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Young man killed in the front yard of his home
In June 2017, twenty-two-year-old Pedro Ruiz III was killed in the front yard of his home in Halstad, Minnesota, during a botched YouTube stunt. His pregnant girlfriend, Monalisa Perez, fired a .50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun at a hardcover encyclopedia Ruiz was holding against his chest, believing the book would act as a shield. Despite Ruiz’s claims that he had tested the idea on other volumes, the high-velocity round punched through the paper instantly while their three-year-old daughter and nearly thirty neighbors watched. Ruiz was pronounced dead at the scene, ending a planned "viral video" with a fatal ballistic failure. The event, meticulously planned and filmed, was intended to be t… |
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The New Face of American Power
Opinion | Editorial America’s Doctrine of Power in 2026 The opening week of 2026 has stripped away any lingering illusions about the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy. In Caracas, a military raid removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power. Days later, Washington floated the possibility of acquiring Greenland by force. These are not isolated provocations. They clearly show a belief that control over land can be bargained for, valuable resources are seen as rewards, and military power is used as a way to gain economic advantage. Venezuela: Justice or Oil? Officials framed the Caracas operation as a crackdown on corruption and narcotics trafficking. Maduro and his wife were flown to… |
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Jordan Jones shot dead
Local police reported that a security officer at a Georgia club was shot and murdered while trying to break up a quarrel between a guy and a woman. The Acworth Police Department reported in a news statement that Jordan Alexander Jones, 28, of Lawrenceville, Ga., was shot and killed approximately 2:42 a.m. local time while trying to break up the altercation. According to the news release, when APD officers got to the site, they "found a victim with a gunshot wound." "As soon as they got there, officers started helping until Cobb County Fire and Metro EMS arrived. The APD said, "The victim was taken to Kennestone Hospital, where he later died from his injuries." The police agency stated it got… |
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Mad as Hell and Tired of Dictators
Letter to the Editor Title: Mad as Hell and Tired of Dictators Author Tim Crestin Look, I ain’t no professor. I’m just a guy who works with his hands. Welding torch, pizza boxes, grocery aisles—you name it, I’ve done it. I’m scrappin’ pennies for journalism school ’cause I still believe words matter. But lemme tell ya, right now I feel like I belong on another planet. This one? It’s busted. Here’s the truth nobody wants to spit out: there’s always gonna be some two-bit wannabe dictator struttin’ around, puffin’ his chest, promisin’ he’s gonna fix everything. That ain’t the shock. The shock is how many nitwits line up to vote for him. The “big man” lovers, the angry mugs, the ones who think s… |
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Iran will not bow down to US pressure in nuclear talks
Iran’s ?President ?Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged not to fold to pressure from the United States after his American counterpart, Donald Trump, said he was considering limited strikes to force a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Pezeshkian’s comments on Saturday came amid high tensions in the Gulf, with the US continuing to grow its military presence with the deployment of two aircraft carriers and dozens of jets. “We will not bow down in the face of any of these difficulties,” Pezeshkian said at a ceremony to honour members of the Iranian Paralympics team. “World powers are lining up with cowardice to force us to bow our heads. Just as you did not bow down in the face of difficulties, we wi… |
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Iran Prepares for US Attack as It Rejects Negotiations
Iran is not dancing toward the negotiating table out of fear; it is bracing for war while refusing to yield. Reports that Tehran is preparing for a possible U.S.–Israeli missile assault, even as it dismisses offers to talk, underscore a new kind of tension: fear without capitulation. That is not weakness, and it is not readiness in the traditional sense. It is a regime calculating its own survival amid an increasingly hostile international environment. This moment looks nothing like the hope-tinged diplomacy of past nuclear talks. Then, there were back channels, envoys meeting in hotel suites, whispered negotiations and, at times, fragile progress. Now the language is public posturing, threa… |
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Rail regulators accused of ignoring safety recommendations
More than 3,000 rail accidents, causing 23 deaths and nearly 1,200 injuries over the past decade, have been attributed to human error and track defects. Yet, federal railroad regulators have largely ignored most safety recommendations arising from these investigations, according to a new study. An analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland reveals a powerful industry behind these failures, using its influence to thwart federal safety reforms. It is accused of actively lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to reduce track inspection and repair requirements and loosen rules aimed at preventing crew fatigue. The center’s analysis of data … |
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The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will likely backfire
A favourite tactic of war is to try to decapitate the enemy leadership. While such strategies might work in certain contexts, in the Middle East, they have proven to be a disastrous choice. For sure, the assassination of an enemy leader might give a quick boost of popularity amid war. Certainly, United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are basking in the limelight of their perceived “success” in assassinating Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. But killing an 86-year-old man who had already been planning his succession due to his ill health is not that much of a feat considering the overwhelming firepower that the US and Israel together possess. Mor… |
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World faces food catastrophe if Strait of Hormuz disruption persists
A prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could result in a global food “catastrophe”, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned, as shipments of critical agricultural inputs remain blocked in the key waterway due to the US-Israel war on Iran. Food prices have not risen yet because existing stocks are absorbing the shock, the United Nations body’s chief economist, Maximo Torero, said in an interview on Monday, alongside David Laborde, director of FAO’s agrifood economics division. But if traffic through the strait does not resume, the shocks to energy and fertiliser markets will translate into higher commodity and retail prices later this year and into 2027, Laborde added. … |
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Three Family Lives Brutally Taken in a Single Night
The small Alabama town of Wilmer has been plunged into grief after the discovery of three lives brutally taken in a single night. Inside a modest home, investigators found a mother, her young son, and a pregnant teenager—all bound with zip ties, all slain in acts of chilling precision. The silence of that house now echoes with the weight of tragedy, a place once filled with love now marked forever by violence. It was a phone app alert that led loved ones to the scene, a digital whisper that revealed horror beyond imagination. Lisa Ferguson, 46, her 17-year-old daughter Keziah Luker, who was eight months pregnant, and 12-year-old Thomas Cordelle were each confined to separate rooms, their fin… |
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Florida woman works two jobs to pay student debt
A mountain of student loan debt has accumulated for Rachel Jordan. She's worried that she'll fall farther behind financially even though she's working two jobs to pay off her debt. Rachel Jordan has days that begin at 5 a.m. and don't finish until midnight, sometimes many days in a row. In an interview, she confessed, "I'm just exhausted, honestly." she stated. As he works to repay debts accrued at a young age, 43-year-old Jordan is just one of millions of Americans who must work two jobs just to make ends meet. Jordan puts approximately 70 hours a week on a regular basis to try to pay off his $75,000 in college loans. While Jordan's debts are in forbearance, she is not obligated to make pay… |
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Lost in the Flood they Found Each Other Years Later
Human Interest They met the way people used to meet before algorithms pretended to know our hearts better than we did—by proximity and boredom and youth. Two teenagers in New Orleans, same neighborhood, different schools, running into each other at a corner store that smelled like dust and sugar and summer. There was nothing cinematic about it at first. He made her laugh. She remembered what he ordered every time. They walked streets that would later be mapped by disaster, unaware they were standing on a fault line between before and after. They dated for a year. Long enough to feel permanent. Short enough to believe permanence was guaranteed. Then, in August 2005, the city broke open. When … |
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The World Cup plan is merely a proposal and not an obligation
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has called the plan to sell ownership in the World Cup a proposal but said it is "not an obligation," following a significant criticism from several football authorities. FIFA this week said it planned to create a $20 billion subsidiary to run the World Cup and other events, and would sell up to 20% of the subsidiary to outside investors. The proposal was heavily criticized by the sport’s regional confederations, which said they were surprised by FIFA’s plan to incorporate commercial investors in the sport. The commercial side of the game has to grow." "It is a natural growth of the game," Mr Infantino said. “It’s part of a democratic process—a consultation pr… |
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New Epstein file photos appear to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on floor with woman
Photos included in newly released files on pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein appear to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor crouched over a woman on the floor. In the undated images, the royal appears to kneel on the ground as he leans over an unidentified woman, while another angle shows the woman’s abdomen being touched. The images, among more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, have no captions and it is not known where they were taken. But they will likely put further pressure on Andrew, who has faced ongoing questions over his friendship with the late financier. The royal has always denied any wrongdoing. Other files revealed Andrew—str… |
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AI companies accused of copyrighted infringement
Opinion | Editorial The open letter signed by Scarlett Johansson and hundreds of other creatives didn’t land because it was polite. It landed because it said the quiet part out loud: training commercial AI systems on copyrighted work without permission is theft dressed up as inevitability. The industry has spent years insisting this was a philosophical debate about progress. It isn’t. It’s a business choice—and a corrosive one. The letter, organized through the Human Artistry Campaign, rejects the soothing language that has insulated AI companies from accountability. “Learning,” “absorption,” “transformation.” These words are doing legal work, not descriptive work. They exist to blur a simpl… |
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Britain resisting a genocide is now treated as terrorism
At a moment when Israel and its leaders stand accused before international courts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Britain has chosen to direct some of its most powerful legal tools not at those enabling the destruction of Gaza, but at activists protesting against it. The sentencing of the Filton 4, therefore, raises questions that extend far beyond the fate of four individuals. Whatever one’s view of their actions, the case forces Britain to confront an uncomfortable contradiction: why does opposition to Israel’s actions increasingly attract the language of extremism and terrorism, while support for those actions remains firmly within the bounds of respectable politics? … |
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She woke to an eight-foot python coiled on her chest
Opinion | Human Interest Perspective The weight came first, pressing down in a way that felt intentional before it felt impossible. Warm. Dense. Alive. For a split second, the mind tried to soften it into something familiar, because that is what the brain does when the alternative is too large to accept all at once. Then her eyes opened fully, the pattern resolved itself, and the truth asserted its shape. She did not move. That decision, made in the narrow space between panic and understanding, is the only reason the story ends where it does. Pythons do not need to strike to kill. They do not rush. They wait. They respond. They tighten only when prompted, reading movement as resistance and r… |
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Why Brad Pitt and Jude Law are not as cool as they think they are
The two actors and Oasis man Noel Gallagher have far younger partners and bask in it, thinking that it’s somehow avant-garde. But it’s not, says Charlotte Cripps. It’s just what older men have been doing since the dawn of time In case you’ve been living under a rock, Brad Pitt, 62, has a Swiss jewellery executive girlfriend, who is half his age – Ines de Ramon, 33. The couple graced social media in early July after four years together – on her hairstylist’s Instagram page – looking glamorous in matching black outfits ahead of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding ceremony at Madison Square Garden in NYC. They have since been spotted looking loved-up at the quarter-final World Cup match bet… |
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100 year old fighter pilot from Escondido receives Medal of Honor
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump honored two storied military veterans during his State of the Union address, including 100-year-old veteran Royce Williams of Escondido, who survived what is believed to be the longest dog fight in military history. The former Navy fighter pilot, who was seated next to First Lady Melania Trump in the Capitol during the president’s address Tuesday night, flew more than 220 missions in World War II as well as the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Trump called Williams “a living legend” before describing his war-time heroics. “In the skies over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime, a… |
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How Google Is Attempting to Silence Independent News Sites
Part I: The Silent Wall The internet was supposed to be the great equalizer. It promised that anyone with conviction and a keyboard could publish, and the world could read. For a time, that promise felt real. Independent voices flourished, blogs became movements, and small publishers carved out spaces where truth could breathe. But today, that promise is collapsing. Small publishers are running headlong into a wall they cannot see. This wall is not built of stone or law. It is built of code. Invisible filters decide what is “safe,” what is “indexable,” what is “fetchable.” And when those filters misfire—or when they are designed to favor the giants—small publishers vanish. Consider the lived… |