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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – One person was shot and killed and three others were wounded early Sunday in a shootout at a parking garage near the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, said the shooting happened around 4:15 a.m. on the first floor of the garage in the 100 block of Southwest Fifth Avenue. Continue reading “1 dead, 3 wounded after shootout at Fort Lauderdale parking garage”
Just hours after US National Security Advisor John Bolton formally accused Tehran of conducing the May 12 tanker “sabotage” attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s foreign ministry has responded that “we are ready for war” amid fears that Washington could still be on a war footing in the Persian Gulf.
“We hope that we can start a dialogue, but we are ready for war,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told RIA Novosti. Continue reading “US Troops To Be Based In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Against “Iran Threat””
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced Tuesday the creation of a new administrative position intended to help ease the stresses on the system created by the recent influx of asylum-seekers arriving at the southern border.
The new “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator” position is designed to help alleviate the administrative duties that CBP agents have been forced to take on, often at the expense of their traditional enforcement duties, as record numbers of women and children have arrived at the border seeking asylum. Continue reading “Border Patrol to Create New Migrant-Care Position So Agents Can Focus on Enforcement”
Doctors have been told to warn millions of patients about the severe side effects of antidepressants.
In a major victory for the Daily Mail, the Royal College of Psychiatrists today admits for the first time that coming off antidepressants can cause side effects lasting for months. Continue reading “Anti-depressants CAN ruin lives: Major U-turn as psychiatrists say millions of patients MUST be warned over severe side effects”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been moved to the hospital wing of the Belmarsh prison in the UK, prompting concerns about his health pending the hearing on his extradition to the US.
Assange’s health had already “significantly deteriorated” during the nearly seven years he spent inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and has continued to get worse over the seven weeks he has spent in Belmarsh, WikiLeaks said in a statement on Wednesday. Continue reading “‘Grave concerns’: Assange can barely talk, moved to prison hospital, says WikiLeaks”
There’s no question that artificial intelligence has come a long way in the last few years, but apparently it’s not yet advanced enough to tell the difference between someone using a mobile phone and someone scratching their face.
Chinese media recently reported the case of a man in Jinan, eastern Shandong province, who received a notification that he had broken the law by talking on the phone while driving. The letter also had a surveillance picture of his so-called offence attached, which showed him holding his right hand to his cheek. Continue reading “Man Gets Fined for Scratching His Face While Driving”
TEHRAN, May 27 (MNA) – Tara Sharifi, 11, has scored 162 points – the highest number possible – on the Mensa IQ test, two points higher than the estimated IQs of physicist Albert Einstein and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking.
Scoring 162 points means that Tara is well above the so-called ‘genius benchmark’ of 140. Continue reading “11-year old Iranian girl scores highest possible mark in Mensa IQ test”
Putting your faith in high-tech navigation aids could harm your brain and even increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, it was claimed yesterday.
Over thousands of years, humans have developed an acute sense of their surroundings but this is being lost as satnavs take over, navigation expert David Barrie warned. Continue reading “Relying on satnavs and map-reading apps could lead to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s, expert fears”
A man set himself on fire near the White House on Wednesday morning with shocking footage showing him engulfed in flames.
Video of the incident was posted online showing the unidentified individual walking calmly across the Ellipse near the Washington Mall, an area popular with tourists, with flames covering his body. Continue reading “Man sets himself on fire and calmly strolls around a lawn outside the White House”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Decatur, AL — The job of a police officer can be a arduous and punishing task as they deal with criminals on a daily basis who show no respect and often times try to hurt them. One would think that because of this high stress job, when police officers interact with polite individuals, they would return the favor. However, as the following video of an innocent group of men getting harassed and unlawfully searched illustrates, one would be wrong. Continue reading “Man Asks Cop for His Name, Cop Says ‘F**k You is My Name’”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, I will not make it back from my dentist appointment in time.
I will be back up tomorrow.
At least 43 people were shot, seven fatally, in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend even as severe storms kept people indoors and 1,200 extra officers patrolled the streets.
The toll was slightly higher than last year’s Memorial Day weekend, when 39 people were shot, seven of them fatally, according to shooting data kept by the Tribune. In 2017, 45 people were shot, seven of them killed. And in 2016, 71 people shot, six of them fatally, in one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in recent years. Continue reading “At least 43 people shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend. ‘Unacceptable state of affairs,’ new mayor says”
A US governor has blamed Palestinians for Israel’s ongoing occupation of their land, just weeks before the United States plans to unveil the economic portion of its “deal of the century” peace plan.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a longtime supporter of Israel and a member of Donald Trump’s Republican Party, made his comments during a trade delegation visit to Israel this week. Continue reading “US governor blames Palestinians for ongoing Israeli occupation”
Palestinian school textbooks are once again under public scrutiny, this time after a report published by Israel’s Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) claimed that material was “more radical than previously published”. The EU has since confirmed that it will be funding an assessment to be carried out “by an independent and internationally recognised research institute.” Continue reading “The EU should be calling out Israeli colonialism for its violence and incitement”
