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Newly appointed Chicago Park District Supt. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa issued a statement saying the temporary art would “celebrate Chicago’s diverse communities” in a proposed “Peoples’ Plaza.” The new plaza is expected to open in late summer or early fall after pavement restoration. Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, viewed the move as a betrayal of the innovative agreement he cut with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration nearly three months ago. The deal called for the Columbus statue in Arrigo Park to be “loaned” to the civic committee for display in a new Chicago Museum of Italian Immigration...

Colorado’s infrastructure systems remain adequate but roads, schools and other aging assets require urgent attention, according to a report published by civil engineers. ... In the state's infrastructure report card, Colorado got a D- for roads. ... The state’s infrastructure received an overall grade of C-minus on the 2025 Report Card for Colorado’s Infrastructure published Wednesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers. That is one step below the national average grade of C. ... The American Society of Civil Engineers publishes national and state report cards about every four years. To compile the report cards, civil engineers analyze and...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most pro-life Hollywood blockbuster in a long time, and maybe ever.The new Fantastic Four film is, in a word, fantastic.Its 1950s futuristic aesthetic was charming, with a dash of campiness, courtesy of characters like Mole Man and his underground haven, “Subterranea.” The score was fitting, the characters well-developed, the plot easy to follow, and the dialogue believable. The jokes landed for not trying too hard, with relatable dynamics between spouses, best friends, siblings, and colleagues. If you can get past Pedro Pascal’s off-screen antics, his portrayal of the quirky Mr. Fantastic lives up...

An RAF signals intelligence aircraft has been deployed over the Black Sea to monitor the movements of the Russian military across the region. The operation, conducted under the watchful eye of NATO and Russian air defence units, comes as the war in Ukraine shows no signs of abating in the near future. The plane being used is an RC-135W Rivet Joint, a modified Boeing aircraft, considered to be one of the most technologically sophisticated in the world. Equipped with an array of sensors, its sensors ‘soak up’ electronic emissions from communications, radar and other systems to build a picture of...

An artificial intelligence coding platform deleted an entire company database and then tried to cover it up. Replit “Panicked”Tom’s Hardware, a three-decade-old technology-news website, reported the news early this week. According to Tom’s:A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even “lied” about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein...

@GuntherEagleman BREAKING: It's being reported that Ghislaine Maxwell did not invoke any privileges when answering questions about roughly 100 people to the DOJ. "She did not invoke privilege and when really pressed on exactly what she‘s being asked about, her lawyer said that they‘ve asked about every single possible thing you can imagine, but then revealed that she was asked about maybe 100 different people. She answered questions about everybody and did not hold anything back." Who do you think she mentioned?

Sanctuary cities and states exist not for the altruistic reasons blue state leaders claim, but because of profit—the profit of slavery.Progressives portray sanctuary cities as a necessary means to balance public safety, human rights, and local autonomy in the face of federal immigration enforcement. Sanctuary City supporters harp on false narratives. Thus, they’ll routinely raise a handful of now familiar arguments:Encouraging the reporting of crime, thereby reducing itLimiting federal overreachProtecting due processPreventing family separationSupporting economic contributorsMoral resistanceUpholding American valuesThe truth is different. Sanctuary city proponents are in the slavery business.Image created using AI.A recent ICE raid shows how it works:Department...

Horrifying police bodycam footage captured a stricken mother's primal cry of grief as she realized her 10-month-old baby girl had died under the care of her babysitter. The tear-jerking moment unfolded on June 26, 2024, in Pekin, Illinois, when Branda Nichelle, the mother of little Sylvie Zacovic, broke down outside the home of her infant daughter's babysitter, Makenna Rhodes, 22. Rhodes is set to go on trial for murder in October, with bodycam footage unearthed by Body Cam Edition likely to become central to the shocking case. Nichelle was seen in the footage racing from her workplace after Rhodes called...

The mother of a man who cops believed tortured and killed his 21-year-old girlfriend — leaving her to die on a Bronx staircase — has been arrested after investigators determined she helped clean up the gruesome crime scene, officials said. Naida Jorge, 54, was charged Thursday evening with murder, manslaughter, hindering prosecution, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence over the tragic slaying of Princesa Encarnacion-Soto. “She did attempt to clean up the crime scene,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters. Police were still looking for Robert Strother, 27, the dead woman’s boyfriend, in connection...

Having spent the last four years under investigation as an alleged "domestic terrorist," I can't tell you how cock-a-hoop I am over Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard's bunker buster report on the deep state reptiles' (the true insurrectionists) greatest subterfuge since the JFK assassination (allegedly): Trump-Russia collusion. Gabbard's list of clown compurgators is a Who's Who of Washington D.C.'s most notorious bog frogs, including such legendary high-ranking, seemingly untouchable poikilothermic Americans as Bill and Hillary Clinton and the sacrosanct scapegrace himself, Barack Obama. [FACT-O-RAMA! By revealing the list of alleged palholes, Donald Trump has created a situation where...

NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Mexico is a frequent target of Donald Trump’s ire, but he prefers the Coke sold there. After holding conversations with the president, Coca-Cola (KO.N), opens new tab unveiled plans to roll out a version of its signature soda using cane sugar, as it is sold south of the border, instead of corn syrup. Even setting aside the idea of the Oval Office occupant influencing one of the world’s most successful recipes, it’s a classic case of industrial policy gone awry. The $300 billion company has occasionally tinkered with the Coke formula over its...

Despite Trump administration rhetoric accusing Democrats of protecting violent criminals and drug-dealing immigrants, the administration’s arrests have been catching a smaller share of criminals overall, and a smaller share of people convicted of violent and drug crimes, than the Biden administration did in the same time frame. While the Trump administration has caught more immigrants with convictions for drugs and violence, their share of the rising arrest numbers is smaller, as more people get swept up for minor traffic violations or strictly immigration crimes, according to a Stateline analysis. Forty percent of the nearly 112,000 arrests by U.S. Immigration and...

Maxwell knows ‘where the bodies are buried’. As the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring becomes a bigger story by the day, the DOJ Number 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, headed down to Florida to meet in person with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s long-time ‘partner-in-crime’. After a 5-hour questioning marathon yesterday (24), today the official met with the disgraced British socialite for the second time in the US Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee, Florida. Maxwell’s attorney David Markus told the press after this second day of interviews that his client answered questions about ‘a hundred people’. Daily Mail...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: * A new tomb was discovered at Petra’s Khazneh, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. * The tomb’s discovery, as revealed on Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown,” also included 12 skeletons from over 2,000 years ago. * In addition to being a true archaeological marvel, the ornate facade of Jordan’s ancient city of Petra has served as a backdrop in a number of movies, including “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” ============================================================= The sandstone cliff faces of the ancient city of Petra (one of the New Seven Wonders of...

Ellen DeGeneresand her wife Portia de Rossimoved to England back in November 2024. During a recent sit-down interview in the town of Cheltenham, UK, with journalist Richard Bacon, the former TV host gave a detailed update on what life has really been like across the pond. First and foremost, the couple quickly adapted to the country lifestyle and at one point in time were riding lawn mowers on a daily basis, just to keep their pastures down for the horses. The constant maintenance frustrated Ellen and she recalled that she told Portia: "We just can't keep up with this." Portia...

Ending military dependence on America.A welcome and significant change has come to European politics: an admission that the European Union (EU) has relied too heavily on the US for its military defense. Only a few years ago, any suggestion that Europe had not been pulling its weight in defending its own continent, or had outsourced its military might to the US, would have been met with scorn and derision. Yet Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now not only acknowledged this reality, but has gone as far as saying the continent has been “free-loading” off the US. A single power dominating...

Surprise! Image credit: Han Tian, Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (2025) (CC BY 4.0) Getting accurate information on animal species can be quite a challenge, especially when they live deep within the sea. One of those animals is the Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus), which, despite its widespread distribution, remains quite elusive – so it was a surprise to scientists carrying out an experiment in the South China Sea when eight of them turned up. The scientists were planning to investigate the processes that occur when a whale carcass falls to the sea floor. To simulate this, they dropped a cow carcass at...

"CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil is pushing back at the liberal outrage towards his network's cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." "The business is broken," Dokoupil said of the late-night industry on Tuesday. "And what no one seems to acknowledge is that the politics also changed. The business changed and so did the politics, and it got way more one-sided than anything Johnny Carson was ever doing. I think we should reflect on those changes as well. It's been a big shift culturally in that regard also." Dokoupil and his morning colleagues reacted to the scathing monologue from...

Ghislaine Maxwell was seen carrying a mysterious box back into her Florida prison after meeting with a top Justice Department official on Thursday. The 63-year-old convict was transported in a white sedan back to a gate at the FCI Tallahassee complex, where she’s been serving her 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, according to drone footage captured by WCTV. The disgraced British socialite, wearing all brown, was handcuffed in the front and led through a barbed-wire-laced fenced-in area in front of the prison. One officer carried the bin behind Maxwell as she was escorted back inside....

See new posts Conversation Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher 🚨 BREAKING STUDY: mRNA Injections Induce Severe, Long-Lasting Genetic Disruption Linked to Cancer and Chronic Disease 🧪 Using high-resolution RNA sequencing on blood samples, we discovered that COVID-19 “vaccines” SEVERELY disrupt expression of THOUSANDS of genes—triggering mitochondrial failure, immune reprogramming, and oncogenic activation that can persist for MONTHS to YEARS post-injection. 🧬Differential gene expression analysis compared mRNA-injured patients (cancer, adverse events) to 803 healthy controls — revealing widespread transcriptomic CHAOS: ⚠️ Mitochondrial failure – Complex I breakdown, oxidative stress, energy collapse ⚠️ Immune reprogramming – Chronic inflammation, ACE2 suppression, TLR hyperactivation ⚠️...