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An incredibly bloody and horrific crime occurred earlier this week in Texas that could have been avoided had authorities done their job. As FOX 7 Austin reported, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt, an accomplished civil engineer who published several notable works, was seen in video footage obtained from a neighborhood HOA sitting on a park bench in Round Rock at roughly 10:55 a.m. on September 7. Then his life ended a few minutes later. The footage goes on to show a black male with a knife in his hand sneaking up behind Wimsatt. The black person proceeds to stab Wimsatt multiple...

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville is condemning messages that celebrate political violence after mysterious "Kirkaversery" [sic] flyers advertised a gathering apparently marking one year since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, declaring, "WE WILL CELEBRATE THE FIRST NEW YEAR AK (AFTER KIRK)." The flyers, images of which circulated widely on social media and by Libs of TikTok, advertise an 8 p.m. Sept. 10 gathering on the HSS Lawn at UT Knoxville. But the university told Fox News Digital that it is not sponsoring an event related to Kirk’s assassination and that no organization has registered to use the location for such a gathering. A...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis seized control of the historic port city of Mocha on Thursday, four Yemeni government military sources said, gaining further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes. The Houthis were launching attacks on the strategic Red Sea islands of Hanish, the government sources told Reuters. Government forces and their allies were relocating south to Dhubab, which sits directly on the strait, across from the island of Perim. Control of Dhubab and the island is key to gaining hold of the strait, they said. There has been an escalation in fighting in...

AI isn’t a mind — it’s a tool. What most people call “AI” today is actually a Large Language Model (LLM). It isn’t sentient, conscious, or capable of wanting anything. An LLM is a program trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict what words should come next in a sentence. That’s why it can answer questions in a way that sounds human — it’s imitating patterns in language, not thinking or understanding. The amount of human knowledge stored in text, audio, video, databases, and other formats is massive and growing rapidly. If some of that data is...

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President Trump pledged a $5,000 payout to U.S. adults on Wednesday, but only if Republicans hold onto their majority in Congress come November. “Here is my promise: if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them … because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” he said at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. The legality of this disbursal is unclear. There are about 270 million adults in the U.S. Trump told attendees Wednesday that...

A St. Louis postal worker has been federally indicted after allegedly dumping an astonishing 30,000 pieces of Americans’ mail in overgrown vacant lots instead of delivering it. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, 54-year-old Armond Paige was indicted on September 2 on one count of delaying or destroying mail while employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Federal prosecutors allege Paige discarded the mail in vacant, weed-covered lots across St. Louis from approximately 2024 through April 29, 2026. At the time of the alleged scheme, Paige was working out of the Maryville Gardens Post Office...

https://x.com/j6commission/status/2097411024844476571ransomnote: On rumble, the text description of the above video is as follows: "The footage in this video is from a west-facing camera at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. This camera footage is the first of many the Committee on House Administration, Subcommittee on Oversight will be posting exclusively on Rumble."https://x.com/j6commission/status/2097671362257297755 J6 Commission@j6commissionEXCLUSIVE: Scrubber thumbnails were recovered from US Capitol CCTV footage published by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight via Rumble.The frames appear to show two individuals who place gear bags near the Memorial Door. These stills have been strung together to create a stop motion...

This has been a debate for decades. Did this man survive his parachute hijacking attempt? After years of studying the case files on this crime, I believe that he lived and provide my reasons behind thinking this.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Commerce is seeking to significantly change the 2030 Census by excluding illegal aliens and foreign visitors from the count so that apportionment of congressional districts is more accurate.This week, the Trump administration issued a proposed federal rule to exclude illegal aliens from the census when deciding how many congressional seats a state secures. The number of congressional seats a state has also determines how many Electoral College votes each state gets in presidential elections.

An emergency slide deployment on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One raised questions at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday before President Donald Trump revealed it was part of a safety check. "They were checking it before, and they just wanted to make sure," Trump told reporters on the tarmac after exiting Marine One. "So they’ve, I guess, already put it up. They want to make sure everything works perfectly." The unusual scene unfolded after Marine One rolled to a stop near the presidential aircraft, with Trump remaining aboard the helicopter, and the slide could be seen extending from the plane. The White...

Cute parody song called Lake America

Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·17hResearchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad armUnplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.The evidence begs to differ.216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.Where are the regulators?Writer: Danielhttps://x.com/Braiinsforge/s~~~~Grok's explanatory summary:Mario Nawfal's post summarizes a Gamers Nexus investigation showing LG smart TVs scan home networks for devices like phones and smartwatches, log voice inputs as plain-text transcripts, and send data to LG Ad Solutions....

ransomnote: The prior posts in the series are here: John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series] John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegen12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI: DAY 9 - 1 of 4TYRONE...

ransomnote: The prior posts in the series are here: John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegen12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI: DAY 6By late August and early September 2012, the intelligence picture was getting worse too.On August 19, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff produced an intelligence...

She was cruising for revenge. A Louisiana cruise passenger was allegedly scammed out of nearly $1,100 for her Caribbean getaway before she tracked down the man she blames and confronted him aboard the same ship. Vanessa Phillips planned to sail aboard the MSC Seascape on a Western Caribbean cruise from Galveston, Texas, on Aug. 30 to Sept. 6, with Armonte Domious Wilson, an associate she met on a cruise in December 2025.

# CHAPTER TWO ## The Historian The Calder County Historical Museum stood on the west side of the courthouse square in a building that had outlived almost every purpose for which it had been constructed. A brass plate near the entrance claimed the structure dated to 1911, when the county still had enough coal money passing through it to build banks from dressed stone and oak rather than drywall and laminated counters. The bank failed during the Depression, reopened under another name, failed again, and eventually became county property. During the years that followed, the building served as a tax...

BREAKING: NBC reports female jurors resorted to ‘name-calling’ as the lone male juror continued to hold out against them in the Lindsay Clancy trial 0:22 VIDEO AT LINK............ "Hugs and words and actions of support and self care"?

The View came back from a summer hiatus this week and dove head first into campaigning for the Democrats in the 2026 midterms. Among the conversations on the show today were, invoking the 25th Amendment on President Trump, and voting for the Democrats because, according to host Whoopi Goldberg, 'our lives literally depend on this.' This type of open electioneering for one side is why The View has come under a microscope with the FCC. ABC News is not supposed to do this, but they allow The View to do it all the time. Transcript via NewsBusters: BEHAR: Let me...

A Manhattan hooker from hell who killed three johns when she fed them fentanyl to rob them — leaving one victim dead with his pants at his knees — pleaded guilty Tuesday and now faces up to life behind bars. Tabitha Bundrick, 39, copped to the “calculated” killings of the three men, who she robbed of anything she could get her hands on before fleeing across Upper Manhattan. Bundrick will be sentenced to 27 years to life in prison after copping to three murder charges and a separate charge for drugging another person who survived the attack, according to Manhattan...