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A daredevil climber fell to his death from a high-rise building in Hong Kong after last being seen knocking on a window on the 68th floor. Remi Lucidi, 30, also known as “Remi Enigma”, was seen by a building worker knocking from the outside of the window, suggesting he may have been trapped and asking for help, reported the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Tregunter Tower, which Mr Lucidi fell from on Thursday, is located in the city’s upscale Mid-Levels area. The Frenchman had fallen 721ft to his death by the time the police arrived and officers found his camera,...

President Donald J Trump has distilled the issues, events and consequences into an op-ed published in Newsweek [Article Here]. As President Trump notes toward the end of his discussion, “there must be a reckoning.”“The report by Special Counsel John Durham makes clear beyond a shred of doubt that the Russia Hoax was the most atrocious weaponization of our government in American history. It was a crime like no other.Seven years ago, I ran for office taking on all the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests in our nation’s capital. My agenda was an existential threat to a Washington establishment that...

A man stabbed to death in a suspected anti-gay attack in Brooklyn was remembered as a talented, promising dancer Monday — as law enforcement sources said a 17-year-old high school student is being eyed in the crime. O’Shae Sibley, 28, was allegedly attacked for “vogueing” — or performing a stylized modern dance routine — to Beyoncé’s hit “Renaissance” outside a gas station in Coney Island Saturday night, according to a pal who said he was present during the stabbing. “They hated us cause we are gay!” Otis Pena, one of Sibley’s friends, fumed in a Facebook post, sharing grisly photos...

Joe Biden lied to America in a Presidential Debate when he said that his son didn’t make any money off China / Chinese business. The Plea Deal makes that perfectly clear. Joe also lied many times that he never discussed his business with him. How Do Federal Judges deal with Lies to the Public? Even indirectly?

A former ABC journalist pleaded guilty today to transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. According to court documents, while visiting South Carolina in February 2020, James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, used an online messaging platform on his iPhone to send and receive images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and to discuss his sexual interest in children. Some of the images and videos depicted prepubescent minors and minors under the age of 12, including an infant being raped. ...

A Quebec trucking company has been ordered to reinstate a driver who was fired after she drank at least nine beers before she lost control of her truck on a Pennsylvania highway. The driver's actions amounted to serious misconduct, but her drinking was the result of a disability — alcoholism — and trucking company Groupe Robert should have made a reasonable accommodation for her, labour arbitrator Huguette April said in her written July 18 decision. "The night of the accident, she needed to drink," April said. "She admitted that even though she knew she shouldn't, the need was stronger, like...

The Kremlin today bluntly threatened use of nuclear weapons in the wake of the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow's skyscraper zone. Three drones struck an elite office building and residential skyscraper in Moscow early Sunday morning in what Russia's Defence Ministry has branded an 'attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime'. Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and Putin ally, has warned there is 'simply no other way out' and said that Kyiv should 'pray to our warriors' that they do not 'allow the global nuclear fire to flare up'. Moscow said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early...

A cold case investigation that kept bringing up more questions than answers has been put to rest due to a new DNA testing process. According to the Monterey Police Department, in February 2014, officers responded to a death of a woman at a home on Fourth Street in Monterey. Inside the home, police found Francesca Linda Jacobs. Francesca had died from starvation, and no foul play was suspected. During their initial investigation, police located the decomposed remains of another person inside a box under the kitchen table. The remains were fully clothed. The investigation also found a handwritten will in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An unexpected period of sudden transition swept through the nation's capital today after the White House announced President Joe Biden had to be put down after yet another incident in which he bit a baby. Vice President Kamala Harris will now ascend to the presidency. "He had just become too dangerous and unpredictable," said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who is black and also gay. "It's a sad day, but we made sure he got to enjoy his favorite things before the end came. Playing ball in the backyard, having his tummy scratched…everything he loved." The difficult decision...

A bullet hit Austin’s left arm and traveled through his chest, lungs, and all the way to his right arm, according to Tarrant County Medical Examiner Kendall Crowns. An hour after police responded to the scene at the apartment complex, Austin’s neighbor, 21-year-old Gabriel Nathaniel Brown, turned himself in to the police. He told police he did not commit a crime, but that he shot Austin by accident. The events leading up to the shooting According to police reports, Brown told investigators that he had just received a micro conversion kit for his pistol. A micro conversion kit is used...

CLEVELAND (WOIO/Gray News) - An Ohio woman’s remains were found in a plastic storage box nearly a year after she disappeared, WOIO reports. The remains of 41-year-old Tyresha Little, a mother of eight, were discovered behind an abandoned home in Cleveland. A tip to police led them to the backyard of the home on July 20. Family and friends, including five of Little’s children, gathered outside of the abandoned home to pay tribute to her life. “My daughter, she was a very, very loving heart. She would give you the shirt off of her back. She did have a drug...

Having grown up in New Jersey, there are plenty of things about the state that I’m not particularly proud of. MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” for example, was not the best look, particularly not for Italian-American New Jerseyans like yours truly. And I remember feeling plenty of secondhand embarrassment watching residents turn every little statewide oddity — from full-serve-only gas, to Action Park’s dismal safety record — into points of burning pride to be loudly squawked about in mixed company. But that embarrassment was just personal. It’s nothing like the professional mortification I’ve felt for the past year watching my home state...

Amid the never-ending coverage of the latest offensive or counteroffensive in Ukraine, it is often unappreciated just how much worse the global economic repercussions from the conflict could have been. Russia is the world’s leading exporter of gas and provided around 50% of the EU’s demand before the war; Ukraine, meanwhile, is a major exporter of grain, alongside Russia itself. The complete disruption of either of these channels would have resulted in catastrophe.The fact this didn’t happen last year was largely thanks to two crucial agreements secured early in the conflict: the Black Sea Grain Initiative, whereby Russia allowed Ukraine...

WASHINGTON – At least he didn’t fall off this time. President Biden was back on his bike Monday, pedaling around Rehoboth Beach, Del. as his troubled son’s former business partner, Devon Archer, answered questions on Capitol Hill. The 80-year-old president and first lady Jill Biden zipped by reporters shortly after 11 a.m., with Joe Biden ignoring a shouted question about Chinese malware. A small crowd watched from behind a rope line and cheered on the first couple, who wore matching long black pants, black t-shirts and bike helmets. Three official vehicles led the bike convoy, which also included Secret Service...

An Indian citizen who had been living in Ontario pleaded guilty in an American court on Friday to smuggling foreign nationals from India into the U.S. in 2020 and 2021. Simranjit Singh, 40, had been arrested in Ontario in June 2022 and was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in March. facilitated the smuggling of numerous Indian nationals from Canada into the United States, via Cornwall Island and the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in the St. Lawrence River region, for profit,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of New York stated in a press release Friday. Press release...

It is concerning to me how easily the right has accepted Megyn Kelly back after she went over to the left for a few years. Other commentators and politicians were accepted back during Trump's Presidency, who then stabbed Trump in the back after Nov. 3rd. Here is a quote from Megyn regarding here interview with Alex Jones, "But she said it left many wondering how Jones and his “outrageous conspiracy theories” have the respect of millions including Trump, who she said has elevated Jones by praising him and appearing on his show." I have no doubt that conservatives would accept...

An American nurse and her daughter have been abducted in Haiti, in the latest kidnapping episode to draw international notice, as a resurgence of violence grips the capital, Port-au-Prince. In a brief statement on Saturday, El Roi Haiti, a faith-focused humanitarian organization, identified the woman as Alix Dorsainvil, the group’s community nurse and the wife of the group’s director. She and her child were taken from El Roi’s campus near the capital on Thursday, according to the statement. No further details have been made public. “We are aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” a...

Two in three Americans (67%) said they could live on sandwiches alone for a full week, according to new research. The perfect sandwich, according to a survey of 2,000 Americans, consists of tomato (54%), cheddar cheese (39%) and Black Forest ham (39%). The survey also found that the average American craves a sandwich four times a week. It seems that the best solution for your tastebuds and your wallet is a sandwich as 42% polled said they are actively looking for ways to cut down the cost of food, with sandwiches being a good money-saving option for 67% of respondents,...

Tens of thousands of illegal ballots have been found in Detroit, Michigan during an explosive criminal forensic study into the 2020 election results. Specklin Forensics, a national expert in criminal forensics, completed an investigation into the 2020 election in Michigan and published a report on its findings. The organization found further evidence of chronic, systemic voter fraud, according to the report. The fraud exposed was especially among absentee ballots in the controversial 2020 election. The firm has wide national experience testifying in criminal trials. During its investigation, Specklin Forensics was allowed limited access to the 2020 ballots in Wayne County,...

A Toronto school board and an education minister announced they are launching investigations Thursday into a professional development training after a former principal died by suicide following a lawsuit in which he alleged emotional distress from antiracist trainings and the fallout that followed. The sessions included concepts from critical race theory. Before his death, Richard Bilkszto, a 60-year-old former principal, sued the Toronto District School Board for emotional distress after he attended a training where he was accused of being a racist. Bilkszto alleged in his lawsuit that Kike Ojo-Thompson – who runs an equity firm called the KOJO Institute...