Day: November 21, 2023

Maine city council rejects proposal to allow winter homeless encampments

7:15 pm November 21, 2023

Maine’s largest city has turned down a proposal that would have allowed homeless encampments through the coming winter. The Portland City Council rejected the proposal by a vote of 3-6 early Tuesday morning in the wake of hours of testimony. The city has a large homeless population and its practice of clearing homeless encampments has […]

Secret millionaire donates fortune to small New Hampshire town

7:13 pm November 21, 2023

Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he lived a simple, but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes — riding his lawn mower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main road reading a newspaper or watching cars pass. […]

Ohio Democrat under investigation after allegations of ‘erratic and abusive’ behavior

7:12 pm November 21, 2023

The office of Ohio’s Republican attorney general said Monday it has appointed an outside law firm to investigate a Democratic state representative amid claims the lawmaker engaged in a pattern of erratic and abusive behavior toward other legislators, staff and constituents for months. The investigation into Rep. Elliot Forhan, a Cleveland-area lawyer who was elected […]

Bill Gates laughs off idea of ‘evil plot’ with Dr. Fauci to track Americas, create faulty vaccines

6:40 pm November 21, 2023

Bill Gates on Tuesday laughed off a conspiracy theory that suggests the Microsoft co-founder hatched an “evil plot” with Dr. Anthony Fauci to produce faulty vaccines and track Americans. During an appearance on Trevor Noah’s podcast “What Now?” Gates suggested that the “wild” combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and social media had created “insane” and […]

ICE arrests Brazilian illegal immigrant child rapist in Martha’s Vineyard

6:17 pm November 21, 2023

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that it arrested an illegal immigrant Brazilian fugitive wanted in his home country for failing to serve a prison sentence for raping a 5-year-old child in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. ICE said the Brazilian, identified as 37-year-old Saulo Cardona Ferreira, had received “multiple criminal convictions” in Brazil in […]