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When will Portland learn? There’s a movement afoot in Portland to provide free food to the homeless from front yard refrigerators. Willamette Week thinks it’s a great way “to Be a Better Neighbor”. I don’t. It’s a misguided feel-good effort at charity by naïve social justice warriors that perpetuates their presence while not resolving the situation on the ground. And of course the homeless services complex never shrinks because the client base never diminishes. A while ago I went to a free lunch for the homeless in an underground Portland parking garage. Tables spread out across the center of the...

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The vandalization of three California Hindu temples escalated fears about hate crimes against Indian Americans. Meanwhile, Sikhs are on edge from attacks against separatist leaders in North America.

According to official sources 144 UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems: - 72 over the territory of the Bryansk region. - 20 over the territory of the Moscow region. - 14 over the territory of the Kursk region. - 13 over the territory of the Tula region. - 8 over the territory of the Belgorod region. - 7 over the territory of the Kaluga region. - 5 over the territory of the Voronezh region. - 4 over the territory of the Lipetsk region - 1 over the territory of the Oryol region.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has spent the past couple decades warning the general public about ominous issues, from upcoming “climate disasters” to devastating cyberattacks. Two potential catastrophes evoke the most concern from Gates. “A lot of unrest” in today’s world could spark “a major war,” he tells CNBC Make It. And even “if we avoid a big war ... then, yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years.” Scientists typically view pandemics as likely, even inevitable, occurrences over time. They are indeed becoming more common, due to factors like climate change and population growth, research...

Vice President Kamala Harris is working overtime to distance herself from the Biden administration and the destruction it wreaked on the republic. As the first presidential debate between Harris and Donald Trump rapidly approaches, voters deserve now more than ever to hear Harris finally face tough questions about her historically terrible track record and radical views.

The censorship war has hit a flashpoint. Late last month, Brazil banned Elon Musk’s social media site, X, after Musk refused a government order to suppress seven dissident accounts. Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes responded by restricting access to the platform across the country. This story has direct implications in Brazil and also reveals the hidden stakes of the global censorship war. One way to measure the influence of a political regime is to trace the flow of money, goods, people, information, and force. These are the raw materials of politics, and the form that these materials take...

The Miami Dolphins NFL team has condemned police conduct towards their player Tyreek Hill as "violent", "maddening" and "despicable". Bodycam footage of the incident released on Monday showed officers dragging Hill out of his car, before forcing him to lie face down on the road and handcuffing him. While he was on the ground, one officer put a knee on his back, holding the player's wrists against his lower back. While he was on the ground, one officer put a knee on his back, holding the player's wrists against his lower back.

Forty years after being elected President of the United States, John F. Kennedy seems both the most invulnerable, but also the most mysterious icon of the Twentieth Century. Everything seems to have been said about the Kennedys, yet significant gray areas still continue to obscure their three-year reign today. A million pages are still sealed, kept secret in the heart of the J.F. Kennedy Library in Boston, the temple erected by the family to the glory of the President. There we find the President's personal archives on international politics and on Cuba, the nerve center of all his policies; the...

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings fired back at commentator Maria Cardona on Monday after she claimed voters view Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as an “extremist.”Cardona said on CNN News Central that voters believe they “deserve better” than Trump as they detest his alleged lying and how supposedly misaligned his policies are with the American people. Jennings suggested that the former president would win the electoral college since the candidates were tied nationally in the polls. (snip) “What I’m saying is that women can go into a polling booth, with more than one thought in their head, Scott,” Cardona...

“The world is a dangerous place to live — not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” —Albert Einstein. When The New York Times tells you that the United States Constitution is a threat to democracy — As it did on the front page of its August 31 edition — you know that you are in thrall to exceedingly subtle minds. The Times only employs persons, both birthing and other, of the subtlest minds. You can tell because they are credentialed by our country’s finest institutions of educational credentialing....

Budanov has touted its capabilities using much smaller and cheaper combat and reconnaissance drones as well as naval UAVs which have been used to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Three days earlier, Budanov had said in a Facebook post that personnel from Ukrainian intelligence were working with specialists to develop drones which can hit targets up to 1,800 km away (1,200 miles) away and suggested that Kyiv's cyber experts had located Russia's weak spots, which would be later targeted. A map produced by Newsweek shows the radius of this drone range that Ukraine says it possesses which from Kyiv, reaches...

On May 3, 2024, a Florida Okaloosa County Sheriff Deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson. The deputy, Eddie Duran, was responding to a false, anonymous tip about supposed domestic violence in an apartment complex.Fortson was playing with his dog and on the phone with his girlfriend. When Roger Fortson realized someone was insistently knocking on the door and demanding entry, he accessed his legally owned pistol, and with the pistol held by his side, pointed at the floor, opened the door.The deputy immediately shot Fortson several times, then demanded Fortson “drop the gun”. Fortson’s pistol was already on...

Erdogan called for Muslim unity against Israeli expansion, but Turkish expert Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak sees deep divisions in the Muslim world After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Saturday for Muslim nations to unite against the "threat of Israeli expansion" in the Middle East, claiming that Israel aims to conquer countries in the region, Turkish politics expert Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak dismissed the likelihood of such a union. Dr. Yanarocak, born and raised in Turkey, is an expert on Turkish politics, Turkey-Israel relations, and is a researcher at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African...

A teenage girl taking flying lessons, her high school aviation instructor, her mother, and an elderly man were all on a private plane that crashed after flying from Middletown, Connecticut, to Ferrisburgh, Vermont, for brunch on Sunday, law enforcement and school officials said Monday. A four-seat, single-engine Piper aircraft departed Windham Airport for a flight of about two hours to Basin Harbor Airport around 8:30 a.m. for a brunch reservation at Basin Harbor, according to Vermont State Police. Delilah Van Ness, 15, and her mother, 51-year-old Susan Van Ness, both of Middletown, 55-year-old Paul Pelletier, of Columbia, and 88-year-old Frank...

In early 2024, the International Center for 9/11 Justice (IC911) embarked on the first stage of an in-depth study into what took place in the skies on September 11, 2001. On September 8, 2024, IC911 and UK Column held an online symposium where we commemorated the 23rd anniversary of that day and shared IC911’s research to date. The symposium evaluated three key claims of the US government’s account: That the alleged 9/11 hijackers could so smoothly and successfully commandeer all four airliners; That the alleged hijacker pilots could successfully fly three of the aircraft into their intended targets; That US...

Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma, in a New Yorker cover article by Eliza Griswold, said, "The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is 'Christian' because it means 'people like us,' it means white." The quote appeared in a paragraph that began with: "The election of Donald Trump intensified certain strains of Christian nationalism." However, the Reverend Franklin Graham, son of the late Reverend Billy Graham, maintains; "'Christian nationalism' -- that's a coin that the media has come up with. It is to divide our country; it's to polarize people. Christian nationalism...

Tyreek Hill has established himself as one of the best and most electric players in the NFL, but the ride to the top of the league has been a bumpy one. ...Hill's latest incident involves Instagram model Sophie Hall, who claims that Hill broke her leg while running football drills at the receiver's mansion in June 2023. That incident occurred just eight days after Hill's allegedly assaulted a marina employee in Miami Beach, Fla. ...On March 15 [2019], The Kansas City Star reported Hill was under police investigation for battery involving him and Espinal's 3-year-old son, who had suffered a...

TORONTO — Already beset by a serious image problem at home and abroad, embattled Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu suffered a new blow to his international stature after a full-length documentary about him had its world premiere Monday night at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). “The Bibi Files,” a nearly two-hour film, includes never-before-seen leaked footage of Netanyahu sure to increase the ire of those seeking his political demise, and perhaps give pause to a few of his fervent supporters. If nothing else, it could reshape his image abroad and unveil sides of the longtime leader previously kept under...

Vladimir Putin has awoken to one of the largest bombardments on Moscow and other parts of Russia after 30 months of bloodshed. Ukraine unleashed 144 drones, targeting three airports in the capital and lighting up residential buildings in the region of Moscow, during what the Kremlin called a ‘terrorist attack supported by the UK and US’. Debris from aircraft damaged at least two high-rise buildings in the Ramenskoye district in the early hours of Tuesday, setting several flats on fire. A 46-year-old woman was killed and three people were injured, governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram. He added that 43...