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CALAVERAS COUNTY, Calif. — The Calaveras Unified School District is clarifying the timeline of Monday’s chaotic school bus incident, saying its review of bus video shows the situation began escalating within minutes of the bus arriving at its designated stop. “Based on our review of the bus video footage, the bus was stopped for approximately four minutes while the driver addressed concerning student behavior, reviewed bus expectations, and asked students to calm down,” the district said. “During that time, a student exited the bus through a window.” A 12-year-old student who was on the bus told KCRA 3 that students...

Iran attacked US forces in Jordan, a US source familiar with the situation told Fox News on Monday. The source added that nearly all missiles had been intercepted by US air defenses. Explosions were heard near the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba following launches from Iran, local media reported. Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported that Iran had launched missiles at US ships in the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday morning.

A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a bombshell report. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James’ Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him “to find and pursue crimes” committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union. Wiesenfeld alleged in his email that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)… without having a credible reason for targeting the...

🚨 Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz.The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers). Worth noting, ships navigating this corridor remain completely outside the Iranian regime’s line of sight due to the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the curvature of the Earth. Follow:...

Russia has said its forces helped to repel Saturday's attempted coup in Niger. Explosions and gunfire rang out across capital, Niamey, early in the morning, including at a key military airbase and the presidential palace. Hours later, Niger's authorities said the rebellion had been contained. Nigerien forces had repelled the attack "with the assistance of servicemen of the African Corps of the Russian Ministry of Defence", the foreign ministry in Moscow said on Sunday. The ministry also said it would continue to support Niger in its fight against "extremists", but that the situation was now under the control of the...

US surveilance picked up underground missile siloh opening to launch, and fired from Jordan down the hole, destroying the launch siloh and missile. Nematalah AlHami went on TV swearing revenge, death, destruction on America, Jooos! and their mangy little dog, too, he got a heart attack and died on live TV.

SNIPPET Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and internationally recognized expert on famine, has remained largely silent as his repeated declarations of mass hunger and death in Gaza have failed to materialize and have been undermined by newly released UNICEF data. In 2024, de Waal became one of the most prominent voices warning that Gaza was heading toward an unprecedented mass-starvation catastrophe. Yet the catastrophic mortality scenario suggested by these warnings did not materialize on the scale implied. In a series of interviews, de Waal asserted that approximately 10,000 people per day would die in Gaza...

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is creating a four-attorney unit dedicated to challenging actions by the Trump administration that his office says exceed federal authority or threaten the commonwealth’s interests. The Federal Accountability Unit will work across the Office of the Solicitor General and Civil Litigation Division and will be led by Deputy Solicitor General Megan Keenan. Jones’ office said the unit will give the Attorney General’s Office permanent staff dedicated to identifying federal actions, responding to them and pursuing litigation. “I have a fundamental responsibility as Attorney General to defend the Commonwealth and protect Virginians when the federal government...

This video, presented by Robert Gouveia Esq., details a major federal counterstrike against Autistici Inventati (A/I), an Italian tech collective alleged to be a primary digital infrastructure provider for violent Antifa cells and far-left extremist groups worldwide (0:00-0:30). Key highlights include: Federal Sanctions: The U.S. State Department and Department of Treasury have imposed sanctions on the group and identified individuals, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) (0:06-0:12, 8:12-8:20). Infrastructure and Tactics: The video explains how Autistici Inventati provided encrypted communications, web hosting, and anonymity tools to radical groups. These services were reportedly used to dox government employees, incite...

The US military on Sunday struck Iran’s Larak Island, where forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with mines into the Strait of Hormuz, according to a US official, marking the first US strikes in over a month. US forces struck two Iranian launchers on the island, the official said. Residents reported hearing an explosion near Larak Island on Sunday, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. Larak Island is near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping route that has remained at the center of regional tensions and diplomatic efforts. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed retaliation...

This is too funny, but it also makes a point. "Wings of Pegasus" hates AI in music and other creative realms, autotune, fake performances, etc., so he decided to mess with You Tube's algorithm by posting a vid with no title, no vid but a white blank, and then ask all his followers to make comments. The results are pretty good!

Explanation: If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74's graceful spiral arms are traced by bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes. Constructed from archival images, this sharp composite is from the Hubble Space Telescope. Spanning about 30,000 light-years across the face of M74, it includes exposures recording emission from hydrogen atoms, highlighting the reddish glow of...

If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That is the mantra of the modern Democrat Party, which for decades posed as the champions of "female liberation," but now kowtows to an Islamist ideology that infamously oppresses women. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is the latest to submit to Muslim men, indulging their preference that women cover their heads when going out in society. On Friday, Hochul readily jettisoned her feminist garb and adopted the Muslim one to impress an audience of New York City Zohran Mamdani's friends. This is what Hochul says in the clip: "I want to...

California could soon formally recognize two of Islam’s most important holy days under legislation that would give state workers greater flexibility to take them off and allow public schools to close in observance of the holidays. The measure, which overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly and is awaiting Senate action, would recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in state law and could soon head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Assembly Bill 2017, introduced by Democratic San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, passed the Assembly 64-1 in late May. It must clear the Senate before the legislative session ends Monday to reach...

A mother and daughter were killed after another car struck theirs while driving on the wrong side of I-270 in Bethesda, Maryland on Saturday, according to Maryland State Police. State troopers said they responded at around 6:46 p.m. to the area of southbound I-270 just south of Democracy Boulevard after receiving a report of a two-vehicle crash. Police said a Ford Mustang was driving in the wrong direction on I-270 and hit a Toyota sedan head-on. Shamima Begum, 46, and Areebah Jahin, 23, were passengers in the Toyota and were pronounced dead. The 62-year-old driver and a 8-year-old passenger in...

🚨#BREAKING: The Black male in Detroit who was caught on camera sh00ting at and k*lling a woman outside of a liquor store and injuring 1 other has been arrested. He is a 15 year old boy, Isaiah Gordon. Police say the Aug. 21 sh00ting on East Warren Avenue k*lled 65-year-old Faith Williams and injured a 29-year-old woman. Gordon faces first-degree m*rder, three counts of assault with intent to m*rder and four felony-firearm charges. Prosecutors allege he ALSO sh0t at a PASSING VEHICLE before fleeing. Gordon was arraigned Saturday and remanded to the Juvenile Detention Facility. His case will proceed in...

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said she will focus on “campaigning down ballot” in Texas, suggesting that she won’t campaign with Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico after he defeated her in the party’s primary. “We’ve seen the turnout that you can produce. Talarico might very well need that magnetism. Will you campaign with him?” CNN’s Laura Coates asked the congresswoman on Thursday. “I will be campaigning down ballot,” Crockett said. “Because when we’re looking at a state like Texas, we’ve tried this, where we’ve got one amazing candidate that’s running at the top of the ticket,” Crockett said, when asked why...

"Skills matter more than simply earning a degree" VOV.VN - Vietnam is moving to place greater emphasis on job skills, practical ability and adaptability rather than academic degrees, as a new government plan seeks to raise labour productivity and build a more modern and efficient labour market. Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra on August 30 signed a decision, issuing a plan to implement Conclusion 62 of the Party Central Committee Secretariat on improving national labour productivity alongside the development of a synchronised, modern and efficient labour market. The plan sets out eight groups of tasks and solutions aimed...

"Republicans pounced."It is such a worn journalistic trope that it has become the object of mockery whenever some brave but foolish member of the media dares to use it yet again. But what if the subject who supposedly pounced is not even a Republican? Well, that is apparently no problem for the Philadelphia Inquirer which conveniently relabeled the person in question, in this case Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a Republican via the use of blatant misinformation despite the reporters piously lecturing the readers about, yes, misinformation. This mighty feat of stupendous hypocrisy was performed on Friday by Aubrey Whelan...