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The restaurant hostess had to be taken to the hospital after the attack and the three Texas tourists have since been charged with misdemeanor assault and criminal mischief. Three women visiting New York City from Texas are facing charges related to an incident in which they allegedly attacked an Italian restaurant's hostess when they were asked to show proof of vaccination at the business. The incident occurred at around 5 pm Thursday night at Carmine's long-standing restaurant located on Broadway Ave at 91st St. in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The situation turned physical the moment the three women were asked...

SACRAMENTO, CA—According to sources, California governor Gavin Newsom was recently seen by several witnesses in a dark back alley throwing a gorilla suit and a carton of rotten eggs in the trash. The Newsom campaign released a statement assuring the public these things had absolutely nothing to do with the woman wearing a gorilla mask who threw eggs at Larry Elder the other day. "Yeah, nothing unusual about this," said Newsom to curious onlookers. "This is just my weekly trip to the garbage to throw away eggs and gorilla suits. I like dressing as a gorilla sometimes, ok? Nothing weird...

SARASOTA, Fla. - On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday morning, President George W. Bush was in Florida to discuss education initiatives at an elementary school. But that visit was interrupted by the worst terror attack on American soil. Bush had spent the night in Sarasota after holding a leadership forum with his brother Jeb, who was the governor of Florida at the time, and several other state officials in Jacksonville.

Howard University, one of the largest historically Black schools in the United States, canceled classes Tuesday after a ransomware attack. The attack shut down the campus Wi-Fi, and nonessential employees were instructed to not report to work, the university announced Monday. In-person classes will resume Wednesday, but online classes remain canceled until at least Thursday. Ransomware attacks have become a scourge in recent years, and universities are common targets. Hackers have managed to infect at least 19 colleges and universities in 2021 alone, according to Allan Liska, an analyst at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future. In at least three other...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - An argument between a dad and two homeless people on a beach in Malibu took an extremely violent turn over the weekend, ending with the father losing an eye.The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to a call on Dan Blocker Beach on Sunday. Deputies were told a man was with four family members when they were approached by two suspects, both believed to be homeless.The two homeless people confronted the dad, saying they were not allowed in the area, sparking an argument between the three people. One of the suspects, later identified as Richard...

BREAKING: President Biden on mission in Kabul: “Our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.”

CHIMNEY CORNER, N.S. -- There is shock and horror in a picturesque part of Western Cape Breton, after a 21-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital following an apparent shark attack on Friday. While not entirely unheard of, this kind of thing is remarkably rare around here. It was just off Margaree Island, along the west coast of Cape Breton, where a dream summer day on the water turned into a nightmare for a 21-year-old woman. Apparent shark attack off west coast of Cape Breton leaves woman with serious injuries "This is terrifying. This is traumatic,” says Fred Whoriskey, excecutive director...

This evening I received an email (shared below) from Davey Alba at the New York Times. Davey explained that “researchers” from two organizations with direct connections to and funding from Facebook were defaming both myself personally and Gab as a whole for spreading “misinformation.” I’ll get into the baseless and defamatory claims, but first I’d like you to tell you a little more about these two organizations. Stanford Internet Observatory is led by Alex Stamos who is the former Chief Security Officer for Facebook. The CTO of Stanford Internet Observatory, David Thiel, also worked at Facebook before starting at SIO....

. Israel is prepared to attack Iran, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, as his country lobbied for a response to a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker that it blamed on the Islamic Republic. Asked in an interview broadcast on a local media website whether Israel is prepared to assault Iran, Gantz gave a one-word answer: “‘Yes." US plans to require Covid-19 shots for foreign travelers Goods imports rose 1.8% to $239.1 billion, also a record high. Exports of goods gained 0.2% to $145.9 billion in June, an all-time high Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of Serum...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities said Thursday they have arrested four more suspects in the weekend shootings in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa that killed 19 people, 15 of whom appeared to be innocent bystanders. Another suspect was detained earlier after being wounded during the apparently random gun attacks Saturday. Prosecutors in the border state of Tamaulipas said the latest arrests came during raids that also freed 18 kidnap victims, four of whom are believed to be U.S. citizens. In one raid on a house east of Reynosa, police found 10 kidnap victims, two of them Americans. One...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that the Politico article alleging a hostile work environment in the office of Vice President Kamala Harris will be used by the right to attack Harris because she was a black woman. ABC legal analyst and co-host Sunny Hostin said, “I think that this has a lot to do with, yes, politics, but it also has a lot to do with the fact that she’s a woman of color and a woman because we know that things that are acceptable for men are not acceptable for women. Maybe she’s, you...

Photo Courtesy Todd Orr, 1 October, 2016, Gallatin National Forest, text by Dean WeingartenTodd Orr was mauled by the same grizzly bear, twice, in October of 2016.Todd chose bear spray instead of a pistol. In a discussion on freerepublic.com, later that month, this correspondent replied to a comment about the efficacy of pistols used to defend against bears:“Actually, there are legions of people who have been badly mauled after using a handgun on a bear. Even some of the vaunted magnums.”OK, give us a few examples. As you claim “legions”, it should not be too hard.The claim was made in...

A 16-year-old girl was attacked by a bear in the Great Smoky Mountains early Friday, prompting the National Park Service to close a back country section to visitors.The attack happened at 12:30 a.m., as the teen was sleeping in a hammock in the the Crosby section of the park, officials said. Her family was “sleeping in close proximity” at the time, according to a news release.Investigators have not released the identity of the teen, but said she is from Middle Tennessee.“The family was able to drive the bear off from the area immediately after the attack and quickly notified the...

A local resident in the city of Sapporo, which is due to host the Olympic Marathon and Olympic Race Walking events at this summer's Tokyo Games, first reported sighting a bear on a road in the early hours of the morning. Soon after, Hokkaido police tweeted they were on the lookout for the bear, writing that since the sighting, many others had reported seeing the bear and that people had been injured. Local police said the bear attacked three men, one of whom was seriously injured, and a woman in her 80s, according to NHK. At around 11 a.m., the...

The two women were visiting the Manialtepec lagoon near the surf and beach destination of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca state when the attack occurred late Sunday, reported Said Silva, the head of the local civil defense office. The lagoon is known for its stands of mangroves and for brackish waters that turn bioluminescent at some times of the year. The BBC reported that the women are twin sisters Melissa and Georgia Laurie, 28, who had been volunteering and traveling in Mexico. Silva said witnesses told officials the two Britons were swimming when one was attacked by a crocodile. The second...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the cyberattack suffered by the Colonial Pipeline Company “an act of war” and said the U.S. should respond by killing whoever was responsible for it.“We ought to pass a law immediately that makes this kind of hacking subject to a death penalty, and the law should include a provision that the president, through a judicial process, should be able to order the killing of anybody overseas who’s doing this,” Mr. Gingrich, a Republican, said Monday on Fox News while speaking about the ransomware attack that recently disrupted the Colonial Pipeline system.Mr. Gingrich, 77, who...

Following now completed joint war games held by the US, Japan, France and Australia in the East China Sea off the southwest coast of Japan earlier this month, China has lashed out particularly at its large regional neighbor Australia, calling its military “weak” and “insignificant” at a moment the two are locked in a severe trade and diplomatic tit-for-tat dispute. Beijing voiced specific threats and warnings via its state-run English language mouthpiece Global Times, which recently wrote, “Australia’s military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China, and if it dares to interfere in a military conflict for...

When it comes to taking stock of Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-Wis.) propensity for peddling nonsense, it's probably best to rely on separate categories. The Wisconsin Republican has, for example, repeatedly made ridiculous and potentially dangerous comments about COVID-19, vaccines, and the threats posed by the pandemic. He's also been cavalier about his indifference to an FBI warning that he was "a target of Russian disinformation" during the last election cycle. He's denied ever having "talked about the election being stolen," despite ample evidence pointing in the opposite direction. There's also the problem, of course, of the senator relying on ugly...

A shirtless attacker bit off the tip of an Asian man’s finger in Hell’s Kitchen Tuesday morning — the latest in a surge of anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City this year. “Go back to your country!” the attacker yelled as he rained punches on the 48-year-old victim on W. 43rd St. and 11th Ave. at about 10 a.m., cops said. The attacker also bit two fingers on the man’s left hand, police sources said. The suspect’s teeth severed part of the victim’s middle finger, cops said. The attacker then ran north on 11th Ave. Cops said he wore...

Sea otters weigh about 50 to 70 pounds, they float on their backs and they spend most of their lives in the ocean. River otters are two or three times smaller, they swim with their bellies down and they live mostly on land but travel by water to find food. Sea otters nearly went extinct in the early 1900s because of the fur trade. River otters are common and of “least concern” in California, but are threatened or endangered in some other states. But Heath offered a warning. “They’ll hiss at you if you get too close,” she said. “They’re...