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No patients were on board and the EHS team members who were involved are not injuredOfficials say no one was injured when an ambulance went off a wharf in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County on Monday. An email statement from Emergency Medical Care Inc., the company that provides ambulance service to the province, said the incident happened Monday afternoon in Annapolis Royal. It said no patient was on board and the EHS team members who were involved are uninjured and receiving support. The statement said the EHS team was posted to the area and was not responding to a call at...

A conservative vlogger claims Panda Express employees called the police on him after he wore a MAGA hat and gave a “thumbs up” gesture to a cook inside a Washington state restaurant. “Panda Express kicked out @DannyRebel333 and Myself out for Simply for wearing a MAGA hat, and giving a thumbs up to a cook that just stood and Stared at me the whole time because of my Hat,” vlogger Chris Sims said in a May 11 post on X. “I asked if there was an issue and the cook said ‘Your Hat’ so I asked if he supported it,”...

Two Americans were arrested in Japan on Monday after breaking into the enclosure of the beloved Punch the monkey, the 9-month-old internet sensation, police said. Police in the Tokyo suburb of Chiba detained Reid Jahnai Daysun, 24, and Neal Jabahri Duan, 27, after one of the men allegedly jumped the fence to enter the enclosure while the other filmed.

You would have time to make peace with what has happened. A fully frozen Earth... that would be the result! Image Credit: Art Knights / Shutterstock.com It is Terrifying Affair Thursday, and we are imagining a scenario that could never happen, but is wonderfully fun to explore. And in case it becomes a ridiculous conspiracy theory like Earth losing gravity for 7 seconds, at least we are ahead of the curve in debunking it. The scenario for the day is what if the Sun somehow disappears? Magically vanishes from the center of the Solar System. What would happen next? Well,...

There’s some drama happening in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party — rivalry between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna ahead of the 2028 presidential race, according to Axios. It’s been clear to see both position themselves as possible heirs to the Bernie Sanders movement, but they are not in agreement on what that movement looks like. What’s interesting here is that the divide isn’t just about personality. It’s about strategy, staffing and what version of “Bernie-style politics” they’re actually trying to inherit. Axios reports that on one side, you have what some are calling the “Old Bernie” approach...

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Grapevine police have arrested the driver of a Tesla Cybertruck who went into Grapevine Lake Monday night. Police said just before 8 p.m. Monday, officers were called to Katie's Woods Park Boat Ramp, where a Tesla Cybertruck was in the water, near the shore. According to a press release, the driver told officers he intentionally drove into the lake to use the vehicle's "Wade Mode" feature. The truck became disabled and started taking on water. Everyone in the truck was able to get out safely before the Grapevine Fire Department Water Rescue Team helped get the truck...

Explanation: Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines just above the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars. Like the common household items that abstract painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars featured here are also commonly found in a setting like this one -- a massive,...

"Non-human" bodies of varying species have been recovered from crashed UFO craft, filmmaker Dan Farah told Fox News on Monday, citing accounts from senior intelligence officials interviewed for his new disclosure documentary. ... This comes as the Trump administration has placed pressure on government agencies to release files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and alleged extraterrestrial encounters to the public. The Department of War subsequently declassified never-before-seen material related to the request, including dozens of PDFs, images and videos. Farah alleged, however, that resistance inside the federal government has slowed broader public disclosure efforts. "The people who have gatekept...

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One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world’s predominant power. We are, supposedly, like an exhausted British Empire circa 1945, and China is the new version of the postwar American powerhouse.

Mortgage rates continued to move higher in the past week as geopolitical turmoil caused the 10-year Treasury yield to soar, although mortgage spreads remain well below their levels of 2024 and 2025. At HousingWire‘s Mortgage Rates Center, rates for 30-year conforming loans were at 6.77%, their highest point of the year. Rates for 30-year loans through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) averaged 6.33% and rates for 30-year jumbo loans averaged 6.89%. HousingWire Data is benchmarked across a base of retail lenders using a standardized borrower scenario with a 75% loan-to-value ratio and a 780 FICO score. Last week, loan officers...

(Image Matthew G Eddy / Shutterstock) AI uses a lot of power, and it needs massive data centers to support it. That's why, despite data centers having existed for decades, people are suddenly running for the hills. But do they have a reason to be afraid? You be the judge. Here are the scariest facts about data centers: Data centers are the ugliest buildings on earth: Ancient Greeks never built utilitarian buildings. They're almost as bad as nuclear power plants: And 100 times more deadly. They drink up one whole ocean per ChatGPT query: We might need the oceans...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released from a hospital in Tehran after more than two weeks, her supporters said Monday. They called for Mohammadi, 54, to remain at home to receive follow-up care and daily physiotherapy. Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran on May 1 after she fell unconscious. She was released on bail nearly 10 days later and transferred to the hospital in Tehran, where specialists examined her. She was awarded the Nobel in 2023 while in prison and has been jailed repeatedly...

“A vote for me will be a vote to change Labour,” Mr Burnham told the audience at the Great North summit in Leeds. For Labour, read Sir Keir Starmer. Mr Burnham could be prime minister before schools break for the summer holidays, so what he says on the campaign trail in this mother of all by-elections really matters. The theme first. Mr Burnham is arguing that Britain has been on the wrong path since the 1980s, a four-decade slide into decline that he is vowing to overturn. It is a rebuke not only of Thatcherism, which he argues gutted the...

A Brazilian man has 'come back from the dead' after a funeral home realised he was still breathing as they prepared his body for his wake. Juraci Rosa Alves was admitted to a hospital on May 16, where a doctor declared him dead due to respiratory failure. A funeral home was then called and Alves, 88, was transported there for standard post-death procedures. But while staff were preparing the body for the wake, they detected signs of life. Jacqueline Brogiato, the funeral home's technical nursing supervisor, told local media: 'Our funeral staff carried out the transfer as a standard procedure....

This made me laugh. [Warning: Violence] A man in Toronto, Canada seemingly tries to educate a young man about the consequences of choosing a life of crime when another man pulls up on a scooter to interrupt the learning session 🛴The man receiving the education then attempts to steal the scooter. This is what… pic.twitter.com/57RzHP2BnV— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) May 18, 2026To sum up: A black guy tried to steal a white guy's bicycle (gotta love comedic stereotypes!). The white guy decided to protect his property (no one told him this is basically illegal in Canada these days). Another black guy rolled...

Could this bring species back from egg-stinction? Texas firm Colossal Biosciences, which has dedicated itself to resurrecting lost species, including the dire wolf and woolly mammoth, has hatched live chicks from an artificial egg for the first time — a crucial, “Jurassic Park”-esque step in its mission to bring back the moa and other giant, long-gone avians. The first-of-its-kind artificial egg allows a bird embryo to develop completely outside of a biological shell while scientists oversee every aspect from early embryo to hatching. The team hatched 26 “healthy” chickens, which “will live out their natural lives” at the company’s avian...

Oil prices rose and global bonds wobbled on Monday, as fresh tensions in the Middle East fed inflation fears and bets that central banks will have to increase interest rates. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, rose on Monday, after an attack on a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates. It came as peace talks between the US and Iran stalled in the sixth week of ceasefire. Donald Trump wrote on social media: “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE...

Fox News host Jesse Watters lit the internet on fire after airing a jaw-dropping segment discussing alleged UFO crash recoveries, “non-human intelligence,” and even so-called “reptilian” alien species that some researchers claim have been secretly studied by the U.S. government for decades. The bombshell discussion comes after the Trump administration’s recent release of declassified UFO/UAP files through a new Pentagon transparency initiative that has already generated massive public attention. The Gateway Pundit previously reported Dr. Hal Puthoff, 89, a Stanford-trained quantum physicist who previously led remote-viewing programs for the CIA and advised the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program...

Georgina Owen, 21, of Saffron Walden in Essex, had been following a plant-based diet since 2016 'stemming from her environmental concerns', but was suffering from a B12 deficiency in the latter months of her life. Miss Owen told her family she had 'forgotten' to take her supplements but had bought an 'organic' Methyl-cobalamin B12 spray from Canada to top herself up. But a coroner's court heard that post-mortem blood tests showed she was B12 deficient Miss Owen's family reported that in the recent period before her death she had [been] dwelling on the state of the world and her place...