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And then there were none. The Panda Express in the basement food court of downtown’s San Francisco Centre, the city’s largest mall, has closed, leaving the woebegone retail destination without any restaurants. A sign informs visitors that the Panda Express location is permanently closed and that they can visit other locations in the city for its orange chicken and other Chinese American dishes. […] The mall’s new owners, a group of lenders associated under the name DBJPM 2016-SFC Emporium, bought the mall’s debt in November. Earlier this month, they sent unlawful detainer notices to three of the mall’s remaining tenants...

Explanation: The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. The featured deep image is a digital combination of images taken in different colors over 58 hours with a telescope from Lijiang, China. Anyone with a good pair of binoculars, however, can see this Whirlpool toward the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). M51 is a spiral galaxy of type Sc and is the dominant member of a...

SANTA ANA, Calif -- A demonstrator was hit in the face with a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a Southern California protest, leaving him bloodied and with serious injuries, according to video and accounts from fellow protesters and family on Tuesday. The Friday gathering outside the federal immigration building in the city of Santa Ana was in response to the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent, which has kicked off a wave of protests around the country. Hundreds of people had marched in the streets in Santa Ana until a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived for work at the Supreme Court building this morning in the official, yellow SCOTUS short bus. Onlookers cheered as Jackson emerged from the bus, after several minutes of trying to figure out how to open the bus door. "Aw, look at her, all dressed up like a big girl," said local woman Jeannie Gordon. "It's so neat that the Supreme Court makes accommodations for people like Ketanji. I love that she gets to participate, just like anyone else. Oh look, they're even letting her put on a robe! So sweet." Though the...

Federal investigators have uncovered what appears to be a sophisticated cash-courier network that moved hundreds of millions of dollars out of Minnesota and the United States using suitcases rather than traditional banking systems. As much as $700 million in cash was transported out of Minnesota via commercial flights, often routed through Europe and the Middle East. The operation relied on couriers rather than financial institutions, keeping the transactions largely off official banking records. Speaking to Steve Bannon, Editor in Chief for Just the News John Solomon talked about his exclusiv scoop, saying the Transportation Security Administration confirmed that $136 million...

Starlink has shown what a game-changer it is. At the beginning of the massive popular demonstrations in Iran, Elon Musk took the bold initiative of providing free Starlink services for the protestors. A few days in, Iran shut down the Internet in the entire country. For the first time since 2019, a nationwide blackout was imposed, disrupting phone networks and landline telephones. Starlink became the sole web outlet for protesters to get informed, communicate, and share the images of the momentous developments with the world. It didn’t take long for the brutal Iranian regime to crack down on Starlink terminals,...

Looks like Kamala Harris’s catastrophically awful choice for VP might be removed from office: Let’s not be too hard on Walz. He devoted his career to pure moonbattery, but he did do one thing right. Via WLT Report: [B]ack in 2020 he signed a new law that gave officers the right to use deadly force in situations involving imminent threats — like a vehicle accelerating towards them — with no requirement that they wait for actual physical impact first before shooting. This leaves no dispute that officers are justified in shooting criminal maniacs like Renee Good who try to run...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Nicole Good suffered internal bleeding following the encounter, the Department of Homeland Security said. Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Good three times in the face on January 7 during an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, endured internal bleeding to his torso, the Trump administration confirmed to the Daily Mail. The extent of his condition remains unclear, as internal bleeding can also be classified as a bruise or contusion that causes mild or serious injury. The mother-of-three was seen in a now-viral video ignoring demands by federal agents to get...

A woman could be seen in chaotic footage as she was dragged from her car by ICE agents during protests in Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Renee Good. The unidentified woman was allegedly blocking ICE agents working to capture illegal immigrants on Tuesday when officers pulled from her the vehicle as she desperately clung onto the driver's side door. It is understood she had been attempting to wedge agents between her car and a second car, which was also blocking the road during an ICE operation in Minnesota. 'I'm disabled, I'm trying to go to the doctor up there,'...

Jan. 14 (UPI) — The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into a government contractor. The FBI executed a search warrant at Natanson’s home, seizing electronic devices including a phone and laptop computers and a Garmin watch, The Washington Post, CNN and The Hill report. The reports are based, at least in part, on unnamed sources. The investigation centers around a government contractor who has allegedly retained classified government materials. Natanson was informed that she is not the focus of the probe, unnamed sources told the Post and...

Mentioned in the sacred texts of all three Abrahamic faiths, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, in modern-day Iraq, is today undergoing a revival. One project mitigates groundwater damage to the north retaining wall of the Ishtar Gate. The second is a restoration of the Temple of Ninmakh, dedicated to the Sumerian mother goddess. Largely funded by the US embassy in Baghdad, the restoration of the temple and the north retaining wall are part of the Future of Babylon Project, initiated 15 years ago, which aims to document, waterproof and stabilise structures throughout the 2,500-acre site. The completion of these...

If you used a digital camera in the early 2000s, there's a good chance whole chapters of your life have been erased. A generation of photos has vanished on broken hard drives and defunct websites.For my 40th birthday, I asked my friends and family members for one gift: pictures of me in my early 20s. My own photo collection from that era – roughly 2005-2010 – is devastatingly scarce. There's a blank space somewhere between my albums of printed college photos and my Dropbox folder of early motherhood snapshots. All I could find from those years was a handful of...

I'm wondering if ICE can seize the cars of people using them to block enforcement actions. It seems to me these people are using a car to obstruct justice. If the drivers are arrested shouldn't their cars be taken as evidence of criminal conduct and impounded until their trial? This would take the car out of action for many months or longer. Other would-be assailants would think twice before doing this. And who knows what could happen to the car while in the impound yard? Tires could go flat, batteries go dead, rain could get in open windows, silicon carbide...

The prime minister added the government is "absolutely determined to take action" on the usage of Grok to generate inappropriate AI images and that if X doesn't act, "Ofcom has our full backing" during Prime Minister's Questions.

President Trump has made lowering prescription drug prices a clear priority, repeatedly arguing that Americans should not be forced to pay more for medicine than patients in other developed countries. Drugmakers have publicly welcomed that message. But their actions tell a more complicated story.First reported by Reuters this week, pharmaceutical companies are raising list prices on more than 350 drugs for 2026. Many of the increases were small, but others were not, including sharp hikes on certain hospital-administered and specialty medicines that patients and providers rely on every day.Among the steepest increases were those for Demerol, a painkiller used in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With arguments being presented on issues that will have far-reaching effects on shaping the future of American laws, society, and culture, the other eight Supreme Court justices brought in Ms. Rachel to explain cases to Ketanji Brown Jackson. The judges reportedly discussed a variety of potential solutions to mitigate Jackson's intellectual shortcomings before deciding to hire the popular YouTube star and children's educator to help Jackson better understand the complex cases being ruled on by the court. "Hi, friend! Are you a… Supreme Court justice? You are! Yay! And you're a woman of color! GOOD JOB!" Ms....

Whoopsie. Look what Tampon Tim signed into law back in 2020. As the circus over the George Floyd protests raged on, Minnesota’s Legislature updated its “use-of-force” statute, and Gov. Walz signed it into law that July.Well, well, well…Look what Tim Walz signed into law in 2020: MN law §609.066: Officers can use deadly force if a driver accelerates toward them, creating immediate life-threatening danger. No need to wait for impact—they can act based on apparent intent & proximity. JUSTIFIED.It’s real. Under Minnesota Statute 609.066, peace officers may use deadly force only when a reasonable officer believes it’s necessary to protect...

@RepThomasMassie The Clinton’s think they’re above the law but they’re not. They must comply with congressional subpoenas and appear before the House of Representatives, or face arrest, conviction, and incarceration. I suspect they’ve observed Bondi’s lack of resolve and have decided to test it.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - On Tuesday, officers responded to the Palms of Emerald Coast Massage Parlor due to a report of a battery on a Department of Health (DOH) employee. According to the Fort Walton Beach Police Department, the DOH employee was conducting a routine inspection when Fang Wang, a massage parlor employee, became upset and started yelling at the inspector. Police said Wang tried to force the inspector out of the business. When officers tried to detain Wang, she started defecating toward officers in an attempt to avoid being arrested.

I'm more and more impressed with Wesley Hunt as a Republican candidate to replace John Cornyn. Cornyn (a friend of my late father) needs to go, and Paxton has way too much baggage (and if his wife can't trust him, why should I?). Are there negatives that I haven't seen yet on Hunt other than his relative political inexperience?