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Ukraine will not comply with the restrictions allegedly imposed on it by the Americans on the use of long-range multiple launch rocket systems. This is confirmed by the latest statements of Ukrainian politicians, including from among the Zelensky team. In the wake of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yegor Chernev, who said that Ukraine does not intend to comply with any restrictions on the use of American MLRS, the "mouthpiece" of the Kyiv regime, Alexei Arestovich, who holds the post of adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, spoke in the same vein. True,...

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A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver last month was shot dead by law enforcement late Thursday after he killed a family of five and stole their truck from a rural weekend cabin...Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was killed [by Police] about 10:30 p.m. Thursday in Jourdanton, Texas, about 35 miles south of San Antonio...three of [his victims were] children.

A trio of judges in California said on Tuesday that bees can be legally classed as a type of fish as part of a ruling that brings added conservation protections for the endangered species. "The issue presented here is whether the bumble bee, a terrestrial invertebrate, falls within the definition of fish," the judges wrote in their ruling. And, they concluded, it does. Formerly, the problem for bee-lovers — and lovers of all Californian terrestrial invertebrates — was down to the way protected animals have been classified in the state's laws. (Nuttier, and fruitier)

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Nicole Ogburn, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, described in detail the tragic school shooting that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. Ogburn spotted the gunman outside the school seconds before he began firing his weapon into her classroom. The video interview featured in a report by the Daily Mail offers an inside account of the shooting that ended after a hastily formed group of law enforcement officers gained access to the gunman barricaded behind a locked steel door. Ogburn told the Daily Mail about how the locking mechanism works on the exterior door to...

Arjun Singh Tue, May 31, 2022, 2:25 PM·2 min read The grandmother of Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos was an employee at the school, according to a friend of the family. Speaking to the New York Post, the source — who wished to remain unnamed — said that the grandmother, 66-year-old Cecilia “Sally” Martinez Gonzales, had been a teacher’s aide at the school, a fact confirmed by public records of employees in the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. Though the type and duration of her employment is unclear, she was on the school’s payroll at the time of the incident....

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Infant formula provides the sole source of nutrition for infants who are not being breast fed and often supplements breast milk for those who are. Only 47% of infants are exclusively breast fed in the first three months of life, a figure that declines to 26% by six months. Specialty formulas are the only nutrition option for infants who, because of medical problems, cannot utilize standard formulas or breast milk. It’s also one of the most regulated foods in our country. The Food and Drug Administration’s strict nutritional and labeling requirements make it difficult for foreign producers to export formula...

A convicted killer was accidentally released from a Western Washington prison earlier this week. A prosecutor who first handled the case scrambled to get a warrant and contact the U.S. Marshals Service, and that inmate has since been returned to custody. The victim's family calls the release a colossal mistake but a spokesperson for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) says they did nothing wrong. Jeremy Bennett pleaded guilty to killing Lawrence Howse, 54, in 2015. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison. However, Pierce County officials say there was a contested hearing last Friday where the court decided...

Police are urging drivers to be on their guardMotorists are being warned by police about a scam that sees con artists try to fleece drivers out of cash. The rouse sees drivers duped into handing over cash for 'damage' that hasn't been caused by them. The warning comes from North Wales Police after an incident in Conwy on Monday. A man driving a Range Rover became a target for the quick cash con. Police for the area said that fraudsters will pretend that their target has damaged their vehicle's wing mirror. They will then demand that the driver pays for...

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart” (Proverbs 3:3 KJV).

Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called "Turkiye" in all languages, the UN announced on Thursday (Jun 2). "The change is immediate," Stephane Dujarric, the UN chief's spokesperson, told AFP by email. He noted that Ankara's official letter requesting the change had been received at the UN's New York headquarters on Wednesday.

Greg Foster creates a world record for eating three Carolina Reaper peppers in record 8.72 seconds. According to Guinness World Records, Carolina Reaper averages 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) - the hottest chillies in the world.A video of a man chewing down Carolina Reaper chillies has created a buzz on the Internet and left netizens both shocked and amused. While many couldn’t help but mention the aftermath of setting this rather insane record, others underscored how easily they could break it. Shared on Instagram, the video shows a man from the USA setting the world record title for the 'fastest...

Five-time World Series winner and baseball Hall of Fame inductee Reggie Jackson opened a Triangle Honda dealership in January. But his personal pantheon of vehicles features some of the world’s rarest automobiles. Car connoisseurs with beefy budgets had the chance to buy an especially exclusive member of Jackson’s collection in an auction that closed Wednesday: a 1990 Ruf BTR III. The German supercar is a custom-built version of Porsche’s 930 Turbo. Its winning bid of $345,000 was paltry compared to previous price tags on other BTRs. A 1985 BTR III in Arizona sold on Sotheby’s for $445,000 in January. Jackson’s...

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Scientists have discovered the world’s largest plant off the Australia coast — a seagrass meadow that has grown by repeatedly cloning itself. Genetic analysis has revealed that the underwater fields of waving green seagrass are a single organism covering 70 square miles (180 square kilometers) through making copies of itself over 4,500 years. The research was published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Scientists confirmed that the meadow was a single organism by sampling and comparing the DNA of seagrass shoots across the bed, wrote Jane Edgeloe, a study co-author and marine biologist at the University of Western...

A teammate of controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said University of Pennsylvania officials warned women swimmers they'd face consequences for speaking out against the presence of Thomas — a biological male who identifies as female — on the women's swim team. “They’ve made it pretty clear if you speak up about it, your life will be over in some way, you’ll be blasted all over the Internet as a transphobe … you’ll never be able to get a job,” the teammate told Matt Walsh as part of his just-released "What Is a Woman?" documentary, according to the Daily Wire.

Sheep herders in the U.S. West have banded together to sue their employers, accusing them of operating an illegal cartel that artificially suppresses their wages, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Nevada. The case could have implications for how antitrust laws are applied to labor markets, according to legal experts, as the Biden administration pushes for greater competition in every sector of the economy. The suit alleges that ranches coordinate through the Western Range Association (WRA), a ranching trade group, to suppress sheepherder wages and avoid competing for labor.

A man who paid more than S$300,000 to a woman after she claimed she bore him twins has gone to court to find out if the children even existed. Suspecting that he may have been deceived, the man sought information relating to the birth and location of the twins, so that he can decide whether he can bring a lawsuit against the woman. The facts of the case were so unusual that High Court judge Lee Seiu Kin remarked in his written grounds of decision: "Reality, as some say, is sometimes stranger than fiction." Justice Lee issued the grounds last...