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A grocery store employee in Colorado was fired after he videotaped three men loading stolen laundry detergent into a vehicle. Last month, Santino Burrola went viral after posting a video to social media showing three men loading a basket full of stolen laundry detergent into a mini van in the parking lot of a King Soopers grocery store. "Damn, these guys are good— look at 'em, stealing," Burrola said in the video. "Really, bro? You got to resort to this? The economy's not that bad. Better get it while the gettin's good." As the vehicle drove off, Burrola managed to...

A national mass surveillance system boosted by artificial intelligence (AI) took root in another state. The town council of Jackson, Wyoming, agreed in a close vote last month to install the 30 solar-powered license plate recognition (LPR) cameras along their streets and traffic lights, which feeds into a centralized surveillance system managed by the private company Flock Safety. The town is the first in the state of Wyoming to install the cameras. Council members who agreed to the measure expressed reluctance with their decision. Councilman Jonathan Schechter indicated his belief that the cameras marked a negative trend down an undesirable...

THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST: DOES IT SAVE US?(Ecclesiastes 12:12 [KJV]) And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. WHEN YOU GO INTO THE MAINSTREAM YOU FLOAT DOWNSTREAM, and God never once asked you to follow any man, only Him. Even Paul said to follow him as he follows Christ. A mainstream rank heresy, out out by some famous preachers, such as John MacArthur, of another Gospel (Galatians 1) is that the Blood never saves us. Jesus Christ could have been strangled, whatever,...

Explanation: This pretty starfield spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. It holds the famous pair of open star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (top) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. Always a rewarding sight in binoculars, the Double...

The Biden administration will soon open a new immigration program to allow some Central Americans and Colombians to enter the U.S. legally and discourage would-be migrants from these countries from journeying north to cross the U.S. southern border illegally, officials announced Friday. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative, which will formally start on July 10, will allow eligible migrants from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to fly to the U.S. and gain government work permits if they have relatives who are U.S. citizens or legal residents and have filed visa applications on their behalf. A Homeland Security spokesperson...

Air Force officials are investigating a series of land acquisitions amounting to nearly $1 billion near a major air base in California, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal found that over the past five years, investment group Flannery Associates has become the largest landowner in Solano County after purchasing nearly $1 billion worth of land. An attorney for the company told the newspaper that it's controlled by American citizens and that 97% of the firm's capital comes from U.S. investors, with the remainder coming from British and Irish investors. Local and federal officials said they have yet to uncover...

The Eagles, one of the most successful and longest-running acts in the history of popular music, have announced the first of what they say are their “final” tour dates. After 52 years, more than a thousand concerts and over 150 million albums sold, the group has announced the initial 13 dates of their final farewell tour, beginning on Sept. 7 in New York, with more to be added. According to the announcement, the Eagles — Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey — will perform “as many shows in each market as their...

WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Jack Smith spent more than $5 million in the first four months of the federal investigations into former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents and his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The expenditures also showed that other components of the Department of Justice spent more than $3.8 million to support Smith's office. Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed in January to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, spent nearly $616,000 through March, according to a separate expenditure statement released by the Justice Department.

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was removed from the House Freedom Caucus after taking Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s side too many times on key votes. Greene also feuded with Freedom Caucus member Lauren Boebert. Maryland Rep. Andy Harris confirmed the removal saying the Boebert feud was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” He said: “I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members.” Greene called Boebert a ‘little b*tch” earlier. “A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the...

Colorado legislation supposedly aimed at increasing election security effectively outlawed hand-counting ballots in most of the state, and election officials are the ones who requested the ban. The Colorado Election Security Act (SB22-153) was drafted in response to Mesa County clerk Tina Peters allowing election skeptics to replicate hard drives to check for evidence of fraud. SB22-153 contains a number of provisions, with the state government mostly focusing on those outlawing replication, and banning people convicted of insurrection or sedition from becoming election officials. At a meeting of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), Colorado’s elections director Judd...

A woman who was declared dead after suffering a suspected stroke and cardiac arrest shocked those at her wake when she started making noise from her coffin.Not dead yet! Woman bangs on coffin at wake

Photo: AlamyPresident Trump had harsh words this week for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), after the presidential hopeful campaigned in New Hampshire, courting hardcore MAGA voters in the key battleground state.Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Ron DeSanctimonious is getting absolutely ‘demolished’ for yesterday’s performance in New Hampshire. No crowds, no enthusiasm, no interest.”The president claimed that the DeSantis campaign “is in total disarray.” He also slammed the Florida leader for hurting his chances to run for president in 2028.“See, loyalty does matter with Patriots!” Trump remarked.New Hampshire 2024: Trump holds 28-point lead for Republican Nomination Trump 47% (+5 from March)DeSantis...

Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 9:9–13Friends, our Gospel for today is the simple but magnificent story of the conversion of Matthew. I urge you to read it and meditate upon it this week, for it’s about you. The Bible says that Jesus told Matthew,“Follow me.”The call of Jesus is meant to get into your mind, and then past your mind into your body, and then through your body into your life, into your most practical decisions.And then we hear that Matthew “got up and followed him.” The verb used here in the Greek is the same verb used to...

An 18-month-old Florida girl “baked to death” after police said her parents left her alone in a car all night in 105-degree heat after returning home from a Fourth of July party where they drank alcohol and smoked marijuana. Joel and Jazmine Rondon, both 33, from Lakeland, have been arrested on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child in what Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described as their daughter’s “torturous” hot-car death, which he blamed on “negligence and drug use.” The couple went to a party on Tuesday with their three children, all under the age of 9, and...

Tucker Carlson Reveals Capitol Police Chief Told Him J6 Crowd Was 'FILLED With Federal Agents'Tucker states he interviewed Steven Sund, Chief of Police (Capital Hill) and Sund told him the protest was filled with Federal Agents and that Fox News never aired the interview, which was apparently conducted right before he was fired from Fox.Video at link: https://rumble.com/v2yoqf0-tucker-carlson-reveals-capitol-police-chief-told-him-j6-crowd-was-filled-wi.html

A Florida judge this week sided with the state in a challenge by the Florida teachers union over rules that restrict what books and materials are available in classrooms. The union and two other advocacy groups sued the state in March, saying the way it interpreted a new law about school library books went further than the law intended, leading to censorship and book bans. The 2022 law requires districts to catalog every book on school shelves and create a formal review process for complaints. Some parents have asked for certain books to be removed from schools because of the...

A healthy four-year-old girl died suddenly in the Northern Territory, Australia leaving her loved ones and medical professionals searching for answers. Millicent Edwards collapsed at home on April 14 and was rushed to hospital where she was put into an induced coma to stabilize her condition. She was subsequently transferred to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, Australia where 30 of her closest family members and friends gathered by her side. But despite tireless efforts from doctors, Millicent tragically died on June 16.

— After receiving that feedback, we knew it was time for a changeWhen a 3-month hospitalization with Guillain-Barré syndrome in 2000 caused me to be intubated, extubated, and connected to a feeding tube, I had looked forward, finally, to real food after having worked my way from liquids to soft foods. Then solids. At the time, hospitals were unfamiliar territory for me as an executive with the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain. So was hospital food, which created a particularly unattractive challenge. The quality of the food was atrocious. I continued consuming undesirable protein drinks while my wife -- already managing our...

Unlike the former Soviet Union, whose scientific prowess was limited to a handful of domains, China has emerged as a genuine rival to America. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute reported this year that China leads the U.S. in research on 37 of 44 critical technologies, including advanced aircraft engines, electric batteries, machine learning and synthetic biology. In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, Dan Wang, an expert on China’s technology landscape, wrote that “China now rivals Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in its mastery of the electronics supply chain.” In 2007, the Chinese added less than 4% of the value-added...

Jul 6, 2023, 05:52 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday that he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino and that the security detail he was with pushed the pop star away. Wembanyama said he wasn't told that Spears was the person who grabbed him until hours later. Spears filed a police report claiming she was struck by a security guard while trying to get Wembanyama's attention, according to TMZ, which first reported alleged details of the...