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If it were me, and I’d just won a large judgment based on my claim that I experienced forceful sexual assault in a department store dressing room by an aggressive and powerful man who towers over me, an experience that caused me severe trauma after the event, I wouldn’t write a book capitalizing on one of my attackers most iconic catchprases, and I certainly wouldn’t be tweeting about him nonstop, nearly thirty years after the act at the center of my lawsuit. I would want to block that man out of my life as much as possible lest his name,...

Letters send to Her Excellencies of Mexico and Europe.

A farmworker who was injured during an immigration raid in Southern California on Thursday has died, the United Farm Workers union said on Friday.

Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of the targeted assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, has claimed that his motive “didn’t involve Trump stuff or pro-life.” The brazen attack, which also left State Senator John Hoffman and his wife injured in a separate shooting in Champlin, has sent shockwaves through the state and nation, with authorities labeling it a “politically motivated” act of terror. Speaking to the New York Post from Sherburne County Jail, Boelter said that his motive was not what people have speculated. “You are fishing and I can’t talk about my...

… “Drivers are taking matters into their own hands. I know I sat on the hotline for over an hour and a half,” Zack said of calling ICE recently. “But I couldn’t get through.” Other drivers made calls to the hotline about “deliveristas” whom he knows often gather at the north end of the parking lot of a Rio Rancho Walmart parking lot, he said. On June 5, a team of federal law enforcement agents swept the Rio Rancho Walmart, detaining as many as a dozen “deliveristas” from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and elsewhere, according to delivery drivers who either witnessed...

SDPD off duty officer knocked out a homeland security officer, who was also off duty, in a parking lot. Ching Ding the Homeland security officer was trying to leave the parking lot and was blocked in by the SDPD officer Ferraro. Ding banged on the officers truck to get Ferraro to move and that is when a fight began and Ding was knocked out.

Robert Maxwell was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell (wife to Jeffrey Epstein).

Alex Raufoglu@ralakbarHAPPENING NOW!! Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades

Still reveling in his political comeback after surviving two near-miss assassination attempts, last December, then-President-elect Trump stopped by the Christmas party of the Secret Service detail that was responsible for both saving his life and the failures that nearly ended it. Trump, at the time, responded to the mixed feelings in trademark fashion: He regaled the agents gathered for some light-hearted celebration after a turbulent few months but didn’t mince words for one junior agent who was charged with leading security for the Butler and he appeared to hold responsible for some of the most glaring failures. “As you guys...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov flew to North Korea’s eastern Wonsan city on Friday for a meeting with his North Korean counterpart Choe Son Hui. Relations between Russia and North Korea have been flourishing in recent years, with North Korea supplying troops and ammunitions to support Russia’s war against Ukraine in return for military and economic assistance. That has raised concerns among South Korea, the U.S. and others that Russia might also transfer to North Korea sensitive technologies that can increase the danger of its nuclear and missile programs. After a meeting with Choe on Saturday, Lavrov accused the U.S.,...

A new report from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlines the U.S. Secret Service's security failures during the first attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., one year ago. The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump’s life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies. It also identified a series of procedural and planning mistakes, including "misallocation of resources, lack of training and pervasive communication failures" that led...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The second half of property taxes are coming due this week, but 7% of homeowners have yet to pay the first half, according to the county’s treasury. Most of the county’s 564,000 property owners are up to date on their tax payments, according to county data provided to cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer through a records request. They’ve paid over $1.5 billion in property taxes, which provide revenue for local schools, cities, villages, townships, libraries and various county-level services. (snip) The higher delinquency came after the countywide property reappraisal, which increased home values an average of 32%,...

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Republicans were rocked last night by growing speculation that Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst would soon announce her retirement next year. As was widely reported, the Hawkeye State lawmaker has so far only about $1 million — a small amount for a well-known incumbent — in her campaign coffers. Should Ernst step down Rep. Ashley Hinson would run for the seat. A former TV anchor and stalwart Trump supporter, Hinson, 42, has long made no secret of her desire to run for the Senate in 2028 when Chuck Grassley is expected to retire at age 95.

New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall broke down why he believes the Democratic Party has suffered significant losses among men — across nearly all demographic groups — in the lead up to, and following, the 2024 presidential election in an essay published on Tuesday. Edsall argued that Democrats have failed to recognize and deal with the costs of the "revolutionary change" in the societal order they have championed since the mid-1960s, which he believes has given Republicans the upper hand among men on issues based on "race, religion and sexual identity." "The Democratic Party lost ground in the 2024...

Why in the world was a practically unknown candy chosen for the movie E.T. instead of M&M’s? What were they thinking? If you were like me, when you first saw E.T. at the movies, and Elliot laid a trail of Reese’s Pieces for E.T. instead of M&M’s chocolate candies, you found it odd. Sure, Reese’s pieces were pretty but Elliot was MUCH more likely to have a bag of M&M’s! Reese’s pieces were practically a brand-new product at the time. It seemed like some kind of obvious product placement. And, in the novelized version of the movie, E.T. did indeed...

A Kentucky school board chairman was forced to resign after a cruel post he allegedly made begging people to 'shoot Republicans' resurfaced. Jeffrey Miller, the former leader of Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School District was officially stripped of his title Thursday during a board meeting, Republican State Representative Steven Doan confirmed. It came after the post and another one which disparaged the police came to light. Miller, who served as the chairman since 2016 and did not attend the meeting, was investigated after a Facebook comment he allegedly made in 2018 came to light. The post, which has since been taken down,...

Tucker Carlson claimed Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli agent who blackmailed US politicians on Friday while addressing a political gathering for young voters in Florida... 'The real question is, why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did the money come from?' Tucker asked about Epstein's mysterious fortune. Carlson denounced the DOJ's findings, going on to share his own theory about Epstein's sinister scheme. He explained that he believes Epstein, 66, was employed by Israel's intelligence service, Mossad. 'And no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that because no one has ever tried. And moreover, it’s...

Abstract: Ancient Egyptian society flourished for millennia, reaching its peak during the Dynastic Period (approximately 3150–30 bce). However, owing to poor DNA preservation, questions about regional interconnectivity over time have not been addressed because whole-genome sequencing has not yet been possible. Here we sequenced a 2× coverage whole genome from an adult male Egyptian excavated at Nuwayrat (Nuerat, نويرات). Radiocarbon dated to 2855–2570 cal. bce, he lived a few centuries after Egyptian unification, bridging the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. The body was interred in a ceramic pot within a rock-cut tomb1, potentially contributing to the DNA preservation. Most...