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Police said a man was angry about the type of cheese on a sandwich he ordered at Momty's Grill on 111th Street. He got into a shouting match with an employee, who called her son to help.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday acknowledged Russia’s mounting potato shortage, driven by underwhelming crop yields that have led to record-breaking price increases. “Yesterday [Monday], I met with representatives from various business sectors, including agriculture. It turns out that we don’t have enough potatoes,” Putin said during a televised meeting. “I spoke with [Belarusian President] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. He said, ‘We’ve already sold everything to Russia’.” The previous day, Lukashenko’s press office joked that Belarus had already planted additional potatoes. Belarusians have reportedly been complaining for months about the poor quality and limited supply of potatoes in stores. In April, authorities...

Ah, these Mondays. These Memorial Day Mondays. Honoring the sacrifice of so many and remembering what conflicts, large and small, have cost us in the nation's blood and treasure. There are so many beautiful places of honor where many of them now rest. NAS Pensacola has a National Cemetery. When we first moved here, it was still confined to what is lovingly referred to as 'The Old Section.' The narrow lanes dotted with circles are enrobed with massive oaks, Spanish moss, and that deep, lovely green even on the hottest, most blistering of Pensacola summer days. You can believe souls...

CAPE TOWN — In response to public outcry accusing the country's regime of engaging in genocide, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa assured people that skulls of murdered white farmers were just Halloween decorations. Concerns were raised after white farmers sought to flee the country and find refuge elsewhere, leading President Ramaphosa to clarify that the decomposing skulls displayed in piles outside the land once owned by white farmers were just festive decor. "Halloween happens during the summer here in South Africa," Ramaphosa told reporters. "Traditionally, we are a people who take great pride in our Halloween decorations. The decaying human...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A Checkers restaurant in Kissimmee is back open after an altercation between an employee and a customer turned into a deadly shooting last week. Court documents state cameras from the Checkers shows employee Elijah Mackey, 23, climbing out of a drive-thru window Wednesday night, walking to the front of the building where the victim was, then moments later deputies say it shows the victim falling to the ground. In the arrest affidavit, two witness statements claim to have seen Wesley Robertson ordering from one of the front windows. After getting his order, the witnesses say he started...

The carnage in Ukraine has led to casualty rates “beyond World War II numbers” as the “industrial-strength killing” rages on the battlefield, the US special envoy for Ukraine lamented Tuesday. Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg was adamant that negotiations are the sole way to end the bloodshed and that President Trump is the “only guy” who can lead those deliberations. “President Trump is absolutely right, you’ve got to stop the killing,” Kellogg told “Fox & Friends.” “I call it industrial-strength killing, when you’ve got casualties on both sides that are over 1 million and right now, conservatively, about 1.2 million. “That...

For the first time in its 29-year polling history, Rasmussen shows that 50 percent of the country believes America is on the right track, compared to 45 percent who say we are on the wrong track. “Holy crap – it happened!” Rasmussen’s Mark Mitchell announced on X, adding: “For the first time in our polling history, A MAJORITY says the country is on the right track.” He added, “Don’t F it up, Republicans.”

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) announced that she has rebuffed an offer of a "plea deal" from Interim US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba. "It says right in the Constitution that members of Congress are immune from arrest," she boasted. "It also says members of Congress shall not be questioned in any other place. Court is where Ms. Habba wants me to go to answer her questions. Well, I'm not going and she can't make me." Habba said "for one thing, we have video of Rep. McIver body-slamming an ICE agent. For another, I think she is misinterpreting what the...

U.S. consumers just delivered a clear message: they’re not as worried as the experts thought. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index jumped by 12.3 points in May, the largest monthly gain in four years, as Americans grew more upbeat about the economy, the job market, and their own financial prospects. The reading came in at 98.0, up sharply from April’s 85.7, and blew past all forecasts by economists.

President Donald Trump delivered a fresh warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the Russians spent the past few days showering Ukraine with missile and drone strikes. 'What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD,' Trump posted to Truth Social Tuesday. 'He's playing with fire!' Over the weekend Trump grew publicly frustrated with Putin, who he had spoken to on the phone for two hours the previous Monday, coming away from the conversation saying he thought it to be productive....

video of the fight between two women Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers outside former President Obama's residence last week after one officer called a supervisor to come before "I whoop this girl's ass."

British officials are working to negotiate down Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariffs on British exports, Peter Mandelson, the U.K.’s ambassador to Washington, said Tuesday. Earlier this month Prime Minister Keir Starmer became the first world leader to reach a deal with Trump to lower the White House’s 25 percent tariffs on car, steel and aluminum imports into the U.S. Yet the deal failed to lower the 10 percent baseline tariffs Trump announced in April. “We need to address [the reciprocal tariffs] and we’re agreed to do so,” Mandelson told an Atlantic Council event. Washington and London “can build on” the...

Grandpa Brooks counted his pennies. He owned a little pharmacy in Chicago and he liked to sift through the till, hunting for interesting coins. Wheat pennies. Indian head pennies. Buffalo nickels. The steel pennies they minted during World War II when America needed its copper for ammunition.

The most vulnerable nations on Earth are facing a “tidal wave” of debt repayments as a Chinese lending boom starts to be called in, a new report has warned. The analysis, published on Tuesday by Australian foreign policy thinktank the Lowy Institute, said that in 2025 the poorest 75 countries were on the hook for record high debt repayments US$22bn to China. The 75 nations’ debt formed the bulk of the total $35bn calculated by Lowy for 2025. “Now, and for the rest of this decade, China will be more debt collector than banker to the developing world,” the report...

The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process, according to a cable obtained by Politico. 'Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming...

No one is going to make an excuse for gang violence. There's no feasible way to excuse such a thing. It not just results in death and injury, but it also terrorizes ordinary citizens in ways that should never happen.In Australia, they recently had an incident where two gangs battled with machetes in a shopping mall. First, I was surprised to see there were enough people at a mall to have a gang battle, but then there was the nature of the fighting.

Moderna said on Wednesday it had withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and Covid combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the US Food and Drug Administration. The company said it would resubmit the application later this year with vaccine efficacy data from a late-stage trial of its experimental seasonal influenza vaccine, which it expects to report this summer. The decision comes a day after the US FDA said it would require new clinical trials for approval of annual Covid-19 boosters for healthy people under 65 years old. Shares of the company have been battered by declining Covid revenue...

It has saddened to me watch Harvard, a university that I love from which I have greatly benefited, self-immolate through gross mismanagement, poor governance, and ideological capture that have occurred over the last 15 or so years, and that have been brought into clear focus beginning on October 8, 2023. When a day after the launch of the Hamas attack on Israel, 33 Harvard student organizations held the victims “solely responsible” for the acts of the terrorists while their extraordinarily barbaric acts were still underway, I realized that something had gone profoundly wrong at my alma mater. Further investigations on...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency announced Sunday that, well, there were a lot of people over the age of 120 still on the Social Security rolls. A LOT. That's so many geezers. According to Breitbart, DOGE has been providing regular updates on the growing number of seemingly fraudulent Social Security recipients. And in the most recent update, delivered last week, DOGE revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120+ years old were now officially marked as deceased in the system. Back in March, Musk controversially claimed that an alleged 2.1 million illegal immigrants had also enrolled...

COVID is still around, and it is still deadly for a lot of Americans. The CDC says that the virus is killing multitudes in the U.S. each week, even though there are vaccines and treatments available. Experts say that a lack of vaccinations and missed treatment opportunities are two of the main reasons why these deaths keep happening. Are people still dying from COVID? Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that COVID killed an average of 350 people every week, as per a report by GMA. The CDC data indicates that although the number of...