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  • Gunshots or car backfiring at Berkley TPUSA event?

    11/11/2025 11:04:49 AM PST · by ViLaLuz · 2 replies
    X ^ | Nov. 11, 2025 | Frontlines TPUSA
    Video on X: An ANTIFA member just lit off a flare resulting in TPUSA event attendees being rushed inside. A car then comes and starts backfiring visibly scaring multiple attendees who feared they were hearing gunshots.
  • Afghanistan War (2001 - 2014)

    11/11/2025 10:25:31 AM PST · by RandFan · 12 replies
    britannica ^ | 11/11/25 | britannica
    The hijacking and crashing of four U.S. jetliners on September 11, 2001, brought instant attention to Afghanistan. The plot had been hatched by al-Qaeda, and some of the 19 hijackers had trained in Afghanistan. In the aftermath of the attacks, the administration of U.S. Pres. George W. Bush coalesced around a strategy of first ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan and dismantling al-Qaeda, though others contemplated actions in Iraq, including long-standing plans for toppling Pres. Saddam Hussein. Bush demanded that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar “deliver to [the] United States authorities all the leaders of al-Qaeda who hide in your land,”...
  • Fans Can’t Believe How Much Rock Singer Has Aged In The Last 50 Years

    11/11/2025 8:57:50 AM PST · by dayglored · 39 replies
    The Bee ^ | Nov 10, 2025 | The Bee
    LAS VEGAS, NV — Following a recent performance by a legendary band of their greatest hits, fans posted online about how they couldn't believe how much the lead singer had aged in the last 50 years. Though the crowd appeared to enjoy the show, attendees later expressed shock that the band's frontman looked so much older and worn down by life than he did when the band first hit it big in the 1970s. "Man, he really looks old now," said one fan in a social media post. "It's a far cry from the way he looked a half...
  • Toxic 'Hammerhead Worm' Is Invading Texas, Triggering Warnings

    11/11/2025 7:23:26 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 86 replies
    Science Net via Yahoo ^ | 11/10/25 | Tessa Koumoundouros
    "Don't kill it, don't squish it, don't cut it up," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller warned residents via NBC as a toxic flatworm spreads across North Texas. While this invasive species has been in the US for years, the state's fatally heavy rains, fueled by climate change, are enabling the hammerhead flatworm (Bipalium kewense) to thrive and spread. This brown and black-striped, flattened land planarian with a distinctive half-moon-shaped head can reach lengths of up to 40 cm (15.7 inches). Like many flatworm species, it can regenerate a whole new worm from slices of itself. Decapitating the worm will only...
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Reportedly Gearing Up for 2028 Presidential Run as a ‘Real MAGA’ Republican

    11/11/2025 7:16:01 AM PST · by DIRTYSECRET · 124 replies
    Her recent appearances on Bill Maher, The View, and CNN are clear indicators Greene wants to win over anti-Trump Americans. Greene has been increasingly critical of her own party. MTG bashed Republicans for not having a “plan” to replace Obamacare, which she said made her “angry.”
  • ‘Egregious’: Judge Scolds Pennsylvania Cop Who Locked Up Black Teen for Nearly a Month and Hid Evidence That Proved His Innocence

    11/11/2025 3:38:21 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 14 replies
    A teen boy and his mother filed a federal lawsuit against Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and its police department, alleging false arrest and imprisonment after the boy was misidentified in a surveillance video and jailed for nearly a month on gun charges. The complaint filed by Mekhi Johnson and his mother, Amber Garrity, on July 31 (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star) claims Williamsport Police Bureau Agent Benjamin Hitesman ignored evidence proving Johnson’s innocence and failed to inform prosecutors, willful omissions that a county judge later said “cast a dark cloud” over local police and all law enforcement..... Based solely on that...
  • Today is Armistice Day (Remembrance Day)

    11/11/2025 3:26:38 AM PST · by RandFan · 18 replies
    London Evening Standard ^ | 11/11/25 | Lola Christina Alao | Sian Baldwin
    “At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them,” Laurence Binyon wrote. His words in his poem For the Fallen have become timeless and are read every year on Remembrance Sunday as Britain comes together to pay respect to all those who have died in conflict since the First World War. Some 107 years after WWI ended, those words still hold power today while reminding people about the lives sacrificed for peace. The first Armistice Day was observed on November 11, 1919, to mark the first anniversary of the end of the First World...
  • Today’s Cryptogram

    11/11/2025 2:44:46 AM PST · by Apple Pan Dowdy · 13 replies
    XF CQLX LX QFR PLIYBCJ GLYX. RLCQ CQSOGYBFSX TAAPTSXY. — ATGNÉ TNLGTPT LO XCTB RTBX BYUYOMY FH CQY XLCQ
  • Strange signal detected from mysterious interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves closer to Earth

    11/11/2025 12:52:07 AM PST · by blueplum · 89 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10 Nov 2025 | STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
    For the first time, astronomers have picked up a radio signal from the mysterious interstellar visitor as it speeds through our Solar System. South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope detected absorption lines from OH molecules...Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who has been studying 3I/ATLAS since the summer, said: 'These molecules leave a distinct radio signature that telescopes like MeerKAT can pick up.'... Optical images captured on November 9 reveal that 3I/ATLAS is ejecting enormous jets of material both toward and away from the sun. The jets stretch nearly 600,000 miles sunward and almost 1.8 million miles in the opposite direction, roughly the...
  • Jeff Lynne's ELO comeback tour- 2001

    Jeff Lynne's ELO on tour promoting his album ZOOM and playing all the oldies. Do Ya Evil Woman Strange Magic Livin' thing Telephone Line Turning to Stone -etc
  • ‘End H-1B visas, stop legal immigration’: Nikki Haley’s son Nalin says ‘people who hate America should get out’

    11/10/2025 1:51:10 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 35 replies
    Financial Express ^ | November 10, 2025 | Aditi
    Nalin Haley, the 24-year-old son of former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, has sparked a major debate with his comments on immigration and jobs in America. In an interview with UnHerd, he said the US should not only stop illegal immigration, but legal immigration too. His reason was the same as many Americans right now — young people, including his own friends, are struggling to find work. Despite being from one of the most prominent Indian-origin families in US politics, Nalin took a hard line on immigration, including immigration from India. Nalin said the US should pause all...
  • Veterans Day 2025 parades, events in Northeast Ohio

    11/10/2025 1:10:04 PM PST · by DallasBiff
    FOX 8 Cleveland ^ | 11/9/25 | Celeste Houmard
    CLEVELAND (WJW) – Veterans Day 2025 falls on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and is a day to honor and celebrate veterans and active military members nationwide.
  • How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’

    11/10/2025 12:43:45 PM PST · by Kid Shelleen · 35 replies
    Popular Science ^ | 11/8/2025 | Bill Gourgey
    ---SNIP--- Whenever the November Witch sweeps across the Great Lakes in autumn, mariners know to beware. Hurricane-force winds, born from collisions of lingering summer warmth and frigid Arctic air, can slam into the lakes and set loose 40-foot waves. But unlike an ocean hurricane, which builds for days or weeks, the Witch of November—made famous by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad—can transform the lakes from glass to fury in just hours. To the Anishinaabe, also known as Chippewa, it isn’t a sorceress who terrorizes the largest of the Great Lakes, but a clash between Thunderbirds, wind spirits who rule...
  • Reporter's Notebook: [RAND] Paul stands firm against spending bill as shutdown clock ticks

    11/10/2025 12:27:41 PM PST · by V_TWIN · 38 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | November 10, 2025 | Chad Pergram
    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the only Republican who broke with his party and voted no on the test vote to break a filibuster on the deal to reopen the government. Paul voted nay because he wanted a guarantee of a change in the bill regarding hemp.
  • Illegal alien with past felony firearm violation in custody after weekend Border Patrol attack in Chicago

    11/10/2025 12:19:09 PM PST · by V_TWIN · 15 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | November 10, 2025 | Louis Casiano
    An illegal immigrant with a criminal history has been arrested following a weekend shooting in which U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot at in Chicago. The shooting happened Saturday in the city's Little Village neighborhood as federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations. The unidentified suspect, a Mexican citizen, was in a Jeep that drove up near the agents and fired shots before driving away, federal sources told Fox News. At the time of his arrest, he was found with a firearm, sources said. The suspect has previously been convicted of crimes including aggravated unlawful use of a weapon/vehicle, felony...
  • Syria's Sharaa arrives in US for Trump talks after sanctions lifted

    11/10/2025 11:24:00 AM PST · by RandFan · 11 replies
    BBC ^ | Nov 10 | BBC
    Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa has arrived in Washington for an official visit, just two days after the US formally revoked his status as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The former Islamist militant will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, 11 months after his rebel alliance ousted Bashar al-Assad. Hours before his arrival in the US capital it was announced that Syrian security services had detained dozens of suspected members of the so-called Islamic State group. Joint efforts to tackle what remains of the group in Syria are expected to be high on the agenda during...
  • Independent MP Rupert Lowe calls for "hostile environment" in the UK for illegal immigrants so they self-deport

    11/10/2025 11:07:42 AM PST · by RandFan · 18 replies
    X ^ | Nov 10 | @RupertLowe10
    @RupertLowe10 We need to create such a hostile and unwelcoming environment for illegal migrants that the vast majority deport themselves.
  • Spectators boo as Trump appears at Washington Commanders game

    11/10/2025 9:27:55 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 74 replies
    NBC News ^ | 11/10/25 | NBC News
    Some spectators booed as President Trump appeared on the videoboard at a Washington Commanders gain against the Detroit Lions. The jeering continued while Trump read an oath for members of the military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment ceremony during a break in the game.
  • IOC set to ban transgender athletes from Olympic women's events: reports

    11/10/2025 8:21:04 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 32 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | November 10, 2025 | Ryan Gaydos
    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will enact a new policy that will prohibit transgender female athletes from competing against biological women, according to multiple reports. The policy is reportedly set to cover those with differences of sex development (DSD). The IOC’s current policy leaves it up to each individual sport’s governing body to make policies governing transgender athletes. But as the IOC changed its leadership, The Times of London reported on Monday that its policies are set to change as well. IOC President Kirsty Coventry called for "protecting" the women’s category in June and there was "overwhelming support" from IOC...
  • Alabama police get revenge on high school seniors who covered HQ with toilet paper: ‘We don’t want to hear any crying’

    11/10/2025 8:06:48 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 14 replies
    New York Post ^ | Nov 1, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre
    Not getting off “Scott” free. An Alabama police force playfully exacted revenge against a group of high schoolers who had covered their department headquarters — along with the rest of the town — with toilet paper as part of an elaborate senior prank. Heflin Police Chief Ross McGlaughn vowed to get back on the Class of 2026 when the students launched their overnight TP attack across the small Alabama city. The police department’s main building was dressed with rolls of toilet paper that covered the entrance, squad cars and the roof. “It’s just fun,” the student leaders told CBS News...