad idea,” commented Levin. “You’ll regret it certainly down the road. But always a bad idea to stand with a top official of a terrorist regime that killed and maimed thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iranians just a few months ago.”

(Read more from “Mark Levin Calls Out JD Vance Directly as MAGA Civil War Heats Up” HERE)

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JD Vance Makes Stunning Veiled Threat To Israel Amid Trump Criticism: ‘Wake Up And Smell The Reality!’

By Mediaite. Vice President JD Vance issued a stunning veiled warning to Israel amid dissent over President Donald Trump’s 14-point Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. . .

When Vance was asked about the crack at Thursday’s White House press briefing, he gave a stark response, cautioning Israeli critics that Trump and the United States are their only friends and demanding they “wake up and smell the reality of the situation”:

GATEWAY PUNDIT’S JORDAN CONRADSON: Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit. I want to talk back to the Lebanon component.

There’s a report in Axios that Netanyahu is fuming over this. Israel doesn’t feel bound to MOU as it relates to Lebanon.

As you mentioned, your frustration with Israel striking in Beiruit hitting apartment buildings.

If that continues, could it torpedo the deal? And what would the US’s response be to a broader war in Lebanon involving Israel?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Yeah, well, I don’t want to get into hypotheticals that could torpedo the deal because I think the president’s expectation is that all of our friends, the Israelis, the Arabs in the region, we’re going to work together and actually see this deal to completion.

Now, I saw the Axios report that Netanyahu is fuming. That’s not reflective of the conversations that I’ve had with him, but maybe he’s saying something to somebody else that he’s not saying to me.

What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you’ve seen people within Bibi’s cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the President of the United States.

And I guess my message to them would be twofold.

Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower.

If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.

And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, Bibi, to his credit, has not gone down this path. But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the President of the United States, the other thing that I would say is that over the last three months… Two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump. And anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in. Thank you all.

(Read more from “JD Vance Makes Stunning Veiled Threat To Israel Amid Trump Criticism: ‘Wake Up And Smell The Reality!’” HERE)

Judge Sentences Gay Couple Who Sexually Abused, Murdered Adopted Baby. What Happens To Those Who Ignored Red Flags?

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British teacher Jamie Varley, 37, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the sexual abuse and murder of 13-month-old Preston Davey.

Varley and his partner, 32-year-old John McGowan-Fazakerley, reportedly adopted Davey in April 2023, when the child was nine months old. McGowan-Fazakerley was given a 25-year sentence for sexual abuse, child cruelty, and “allowing the death of a child,” according to The Guardian. Such a sentence seems inadequate for the evil acts in which McGowan-Fazakerley participated. The men reportedly denied all charges.

The details of the case are sickening.

Davey was reportedly taken from his biological mother, Sarah Davey, five days after his birth. His mother, now 42, was sentenced to jail at 14 for the torture and murder of a retiree, according to The Spectator’s Melanie McDonagh.

In a victim impact statement, Sarah Davey reportedly told the men who tortured her son: “He relied entirely on you — the adults responsible for him — to love him, care for him, and keep him safe. Instead, you caused him suffering. You took away his chance to grow up, to go to school, to make friends, to live a full life. You took everything from him.” (Read more from “Judge Sentences Gay Couple Who Sexually Abused, Murdered Adopted Baby. What Happens To Those Who Ignored Red Flags?” HERE)

Cause of Titan Submersible Implosion that Killed Five Revealed in Damning Final Report

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Company failures, design flaws and inadequate regulatory oversight were to blame for the deadly 2023 Titan submersible disaster that killed all five passengers on board, according to the final report on the incident released by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

“The investigation determined that the as-built properties of the Titan’s carbon fibre cylinder were never validated to ensure they met the theoretical values used in the design process and that the construction and testing of the Titan did not follow standard engineering practices,” the agency concluded in its 136-page report.

It wrote that OceanGate, the US-based company leading the doomed expedition to the Titanic wreckage, didn’t fully grasp the extent of the danger the craft posed to passengers, and was blinded by “groupthink” and “confirmation bias.”

Agency inspectors examined unused pieces of the same material the Titan was made from and found fundamental structural defects that left it subject to compromised structural integrity, according to the report.

Although OceanGate tested the craft at an equivalent depth to that of the Titanic wreckage — approximately 12,500 feet — the report found it failed to test the impact on the vessel after facing the punishing forces of multiple voyages. (Read more from “Cause of Titan Submersible Implosion that Killed Five Revealed in Damning Final Report” HERE)

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Biden gets Left Behind at Obama Center Opening: ‘Where’s my granddaughter’

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. . .Former President Joe Biden was awkwardly left lingering by himself on stage at the grand opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, tepidly waving at the crowd after the ceremony ended.

A gleeful Obama had waltzed off the stage to the music, followed by a smiling former first lady Jill Biden, while the 46th president stood there seemingly dazed all by himself.

For reasons that aren’t clear, the 83-year-old went over to the podium and took off his sunglasses before staring into the crowd with a puzzled look on his face.

“Where’s my granddaughter?” he shouted.

The former president then seemingly started to make his way off-stage before footage of the event cut off.

Biden’s rare public outing was reminiscent of parts of his presidency, when he was seen wandering after events with a confused look on his face.

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Noah’s Ark Could Finally be Found After Historic Deal Promises ‘Irrefutable Proof’

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A mysterious formation high in the mountains of eastern Turkey has long fueled speculation that it could be the final resting place of Noah’s Ark.

Now, researchers who believe they have identified signs of a massive man-made structure buried beneath the site have received official approval to put their theory to the test.

The team behind Noah’s Ark Scans announced that its Turkish partner has secured government permits to conduct what it describes as the most comprehensive scientific investigation ever undertaken at the Durupinar Formation near Mount Ararat.

The expedition will include non-destructive core drilling, advanced remote-sensing technology, next-generation imaging systems and an underground drone named ‘Gopher’ designed to map what lies beneath the surface.

In a statement announcing the approval, the group said it hopes to provide the world with ‘irrefutable proof’ that the formation is the authentic resting place of Noah’s Ark. (Read more from “Noah’s Ark Could Finally be Found After Historic Deal Promises ‘Irrefutable Proof’” HERE)

Fast-Food Chain Overtakes Chick-Fil-A As Highest Rated

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Chick-fil-A no longer sits atop the fast-food world in terms of customer satisfaction, a new American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) found.

Jersey Mike’s debuted at the top of the quick-service restaurant category with a customer satisfaction score of 84 out of 100 in the ACSI Restaurant and Food Delivery Study 2026, ending Chick-fil-A’s 11-year run as the leader, according to a press release. Chick-fil-A held steady at 83 and slipped to second. Customers rated Jersey Mike’s well for fresh ingredients, menu range, and value. The company’s Franchise Finance Document (FDD) showed it added 238 net new locations last year, QSR Magazine reported.

“Quick-service restaurants remain steady for the third straight year at an ACSI score of 79, but the industry’s story this year is change at the top,” the study reads.

Jersey Mike’s built its rise on speed and convenience, with a business model leaning on order throughput, off-premise convenience, and heavy digital use, according to the ACSI. The New Jersey sub chain runs a “fairly narrow” menu, and the index credited the brand’s model as friendly to franchisee success. (Read more from “Fast-Food Chain Overtakes Chick-Fil-A As Highest Rated” HERE)

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