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A mother who attended Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday with her child narrowly avoided being killed after she was stabbed, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 32-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital. Issuing an update on Monday morning, the Met said two men had also been stabbed at the west London street festival on Sunday. A 29-year-old has non life-threatening injuries, while a 24-year-old discharged himself after receiving hospital treatment. No arrests have been made in relation to the three stabbings. About 100 arrests have been made for a range of offences including violence with injury, sexual offences...

Day #9 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post...

Today, ABC News reported statements issued by President Biden and Vice President Harris on the third anniversary of the bombing of the Kabula Airport in which thirteen US Marines perished. ABC News omitted to state that neither Biden or Harris actually took part in any memorial ceremonies to honor the fallen Marines. More significantly, the radio network report FAILED to indicated the former President Trump attended a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery this morning and took part in the presentation of wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This is one of the worst examples of media bias...

Durov is facing up to 20 years in prison. • Complicity – web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group, • Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law, • Complicity – possessing pornographic images of minors, • Complicity - distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group, • Complicity - acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances,

According to the Washington Examiner's Jerry Dunleavy, who recently resigned as the committee's senior investigator looking into the matter, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) spoke with General Mark Milley and General Frank McKenzie before their House testimonies. During that conversation, the congressman indicated he wanted to "protect" them and even went so far as to give them the questions they would be asked.... McCaul also provided the generals with talking points regarding some of the more contentious questions surrounding the withdrawal. Further, he pointedly said that the responsibility for the massive failure does not rest on the shoulders of McKenzie and...

Vice President Kamala Harris has it both ways on the campaign trail — simultaneously taking credit for some of the Biden-Harris administration’s record while casting former President Donald Trump as the incumbent. The contradiction wrongly frames Trump as the candidate responsible for soaring migrant crime, spiking inflation, and the deadly Afghan withdrawal — three situations that arose under the Biden-Harris administration. The contradiction stems from the media’s failure to widely ignore a “catch-22″ rooted within Harris’s candidacy: Harris cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s claim of solving those key issues....

Palestine officially announces it will apply to join BRICS.

Former President Donald Trump made an on-the-record stop in Falls Church, Virginia on Monday. Vietnamese immigrants shouting "USA! USA!", cheering Trump.

“Reverend” Caroline Unzaga—ever heard of her? No? Well, that’s understandable, given that she’s the latest in a long line of clergy more interested in appeasing the ever-ravenous gods of wokeness than actually preaching the gospel, not that she’s qualified to do so. Unzaga hails her tripe from the Brick Presbyterian Church, which, judging by this spectacle, seems to have swapped out bricks for cardboard in the foundation of its theology. Imagine this. You stroll into church on Sunday morning, expecting to hear something that, oh I don’t know, resembles actual Christian teaching. But instead, you’re greeted by the dulcet tones...

A few notable things that stand out against other strikes (besides the size) were hits on three separate 750kv substations in western Ukraine, including one in Vinnytsia. This is very important, because sufficient damage to transmission in the western oblasts will prevent Ukraine from importing European electricity to replace its own lost generation. They've relied heavily on imports to prop up their grid.

CHICAGO, IL — In a tragic turn of events, the DNC Planned Parenthood abortion bus broke down, resulting in the lives of four babies. "This is a tragic day," Planned Parenthood Spokesperson Camille Cooley told the press. "Those babies had a right to be murdered by their mothers and now they'll be forced to live long, fulfilling lives. This is a huge tragedy." Democrats held a moment of silence for the alive babies, followed by an impassioned speech by nominee Kamala Harris decrying the devastating turn of events. "These women were robbed of their chance to end the lives of...

Yahya Sinwar, now Hamas’s overall leader, has “dressed as a woman” while hiding among Gaza’s populace outside the terror group’s tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, the UK’s Daily Express reported on Sunday, citing Israeli intelligence sources. The New York Times on Sunday, citing American and Israeli officials, reported that Sinwar may have left tunnels in which he had been hiding on a number of occasions over the last year. Sinwar has reportedly been moving from place to place in the Gaza Strip to stay ahead of Israeli efforts to hunt him down. Since his appointment to head Hamas’s political...

Wondering why the country’s spiraling out of control under Keir Starmer’s watch? He’s quick to point fingers at the so-called “far-right,” but what’s really behind the chaos on our streets? Today, we’re diving into the wave of protests and riots shaking the UK — and how Starmer’s failure to get a grip on the situation is only making things a lot worse. Dissenting voices are getting louder, with folks like Nigel Farage leading the charge, saying Starmer’s completely lost touch with what’s actually going on in the country. Transcript linked below video.

You know things are serious when big tech hops aboard. It’s easy to see why battery tech advancements are all the buzz in the EV scene these days. I mean, anyone who’s anyone in the automotive and motorcycle industries is working hard in pushing the bounds of electrification. But up to now, the biggest hurdle when it comes to EVs is reducing charging time and increasing range. This is where solid-state (SS) batteries enter the picture. We’ve been talking about these things here on RideApart for quite some time now. And the potential they have in the future of mobility...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government will restart its free at-home COVID tests program in September as officials prepare the country for the upcoming respiratory virus season. Dawn O'Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said Friday that this is the seventh time the Biden-Harris administration has allowed Americans to order over-the-counter tests at no charge. It's not clear when the website, COVID.gov/tests, will come back online. The website stopped accepting orders in early March. "As families start to move indoors this fall and begin spending time with their loved ones, both very...

BRICS member China is taking full advantage of the US sanctions on Russia by pushing the Chinese yuan for trade settlements. The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen openly admitted that the sanctions are only helping local currencies and hurting the dollar. She revealed that it was the sanctions that led the BRICS alliance to consider de-dollarization and use local currencies for cross-border transactions.

Five swimmers in Indiana were electrocuted in what police described as a "freak accident" in a swimming pool Sunday afternoon. Officers, fire and medical personnel responded to a home in the 2600 block of High St. just after 2:30 p.m. in the town of Logansport, Indiana, police said. Police said five people – including two adults and three juveniles – were transported to local hospitals for their injuries. Medical personnel transported two of the juveniles to different hospitals for further treatment. A spokesperson for the Logansport Police Department described the incident to Indianapolis’ FOX 59 as a "freak accident." Police...

Vice President Kamala Harris will purportedly sit for an interview this week as part of her campaign’s ramped-up strategy heading into the post-Labor Day push, Axios reported Monday. Harris has not held an unscripted press conference or unscripted sit-down interview about policy solutions for 36 days since joining the presidential race. The media have not interviewed Harris on television since June 24, 2024, and the last time the press reportedly questioned her at a solo news conference was eight months ago, on December 2, 2023. Harris might be avoiding the media for two reasons. First, the Harris campaign might be...

BENGHAZI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Oilfields in eastern Libya that account for almost all the country's production will be closed and production and exports halted, the eastern-based administration said on Monday, after a flare-up in tension over the leadership of the central bank. There was no confirmation from the country's internationally recognised government in Tripoli or from the National Oil Corp (NOC), which controls the country's oil resources. NOC subsidiary Waha Oil Company, however, said it planned to gradually reduce output and warned of a complete halt to Libya's production, citing unspecified "protests and pressures". Another subsidiary Sirte Oil Company...

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