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CHICAGO, IL — Residents of the Windy City noticed that it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas these days, as the Chicago Police Department kicked off the holiday season by unveiling festive red and green crime scene tape. The tell-tale yuletide sign began popping up around town early this year, as the police couldn't wait until after Thanksgiving to start cordoning off scenes of horrific murders and blood-stained street corners with tape that was noticeably more decorative and Christmas-y. "It brings a little bit of joy and childlike nostalgia to every deadly shooting," said Chicago Police Department...

Amazon said Monday it will invest as much as $50 billion to expand its capacity to provide artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capabilities for its cloud unit’s U.S. government customers. The project is slated to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity through new data centers designed for federal agencies, the company said in a blog. As part of the investment, agencies will have access to Amazon Web Services’ AI tools, Anthropic’s Claude family of models and Nvidia chips as well as Amazon’s custom Trainium AI chips. The move follows similar announcements from Anthropic and...

Donald Trump wants a peace deal in Ukraine very badly. Kyiv wants peace even more, just not at any cost. That's why when the US began pushing it to agree to a deal by Thanksgiving on what looked close to surrender terms, Ukraine pushed back. It scrambled senior officials to talks in Geneva and all of Sunday we saw delegates from the US and Ukraine shuttling back and forth between the two main venues in black limousines with darkened windows. They were joined by national security advisers from Germany, France and the UK. The only time I glimpsed Andriy Yermak,...

A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pick-up truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered. Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated. He...

Two air passengers have been arrested after they tried to chase their plane on the runway having missed boarding for the flight in Germany. The two men, aged 28 and 47, were seen sprinting across the tarmac at Cologne Bonn Airport on Friday in an attempt to catch a Wizz Air flight. The plane, bound for Romania, was seen with red flashing lights on and its engines running, indicating that it was in the middle of taxiing for its 9.30pm departure. But the two men appeared to signal to the pilot that they wanted to be onboard the plane. An...

A pocket watch that once belonged to one of the Titanic's most renowned passengers has sold at an auction for $2.3 million — a record price for memorabilia related to the historic shipwreck, according to the auction house. The 18-carat gold watch was gifted to its original owner, Isidor Straus, by his wife, Ida Straus, for his 43rd birthday, said Henry Aldridge and Son, the auction house that sold it on Saturday. It was recovered from his body after the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic in April 1912. Isidor Straus was an American businessman and politician who owned the...

President Donald Trump announced that he will travel to Beijing in the spring to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he spoke with Xi by phone on Monday. “I just had a very good telephone call with President Xi, of China,” Trump wrote. “We discussed many topics including Ukraine/Russia, Fentanyl, Soybeans and other Farm Products, etc. We have done a good, and very important, deal for our Great Farmers — and it will only get better.” Trump continued: Our relationship with China is extremely strong! This call was a follow up to our highly...

Explanation: What created this unusual space sculpture? Stars. This unusual system of swirls and shells, known as Apep, was observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light in 2024. Observations indicate that the unusual shape originates from two massive Wolf-Rayet stars orbiting each other every 190 years with each close passes causing a new shell of dust and gas to be expelled. Holes in these shells are thought to be caused by a third orbiting star. This stellar dust dance will likely continue for hundreds of thousands of years, possibly ending only when one of...

California and New York actually banned use of ID to vote! It is illegal to show your ID in those states. The only reason to do this is fraud.

Gas prices have been falling since President Donald Trump took office and major cities like Denver are actually seeing prices dip well below $3 per gallon, right ahead of Thanksgiving. According to Gas Buddy, the average price for fuel per gallon in Colorado is $2.590, with figures showcasing the lowest average this year. For greater perspective, that is down 24 cents from last year’s average of $2.830. KDVR also reported that one gas station in the Denver region dipped below $2: Here’s where the cheapest gas prices were in Denver on Sunday and Monday: Shell, 7273 E. Evans Ave. –...

The pressure building on Ukraine is not just diplomatic. While President Donald Trump pushes for a quick resolution, the churning mud of the battlefield has produced only slow and painstaking gains for the Kremlin during the four years since its full-scale invasion. From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk to Zaporizhzhia in the south and the northern region of Kharkiv, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. ...But battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest. Russia's gains are slow and incremental, won at a heavy cost...

Only eight percent of Americans believe Democrats “won” the government shutdown battle, a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found. The survey asked respondents, “In your opinion, who won the shutdown battle?” Across the board, a plurality, 39 percent, said “neither” side won the shutdown battle, followed by 35 percent who said Republicans. Only eight percent deemed Democrats the victors. Even Democrats themselves are aware that their side lost. Only 14 percent of Democrats surveyed said Democrats won the shutdown battle, as 25 percent said Republicans and 45 percent said neither side. A slight majority, 52 percent, of Republicans said their...

You can tell a lot about someone’s feelings about the current political scene based on their visceral reaction to the scenes coming out of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral. To some, Cheney’s Friday memorial service at the National Cathedral hearkened back to a time of civility and bipartisan unity that preceded today’s intense political division. Others saw it as a reminder of the chumminess and clubiness of the swamp, which President Donald Trump was sent to drain.While the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election may have helped kick off this era of polarization, both Cheney and former President George W....

This is a excerpt “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower,” the anonymous representative continued. “Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

Workers at a South Boston pier found what appears to be a human skull buried in concrete, NBC10 Boston reported. The workers were repairing concrete along the Black Falcon Terminal, a maritime facility managed by Massachusetts Port Authority, when they made the discovery, according to NBC10 Boston. Authorities confirmed the skull is being examined by forensic anthropologist, NBC10 Boston reported.

Grok Summary of Video Transcript: Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge presents evidence and interviews with former FBI agents alleging serious misconduct by senior FBI leadership (especially former Director James Comey) in multiple Trump-related investigations (Crossfire Hurricane, Mar-a-Lago, Jan 6, Carter Page FISA, etc.).Key claims and revelations:Burn bags containing sensitive records from Mar-a-Lago, Jan 6, and the Russia probe (Crossfire Hurricane) were discovered in a secure room (9582) at FBI HQ, suggesting a high-level attempt to improperly destroy or hide documents.A highly sensitive 2016 CIA referral warning that Hillary Clinton’s campaign planned to tie Trump to Russia was “missing” for years and...

Only eight percent of Americans believe Democrats “won” the government shutdown battle, a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.The survey asked respondents, “In your opinion, who won the shutdown battle?”Across the board, a plurality, 39 percent, said “neither” side won the shutdown battle, followed by 35 percent who said Republicans. Only eight percent deemed Democrats the victors.Even Democrats themselves are aware that their side lost. Only 14 percent of Democrats surveyed said Democrats won the shutdown battle, as 25 percent said Republicans and 45 percent said neither side. A slight majority, 52 percent, of Republicans said their side won the...

Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez (D) who let Lawrence Reed out before he lit a woman on fire despite prosecutors begging to keep him detained and 72 prior arrests, basically admits she’s a DEI hire and rules based on how people look

The Department of War (DOW) has threatened to court martial Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) over the "refuse illegal orders" video that he and other Democrat lawmakers put together recently. The DOW announced on X, "The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in...

Gas prices have been falling since President Donald Trump took office and major cities like Denver are actually seeing prices dip well below $3 per gallon, right ahead of Thanksgiving.According to Gas Buddy, the average price for fuel per gallon in Colorado is $2.590, with figures showcasing the lowest average this year. For greater perspective, that is down 24 cents from last year’s average of $2.830.KDVR also reported that one gas station in the Denver region dipped below $2:Here’s where the cheapest gas prices were in Denver on Sunday and Monday:Shell, 7273 E. Evans Ave. – $1.94Sinclair, 2101 S. Holly...