Mriya met a tragic end in 2022.

The levels are not a health risk but researchers are concerned about how widespread they are.

ABC’s The View is so anti-Trump that they will denounce even legitimate charities that help many people if they dare to invite him to an event; even a charity event that traditionally invites both major party presidential candidates. The liberal ladies kicked off their Friday episode by attacking Catholic Charities for keeping with tradition and inviting former President Trump (and Vice President Harris) to their Al Smith Dinner. Friday moderator Joy Behar repeatedly lashed out at Cardinal Dolan for inviting Trump at all despite the fact the event had historically brought together both sides of the political aisle for a good cause: BEHAR: Thank you, Cardinal Dolan, for this wonderful moment. So, is this Catholic Church event normalizing a guy who’s already broken 11 of the 10 commandments? What do you think? (…) BEHAR: Well, the Haitians in particular I think was an egregious sin because those are Catholics. HOSTIN: Yes. BEHAR: Cardinal Dolan should know that. Purported devout Catholic Sunny Hostin showed, once again, that the Democrats were the party of conserving institutional norms and civility by proclaiming “there's a time to break tradition” because Trump.     She further bloviated: I think so. I hate to break with tradition because this is a tradition, and it's a tradition to have both presidential candidates come to this particular dinner. But sometimes there's a time to break tradition. You can't have a felon, a liar, a serial cheater – you know, he had Melania next to him. His third wife, who he cheated with Stormy Daniels while she was pregnant. I just – I think he stands against everything and flies in the face of everything that a Catholic believes and holds dear. He is not a faithful man. Fake Republican Ana Navarro noted “this dinner raised funds for Catholic Charities and some of the work the church does with the most needy,” and “I actually worked with Catholic Charities when I was in high school.” But that didn’t stop her from attacking the charity organization for trying to maximize the event for their mission: “They help immigrants. So, to have Donald Trump sitting there and we are pretending that he is some sort of, like, upstanding citizen, I find it rather offensive.” “I am glad Kamala Harris wasn't there,” she added. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin insisted that helping Catholic Charites was a waste of Harris’s time and that it was better for her to stay on the campaign trail in Wisconsin: For the last few days, the Trump campaign has been out there, like, ‘Kamala Harris is skipping this Catholic event.’ Well, she was in the swing state of Wisconsin. And I would argue that's a bitter use of her time than showing up to a Catholic event using a racist slur about President Obama, swearing throughout it, making crass jokes and insulting people. On a side note, Navarro flipped out over Trump mispronouncing “Kamala” “11 freaking times” during the dinner. But she had her own pronunciation problems when she declared: “It doesn’t matter because he's going to have to say ‘madam precedent!’” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View October 18, 2024 11:05:43 a.m. Eastern (…) JOY BEHAR: Thank you, Cardinal Dolan, for this wonderful moment. So, is this Catholic Church event normalizing a guy who’s already broken 11 of the 10 commandments? What do you think? [Laughter] SUNNY HOSTIN: I think so. I hate to break with tradition because this is a tradition, and it's a tradition to have both presidential candidates come to this particular dinner. But sometimes there's a time to break tradition. You can't have a felon, a liar, a serial cheater – you know, he had Melania next to him. His third wife, who he cheated with Stormy Daniels while she was pregnant. I just – I think he stands against everything and flies in the face of everything that a Catholic believes and holds dear. He is not a faithful man. BEHAR: Well, the Haitians in particular I think was an egregious sin because those are Catholics. HOSTIN: Yes. BEHAR: Cardinal Dolan should know that. (…) ANA NAVARRO: But listen, this dinner raised funds for Catholic Charities and some of the work the church does with the most needy. I actually worked with Catholic Charities when I was in high school. Sister Georgie Blaser sent me there, it was run by Sister Barbara Dowson in San Francisco. They help immigrants. So, to have Donald Trump sitting there and we are pretending that he is some sort of, like, upstanding citizen, I find it rather offensive. I am glad Kamala Harris wasn't there. Oh, by the way, Donald Trump mispronounced her name 11 freaking times. BEHAR: He does it on purpose. HOSTIN: He does that intentionally. NAVARRO: It doesn’t matter because he's going to have to say “madam precedent” [sic]. [Applause] ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: For the last few days, the Trump campaign has been out there, like, ‘Kamala Harris is skipping this Catholic event.’ Well, she was in the swing state of Wisconsin. And I would argue that's a bitter use of her time than showing up to a Catholic event using a racist slur about President Obama, swearing throughout it, making crass jokes and insulting people. (…)

NCAA Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said she isn't familiar with the language or the science surrounding issues and problems with a transgender athlete playing on a women's team in her conference.San Jose State University has garnered international attention because the school's women's volleyball team features a 6'1" male athlete named Blaire Fleming, born Brayden.'We have an election year. It's political, so yeah, it feels like a no-win ...'Four teams have issued forfeitures since the controversy began: Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State, and Wyoming. The ladies at Nevada have also declared they do not wish to play Fleming, but school administrators decided the game would go on.Nevarez said in a recent press conference that the situation breaks her heart because "they're human beings, young people, student athletes on both sides of this issue that are getting a lot of national negative attention.""It just doesn't feel right to me," she continued, according to the Associated Press.The MWC commissioner then explained she isn't very educated on the topic — presumably men playing in women's sports — and said she isn't sure about the "language" or the "science" surrounding the issue."I'm learning a lot about the issue. ... I don't know a lot of the language yet or the science or the understanding nationally of how this issue plays out," Nevarez said. "The external influences are so far on either side. We have an election year. It's political, so yeah, it feels like a no-win based on all the external pressure."Nevarez did not appear to directly address the root of the problem and avoided referring to the player, Fleming, as a male or female: "The student athlete [in question] meets the eligibility standard, so if a team does not play them, it's a forfeit, meaning they take a loss."SJSU coach Todd Kress has displayed a similar attitude, addressing the fact that his players are receiving hate messages without explaining why: "I know that it's definitely taken a toll on many of them. They're receiving messages of hate, which is completely ridiculous to me."Kress added that "when we had our first forfeit, there was a lot of heartbreak. And now, we've kind of, not come to expect it, but we know the certain programs that may forfeit. It still does hurt our student athletes when we don't play a match, but I think they've come to accept it a little more, and I think that's a very unfortunate thing to say."What Kress seems not to address is that allegedly most of his female volleyball players are against having a male on their team — and are receiving hate for speaking out against his presence.One SJSU player, Brooke Slusser, spoke to Blaze News and said everyone involved knows exactly the reason why opposing teams have forfeited games.She added that the school has largely ignored the feelings of the female athletes and has instead focused on the male athlete and whether he's comfortable playing among the women."What I'm going through ... is something, to my bones, I don't agree with. It's not right," Slusser said. Nevada's captain, Sia Liilii, has echoed the same sentiments.She told Blaze News that her school hasn't supported the team and spoke about administrators ignoring her team's vote to forfeit: "Unfortunately our university decided not to back us, and they decided they're going to have the match as scheduled."Liilii added that "the vast majority of us decided that this isn't right, [and] we need to protect women's sports, and we're going to forfeit."It appears as though many coaches and administrators continue to ignore the elephant in the room and have shown no signs of going against state or NCAA rules.A group of women including attorneys and former athletes recently met with the United Nations to plead for international governing bodies to disqualify men from playing in women's sports.One of the representatives declared that women's achievements that have been affected by male participation in sports can "no longer be ignored."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Kamala Harris’ campaign has created an “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” and it’s even more ridiculous than it sounds. The list included supporting education training and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for black men, including pathways to become teachers, protecting cryptocurrency investments so black men who make them know their money is safe, and launching a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact black men. Also on her list of wild ideas is providing 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs and others to start a business — and legalizing recreational marijuana. Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” is focused on the most ridiculous part of the list. “If I even said that as a joke, I’d be off the air. ‘You want to buy their vote, you want to buy black men’s vote, give them free weed,’” Glenn tells Stu Burguiere, asking, “Isn't it kind of racist to say that black people like drugs?” “It sounds like a David Duke campaign proposal,” Stu jokes. “Now white women, you get Ugg boots and Starbucks gift certificates. Venezuelans, we already gave them free apartment buildings in Colorado,” Glenn says. “Well, they worked for those,” Stu adds. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A California man was convicted Tuesday of nine felony counts in connection with the 2021 murder and torture of his girlfriend.A jury found Saul C. Nava, 24, guilty of first-degree murder, torture, kidnapping, aggravated mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting corporal injury to current/former spouse/cohabitant/fiancé, and possession of child pornography.'I'm scared. I'm really scared. I'm terrified.'Senior Deputy District Attorney David Russell stated, "Although this result cannot erase the immeasurable pain the defendant inflicted on the victims and their families, we hope that this brings some measure of closure to see him held accountable for his horrific crimes."Officials said Nava tortured his girlfriend for days and murdered her on Christmas Eve. Then he called 911.Police responded to the call and found a gruesome crime scene at Nava's studio apartment in Thousand Oaks. Nava tortured Alisen Takacs-Escobar, 24, for days, she and had injuries over her entire body. She suffered from extensive bruising and the top of her head also showed a large laceration.The Ventura County District Attorney's Office said "degrading words" were newly tattooed on the center of her chest.Police said Nava had used tattoo equipment, baseball bats, a hammer, a belt, and a screwdriver to torture his girlfriend. Nava’s cellphone was found in the apartment. In the hours leading up to her death, Nava had recorded videos with the phone that showed him "taunting her and displaying no concern for her worsening condition."The Ventura County Star reported that there were four videos on Nava's phone that showed blood streaming across a large portion of Takacs-Escobar's face. "Express yourself," a male voice is heard saying in one of the videos. Takacs-Escobar replies: "I'm scared. I'm really scared. I'm terrified."The male asks, "Is what you did worth it?" She answers no.Nava was arrested at the apartment. Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office found that Takacs-Escobar died of blunt force injuries and ruled her death a homicide.The fatal attack purportedly occurred a few weeks after Nava noticed a phone message between Takacs-Escobar and a former boyfriend.A police witness described the message as "flirtatious" and had discussed their former sexual relations. The prosecution said they were not having a sexual relationship at the time.Nava indicated he was aware that the pair were not having physical contact but said he considered flirting to be cheating.An ex-girlfriend of Nava's told authorities he had physically abused her and confined her in a closet when they were teenagers.At one point in the relationship, the ex-girlfriend said she attempted to flee, but Nava allegedly found her and threatened her with a knife until she got into his vehicle. The ex-girlfriend got pregnant when she was 17 and said Nava punched her in the stomach and forced her to get an abortion. She said Nava punched her in the face, choked her, and secretly filmed their sex life.Sophia Nuno, a high school friend of Takacs-Escobar, testified that her friend “was super friendly, bubbly, happy and outgoing” before she started dating Nava and that her behavior changed after she started dating him. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

SWANNANOA, North Carolina — Officials from the U.S. Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said despite widely disseminated accusations on social media, they are and have been performing rescues and providing humanitarian assistance for weeks across Western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. More than 1,500 troops from the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps are working across the hardest-hit areas delivering food, water, and household supplies, clearing storm debris, and searching for the missing. They joined more than 3,600 National Guard members providing Hurricane Helene relief across multiple states. The Army expanded its presence at the veteran-run Savage Freedoms Relief Operations center with 100 members of the 101st Airborne. The volunteer center has integrated its operations so well with the Army and National Guard that it received a visit October 16 from Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of the XVIII Airborne Corps. Soldiers and airmen from the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st, and the 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command fanned out across Western North Carolina delivering humanitarian aid, removing storm debris, working to get water service re-established, and assisting local businesses to clean up from Hurricane Helene’s devastating floods and mudslides. 'It is a grant, not a loan. I cannot say that enough.' “So the most important thing for us is getting as many people as we can to as many places as we can, as fast as we can to help the ones in need,” said Staff Sgt. Corey Reese of XVIII Corps public affairs in an interview with Blaze News. Capt. Steven Cochrane, the North Carolina National Guard liaison officer assigned to Buncombe County surrounding Asheville, said the Guard did planning before the storm made landfall on September 26 and adjusted as Helene kept up its fury. “We did anticipate some hard-hit areas, but just the amount, of volume, of devastation was unanticipated,” Cochrane said. “However, the National Guard did immediately do the assessments. The day of the storm and the day after, they started to plus-up because it started to look worse and worse as it came through. So the mobilization was quick from my standpoint. We definitely mobilized.“ The National Guard is working with FEMA to distribute thousands of pallets of supplies from massive warehouse complexes across the region. Officials from FEMA said the agency has provided more than $100 million in disaster assistance in North Carolina and brought in 1,400 staff to do search and rescue and process aid applications for those hardest hit by Hurricane Helene. “We had an incident management team in Raleigh on September 26,” Dan Shulman, a FEMA senior external affairs specialist, told Blaze News. “Since then we’ve been moving more people, more commodities into the state to get to where we are now, which is staff across the state in all of the declared counties working with North Carolinians every day.” Blaze News visited a FEMA supply chain warehouse stocked with pallets of supplies in Weaverville, North Carolina. National Guard personnel are staffing the warehouse, managing and moving out supplies. U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, serve hot meals to Hurricane Helene survivors at Green Mountain, North Carolina, Oct. 13, 2024. Photo by Sgt. Nicholas Session/U.S. Army “We've had an ever-increasing number of staff here every single day since September 26,” Shulman said. “The number has only gotten bigger. We’re at around 1,400 as of today.” According to FEMA's most recent statistics, more than $102 million has been approved in emergency aid for North Carolina storm victims in 39 counties and tribal members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. That includes nearly $84 million for “serious disaster-related needs like moving expenses, childcare and disaster-related dental, medical or funeral expenses.” FEMA officials have performed 14,400 home inspections. The agency is providing free temporary hotel stays for more than 2,000 households through transitional sheltering assistance. One of FEMA’s most pressing tasks has been to counter what Shulman said are rumors published on social media that the agency is seizing volunteer aid deliveries and that financial aid to disaster survivors has to be repaid like a loan. “Number one, we’re not confiscating commodities,” Shulman said. “Number two, if you register with FEMA, it does not give us the ability to take your home. All of our assistance is grants, not loans. That’s the big one that we believe is keeping people from registering for assistance.” Shulman urged storm survivors to register for aid by calling (800) 621-3362, using the FEMA website at www.disasterassistance.gov, or visiting one of the six FEMA disaster recovery centers operating in affected North Carolina communities. More centers will open soon. Survivors who get an aid-denial notice should stay in contact with FEMA, Shulman said. Sometimes a denial requires something as simple as supplying additional information to the agency, he said. “If you were affected by the disaster, register with us,” Shulman said. “Stay in touch with us and check on your neighbors and make sure they’re doing the same thing.” 'I feel like what we're doing out here has spoken for itself immensely.' The construction of several FEMA staff housing centers has caused wild speculation on social media that there is some nefarious purpose involved. The opening of a FEMA responder village in Candler, North Carolina, west of Asheville resulted in voluminous speculation and media drone overflights to determine what the site is being used for. The centers are designed to house FEMA staff and contractors so they can move out of hotel rooms to free up space for displaced families, Josh Wert, director of FEMA’s responder support branch, told Blaze News in an interview at the Candler location. The housing centers have single units for FEMA staff. Each one occupied by an employee will free up a hotel room that can be used by a family, Wert said. Despite rampant rumors on social media, the housing centers are not internment camps or some kind of accommodations for illegal immigrants, he said. “Our concern with contracting with hotels here is taking away rooms from the survivors,” Wert said. “So we're trying to stay out of that, but we try to set these up so that everywhere they need to work, they can come back to one of our locations within a 60-minute drive time.” The responder villages offer lodging, showers, electricity, medical care, food, dining, parking, “just anything someone would need if they had to leave their home and go out and support survivors,” Wert said. “We had to ensure that there was capable lodging for the responders to come in before they could support the survivors,” he said. Responder villages are built “so that our staff are not a burden to the community,” Shulman said. “So as people drive by and say, ‘What is this?’ We set this up so that our staff are not taking up hotel rooms from disaster survivors. These are small, single lodging [units]. It’s a small single room that I’ve stayed in so that a family of four can stay in a hotel room.” A responder housing village was built in Candler, North Carolina, to accommodate FEMA staff and free up area hotel rooms for use by storm survivors.Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze News Wert said his team has been on the ground in North Carolina for 25 days but began preparing for Hurricane Helene before the storm made landfall in Florida. “We initially mobilized into the regional office into Florida and into North Carolina,” Wert said. “I had people in downtown Asheville within two days of the storm starting the coordination and communication, trying to find pieces of land like this that we could come in and set up these villages. “We did have boots on the ground in Asheville early on, working with the state,” he said. “I do know that there are disaster recovery centers up that FEMA is at right now. There are disaster survivor assistance employees out canvassing the local area. So FEMA is here.” The FEMA and military officials who spoke to Blaze News downplayed recent suggestions that militia groups are causing trouble for government relief efforts. One arrest was made this week regarding threats, but the militia story was debunked quickly. “Everyone that I’ve encountered has been appreciative of the efforts of people here to help them,” Shulman said. “But those things [stories] were out there, but everyone that I’ve encountered has been appreciative and thankful of the work that people are doing to help them.” Reese said the stories about alleged militias did not affect the operations of military units. “The assessment was potential militia activity, and then the one individual got arrested and that got debunked essentially immediately,” Reese said. “We never withdrew. We never withdrew from that county ourselves. Active-duty soldiers never left that county.” Reese said survivors have been grateful for the help being provided by the U.S. military. “I feel like what we're doing out here has spoken for itself immensely,” he said. “Every town we go to, there’s been no negative reception. We haven't been turned around, asked to leave, anything like that.” A U.S. Army soldier from the 20th Engineer Brigade, 18th Airborne Corps, saws through debris as part of a route-clearing project at Sweet Dreams North Cove, North Carolina, Oct. 16, 2024. Photo by Sgt. Dominic Acuna/U.S. Army The XVIII Airborne Corps sent 30 soldiers to help a small business owner clean out mud and silt from his water-damaged building, Reese said. “Some of these businesses are just one individual who has their entire shop gone,” he said. “And to have 30 soldiers in there clearing out a room instead of one — even an elderly person, one elderly shop owner — and instead of them having to do it all by themselves, we have 30 soldiers going there at one time and the whole shop is cleared out in a day.” The active-duty military and National Guard have brought in heavy equipment that has been used for rescue operations, debris clearance, water purification, fuel storage, high-water transport, medical missions, and heavy construction. Bulldozers, excavators, skid steers, and other engineering equipment have been used to clear emergency routes. Chinook helicopters from the National Guard and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade provide heavy-lift capabilities and high capacity for delivering relief supplies for survivors and farm animals. Shulman said FEMA plans to stay in the region for the long haul required to help with a full recovery from the hurricane. Even after the search-and-rescue teams move on to other assignments, more public assistance teams will move in. “We have a housing task force that is specifically focused on identifying those intermediate and long-term housing solutions for North Carolinians,” he said. “They’re experts in this subject, and that’s all they’re focused on.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Norland is a game that immediately draws comparison to other titles, but somehow manages to turn itself into a fresh, unique thing. It’s got hints of Rimworld and Manor Lords in its DNA, while wrapping itself up with intrigue and diplomacy straight out of games like Crusader Kings 3. It’s also shown an admirable urge to release updates that add new features, fix bugs, and much more since it launched into early access. Now, we’ve received a vision of its future, as the next three months have been laid out thanks to a new roadmap. Continue reading Medieval strategy sim Norland gets roadmap focused on spicing up its early game MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best medieval games, Best simulation games, Best farming games

I remember a time when cheating was so rampant in Call of Duty games (Warzone, especially) that they became immensely unenjoyable. While the likelihood of bumping into cheaters these days is still fairly high, the introduction of Activision’s own Richochet anticheat has certainly improved the situation. With Black Ops 6 just a week away, I’ve been bracing for another influx of aimbotters and wallhackers, but so to has Activision as it has rolled out some pre-launch improvements to Ricochet and set itself an ambitious target: catch every cheater within an hour. Continue reading Call of Duty aims to catch all Black Ops 6 cheaters in under one hour MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Black Ops 6 release date, Best FPS games, Best Black Ops 6 loadouts

The progressive Left’s calls for a cease-fire now as Israel stands on the precipice of victory are as craven as they were a year ago.