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<p>An NYPD detective captured and removed 8,000 honeybees from the side of 3 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan late Saturday night, police said.</p><p>The swarm of bees was relocated to an apple orchard. It’s not the first or biggest swarm of the year in New York City.</p>

Brian May has revealed a ‘weird’ condition that causes him to keep falling asleep suddenly, months after contracting Covid. The Queen star fell ill with the virus in December after a birthday lunch with friends, and he has now said he has been dealing with a ‘strange’ condition that causes him to nod off all of a sudden. The rock icon, 74, told the How Do You Cope?… with Elis and John podcast: ‘I have a strange persisting condition, I think from the Covid, which are kind of brown-outs… ‘Generally, I’m OK, I’m not tired all the time, but I’ll...

Volkswagen has been summoned before a labor court in Brazil on June 14 and faces accusations of using “slavery-like practices” and “human trafficking” in the country between 1974 and 1986. The automaker was notified by the judiciary in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 19, reports Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The German giant said it is taking these accusations very seriously. “We can assure you that we take the possible events at Fazenda Rio Cristalino, to which the investigation by the Brazilian investigating authorities refers, very seriously,” Volkswagen told Reuters. “Please understand that we are not commenting further due to possible legal proceedings...

Florida snipers gave cover for divers who jumped into an alligator-infested pond to search for a missing mother and son, according to reports. Nieves Matos, 80, and her son, Mario Laza, 56, were traveling along the Florida Turnpike in Miami Friday when they lost control of their vehicle and careened into a retention pond off the highway. Witnesses dove into the water, and police rescue teams followed behind them, according to WSVN.

Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine was a story of blunders. Moscow is now making steady progress in Donbas. Russian troops advanced to within several kilometres of the road leading from the city of Bakhmut to Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. The advance has made other Ukrainian positions untenable. Ukrainian forces pulled out of the town of Svitlodarsk, which until then constituted the south-eastern anchor of their foothold in Donbas. “We couldn’t hold them there [anymore],” says Yuri, 58, the unit’s commander. The amount of firepower hitting their positions further drives the disparity home. “We were on the frontline last week,” Artyom says....

A Missouri woman was tortured with a knife, had her dentures stolen and suffered a brain bleed after she went on a date with a recently-released convict she'd met on Facebook. Preacious Brower, 30, said she suffered two days horrific physical abuse at the hands of James Larson, Jr., 29, after meeting him on May 14, just weeks after he'd been released from prison for a date at his father's house. 'He seemed pretty cool, ya know? I thought I found somebody, ya know, and it turned out to be a complete Jekyll and Hyde,' she told Fox4. Brower said...

The Russian Union of Grain Exporters (Rusgrain) has turned to the Bank of Russia to get the necessary tools to start selling domestic produce for rubles. Market participants are facing serious restrictions on logistics, insurance and payment for grain, according to the Rusgrain Chairman Eduard Zernin, who said that the union had to turn to the central bank to avoid supplies being disruped. Since March 10, Russia has exported 28.1 million tons of grain, including 23 million tons of wheat, which is about 30% lower compared to the same period in 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture reported. Turkey, Egypt, Iran...

This is the 64 year-old New York City 'tenant from hell' who has made her neighbors' lives a misery while running up $40,000 in rent arrears. Annamarie Hosang, 64, has been exclusively pictured by DailyMail.com after her antisocial antics at the building in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood where she lives were revealed by the New York Daily News. Hosang stopped paying her $1,750-a-month rent in April 2020, with landlord Mathew Hanan saying he's at his wit's end trying to evict her. Meanwhile, Hosang has flooded her apartment and left the unit below uninhabitable. She's held an indoor barbecue, trashed her...

Kansas City police shot a black woman who was reportedly pregnant multiple times as they searched for a stolen vehicle on Friday. Authorities say officers in two cars were following up on a call about an armed carjacking just before 8pm on Friday, after dispatchers provided the officers with a description of the vehicle and license plate. The officers then apparently spotted the vehicle with two suspects inside at the parking lot of a Family Dollar store at Sixth and Prospect Avenues in Kansas City, and approached it. At that point, authorities say, the male driver fled northeast as two...

An 18-year-old in Florida has been arrested and charged with a felony after he posted a photo of a rifle, handgun and tactical vest online and captioned the image: 'Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school'. Corey Anderson, from Lutz, 15 miles north of Tampa, was arrested on Sunday after police were tipped off about the post. The weapons were later discovered to be airsoft guns. Anderson could face 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted of making a threat of a mass shooting. 'This type of threat is unacceptable. This man intentionally instilled fear into our...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Righteousness shall go before Him; and shall set us in the way of His steps. (Ps. 85:13)

A law enforcement source said that the former federal agent regularly stoked the accused gunman Payton Gendron with racism, anti-Semitism and other propaganda designed to inflame the deranged man. “These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,” the law enforcement source stated. “What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo “The FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them...

Rumors in Westminster are that Conservative Members of Parliament have submitted 54 letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson which should trigger a leadership contest. Apparently Sir Graham Brady (the steward of the process) is going to wait until after the Queen's platinum jubilee celebrations to announce this. Latest opinion poll: @BritainElects Westminster voting intention: LAB: 42% (+2) CON: 31% (-3) LDEM: 11% (+1) GRN: 3% (-2) They surely cannot allow this Lefist wave to sweep Britain as well as Australia, etc?! The Conservatives are 10 points down in mid-term! Time to dump Boris and elect another leader and give...

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In the far future, we could reveal detailed views of distant worlds by turning our home star into a gravitational lens Diagram showing a conceptual imaging technique that uses the sun’s gravitational field to magnify light from exoplanets. This would allow for highly advanced reconstructions of what exoplanets look like. We now know of more than 5,000 exoplanets beyond the solar system. What we really understand about each of these worlds, though, is barely anything at all. Most of them have been seen only indirectly from their shadows as they cross in front of the stars they orbit. The...

Florida police released the mugshot of the 10-year-old boy they publicly arrested and perp walked for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at his elementary school. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno, who touts himself as Florida's 'law and order sheriff,' defended publicly exposing the juvenile by saying 'a child pulling a trigger equals the same aftermath.' Daniel Issac Marquez, 10, was arrested Saturday and charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting after sending a text about Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral. The boy's alleged text read: 'I scammed my friend' and included a Google image of...

He warned scientists to use caution in using the practice of METI, or “Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence” for fear it could provoke an alien invasion. But Caballero conceded that the odds of extraterrestrials wiping out the human species is about the same as the planet being destroyed by a “global catastrophe asteroid.” He wrote that such an event takes place once every 100 million years, so humans are in all likelihood safe for the time being.

It was supposed to be a clear-cut, unambiguous invasion. Vladimir Putin’s much larger, richer, and more bellicose Russia staged a shock-and-awe attack on a much smaller, poorer Ukraine. He intended to decapitate the government in Kyiv. Then he would annex the eastern half of the country, and quickly consolidate his easy wins in preparation to ratchet up pressure to force western Ukraine into the Russian Federation.The rest is history. The Russian military proved ill-equipped and ill-supplied. It was poorly led, with a high percentage of low-morale, conscript troops. Russia had no viable strategic plan to capture, much less hold, the...

“It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink” (Proverbs 31:4).