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More than two years after the British Museum announced that a number of its Greek and Roman artifacts were stolen, missing or damaged, the institution hopes to strengthen its search for the lost items by hiring... a dedicated treasure hunter....will assist in finding the items... whereabouts remain unknown after the museum revealed the theft in 2023...Of the estimated 1,500 artifacts that were originally reported missing, 654 have been recovered so far. Some items were identified after being listed on eBay -- including a piece of Roman jewelry worth $60,000 that was selling for $48 online -- and many others were...

MEME REVIEW: Hysterical Maduro Memes BREAK Internet After Capture By Trump 🤣

@SecScottBessent: "Under Governor Tim Walz, billions of dollars intended for families in need, housing for disabled seniors, and services for children were diverted to benefit fraudsters. I am here this week to single the @USTreasury's unwavering commitment to recovering stolen funds, prosecuting fraudulent criminals, preventing scandals like this from ever happening again."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to Portland city councilors. The condition of the two people who were shot wasn’t immediately known but Portland City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said as far as she knew they were still alive.

TO ALL OF YOU CRITICIZING ME FOR STANDING BY LAW ENFORCEMENT... I’m a mother, people calling me “sick”. So I’m going to address that here since I can’t comment to anyone right now. I will say this exactly the way a mother thinks it, raw, direct, and without pretending this is complicated. A 37-year-old woman. Three kids. Middle of a work week. The father of those children is dead. She is the parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids. And what is she doing instead? She’s out...

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal. Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said. “She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly in the dark about the Trump administration’s plan to invade Venezuela and depose President Nicolas Maduro. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the White House excluded the nation’s top intelligence from discussions about the planned ouster, which was carried out on Saturday. People familiar with the situation said that Gabbard had previously opposed U.S. intervention in the South American country. “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela,” Gabbard, then a Democratic member of Congress, tweeted in 2019. “Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose...

Brad Keselowski will miss the preseason Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium (January 31-February 1) but vows he will be ready for the Daytona 500 after breaking his right femur from a fall getting out of his vehicle Dec. 18 while on a ski trip. RFK Racing reserve driver Corey LaJoie will replace Keselowski at the Clash on Feb. 1 at Bowman Gray Stadium, and LaJoie will be Keselowski’s standby driver for the start of the season. "I didn't want to rush back," Keselowski told me Thursday afternoon. "The team and I made the decision together that if all...

CCTV footage shows a Russian Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) striking Lviv

Appears ICE is banned from a Minneapolis McDonalds. See link.

CNN This Morning's panel discussion of an ICE agent's fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis began with CNN senior White House reporter Betsy Klein calling on President Trump to "tone down his rhetoric." That was promptly followed by CNN commentator and former Biden comms person Meghan Hays claiming,"what happened here was murder." Because nothing tones down the rhetoric like accusing someone of murder in the earliest moments of an investigation. Later, host Audie Cornish brought on CNN commentator Garrett Graff, and teed him up to comment on ICE's recruitment ads. She suggestively said that "the tone and tenor of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act as renegade GOP lawmakers joined essentially all Democrats in voting for the measure.

Seattle drug addicts have praised the city's new mayor for allegedly telling cops not to arrest people doing illegal substances on the crime-ridden city's streets. One 36-year-old local, who gave his name as Brandon, told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that Mayor Katie Wilson is 'cool' after her office and Seattle's progressive city attorney Erika Evans reportedly plotted to avoid prosecuting most public drugs use cases. Brandon, who lives on the streets because he prefers them to his taxpayer-funded apartment, said of Wilson's new plans: 'They tried to do that already during Covid. We went buck wild! I'm not gonna...

🚨 JUST IN: Despite the leftist rioting, DHS, FBI, and IRS agents are going DOOR TO DOOR raiding fraudulent Somali (and other) “businesses” in Minneapolis YES! KEEP IT UP! Do NOT let the radical left goons slow you guys down! 🔥

A Minneapolis McDonald's is REFUSING to let ICE agents enter. @breccastoll : "We couldn't help but notice there's a sign that says, 'No ICE,' on the door." Security Guard: "This is private property, so you can't just break the law because you're a federal agent..."

Simply having a computer-science degree isn't enough as AI replaces low-level coders "The computer science graduates that are going to be successful now are going to be people that understand how software comes together holistically" - Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk A degree in computer science once carried the promise of stable work, high pay, and a certain level of social status. Now, many entry-level workers are struggling to find jobs. One problem is that the allure of well-paying programming jobs at flashy technology companies made computer science such a popular field that the hiring market is now oversaturated. Another...

[Catholic Caucus] Liturgy Sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s First Consistory? Cardinals choose evangelization and synodality as key topics, disappointing those who expected the liturgy to be a central theme after recent restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman rite, but the Holy Father later insists the liturgy remains a "very concrete" issue that still needs to be addressed.Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues...

LinkedIn listed the top 25 jobs on the rise for 2026, and AI is a hot trend. But can you guess which role is the hottest?ZDNET's key takeaways: AI's a hot trend among the 25 fastest-growing jobs in the US. Top jobs include AI engineer, AI consultant, and AI/ML researcher. LinkedIn also revealed the best industries and cities for these jobs. With generative AI being all the buzz these days, it's no surprise that employers are looking for professionals with the right AI skills. That can mean people in sales, marketing, and other business areas who need to work with...

Communications networks go dark right after start of Tehran protests urged on by exiled crown prince; protesters chant ‘death to the dictator’ and ‘death to the Islamic Republic’. Thousands of people in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began. The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could...

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund a plan to assassinate President Trump pleaded guilty to two homicide counts in a deal with prosecutors Thursday, locking himself into two life prison sentences. Nikita Casap pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the deaths of his stepfather, Donald Mayer, and his mother, Tatiana Casap, last year. In exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other charges, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft. Each homicide count carries a mandatory life prison sentence. Judge Ralph...