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A Southern California rapper was fatally shot in Koreatown early Tuesday morning, cops said. Half Ounce, also known as Latauriisha O’Brien, was found suffering from several gunshot wounds in front of an apartment building, according to police. Authorities received calls reporting nearly 30 rounds of gunshots fired near the 700 block of South New Hampshire Avenue. Paramedics pronounced the 33-year-old dead at the scene. Police investigated the crime scene for six hours and gathered information about the alleged shooter being a man in dark clothing who drove off southbound in a dark-colore

A new systematic review and meta-analysis by an international group of researchers has found giving a blood thinning drug (thrombolysis) before treatment to remove a clot from the brain—known as thrombectomy procedure—to stroke patients, improved mortality rates at 90 days, compared with just thrombectomy procedure alone. Mechanical thrombectomy is an effective treatment for patients with an acute stroke caused by a clot (ischemic stroke) from basilar artery occlusion, which occurs when the basilar artery, the main artery at the back portion of the brain, is blocked. Administering a bridging blood thinning drug before removing a clot is still recommended for...

Pressure is rising to find alternative energy sources before a looming electricity crunch hurts both consumers and manufacturers. South Korea may have the answer, says Bloomberg Opinion's Anjani Trivedi.It’s time to get realistic about the worsening energy situation. A power shortage is approaching and few alternatives to bridge the green transition exist right now. Nuclear is re-emerging as a front-runner, as are doubts and scepticism around its safety as memories of past accidents loom large along with haunting images of mushroom clouds. South Korea, though, shows why nuclear isn’t just a pipe dream - or a fuel to fear. The...

One year into the pandemic lockdown, I retired from my job of 14 years as program coordinator and academic adviser at the University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering. I loved the work I did, but it was time to move on. I was in my early 60s, and being old enough to retire suddenly made that option more appealing. Finances would be a little tight for a while, but some outside projects would supplement my income, so I felt confident I would be able to handle it. But by the end of the second year of lockdown, inflation started...

Wow. FAKE NEWS busy carrying Kamala Harris' water-playing her "equity" Race Card. TOP STORY on NBC is "black+brown communities" allegedly not getting Enough from FEMA-wildly DIVISIVE and WRONG at this moment. Does EVERYTHING have to be about Race? pic.twitter.com/2rbiaQtfOL— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) October 4, 2022

Kyrie Irving’s tacit endorsement of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones last month flew under the radar. That is until Kareem Abdul-Jabbar put the Nets star on blast, ripping his “gelatinous ignorance” and accusing him of tarnishing the reputations of all athletes. “Kyrie Irving would be dismissed as a comical buffoon if it weren’t for his influence over young people,” Abdul-Jabbar, 75, wrote on his Substack. Irving is unquestionably a Hall of Fame-level talent and has always been respectful of the basketball icons that came before him. But six-time NBA MVP Abdul-Jabbar — viewed by many other stars as the greatest of...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A man was shot and killed early Tuesday while confronting catalytic-converter thieves outside his home in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood. Family members identified the victim as Arturo Coronado, 60. "You already had the catalytic converter. Why did you shoot my dad?" asked Coronado's daughter Amalya Love through tears. The shooting happened at about 4 a.m. near Everett Avenue and Hampel Street in the normally quiet neighborhood off Park Boulevard. "I heard some grinding, like metal on metal," said neighbor Michael Cusick. The thieves had cut off one of two catalytic converters on Coronado's Toyota Sequoia. Coronado kept saying,...

One fan went all out for Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run ball — and still appeared to come up empty. Video of Judge’s 62nd home run at Globe Life Park show a fan jumping over the railing in an attempt to retrieve it. However, the ball ended up well wide of the desperate spectator. A different fan was able to catch the ball fairly easily with his glove. The ball could be worth millions depending on how the fan decides to handle the precious commodity. SNIP That ball ended up in the bullpen and out of any fans’ grasp and...

The WSJ published this Friday an exclusive entitled "Cuba makes an unusual request for US aid after the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian." The news explained that the Cuban government had requested “emergency assistance” from Washington and that the administration of President Joe Biden was in contact with the authorities on the island to find out how much help was needed.

This was originally posted at the Washington Post on February 27, 2004. By David Hoffman In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a memoir by a Reagan White House official. .... Snip.... Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold...

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that an executive with a Michigan-based company responsible for the software used in managing Los Angeles County election poll workers has been arrested as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of those workers.“I want to thank my prosecutors and investigators for their commitment to eliminating cyber intrusions against government entities and local businesses,” District Attorney Gascón said. “Data breaches are an ongoing threat to our digital way of life. When we entrust a company to hold our confidential data, they must be willing and able...

Patients can recover from orthopedic surgery just as well without using opioid-based painkillers. Study results showed that by prescribing a combination of three non-opioid painkillers to patients, researchers successfully reduced approximately tenfold the amounts of opioids consumed over a six-week post-operative period, without altering their pain levels. Co-principal investigator Olufemi Ayeni and his team gleaned their results by enrolling 193 patients between March 2021 and March 2022. The patients were randomly assigned to either a control group of 98 receiving standard opioid-based painkillers or an opioid-free group (93) receiving a combination therapy of naproxen, acetaminophen and pantoprazole and a patient...

CV NEWS FEED // As a select group of Church representatives gather in Frascati, Italy this week, the Catholic Church’s “Synod on Synodality” enters its “continental phase.” Designated “experts” from five continents will meet until October 1 near Rome to review pages of summaries from the 2021- 2022 regional episcopal synods and produce from them one global synthesis document. Included in the items for review are pieces of artwork, which are highlighted on the Synod’s official social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. One image, published on the official Synod Facebook page, includes a depiction of a woman dressed in...

NORTH BETHESDA, Maryland — For the past two and one-half years as he helped lead the nation’s efforts to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has become became a familiar face to Americans. He’s usually speaking at White House press briefings or in TV appearances to urge people to take safety measures like wearing face masks when appropriate and to get the COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot to protect themselves and others against the spread of the virus. On Sept. 18, Fauci appeared in a different setting, the Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel at Georgetown Preparatory School in the...

Few in the West realize that the official Russian Orthodox Church has a significant administrative and policy-making bureaucracy which resembles a kind of ecclesiastical mini shadow government. The only thing resembling it in the West is the bureaucracy at the Vatican. There are departments (committees) for foreign affairs, book publishing, seminaries, charity, family, children's welfare, anti-abortion, media relations, culture, monasteries, youth, manufacturing of church supplies, and several more. The chairmen of these committees are appointed by the Patriarch and sometimes become quite prominent, often interacting at a high level with their corresponding government equivalents.This article is a presentation given at...

Republican Brandon Williams leads Democrat Francis Conole in New York’s Twenty-second Congressional District by five points, according to the Spectrum News/Siena College poll released on Tuesday. The Spectrum News/Siena College poll found that Williams leads with 45 percent of the 453 likely voters in New York’s newly redistricted Twenty-second Congressional District saying they would vote for him, while 40 percent said the Democrat.

'Situations that are objectively wrong from a moral point of view cannot be blessed. God's grace does not shine on the path of sin,' said Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht.UTRECHT, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht, Willem Eijk, has called for the Flemish bishops of Belgium to be corrected by ecclesiastical authorities for their departure from the Church’s moral and sacramental discipline with their publication of a “rite of blessing” for same-sex couples. The Flemish bishops’ document, with its proposed liturgical “blessing” for same-sex couples, was issued on September 20, shortly after the German bishops approved documents of...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Senior National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt reported that the White House is “panicking” over the prospect that OPEC will cut oil production and is engaging in a “furious, last-ditch, wide-scale effort” to lobby against a production cut.

Researchers:Hurricanes are NOT increasing in frequency nor intensity, data shows.Increase in hurricane damage is due to more people living along the U.S. coastline.MAIN POINTS from a 2018 research article from the American Meteorological Society:While neither U.S. landfalling hurricane frequency nor intensity shows a significant trend since 1900, growth in coastal population and wealth have led to increasing hurricane-related damage along the U.S. coastline.[T]here is an insignificant trend in CONUS landfalling hurricanes from 1900-2017 (Fig. 2a)…[and] (Fig.2b). We therefore conclude that the large increase in observed hurricane-associated inflation-adjusted CONUS damage (Pielke et al. 2008) is primarily due to increases in exposure...

Long ago, I promised to post emails that I received as a teacher from leftwing activist groups. I've been lazy, and I've been meaning to get back into it! If you aren't aware, on the daily, I am inundated with leftist crap filling up my mail box. Many of these organizations seek to get their group to schools as "training". This training means that government money $$$$ gets to their group to fund that particular organization. My theory is that if these clowns don't get these government funds for speaking engagements and trainings, they will cease to exist because they...