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A drone attack hit the prosecutor's office in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a key hub for drug trafficking, authorities said Wednesday without identifying the suspected assailants. Baja California state prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade told reporters that the attack with three explosive-laden drones caused some damage but resulted in no casualties. The prosecutor's office said on Facebook that the attack hit the anti-kidnapping unit of the state attorney general's office. In a social media post, the state attorney general said that "no attack will stop investigative work or commitment to justice."

A Memphis man who was staunchly opposed to President Donald Trump's efforts to clean up crime riddled cities by bringing in the National Guard has admitted the plan is working. The man, who goes by Smoky on TIkTok, said he loves his city and never wanted federal intervention. Like many others in his community, he was appalled when Trump proposed sending in troops as part of his tough-on-crime approach. But since troops began patrolling Memphis last week with the blessing of Republican Governor Bill Lee, Smoky revealed he has seen vast improvements in his hometown. 'I was against all, pretty...

Senate Democrats for a 10th time blocked Republicans’ attempts to reopen the government and have ensured that the shutdown goes into next week.

Democrats have a problem, and his name is Hakeem Jeffries. The House Minority Leader, who supposedly represents the future of the Democratic Party, is facing a rebellion from within his own ranks that would make even Nancy Pelosi raise an eyebrow. According to an Axios survey of 113 Democratic incumbents and challengers in competitive House races, only 24 candidates are fully committed to backing Jeffries for another term. That's right: Fewer than a quarter of Democrats running in winnable races are willing to go all-in on their current leader. The numbers tell a brutal story. Twenty respondents flat-out said they...

Actor Bradley Whitford joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday and said his father, who fought in World War II while fascism was on the rise, was "Antifa," agreeing with co-host Joy Behar. "I am living in a world where we have internment camps, where, in my community, people are jumping out of vans, and people going through a legal asylum process are being taken away without charges. And the thing that’s very upsetting to me right now, and we’re giving these internment camps funny names. Like, there's some fun to be had in the inhumanity of it all....

Daily Readings from the USCCBWhen Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say. Luke 11:53–54Over the past few days, we have been reading Saint Luke’s version of Jesus’ “Woe to you” rebukes of the scribes, Pharisees and the scholars of the law. Today’s Gospel concludes these rebukes of love by pointing out that these religious leaders did not convert. Instead, they began plotting against Jesus so as to “catch him at something he might say.” This...

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, a judge said Thursday after seeing tear gas and other aggressive steps used against protesters. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said she was a “little startled” after seeing TV images of clashes between agents and the public during President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration crackdown. “I live in Chicago if folks haven’t noticed,” she said. “And I’m not blind, right?” Community efforts to oppose U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have ramped up in the nation’s third-largest city, where neighborhood groups have assembled to monitor...

2022 NCAA women’s swimming champion William Thomas, who claims to be a woman, will be the recipient of the Voice of Inspiration Award at Rainbow Labs’ Violet Visionary Awards on Thursday. Mr. Thomas’ national title sparked nationwide backlash and is considered one of the catalysts in the battle over transgender athlete participation in girls’ and women’s sports. The award "honours an individual whose story and actions ignite hope and courage within the (sexual perversion) community," according to Rainbow Labs' website.

A precious baby girl with beautiful blue eyes was killed by her mother after she tossed her into a shed that drops into a river, a court heard. Halo Branton, a 10-month-old from Hudson, New York, was found dead underneath drainage pipes on March 10, 2024 on General Electric’s Schenectady campus. The helpless baby was found unresponsive after her mother, Persia Nelson, then 24, left her for dead, according to prosecutors. Halo died from exposure and hypothermia. Nelson, now 26, appeared in court Wednesday in Schenectady wearing a white top and black blazer as closing arguments wrapped up in her...

[Catholic Caucus] The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our PriestsA type of bishopric anti-fatherhood has led countless priests in America to live out vocations tainted by fear, torment, and silent despair.Crisis editor Eric Sammons​ has made written ​and spoken pleas for laity calm in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s odd ice-block blessing and refusal to condemn Cardinal ​Blase Cupich’s decision to award a pro-abortion politician with a lifetime achievement honor. ​Even on gasket-blowing days like yesterday, when the Chicago-native pontiff promoted his fellow Chicagoan Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State​, Sammons’ call for calm...

Troubled homeless man interrupts Curtis Sliwa's speech for NYC mayor. Cutis Sliwa, founder of the GUARDIAN ANGELS of NYC, is running for mayor. A troubled homeless man interrupts his speech, but instead of crying about it, Sliwa waives off police and handles the situation like a rational human being!

Amazon told CBC News the phrase 'wife beater' doesn't violate its offensive products policySeveral ads on Amazon for tank tops that use the term "wife beater," a phrase deemed offensive by Canada's advertising watchdog, have been pulled from the retail giant's Canadian e-commerce website following a CBC News investigation. Amazon told CBC by phone that it has no issues with the phrase and said the third-party dealers selling the tops on its website must have acted on their own initiative. The slang term “wife beater” refers to a certain style of fitted men’s tank top. CBC News recently reported that...

The Environmental Protection Agency has launched an internal review to determine if traces of abortion pills like mifepristone are contaminating America’s wastewater and drinking water. Leading pro-life groups warn the chemicals could be causing miscarriages and stillbirths in unsuspecting communities. The probe, directed by senior EPA officials over the summer, stems from a June 18 letter signed by 25 Republican members of Congress, including Sen. James Lankford and Rep. Josh Brecheen, both of Oklahoma. The lawmakers urged EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to investigate potential pollution from the drug, questioning: “Are there existing E.P.A.-approved methods for detecting mifepristone and its active...

The link has a download option to obtain the 350 page document. Until folks do Russian translations, us English folks should go to the appendices for now. Lots of in-English documents and photographs.

Rare earth elements are often presented as the West’s Achilles’ heel, a fragile point in a sprawling industrial body that a single hostile actor could pierce. The image is dramatic, as seen again in David Dayen’s latest American Prospect essay, “Why China Can Collapse the U.S. With One Decree,” a prime example of rare earth panic porn. It is also misleading. The United States does not stand before a single point of failure. We face a set of supply risks that are real but bounded, and that have already provoked countermeasures whose scale and speed are flattening the risk curve....

[H/T Melian]News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.SNIP“It’s sad, but I’m also really proud of the press corps that we stuck together,” said Nancy Youssef, a reporter for The Atlantic who has had a desk at the Pentagon since 2007.SNIPImages of reporters effectively demonstrating against barriers to their work are unlikely to move supporters of President Donald Trump, many of whom resent journalists and...

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation, @hollyotterbein reports.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Oct. 15 that the agency is cracking down on espionage by foreign adversaries, with an increase in arrests as high as 50 percent. “We have gone after espionage activities against our main counterparts in China, Russia, and Iran,” he said at a press conference. “In China alone, we’ve had over a 50 percent increase in espionage arrests alone, and prosecutions,” Patel said. “In Iran, we have had a 50 percent increase, again, in espionage cases. And in Russia, we had a 33 percent increase in espionage cases alone.” State Department employee Ashley Tellis, arrested...

A Nova Scotia mother of five is speaking out after the abortion pill nearly killed her. The abortion pill triggered life-threatening bleeding, forcing emergency surgery to remove part of the baby that nearly cost her life — a harrowing ordeal pro-life advocates say underscores the hidden dangers of chemical abortions pushed as “safe.” Cherise Basque, a woman from Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, opted for the abortion drug about a month ago on advice from her family doctor, citing bleeding complications in prior pregnancies that had required interventions. She took five pills at home to care for her children during the process,...

This article describes alleged horrendous violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1970. Briefly explained are the operations of a nationwide criminal enterprise, discovered through several state level examinations of hundreds of alleged hospital homicide deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The criminal enterprise described herein involves interstate shipments of the toxic “Covered Countermeasure” drug Remdesivir to hospitals nationwide, and the interstate payments of large bonuses to hospitals nationwide to keep using Remdesivir long after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that the drug not be used to treat COVID patients. The state-level examinations were accomplished...