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A woman unleashed bear spray at a Lower Manhattan hotel Monday while fighting over luggage with another lady she went to a Pride Week event with — leaving eight people needing medical treatment, cops and sources said. The unidentified suspect discharged the mace just after 8 a.m. inside a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton New York Downtown hotel on Stone Street near Whitehall Street, during a spat with a 28-year-old woman, according to police and sources. The two women, who were staying at the hotel, knew each other and had gone to a Pride event together the night before...

RealRobert@Real_RobNAnd this is,The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe:Barack Hussein Obama said ‘I want this done,’ ” I want to overthrow the United States government.@CIADirector“All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump.”@CIADirector “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump. We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.”New York post...

GROK's description of the 20 sec video clip below:Video content: The attached 20-second clip shows President Trump unveiling large display boards for the award, featuring a prominent "1776" logo, compass emblem, American flags, and lists of honorees or participants in a formal setting.The White House repostedU.S. Department of Education@usedgovGet your popcorn ready for a showdown! Tomorrow, 8 PM ET @cbsJune 29, 2026 The rest of GROK's summary:@usedgov promotes a CBS special: The official U.S. Department of Education post hypes the Presidential 1776 Award for Civics airing tomorrow, June 30, 2026, at 8 PM ET on CBS, celebrating high school students'...

ransomnote: Grassley has held Artic Frost hearings since Sept 2025. The post below is about a hearing in late June (likely June 23–28).John F Kennedy Jr@John_F_kJr🚨BREAKING: Senator Chuck Grassley just announced that a FBI whistleblower revealed to him an FBI project called "Artic Frost" that targeted groups like Charlie Kirks TPUSA!This is a BOMBSHELL!He says that they are releasing those documents TODAY!"In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican linked individuals were placed under investigative scope of Arctic Frost.""On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk‘s groups, turning point usa. In other words, arctic frost wasn‘t just...

Scientists from NTU Singapore and Waseda University have developed a flexible "diving suit" for cyborg cockroaches, enabling the insects to survive and move underwater and in low-oxygen environments for up to three hours. Published today in Nature Communications, the study could expand the use of cyborg insects in search-and-rescue missions, especially in disaster zones where flooded rubble, puddles or partially submerged spaces can block access for conventional robots. Cyborg insects are living insects fitted with electronic controllers that guide their movement. Because they use the insect's own muscles to move, they require far less power than small artificial robots, which...

Today we remember Slim Pickens (born Louis Burton Lindley Jr.), born June 29, 1919. Best known for his memorable performances in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and One-Eyed Jacks, Pickens became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable Western actors and rodeo performers. Before entertaining audiences around the world, Pickens answered the call to serve during World War II, enlisting in the United States Army Air Forces.

Explanation: Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing outwardly expanding gas and dust, however. Evidence indicates that this gas and dust is being driven out by the combined emerging particle winds of many stars, together creating a galactic superwind. The dust particles are thought to originate in M82's interstellar medium and are actually similar in size to particles in cigar smoke. The featured photographic mosaic combines images taken in visible...

The personal relationship between Jefferson and Adams had soured under the weight of political rivalry—exacerbated by the brutal campaign of 1800. For years after the election, the two men remained estranged. The physician and mutual friend Benjamin Rush played a pivotal role in bringing the two former friends back together. Encouraged by Rush, Jefferson and Adams began corresponding in 1812, initiating a remarkable exchange of letters that spanned 14 years and addressed topics ranging from politics and philosophy to their reflections on aging and legacy. Through this correspondence, Jefferson and Adams confronted their differences—both political and personal—with candor and a...

47, on June 10 in Chambers County, Alabama, about 125 miles from his home in Macon, Georgia. The autopsy and investigation showed that “the female victim was strangled, and it appears the male was attempting to dispose of the body in a remote location,” Mike Segrest told Al.com. “He died of a heart attack while doing it,” Segrest said. “Their bodies were right there together.” Authorities believe Folds’ murder was the result of a domestic dispute, but it was not known where the strangulation took place. The bodies were found just a few miles from where the murdered mom lived.

The bizarre string of incidents, which began on June 13 in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, has left authorities investigating at least five cases over a span of 10 days. VIDEOS AT LINK......................... Photos shared on X show some of the men with moustaches and cat whiskers drawn on their faces. A mysterious vigilante known online as the "Mexican Batman" or the "Batman of Lagos de Moreno" has become the subject of a police manhunt in Jalisco, Mexico, after allegedly hunting down suspected motorcycle thieves, beating them, and duct-taping them to street lampposts. The bizarre string of incidents, which...

Archaeologists have uncovered six previously unknown Bronze Age mining sites in Extremadura in southwestern Spain. The discoveries were made during a February survey led by researchers from the Maritime Encounters program at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. These sites could help answer a long-standing question about where the metal used in Scandinavian Bronze Age artifacts originally came from.Fieldwork took place from February 9 to 16 in the region surrounding Cabeza del Buey in the province of Badajoz. The project was carried out in partnership with the Universidad de Sevilla and specialists from the Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Badajoz.Researchers documented...

Waving religious flags and holding signs calling for justice, Shia Muslims gathered and walked on Ford Road in Dearborn in a colorful display Sunday, June 28, that marked Ashura, a holiday recalling the death of a leader whose message resonates today with the faithful. The procession started at Fordson High School, led by a group of young men who held by red flags that read "Ashura," referring to the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, when a revered leader who is the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Imam Hussain, died in battle against an unjust ruler. Most of the...

In the first centuries of the Common Era, far from the Baltic coast where amber naturally occurs, communities in Masovia were producing large quantities of amber jewellery -- leaving behind traces of a craft that has only gradually come to light.Archaeologists have identified as many as 10 ancient amber workshops across five settlements. In some of them, they uncovered up to 20,000 amber fragments, along with decorative beads and pendants, pointing to production on a significant scale...At the time, much of present-day Poland was inhabited by communities of the Przeworsk Culture. Known for their advanced craftsmanship, they developed large-scale iron...

Among the latest departures is Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa, who is stepping down after about 18 months. Donahue previously oversaw the final phase of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden administration.

A man who had strangled his girlfriend to death later died while trying to dump her body in the woods. Daniel Robbins, 44, of Georgia, killed his girlfriend Jessica Folds, 47, of Alabama sometime in early June. "He died of a heart attack while doing it," 5th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Mike Segrest said, according to Al.com. "Their bodies were right there together." Robbins and Folds had been in a relationship prior to her death. The couple was found together on June 10 at about 12:20 p.m. after Chambers County sheriff's deputies were called to a wooded area along County...

Supreme Court refuses to review E. Jean Carroll’s $5M sex abuse, defamation verdict vs. Trump WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up President Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict that followed a lawsuit by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. Now Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the 82-year-old, who has repeatedly claimed that the president sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room during the mid-1990s.

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A 31-year-old woman died after she was attacked by an alligator while swimming in a Seminole County river. The woman, whose name has not been released, was swimming with friends in the Little Econ River on June 28 when the gator attacked, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. The woman was taken to an area hospital, where she died, WFTV reported. This was the third gator attack in Central Florida within the past week. A gator bit a child in Marion County on June 27, while an alligator bit a snorkeler in the Rainbow...

One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns. “OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first initial, and Bug by his nickname, because the family fears harassment.) “‘What do you need to be supported?’” she recalled asking next. “He asked to get healthcare.” This was the kind of moment J had been anticipating since the family had moved earlier that year...

With the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway, it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in. As the City Journal’s Stu Smith reported, the DSA has adopted a new platform that is, incredibly enough, even more radical than its previous one. Although it still hasn’t been published on its website, an advance version, which Smith obtained, is straight-up Marxism, declaring “the entire global system of capital” as its enemy and promising to “build a new society from the ground up.” We doubt that many Democrats – much less the...

The moment came after Biden delivered one of his sharpest public critiques of President Donald Trump since leaving office. During his remarks, Biden defended his own administration's record while accusing the Trump administration of corruption. He also took aim at what he described as Trump's "vanity projects," including renovations to the White House, changes at the Kennedy Center and the ongoing saga with the reflecting pool on the National Mall. "Whoa, what a loser," Biden said. After pausing several times to cough throughout his remarks, Biden concluded with a call for Democrats to "fight back," saying the country could overcome...