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[Regnum] In Perry, Iowa, a 20-year-old kindergarten teacher gave birth at work and threw the baby in the trash. This was reported on September 19 by People.
On September 15, emergency medical services received a report of a woman bleeding at Acorns & Oaks Daycare. She was taken to a nearby hospital. Later, staff were informed that a premature infant might be in a dumpster at the daycare. About 10 minutes later, they discovered the infant dead in a trash bag, with signs of head trauma. According to criminal case documents, the child's mother intentionally injured the child's face in an attempt to silence him.
"Iowa's 'safe haven' law allows parents or authorized persons to safely leave an infant under 90 days old in a designated area without fear of prosecution for abandonment," a Perry police press release quoted the material as saying.
These locations include hospitals, medical facilities, fire departments with paid or volunteer firefighters on duty 24 hours a day, adoption agencies, and safe boxes for babies.
A 20-year-old daycare worker has been charged with first-degree murder and remains in custody in the Dallas County Jail.
Emergency crews responded to the Acorns and Oaks Christian Daycare in Perry on Tuesday after being called for a woman experiencing vaginal bleeding. Stephanie Ubaldo was transported to a hospital, where she allegedly told staff she had given birth in the bathroom, KCCI reported.Officers searched the day care and found the dead newborn in the trash can. Investigators said Ubaldo confessed to intentionally injuring her baby’s face to try to stop the child from crying.
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[Regnum] Seismologists registered a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in the Indian Ocean. The U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) reported this on September 21.
The tremors were recorded at 20:54 UTC (23:54 Moscow time). The epicenter was located 1,669.4 kilometers northeast of the large city of Gebeha (Port Elizabeth), home to approximately 970,000 people, in South Africa.
The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of about 10 km.
Earlier, the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 6.2 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Alaska. According to seismologists, the tremors occurred 105 kilometers southwest of the village of Nikolsky, with the epicenter located at a depth of 78 kilometers.
On August 22, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Indonesia. The epicenter was 232 km southwest of Rangkasbitung and 195 km southwest of Labuan.
[FOX] Fox News correspondent Danamarie McNicholl reports on 18 suspects extradited to Miami in connection to the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Federal prosecutors allege state Florida business owners used fraudulent COVID-PPP loan funds to purchase weapons, tactical gear and hire Colombian mercenaries for the plot. The defendants face federal charges including conspiracy to kill or kidnap abroad and wire fraud.
[BB] The incident took place this week in Culiacan, when a group of gunmen abducted 49-year-old Luis Mario Zuniga, the owner of a chain of jewelry stores in the region. Zuniga has Mexican and U.S. citizenship. According to local news outlets, the businessman spent approximately 48 hours in captivity and was subsequently released unharmed.
However, during that time, federal and state authorities carried out a large-scale operation to locate and rescue the businessman. The move drew outrage locally since the state of Sinaloa has seen a dramatic rise in violence, shootouts, murders, and kidnappings, with most of those cases not receiving a similar response.
As Breitbart Texas has reported, the violence in Sinaloa is largely attributed to a raging turf war between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, known as Los Chapitos and Los Mayos. Social media posts shared by various news outlets in Mexico revealed that Zuniga’s jewelry, LM Ramos, had posted pictures of a custom-made mouse pendant.
As Breitbart Texas reported, El Raton, or the mouse, is the nickname used by Ovidio Guzman, one of the leaders of Los Chapitos, who gained much popularity after his first capture when then-Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered his release, forcing the country’s military forces to take a virtual knee to the cartels, claiming that he was trying to avoid violence. Eventually, security forces arrested El Raton and shipped him to the United States, where he is facing numerous drug trafficking charges.
Unconfirmed reports from Mexican pundits and news outlets like Infobae.com suggest Zuniga is related to Claudia Sheinbaum’s husband.
[NYP] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dismissed dire warnings that artificial intelligence could soon lead to humanity’s extinction — calling such predictions overblown "doomsday narratives."
"2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world," Huang told CBS News correspondent Jo Ling Kent in an interview airing Sunday.
"Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible."
The billionaire tech executive’s comments come amid a heated debate in Silicon Valley over whether companies should second-guess the rapid development of AI — and whether the technology poses an existential threat.
[Al-Rooters] Don't get in our way, mkay?
Denmark, Greenland and the United States are set to sign a deal on Greenland's security on Tuesday, an agreement Denmark says will put Arctic security under NATO's watch rather than leaving it solely to Washington and Copenhagen.
The agreement, expected to be signed at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, has not been made public, though President Donald Trump says it grants the US "permanent control". Denmark and Greenland have not commented on Trump's claim but said the deal will benefit the Arctic island and respect its sovereignty.
The deal follows months of pressure from Trump, who has said the United States should control Greenland and at times refused to rule out using military or economic force to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. His threats, which peaked in January, triggered a diplomatic crisis within NATO and pushed Denmark and Greenland into negotiations with Washington aimed at defusing the pressure.
"It (the agreement) will be in a form where responsibility for security in the Arctic is not only Danish or American," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told national broadcaster TV2 on Sunday. He added that to a large extent "it would be NATO that looks after the Arctic".
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[Regnum] The Alternative for Germany (AfD) received 38.2% of the votes in the state parliament elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with all ballots counted. This follows from data on the regional electoral commission's website.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) received 35.5% of the vote, taking second place. The Left Party came in third with 6.5%. The Greens received 5.7%, also surpassing the 5% threshold for entry into the regional parliament.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), led by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, received 4.9% of the vote. For the first time, the party failed to cross the 5% threshold required to enter the state parliament. Sahra Wagenknecht's Union for Reason and Justice (BSW) received 4.8% of the vote, thus also failing to enter parliament.
The turnout in the elections was 78.1%.
On September 20, Merz called the results of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections a disaster. He added that the party was ultimately squeezed and effectively crushed in the standoff between the SPD and AfD.
On September 16, BSW party founder Sahra Wagenknecht announced that Merz would leave office before Christmas, or December 25. Wagenknecht based her prediction on the results of the regional parliament elections in Saxony-Anhalt.
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The CDU with its Bavarian ally CSU had been Germany's big tent center right party since the end of WW2. The notion that the CDU would fail to be represented in a state parliament would have been deemed absurd even a year ago.
The likely result of this election will be a coalition of social democrats, communists and greens. This is also true for Berlin, where elections were held on the same day.
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The likely result of this election will be a coalition of social democrats, communists and greens. This is also true for Berlin, where elections were held on the same day.
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The Christian Democrats being led by a chairman and chancellor who has the leadership skills and political instincts of a Captain Queeg or a Prince Edmund Blackadder (the 1st series' dunce, not the later series' smart*ss) may be the final nail in the coffin of the erstwhile stable and successful post war and post reunification Germany.
[TWZ] Exercise Silver Wotan tests how quickly allied troops, ships, aircraft, and weapons can reach the strategically vital island of Gotland.
Swedish and German forces are conducting what appears to be the first joint rehearsal of their rapid-reinforcement plans for the Baltic island of Gotland. The exercise is another step in Sweden’s defense planning for an island whose position in the middle of the Baltic gives it an outsized strategic importance for controlling access, protecting the Baltic states, and maintaining NATO’s freedom of movement in a region where Russian military activity remains a persistent concern.
The exercise, Silver Wotan 2026, running between September 14-23, brings together Swedish and German forces across the land, maritime, and air domains. The scenario is built around a Swedish request for allied assistance, with German forces moving personnel and equipment across the Baltic before integrating with Swedish units already defending the island. The operation is testing the entire process of getting allied combat power to Gotland, protecting it during the movement to Visby, and rapidly incorporating it into the island’s existing defensive network.
It’ll be useful for showing what equipment should be purchased next, among other things. Good for them.
The strategic importance of Gotland has grown considerably following Sweden’s accession to NATO in March 2024, which was a direct response to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Located approximately halfway between mainland Sweden and the Baltic states, the island occupies a central position in the Baltic Sea, close to the maritime approaches to the Gulf of Finland and within reach of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Its location gives forces operating from Gotland a potentially significant position from which to conduct surveillance, air defense, and maritime operations, while also making the island an important part of the wider network connecting NATO’s northern and eastern members.
[ZeroHedge] On April 17, 2026, FHP booked her on eight felonies, including three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving death. She was held without bond, then sat in G Block for 13 days. "Being incarcerated, falsely incarcerated, in jail, in G Block, was the worst 13 days in my life," she said. "I was devastated, I was scared. I thought my life was over."
Fla DOT has revoked every permit for Flock units and other automated plate readers in state right-of-way and gave agencies 30 days to pull them. Miss the deadline, and state crews will tear the poles down.
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Who said Florida was such a hot-sh!t place to live? Horrible. But the story of that Tennessee woman accused of robbing a bank or something a thousand or so miles away is one for the ages.
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Full disclosure first: I work at Flock and build the product, so weigh this accordingly.
But before we pile on over this one, look at what the reporting shows. The 911 caller described a maroon Durango with a partial plate "458," and the paint transfer on the other car was maroon. Isaacs' Durango is black, had no damage, and her plate didn't match. According to her attorney, FHP troopers fixated on the first black Durango they found, which he called "confirmation bias, to the highest degree," and he still called Flock "a good tool." The woman later charged, who has pleaded not guilty, drove a maroon Durango with a plate starting 458. Isaacs isn't suing Flock. Her federal suit names the two troopers. A camera hit is a lead, not probable cause, and the fix is a policy one: no arrest without corroboration. Misuse is a legitimate concern elsewhere (the Lufkin, TX officer indicted for alleged database abuse, for one), and that's a fair debate. This case just isn't evidence of the tool failing. Happy to answer questions on how it works.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZeroHedge] On April 17, 2026, FHP booked her on eight felonies, including three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving death. She was held without bond, then sat in G Block for 13 days. "Being incarcerated, falsely incarcerated, in jail, in G Block, was the worst 13 days in my life," she said. "I was devastated, I was scared. I thought my life was over."
