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A 69-year-old man's final wish is to reunite with his two estranged daughters whom he has not seen in more than 20 years and seek their forgiveness. Retired businessman Chen Tuguang (transliteration), is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, Shin Min Daily News reported. In an interview with the Chinese evening daily, he shared that his wife had died of liver cancer in 1993, leaving behind his daughters aged 11 and eight. Deciding to "leave this sad place", Chen packed his bags for Shanghai, China where he worked for several years. He got married to a Chinese woman there and later...

Talk about the cost of doing business. A shameless Costco shopper put the popular warehouse retailer’s generous return policy to the test — and tested the patience of social media observers — by dragging a three-year-old couch back to her local store. California-based realtor Jasmen Reyes recently performed a public demonstration of the limits of the guarantee via a video posted to her TikTok account where she attempts to return the unwanted furniture — said to be worth approximately $1,400. Advertisement

Explanation: Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow this comet's orbit as they slowly disperse. The featured animation depicts the entire meteoroid stream as it orbits our Sun. When the Earth nears this stream, as it does every year, the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs. Highlighted as bright in the animation, comet debris this size is usually so dim it is practically undetectable. Only a small fraction of this debris will enter the Earth's atmosphere, heat up and disintegrate brightly. Tonight and the next...

Ukrainian's Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor is on fire.

The company, along with rival Shein offer heavily discounted items and have seen increased popularity in the US and UK. Temu’s founder Colin Huang has recently become China’s richest man with a net worth of $48.6bn (€44.50m), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He replaced bottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan, the founder and chairman of beverage company Nongfu Spring, who has held the title since April 2021. A serial entrepreneur, Huang has previously started a number of other businesses, such as e-commerce platform Oku, online games company Xinyoudi and agricultural platform Pinduoduo. Huang was also previously an engineer at Google and...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has never done anything like this before. The agency is poised to declare a “public health emergency of continental security” as early as next week. Since the beginning of last year, mpox cases have been surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with children making up the majority of the 14,000 reported cases and 511 deaths so far in 2024. Those numbers roughly match the number of cases reported in all of last year in the country. Why Africa is so worried In the last couple weeks, there’s been a new and...

Locals had criticised the previous tax rules after rich expats buying property in Italy sent house prices spiking. Italy's government has approved an increase in the annual flat tax applied to income earned abroad by new fiscal residents in Italy. The annual fixed fee will jump to €200,000, from the current total of €100,000. Unpopular among locals, the tax arrangement is informally known as the "billionaires" tax or "the footballers scheme" - it is credited with attracting thousands of multi-millionaires to Italy. One high-profile individual who benefited from the system was Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo, who moved to Turin...

The night American sprinter Noah Lyles won a bronze medal, he had a fever of around 102 degrees Fahrenheit, according to his coach Lance Brauman. It's what made that medal, in his last sprint at the Paris Games, all the more impressive to Brauman, who described the sprinter's condition and future Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. Lyles tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and finished third in Thursday's 200-meter final behind Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and American teammate Kenneth Bednarek.

Officials in Moscow have vowed to impose a "tough response" as a large Ukrainian offensive inside Russian territory entered a sixth day.Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of "intimidating the peaceful population of Russia" with the offensive, which began on Tuesday.Kyiv's forces have now advanced up to 30km inside Russia, in what is the deepest and most significant Ukrainian incursion since the war began in February 2022. Thousands of troops are said to be involved in the operation.Overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky directly acknowledged the attack for the first time, telling Ukrainians that his forces were pushing the war on...

Suddenly after three weeks Kammy is leading by exactly what Trumpster was, Sweaterman is whipping Putty, Olympics is closing out with song about women, SloJoe comes out swing about SanFranNan forcing him out while she claims someone ese wrote his bow out letter. Makes one want to scratch the noggin. Rest easy because it is all smoke and mirrors and it will get more bizarre by the minute.

After the IDF attacked a military headquarters at the school in Gaza City - where at least 19 terrorists were killed, the reporter of the Qatar channel accused: "a great massacre" • An IDF spokesman in Arabic condemned: "covering up the crimes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad" • The presentation and the uproar: Despite the fact that the al-Taba'in school that the IDF attacked yesterday (Saturday) in the Daraj Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, was disguised as a hiding place for terrorists - Al-Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, who broadcast from the scene, worked to glorify the event and did "...

The shear audacity. The Secret Service apologized to a salon owner in Massachusetts who alleged that individuals broke into her business to use the bathroom during the agency’s security work for a nearby Veep Kamala Harris fundraiser. Berkshires businesswoman Alicia Powers says someone picked the lock and broke into her store for the bathroom — after a Secret Service officer covered a camera outside her salon with tape.The people who proceeded to use the bathroom included a pair in emergency medical uniforms, a person in camouflage law-enforcement gear and someone in a dark suit and white shirt similar to a...

It is unsettling to realize that the shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump less than four weeks ago seems to have already faded into the distant past.This shooting of a former President and current presidential candidate is an historic incident that should have sparked serious, bipartisan, national self-examination, and a demand for answers not only about the would-be assassin but about the jaw-dropping security lapses that facilitated the shooting. Instead, the mainstream media has managed to shift the focus of the news cycle to the ginning up of enthusiasm for the Democrat candidate, a hopelessly inept and disliked far-Left radical...

Vice President Kamala Harris continues to have no policies on her website — despite being in the presidential race for three weeks, and in office for nearly four years. As Breitbart News noted last week, there were no policies on the website — even after changes were made to add Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the ticket (and the site). Harris is supposedly going to be rolling out some policies in the coming week. As a U.S. Senator from 2019 to 2021, she achieved the most left-wing record of any member of the upper chamber — exceeding even socialist Sen....

To protect older Americans’ life savings, President Joe Biden pledged in October to crack down on financial advisers who recommend investments just because they pay higher commissions. Then the insurance industry got to work. Lobbying groups representing New York Life, Lincoln Financial Group, Prudential Financial and other companies first pushed back against the newly proposed regulations before suing to topple them entirely. Now the government’s latest attempt to protect retirees is in political and legal limbo, facing the possibility that it may never take effect.It is the latest example of a pervasive pattern: As the Biden administration tries to impose...

Kamala Harris is all but telling Americans they’ll have to elect her to find out what she really believes, as the Vice President ducks interviews and the media give her a free ride. This is bad enough on domestic issues, but on foreign policy it could be perilous. The world is more dangerous than it’s been in decades, and Americans deserve to know how the woman aiming to be Commander in Chief Harris would confront these threats. Ms. Harris this week tweeted a photo of her sitting next to President Biden in the White House situation room discussing the Middle...

Hillsborough's GOP-led commission doubled down in its fight to stall the school board's tax referendum, voting to appeal a court order to place it on the ballot. Why it matters: It's the latest escalation in a feud between the two government entities, leaving teacher raises in limbo. The vote lands two weeks before the printing deadline for the November ballot — and the county's appeal alone, if not expedited, endangers the referendum. Catch up quick: Commissioner Joshua Wostal (R) made a motion in July to punt the ballot referendum to 2026, citing "increases in the costs of inflation." The school...

HARVEY, Ill. — WGN Investigates has an update to a story that was first reported than a year ago. A south suburban school worker has pled guilty to stealing $1.5 millions worth of food, mainly chicken wings. Vera Liddell was the food service director for Harvey School District 152. Cook County prosecutors accused her of stealing massive amounts of food meant for take-home meals for students learning remotely during the pandemic.

Unverified rumors in Lebanon that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is hospitalized following an assassination attempt.

The sources informed the reporter of Tasnim in Iraq that the foreign minister of Iraq and the US secretary of state will be holding a press conference during the Iraqi diplomat’s upcoming visit to the US in order to read a statement on the end of the US-led international military coalition’s mission in Iraq. The pullout of the international military coalition forces from Iraq, excluding the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, will begin in September 2025, the sources said.