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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Gwinnett County Police arrested 10 people in connection with a massive porch piracy operation that led to more than $6 million in stolen merchandise over seven months. What started as routine porch piracy quickly revealed a sophisticated alleged “syndicate” that shipped stolen electronics around the world. “Little did we know at that time that it was actually a part of a larger operation, culminating in millions of dollars,” Cpl. Juan Madiedo told Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson. The investigation began in November 2024 when officers say they caught two men stealing packages in...

Liberals pride themselves on being a bastion of diversity. As it turns out, they’re rather uniform in this belief. “Democrats (more than Republicans) tightly centre their belief-system around a set of positions at the extremes of these particular items, implying that people who deviate from these positions are likely to be considered as outgroup members,” according to a study from the British Journal of Social Psychology is making the rounds on social media. “It is possible that holding extreme (and thus unnegotiable) attitudes on important social-political issues has become increasingly identity defining for Democrats,” the authors speculate. The study’s authors...

A former Democratic candidate for New York state Assembly allegedly stole $160,000 in taxpayer cash by defrauding the state’s new campaign matching-funds program, federal prosecutors said Friday. Dao Yin, who lost his long-shot bid for the Assembly’s 40th District in Queens last year, was slapped with a wire fraud charge and arraigned in Brooklyn federal court Friday. Yin, 62, is accused of submitting bogus signatures to inflate the number of campaign contributions he received in order to boost the amount of public matching-funds he was entitled to receive, according to the feds. “Through lies and deceit, the defendant allegedly stole...

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The stunning downward spiral of Michael Madigan’s political career ended Friday with a 7 1/2-year prison sentence and a $2.5 million fine for the former Illinois House speaker and the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history after he was convicted of trading legislation for the enrichment of his friends and allies. U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey sentenced the 83-year-old in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Nicknamed the “Velvet Hammer” for his quiet but hard-nosed style, Madigan was convicted in February on 10 of 23 counts in a remarkable corruption trial that lasted four months. The case churned through 60...

OMUTA, Fukuoka -- A couple with 11 children whose household goes through 50 kilograms of rice per month are feeling the pinch of soaring rice prices, but continue to support their family with both of them working, while the older siblings help care for the younger ones, creating a lively atmosphere at their home in this southwestern Japan city.

Amid the continuing unrest and flash mob-style looting incidents in Los Angeles, California is making a significant pivot toward tougher criminal enforcement. Criminal defense attorney David Wohl told Fox News Digital that the legal consequences are no longer a slap on the wrist for looters following the reversal of Proposition 47, which notably did not criminalize theft under $950. “Now we have a very conservative, hard-charging DA in Los Angeles,” Wohl said. “He’s adding up what is stolen by each individual co-defendant, and if that’s over $950, everybody’s getting charged with felonies.” In a city once known for turning a...

Suspected MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was paid up to $1,500 per smuggling trip and may have raked in more than $100,000 annually trafficking humans, including minors, according to witnesses. The new details about Abrego Garcia’s alleged “full-time job” come from co-conspirators and witnesses cooperating with the federal government’s human smuggling case against the Salvadoran national who was wrongly deported in March. The allegations were shared by a federal agent during a Friday detention hearing in a Nashville court, where Abrego Garcia entered a plea of not guilty. As part of the illegal operation, smugglers charged migrants from Central and...

Finally. The truth is out there. After years and years and years of waiting. After all the mandates, the punishments. The gaslighting. The fighting. Watching the media endlessly repeat the same disproven talking points from Anthony Fauci, the CDC, and from the politicians who mindlessly, gleefully followed them. After putting together books demonstrating what the evidence actually shows. Thoroughly examining, and dismantling studies, shoddy research, debunking misinformation that rapidly spreads between those committed to creating inaccurate narratives to support their ideology. Finally, we have someone at the very top of the public health leadership pyramid acknowledging the truth: masks and...

Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer's order instructing President Trump to turn control over the National Guard troops he assigned to protect federal property and the ICE agents working in Los Angeles to Gov. Newsom was stayed by a three judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Newsom called the stay "a tragic miscarriage of justice. The city was entirely peaceful until ICE started the trouble by trying to arrest folks that I granted sanctuary. If it weren't for this provocation there would've been no need for protesters to start fires, assault police, and loot a shoe store...

The head of a dissident Iranian Kurdish movement has told Newsweek his group is urging the United States to foster contacts with opposition factions in the Islamic Republic to undermine and ultimately overthrow the government.While not seeking armed support, Komala Party of the Iranian Kurdistan Secretary-General Abdullah Mohtadi appealed to President Donald Trump to establish a relationship that would help set the conditions for the unraveling of the Iranian government...However, while generally supportive of the Kurdish cause in other countries, such as Iraq, Syria and Turkey, Mohtadi was reluctant to frame Komala's current goals as being linked to the long-sought...

Every morning, millions of people take a vitamin D supplement, thinking mostly about stronger bones and a healthier immune system. However, quietly, at the cellular level, something else may be happening—something that could change how we think about aging.FotoHelin/ShutterstockA long-running study recently found that people who took daily vitamin D supplements for four years had slightly less shortening of their telomeres—a marker linked to cellular aging—than those who didn’t.While experts caution that the real-world health benefits remain unclear, the findings could shed light on the protective effects of vitamin D on specific aging-related diseases, the study authors noted.A Small but...

A new survey by the UN Population Fund shows that the most common reasons people name for not having more children are financial in nature.As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, among 14 countries surveyed, respondents named financial limitations or job instability as the most common reasons to have fewer children than they desired in all. Commonly, financial reasons, also including housing and childcare costs, made up the top 2 or even top 3 of the issues most often cited for lower fertility, for example in India, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Hungary and Germany.You will find more infographics at...

GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity.However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it doesn’t account for income distribution, quality of life metrics, or how sustainable the economy is.Nevertheless, it is a standard that can be applied to make useful comparisons, while keeping these caveats in mind.So, what are the “richest” countries in the world? Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao ranks the top 50 countries by GDP per capita in 2025 using figures from the International Monetary...

Linda Ronstadt Live ’72-‘83 (42 vids, 2024 stereo mixes, best quality, no logos) 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:05 Long, Long Time (The Midnight Special, 1972) 00:03:20 The Fast One (The Midnight Special, 1972) 00:06:18 Love Has No Pride (A Concert: Behind Prison Walls, 1974) 00:10:35 Silver Threads and Golden Needles (A Concert: Behind Prison Walls, 1974) 00:12:55 Desperado (A Concert: Behind Prison Walls, 1974) 00:16:26 It Doesn’t Matter Any More (Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert, 1974) 00:19:49 You’re No Good (The Midnight Special, 1975) 00:22:35 When Will I Be Loved (The Midnight Special, 1975) 00:24:40 Heart Like a Wheel (The Midnight Special, 1975)...

The Walmart corporation “appeared to distance itself” from the billionaire heiress and activist who inherited her wealth from a son of the company’s founder, .. Christy Walton, one of the richest women in the country, was widely criticized by conservatives this week for buying a full-page ad in the New York Times promoting the “No Kings” organization that is coordinating hundreds of protests against President Donald Trump. The controversial “No Kings” ad had many calling for a Walmart boycott. .... Paid for by Christy Walton. Walmart heiress ... June 14, which is both Trump’s 79th birthday and the date of...

This evening 60 people arrested as they ran towards the steps of the US Capitol... Tomorrow nationwide protests in opposition to President... In Los Angeles US Marines deployed to protect the federal building... Through executive order US President Donald Trump approving the Nippon Steel-US Steel merger... Four detainees escaping from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey... At dawn in Israel..barrage of missiles...one dead and 19 wounded in Rishon LeZion south of Tel Aviv... Iran released a photo tonight saying it is of a downed Israel F-35I... Police in Northern Ireland using water cannon... Japan contacting China over an...

As they pounded the Iranian nuclear facilities yesterday, the Israelis were finally doing what so many Western leaders had expected they would do for years, if not decades. In fact, let us be honest: the rest of the world has not just been expecting this Israeli action. Secretly or openly, many governments have been hoping for it. In one astonishing operation the Israelis crippled the Natanz enrichment reactor and seriously damaged two others. They took out six of the most important Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as an astonishing array of the country’s top brass. They blew up radars and...

From the oral history collections of the University of Georgia. Recorded in 1983

It’s the wedding of the summer for high-society liberals. Former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her financier scion fiancé Alex Soros will tie the knot at a glamorous Hamptons wedding attended by panoply of left-leaning power players Saturday. Abedin, 48, the ex-wife of disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, will marry Soros, 39, the son of lefty billionaire investor George Soros, at the family’s lavish $14.5 million estate in Southampton. Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton are on the guest list along with Barack and Michelle Obama and several European prime ministers connected to George Soros’ grantmaking foundation Open...