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When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (above in 2024) called the pastor “an Islamophobe,” declaring: “I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.” When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor...

MLB legend Tommy John has died at the age of 83 surrounded by his family. The news comes just days after the baseball icon penned an emotional goodbye letter as he went into hospice care in Florida.

Florida deputies are on the hunt for modern-day tomb raiders who have been visiting cemeteries across parts of the U.S. to steal from the dead, investigators say. "What a horrible person you are if you decide to steal from the dead," Orange County Sheriff's Office Corporal Cole Brazee said Wednesday. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the trio of criminals, who are from the Indianapolis area, have been heading to cemeteries and breaking into niches containing cremated remains and taking family heirlooms that people leave behind for the departed loved ones. "Typically, in these mausoleums, inside of a niche,...

Fire crews beg: stop the snitching as emergency system faces “crying wolf” backlash Millions of phones across England and Wales blared a sudden siren on Friday evening as the government unleashed its emergency alert system over ‘wildfire risk’. What followed was a wave of neighbour-on-neighbour reporting that left fire services and police inundated with non-emergency calls about barbecues in gardens and parks. The same compliant instincts that flourished during COVID appear alive and well. The alert, described by First Secretary of State Louise Haigh as “the most extensive use of the UK’s emergency alert system in response to an active...

Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut off the station’s data access even though it still had 30 days...

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SpaceX launched eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar from Florida, as well as the USSF-366 mission for the U.S. Space Force from California, on Aug. 15, 2026. [Full Story on Space.com] The two rockets launched just 38 minutes apart, breaking SpaceX’s previous record -- set on Aug. 31, 2024, with two Starlink missions -- by 27 minutes. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ( / spaleta_space_odyssey ) SpaceX Launches 2 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart -- New Record! Sticks Landings | 9:19 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 7,146 views |...

Four people were wounded and one killed after gunfire erupted at a concert in Lexington, Kentucky, on Saturday night. The Lexington Herald Leader reported that the incident occurred around 6:45 p.m. at Charles Young Park, about a mile and a half from where Gov. Andy Beshear (D) was speaking at a dinner. The identity of the deceased individual has not been released nor has any information on the number of people who were shooting. The four wounded people are not believed to have life-threatening injuries. “Weathers said a 4-year-old, a 14-year-old and two adults were shot and taken to a...

President Donald Trump's war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression. The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. *** .*** The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program***. Instead, the U.S. is "doing the...

Recall charges have been filed against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, beginning a legal review that must be completed before supporters can begin gathering signatures to try to force a recall election. King County Elections received the charges Tuesday, Aug. 11, according to a stamp on the filing. The charges accuse Wilson of failing to adequately address public safety concerns in several Seattle neighborhoods and criticize her handling of police leadership and the city's surveillance camera system. Recall charges filed against Mayor Katie Wilson amid Bite of Seattle shooting controversy | 3:18 KOMO News | 415K subscribers | 435,698 views |...

16 August 2026 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Stephens Cathedral Budapest Hungary Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 56:1,6-7I will bring foreigners to my holy mountainThus says the Lord: Have a care for justice, act with integrity, for soon my salvation will come and my integrity be manifest. Foreigners who have attached themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love his name and be his servants – all who observe the sabbath, not profaning it, and cling to my covenant – these I will bring to my holy mountain. I will make them joyful...

This video explores some of the Byzantine ruins hidden beneath the streets of modern Istanbul. I'd like to thank the management of the Ring Stone Hotel and Alp Watmough for making my filming possible. YT Summary: toldinstone explores the architectural palimpsest of Sultan Ahmed, tracing remnants of the Great Palace of the Byzantine emperors hidden within modern structures. From repurposed cisterns and sarcophagi to surviving ramp towers, the narrative uncovers how historical layers continue to shape the fabric of daily life in contemporary Istanbul. Istanbul's Hidden Byzantine Ruins | 9:34 toldinstone | 645K subscribers | 19,389 views | August 15,...

We saved Europe from starvation and communism. Now America needs a Marshall Plan of its own. The brilliant historian William Manchester, in his work The Glory and the Dream, covers four tumultuous decades of American life, stretching from 1932 through 1972. In his treatment of postwar Europe and America, he points out the disastrous situation in which Europe found itself. In 1947, the British Empire was bankrupt and breaking apart at the seams. Greece was embroiled in a civil war that threatened to turn it communist, while Turkey faced growing Soviet pressure. Great Britain, which had been supporting anti-communist efforts...

Democrat crime stories from just the past week - NM House Leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton convicted for diverting public education funds to her friend and gettinf kickbacks - MA Mayor Brian DePena charged for stealing covid relief funds - NJ Councilwoman Gina Laplaca charged for faking signatures to qualify for the ballot - Georgia State Rep. Sharon Henderson pleaded guilty to stealing covid funds - Missouri City Executive Philip LeVota indicted on bribery charges - Vice Mayor of Columbus, Mississippi Joseph Mickens charged for rigging a city contract bid to be awarded to his own company THE PARTY OF FRAUD...

America’s emergency oil stockpile has fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was filled in the early 1980s. Now, some energy experts are warning that the problem may go far beyond simply having less oil available during the next crisis. The rapid drawdown could threaten the underground salt caverns that hold the crude, potentially reducing how quickly the United States can respond to another major supply disruption. The warnings come as the U.S. releases 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, in response to supply disruptions caused by the Iran...

A top Iranian lawmaker appeared to warn President Donald Trump about his personal safety Saturday, telling the president to “worry about his own security” as tensions escalate over control of the Strait of Hormuz. “The U.S. President ought to worry about his own security rather than his endless bluffing regarding the Strait of Hormuz; before he ends up hiding in a food truck,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, wrote on X. Azizi’s reference to a “food truck” appeared to invoke an extraordinary security operation during Trump’s trip to Turkey last month, when...

I lived in Massachusetts for a number of years and even at one time owned a home there. The home was in a town called Cotuit, on the Cape, a small, pretty town that recalled the atmosphere of the television show Lost or the novel Lord of the Flies. There was an equivalent feeling of desolation and desperation and the strange notion that cannibal zombies ran the town. We determined that it was not the place we wanted to spend our free time, even though I have to say that the clam strips were delicious. When I was a student,...

It turns out that a controversial University of Chicago professor arrested last year for alleged felony aggravated battery on a police officer is the sister of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor focused on religion, gender, identity, and demography, is El-Sayed’s maternal half-sister, the Washington Free Beacon reported. “A self-described ‘Queer Muslim’ and ‘community organizer’ who uses the pronouns ‘she/they,’ she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus,” the Beacon reported. Abdelhadi, a signatory to an open letter pledging “solidarity” with the “Palestinian resistance” shortly after...

A Nevada man pleaded guilty on Friday to purchasing high-powered firearms and ammunition to sell to drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico, money laundering and employing people illegally in the US, Department of Justice officials said. Luis Alberto Osorio allegedly conspired with co-defendants between April 2020 and last September to buy 140 firearms, magazines, and ammunition for people affiliated with violent Mexican drug-trafficking cartels, which would be sold south of the border for a profit, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Nevada. The guns included large caliber and long-range firearms such as the Ohio Ordnance Works M2-SLR .50 BMG, the Barrett...

Some people’s trash becomes Michael Haskell’s treasure. The 18-year-old buys abandoned storage units in the New York tri-state area and sells their contents. His business, Mike’s Unique Treasures, brought in about $135,000 in 2025 from eBay and auction sales, and another $85,000 from January through mid-July, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. Haskell’s entrepreneurial ventures didn’t start here. Growing up, he’d sell books for a few bucks on eBay or buy rarer Legos and hold onto them to turn a profit after they went out of production. “I never knew what I was going to be doing” career-wise,...