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Bangladesh F7 jet crash LIVE: At least 19 people, including the pilot, have died and dozens others are injured after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft, a Chinese-made F7 BJI jet, crashed into a school and college campus on Monday. Bangladesh's fire service and security personnel conduct a search and rescue operation after an Air Force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on July 21 Bangladesh's fire service and security personnel conduct a search and rescue operation after an Air Force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on July 21 Bangladesh Air Force F7 jet crash...

At least 19 people have died and 164 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage from Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a two-storey building. The armed forces said in a statement on Facebook that the F-7 jet experienced a mechanical fault after taking off for a training exercise just after 13:00 local time (07:06 GMT). The pilot was among those killed, the air force added. More than 50 people, including children...

Microsoft’s climate fix isn’t AI or trees, it’s flushing human sludge 5,000 feet underground. The technique has been used for decades to handle industrial waste. Vaulted Deep =============================================================================== Of all things, it’s human poop helping scrub AI’s carbon footprint clean. In a bid to offset the soaring emissions from its artificial intelligence empire, Microsoft has signed a deal to bury 4.9 million metric tons of carbon by flushing a slurry of human and farm waste 5,000 feet underground. The company announced the 12-year agreement with waste management firm Vaulted Deep on Thursday, turning sewage into a surprisingly lucrative climate solution....

MASERU, Lesotho —Crowds of women, bundled up in wooly hats and mittens against the sharp winter chill, wait every morning at the gates of a garment factory in Lesotho's capital, hoping that a few among them will be called in to work a shift. But no-one comes out and the factory gates – which bear the name of the Taiwanese company that runs it in red Chinese lettering – remain firmly shut. It's one of the few factories in what used to be called "the Denim Capital of Africa" that's still operating after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in April...

~Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of Minneapolis... Mogadishu? Nope - Minneapolis victory party of Omar Fateh after he won the MN Democratic endorsement pic.twitter.com/QzBwVWPbC2 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 20, 2025 Minnesota Nice is looking more and more like Minnesota Suicidal. Whatever else may be said of it, in Mogadishu it would be considered weird - and kind of pathetic - to make, say, Garrison Keillor the mayor. In that sense, notwithstanding an IQ down at Congressional-approval level, Somalis are smarter than western progressives. Which brings me to our regular, if increasingly obnoxious, "As I was saying twenty years...

Columbia University Engineers, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have developed a “robot metabolism” process that gives robots the unusual ability to consume other robots and use their components to heal, grow, and improve themselves. In a statement, the researchers behind the ominous-sounding work say that the ability of robots to maintain and potentially improve their physical components and capabilities, while artificial intelligence systems are already expanding their own autonomous capabilities, is a necessary step toward “self-sustaining robot ecologies.” Unlike biological organisms, robots lack the ability to change, repair, or improve their physical state without outside assistance....

ul bill is a new $250 fee on travelers to the U.S. Estimates project it could cut the federal deficit by nearly $30 billion Nino Paoli Sat, July 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM MDT 3 min read Travelers on nonimmigrant visas will fork over $250 in a security deposit-like transaction when coming to the U.S. A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act states all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter the U.S.—tourists, business travelers and international students, to name a few—must pay a “visa integrity fee,” currently priced at $250. Travelers who comply with their visa conditions...

Legal and migrant advocacy groups fighting to block New York from helping the Trump administration enforce US immigration laws have been awarded more than $600 million in taxpayer dollars from the city and state governments, a Post review of contracts revealed. The Bronx Defenders alone has received more than $500 million in city contracts since fiscal year 2018 to provide a host of legal services to poor criminal and civil defendants, including migrants, according to a review of contracts from 2009 to the present. And the legal aid group raked in another $32 million from the state over the years,...

An Anaheim businessowner recently scared off a mob of thieves trying to break into his store by firing a warning shot at the crowd. The whole thing was caught on store security footage. What we know: The attempted robbery happened at Al-Amira Jewelry on July 17. The owner told FOX 11 that it was close to closing time, when five cars pulled up to the front of the store. Security camera footage showed about 20 people piling out of the cars and mobbing the store's entrance. Some of them had sledgehammers and pickaxes and started smashing the door. Seconds later,...

Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Sunday he could be called as a witness in President Donald Trump’s suit against The Wall Street Journal, arguing that he could help “prove malice” in the case. Trump announced he’d filed suit against the WSJ and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, Friday over an article that claimed he sent disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy letter celebrating his birthday. Dershowitz told “Sunday Agenda” host Lidia Curanaj he also was contacted by the WSJ over a letter he reportedly sent, which the outlet couldn’t produce. “I’ll probably be called as a witness in the case, because...

The German chancellor also expressed hope that "the American government, together with the US Congress, will make the decisions that Congress has been preparing for several weeks" LONDON, July 17. /TASS/. Kiev will soon receive long-range systems, including through joint manufacturing initiatives, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "Of course, we discussed military support for Ukraine in detail. And it's not just about air defense, but also about Ukraine's ability to defend itself better, even with long-range systems. We call it long-range fire. Ukraine will soon receive further large-scale support...

Grapefruit and its close relatives can increase the blood levels of certain drugs and cause serious side effects. Affected drugs include some medications for blood pressure and heart rhythm, among others. Grapefruit is a delicious citrus fruit with many health benefits. However, it can interact with some common medications, altering their effects on your body. If you’re curious about the grapefruit warning on many medicines, this article will help you understand why it’s there and what your options are. Here’s a closer look at 31 common drugs that may have dangerous interactions with grapefruit, as well as some alternatives. Note:...

...Earlier today, my Chico District Office and the neighboring businesses were evacuated because a clearly disturbed woman dropped off a package and devil worship candle display against "heteronormative, cisgendered, capitalists, ableists”...

Remember when Obama said "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us" during his Presidency? Yeah, about that. DNI Tulsi Gabbard has released her findings in regard to the Russiagate hoax and all roads point to Obama. Obama officials had zero empirical evidence of a Russia/Trump conspiracy: Obama-era intelligence officials acknowledged that they had no "empirical evidence" of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but continued to publicly push the "narrative" of collusion.The House Intelligence Committee, in 2017, conducted depositions of top Obama intelligence officials, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security...

You can play a lot of sports in the rain and the mud, but baseball is not one of them. A game for the Cal Ripken League in Montgomery County, Maryland, had to be canceled Thursday because of a feud between a firefighter and the Takoma Thunderbolts. A baseball coach told News4 that at batting practice a long fly ball soared over a fence and hit a pickup truck in the parking lot at the nearby Silver Spring Fire Station. Then the coach said a county firefighter deliberately flooded the field. Players with the Thunderbolts, a collegiate men's team, said...

Vladimir Putin has pulled back the curtain on what has been described as the ‘largest and most secret’ drone factory ahead of a joint naval drill with Iran. Footage – a blend of Cold War secrecy and TikTok-era propaganda – offers a rare glimpse of the Yelabuga production facility in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. Recorded by Zvezda, the Russian defence ministry’s TV channel, it shows the star of Putin’s war in Ukraine – the ‘Geran-2’ drones. This is the Kremlin’s locally branded version of Iranian-designed Shahed 136. -snip- Above the entrance to the factory, a giant screen read, ‘Kurchatov,...

With almost every day that passes, Britain is progressively embracing its own destruction by groveling to its mortal foes and dumping big-time on its most loyal friends. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is increasingly surrendering to Islamization while presiding over a poisonous culture of antisemitism that’s roaring out of control. For the past decade, more than 170,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel from France in small inflatable boats. Successive governments have failed to deal with this people-smuggling trade, which has provoked fury among the British public aghast at the unsustainable levels of immigration, both legal and illegal....

To be fair, Atlantans are pretty used to scattering from gunfire these days: MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK.................... No joke. According to NBC News, the crowd piled onto an escalator to escape, and the escalator malfunctioned, dropping them all super fast before coming to an abrupt stop, which sent people catapulting into the crowd below. The most literal use of a meme if I have seen one: Nine people were injured in the event: One with a broken ankle and the others treated for various scrapes and bruises. MARTA police at the scene said they heard a scream and a witnesses...

The Wall Street Journal is facing renewed scrutiny after publishing a story falsely linking President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein through a letter the paper claimed was “lewd” and allegedly sent for Epstein’s 50th birthday. ... The report has been widely denounced as part of a continued pattern of politically motivated attacks, with deeper ties now surfacing between the authors of the story and the figures behind the discredited Russia collusion narrative.. ...

Jimmy Kimmel took a break from taking a break for something he normally does at work: trolling President Donald Trump. Kimmel, who is on vacation from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” through Labor Day, posted a photo on Instagram showing himself and his family holding signs while attending a protest against the president. “Summer family vacation! #goodtrouble,” he wrote. “May every day be another wonderful secret.” That’s a reference to a birthday message Trump allegedly wrote in 2003 to his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein, who would later be convicted of sex crimes