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Over 56,000 hair dryers sold exclusively through major online retailers pose a deadly electrocution risk due to missing safety features, exposing how America’s e-commerce giants failed to protect families from hazardous products. Story Snapshot 56,300 Remington hair dryers recalled for lacking critical electrocution protection devices Products sold exclusively online through Walmart, Target, and Amazon marketplaces from March 2024 to June 2025 No injuries reported yet, but CPSC warns of serious electrocution risk if devices contact water while plugged in Recall highlights dangerous gaps in online marketplace safety oversight and product vetting Federal Agency Steps In After Safety Breach The U.S....

Here, the Taiwan Relations Act provides a possible model. It allows the United States to provide continued military assistance and equipment to a government it does not technically recognize as a separate state, but with the goal of preventing Beijing from using force to resolve the political disputes stemming from the Chinese civil war.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(8/19/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJoshua 12:232 Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. 3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee[a] to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.Footnotes a Joshua 12:3 Hebrew KinnerethHoly Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright...

FEDERAL AGENT ABSOLUTELY COOKS DC PROTESTER Protesters swarmed Union Station screaming “Traitors!” at National Guard troops and demanding they disobey orders. One heckler shouted, “You can choose to be something else!” A federal agent fired back: “And you can choose to eat a salad!” Source: @nicksortor 0:30 VIDEO AT LINK................. Hilarious!................

Artificial sweeteners like saccharin and acesulfame K often leave an unpleasant bitter aftertaste, but researchers have identified compounds that may suppress the receptors responsible for this effect. Credit: Shutterstock =========================================================================== Scientists have discovered natural compounds that can suppress the bitterness of artificial sweeteners. Some artificial sweeteners—especially saccharin and acesulfame potassium (acesulfame K)—can leave a lingering bitter aftertaste that hurts consumer acceptance of reduced-calorie foods and drinks. New research in FEBS Open Bio suggests a clean fix: pair these sweeteners with compounds that selectively tamp down the bitter taste receptors they inadvertently trigger, yielding a smoother, more sugar-like profile without obvious...

The frigate Constitution, under the command of Captain Isaac Hull, engages the British frigate Guerriere in the waters off the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. The British vessel opens fire first and many of its shots bounce off the side of the American frigate, whose crew bestows upon it the famous name “Old Ironsides.” Drawing abreast of one another, the two ships exchange broadsides. Within 30 minutes, Guerriere is a dismasted hulk. Her captain strikes its colors, giving Constitution and the young nation of the United States a stirring victory.

On Monday night, a major explosion and fire occurred aboard a bulker in the Port of Baltimore's inner harbor, three miles from the site of the former Francis Scott Key Bridge. At 1830 hours local time, the vessel W Sapphire (IMO 9605645) was departing the CSX Curtis Bay coal pier in laden condition. Just off the dock, the vessel sustained a massive explosion in the forward hold, followed by a fire. A web cam operated by StreamTime captured video of the event, with some of the elements of the Key Bridge visible in the background. Multiple firefighting vessels responded immediately...

“‘They put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved’” (Matthew 9:17b). Like new wine poured into fresh wineskins, everything stays spiritually fresh for the true believer. First, he or she leads a life of unquestioning obedience and follows the Lord without conditions or excuses. Not long before His ascension, Jesus told Peter, “‘Follow Me!’ Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them . . . So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, ‘Lord, and what about this man?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to...

Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Emergency responders in Connecticut were called to a playground for an unusual rescue when a 40-year-old man became wedged inside the middle portion of a tube slide. The Town of Vernon Fire Department said on social media that crews responded alongside Vernon EMS and the Vernon Police Department just after 4:30 p.m. Saturday for "a confined space rescue of a 40 year old adult male stuck in a tube slide on the playground." The man was said to be "wedged feet and head first" in the middle portion of the slide at Northeast Elementary School. Photos...

Both the White House and local activists have highlighted the Subway sub slinger amid Trumps’ police takeover. WASHINGTON ― As a dozen U.S. Marshals patrolled the busy U Street corridor on Friday night, they faced angry D.C. residents who felt they had no need to be there. When a HuffPost reporter asked one of the agents if he worried for his safety – that is, if he feared someone might launch a Subway sandwich at him ― he flashed a smile. “Only if it’s a footlong,” the officer said. Everyone’s talking about the “assault with a deli weapon,” the “hurl...

A day care worker in Georgia was arrested for child abuse, authorities said, as the father of a toddler under her care shared heartbreaking pictures of the boy with a black eye and swollen face. Yvette Thurston, 54, faces three counts of first-degree child abuse and one of first-degree aggravated battery, WDRW reports. She was taken into custody Monday following a report of alleged abuse at Little Blessings Child Care in Bainbridge, close to the Florida border.

19 August 2025 Tuesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time Our Lady of Charity Church, Santiago, ChileReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJudges 6:11-24'Peace be with you; have no fear; you will not die'The angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah which belonged to Joash of Abiezer. Gideon his son was threshing wheat inside the winepress to keep it hidden from Midian, when the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘The Lord is with you, valiant warrior!’ Gideon answered him, ‘Forgive me, my lord, but if the Lord is with us,...

Other governors, notably those in Republican-run states, are making noises about doing the same. Ron DeSantis had no sooner installed a new CFO, Blaise Ingolia, into the Florida state government than he decided to crack down on the management of those municipalities and counties. Ingolia will be instituting a process similar to the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Unofficially, Ingolia is calling it “FAFO,” or the Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight. (It’s unclear whether that name will be permanent.) The audit has already begun. The governor sent letters to Gainesville and Broward County requesting financial and DEI information and...

The Cambridge Dictionary has accepted 6,000 new words into its English language canon this year – including slang inspired by social media discourse. Delulu, tradwife, broligarcy, and lewk, have all been added because experts believe the words will not be just a fad, but will have linguistic staying power. Skibidi is also there amongst them.

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More than a million Russians have been killed or seriously wounded on the battlefields of Ukraine. But there is one man who owes his life to the continuing slaughter. For Vladimir Putin, an outbreak of peace means certain death – by assassination, overthrow and execution, or in an international prison cell as a war criminal. The Russian president's only credible hope of survival in the gangster state he has himself created is to prolong the 'special military operation' in Ukraine or to win in such outrageously successful terms that he can turn his attention to other former client states, other...

An abandoned wreck of a Rolls Royce car which once belonged to US army legend Dwight Eisenhower during World War Two has been found and restored. Now the magnificent vehicle has been painstakingly put back together. Pat Jeater has spent 11 years lovingly restoring the the car used by Eisenhower back in 1944. After the 1940s it ended up being used as a wedding car and a taxi in Amsterdam. The letter: "I also found a copy of the Italian paper La Stampa - it was dated 12th April 1944." Pat found that the letter had been written by a...

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Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St. Clair announced that she is broke and is even getting evicted as she debuted her new podcast on Monday. The 26-year-old, who is in the process of fighting the Tesla CEO for custody of their nearly one-year-old son Romulus, opened her show, entitled Bad Advice with Ashley St. Clair by claiming she is in desperate need of the money. 'Well after a year of unplanned career suicide, many questionable life choices and a gap in my LinkedIn profile that cannot be legally explained, I've decided to start a podcast,' St. Clair said.

Revellers have been injured in a horrifying crush at a London music festival, leaving them screaming for help and in tears as they were trampled and stamped on. Fans were treated by paramedics after a group of apparently ticketless fans rushed into the entrance to the Originals Festival, part of the open-air South Facing Festival.