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Seven people were shot and another injured at a car meet in northern Massachusetts early Sunday morning, local police said. The shooting occurred just before 2 a.m. in Methuen, Mass., near the New Hampshire border. Police Chief Scott McNamara said officers arrived at the scene to find seven gunshot victims and an eighth person who suffered a head injury while attempting to flee the scene. Five of the gunshot victims are in stable condition, while two are in critical condition, authorities said in a Sunday press conference. The victims’ ages ranged from their late teens to early twenties.

A Republican draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would provide $24 billion over the next five years to boost the pay of enlisted troops. The Biden Administration opposes this allocation because "the funds have already been allocated to Ukraine as part of our commitment to pay all the costs of the Zelensky government for the next ten-years." Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind) pointed out that "the agreement signed by President Biden and President Zelensky has not even been submitted to, much less ratified by the Senate. Neither has the funding been authorized by Congress. Republicans don't agree that...

Pro-Palestinian activists took credit for a felony arson attack outside of UC Berkeley’s Koshland Hall on Thursday. Details about the fire were scarce on Friday. But it is at least the second case of arson at Cal that pro-Palestinian activists have claimed responsibility for this month. A UC Berkeley police vehicle was set on fire on June 1. On Thursday morning, an anonymous “student intifada” post took credit for the latest incident. “UCLA students were attacked last night so we retaliated with a firebomb on UCB campus,” the post said. “We unloaded a firebomb on the side of a campus...

Tis the season for emergency room visits after inappropriately using Ozempic to lose weight for the summer. “Drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy should only be used by people prescribed them for obesity or diabetes,” Stephen Powis — the national medical director of NHS England, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system — urged last week at a conference in Manchester. “I’m worried about reports that people are misusing them — they are not intended as a quick fix for people trying to get ‘beach body ready,'” added Powis, per The Times of London.

Elizabeth was 24 years old when she became pregnant. She was unsure of what to do, but her boyfriend began to pressure her to have an abortion. “I was really afraid and not really sure what to do about it,” she said, “and he was pretty clear that he wasn’t going to stick around for this, so — so I scheduled an appointment for my abortion, a chemical abortion.” Elizabeth explained that when she first got the abortion pill regimen she cried for about an hour, unsure if she should take the pills or not. Ultimately, she decided to swallow...

A relatively small web forum I am a member of is shutting down soon. There are a lot of posts on it I and other members would like to archive to HD for reference. Saving individual pages is VERY time consuming, and we only have until the end of the month. Do any of our FReeper computer guru's have any experience with this?

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that former President Donald Trump did not love America. Host Jen Psaki said, “I’m sure you are aware of the controversy that broke out over some comments that Trump made about Milwaukee, which is hosting the Republican convention coming up later this summer. He reportedly called Milwaukee a horrible city. He called Washington a filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment. He has called Chicago worse than Afghanistan. He once called Baltimore a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. These are America’s cities. what do you make of his comments, and what is driving...

Caitlin Clark is adding another record to her long list of historical feats after Sunday's Indiana Fever game vs. the Chicago Sky. The Fever star became the first rookie since Breanna Stewart in 2016 to have five games of hitting at least 15 points, five assists and five rebounds. Clark reached this accomplishment in just the first 15 games of her rookie season. It took Stewart until September of her rookie year to achieve the feat. Clark's finished stat line for Sunday's 91–83 win was 23 points, eight rebounds and nine assists. This win pushed the Fever's record to 5–10.

Upstart Democratic Socialists, an underdog businessman seeking to topple Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and ex-con Hiram Monserrate are among those seeking office in New York’s primary elections June 25. The primary’s nine days of early voting started Saturday. Lefty Democratic Socialist incumbent Ocasio-Cortez faces off against little known moderate retired Wall Street banker Marty Dolan in the 14th Congressional District covering parts of The Bronx and Queens. AOC has tried to ignore her opponent — refusing to debate him — while running TV ads promoting her re-election bid.

I would like to move some Bitcoin to cold storage, but the thought of doing it wrong and losing it forever scares the Obama out of me. If you have done it, how did you do it, how do you store the wallet, and what is the possibility of messing it up and losing it forever?

May 17, 1998 – June 16, 2024 310 Threads, 68,946 replies All good things must come to an end. I wish all of you the best. Remember, the national government has not one, but two warrants for its existence. 1) The Constitution 2) The Declaration of Independence The Constitution's purpose is "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" The Declaration states, "[men]are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...

The owner of a pair of upscale boutiques in Florida’s ritzy Palm Beach who hob-knobbed with the likes of former President Trump was nabbed peddling $2 million in phony goods, according to police. Olena Austin, 51, was charged with selling counterfeit clothing and jewelry at two Blesk Jewelry locations in the city — shutting down both locations, WPTV-TV News reported earlier this month. The stores were selling Fugazi knock-offs of top-shelf designer brands like Chanel, Tiffany, Rolex, Versace, Pucci, Bottega Veneta and Van Cleef & Arpel — and telling customers they were the real deal, police said. “We have to...

Mohammad Nusairat, who is a student at University of Chicago Illinois said in his May 3, 2024 Friday sermon at the university’s MSA – Muslim Students Association that America, the American government, and democracy are cancers. He said that they have spread their illness all over the world. Nussairat continued to say that non-Muslim are tired of this cancer of the American government and democracy and that they want to see a new way of life. He stressed that Muslims have this way of life and that Islam is a religion that has come to be implemented on society. In...

A massive wildfire just outside Los Angeles, California, has spread to 12,265 acres and was only two percent contained on Sunday afternoon. The Post Fire is moving towards Hungry Valley Park, where California State Park Services have evacuated approximately 1,200 people. Evacuation warnings have also been issued south of Pyramid Lake between Old Ridge Route and the Los Angeles County line, which includes Paradise Ranch Estate.

Vladimir Putin's leading propagandist on Russian state TV has suggested that Moscow should simply blow up the Kyiv dam and flood the Ukrainian capital to deal a killer blow in the war. The shocking tirade comes amid growing frustration in Russia at the slow progress of the country's offensive along the frontline in Ukraine. There is also anger after 90 countries around the world attended a Ukrainian peace summit in Switzerland which did not invite Russia.

The threats are ‘no longer speculative’ and ‘not longer hypothetical,’ Rep. Mike Turner said.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the United States is currently at its “highest level” for the possibility of a terrorist attack occurring on American soil.During an interview with CBS News, Mr. Turner was asked about reports of recent arrests with individuals with ties to the ISIS terrorist group in the United States.“What’s important about these reports and what we’re seeing, especially in conjunction with [FBI] Director [Christopher] Wray’s public statements, that we are at the highest level of a possible terrorist threat,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Saturday night, helping raise what his reelection campaign said was $28 million and hoping to energize would-be supporters for a November election that they argued was among the most important in the nation’s history. George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Biden and former President Barack Obama, who both stressed the need to defeat former President Donald Trump in a race that’s...

Sen. Tim Scott appears determined to take himself out of the running to be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jon Karl, Scott said he stood by his decision to certify the 2020 presidential election, despite widespread evidence of voter fraud that tipped the election in Biden’s favor. Here is a transcript of the exchange: JON KARL: OK. Senator, the day before that violent mob attacked the Capitol, you put out a statement explaining your decision to certify Joe Biden’s election victory. Do you stand by that? You were not one...

Gen. Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, a noted German military officer and opponent of Adolf Hitler, is said to have categorized leaders on their intelligence and industriousness, noting:“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can, under certain circumstances, be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult...

Many Jews have been so ideologically captured by the left that they compulsively identify with and feel endless sympathy for the people in Gaza and the West Bank, most of whom are open in their desire for mass Jewish slaughter, the more sadistic, the better. The latest example of this madness is the upcoming San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (“SFJFF”), which is making itself a showcase for pro-Gaza and anti-Israel grievance films. The SFJFF has long (always?) leaned left. That’s because the Jewish Film Institution, which sponsors it, is a left-leaning organization. That comes through loud and clear in the...