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After being denied entry into a convenience store for being unmasked, a Taiwanese man lost his cool, fatally stabbing the store clerk who asked him to put on a face mask. The stabbing took place outside a convenience store in Taoyuan early Nov 21 morning, FocusTaiwan reported. Police said that the suspect, a 41-year-old man surnamed Chiang, tried to enter the convenience store at 4am, but was stopped and asked to put on a mask by the store clerk Tsai. Shortly after, Chiang put on a mask and returned to the store. After browsing some shelves, he got into an...

PRES. BIDEN: "My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas...what it's doing, it's increasing the availability of jobs."

U.S. gun manufacturers asked a Massachusetts court to drop a lawsuit the Mexican government filed against them for alleged negligence and illegal commercial practices causing their weapons to enter Mexico and encourage violence in the country. The Mexican government filed the suit in August. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said that in 2019, at least 17,000 homicides were linked to trafficked weapons. According to the Associated Press, the country's officials estimate that 70 percent of weapons trafficked to Mexico came from the U.S. In the lawsuit, the government said that the companies not only knew that their practices were contributing to...

“We’ve seen Bond defeat over 100 villains in the last seven decades, but he has finally been defeated by the enemy known as Outtacontrol Leftism.”Daniel Craig attends the World Premiere of "NO TIME TO DIE" at the Royal Albert Hall on September 28, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Universal Pictures) Audio Player 00:00 03:44 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. I bumped into an old friend who had done something radical. It had nothing to do with him having received five different vaccinations—with three different brands...

Details emerging about the suspect accused of running over people in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade on Sunday point to the "absolute" need for bail reform, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, who represents the district in Congress, said on Newsmax Tuesday. "When you see kind of the rap sheet [and] the turnstile approach to justice, where these guys are in and out, in and out, in and out, it just goes back to a system that is broken," the Wisconsin Republican said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "Even though you know I'd love to deal with this at the federal level, it's...

The health officer order even requires masks to be worn in private settings, including homes, when people who are not from the household are present.

The NYPD asked for the public's help tracking down the man who clobbered a 65-year-old man with a metal pipe as he walked to work in Jamaica, Queens. The assailant approached the man on Nov. 11 at about 6:30 a.m. on 142 Street. He threatened the victim with the pipe if he didn't hand over his cell phone, according to police. The victim refused and the attacker struck him, sending the victim to the ground. The suspect grabbed the phone and took off, cops added.

A Bronx woman was sentenced to spend at least 11 years in prison for burglarizing homes in New York while families were attending funerals for relatives. Latonia Stewart, 30, was found guilty last month of burglarizing six homes between 2017 and 2018. A judge sentenced her on Monday. Stewart had faced a sentence ranging from 3 1/2 years to a maximum of 15 years in state prison on each burglary count. She received a 10-year sentence on each count to run concurrently. In addition, she received a 1-3 year sentence to run consecutively to the 10-year-sentence.

In the 1980s, the board for a game was found scratched onto the second-century stones of a Jerusalem city square, inspiring speculation as to the nature of the game played on it. Many of the ideas proposed have been brutal, reflecting the fact the players were probably soldiers in the occupying Roman Army. However, a new explanation proposes what we are seeing is actually the ancestor of checkers (draughts). The scratchings are located near Hadrian's Gate, built by the Romans to celebrate their crushing of yet another Jewish bid for freedom. In this context, it's understandable some of those looking...

Researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) found and extracted a mammoth tusk deep under the ocean. According to MBARI, their team spotted the tusk 185 miles offshore and 10,000 feet deep on top of a seamount in 2019. They returned on July 2021 to bring the tusk to the surface. "The researchers have confirmed that the tusk—about one meter (just over three feet) in length—is from a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi)," reported the institute. They believe it could be the oldest well-preserved mammoth tusk recovered from this area of North America. The Columbian mammoth went extinct around 11,500...

The bill — called Cryptocurrency & Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2021 — will also create a “facilitative framework” for the creation of the official digital currency for the country, the legislative agenda adds. Lawmakers in India have for several quarters been discussing risks of cryptocurrency trading and trialing a central government-backed digital currency. An increasingly growing number of Indians, many of whom have never invested in the stock market or any other asset class, have started to trade cryptocurrencies in recent quarters, prompting concerns among some that they might end up losing their money. Local cryptocurrency exchanges have...

The company — one of America's last remaining true dollar stores — said Tuesday it will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 on the majority of its products by the first quarter of 2022. The change is a sign of the pressures low-cost retailers face holding down prices during a period of rising inflation. Selling stuff strictly for $1 hampered Dollar Tree, the company said, and forced it stop selling some "customer favorites." Raising prices will give Dollar Tree more flexibility to reintroduce those items, expand its selection and bring new products and sizes to its stores. Dollar Tree also...

Liberal socialist utopias such as California are a blessing for deadbeat klepto hobos from around the world thanks to the state’s lack of prosecution of shoplifting, but the same policies are becoming a major headache for nationwide retailers such as Best Buy which this morning reported that despite beating on the top and bottom line (revenues of $11.9 billion vs expectations of $11.7BN, EPS of $2.08, beating est of $1.96), its margins missed, echoing the same margin crunch theme that emerged recently with big box retailers such as Walmart. Gross margin fell 0.1% to 23.5%, Best Buy said, missing the...

Samsung is set to build a new $17 billion computer chip factory in Taylor, Texas, The Wall Street Journal reported. An official announcement could come as early as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter told the Journal, and comes as the Biden administration makes a push for expanding semiconductor production in the U.S. Spokespeople for Samsung and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is scheduled to make an economic announcement later Tuesday, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Samsung told the Journal that a “final decision has not yet been made regarding the location.” Based...

Liberal socialist utopias such as California are a blessing for deadbeat klepto hobos from around the world thanks to the state's lack of prosecution of shoplifting, but the same policies are becoming a major headache for nationwide retailers such as Best Buy which this morning reported that despite beating on the top and bottom line (revenues of $11.9 billion vs expectations of $11.7BN, EPS of $2.08, beating est of $1.96), its margins missed, echoing the same margin crunch theme that emerged recently with big box retailers such as Walmart.Gross margin fell 0.1% to 23.5%, Best Buy said, missing the 23.6%...

After watching this debacle on TV, I knew full well what was coming later that day. The media would latch on to this and create even more public panic.This is an excerpt from the author’s new book, “A Plague Upon Our House,” which releases December 7 and is available now for preorder.[CDC Director Robert] Redfield’s congressional testimony on September 23 immediately caught my attention. I watched in disbelief as Redfield told Congress that “more than 90 percent of the population”—more than three hundred million people in the US—remains susceptible to the illness.The statement was based on incomplete and outdated data,...

Zeva's one-person eVTOL aircraft: a tail-sitting flying saucer design with some interesting advantagesZeva Aero VIEW 8 IMAGES Zeva is deadly serious about bringing this tail-sitting eVTOL flying saucer to market as a one-person air taxi, and if you can get over the idea of soaring above the city head-first, face-down and Superman-style, it's got some interesting advantages. We've seen a lot of different eVTOL designs over the last five or six years, but the sector keeps managing to find curveballs to throw at us, and we remain fascinated by the creativity this emerging market has inspired. I'll admit to making...

Meet the man who appears to be the first in the post-Soviet Union West to be brought up on criminal charges for publishing long-held Christian beliefs.Juhana Pohjola wouldn’t be cast to play his own part if Hollywood made a movie about a bishop put on trial for his faith. The Finnish pastor has inherited a place in the church of Martin Luther, but it appears none of Luther’s pugnacity or vitriol.In person, Pohjola, 49, is forthright but unassuming, and gentle. Stereotypically, the Finn is thin and tall. He often pauses while speaking to carefully consider his next words. He listens...

Brian Laundrie, the sole suspect in the death of Long Island native Gabby Petito, died of a gunshot wound to the head, a lawyer for the Laundrie family said Tuesday.

Late-night host Stephen Colbert said that since Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murder charges because he was defending himself from aggressors during the Kenosha riots, self-defense laws must change. "Of course, the big news on Friday was that, after being accused of crossing state lines, killing two people, and wounding another, last year, during a Black Lives Matter protest, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all counts. Okay, cards on the table, I’m not a legal expert, so I can’t tell you whether or not Kyle Rittenhouse broke the law, but I can tell you this: if he didn’t...