‘Evil’ abusive dad allegedly killed baby son by burying him alive
An evil dad with a history of domestic violence has been accused of murdering his baby boy by partially burying him alive — months after the boy’s mom had tried to get a restraining order.
John Hannon, 43, was charged with first‑degree felony child abuse resulting in death after it emerged his 11-month-old son, John “Teigue “JJ” Hannon, was still breathing when his badly battered face was buried in the dirt in a ditch, according to an affidavit obtained by the Durango Herald.
The dad was free despite a troubling history of violence against his family, and an arrest just a week earlier for allegedly driving on drugs and then trying to plant meth on a driver he T-boned.
“This is another example of New Mexico’s failed criminal justice system,” San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari told the Tri‑City Record.
“There is no greater evil than individuals who hurt and kill children. You have my word we will do everything in our power to bring justice to this precious child.”
Hannon allegedly took baby JJ for a walk around Flora Vista, New Mexico, in his stroller last month — then told his ex, Krystal Phillips, he wasn’t dropping their baby back home because he had somehow left him with a grandparent hundreds of miles away in Colorado, according to the affidavit.
Phillips called cops, saying she feared something “bad had happened to her son” while with her troubled, violent ex, whom she’d previously tried to ban from being with either her or her kids.
The baby’s body was found two days later in a ditch — with his head and left arm buried in the dirt.
A post-mortem later showed that JJ had a fractured skull and other head injuries — but that dirt in his airways showed the tot was alive when he was partially buried, according to the report.
When he was arrested in his RV, Hannon initially told cops he “would never hurt JJ” — before conceding he was actually “hurt bad,” KOB reported.
When he was shown photos of the tragic tot’s injuries, he was asked if he’;d hit the baby, to which he allegedly replied, “No, not technically.”
He then admitted burying the baby — but saying he assumed he was already dead, the affidavit said.
In other interviews, the dad said that “at one point in time I did love my kids,” but that he had “changed” — and made a “mistake” with JJ.
Hannon has a long list of domestic violence arrests and convictions dating back to 2022, including punching Phillips’ 15-year-old son in the eye and allegedly slamming Phillips’ head into a crib.
Phillips filed a restraining order to keep him from her or the kids, but it was overturned when she failed to appear in court……
New Executions A Sign Of Growing Repression In Iran Amid War
Iran announced the execution of two political prisoners on March 31, a day after the death penalty was also carried out on two others, in a sign that the clerical authorities are stepping up a crackdown on internal opposition in the country.
The men, identified as Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi, were accused of membership in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an exiled opposition group that seeks to overthrow the Islamic republic and that Tehran regards as a terrorist organization.
The executions show that despite US and Israeli strikes wiping out much of Iran’s leadership and degrading its military-industrial capacities, there are no visible signs that the clerical authorities are losing control.
In fact, repression appears once again to be on the rise.
The men’s lawyer, Babak Paknia, wrote on social media that hours after the executions his office had still not received the verdict from the trial that sealed their fate.
“Before the sentence is carried out, it is necessary to notify its contents to the defense lawyers or at least to the defendant himself. The minimum right of the convicted person is to be able to benefit from the right to retrial and to a stay of execution,” he added.
Three other men were executed earlier this month.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, an Iranian human rights campaigner based in Norway, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that Alipour and Ghobadi were “kept in solitary confinement for long periods after their arrest.
They were tortured and confessions were extracted from them — confessions that, even under the laws of the Islamic republic itself, are not actually legal.”
In a statement responding to the executions, the MEK said “this reflects the regime’s fear of the people and their embrace of the resistance units. This bloodshed will forever roll up the disgraceful scroll of the regime.”
The MEK described the two men as “heroic” members, but their affiliation with the organization could not be independently confirmed…..
American journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped by armed men in Baghdad, terrifying footage shows
An American journalist who frequently covered the Middle East has reportedly been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, with terrifying surveillance footage showing armed men bundling her into the back of a car.
Tuesday’s abduction of Shelly Kittleson, 49, from Monticello, Wisconsin, was confirmed by Al-Monitor, the independent media outlet for which she had written.
Kittleson, who has written extensively for outlets including BBC World, Politico, and Foreign Policy, has spent years reporting from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Footage from local outlets shared on X reportedly shows Kittleson being bundled into the back of a car by armed men after they stopped her at a busy intersection in Baghdad.
News reports say she was snatched near the Baghdad Hotel, a stone’s throw from the heavily-militarized Green Zone, and state that two vehicles were involved in her kidnapping.
“We are deeply alarmed by the kidnapping of Al-Monitor contributor Shelly Kittleson in Iraq on Tuesday. We call for her safe and immediate release,” Al-Monitor said in a statement.
“We stand by her vital reporting from the region and call for her swift return to continue her important work,” the statement concluded.
Authorities intercepted a vehicle believed to belong to Kittleson’s abductors that flipped over as they tried to flee, and arrested one suspected kidnapper, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said.
However, the freelance journalist was not in the vehicle, and her current whereabouts are unknown.
The second vehicle which she was traveling in was last seen heading south out of Baghdad….
Key Russian oil export hub ablaze after Ukrainian drone strikes
Ukrainian drones struck a key Russian oil export hub on the Baltic Sea overnight, adding to fires still raging from a string of attacks that began on Wednesday.
Leningrad region Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said three people were injured, two of them children, and that the Ust-Luga Port and residential properties in a village had sustained damage.
He did not detail the extent of the damage to the port 70-miles west of Saint Petersburg and which handles around a fifth of Russian oil exports, saying only that Russian air defenses had downed 38 drones.
Ukraine drone forces commander Robert Brovdi said Ust-Luga had been hit again “to keep the fire going.”
Brovdi earlier stated that an operation targeting Russian oil facilities on the Baltic Sea got underway more than a week ago with the goal of “demilitarizing Russia’s oil arteries, refining capacity and crude export infrastructure.”
Ukraine’s military has said the Kirishi refinery is among the three largest oil‑processing plants in Russia, including the production of “fuels that support the armed forces of the aggressor state”.
Three oil tankers, five fuel tanks, three berths and facilities belonging to Russian natural gas giant Novatek were damaged after dozens of drones targeted Ust-Luga on Wednesday, triggering a fire at the port.
The multipurpose facility, which handled more than 130 millions tons of crude oil, petroleum products, liquid chemicals as well as coal, fertilizer, agricultural products, containers and other cargo in 2025, was hit again on Saturday, sparking another blaze….
NASA Artemis II pre-launch briefing: ‘Excellent shape’ for launch
March 31 (UPI) — NASA officials shared the final preparations for the Artemis II mission at a press conference at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
They talked about the progress made on the mission, which will be the first crewed flight to the moon in more than 50 years and the farthest distance from Earth traveled by humans yet.
Major testing is complete, NASA said, and there are no major technical obstacles left. The rocket is doing “really well,” after the latest round of repairs. Hydrogen leaks and a helium system issue caused the latest round of repairs. They’ve all been fixed.
“Our team has been working amazingly hard through these weeks and months, trying to get this vehicle ready to where it is,” Jeff Spaulding, a senior NASA test director with the Exploration Ground Systems program, said in the briefing.
“We’ve had some challenges. The team has done an outstanding job managing each and every one of those throughout all of this, through many different scenarios, through weather or through lots of different things that we’ve had to work through to try to get through all of this and get to where we are today,” Spaulding said.
NASA is targeting Wednesday for the flight during a 2-hour window that opens at 6:24 p.m. EDT, with more launch opportunities through April 6.
The Artemis I mission in 2022 flew around the moon but didn’t have a crew aboard.
The Artemis II crew are: Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Commander Reid Wiseman and Pilot Victor Glover.
After canceling a launch attempt in February because of a helium valve issue, officials said that the only thing they are worried about for the Wednesday launch is the weather. But the forecast offers an 80% chance for proper conditions….
How Trump Can Set the Record Straight on His ‘No Endless Wars’ Agenda | Victor Davis Hanson
He should say, I didn’t say I was against war or conflict. I said I was against endless Forever Wars. I’m talking about 20 years in Afghanistan and 10 and Iraq and the nine month bombing on and off of Libya by Obama.
And so when I came in, I wasn’t going to say no war because our enemies would take that as a Chamberlain-like appeasement, and they would take advantage of it.
Kid Rock catches heat for viral Apache helicopter social media video — Army launches investigation
Famed rock star and longtime Trump supporter Kid Rock has drawn some scrutiny over a video he posted on social media this weekend. While many social media users loved the video, the U.S. Army has nonetheless launched an investigation into the incident.
On Saturday, Rock posted a video from what appears to be the pool of his Tennessee mansion, nicknamed the “Southern White House.”
In the video, Rock can be seen standing at the pool’s edge and saluting apparent servicemen aboard a helicopter hovering for a few seconds right in front of him.
The helicopter hovers in the air almost level to the camera, which is stationed behind Rock.
“This is a level of respect that s**t for brains Governor of California will never know. God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her,” Rock captioned the video.
Many commenters on the Instagram post showed their love for the stunt and for Rock’s patriotism. Others, however, have taken issue with the flyover, including the U.S. Army.
“Fort Campbell leadership is aware of a video circulating on social media depicting AH-64 Apache helicopters operating in the vicinity of a private residence associated with Mr. Robert Ritchie (also known as ‘Kid Rock’). The command has initiated an investigation to review the circumstances surrounding this activity,” Maj. Jonathon Bless, 101st Airborne Division public affairs officer, told Fox News in a statement.
Rock, on the other hand, saw no issue with those in the helicopter having a little bit of fun.
In an interview with WKRN, Rock laughed, “I think they’re going to be all right. My buddy’s the commander in chief. I mean, what are they looking into? They stopped for, I don’t know, seconds? A minute? Maybe they were here three to four minutes.”…
FBI walks through chilling final hours before ‘Hezbollah-inspired’ terrorist tried to kill Jewish kids in Michigan
At a press conference on Monday, Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan recounted the elaborate lengths taken by Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon, to try to kill as many “Israelis” as possible, even as he targeted a building in America.
According to Runyan:
Between March 9 and March 11, Ghazali began feverishly searching online for Jewish centers in the metropolitan Detroit area, taking target practice at a local gun range, and purchasing firearms, ammunition, dozens of 5.3-gallon containers, gasoline, and more than $2,200 worth of fireworks
His online search queries included: “largest gathering of israelis in Michigan,” “orthodox synagogues,” “israeli near me,” “what time is the trump rally in Michigan,” and “a center affiliated with the israeli embassy in Michigan.”
He attempted to delete these queries, but investigators were able to recover them.
Beginning on March 11, Ghazali also made a flurry of social media posts that not only included photos of family members recently killed in the Middle East strikes, but also referred to jihad, martyrdom, and Hezbollah.
One post included images of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah accompanied by an Arabic message that read: “Burn their world, for we have a vendetta against them, and we will never forget.”
On March 12, the day of the attack, he posted:
- “We will seek retribution for their sacred blood.”
- “Israel is a cancerous/malignant growth.”
- “Israel is pure evil.”
- “And the oppressors will soon know what kind of end they will meet.”
That morning, Ghazali contacted his ex-wife, who called Dearborn Heights police and requested a wellness check on him. He also reached out to his sister, who is believed to live in Lebanon.
Ghazali’s social media posts and messages to his sister continued almost until the very moment when he drove his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield at 12:19 p.m. He even recorded multiple videos on his journey to Temple Israel and shared dozens of memes, videos, photos, and messages online and with his sister, including:….
Florida thug accused of fatally shooting 2-year-old in head as mother held him in her arms amid argument over a phone
A witness told police that Steven Dodson Jr. and the mother were arguing “about a phone” outside at the Valencia Way Apartments in Jacksonville late Sunday night, the station said, citing the arrest report. Dodson is the mother’s boyfriend, WJXT said.
The witness told police Dodson followed the mother back inside and “into the same room as the children,” the station said, citing the arrest report.
The mother told police Dodson locked the bedroom door behind them, got a gun off a shelf in the bedroom closet, and then fired a shot at her as she held her son, 2-year-old A’hmari Robinson, WJXT said.
The bullet struck the toddler, who died after being rushed to Wolfson Children’s Hospital, the station said.
The arrest report indicates Dodson ran from the apartment and was captured on surveillance video throwing the gun into a dumpster, WJXT said.
Authorities including the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Marshals, and the SWAT Unit took Dodson into custody at the Vista Landing Apartments late Monday after a manhunt, the station said.
Police told WJXT that before officers arrived someone retrieved the gun from the dumpster and brought it back to the apartment where police took it into evidence…..
U.S. officials question NATO’s value as Iran conflict continues
President Donald Trump and key cabinet members escalated criticism on Tuesday toward U.S. allies for their reluctance to support the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
As the U.S. and Israel continue attacks against Iran, Trump is hammering American allies for their reluctance to provide support.
The administration argues that the lack of international assistance exposes deep divisions within longstanding alliances and raises questions about the future of global security cooperation and the economic ramifications of the conflict.
Trump said Tuesday that it is time for allies to assume more responsibility or learn to protect themselves from global threats.
He highlighted Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that carries about 20% of the world’s oil trade, as a pressing example.
“Build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” the U.S. president wrote in a social media post. “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth struck a similar tone at a news conference Tuesday morning.
“A lot has been laid bare. A lot has been shown to the world about what our allies would be willing to do for the United States of America when we undertake an effort of this scope on behalf of the free world,” Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon. “You don’t have much of an alliance if you have countries that are not willing to stand with you when you need them.”
The Center Square reached out to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance with 32 member countries based in Belgium, for comment. A NATO spokeswoman said the organization had nothing to share.
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history after the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001.
Trump singled out France on Tuesday.
“The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory,” the U.S. president wrote in a social media post. “France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the ‘Butcher of Iran,’ who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!!”….
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You Don’t Own Me: Freedom, Responsibility, and the Lies of Collectivism
Government forces people to get vaccinated, and requires licenses to braid hair, go hunting, buy a gun.
Politicians say they’re “protecting” us.
“It’s the excuse given by people who want to take away our freedom” says Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute.
Rubio: NATO Alliance Unsustainable if It is Just America Protecting Europe
Speaking with the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Media Network, Secretary Rubio expressed deep disappointment with the response of allies in Europe to the conflict in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz and suggested that America may be better off without NATO.
“The president and our country will have to reexamine all of this after this operation is over. But one of the reasons why NATO is beneficial to the United States is that it gives us basing rights for contingencies. It allows us to station troops, aircraft, and weapons in parts of the world that we wouldn’t normally have bases. And that includes in much of Europe,” Rubio noted.
“And to see that in a time of need, the United States has identified a grave risk to our national security and our national interests. And we needed to conduct this operation. And we have countries like Spain, a NATO member that we are pledged to defend, denying us the use of their airspace and bragging about it, denying us the use of our of their bases. And there are other countries that have done that as well. And so you ask yourself, well, what is in it for the United States?” the top diplomat questioned.
Secretary Rubio, who has long stood as one of the top hawks in the Republican Party in the United States, said that he has been a “big supporter of NATO,” given the “leverage, flexibility and operational capability” it provides the American military.
However, he said that if the alliance simply means the United States protecting Europe when they are attacked, and European powers refusing to come to America’s aid, then “that’s not a very good arrangement, that’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States… All of it’s going to have to be re-examined.”..
WSJ: President Trump Shares Clip of U.S. ‘Bunker Buster Bombs’ Hitting Iranian Ammunition Depot
A U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the military hit the site with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs, the newspaper reported Monday.
President Trump’s post on Truth Social featured the clip that showed the reported strike with smoke and fire rising into the dark sky. He did not caption the video:
“The video captured the strike, the official said,” per the WSJ. The newspaper added, “U.S. forces have struck more than 11,000 targets throughout the monthlong war on Iran, largely focusing on sites that degrade Iran’s offensive capabilities.”
Operation Epic Fury began February 28 when the United States and Israel launched joint strikes against Iran’s Islamic regime to stop its leaders from developing nuclear weapons to threaten countries all over the world.
In another social media post on Monday, Trump said, “The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.”
He continued:
Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.” This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror.” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
U.S. Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth on March 19 dismissed media claims of a “forever war” saying, “Nothing could be further from the truth,” according to Breitbart News.
He said the operation was “laser-focused” and “decisive,” then added, “Our objectives, given directly from our America First president, remain exactly what they were on day one. Destroy missiles, launchers, and Iran’s defense industrial base so they cannot rebuild, destroy their navy, and Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”
What They STILL Aren’t Telling You About Spike Protein – the Fallout We’re Still Ignoring — SF697
I’m on a mission to understand what’s really been left unresolved from the Covid era, so I sit down with Dr Tina Peers to explore how patients are still suffering, what’s been ignored, and why questions around treatment, transparency, and accountability haven’t gone away .
From long Covid and vaccine injury to the role of institutions, fear, and medical authority, this conversation moves beyond ideology and into what’s actually happening to people—and what, if anything, can be done about it now.
Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.
An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment.
The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint.” The First Amendment, he wrote, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
Gorsuch’s opinion drew support from liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
A state could similarly not ban talk therapy designed to affirm a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity, Kagan wrote. “Once again, because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward,” she wrote.
In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that states should be free to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. The decision, Jackson wrote, “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”
The decision is the latest in a line of recent cases in which the justices have backed claims of religious discrimination while taking a skeptical view of LGBTQ+ rights.
Counselor Kaley Chiles, with support from President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, said the law wrongly bars her from offering voluntary, faith-based therapy for kids….
Blue States Withhold Voter Rolls From DHS While Giving Them To Leftist Orgs For Free
Democrat senators claim it is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy that the SAVE America Act requires states to share voter rolls and requisite identifying information with the federal government in order to check for noncitizens, but many of their states already share the same data with left-wing third party organizations.
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., argued against the bill on the Senate floor, stating, “States would be required to report their full voter rolls to Department of Homeland Security and certify that there are no non-citizens on their list. And the federal government can require, then, states to purge their voter roles of any suspected non-citizens.”
“The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has said that DHS’s desire to turn the SAVE program into a de facto national citizenship registry raises significant civil liberties concerns,” he stated, appearing to argue against the federal government being able to know who is in the country illegally or which noncitizens are attempting to vote.
“Would you trust them with your name, address, date of birth, driver’s license number, and biometric information like height, weight, hair color, and eye color? The SAVE Act asks you to place that trust in them. I personally would not,” he added.
But Rhode Island, Reed’s home state, already shares all that information with left-wing election groups like Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and by extension the Zuckbucks-linked Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR).
The state also solicited voter registration from noncitizens at the behest of ERIC, as The Federalist reported.
Reed’s office refused to respond to two requests for comment about the inconsistency, or why he has an issue with removing noncitizens from voter rolls.
Sending the solicitations, called “eligible but unregistered” (EBU) voter mailers, are a requirement of membership in ERIC, which purports to be a multi-state voter roll “management system, despite only mandating that voters be added and never removed,” Ned Jones, director of the Citizens Election Research Center at the Election Integrity Network, a project of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, told The Federalist.
“Member states send ERIC a list of anyone who interact[s] with the DMV, both citizens and non-citizens. ERIC shares the information with CEIR and sends the state a list of EBUs to contact, with voter registration information,” Jones said.
The system has resulted in Colorado’s secretary of state sending 30,000 noncitizens the registration mailers….
