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A Border Patrol K-9 helped agents sniff out $2 million worth of smuggled fentanyl during a traffic stop in Arizona last week, officials said. The seizure happened at a checkpoint along I-8 near Yuma, Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel wrote on Twitter. “The narcotics totaled more than 192 pounds, enough to kill 48 million people,” McGurk-Daniel wrote. The amount of fentanyl seized during the traffic stop was more than the total amount of fentanyl seized during the entirety of Fiscal Year 2022 in the Yuma Sector, according to public US Customs and Border Protections statistic

Consumers facing high asset prices and rising interest rates have a few loan options. None are particularly attractive. Buyers of homes or new cars might be better off waiting. But if you must go ahead, either face taking on a big monthly payment, or stretching out the loan term to keep the monthly bill down - as many are doing. New car loans lasting 73-84 months (over six years) rose to 34.4% of the market in 2022 from 28.6% in 2018, according to auto information site Edmunds. A few borrowers are going even longer, with less than 1% of new...

Norma Hunt, who as the wife of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt attended all 57 Super Bowl games, has died, the Hunt family announced in a statement released by the team. She was 85 years old. No cause of death was given. "Kind, generous and unfailingly positive, mom was one of a kind,'' the Hunts said in their statement. "Her joy and zeal for life were infectious. She loved caring for others, and she always had an encouraging word. She was a loyal friend, the consummate hostess and she had a rare ability to make everyone she...

The unemployment rate is continuing to hold close to its lowest level in 70 years, despite a slight uptick last month. This might seem like good news, but it has two groups of Americans deeply troubled. One is the business community, which counts on a surplus of available workers to keep wages down. The other, unfortunately, is mainstream economists—and the policy makers who listen to them. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has linked low unemployment to high inflation, publicly discussing the need to restore “balance” to the labor market—meaning increase unemployment and suppress wage growth—to tame consumer prices. A director...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Sunday officially endorsed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for president, saying he was the best Democratic candidate who had a shot at beating Republican rivals Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump. The endorsement came in a Twitter post from Dorsey, who shared a clip of Fox News’ Harris Faulkner interviewing Kennedy titled: “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argues he can beat Trump and DeSantis in 2024.” “He can and will,” Dorsey commented. A Twitter user asked Dorsey whether he was endorsing Kennedy or “just predicting.” “Both,” Dorsey replied.

Human rights champion and queer saint Pauli Murray is a renowned civil rights pioneer, feminist, author, Episcopal priest and lawyer whose legal arguments were used in landmark Supreme Court decisions outlawing racism and sexism. Murray’s feast day is July 1. [Update: On Feb. 1, 2023, the U.S. Mint announced that Pauli Murray will appear on U.S. coins in 2024 as part of the American Women Quarters program.] Murray’s gender identity is under debate. The gender non-conformist is widely acclaimed as “the first black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.” She was attracted to women and had the longest relationships with...

Authorities are investigating if the mysterious deaths of six women whose remains were found in and around Portland, Oregon over the past six months are connected and if a serial killer is on the loose. The bodies of the half dozen women were found within 100 miles of each other on the sides of roads, in the woods or in secluded rural areas from February through last month, KGW8 reported. Five different law enforcement agencies are investigating the women’s deaths — and at least three of the agencies have said they are working with the others to determine if the...

Keenan Anderson, a Black man who was repeatedly tased by police officers following a January traffic collision, died from the effects of an enlarged heart and cocaine use, the Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner said. Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father from Washington, D.C., was also the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. On Jan. 3, Anderson was trying to get help after a car crash in Venice, Calif., when he was chased, held down by multiple officers and tased for over 90 seconds. He'd been in California visiting family. Anderson was the suspect in a...

The US Navy says that British and US sailors came to the aid of ship in the Strait of Hormuz... No survivors found at the crash site of private plane in Virginia. The plane with three on board including the pilot strayed into airspace over Washington DC this afternoon... "I want an investigation into who these people are" Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green tweeting after a group of masked individuals in black t-shirts and camouflage pants appeared in Centerville, Texas... In northern Afghanistan schoolgirls reported poisoned... A half-million people participating in an opposition protest in Warsaw today... Arrests made in...

The grand jury hearing evidence in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump related to the classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago is meeting this week after a lull, according to a leak to NBC News. Biden’s Justice Department has nothing on Trump so they are going to try to get him on ‘obstruction’ charges. The grand jury had recently taken a break from hearing evidence in the Trump docs case and now they are expected to be back in Washington this week. As Banks Fail and Americans Scramble to Protect Retirement Accounts With Physical Gold and Silver, A Faith-Based Company...

It’s part of the church’s month-long “Iconic Pride” series The NYC Pride 2023 festivities have officially commenced, and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is getting in on the rainbow-hued celebrations. To kickstart its monthlong "Iconic Pride" series, the uptown cathedral (located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) is honoring the city's vibrant LGBTQ+ community with a fittingly colorful ongoing installation by Mexican-American visual artist Gabriel Garcia Roman. Along with the artist's Queer Icons works, which feature modern-day people seen through the lens of religious iconography, the display will see the cathedral's majestic interior columns illuminated in the...

In order to win a defamation lawsuit, the person suing must convince the court and ultimately the jury that the slanderer didn’t just publish something false, but that he did so even while suspecting that the attack was false. Immigration enforcement activist D.A. King’s lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center made it to the discovery process while so many other lawsuits have failed precisely because King showed that the SPLC had reason to doubt the truth of its claim that his organization, the Dustin Inman Society, was an “anti-immigrant hate group.” In fact, the SPLC had explicitly stated that...

LIST OF FAILS FOR THE WEST DUE TO THE UKRAINE PROXY WAR 🇺🇦👉🤦‍♂️ The minute that the US stole Russia’s 300 billion dollars in foreign reserves and demanded that every nation pay homage to mini-Führer Zelenskyy and hate Vladimir Putin, a chain reaction began:•The US surrendered its death grip on possessing the world’s reserve currency which it has enjoyed since 1945.•The US surrendered its Petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia and the GCC which it has enjoyed since 1971.•Nations sold off their USD reserves and US Treasury bonds at a breakneck pace due to high US domestic inflation and interest rates.•Nations...

A senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques are closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians attending. Expressing regret over the low numbers engaged in worship, Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, who serves as the liaison between Ebrahim Raisi’s administration and the country’s seminaries, said on Thursday that the numbers are a "worrying admission” for a state built around the principles of Islam. Doulabi, who is also a member of the Assembly of Experts – a deliberative body empowered to appoint the Supreme Leader – said the outcome of religion in Iran has led to people leaving religion. Emphasizing...

A video captured the moment an New York City MTA worker slapped the phone out of a trans bus driver's hand for recording her in the women's locker room after telling her to use the men's instead. Nana Mangual, who identifies as female but was born biologically male, videoed the alleged assault as she addressed fellow driver, Sonia Rivera, who had been shouting at her through the door of a bathroom stall while on shift at a Bronx bus depot. Mangual claims Rivera berated her for listening to music in the shower before telling her she was in the wrong...

MOSCOW, June 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday that its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops. It was not immediately clear whether or not the reported attack represented the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive which Kyiv has been promising for months to recapture territory taken by Russian forces after the invasion of February 2022. Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine had attacked with six mechanised and two tank battalions in southern Donetsk, where Moscow has long suspected Ukraine would seek...

I ask your prayers for my friend Jerry. He has been afflicted with permanent injuries sustained when he was hit by a car three years ago. He has done quite well in dealing with them, and getting a new start on life, but he was feeling poorly late in the week -- fever, fatigue, possible UTI etc.-- and was diagnosed with pleural effusion -- fluid around the lungs -- which he describes as feeling like he is drowning. O Lord Almighty, the Healer of our souls and bodies, You Who put down and raise up, Who chastise and heal also;...

Today's Trinity Sunday Sermon describes the relationship of the Three Personal God. The Homily draws the parallel of the Divine Trinity with our own personal relationship within ourselves- As created in the Image of God. 14 min. YouTube Video Link Below:To the Father, Through the Son, In the Holy Spirit

Former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that he would not vote for the Republican nominee in 2024, even if it is someone other than former President Donald Trump. Psaki said, “You said that Trump poses a near existential threat to the rule of law.” She asked, “Tell me a little bit about the specifics of what he could try to do, what do you mean by that?” Comey said, “I think about what four years of a retribution presidency might look like. He could order the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he...