Longtime legendary sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel who was the host of CBS’ coverage during the March Madness NCAA Tournament and called the NFL for CBS for decades has reportedly died, Emmy-winning producer Dan Forer wrote on Facebook on Friday. 

A Seattle judge released a violent teen suspect from custody who allegedly went on to kidnap, stab, and disembowel a 14-year-old boy two weeks later. He was affiliated with a gang. Millorz Canales, 17, of Snohomish County, has been accused of tying the victim to a tree, repeatedly stabbing him, disemboweling him, and leaving him […] The post Horrific Story of the Release of a Vicious Gang Teen appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The royal family certainly had a challenging 2024. With both King Charles and Kate Middleton fighting cancer, life wasn’t easy for anyone involved. But in true royal fashion, the family banded together, appearing stoic at times and at others very hopeful. Since marrying Prince William in 2011, Princess Kate has played a prominent role in the royal family. As the wife of the heir to the throne, many look up to her as a source of inspiration. She retreated from the public eye early in 2024 to focus on her health. But after announcing the completion of her cancer treatment in September, she’s returned to royal duties. Seeing Kate out and about in Great Britain has been a welcomed blessing to many royal family enthusiasts. She recently stopped to talk to one such individual about her cancer journey. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karen Anvil (@karenanvil) Kate Middleton Reflected About Her Cancer In A Candid Video On Instagram, Karen Anvil shared the exchange between Princess Kate and her daughter, Rachel Anvil. She captioned the video, “Rachel got to speak to the Princess of Wales today!” Rachel stopped to speak to Kate Middleton on Christmas morning. “I started my career in the Macmillan cancer unit, and I just wanted to say, you’re an inspiration to all the patients,” Rachel shared. Kate Middleton replied, “Thank you, honestly. The number of people who have written this year is extraordinary, and I think cancer just really does resonate with so many families.”  Kate added that Rachel and others do the hard work for cancer patients, and she is there to support the cause. Rachel and Karen then shared their support of the princess and said they would always be behind her. She graciously said, “Thank you.” A fan wrote of the exchange, “Amazing moments as always! Merry Christmas from California!” This person agreed, “Kind and supportive words.” After sharing that her cancer treatment was over last fall, Kate Middleton said she’d return to her royal duties while continuing to focus on remaining cancer-free. It seems her Christmas wish has come true. This story’s featured image can be found here. The post Rare Video Captures Kate Middleton Emotionally Opening Up About Cancer Battle appeared first on InspireMore.

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In the waning days of a crumbling presidency that never really was, President Joe Biden—or whatever Biden-like facsimile is signing official documents these days—decided to finish out his term with one final blast of outrageous, yet cynical, wokery. Biden wasn’t content just to pardon his deadbeat son, Hunter, or hand out executive clemencies to more than 1,500 other criminals. No, he had to give mass commutations to inmates on federal death row: 37 to be exact. That represents another bit of whiplash from Democrats over the past four years. They’ve gone from the party of “defund the police” to the party of “the rule of law” (supposedly) to the party the party of mass jailbreaking and bailouts for murderers. It seems like the only people those on the Left want incarcerated are their political opponents. That’s only principled if your principles are those of Josef Stalin’s head of his secret police, Lavrentiy Beria. The White House tried to portray Biden’s mass nullification of death row as an act of conscience, a fulfillment of Biden’s deep opposition to injustice or something. But a close reading of the carefully chosen language of the White House statement about his decision reveals the fact that this is less about Biden’s commitment to life or justice and than it is a payoff to the Left’s activist class.  “President Biden has dedicated his career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden’s statement reads. “He believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder—which is why today’s actions apply to all but those cases.” It’s that last bit, everything after the “except” that stands out here. The three who didn’t have their death sentences commuted were Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; Dylann Roof, who killed nine in a mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina; and Robert Bowers, the man who committed the mass murder of 11 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. What sets these men apart isn’t really the heinousness of their crimes, but the fact that their crimes made national headlines. They certainly didn’t seem to care much about the victims’ families. “I was angry. I’m still angry. I am upset that this is even happening, that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we’ve been through, what we’re going through, and completely hurt, frustrated, and angry,” said the daughter of Donna Major in an interview on TV’s “Fox & Friends.” Brandon Council, who was on Biden’s list of commutations, gunned Major down during a robbery in 2017. There were other upset families, too. “While this is truly distressing news on a personal level for my family, it also feels like a complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system,” said Marissa Gibson, the widow of police Officer Bryan Hurst who was murdered by now-former death row inmate Daryl Lawrence. “Lawrence’s sentence was imposed by a jury, and it should be upheld as such.” President-elect Donald Trump rightly slammed Biden’s decision with a Christmas post on Truth Social. He said merry Christmas to everyone but the “37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden.” As more than a few commentators have noted already, what “Biden” did was a grave act of injustice. If he really was opposed to the death penalty, then the appropriate place to start was with Congress. At least make some kind of larger appeal to the American people. But Biden has never actually been one to care about process or justice. His career has been defined by empty rhetoric and raw political calculations. Now, at the end, he’s cemented his hollow legacy with one last act of egregious coalition nursing with no regard for right and wrong. It’s a fitting, shameful end to a presidency that will surely rank among the most dismal in our country’s history. The post Unpardonable: Biden Grants Mass Clemency to Death Row Inmates in Last Gasp of Failed Presidency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The results of the 2024 presidential election had the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View raging against average Americans who weren’t receiving millions of dollars from a TV news outlet. But even before a majority of American voters chose to send President-elect Trump back to the White House, The View showed great contempt for Americans who told pollsters they intended to send Democrats packing. Repeatedly, throughout the year, the wealthy co-hosts would lash out at voters who cared about high prices and making ends meet; telling them they needed to vote for President Biden and eventually Vice President Harris. Voters braving the elements and even Gold Star families would be targets of their ire. Presented here in chronological order are nine times The View attacked American voters for not doing what they wanted in 2024. Whoopi: Poors Shouldn’t Care About Prices, Trump Wants You in a Camp Multimillionaire TV host and movie star Whoopi Goldberg kicked off 2024 by lashing out at poor people. She was irate that poor people would dare to be upset about having to pay high prices for basic goods and vote against President Biden because of it. She told them to ignore inflation and suggested that if they didn’t, and former President Trump returned to the White House, he would have them put in “camps.” Goldberg lamented that “people's faith in the country is waning” and that it was “pissing me off” because Biden was trying to save the country from Trump. So, she resorted to trying to scare them with false claims Trump would put them in a concentration camp: You’re worried that you can't pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you'll be in some camp somewhere because that's his promise. His promise to us is he's going to force people to do his bidding. That's what he said. I'm going to be good on day one, and I'm going to turn into this other person.     The View BASHES Iowans Braving the Snow to Exercise Right to Vote Despite all their empty threats that if Trump won it would be the last election ever or he would take away the right to vote from women, the cast decried Iowans for braving a January blizzard to support Trump in the Iowa Caucuses. Insisting that she was still a “proud Iowan,” co-host Sara Haines proclaimed “It's disappointing as a non-Trump supporter to see that” Trump won the Iowa Caucuses. She then proceeded to dismiss the caucasus as a metric to determine who the state supported (Trump ended up winning Iowa in November). Bitter Joy Behar lashed out at Iowans directly to smear their character. She also insinuated that they were stupid for braving the elements to exercise their right to vote: You voted for a guy who said, “Come, risk your lives for the grand wizard. Come, in the snow and the sleet because I am more important than your life.” That's who the five percent voted for. The View: The Poors Need to Stop Caring About Affording Food The bashing of poor Americans continued on April 1st with the fools of The View insisting that people should stop caring about being able to afford food. “So, why is it that some people are having short memory issues? There are plenty of other reasons to feel good about where we actually are. So, why isn't that tracking?” moderator Goldberg lamented to the rest of the table. Haines chimed in to downplay what people were experiencing as something they were being unreasonable about: I know that the economy, again, day-to-day, especially for people living check-to-check, you're not going to feel the recovery even though the numbers are on the way up, because even after the Great Depression, it took 11 years. People recover faster than economies do. It takes a long time. This is a global problem. It's not unique to the U.S. right now. Millionaire Whoopi Dismisses High Food Prices, Whines About Commute Are you seeing the pattern yet? Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to argue that prices were the top concern of the undecided voters she’s spoken to and that there was a way for Biden to address it, but Goldberg repeatedly shouted over her, suggesting if those “people knew civics” as she did they’d know they were wrong (Click “expand”): FARAH GRIFFIN: What I hear when I talk to undecideds is “the grocery bills are--” GOLDBERG (interrupting): Yes, but if the people knew civics they would know that is not his -- FARAH GRIFFIN: There are absolutely things that Biden can do to address it and grocery prices have jumped 25 percent over four years. JOY BEHAR: What can he do? [Crosstalk] FARAH GRIFFIN: Hang on real quick. This is the reality. It’s the most immediate and repetitive thing. You have to buy groceries every week. GOLDBERG (interrupting): We get all that. But the question is what do you want him to do? What can he do? Goldberg couldn’t be bothered with the problems of Americans across the country; instead, she took to complaining about the cost of her commute.     Haines: Gold Star Families With Trump, Like Swimming in 9/11 Fountain In a disgusting display of how vicious the left can be, Haines lashed out at the Gold Star families who posed with former President Trump in Arlington National Cemetery. She instead that Trump should have ignored their requests for a photo and suggested listening to them was like swimming in the 9/11 Ground Zero Memorial: HAINES: And that's why the Arlington thing bothered me because what Donald Trump's people keep saying is, ‘Those families invited us. They told us.” But that’d be like a 9/11 family member telling me I could swim in the memorial fountain. FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. HAINES: Just because they lost someone doesn't mean there isn't sanctity. And rules and it's not just about one headstone in the back of a video, it’s about every life that is there for us. The View: Jeff Walz Is ‘Dumb as Hell,’ ‘Mind Your Own Damn Business!’ Despite speaking with many of Trump’s grifter relatives who get rich off of hating him on the show, The View wanted Jeff Walz, the brother of Governor Tim Walz (MN), to shut his mouth and “mind [his] own damn business” since he supported Trump. Fake Republican Ana Navarro, who’s main concern with being involved in American politics is to ingratiate herself with the wielders of power and get invited to parties, said Jeff Walz was “dumb as hell” was because “he's going to miss a lot of good parties [in the vice presidential mansion] if he's estranged from his brother.” And despite Jeff Walz being an American citizen who was using his First Amendment right to comment on a candidate for an American political office, Sunny Hostin demanded that he “mind your own business” and not speak out.     Hostin: Latinos Voted for Trump Because of Their ‘Misogyny & Sexism’ Following Trump’s victory, Hostin was taking rhetorical swings at any and everyone who exit polling showed went for Trump. She insisted that Americans supported Trump only “because they’ve been bombarded with misinformation and disinformation.” When confronted with the fact that a district that’s 97 percent Latio going 75 percent for Trump, she claimed they were all sexist and misogynist (Click “expand”): FARAH GRIFFIN: And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and these assumptions of how they’re going to go. Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97 percent Latino went 75 percent for Donald Trump. Why?  It’s on – HOSTIN: Misogyny. That’s why. FARAH GRIFFIN: No! It's on the border! HOSTIN: It’s misogyny. FARAH GRIFFIN: The border crisis is on their doorstep! And they were begging people to care about it for years. We need to take some lessons – HOSTIN: Misogyny and sexism, that's what that was. FARAH GRIFFIN: The lessons are not misogyny and sexism. Hostin: 'What Is Wrong With America?!' Voters Are 'the Problem' The next day, Hostin took to bashing all of America. Hostin utterly refused to be introspective and (much like the Principal Skinner meme) insisted that it was the majority of Americans who were wrong. “I’d like to reframe the conversation…I think the more relevant question actually is: What is wrong with America?!” she chided. Hostin’s unhinged rant (below) eventually gave way to a shouting match with Farah Griffin and Haines:  What is wrong with our country that the Republican Party would choose as a candidate and support a candidate who is an insurrectionist, who is an election denier, who is someone who is twice impeached, 34-time convicted felon, someone who has been accused of alleged sexual misconduct by 26 women, found liable for sexual abuse. What is wrong with this country that they would choose a message of divisiveness of xenophobia, of racism, of misogyny over a message of inclusiveness, a message for the people, by the people, of the people?! That’s what the problem is, it’s the Republican Party!     Hostin Supports Axing Holidays With Trump-Voting Family, ‘Moral Issue’ With Thanksgiving and Christmas fast approaching, Hostin was unable to get her irrational emotions under control and proclaimed that it was totally fine to axe holiday plans with people who voted for Trump because it was a “moral issue” (Click “expand”): HAINES: Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family, because they won't always be there. SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm going to disagree! I completely understand her point, because I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is a different type of candidate. From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people. We're just -- you know, I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think a lot of Dems called him deeply flawed and dehumanized him. HAINES: I think people did at the time.

A baby Jesus Christ figurine was stolen from a nativity scene in Colorado. However, the alleged thief felt supreme guilt over his improper actions and returned baby Jesus just before Christmas with a touching apology for his sins. On Dec. 17, the Fort Collins Police Department notified the public that a baby Jesus figurine had been stolen from the Old Town Square in Colorado, located approximately 60 miles north of Denver."I am really sorry. I made a dumb mistake in the moment. It won’t happen again.""This Grinch tried to ruin Christmas by stealing the baby Jesus from the Old Town Square nativity scene," the Fort Collins Police Department stated. Police included a photo of the suspect in question in hopes of the public identifying the alleged "Grinch." The suspect in the police screenshot was a teen white male. On Dec. 19, the Fort Collins Police Department noted that the baby Jesus statuette had been turned in — just in time for Christmas Day. "The baby Jesus figurine reported stolen from the Old Town Square Nativity scene four days ago was today anonymously dropped off at Poudre Fire Authority Station #1 in Fort Collins, along with an apology note," the Fort Collins Police Department declared in a statement. The alleged thief begged for forgiveness for his crime, "I am really sorry. I made a dumb mistake in the moment. It won’t happen again."The Fort Collins Police Department added, "No further information has been obtained about the person who swiped the statuette."Local firefighters could be seen posing with the baby Jesus Christ figurine. The statuette does not appear to be damaged based on photos released by local authorities. The business that maintains the nativity scene proclaimed that it didn't want to pursue charges against the suspect, according to the Associated Press. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Grassroots Republicans and conservatives said President-elect Donald Trump's No. 1 priority upon taking office should be fixing illegal immigration and conducting deportations.A new poll of attendees at AmericaFest, an event coordinated by political commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, revealed interesting sentiments among Republican supporters. AmericaFest attendees are typically considered very politically active and are willing to pay top dollar to see commentators and politicians like Trump and Tucker Carlson or even comedians like Rob Schneider.Kirk revealed the results of the poll on his X page. They showed overwhelming support for Trump's policies and Cabinet picks."71% of respondents STRONGLY support primary challenges to Republican lawmakers who vote against ANY of President Trump's Cabinet choices," Kirk wrote with an attached graphic. "Only 14% oppose primary challenges."Among Trump's Cabinet nominations, respondents were most excited about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health and human services director, with FBI director nominee Kash Patel a close second. RFK and Patel were by far the most popular nominations and were named as the No. 1 picks at 35% and 31%, respectively.Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Fox News host Pete Hegseth were among the other names respondents provided.'Trump's #1 issue on day one should be securing the border ...'For Trump's policies, attendees voted that Trump's top priority when taking office should be "illegal immigration/border security/deportations.""A massive 63% majority said that Trump's #1 issue on day one should be securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants who are already here," Kirk continued.Trailing far behind as the second-most pertinent policy was pardoning those arrested for their participation in January 6, with "cutting spending/national debt" listed third. Kash Patel (FBI director nominee) was the second-most popular Trump Cabinet nominee at AmericaFest.Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesA whopping 62% of those polled disapproved of Mike Johnson's performance as speaker of the House, with 58.8% answering "no" to the question "Do you think Mike Johnson should remain Speaker of the U.S. House?"Kirk noted that just 22% approved of Johnson's performance as well.The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028 was overwhelmingly JD Vance at 59%, with Donald Trump Jr. in second at 17%; 11% were undecided.In terms of what attendees thought of their political opponents, 35% predicted California Governor Gavin Newsom will be the 2028 presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, while 17% thought it may be Vice President Kamala Harris once again.At the same time, over 90% of respondents said they would support indicting Anthony Fauci for his role in "illegally funding the creation of Covid-19 in a Chinese lab."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!