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The man who was caught on viral video jumping from elevated Brooklyn subway tracks while fleeing cops said Monday that he made the dangerous leap because he was terrified of going back to Rikers Island. “When I made that jump it was like ‘damn either go back to Rikers Island or risk your life taking that jump’ and that jump could’ve been death if I missed,” Kendall Floyd, 25, told The Post by phone from the notorious jail complex, where he’s been since his arrest on July 6. “I was willing to risk my life than to come back here...

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GoFundMe is allowing a small fortune to be collected for kin of the Minneapolis gunman fatally shot by cops after he fired at neighbors, while hard-working Manhattan bodega clerk Jose Alba’s fund got the ax, critics rage. The fund-raiser for the family of dead Minnesota shooter Andrew “Tekle’’ Sundberg, 20, surpassed its goal of $20,000 within three days, hitting $20,500 by Monday afternoon. Yet the GoFundMe page for Alba — who killed an ex-con attacker in apparent self-defense at the store — got pulled a day after his case came to light. “#GoFundMe should be ASHAMED of themselves!” a fuming...

The relatives of two American “hostages” in Saudi Arabia tell The Post they’re outraged that President Biden didn’t win their release during his trip last week to patch up relations with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. There are at least four Americans jailed in or unable to leave Saudi Arabia, according to their families. The cases aren’t well-known because the families opted to work quietly with the US government ahead of Biden’s visit. Now, they’re seeking greater public attention after the leader of the free world left Saudi Arabia without their loved ones. “I’m not a [Donald] Trump person, nor...

Two New York men wept as a judge handed down prison time for their participation in the Capitol riot last year. Cody Mattice, 29, and James Mault, 30, both received 44 months of prison time on Friday, according to records from the Justice Department. In April, the two pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot, a Justice Department release says. After breaching the Capitol, Mattice "reached out to another rioter and grabbed a small object appearing to be a canister," the release says. "He then sprayed chemical spray at police officers." "Mault also got a second...

For decades, hopeful techies have been promising a world where absolutely every object you encounter—bandages, bottles, bananas—will have some kind of smarts thanks to supercheap programmable plastic processors. If you’ve been wondering why that hasn’t happened yet, it’s that nobody has built working processors that can be made in the billions for less than a penny each. It hasn’t been for want of trying; in 2021 Arm reproduced its simplest 32-bit microcontroller, the M0, in plastic, but even this couldn’t hope to meet the mark. The problem, according to engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at British flexible-electronics...

by Samantha Foster | 24NewsPresident Biden fell off his bike while riding near his home in Rehoboth Beach in June.According to reports, Biden had trouble removing his shoes from the bikes’ pedals.Secret Service agents swarmed the fallen commander-in-chief after he needed help getting back up.Feeble Joe Biden quickly got up and chatted with the reporters and Delaware bystanders. He also went over to a little girl on the beach.Watch:Now there is an official landmark at the location where Joe Biden fell off his bike while it as at a complete stop.It’s labeled “Brandon Falls” in honor of Joe Biden.The Brandon...

An investigation has been launched after a person believed to be an Anchorage, Alaska, police officer was shown in a photo with a woman in town for a Donald Trump rally flashing a novelty "white privilege card." The social media post caused concerns about racial equality in Alaska's largest city. Mimi Israelah claimed in a Facebook post that she was pulled over for weaving at 3:43 a.m. while driving to a pizzeria in Anchorage after arriving on an early-morning flight from California for Trump's rally Saturday to support local Republican candidates he's backed. "Officer Bo" asked for her driver's license...

Some six million people have already fled 🇺🇦Ukraine. Among them, 730,000 Ukrainian refugees passed through humanitarian corridors that take them deep into enemy territory. Now they are huddled in isolated camps in the middle of the Russian countryside and many want to leave the country as quickly as possible.

Explanation: OK, but why can't you combine images from Webb and Hubble? You can, and today's featured image shows one impressive result. Although the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has a larger mirror than Hubble, it specializes in infrared light and can't see blue -- only up to about orange. Conversely, the Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble) has a smaller mirror than Webb and can't see as far into the infrared as Webb, but can image not only blue light but even ultraviolet. Therefore, Webb and Hubble data can be combined to create images across a wider variety of...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program appears to be in a state of suspended development, with little progress made in 2021 toward improving its lackluster performance. The latest report by the Pentagon’s Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) reveals stagnation and even backsliding in some fleet reliability measures.And that’s just the public DOT&E report.In an unprecedented move, DOT&E is concealing many of the key details of the F-35’s poor performance. For the first time ever, the testing office created a non-public “controlled unclassified information” version of its report, and although there is much overlap between the two versions, the meaningful...

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Critics are lashing out after a man carrying a pistol stopped a mass shooting at an Indiana shopping mall, arguing the man should not be called a "Good Samaritan." "The term, ‘Good Samaritan’ came from a Bible passage of a man from Samaria who stopped on the side of the road to help a man who was injured and ignored," wrote CBS4 traffic anchor Justin Kollar on Twitter Monday. "I cannot believe we live in a world where the term can equally apply to someone killing someone… my God."

A southern California school board will consider an agreement Monday for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles to open a clinic at a local high school. The seven-member school board of the Norwalk-LaMirada Unified School District will vote during a meeting Monday evening on allowing Planned Parenthood to open and operate a clinic for reproductive health care at John Glenn High School in Norwalk. Abortions and gender-affirming hormone therapy are not listed as services that will be provided at the on-campus site, but clinic staff will be permitted to make referrals to other Planned Parenthood centers "for services not offered" at the...

They seem to be on a terror this year.I have tried Grubex. I have used Mole Max. And I have sprayed castor oil and dish soap.We've had ton of rain this year and it seems like everything is getting washed away.Have any tips on trying to reclaim my yard?

President Joe Biden's administration announced its 17th Operation Fly Formula mission on Monday as marketing data shows the baby formula shortage is getting worse. The administration announced two flights to transport Nestlé Health Science amino acid-based formula from Switzerland to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on July 21 and 22. The delivery will include the equivalent of 802,446 8-ounce bottles of formula, which will be distributed primarily to hospitals and home health care providers. But, despite the rash of flights the administration has announced, U.S. stores are still struggling to stock baby formula on their shelves. Formula availability...

The West ganged up against Vladimir Putin after his assault on Ukraine. They wanted regime change in Moscow. Instead, one of the West’s major domos, UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has fallen. Hubris does this to you. For years, Ukraine was flirting with Nato, much to Russia’s consternation. Finally, Russia could bear it no more and took matters into its own hands. Inflation was a constant worry as Joe Biden took over the US presidency in January 2021. Covid had interrupted global supply chains. Petrol at the pump was averaging $4 a gallon (one gallon = 3.8 litres). Biden brought...

The National Rifle Association on Monday issued a stinging rebuke of former President Donald Trump’s pick for Wisconsin governor, accusing him of misleading its members after his campaign falsely claimed the gun advocacy group had endorsed him. Construction company co-owner Tim Michels is locked in a three-way GOP primary with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and state Rep. Tim Ramthun. Michels won Trump’s endorsement in June. An endorsement from the NRA would have marked another huge win for him heading into the Aug. 9 election. Michels’ campaign sent out a flyer that landed in mailboxes Saturday that claimed the NRA...

Admiral Grace Hopper once said it's "much easier to apologize than to get permission." She's right. To ask is to risk being endlessly bounced through the bureaucracy or swamped in useless, redundant forms. Even worse, you could be told no. Today many in position to make laws or issue orders are fully embracing this plan: push ahead, ignore the law, and just get it done. The beauty of this plan is that it's much harder, if not impossible, to undo something already in place. Thus the Deep State, globalists, insurgents utilize the "don't ask, can't fail" strategy, where even an...

Kamala Harris on Monday delivered remarks at the 13th NCAAP National Convention. Harris droned on and on about ‘abortion rights’ and repeated her old, tired talking points that supporting abortion-on-demand “does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs.” Kamala Harris also compared being pro-life to supporting slavery. “We know, NAACP that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies,” Harris said.