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The ever-escalating fentanyl crisis in U.S. cities has been particularly acute in the Bay Area. It’s made for some interesting headlines as well, from reports that the head of San Jose’s police union ran an international fentanyl-dealing operation out of her home for years to Elon Musk calling for legalization. Among supporters of harm reduction, who point to the abysmal failure of the War on Drugs to do much beyond swell the U.S. prison population, the term “drug worker” is a suggested replacement for the term “drug dealer.” A Canadian drug-policy expert’s Twitter thread went viral among certain segments of...

If I hear Alvin Bragg say he takes crime seriously in New York because he arrested Trump I am going to lose my ever-loving mind. New York does NOT take crime seriously. Case in point: this man was out on bail after shooting at cops and then was arrested later for an execution-style shooting at a liquor store. Surveillance footage caught the man shooting another man inside of a liquor store in a senseless act of violence and the suspect the police brought in on Tuesday was just there a little while earlier when he was brought in for shooting...

ITV West Country's Annie Knowlson reports on Jude Moore from his funeral as his loved ones bid him a final goodbye after his sudden and unexpected death Hundreds lined the streets of Bristol today to pay their respects to Bristol boxer Jude Moore who died last month. The funeral was held at Bristol Cathedral, with family, friends and loved ones paying tribute to the young man. Mr Moore, who came from the Fishponds area of the city, died suddenly in his sleep on 17 March. The 19-year-old was a two-time National Champion (Schools 2017 and Juniors 2019) and represented the...

A man has died following an incident in Camborne this morning (April 12). Devon and Cornwall Police officers were called to a residential road following reports of concern for the welfare of a man. Ambulances and fire crews were also sent to the address at around 4:50am. Sadly, a male in his 30s was pronounced deceased at the scene. The death is currently being treated as 'unexplained' and a number of road closures remain at the scene. A spokesperson from Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Police were called around 4.50am today, 12 April, following concern for the welfare of a...

Former NHL player Raymond Sawada died after suffering a heart attack at age 38 on Monday, his family announced in a GoFundMe fundraiser. The Canadian winger — who played for the Dallas Stars in the 2008-09 season — was playing a recreational hockey game for the Richmond Cowboys when sustained the medical emergency, according to multiple reports. “It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we share the devastating news of the sudden passing of Ray Sawada,” Brianne Sameshima, the organizer of the fundraiser wrote. “At age 38, Ray passed away on the evening of Monday April 10, 2023,...

A Florida man named Patrick Vandermeyden-Miller was recently dubbed “dumb criminal of the week” by the local Sheriff. Vandermeyden-Miller was arrested outside of a Palm Coast Target for allegedly stealing an electric scooter. According to reports Flagler County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man that walked past the check out lines of a Target store with an electric scooter and never paid for it. When the deputies responded Vandermeyden-Miller was not hard to find…he was assembling the scooter right outside the front door.

General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who once wanted to understand the imaginary “white rage,” will be stepping down this fall. It’s just in time for him as the Biden administration looks to go to war with China, Russia, and their allies with no money, open borders, a mentally challenged president, and a history of failures. Our military is the best, but the leadership is lacking. Appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump, Milley will be retiring at the age of 65 as the nation’s highest-ranking member of the U.S....

On this date in 1782, Captain Joshua Huddy of the revolutionary New Jersey patriot militia was summarily (and extrajudicially) hanged on the New Jersey coast by the British Tories. Huddy was a troublesome rascal in civilian life, a regular denizen of courts in his native Salem, Mass., and (upon transplant in 1778) Monmouth County, N.J. Tory British Loyalists found him troublesome in the bare-knuckled revolutionary conflict in Monmouth, “often engaged in raids and revenge executions, which continued even after the war’s end.” Huddy mounted various guerrilla raids in the area from 1779; his Loyalist opposite number actually captured him in...

Just a note that I'm starting to see certain folks who did routine live-streaming to have suddenly vanished from both you tube and rumble with no explanation so far. What they had in common was their [I'll just say] alternative reporting of the the actions taking place in Ukraine and around Taiwan. Without naming names (and starting FR-type drama): One was supposed be back on air 4/7. it's been 5 days, and I've seen nothing on the socials from that cute couple. One has become to spotty, understanding that he's overseas. But figured from his wherebouts we'd at least get...

Many cancer therapies do not produce the hoped-for results. A common reason for this is that the tumors develop resistance to the medications. This is the case with alpelisib, a treatment for advanced breast cancer. A research group has now discovered that the loss of the neurofibromin 1 (NF1) gene leads to a reduced response to alpelisib. The researchers also found that the dietary supplement N-acetylcysteine restores the sensitivity of cancer cells to this treatment. At the moment, patients with advanced and metastatic breast cancer lack effective treatment options. The PI3K signaling pathway is often overactive in breast cancer due...

The father of a a Russian girl sent to an orphanage after drawing an antiwar sketch at school has been extradited from Belarus back to Russia...He faces two years in prison...Alexei Moskalyov fled house arrest just before his sentencing hearing last month in the town of Yefremov, south of Moscow. He was detained in Belarus...

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A Target shopper demanded “reparations” from her local store – in the form of $1,000 worth of groceries – and got punched in the face instead. The incident took place last October in Blue Ash, Ohio, but video of the incident only began circulating last week. The shopper, a black woman who was reportedly identified as Karen Ivery, first told her cashier that she was entitled to reparations that would cover the cost of her purchases — and then demanded to see the manager. When the manager approached, Ivery continued to demand “reparations,” shouting at the manager aggressively and eventually...

A security scare shadowed President Biden’s trip to Northern Island on Wednesday after a top-secret document containing the itinerary for his visit to Belfast and information about his protective detail was found in the street. A passerby discovered the police paper, which detailed where the president was staying in Northern Ireland as well as the phone numbers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland officers in his security detail, BBC Radio Ulster reported.

joining Vanity Fair as a special correspondent to cover Fox News’ trial against Dominion Voting Systems. Stelter will write a weekly column and host a special version of Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive” podcast about the case, CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported. Stelter confirmed the news Monday and teased more details about his temporary role. Vanity Fair Editor Michael Calderone expressed his excitement Tuesday about Stelter’s new role with the outlet. “Couldn’t be happier to have @brianstelter aboard to cover the Fox-Dominion trial, alongside @VanityFair’s stellar stable of media and politics reporters,” Calderone tweeted.

It’s going to be ugly. Likely to be uncomfortable. Certain to be intense, grit, bloody, fierce and filled with adrenaline.As we share in a reminder every morning, “This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.” I can assure you of only this, if we do...

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the other “n-word” is nuclear because no one talks about the danger.Discussing the Ukraine war, Trump said, “At the beginning, Biden was very afraid of nuclear. ‘Oh, they’ve nuclear weapons,’ which was exactly the wrong signal to send. Don’t do that, but if you go back and check your files, you’ll see Biden early on said we can’t do this. They have nuclear weapons. Well, you don’t want to act that way, but he was very afraid of nuclear. I said, you know, you got to be a...

It's pretty weird when CNN provides a platform for someone to speak positiviely about a Republican candidate. But CNN This Morning gave its political commentator Scott Jennings an unfettered five minutes to sing the praises of Tim Scott. The Republican senator from South Carolina has announced that he will be creating a presidential exploratory committee—a prelude to formally throwing his hat into the ring. With no pushback from the hosts, Jennings offered a wide array of upbeat comments about Scott. For example: He's one of the most well-liked and beloved Republicans in the country. I mean, everywhere he speaks, everywhere...

Italian authorities are on the hunt for a bear that killed a 26-year-old jogger in the north-eastern region of Trentino last week.

When Manfred Bietak, an archaeologist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences who has led digs at Tell el-Dab’a for decades, first saw the remains, he immediately thought of the trophy-taking ritual. According to ancient accounts, Egyptian warriors presented the hands of slain enemies to the pharaoh, who rewarded them with gold necklaces or golden pendants in the shape of flies...The care also suggests the hands were removed after death, not hacked from living prisoners. They were probably severed after rigor mortis–a tightening of the tendons in the hours after death–had passed, Gresky argues...Fingers are among the first parts of the...