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Couple allegedly downloaded and dashedA Palo Alto culinary couple stands accused by a popular Bay Area restaurant group of paella piracy and a tapas two-step. Restaurant group Teleféric Barcelona claims in a trade-secrets lawsuit that a husband and wife it hired to help run its operations stole recipes and customer and client data so they could start a rival Spanish eatery called Macarena in Palo Alto. David Linares and Elisabet Reviriego are also accused in the lawsuit of using some of the purportedly purloined information to secure a deal to sell food at San Jose Sharks hockey games. Linares told...

US News: The family of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspect in the tragic New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans, has spoken out...

Standing barefoot in the mud with an empty container in hand at a crowded water station in central Gaza, Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is fearing the winter weather and looking for clean water for her family.Her family are living in a makeshift tent in Deir Al-Balah, after being displaced from Gaza City amid heavy Israeli bombardment. But their new home holds deadly perils of its own.

In an unusual case, a surgeon developed a cancerous lump on his hand that stemmed from an injury he sustained while performing surgery.The patient: A 53-year-old man in Germany The symptoms: A surgeon developed swelling in his left hand near the base of his middle finger. This was the site of an injury he sustained five months earlier while removing a patient's malignant abdominal tumor. The lump in the surgeon's hand measured 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) in diameter. What happened next: The surgeon had the lump removed, and an analysis revealed that it was a cancerous fibrous histiocytoma, a type...

When the Barrow Gang was conducting its brutal robberies and murders, socialists found in their exploits an echo of their anti-capitalist cause. So it was small surprise that the release of Bonnie and Clyde in 1967 marked the New Hollywood wave in which anti-heroes exposing the facade of American life through acts of dysfunction were to become the new focus of movies. “Our best movies have always made entertainment out of the anti-heroism of American life,” Pauline Kael, the infamous film critic, gushed in her essay on the gangster film. The anti-heroes were meant to be the heroes because American...

A powerful winter storm system is set to impact much of the country, bringing multiple hazards including heavy snow, dangerous ice, and severe thunderstorms. This system will be accompanied by an intense cold blast that could send wind chills plummeting below -20°F in some areas. What makes this storm different: Multiple precipitation types creating hazardous conditions Significant temperature drops of 10-20 degrees below normal Potential for heavy snow accumulation Dangerous wind chills Risk of severe thunderstorms in warmer sectors Stay tuned for updates as this system develops. While timing and exact impacts may change, this storm system has the potential...

A 67-year-old woman warned the public about a romance fraud that took her life savings: scammers pretending to be Keanu Reeves. 67-year-old Katherine Goodson lost her husband in 2007 and told NBC San Diego she's been struggling with loneliness since. She moved to San Diego in 2022 and soon received a text message from someone posing as A-list Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves, known for performances in "The Matrix," "Point Break," and "John Wick," among others. After some chatting, the fraudster asked Goodson to send him a $500 gift card to prove that she wasn't just talking to him for his...

A 42-year-old former Army IT specialist named Shamsud-Din Jabbar committed an act of terrorism by killing 15 in his truck in New Orleans early on New Year’s Day, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And there appears to be abundant evidence, including testimony from his close relatives and videos he posted to Facebook, that radical Islamic ideology motivated Jabbar. Jabbar’s motivations may come as a surprise to millions of Americans. After all, for the last four years, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Joe Biden, and other United States agencies that constitute the Intelligence Community (IC) have...

Wednesday evening Biden walked away without taking any questions about the NOLA terror attack after his remarks at Camp David. Biden had the same heartless attitude on Thursday. “The Sugar Bowl is back on. Kick off is going to take off very shortly. If I don’t get this damn thing done we’re gonna be in real trouble,” Biden said as he checked his watch. WATCH:

HOUSTON – ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show. His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…” Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby. (pictures and video in...

Subpart A—Nonrefundable Personal Credits Sec. 21.Expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment. 22.Credit for the elderly and the permanently and totally disabled. 23.Adoption expenses. 24.Child tax credit. 25.Interest on certain home mortgages. 25A.American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning credits. 25B.Elective deferrals and IRA contributions by certain individuals. 25C.Energy efficient home improvement credit. 25D.Residential clean energy credit. 25E.Previously-owned clean vehicles. 26.Limitation based on tax liability; definition of tax liability. Subpart C—Refundable Credits Sec. 31.Tax withheld on wages. 32.Earned income. 33.Tax withheld at source on nonresident aliens and foreign corporations. 34.Certain uses of gasoline and special fuels. 35.Health insurance...

CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae We have a MAJOR problem. 🚨 Matthew Livelsberger Aka Matt Berg changed his Signal safety number just before the explosion. And then his photo and safety number changed AFTER the explosion. Law enforcement sources said that Livelsberger was on active duty with the Army serving in Germany and was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident. His wife hadn’t heard from him in several days prior to the incident, the source said. The unit source, an individual serving in Germany, has made the following claims and provided the linked images in the first post: #1...

FULLERTON, CALIF. - Eleven people were injured when a small plane crashed through the rooftop of a commercial building in Southern California on Thursday, police said. Police got a report at 2:09 p.m. about the crash in the Orange County city of Fullerton, said Kristy Wells, a Fullerton police spokesperson. FULLERTON, CALIF. - Eleven people were injured when a small plane crashed through the rooftop of a commercial building in Southern California on Thursday, police said. Police got a report at 2:09 p.m. about the crash in the Orange County city of Fullerton, said Kristy Wells, a Fullerton police spokesperson....

The political prosecution of Daniel Penny in New York City may have failed, but the chilling effect it will have on public safety, especially in the subway system, will resonate for years.Penny is a former U.S. Marine who found himself in the same subway car as Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with a history of violence. According to witnesses who were in the same car, Neely was acting erratically and saying things such as, “Someone is going to die today,” and “I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison.” Penny put Neely in a...

President Biden is expected to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other federal waters, in a way that could be difficult for the Trump administration to unwind, according to two people familiar with the plans. Mr. Biden intends to invoke an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, that would give him wide latitude to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing, said the people. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the...

President-elect Donald Trump has long warned that the Biden administration was not fortifying the country against Islamist terrorism on U.S. soil, and his supporters say New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas hammered home the point. Mr. Trump and his allies blamed the massacre of 14 pedestrians by an ISIS-inspired terrorist on President Biden’s open border policies and weak leadership. They faulted the Biden administration’s focus on investigating White nationalism, religious organizations and activist parents who complain at school board meetings. “Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens...

The Department of Justice spent over $100 million on proposals promoting woke content in classrooms between 2021 and 2024, according to a new report first obtained by The Daily Wire. An investigation conducted by Parents Defending Education (PDE) found that the Biden DOJ awarded over $100,113,942 through 102 grants, throughout 36 states, impacting 946 school districts and upwards of 3 million K-12 students. Those funds were spent on proposals promoting restorative justice practices, social and emotional learning practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in the classroom over the past four years, The Daily Wire has learned. The funds were...

Americans also express doubts about the president-elect’s ability to improve the health care system or unite a polarized nation. A new Gallup poll shows that Americans harbor high hopes for President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to tackle key national issues—particularly border security, economic growth, and public safety—with him earning the highest rating of any incoming president on the issues of controlling illegal immigration and reducing the crime rate. The poll, conducted nationwide in early December, reveals a nation hopeful for decisive action on key issues like the economy, immigration, and safety—with doubts about Trump’s ability to improve the health care system...

New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had a workbench in his bedroom that was set up for making bombs – while a Quran on his bookshelf nearby was left open to a passage about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show. Jabbar’s Texas home was filled with chemical residues and chemical bottles, while an investory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making. His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf – where it stood as...

On Wednesday, Joe Biden delivered an address from Camp David, condemning the recent terrorist attack in New Orleans and reaffirming the nation’s commitment to combating terrorism. But rather than uniting the country, the brief speech, riddled with slurred words and bizarre facial injuries, has only fueled speculation about Biden’s health and ability to lead. From a hangar at Camp David, Biden condemned the New Orleans attack, in which 15 lives were lost when a rented truck plowed into a Bourbon Street crowd. The attacker, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a firefight with law enforcement. Explosives and an ISIS...