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TAMPA — The family of four, two of them elementary school-age children, had dinner on Monday night, a nice meal of bottom round steak.
Then they began hallucinating, so bad they called 911, then rushed to the hospital themselves.
On Friday, Tampa police announced why: The meat had been laced with LSD. Continue reading “Family poisoned with LSD-laced meat”
HAIFA, ISRAEL – Questions continue to swirl around a shipment of Iranian missiles the Israeli navy intercepted near Sudan, with experts saying the weapons’ true destination might reveal a hidden agenda in Tehran.
A tricky trail of paperwork and the circuitous route of the Panama-flagged ship found to be carrying lethal M-302 missiles from Iran showed a major effort to hide the cargo and the parties involved. The Israeli Defense Forces say the weapons aboard the ship, now being towed to the southern Israeli port of Eilat on the Red Sea, were bound for the terrorist enclave of Gaza via the Sinai Peninsula. Continue reading “Mystery surrounds intercepted Iranian missile shipment”
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning (local time). Flight MH370 is a B777-200 aircraft heading to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
According to a press statement provided by Malaysia Airlines, the flight lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m. local time Saturday (6:40 p.m. GMT Friday). Continue reading “Malaysia Airlines Plane, Flight MH370, Loses Contact With Air Traffic Control”
(Reuters) – Russia said any U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine will boomerang back on the United States and that Crimea has the right to self-determination as armed men tried to seize another Ukrainian military base on the peninsula.
In a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against “hasty and reckless steps” that could harm Russian-American relations, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Continue reading “Russia warns U.S. sanctions will ‘boomerang’”
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Friday that the crisis in Ukraine resembles the geopolitical factors at play when Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin led Germany and Russia.
McCain’s comments came after MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked him what he thinks President Barack Obama’s administration should do given Russia’s latest move to welcome a Crimean referendum to secede. Continue reading “John McCain: Situation In Ukraine ‘Hearkens Back To The Days Of Adolf Hitler And Joseph Stalin’”
WASHINGTON — The first president of an independent Ukraine, who in 1994 sent Soviet nuclear weapons back to Russia in exchange for its pledge not to use force, said nobody believed at the time that an attack from Russia was even possible.
“There was no such prediction,” former President Leonid Kravchuk told The Huffington Post in an interview from Kiev Wednesday. “No one could imagine that between Ukraine and Russia there could arise such relations, such bitter relations, when Russia can send its forces on the territory of Ukraine.” Continue reading “Ukraine’s First President Wants Good Relations With Russia But There’s That Little Problem Of Putin”
KOMO News – by Hanna Brooks Olsen and Joshua Lewis
Every day in our community, people struggle with hunger; one in four children live in food-unstable households. But with help from volunteers and donors, the folks at Northwest Harvest give away millions of pounds of food each year.
All donations, however, are not created equally. Continue reading “Wall of Shame: The worst food donated to Northwest Harvest”
Certain Lehigh Valley, Swiss Premium and Price Chopper brand orange juice is being recalled after it was discovered that a manufacturing error caused milk — a potential allergen — to become mixed with the orange juice, the Food and Drug Administration recently reported.
Lehigh Valley Dairy is voluntarily recalling the products, even though there have been no reports of reactions. Lehigh Valley and Swiss Premium orange juices were sold in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Price Chopper orange juice was only distributed in Pennsylvania. Continue reading “Orange Juice Recalled In 6 States Due To Milk-Mixing Error”
Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the 278 nominees for a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize,according to Peace Research Institute Oslo, an institution that closely tracks the Nobel committee’s work.
Putin, who of course is now at the center of one of the world’s most dangerous situations — the crisis in Ukraine — has been “nominated by the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World and backed by Russian MP Iosif Kobzon, for his averting of an air strike on Syria after the chemical gas attacks in August 2013,” PRIO reports. Continue reading “Putin Reportedly Joins List Of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”
PJ Tatler – by Bridget Johnson
In a somewhat unusual move, the State Department issued a fact sheet titled “President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine” Wednesday evening.
The fact sheet was released after Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that talks with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Paris today didn’t get anywhere. Continue reading “State Department Issues Fact Sheet on Why Putin’s a Lying Liar”
CHICAGO (AP) – A father, mother and daughter from a posh Chicago suburb stole $7 million in merchandise during a decadelong shoplifting spree – traveling to stores nationwide and targeting dolls, toys, cosmetics and other valuables – according to a federal complaint released Wednesday.
The three were arrested earlier this week at their $1.3 million Northbrook home after returning from a three-day trip through Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, where authorities say they shoplifted from stores. Working in tandem, the family traveled from their Chicago-area residence to hit businesses in multiple states, including Maryland, Tennessee and Florida, according to the 20-page complaint. Continue reading “Mom, dad, daughter accused in $7M shoplift spree”
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan opposition Wednesday in an emotional postscript to the long-ago murder of a Philadelphia policeman and the legal help his killer received.
The vote against advancing Debo Adegbile toward confirmation was 47-52, shy of the majority needed under new procedures Democrats put in place late last year to overcome Republican stalling tactics. Continue reading “Senate blocks Obama’s pick of Debo Adegbile for civil rights post”
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Members of the Burlington City Council have worked out a strategy to attack second amendment rights in Vermont, where there is a strong preemption law that prevents local governments from enacting separate firearms laws. David Codrea noted it months ago.
The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs wanted to find out how and why the City was attempting to attack second amendment rights. A public records request was filed in September of 2013. The Acting President of the Federation is Chris Bradley. From the burlingtonfreepress: Continue reading “Council Members, Burlington, VT “Keep the Crowd Down””
The New American – by Bob Adelmann
With a Senate committee voting to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy (shown) as the new U.S. surgeon general 13-9 last week, he is expected to win confirmation to the post by the full Senate later this week.
If there were a candidate more perfectly qualified to occupy the bully pulpit as surgeon general in the Obama administration, one would be hard pressed to find him. Continue reading “Anti-gun Doctor Expected to be Confirmed as Surgeon General”
The handling of raw fish at three New York City Chinatown markets has led to an outbreak of a rare skin infection.
The city’s health department has identified 30 people with the infection– caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium marinum– all of whom handled live or raw seafood at the Chinatown markets in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Continue reading “New Yorkers Warned Of Rare Skin Infection Outbreak Caused By Raw Fish In Chinatown”
In what seems like a plot straight out of a low-budget science-fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious. Its targets, fortunately, are amoebae, but the researchers suggest that as Earth’s ice melts, this could trigger the return of other ancient viruses, with potential risks for human health.
The newly thawed virus is the biggest one ever found. At 1.5 micrometres long, it is comparable in size to a small bacterium. Evolutionary biologists Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, the husband-and-wife team at Aix-Marseille University in France who led the work, named it Pithovirus sibericum, inspired by the Greek word ‘pithos’ for the large container used by the ancient Greeks to store wine and food. “We’re French, so we had to put wine in the story,” says Claverie. The results are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. Continue reading “Giant virus resurrected from 30,000-year-old ice”
Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a company that could help further that agenda. TechCrunch is hearing that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, makers of near-orbital, solar-powered drones which can fly for five years without needing to land. According to a source with access to information about the deal, the price for this acquisition is $60 million*. Continue reading “Facebook Looking Into Buying Drone Maker Titan Aerospace”
MOSCOW (AP) — In some ways, the venue Vladimir Putin chose and the emotional lecture he gave the world about Russia’s actions in Ukraine said it all.
In an hour-long chat with a handful of Kremlin pool reporters at his presidential residence, Putin sat in an easy chair and spoke with the bravado of an ex-KGB agent suspicious of Western plots. Continue reading “Defiant Putin drops cool demeanor in Ukraine talk”
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