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Two teenage girls were arrested in connection to the assault of Danxin Shi, a 62-year-old rideshare driver, in Chicago's Chinatown. Arrests and charges: The Vehicular Hijacking Task Force arrested a 17-year-old girl in the 5100 block of South Wentworth Ave. on Wednesday. The next day, a 15-year-old girl was also taken into custody in the 1100 block of South Hamilton Ave. Both teenagers have been charged with two felony counts of vehicular hijacking and aggravated battery to a victim aged 60 and over, according to CBS News. About the incident: The teenagers are believed to be two of the three...

A new analysis of ancient footprints in South Africa suggests that the humans who made these tracks might have been wearing hard-soled sandals.Ichnological evidence from three palaeosurfaces on the Cape Coast, in conjunction with neoichnological study, suggests that humans may indeed have worn footwear while traversing dune surfaces during the Middle Stone Age.The study is published in the journal Ichnos.While researchers are reluctant to shoehorn in any firm conclusions regarding the use of footwear in the distant past, the prints' unusual characteristics may provide the oldest evidence yet that people used shoes to protect their feet from sharp rocks in...

A top Republican election attorney has joined a growing coalition of individuals and organizations investigating whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from the ballot due to his involvement in inciting the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Jason Torchinsky, a partner at the Virginia-based law firm Holtzman Vogel, has been involved in discussions about the idea of disqualifying Trump with various individuals, including former elected Republican lawmakers, fellow election attorneys and a retired federal judge who has played a significant role in scrutinizing Trump's eligibility. The effort to block Trump has been a hot-button...

President Joe Biden's son Hunter was indicted on Thursday on three charges related to false statements in the 2018 purchase of a firearm, prompting legal analyst Jonathan Turley to question the possibility of a presidential pardon. Hunter Biden was previously charged with illegal possession of a firearm "as a drug user" and failing to pay federal income tax in June, according to filings from a Delaware District Court. His legal team agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors in which he would plead guilty to two misdemeanors for failing to pay federal tax but avoid prosecution on the felony firearms...

The highest court in Brazil, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), sentenced two of the first defendants implicated in the January 8 Brasilia riot to 17 years in prison on Thursday on a variety of charges including “attempted coup d’etat” and “attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law.” Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, was identified as part of a crowd of thousands of supporters of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the Brazilian Congress, STF headquarters, and office of the presidency in January in large part due to videos Pereira himself published on social media in which he documented...

For months on end, the mainstream media kept peddling the narrative that, because of the sanctions, not only the Russian economy was doomed to fail, they were also running out of ammo, missiles and all kinds of military equipment.Unsurprisingly, it was not true.Daily, news coming from the frontlines showed how the Russian Federation forces were outgunning the Ukrainians in every particular, implementing their ‘attrition warfare’ to incapacitate the enemy forces by slowly destroying both equipment and troops.Now, the cat is out of the box, and it has been made public that, as a result of the push to circumvent the...

The O’Keefe Media Group filed a lawsuit this week against Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Josh Green and the County of Maui after being told he could not take photographs or video on public land during a trip to investigate the aftermath of the devastating fires that burned the area to the ground.In hidden camera footage taken during the investigation, law enforcement officers in the devastated area told OMG journalists that due to the governor’s emergency order in response to the fires, they were prohibited from taking pictures or video on public land and even threatened founder James O’Keefe with arrest if...

MESA, Ariz. -- An Arizona man called a snake removal company after seeing what he thought were three rattlesnakes lurking in the garage of his Mesa home. He was wrong. There actually were 20 snakes — five adult western diamondback rattlers and 15 babies. One of the adult snakes also was pregnant. Snake wrangler Marissa Maki found most of the rattlers coiled around the base of a hot water heater in the unidentified homeowner’s cluttered garage Tuesday. “That is a lot of snakes. I’m not going to lie. This is crazy,” Maki said in a YouTube video recorded by the...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a bed, according to authorities. Justin T. Wiley, 32, of Fort Wayne was charged this week with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury and unlawful possession of a handgun. He is not legally allowed to carry a gun because of prior felony convictions, The Journal Gazette reported. Fort Wayne police officers found Wiley on Sept. 9 suffering from a gunshot wound in his middle to upper back, according to a probable...

CONGRESSIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE DESCENDS INTO ANARCHY AS NEW YORKERS DEMAND BORDERS SHUT OVER MIGRANT CRISIS pic.twitter.com/MEbQRXRnwB— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) September 15, 2023NYC CONGRESSIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE (JERRY NADLER) DESCENDS INTO ANARCHY AS NEW YORKERS DEMAND BORDERS SHUT OVER MIGRANT CRISIS

DeSantis continues to lose ground as Ramaswamy holds steady Three weeks after the first Republican presidential primary debate, the latest Fox News survey finds Donald Trump has increased both his lead in the race and his strength of support. Sixty percent of Republican primary voters back Trump in the primary race, up from 53% in the Fox News pre-debate August survey. Trump did not participate in the August 23 GOP debate hosted by Fox News. At 13% support, Ron DeSantis sees a downtick of 3 points since the debate, while Vivek Ramaswamy holds steady at 11%. Next is Nikki Haley...

(Last Updated On: September 7, 2023) NATIONAL LINGUINE DAY | SEPTEMBER 15 On September 15th, National Linguine Day fills the dinner menu at home and restaurants across the country. #NationalLinguineDay From the Liguria region of Italy, linguine means “little tongues” in Italian. Made from durum semolina flour, linguine is one of the world’s oldest kinds of pasta. Fettuccine and linguine both developed around 400 years ago. While both are thin, flat noodles, linguine is narrower and more elliptical in shape. As a result, linguine produces a more delicate pasta. To avoid breakage, pair linguine with thinner, lighter sauces. However, lighter...

Luka Hein, who is now 21 years old, is suing the doctors who allegedly rushed her into transgender surgery at the age of 16, removing both her breasts. Hein spoke with the Daily Mail, telling the outlet the surgery has left her with daily pain. They also pumped her full of hormone treatments that could possibly rob her of being a mother one day. During her teens, Hein’s parents went through a bitter divorce. A series of events after that led to doctors convincing her parents that if they didn’t push her to become transgender she would commit suicide. The...

Former President Donald Trump appears to have an advantage against President Joe Biden in 2024 among key battleground states in the 2020 election, according to a Friday poll.The states that had the narrowest margin of victory for either candidate last cycle were Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with Biden winning all but North Carolina. Across those key swing states, Trump is ahead of Biden 41% to 35%, and 24% of voters remain undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.Among independent voters, the former president also held a slight advantage over Biden, according to the poll. Trump received...

A spacecraft left behind by US astronauts on the lunar surface could be causing small tremors known as moonquakes, according to a new study. Researchers revealed the previously unknown form of seismic activity on the moon for the first time through an analysis of Apollo-era data using modern algorithms. Massive temperature swings that occur on the moon can cause human-made structures to expand and contract in a way that produces these vibrations, the report suggests. The lunar surface is an extreme environment, oscillating between minus 208 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 133 degrees Celsius) in the dark and 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121...

An autistic 8-year-old boy died while wrapped in sheets during a prayer service held to exorcise the evil spirits that church members blamed for his condition. The minister who performed the service was arrested in connection with the death, which occurred Friday night at a church in a run-down strip mall. The mother had been taking her son to Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith three times a week for the last three weeks in hopes of curing his autism, said Bishop David Hemphill Sr. It was after more than an hour of prayer that a parishioner noticed the...

This week, the world will celebrate the three-year anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s Abraham Accords. On September 15, 2020, President Trump ushered in a new era of peace and collaboration in the Middle East between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on the White House South Lawn.While intelligence community leaders said President Trump’s bold decision to keep his campaign promise and move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, would cause war in the Middle East, just the opposite happened.Not shockingly, many of these individuals said the same when the framework...

Joe Biden never carried out the tasks of typical professors, like teaching semester-long classes, and conducting independent research ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ President Joe Biden on Thursday, September 14, said that he used to “teach political theory” at the University of Pennsylvania – but he never really did. “Our democracy is under attack, and we got to fight for it,” 80-year-old Joe said during a speech at Maryland’s Prince George’s Community College. “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory. And folks, you always hear, every generation has to fight for democracy.” President Joe...

A jury has found three men accused of taking part in a 2020 plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer not guilty on all counts. The defendants, Eric Molitor and brothers William and Michael Null, had been charged with charged with providing material support for terrorist acts and carrying or possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony. If they were convicted of provided material support, the men would have been sentenced to serve between five and 20 years in prison. JoAnne Huls, the chief of staff to Govenor Whitmer, issued the following statement in response to the verdicts: "Today’s...

The White House and Capitol Hill can expect a visit from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky next week as the latest aid package worth upwards of $24 billion is debated in Congress.Zelensky will be in Washington, DC, as a side visit during the United Nations General Assembly. He arrives on the back of a poll that found a majority of Americans oppose sending more aid to Ukraine.AP reports an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the visit, said Zelensky will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House next Thursday.The trip to the Capitol was confirmed by...