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The pizza future has arrived -- that is, if you want pizza from a machine. ZaBot, an ATM-style pizza machine, has set up shop in Southfield, serving up hot pizza 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The ZaBot Pizza Machine is located on Greenfield Road, south of 13 Mile Road. It’s in the parking lot, and you can pull up and order pizza directly from the machine, and pizza shows up in about three minutes. The machine includes two pizza ovens inside. The menu includes your standard pizza options, like cheese, pepperoni, veggie lovers...

A 33-year-old woman was arrested after threatening people with a knife and yelling racist comments in Waite Park on Saturday, during which she threw a jar of salsa and pizza slices, police said. According to the Waite Park Police Department, officers responded to a complaint on the 200 block of Third Street South in Waite Park at 3:17 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. Several people called in reporting a woman was going into apartments and threatening to kill people with a knife. When officers arrived, they could hear yelling and several people were pointing to the suspect, identified as a...

Under the premise of adopting and caring for them in loving homes, Amelia Dyer murdered between 300 and 400 babies in Victorian England

In Ermold v. Davis, (6th Cir., Sept. 29, 2022), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Kentucky federal district court decision that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis does not have qualified immunity in a suit against her for stopping the issuance of all marriage licenses to avoid issuing licenses to same-sex couples. The court said in part: [P]laintiffs have not only “alleged” but also now “shown” that Davis violated their constitutional right to marry.... And, as we held three years ago, that right was “clearly established in Obergefell.”The court held that insofar as Davis has raised a free...

Asenior member of the state Duma, Russia's parliament, said that any U.S. states that want to break away from the country and instead join the Russian Federation will be considered. The comments come only a week after Russia declared that four regions of Ukraine had become Russian territory, following referendums that were widely criticized by Ukrainian and Western officials as being sham. These were Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. The votes supported the regions changing from Ukrainian to Russian territory. State Duma deputy Alexander Tolmachev was responding to an online poll that...

The hail of indiscriminate missile fire across Ukraine this morning was Russia's brutal payback for the attack on the Crimean bridge. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it the response to an "act of terrorism" which he blamed on Ukraine. But it was also Mr Putin's response to hawks in his own camp who have been growing increasingly restless with Russian losses in the war and increasingly loud with their calls for tougher action. Those pro-Kremlin officials and TV hosts who were depressed and dejected just days ago are now cheering this assault on their neighbour, gloating and even dancing in...

Ukrainians forced to shelter in Kyiv metro stations broke out into tender songs of defiance Monday as Russian missiles rained down on the capital. Moving videos showed stations completely packed with people on platforms, stairs and stationary trains — and a respectful silence other than a chorus of voices singing the national anthem and other traditional songs. One clip caught people cheering and giving a huge round of applause after one of the underground performances came to an end. “How I adore our people,” said one of the Ukrainians sharing footage, Lina Molina, calling it proof they are a “nation...

Ukrainians forced to shelter in Kyiv metro stations broke out into tender songs of defiance Monday as Russian missiles rained down on the capital. Moving videos showed stations completely packed with people on platforms, stairs and stationary trains — and a respectful silence other than a chorus of voices singing the national anthem and other traditional songs. One clip caught people cheering and giving a huge round of applause after one of the underground performances came to an end. “How I adore our people,” said one of the Ukrainians sharing footage, Lina Molina, calling it proof they are a “nation...

Newsom's new law 'endangers every young person in the nation who experiences gender dysphoria,' said one pro-family advocate.SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews) – California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday a bill which pro-family advocates say claims custody of every child in America for the purpose of gender “transitioning.” The Sacramento Bee reports that Democrat state Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB107 forbids doctors in the Golden State from releasing medical information on out-of-state children receiving gender “treatments” to investigators from their state of origin, forbids police from arresting anyone for violating other states’ laws against transitioning minors, and empowers courts to assert...

A 17-year-old boy who was shot several times by a rookie cop as he sat in his car eating a McDonald's cheeseburger is currently on life support after several of his organs were punctured during the shooting. The family of Erik Cantu say the teenager has had to undergo a number of surgeries to repair major organs that were damaged by gunfire, according to attorney Brian Powers, who spoke to DailyMail.com Cantu's lungs are effectively being operated by the life support machine and he remains under sedation while his body takes the time it needs to recover. Powers said that...

President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday after a deluge of Russian missiles targeted cities across Ukraine, condemning the strikes and pledging continued US security assistance “including advanced air defense systems.” During the call, a White House statement said, Biden “expressed his condemnation of Russia’s missile strikes across Ukraine, including in Kyiv, and conveyed his condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured in these senseless attacks. President Biden pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the support needed to defend itself, including advanced air defense systems.” The White House did not specify which air...

On September 7, three days before the national Mid-Autumn holiday weekend, my husband and I received separate phone calls from the pandemic prevention office in the Shanghai district where we live. We were informed that we had become sub-contacts to a recently confirmed COVID-19 case and were required to be taken to a centralized quarantine facility. Having lived through the excruciating two-month lockdown of the city, we have adapted to the new post-lockdown reality: lining up for PCR tests every two or three days, scanning venue codes posted outside every public location to facilitate contact tracing, showing a green health...

SNIP Elsewhere, vaccine rollouts have meant learning to live with the virus, but this one major economy stands alone, clinging to a response designed to quash every outbreak. Strict lockdowns, mass testing, constant scanning of health codes and travel restrictions have stopped China's hospitals from being swamped. But it's come at a cost - official youth unemployment stands at 18.7%. Earlier this year it was nudging 20%. Yet even in the face of significant economic and societal pressure, the government has not really turned to the one thing which might hasten an end to the crisis. While it has been...

For the first time, JD Vance (R) and Tim Ryan (D) went head-to-head in a statewide debate trying to win over voters for the Ohio Senate seat.

In my opinion, the Jan. 6 Committee has had two main aims that have nothing to do with the riot, justice, or “threats to democracy.”It’s always been about trying to damage President Donald Trump so that he can’t run or win again, and to hurt the Republicans’ chances in the midterms.If you understand it through that lens, then you know that they are largely admitting defeat on one of those major goals with their latest action.Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MI) said that they would not be putting out a report until after the election. They will be having a...

Warnock & Marxism- In 1995: Warnock’s Church Hosted Communist Dictator and Murderer Fidel Castro & Warnock Did Not Resign in Protest: [...] Wouldn’t you resign from your church after they hosted a tyrant who had killed tens of thousands and enslaved millions of citizens?– In 1997, Warnock was still an assistant pastor at that church: The NY Times reported on August 4, 1997: “The Rev. Raphael Warnock, assistant pastor at Abyssinian, one of Harlem’s leading churches, said …Warnock attacks “Whiteness” and “White Christians.”- October 2016: Warnock: “America needs to REPENT for its WORSHIP OF WHITENESS” [...]- Warnock's Racist Mentor: Warnock’s...

Planned Parenthood is receiving backlash for a cartoon ad that teaches teenagers different ways of delaying puberty, some of which they claim 'work like a stop sign.' One of those ways is through the use of puberty blockers, which can halt voice deepening, facial hair growth, and menstrual cycles. The organization posted the video to its YouTube account in January, but it has recently resurfaced on the Eye Inside the Classroom (EITC) twitter account. In the video, cartoon figures tell teenagers that puberty looks different for everyone, particularly if they're trans, intersex or nonbinary, and what they're experiencing during puberty...

China called for "patience" with its COVID-19 policies and warned against any "war-weariness" as local cases soared to their highest since August, days ahead of a pivotal Communist Party congress. Many parts of the world are learning to coexist with COVID-19, but China has repeatedly quashed any speculation of a let-up in its tough counter-epidemic policies, which can range from locking down a local community to sealing an entire city, even though fatalities remain low by global standards and symptoms, if any, are mostly mild. Pressure on local officials to stop outbreaks as soon as they spring up has risen...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South CarolinaMarine Corps Air Station Beaufort or MCAS Beaufort is a United States Marine Corps (USMC) air base located 3.1 mi northwest of the central business district of Beaufort, a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. About 4,700 personnel serve at the station, and it is home to four Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter-attack squadrons and two F-35B Lighting II training squadrons.The air station encompasses 6,900 acres. It is also associated with a large air-to-air combat area off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia as...

Will McDuffie , Covering the Midterms in Pennsylvania for @ABC Fetterman continues to hit back on soft-on-crime allegations while tying in his work on criminal justice."Two things I'm most proud of...stopping the gun violence as a mayor and fighting for the innocent and other individuals for a second chance. That is my record on crime." https://t.co/dKLlGVYIRa— Will McDuffie (@wrmcduff) October 10, 2022----------------------------------------------------------The "other individuals" that Fetterman has voted to release include:John Brookins, who stabbed a woman to death with scissors. Wayne Covington, who shot and killed a teenager for money to buy heroin. https://t.co/Ug66ugIUBK— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) October 10,...