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A deaf woman fell onto the subway tracks in New York City after she was hit in the head by a homeless man who had been arrested for sucker-punching another victim just four days earlier. Xing Zhou, 59, was on her way to church when a man hit her in the head at 10am Sunday morning at Manhattan's Union Square subway station. She lost her balance during the attack and fell onto the tracks. Two bystanders helped Zhou off the tracks and waited with her until help arrived. She was taken to the hospital and given medication for her pain....

Her adventure will end in Glasgow too, when she attends the forthcoming COP 26, presenting a collection of stories gathered on her flight. She hopes she has inspired people along the way – such as all those involved locally with Forth Valley for Net Zero Campaign, who have been following Sacha’s journey with great interest. It inspired them to come up with their own challenges in the run up to COP26. Falkirk Council leader Cecil Meiklejohn said: “We are honoured that Sacha visited our world famous Kelpies. “Falkirk Council is a key partner in the recently launched Forth Valley for...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in an interview over that weekend that the Taliban takeover will translate into so great a terrorism threat that the U.S. military will be deployed again in Afghanistan. “We will be going back into Afghanistan as we went back into Iraq and Syria,” Graham

On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC again showed itself to be the place for fake news pushing liberal causes as host Tiffany Cross repeated a disputed statistic claiming that 70 to 90 percent of guns used in Mexico are from the United States, thus giving Mexico a rationale to sue gun manufacturers in the U.S. Setting up a segment on the topic, Cross recalled: An estimated 200,000 firearms are illegally trafficked from the U.S. to Mexico every year and between 70 percent and 90 percent of the firearms found at crime scenes in Mexico are traced right back here....

Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time Luke 6:6–11 Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus heals a man with a withered hand. As I’ve said many times before, we tend to domesticate Christ, reducing him to a guru or a teacher, one spiritual guide among many. But this is to do violence to the Gospel, which presents him not simply as teacher but as savior. I realize that the culture militates against Christianity at this point, for it steadily teaches the ideology of self-esteem and self-assertion: “I’m okay and you’re okay”; “Who are you to tell me how to behave?” But this...

Lago Vista School Board meeting 6/24/21. Parent demonstrates air quality control monitor on his daughter.

Last month, T-Mobile (TMUS), the nation’s largest wireless carrier, was hacked by a 21-year-old American living in Turkey named John Binns. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Binns said he spent about a week rummaging through the company’s servers. T-Mobile has since confirmed the data of more than 50 million current, prospective, and former customers was stolen in the hack. That includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, names, addresses, and dates of birth. The T-Mobile hack was massive, but not at all uncommon. In 2020, hackers accessed the customer data of 2.5 million customers of alcohol delivery...

The U.N.’s top climate official urged governments Monday to stop their “deferral and delay” tactics and instead embrace rapid, widespread measures to curb and adapt to global warming. Amid a season of extreme weather and new temperature records, Patricia Espinosa warned that no nation is safe from the impacts of climate change. Greece on Monday created a new ministry to address the impact of climate change following the country’s worst heat wave in decades. “There is not anymore a situation where we can say these are the vulnerable countries and these are the not vulnerable countries,” she said. […] Espinosa’s...

The recent U.S. statements about the possibility of cooperating with the Taliban against Daesh have confused everyone Reading Antony Blinken’s tweets on the end of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan and his praise of Turkey, I remembered an idiom I had learned ages ago: “mealy-mouthed.” Mr. Pickering, our peace-corps English instructor in high school, used to translate it as the equivalent of our Turkish expression of “Bir dediği bir dediğine uymuyor.” (Literally: “His one statement doesn’t suit his another Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Afghanistan during a media briefing at the State Department, Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 3,...

The Lone Star State conjures images of the Old West, such as rugged individualism and frontier justice. So, it’s not surprising the opponents to Texas’ new pro-life law, the Texas Heartbeat Act, characterize the statute as an example of vigilantism. Like bounty hunters, the law permits any Texan to earn at least $10,000 and court costs by successfully suing any person or organization that provides or assists an abortion after the detection of “cardiac motion” by ultrasound examination. A fetal heartbeat is usually detected around the sixth week of pregnancy. Private citizens growing rich by snitching? This is outrageous! Un-American!...

The more we cover the COVID crackdowns from Australia, the worse the situation over there seems to be. The government of South Australia, Tyler O'Neil reported for Fox News, is implementing a program for people to use an app that has facial recognition software and geolocation to prove they are abiding by a 14-day quarantine requirement. Here's how it works, as explained by O'Neil: Steven Marshall, premier of the state of South Australia, launched the quarantine app policy in late August. Residents returning from New South Wales and Victoria, two other Australian states, may spend their 14 days in post-travel...

March 11, 2021. It was supposed to be a turning point in the coronavirus pandemic for Erin Tokley, a longtime Philadelphia police officer, Baptist minister and 47-year-old father of three. It was supposed to be the day of his vaccine appointment. Instead it was the date of his funeral. Tokley — “Toke” to his friends and family — died on March 3, becoming the Philadelphia Police Department’s sixth confirmed COVID-19 death. Philadelphia officers first became eligible for their shots in late January and Tokley was eager to get it as soon as he could. But he fell ill in early...

RAIR Foundation USA caught up with some dedicated freedom fighters at rally held at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario on September 1, 2021. A short video of the event, described on social media as a “Protest against Mandatory Vaccination of Frontline Nurses and Doctors” shows that there were quite a few attendees. The Ottawa protest was just one of many that have been taking place in Canada, with very little media coverage. As reported at RAIR (see below list), the country has been hit particularly hard by coronavirus tyranny imposed by power-hungry officials. Much of the outcry against...

More than 7 million out-of-work Americans are poised to lose all of their unemployment benefits this week as three federal programs put in place in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic expired on Monday. In addition to the 7.5 million workers who face the loss of all unemployment benefits on Labor Day, another 3 million stand to lose the extra $300 boost to their state jobless aid, according to a recent report published by the left-leaning Century Foundation.

The Taliban advanced toward Kabul more quickly than expected. By Sunday, the group has taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that the Taliban had won, as the militants entered Kabul. Ghani left as the insurgents closed in on the capital, before ultimately entering the city and taking over the presidential palace, sealing a nationwide military victory in just 10 days. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration paved the way for the Taliban’s progress, which already displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Yet it was former President Barack Obama, back in 2011, that originally...

This Saturday is the 20th anniversary of 9/11, one of the darkest days in American history. To mark the occasion, President Biden will travel to Ground Zero in New York where the Twin Towers were destroyed, to Virginia where a plane was flown into the Pentagon, and to a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where Flight United 93 also crashed after an on-air battle between terrorists and hero passengers. This would be a sombre enough experience for any American President given that nearly 3,000 people were killed on that infamous day back in 2001 which represented a terrible failure of US...

The Satanic Temple is challenging the recently enacted abortion restrictions in Texas, citing religious freedoms. The religion said on its website that it stands “ready to assist” any of its members who want to fight the law. It said has lobbied the state for an exemption to the law under its own religious freedom law — Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (TRFRA). The group said if the state declines to provide the exemption, then it will seek “judicial relief.” The controversial abortion law bans virtually all abortions once a “fetal heartbeat” is detected — which usually occurs at around six...

NEW YORK – “This is manifestly not Saigon,” said United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken as helicopters snatched fleeing Americans from the embassy roof in Kabul. It’s incomparably worse for America’s world standing. Like the fellow in the Sam Cooke song, Blinken doesn’t know much about history or geography. Unlike the man in the song, he doesn’t know that one and one is two, by which I mean Russia and China. Richard Nixon opened diplomatic relations with China three years before the fall of South Vietnam, securing China’s tacit agreement not to exploit the Communist victory by exporting the...

This is the future if we do not resist.

Two toddlers were attacked by a coyote in separate incidents in Arlington, officials say. The first attack was reported at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday when a 2-year-old girl in her Epping Street yard was approached, bitten on the back and dragged by a coyote. About 10 minutes later another 2-year-old female was approached by the coyote in her yard in Summer Hill Circle and scratched. Both children were taken to an area hospital for evaluation. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Arlington is about 7 miles northwest of Boston. Officials believe that the same coyote was involved in...