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Screaming in public may be common in the U.S., but it’s a much different story in Dubai. Unfortunately, Tierra Young Allen learned that the hard way. After attempting to retrieve personal items left in a rental car, the San Diego native was detained and charged with “screaming in public.” She’s been stuck in the United Arab Emirates for two months, and her family is terrified about her future. According to Fox 26, Allen was in a friend’s rental car when they got into an accident in Dubai. Allen’s mother, Tina Baxter, said her daughter went to the rental car company...

On March 15, 2022, an email appeared in the inbox of the election director of Forsyth County, Georgia, with the subject line “Challenge of Elector’s Eligibility.” A spreadsheet attached to the email identified 13 people allegedly registered to vote at P.O. boxes in Forsyth County, a wealthy Republican suburb north of Atlanta. Georgians are supposed to register at residential addresses, except in special circumstances. “Please consider this my request that a hearing be held to determine these voters’ eligibility to vote,” wrote the challenger, Frank Schneider. Schneider is a former chief financial officer at multiple companies, including Jockey International, the...

In 1984 the prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, allowed government officers to storm one of Sikhism’s holiest temples in a search for separatists who were agitating for a new country. In response, her bodyguards assassinated her. That led to a multiple-day attack across India by the authorities and citizens against Sikhs. When it was over, the government said 3,300 Sikhs had died. Estimates by independent observers put the toll between 8,000 and 17,000. Other estimates put the number at about 30,000 people who lost their lives in the ethnic killing. No matter the number, Sikhs worldwide have considered the...

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously dismissed a longshot bid by former President Donald Trump to disqualify quash the special grand jury report that recommended criminal charges in the Fulton County district attorney’s probe of Georgia’s 2020 election. The state Supreme Court also rejected Trump’s request that it bar Fulton DA Fani Willis from continuing to oversee the criminal investigation. The ruling came weeks before Willis is expected to seek indictments in the probe of efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over him in the Peach State.

Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is considering “all options” for a possible 2024 presidential bid as an independent or third party candidate. Gabbard spoke about her thoughts on entering the race in an interview last Friday with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Gabbard, a Lt. Colonel in the Army Reserve, served as a Democrat Congressman from Hawaii for four terms from 2013 to 2021 and ran for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020. Gabbard left the Democratic Party last October, saying the party had become an “elitist cabal of warmongers”:

The Georgia Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an effort from former President Donald Trump to quash an investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. The unanimous decision from the court’s nine justices was swiftly delivered just days after Trump’s legal team asked the court Friday to block an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D). ~snip~ Following his loss in the 2020 presidential election, Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” another 11,780 votes to launch him to victory. His campaign also organized a slate of false electors to...

An 11-year-old girl was left with chemical burns so severe that she struggles to walk after a 12-year-old girl allegedly doused her with an unidentified acid at a Detroit, Michigan, playground, the victim told local news outlets. The 12-year-old, who has not been named publicly, has been charged with one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and one count of felonious assault, The victim, 11-year-old Deaira Summers, said to local media outlets that she was at the Vernor Elementary School playground on July 9 with her siblings and cousin when the cousin got into an argument...

ExxonMobil Corp. announced last week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Denbury Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $4.9 billion. The acquisition will make ExxonMobil the largest owner and operator of carbon dioxide, or CO2, pipelines in the U.S. at 1,300 miles, with almost 925 miles of that network concentrated in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. Denbury recently announced its plans to develop an 8,500-acre CO2 sequestration site about 50 miles northeast of Baton Rouge, as reported in Daily Report. Named Virgo, the site will have an estimated storage capacity of at least 100 million metric...

Trump was on his home turf in West Palm Beach on Saturday, addressing the wildly supportive crowd at the Turning Point Action conference. As the attendees anticipated his entrance, they stood on chairs, got out their cell phones, and turned their attention to the stage. It was clear from speaking to the attendees that Trump was the favorite at Turning Point. DeSantis, who did not attend, was most noticeable by the fact that he was not missed.As he was introduced, with massive sparklers flanking the stage, the room was electric. It has been three years since Trump left office, ceding...

A freight train derailed in Montgomery County early Monday morning, according to police and news reports. The incident occurred at around 4:50 a.m. near the intersection of Stenton Avenue and Joshua Road in Whitemarsh township, according to 6ABC, NBC10 and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Whitemarsh Township Police Department said on Facebook that residents and businesses that were located closest to the accident have been evacuated, but that further evacuations are not believed to be necessary at this time. The police department also said the only thing that leaking from any of the rail cars is silicone pellets, which do not...

Former President Donald Trump is up 60 points in West Virginia’s Republican primary race, a recent WV Statewide News poll found.The survey, taken among 1,144 Republican voters who have voted in at least three of the last four primary elections, found Trump with one of his biggest leads to date, dominating the GOP primary race in West Virginia with 78 percent support. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis falls a full 60 points behind, having 18 percent support. Former Vice President Mike Pence falls even further, coming in with 1.5 percent support, according to the data shared by Republican strategist Andrew Surabian.The...

Overall, nearly 2/3 of Trump supporters in Iowa say they're not persuadable, while about a 1/4 of DeSantis supporters say the same. Meaning, their hard floors right now are 32.1% and 4.9%, respectively.

Beijing’s “chokepoint strategy” for rare metals could very well dictate the future balance of technological power.Two metallic elements, tucked deep within the periodic table, have emerged as key drivers of world politics. On July 3, China’s Ministry of Commerce and China Customs announced export controls on gallium and germanium products (including compounds), effective August 1. This action, aimed at “safeguarding national security and interests,” according to Chinese officials, has stirred global panic within various industries, governments, and media outlets. Although these two rare metals only account for several hundred million dollars in global trade—a figure that pales in comparison with...

A Malaysian man was RM30,000 (S$8,700) poorer when he forgot that he placed a bag of cash totalling RM60,000 at the top of his car boot when he drove to the bank. Barber Wan Ibrahim Wan Leh had wanted to deposit the money he had saved for the past four years at a bank in Terengganu’s town of Jertih, reported national news agency Bernama. He placed a cloth bag - which contained the cash - at the top of the boot of his Honda Civic car as he wanted to clean the inside of the vehicle first. He then drove...

Leslie Van Houten, age 73, has been released into the transitional care of a halfway house, having spent about 52 years in prison. 54 years ago, in August of 1969, she and a gang of other young thugs were followers of the now famous psychopath Charles Manson, who ordered his acolytes to commit a bunch of ghastly murders in a two-day California killing spree. The most famous victim was aspiring actress Sharon Tate, then the young bride of director Roman Polanski. Leslie Van Houten’s direct victims were Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, the following day. 19 years old at the time,...

President Biden’s new income-driven repayment plan for student loans will cost $475 billion over 10 years, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, tens of billions of dollars more than an earlier plan that the Supreme Court struck down last month. The Penn model estimates taxpayers will face $200 billion in costs due to payment reductions in the president’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, as a little more than half of the $1.64 trillion in outstanding loans will be covered.

The grass ain't always greener on the other side. It took a month-long trip to the US and Canada for TikTok user Sophieonggg to fully grasp that life in Singapore is actually pretty good. It seems the difference between some of her North American adventures and what she would experience back home was pretty stark. On Monday (July 10), Sophieonggg posted on TikTok a diary of some of the more unpleasant experiences she had during the trip. She labelled it as "super different" before noting that Singapore will always be her home. Dirty, in every sense of the word While...

The late Rush Limbaugh had a way of summarizing the issues in a concise, pithy way. On matters regarding the armed services, he would always remind his audience that “the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.” That’s not to say that there aren’t a thousand specific details about the military that are worth talking about. We have to discuss the force strength levels in peacetime and the force strength levels in time of war. We have to hammer out how much to pay the enlisted men and the officers, the infantry and the artillery, the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: I’m willing to be a martyr for the truths of the Catholic faithOn this week's episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland states that he is willing to suffer martyrdom, red or white, for defending the truths of the Catholic faith, and comments on the departure of about 500,000 Germans from the Catholic Church in 2022.On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland states that he is willing to suffer martyrdom, red or white, for defending the truths of the Catholic faith, and comments on the departure of about 500,000...

The department was down 500 officers while facing mass retirements amid the defund movement in the wake of protests and riots in reaction to the death of George Floyd. Former Austin law enforcement members told Fox News Digital that the city’s move to end the partnership with the state has put politics in front of public safety and serves as an example of city leaders once again caving to left wing pressure rather than supporting police officers. "This has gone off the rails," Austin Police Retired Officers Association President Dennis Farris told Fox News Digital. "I think he flipped out...