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A 54-year-old woman in Auckland, New Zealand, has received a full apology from the parking company Smart Compliance Management after they issued a parking ticket to her on the day she died, then came back to life. The woman was arriving at the New World Supermarket in Orewa on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast when she collapsed in the parking lot on July 26. ... After what was almost certainly the longest few moments of their life, however, the chest compressions worked. ... He also said that the paramedics from the ambulance told him, after his daughter had been taken to North...

An Egyptian American activist sentenced to life in prison in absentia by a Cairo court for his support of the Muslim Brotherhood is pumping cash into Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for U.S. Senate. Mohamed Soltan, the 38-year-old president of the American Committee for Middle East Rights, is funneling funds to El-Sayed’s Abdul for U.S. Senate candidate committee as ACMER contributes to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the super PAC backing the former Wayne County health official. Soltan was sentenced by an Egyptian court to life in prison in 2015 after spending two years behind bars alongside his father, Salah Soltan, a leading...

Perhaps we should shut down womanhood until we find out just what the hell is going on here. The last couple of weeks have been more insane than usual, and everything has been insane for the last couple of decades, but this insanity has been mostly about the crazy things that crazy women do. And most of the ladies involved are women of pallor from the middle to upper-middle class. From bizarre social media imbroglios, like a mom demanding all the other moms stop sending Oreos to school because her kid isn’t allowed to have Oreos so no kid can...

An arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, the opinion columnist who was fired last September after she blasted Charlie Kirk as “a white man that espoused violence” the day of his brutal assassination. In a written decision Thursday, arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said WaPo “did not have good and sufficient cause” to fire the scribe and “violated” its labor agreement with the controversial columnist. Espinosa ordered the legacy newspaper to compensate Attiah with back pay and lost benefits. “This decision confirms what we’ve said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist,...

PHOENIX (AP) — Enrollment in the biggest federally funded food aid program in the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in a 12-month span — a decline far steeper than the government estimated as work requirements and other provisions of President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" take hold. Those losing coverage in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, include people who don't meet the tightening requirements to participate, and, advocates say, some who qualify for the help but are rejected because they miss deadlines or don't have the needed documentation handy. It's too early to tell exactly how many...

An Ohio doctor shot dead in a murder plot allegedly hatched by her own 18-year-old daughter had years earlier written an academic paper examining the psychology of teenage killers. Tamela Dutcher, 55, was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after she was gunned down by two men as she sat on the couch inside her Delaware County home last week, according to an affidavit obtained by Oxygen. Her daughter, Bryanna Dutcher, and the two men, identified as her boyfriend Christian Evans, 20, and his roommate Dajameous Payne, 21, have now all been indicted in connection with her murder. Bryanna's arrest...

New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani is embarking upon a socialist agenda during his first year in office. As wealthy residents flee the Big Apple to avoid higher taxes, Florida is emerging as a major destination for their resources and businesses — a reality in which the Sunshine State is reveling. The Florida Chamber of Commerce launched a Times Square billboard campaign calling Mamdani the “Economic Developer of the Year.” “We wanted to thank him for the jobs, the companies, the people that they’re pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida,”...

On Thursday evening, August 20, the elders of Grace Community Church unanimously affirmed Nathan Busenitz as our new senior pastor. Through this decision, the elders have entrusted to Nathan the responsibility of shepherding the flock (1 Peter 5:1–4) and upholding our church’s commitment to the faithful exposition of God’s Word (2 Timothy 4:2). This announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of the memorial service for John MacArthur, who served as the pastor of Grace Community Church for fifty-six years. Pastor John’s ministry was marked by an uncompromising commitment to the lordship of Christ and the authority of His Word. Our...

The video is well worth watching just to compare Carney to Trump!https://x.com/MakisMedicine/status/2091545122102026639 William Makis@MakisMedicine·23hCanada is a national security threat to the United States.Prime Minster Mark Carney and more than half of all Canadian politicians are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, it's really as simple as that.We have Police stations in Canada that are operated by and only answer to the Chinese Community PartyCanada has the largest fentanyl drug labs (superlabs) in North America, it has the largest child sex trafficking networks in North America, it has some of the largest money laundering operations.Canada should have begged for a deal...

In August of 2006, astronomers at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) democratically voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet — but 20 years later, with our greater knowledge and understanding of planetary systems, is it time to revisit the controversial decision? Should Pluto be called a planet again? For several years before the IAU vote, there had been agitators among the astronomical community lobbying for our solar system's nine worlds to become eight, and for Pluto's planetary status to be revoked. In 2000, Neil DeGrasse Tyson even went as far as to remove Pluto from the planets display at...

MANDAN, N.D. (WKRC) - A mother allegedly murdered two of her young children by slitting their throats and attempted to kill another after telling their father, "Say goodbye to your kids." According to an affidavit obtained by Valley News Live, officers responded to a residence on the afternoon of August 6 regarding a report of a mother who had stabbed her children. First responders arrived to find the mother, 22-year-old Kailey Erhart, holding a knife to her own throat in the home, per the affidavit. Erhart, who was covered in blood, reportedly dropped the knife and told officers to kill...

WCMH NBC4 reports that San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in the Youngstown, Ohio, area over the weekend and found guilty of two misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools. Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area shared the news. York was sentenced to two days in jail and ordered to pay $1,150 in fines.

Canada is preparing dollar-for-dollar tariffs on American goods after negotiations with the Trump administration collapsed, escalating a trade dispute that could raise prices and disrupt some of North America’s most integrated industries. The retaliation will begin September 8 and target U.S. steel, dairy products, electronics, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper. The announcement came hours after the United States imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian imports. For investors, the immediate tariffs are only part of the risk. The deeper concern is that Washington and Ottawa are losing confidence in the trade framework that has connected their factories,...

Left-wing extremists and Antifa militants stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23, where right-wing activist and free speech advocate Eoin Richard was hosting a peaceful free speech, anti-Islam rally. The confrontation unfolded after Connolly, known publicly as Eoin Richard, organized a “Take Back LA” free-speech rally criticizing Islam. Connolly originally advertised the August 23 demonstration outside the Islamic Center of Southern California on Vermont Avenue. A pre-event advisory circulated by opponents described the gathering as a “far-right” rally and accused its organizers of targeting the Muslim community. As counter-protesters gathered outside the Islamic center,...

Kyle Kirkwood made history Sunday by winning the Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C., the first-ever motor race around the National Mall and the iconic monuments and buildings of the nation’s capital city. And after a disastrous day for NTT INDYCAR SERIES points leader Alex Palou, can Kirkwood make even more history by catching Palou in the final three races of the season for a championship? SEE: Race Results Florida native Kirkwood drove his No. 27 Sam’s Club Honda to a 3.0906-second victory over the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet of Christian Lundgaard, leading three Andretti Global drivers in...

It was meant to be an outing for Black children in Berlin and their families, offering them an exclusive afternoon at an outdoor pool set up by a local theatre. But the plans, slated for earlier this month, had to be scrapped after they were seized on by rightwing and conservative voices to whip up outrage, leaving organisers fending off racist emails and threats. Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre said it had extended the invitation in hopes of dismantling some of the barriers that would normally keep these children away from the pool. While other groups had similarly been invited to use...

Jason Arday’s memoir will be released in the UK as planned, his publisher has confirmed. Simon & Schuster announced that Great And Unfortunate Things would be published on Thursday, two weeks after the academic was found dead at his home in south London. Mr Arday had resigned as professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge on Aug 5 after allegations of plagiarism and questions about elements of his life story emerged. He was the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history.

...The taxpayer-funded housing program sets aside millions for families “targeted” by federal immigration enforcement—and says immigration status does not have to be disclosed. Even worse? L.A. County diverted $5 million originally approved for wildfire victims to pay these illegal aliens. ... L.A. County did not merely place wildfire victims and immigrant households inside the same newly created program. It took money already assembled specifically for wildfire rent relief—and redirected half of it to households claiming hardship from federal immigration enforcement. Following the Eaton and Palisades fires, county officials identified $10 million to establish a fund for tenants and landlords unable...

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh went to prison for working with ISIS. His college put him back on campus, without knowing why he'd been in federal prison. Sarah Adams was a targeting officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. It’s as cool as it sounds. She was in charge of disrupting terrorist attacks by identifying the people and organizations that pose a threat to the United States, a job that put her on the ground in the Middle East. She helped lead the investigation into the deadly terror attack on our diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, and then wrote the book on it....

“It’s not just a convention. This is to rally the troops,” Denton County GOP Chair Melinda Preston said. The president is insisting on giving Democrats exactly what they want: keeping the attention on him. That is certainly the likely upshot of the first-ever GOP midterm convention being held in Dallas Without an energized MAGA base, Republicans won’t even be in the vicinity of victory.