There “wasn’t a dry eye in the house” as a little boy took his first steps down the aisle at his mom’s wedding. But it wasn’t the sight of him in his cute outfit, or his beaming smile that broke the tissue barrier, rather it was because of the special harness he had used to […] The post Little Boy Beats Odds to Walk Mom Down Aisle Thanks to Special Harness – (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network.

News 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Second Film in 28 Years Later Trilogy Gets Title & Release Date By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 19, 2024 Screenshot: Sony Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Sony Pictures Did you know they were making not one but three films set in the post-apocalyptic zombie world we first visited in 2002’s 28 Days Later? Well, they are, and we now have the title and release date for the second film. The first feature, 28 Years Later, is set to premiere in theaters on June 20, 2025. Today, news broke that the second movie is called 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and it will premiere six months later on January 16, 2026. What’s the Bone Temple exactly? We don’t know yet, of course, but I’d bet it has something to do with the tower of skulls we see a bloody Ralph Fiennes guide our protagonists to in the recently released 28 Years Later trailer. The Bone Temple was shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later. But where the first film was directed by Danny Boyle (who also directed the 2002 movie that started this franchise), The Bone Temple has Nia DaCosta (The Marvels, Candyman) in the director’s chair. Alex Garland, who co-wrote 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later with Boyle (and who also wrote and directed Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War) has also penned the script for The Bone Temple. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter) stars in 28 Years Later along with Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Erin Kellyman (Solo), and Jack O’Connell (Ferrari). There’s no confirmation yet if any of those cast members survive to star in The Bone Temple, but odds are good that at least Taylor-Johnson’s character will live to see another movie. Here’s the official synopsis for 28 Years Later, which gives us a tease as to the state of the world in the aftermath of a rage virus: It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. No news yet on when the third film in the trilogy will premiere. [end-mark] The post Second Film in <i>28 Years Later</i> Trilogy Gets Title & Release Date appeared first on Reactor.

Growing up, there was always one movie that made the holiday season complete for us. Of course, we were excited kids waiting for Christmas, so it was hard not to lap up whatever was in store for us. But those 24-hour A Christmas Story marathons didn't come out of thin air! So some movies clearly rose above the pack for us. And once you've seen enough of them, it doesn't take long to notice that... Source

If there was any doubt left, last month’s elections sealed the deal. The nationwide experiment labeled “Defund the Police” was an abject failure. Our citizens made it clear that they are sick and tired of politicians who prefer coddling criminals to supporting our police. Sadly, though, it will take years to recover from the disastrous consequences of this movement that decimated and demoralized our nation’s police forces, ignited more crime, and cost thousands of innocent lives. The election results last month were a knockout blow to the “defund” movement. Kamala Harris was one of the movement’s earliest and strongest supporters. She wanted to “reimagine” policing. In June of 2020, she said, “For too long, the status quo thinking has been: You get more safety by putting more cops on the street—well that’s wrong.” The American electorate, and hard data, disagreed. Not only was Harris soundly defeated, but she lost to an opponent who had pledged if he were reelected president, “There won’t be defunding, there won’t be dismantling of our police, and there is not going to be any disbanding of our police.” There were many other notable pro-police and anticrime election results on Nov. 5. Twelve out of 25 George Soros-linked progressive, soft-on-crime local district attorneys across the U.S. were either defeated or recalled—many of them in deep blue jurisdictions. The biggest loser was Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who lost by 24 points to tough-on-crime opponent Nathan Hochman. And voters across California, one of the most liberal states in the nation, overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which lengthens jail and prison sentences for drug and theft convictions. This voter outrage should have been expected given the damage done by politicians who catered to criminals at the expense of public safety. Cities across the country cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their police budgets as a knee-jerk reaction to George Floyd’s death in 2020. After being defunded and defamed, officers left the profession in droves. The number of full-time state and local officers dropped by 5.3% between 2019 and 2021, which meant 36,907 fewer officers were serving and protecting our communities. During this same period, police response times slowed and violent crime in America spiked by 3.8%. In 2020, homicides nationwide rose by 29.4%—the largest single-year increase in more than a century. There have been many more troubling consequences. At the start of the “defund” movement, many cities across the country abolished their School Resource Officer programs. In the aftermath, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of school shootings—more than 300 in each of the past two years. Progressive soft-on-crime policies, like no cash bail, have created a revolving -door criminal justice system that has frustrated officers and endangered citizens. Failure to prosecute shoplifters has caused retail theft to skyrocket. A recent nationwide survey found that 40% of retail employees would quit their jobs next year because of “personal safety concerns.” Youth crime is out of control as well. Carjackings nearly doubled in Washington, D.C., last year, and the average age of those arrested was 15. And illegal immigration has caused some cities, like Denver, to cut their police budgets so they can shift the money to assist the migrants flooding into their communities. We can be thankful that many states and localities have realized the errors of their ways and are restoring police funding and reversing failed progressive policies. Minneapolis cut its police budget by $8 million in 2020 only to reverse itself and add $7 million two years later to help fill the ranks of its dwindling police force. After Oregon decriminalized hard drugs like heroin and methamphetamine in 2021, the resulting record-high overdoses and rampant homelessness forced the state to backtrack and end its experiment earlier this year. With the “defund” movement now on the trash heap of so many other ill-conceived ideas, the antipolice rhetoric that led to attacks on officers by violent individuals has also quieted, with some encouraging results. According to the Fraternal Order of Police, the number of officers shot this year (301 as of Oct. 31) was 7% less than the same time in 2023. And the number of unprovoked ambush-style shootings of officers (71) is on pace to be nearly 40% lower than the 138 in 2023. The disastrous results of the defund the police movement will not be reversed overnight. We lost too many talented and experienced law enforcement officers. This brain drain will take years to fix. There are still many pro-criminal district attorneys who need to be replaced. And while we have a strong pro-police president soon retaking office, much of the “defund” damage has occurred at the state and local level where more corrective action is needed. However, we can be grateful that the pro-police, anticrime pendulum is finally swinging in the right direction. And we have learned a valuable lesson: A well-funded and fully staffed police force is essential to keeping America safe. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post 2024 Election Was a Knockout Blow to ‘Defund the Police’ Movement appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The scandal around the activities of the now shuttered Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) was so egregious that it refuses to die down, even if the group itself is no more. A new twist comes with the upcoming merger between advertising giants Omnicom and Interpublic, former GARM members. They are also members of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), an umbrella for pretty much the entirety of the world’s advertising power – which originally set up GARM. But then this power was allegedly used in an attempt to carry out mass-scale demonetization of entire social sites, notably those “disfavored” by the outgoing US administration, like X and Rumble, but also a number of conservative news sites. The WFA is believed to have instructed its members to boycott these platforms and silence them by depriving them of revenue. Now, the House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, who has for a long time been “on the case” when it comes to investigating government-Big Tech censorship, facilitated by third parties like GARM, appears determined not to let some new entity carry out GRAM-like censorship work under a different name. On Wednesday, an investigation (this one related to enforcement of US antitrust law) was announced concerning the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, as Jordan sent letters to both corporations’ CEOs. We obtained a copy of the letter for you here. The letters slam both as GARM members from its inception and active participants “during its collusive activities.” For these reasons, the CEOs are ordered to preserve documents and all contacts they had with the WFA and GARM and make them available to US legislators. The letters note that the merger will create the world’s largest ad agency with more than 100,000 employees and some $25 billion in annual revenue. “The proposed merger of these companies will combine horizontal competitors with a history of collusion,” Jordan remarked. With that in mind, the Committee wants to know what, if any, precautions are now being taken to make sure the new entity “does not use its consolidated market power to replicate GARM’s anticompetitive behavior?” Furthermore, Omnicom and Interpublic CEOs have until January 7 to reveal what “brand safety” industry initiatives or groups their companies are involved with, either as members or otherwise. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan Investigates Omnicom-Interpublic Merger Over Alleged GARM-Linked Anticompetitive Practices appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week. MRC Researchers searched Google for the names of Trump’s cabinet nominees along with two additional top officials–Brendan Carr who Trump selected to Chair the FCC and Kash Patel who he selected as his FBI director. Researchers searched both via a general Google search and a news tab search each of which yielded results that were full of leftist articles from legacy media outlets attacking the nominees. Indeed, Google presented 15 times the number of articles from often hostile left-leaning sources than from outlets that media ratings firm AllSides rates as "right or "lean right."  For most of the nominees, Google did not present a single “lean right” or “right” result in the general search. Only five of the general searches returned any right-leaning articles to counteract the vicious attacks that legacy and leftist media hurled against Trump nominees. Indeed Google presented zero “lean right” or “right” search results for 75 percent of the nominees recognized by Google.  As in previous search studies for the names of Trump nominees, Google provided no relevant search results in a search for Christopher Wright, Trump’s choice to run the Department of Energy.  Google rigged the news tab results as well, providing over six times as many left-leaning articles as U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” articles. Absurdly, Google once again found space in the news tab results for climate cult propaganda outlet Inside Climate News and the aggressively anti-Trump publication, The Bulwark. AllSides rates The Bulwark as “lean right” even though The Bulwark’s writers advocated supporting Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris while embracing leftist positions on a number of issues.  The Bulwark article, which attacked potential Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, was just one of many negative articles that Google filled its search results with. At least fourteen of the twenty-five nominees were subjected to vicious attacks in the news tab results.  The articles that Google featured fiercely went after Patel providing at least six news tab articles attacking the nominee. Google elevated headlines that suggested Patel is a “conspiracy theorist,” and that he would run a “‘bureau of intimidation’” or a “Bureau of Retribution.” An MSNBC article fretted about Patel’s “normalization,” while another piece scolded one of his endorsers.  Google’s results also targeted Russell Vought, Trump’s chosen Director of the Office of Management and Budget. For the third week in a row, Google shoved the same ProPublica attack in users’ faces with an article headlined, “‘Put Them in Trauma’: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda.”  Additionally, Google filled its results for Pete Hegseth, Trump’s chosen Secretary of Defense and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.) the president-elect’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services with negative articles. Google even included an attack on Elise Stefanik who is slated to be the next U.N. Ambassador in an article by the leftist publication The New Republic, headlined, “Trump Names U.N. Ambassador Who Will Wreck Gaza to Unseen Levels.” All told, MRC researchers have exposed Google for rigging results for the names of Trump’s nominees on Nov. 19, Nov. 26, Dec. 3, Dec. 10 and in this report. Each study demonstrated that Google filled its results with personal attacks and absurd ratios of left-of-center vs. U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” articles. The Nov. 26 study found the worst ratio, showing that Google gave users 20 times more left-leaning articles than right-leaning.   Google’s attack against Trump’s nominees follows a campaign against Trump himself. A Sept. 6 MRC Free Speech America study demonstrated that Google required users to wade through a deluge of leftist news articles to get to Trump’s campaign website. Additionally, MRC researchers showed further election interference by Google on Oct. 1, Oct. 9, Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Oct. 30 and Election Day. This late push to block Trump’s return to the presidency follows years of similar election interference by Google.  Study after study found that Google consistently propped up legacy media outlets like ABC News, NBC News and CBS News which were going after Trump’s nominees not only in articles but also on air. A study by MRC senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino showed that from Dec. 1 to Dec. 14, ABC’s "World News Tonight," "CBS Evening News" and NBC’s "Nightly News,” provided 96 percent negative coverage about the nominees.  D’Agostino noted that the coverage aggressively targeted nominees who appeared vulnerable like Patel or Hegseth, in order to cause their withdrawal. D’Agostino scathingly blasted the networks’ bias, noting, “the only positive commentary any Trump nominee received on the broadcast networks was from his own mother.” Methodology  For this report, MRC Free Speech America analyzed the Dec. 17 Google Search and News tab results for the first and last names of 23 men and women nominated for cabinet-level positions in the second Trump administration as well as Trump’s choice for FCC chairman and Trump’s choice for FBI director. MRC Free Speech America created an algorithm to automate this process in a clean environment. A “clean environment” allows for organic search to populate results without the influence of prior search history and tracking cookies.  MRC Free Speech America also utilized the AllSides media bias chart as a gauge to determine which outlets are “right” and “lean right.” AllSides notes it has a “patent on rating bias and use[s] multiple methodologies,” not a homogenous group or an algorithm. “Our methods are: Blind Bias Surveys of Americans, Editorial Reviews by a multipartisan team of panelists who look for common types of media bias, independent reviews, and third-party data.” Readers should be aware that this report only uses the AllSides list to analyze ratings of outlets considered by AllSides to be “right” and “lean right” and does not necessarily reflect MRC’s characterizations of these outlets. Nominees searched on December 17 include Scott Bessent, Pamela Bondi, Douglas Burgum, Brendan Carr, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Doug Collins, Sean Duffy, Tulsi Gabbard, Jamieson Greer, Kevin Hassett, Peter Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kelly Loeffler, Howard Lutnick, Linda McMahon, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Brooke Rollins, Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Scott Turner, Russell Vought, Susan Wiles, Christopher Wright and Lee Zeldin Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

The loony liberals of ABC News’s The View were in a festive spirit Thursday morning as they kicked off their discussion with a baseless conspiracy theory that billionaire Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance were plotting to have President-elect Trump assassinated and usurp control of the government by pushing him down a flight of stairs. There was an attempt to walk it back my blaming her cat for putting the idea in her head. On the same day The Wall Street Journal published an article chronicling how President Biden’s advanced decline left his unelected advisors and staff running the government, moderator Whoopi Goldberg seemed intent to distract from the story. “Who is in charge?” she demanded to know of the Trump transition team. Her issue was with Musk’s non-governmental advisory role and his public comments about policy and intent. “I've been saying it. I think Elon Musk believes he's president. I do,” Goldberg chided. She then teamed up with Friday moderator Joy Behar to suggest that a “possible” reason for Vance to be purportedly silent so far during the transition was because he and Musk were plotting to assassinate Trump at some point: BEHAR: Well, you've called him vice president. GOLDBERG: I’ve called him vice president. I’ve called him president because I don't know what J.D. is doing. I hardly ever -- I don't remember the last time we even talked about J.D. HOSTIN: You’re right. BEHAR: He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump. GOLDBERG: So, you think it's Musk/Vance? BEHAR: Possible.     “Hey, [Trump], stay away from the stairways. Because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out,” Goldberg proclaimed. Following a commercial break, Goldberg tried to walk back her comments by blaming her cat. “Okay, I need to clean something up because my cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that's what I was referring -- I was thinking of that. I wasn't trying to indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out hoping he would trip,” she claimed. She ridiculously suggested that her talk about killing Trump was meant to be “light-hearted.” “[I]t's the holidays. Come on! My goodness!” she exclaimed. Ignoring the previous two attempts on Trump’s life, co-host Sunny Hostin falsely declared that, “Nobody wants anything done to the president.” Goldberg went on to lament the double-edge nature of the show when they “step in poo”: GOLDBERG: Okay. You know, the thing about this show, there is no way not to step in poo! There's no way to do it! There's no way not to do it! BEHAR: That's true. She then snapped at her critics: “So, for all of you who were waiting and saying, ‘oh my god, listen to what she said,’ I got a cat who does it to me every day and that is what sparked it.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 19, 2024 11:02:48 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Who is in charge? Because I've been saying it for awhile. SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes, you have. GOLDBERG: I've been saying it. I think Elon Musk believes he's president. I do. JOY BEHAR: Well, you've called him vice president. GOLDBERG: I’ve called him vice president. I’ve called him president because I don't know what J.D. is doing. I hardly ever -- I don't remember the last time we even talked about J.D. HOSTIN: You’re right. BEHAR: He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump. GOLDBERG: So, you think it's Musk/Vance? BEHAR: Possible. GOLDBERG: Hmm. Hey, you-know-who, stay away from the stairways. [Laughter] Because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out. But it kind of seems like maybe he is the president, because he got a promotion of some sort that none of us knew about. (…) 11:15:56 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: Okay, I need to clean something up because my cat lays in wait for me on my stairs all the time and that's what I was referring -- I was thinking of that. I wasn't trying to indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out hoping he would trip. It was like -- HOSTIN: No. Nobody wants anything done to the president. GOLDBERG: No. It was light-hearted and it's the holidays. Come on! My goodness! [Applause] HOSTIN: You did not mean that anybody should hurt the president. GOLDBERG: No. HOSTIN: Of course not. GOLDBERG: Okay. You know, the thing about this show, there is no way not to step in poo! [Laughter] There's no way to do it! There's no way not to do it! BEHAR: That's true. GOLDBERG: So, for all of you who were waiting and saying, ‘oh my god, listen to what she said,’ I got a cat who does it to me every day and that is what sparked it. (…)

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, stated Wednesday that he believes the administration's mass deportation effort will cost at minimum $86 billion.Homan acknowledged that it would be "expensive" but argued it would save taxpayers money in the long run. He vowed to roll out a "well-targeted enforcement operation."'ICE offices across the country will be out on the streets.'During an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday, Homan clarified that he is unsure of the ultimate costs of the deportation effort."We're working on a plan," he told Collins. "It depends on how many resources I have and what the cost is going to be. But I'll say this. $86 billion. I mean, what price do you put on the young women that have been murdered and raped in this country? What price do you put on the lives of all these little girls that you know — there's numerous cases. What price do you put on national security?"Homan continued, "This will be an expensive operation. But in the long run, it'll be a huge tax savings on the American people. Because right now, they're spending billions of dollars on free airline tickets, free hotel rooms, free medical care. Not talking about our education system, our trauma [centers] and hospitals. And that's in perpetuity."Homan explained that the majority of the foreign nationals coming into the U.S. to claim asylum are later determined to be ineligible."Nearly nine out of 10 people who claim asylum will get an order of removal," he stated.The future border czar also told Collins that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would require at least 100,000 detention beds.A Tuesday report from Fox News Digital revealed that the Trump administration is weighing investing in more wrist and ankle GPS monitors for illegal aliens not in federal custody. From day one of Trump's presidency, "ICE offices across the country will be out on the streets," Homan vowed.The top priority of the administration is to remove illegal aliens who have committed violent crimes or are confirmed gang members. Homan explained that sanctuary policies will thwart those efforts."In sanctuary cities, we can't arrest a criminal in the jail because they won't let us in the jail. So that forces us to go into the neighborhood, which means instead of one agent arresting the bad guy in the jail, we gotta send a whole team to the neighborhood."During such operations, Homan stated that ICE agents are likely to find other non-priority illegal aliens. "But, guess what? They're going to be arrested too because immigration officers aren't going to be told to walk away from somebody here illegally like the Biden administration has done," he added. During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Maria Bartiromo noted that Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, had estimated that the deportation plan would cost between $80 billion to $100 billion.Homan told Bartiromo that he would need a minimum of $86 billion approved by Congress to execute the plan. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!