Debisa Ephraim, 21, was given a legal 'get out of jail free card' and was released from the Weld County prison after he was found incompetent to stand trial in two of his criminal cases, according to the sheriff's office.
He was facing charges for attempted second-degree murder, assault, engaging in a riot, menacing and burglary.
[FoxNews] More than 100 demonstrators surround ICE vehicles as roofers refuse to come down from rooftop
A dramatic standoff in upstate New York between immigration agents, roofers and protesters ended with officials leaving the scene with slashed tires Tuesday.
The confrontation happened at a residential job site where one worker was detained and others refused to come down from a rooftop in Rochester’s Park Avenue area.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies arrived at the sanctuary city home to carry out a removal operation of the suspected illegal immigrants.
One roofer was taken into custody, while others stayed on the rooftop, WXXI News reported.
The incident escalated quickly when more than 100 protesters gathered at the scene, according to the NPR radio station.
Some were heard chanting "shame" and called the agents "gestapo," according to the outlet.
At one point, a CBP vehicle, the station reported, was allegedly forced to retreat on four slashed tires as the crowd clapped. A few blocks away from the scene, the SUV was towed, WHAM reported.
The four-hour standoff saw federal agents abandon their attempts to detain other workers.
Late last month, the Rochester City Council voted unanimously to codify the city’s sanctuary policy.
The Western New York Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies helped mediate the standoff, according to WXXI.
"The coalition is committed to standing alongside farmworkers, immigrants, and migrants to ensure dignity, fairness, and access to justice," coalition Executive Director Irene Sanchez said in a news release.
The incident came as the Trump administration has increased immigration enforcement across the country.
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] A domestic terrorist has confessed to trying to blow up a Nashville power plant with weapons of mass destruction in a neo-Nazi-inspired plot.
Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested on November 4, 2024 for plotting to destroy the substation using explosives attached to a drone, prosecutors announced last year.
He has now pleaded guilty to his crimes and could face life in prison for the planned attack, which prosecutors say could have cut power to thousands of homes and critical facilities like hospitals.
Authorities said Philippi was trying to further his white supremacist goals and believed that blowing up the power plant would usher in a 'New Age.'
On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice said he pleaded guilty to trying to blow up the plant, which he allegedly said would will go up 'like a f***in' Fourth of July firework.'
Prosecutors said he spoke with undercover agents about acquiring C-4 and building pipe bombs and even participated in a 'Nordic ritual' on the day of the planned attack, November 2, 2024.
The group later discussed making pipe bombs, with Philippi saying he purchased black powder to use in the explosives that he said was 'guaranteed to take everything down' and 'destroy evidence.'
After his arrest, a creepy picture, released by the DoJ, shows Philippi wearing a skull mask as he and a devil mask-wearing associate posed with pipe bombs he had hoped to use in the vicious attack.
If the plot had been carried out, Philippi could have shut down power for thousands of American homes 'and to critical facilities like hospitals,' Assistant Director Donald Holstead of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division explained.
His sentencing is scheduled for January 8, 2025.
Presumably that’s meant to be 2026.
Philippi faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.
'For months, Philippi planned what he had hoped would be a devastating attack on Nashville's energy infrastructure. He acquired what he believed to be explosives, surveilled his target, and equipped a drone to attack an electrical substation,' Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg stated.
'Motivated by a violent ideology, Philippi wanted "to do something big." Instead, the FBI disrupted his plans, and Philippi now awaits sentencing.
'The National Security Division and the FBI will continue to protect our Nation's critical infrastructure from would-be saboteurs.'
According to a criminal complaint, Philippi told an informant in June 2024 about his desire to commit a mass shooting at a YMCA facility in his hometown.
The following month, he told another person about the impact of attacking large interstate substations, saying it would 'shock the system' and cause other substations to malfunction.
Later, prosecutors say, Philippi told the informant and an undercover agent he had written a manifesto about his desire to attack 'high tax cities or industrial areas to let the k***s lose money,' using a derogatory word for Jewish people.
Philippi went on to tell the informants he was previously affiliated with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups: the Atomwaffen Division and the National Alliance.
The two groups have previously targeted racial minorities, the Jewish community, the LGBTQ+ community, the government, journalists and infrastructure.
During that conversation on August 7 of that year, prosecutors said Philippi once again brought up his plan of attacking nine power plants across the country to assist in accelerating the collapse of the American power grid.
By September, Philippi is said to have met with undercover agents to discuss his plans.
He said he had researched previous attacks on electric substations, and concluded that attacking it with guns would not be sufficient, the complaint said.
Instead, Philippi planned to use a drone with explosives attached to it, which he would fly to the substation.
Philippi also said he wanted to build the drone himself, adding the parts would 'cost around $150' and he could '3D print the [drone] body for pennies.'
He then asked the undercover agents to get the parts he needed, and showed them an open-source website with the locations of electric substations in the Nashville area.
'I definitely want to hit Nashville, like 100 percent, I want to get Nashville,' Philippi told the agents, per the complaint.
'I also know Louisville pretty God d*** well, since I lived there.
'I spent about five months scouting out every single place [power station] and even coming up with a game plan to hit as fast as I could,' he added.
'I had whole maps made, printed out on paper, to actually do that.'
Later that month, prosecutors said Philippi drove with undercover agents to an electric substation he had previously researched and targeted to conduct reconnaissance.
While driving, the undercover agents introduced him to a third undercover official who said he could provide explosives, and that agent agreed to provide 'poor man's C-4.'
The crew later discussed making pipe bombs, with Philippi saying he purchased black powder to use in the bombs.
During the reconnaissance mission, Philippi is said to have noted that certain components of the substation were flammable and attacking them 'guaranteed to take everything down' and 'destroy evidence.'
'Holy s***. This will go up like a f***in' Fourth of July firework,' the terrorist said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Washington teenager was arrested after investigators found a large cache of weapons and writings about 'mass shooting scenarios' in his home.
The alleged would-be killer, who has not been named, was obsessed with 'previous mass shooters' and 'idolized' them as he hatched a chilling plot to carry out his own murder spree, cops said.
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office said they descended on the boy's home in Tacoma, Washington after being notified on Friday afternoon that he was 'making threats to kill.'
Following a sweep of his home on Saturday morning, authorities said they seized a 'large quantity' of guns.
The boy also owned 'loaded magazines with school shooter writings on them' and clothes and writings that reinforce a 'typical mass shooting scenario', authorities said.
Nuts, drugs, or a psychopath?
Deputy Carly Cappetto with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office told ABC News that a total of 23 firearms were found in the home, many of which appeared to be homemade using 3D printed parts.
How sturdy would a printed gun be? Would they crumble quickly or stand up to several changes of magazines?
Footage of the weapons seized showed long lines of weapons laid out on tables, most of which appeared to be long guns and AR-style rifles.
The teenager is now facing charges including attempted threat to bomb or injure a school, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of fireworks.
Cappetto added that the boy's parents have not been charged at this time, which has become increasingly common in the wake of school shootings.
After cops were alerted to the teenager's alleged 'threats to kill', a review of his social media found a slew of chilling posts showing a 'fascination of recent school shootings/mass casualty attacks', court records showed.
He also posted pictures dating back to June of him posing with guns and made remarks referencing shootings including the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting and the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, cops said.
In an alleged similarity to the horror shooting of a Catholic school church in Minneapolis last month, the boy had written references to mass shootings and killers on magazines for his AR-style weapons.
The charges for unlawful possession of fireworks also came from an array of potential explosives recovered from the home, records said.
Officials said the 13-year-old was not currently enrolled in any school district, and he was last enrolled in the Franklin Pierce School District in 2021.
Since age nine?? Was he being homeschooled, or was something more interesting going on?
In a statement to ABC News, the school district said: 'We were notified by local law enforcement personnel that a young person in our community was arrested for allegedly planning a school shooting.
'We continue to work with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office to ensure that this individual is not a threat to our schools or our community as a whole.'
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#1
How sturdy would a printed gun be? Would they crumble quickly or stand up to several changes of magazines?
TW,
The jury is still out as to how ell these things will hold out under anything but the most benign conditions. They do work, but I suspect that in all but the most expert hands they're going to be more like the Liberator pistol of WWII - a couple shots and that's it.
#3
Uvalde was also a heavily invested alphabet person if not actually going from light to strong T, and member of the blamtifa paramilitary John Brown Club, if observations before the scrubbing were accurate.
I'm guessing the kid is the parents' vanity project. Perhaps the local schools weren't leftist enough?
[BBC] A video clip showing what appeared to be a "missile being launched" at an orb in Yemen was shown for the first time on Tuesday during a Congressional hearing on "unidentified anomalous phenomena". In the air, the sightings of these phenomena are commonly referred to as UFOs, or unidentified flying objects.
While being questioned, UAP journalist George Knapp said, "That's a hellfire missile smacking into that UFO, and bouncing right off - and it kept going."
The head of the Task Force hosting the hearing said its purpose was to deliver government transparency to the American public.
#1
Like a lot of near-infrared video, you can't really tell what's going on, everything that emits a lot of IR, missle and drone alike, is a blurred out point source, and you wind up having to take their word for it.
BTW, did you know that there are hellfire missiles without explosive warheads? And even the ones with explosive warheads rarely have proximity fuses?
Welcome to another exciting game of Stump the Chump!
[CNN] Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, on August 27 in Virginia, according to a copy of the marriage certificate obtained by CNN.
Reached by phone Tuesday morning, North declined to comment, apart from quoting a line famously delivered by Clark Gable’s character in "Gone with the Wind."
"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn," he told CNN.
#3
Oliver North and Fawn Hall—the duo once at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal—have quietly tied the knot, decades after their front-page notoriety. North, 81, and Hall, 66, wed in late August in Arlington, Virginia, reuniting after the death of North's wife, Betsy. She died last November after 56 years of marriage, the Washington Post reports. The story, first reported by SpyTalk, traces an unlikely second act for two of Washington's most recognizable figures from the Reagan era. According to SpyTalk, the pair reconnected at Betsy's funeral.
[Breitbart] On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) launched a Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday on hunting firearms and ammunition that will last for the remainder of the year.
DeSantis’ executive office issued a press release dated September 8, 2025, which said, “Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a brand-new Florida Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday, which will run from Monday, September 8, through Wednesday, December 31, 2025.”
The Florida Department of Revenue listed the hunting items covered by the Sales Tax Holiday:
Bow and crossbow accessories: arrows, bolts, quarrels, quivers, releases, sights or optics, wrist guards
Switches?
Switches? Do you mean railroad, light, or a bendy stick suitable for chastising recalcitrant boys?
A number of camping and fishing supplies are exempt from sales tax for the rest of the year as well. shovels, duct tape, plastic tarps?
DeSantis commented, “We’re committed to helping Floridians keep more of their hard-earned money, and the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday is one way to do that.”
He added, “Florida is a great state for outdoor adventure and exercising your Second Amendment rights, and we’re working to keep it that way.”
A Glock switch (sometimes called a button or a giggle switch) is a small device that can be attached to the rear of the slide of a Glock handgun, changing the semi-automatic pistol into a machine pistol capable of fully automatic fire.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump’s push to establish "America’s global AI dominance" could run into friction from an unlikely source: the "effective altruism" movement, a small but influential group that has a darker outlook on artificial intelligence.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this year titled, "Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence." This week he met with top technology industry leaders, including Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates and others, for meetings at the White House in which AI loomed large in the discussions. However, not all the industry’s leaders share the president’s vision for American AI dominance.
Jason Matheny, a former senior Biden official who currently serves as the CEO of the RAND Corporation, is a leader in the effective altruism movement, which, among other priorities, seeks to regulate the development of artificial intelligence with the goal of reducing its risks.
Effective altruism is a philanthropic social movement where proponents claim to be aiming to maximize the good they can do in the world and give to what they calculate are the most effective charities and interventions. Part of this movement includes powerful donors from across many sectors, including technology, where funds are poured into fighting against what the group sees as existential threats, including artificial intelligence.
Some in the movement have also pledged to give away a portion of their income, while others have argued about the morality of earning as much money as possible in order to give it away.
A former Defense Department official familiar with the industry’s leaders told Fox News Digital that since a 2017 speech at an effective altruism forum in which he laid out his vision, Matheny has "been very deliberate about inserting personnel who share his AI-doomerism worldview" into government and government contractor roles.
"Since then, he has made good on every single one of his calls to action to explicitly infiltrate think tanks, in-government decision makers, and trusted government contractors with this effective altruism, AI kind of doomsayer philosophy," the official continued.
A RAND Corporation spokesperson pushed back against this label and said that Matheny "believes a wide range of views and backgrounds are essential to analyzing and informing sound public policy. His interest is in encouraging talented young people to embrace public service."
The spokesperson added that AI being an "existential threat" is "not the lens" through which the company approaches AI, but said, "Our researchers are taking a broad look at the many ways AI is and will impact society – including both opportunities and threats."
In his 2017 speech, Matheny discussed his vision of influencing the government from the inside and outside to advance effective altruistic goals.
"The work that I've done at IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) has convinced me that there's a lot of low-hanging fruit within government positions that we should be picking as effective altruists. There are many different roles that effective altruists can have within government organizations," Matheny told an effective altruism forum in 2017, before going on to explain how even "fairly junior positions" can "wield incredible influence."
Good luck, your Excellency. Especially with getting your budget passed… and being permitted to serve out your term, of course.
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named defense minister Sebastien Lecornu as the new prime minister to replace Francois Bayrou and resolve a deepening political crisis as protests loom in the next days. "Next!"
Macron has told Lecornu "to consult the political forces represented in parliament with a view to adopting a budget for the nation and making the agreements essential for the decisions of the coming months," the Elysee announced.
Bayrou, who survived just nine months in office, submitted his resignation to Macron earlier on Tuesday after La Belle France’s parliament ousted the government.
On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging La Belle France into fresh uncertainty and leaving Macron with the task of finding the seventh premier of his mandate.
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[Regnum] Thousands of American automatic rifles purchased by Estonia from LMT Defense have been returned to the US factory to have the defects identified. This was reported on September 9 by the Estonian newspaper Äripäev. I'd hate to be in charge of accounts receivable for LMT Defense.
"The high-profile arms purchase turned into a disgrace. Thousands of precision weapons turned out to be useless," the publication states.
According to the newspaper, the 7.62 mm automatic rifles purchased from an American company six years ago for several million euros turned out to be defective. The main defect was a malfunction of the gas system, which is responsible for reloading after a shot has been fired. As a result, the entire batch, consisting of thousands of units, was sent to the manufacturer for warranty repairs.
The State Centre for Defence Investments (RKIK) also informed the publication that the Estonian side did not suffer any financial losses as a result.
In June 2023, The American Conservative magazine also wrote that the United States supplies Ukraine with a large amount of weapons, but it often turns out that they are in a state of disrepair, and their use is dangerous for the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves. Thus, the report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense spoke of cases when the bolts of M777 howitzers did not latch, which is a threat to the lives of artillerymen. There were also problems with Humvee armored vehicles. When sending 29 units to Ukraine, it was reported that 28 of them were in good condition, but then it turned out that 26 needed repairs.
In May 2019, the Estonian Defence Forces selected the MARS-L after two years of testing to replace their IMI Galil and Automatkarbin 4 rifles. The Estonian Defence League Started using the R-20 in early 2023. 19,000 short-stroke piston MARS-L rifles were ordered under the designation R-20 Rahe ("Hail" in Estonian).
[JustTheNews] The since-convicted FBI counterintelligence leader, who leaked information about a criminal investigation into a Chinese company linked to Hunter Biden’s business efforts, had previously played what he claimed in his defense to have had supervisory roles in a wide range of investigations.
Charles McGonigal, now known to have leaked sensitive information to China-linked targets of an FBI investigation he was helping oversee, played a role in a host of other FBI investigations, including a Chinese mole hunt, a defensive briefing given to Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... ’s 2016 presidential campaign, the baseless Trump-Russia collusion investigation, a failed prosecution of Huawei executives, Chelsea Manning ...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017.... 's leaks to WikiLeaks, the earth-shattering kaboom of TWA Flight 800, al-Qaeda terrorist attacks, and more.
McGonigal, who served as the section chief of the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI Headquarters for much of 2016, was promoted by since-fired FBI Director James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... to be the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division at its New York field office in October 2016.
McGonigal was sentenced in December 2023 for money laundering related to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and in February 2024 for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Albanian government official. The DOJ described Deripaska as "a Russian tycoon who acts as Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s agent."
Seth DuCharme, a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York during the first Trump administration who served as a defense lawyer for McGonigal, touted McGonigal’s lengthy résumé in sentencing memos in 2023 and 2024. "To weigh the seriousness of this offense against Mr. McGonigal’s personal background, including his extensive work as a national security professional, the Court must carefully consider the totality of his circumstances," DuCharme argued. He also said, "Mr. McGonigal’s service to the United States has been truly extraordinary, and often at grave personal risk."
Neither sentencing memo made any mention of McGonigal’s role in the hunt for a mole who was helping the Chinese nor of his connections to the flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Ironically, the Crossfire Hurricane hoax painted Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... as a Russian asset.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] As a tugboat captain pulled an unmanned U.S. military drone boat out of Naval Base Ventura County in California recently, there seemed little danger.
But then, the robot vessel suddenly turned itself on, zoomed forward and bashed into the vessel towing it, capsizing the tug and throwing the unfortunate skipper overboard.
Weeks later, in another exercise, a military robo-boat stalled and was smashed into from the side by another speeding drone vessel .
The fast-moving robot boat hit the stationary one's bow, flew into the air and over it, and landed with a splash.
Details of the damage are unknown, but for the Pentagon such incidents are an inauspicious start as it moves into a new era of robotic maritime warfare.
President Donald Trump wants a vast fleet of such drone vessels, including kamikaze speedboats, to be able to swarm off Taiwan by 2027, when China has said its military will be ready to invade the island.
The president's recently-passed 'Big Beautiful Bill' included almost $5 billion for 'maritime autonomous systems' and testing has been going on at venues including Ventura since April.
On Tuesday, President Trump blasted the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea for 'conspiring against the United States of America' as they assembled to watch a massive military parade in Beijing.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted the parade to mark 80 years since WWII and showed off his country's latest weapons, including a laser that could blind human pilots.
Fleets of unmanned boats, along with aerial drones and robot submarines, are key to America's so-called 'hellscape' strategy to defend Taiwan.
'I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,' Admiral Sam Paparo, Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said recently.
'So that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything.'
He said that would 'offer the world a short, sharp war so that it is a fait accompli before the world can get their act together.'
As the sea drone plan develops U.S. defense officials have been watching closely the use of unmanned surface attack vessels by Ukraine.
The Ukrainian ones look like speedboats, are loaded with explosive payloads, and can cost as little as $250,000.
According to Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute: 'In Taiwan, they're looking at using these as part of this "hellscape" concept...where they basically put a bunch of these little boats in the water when it looks like China might invade.
'And they're just going to go after Chinese amphibious ships on their way in, and it's a pretty easy shot for them, because the Chinese ships are coming at you, you just need to drive at them and explode.'
Two years ago the Pentagon started a $1 billion program called Replicator to produce thousands of robot boats and aerial drones.
But, in addition to the crashes, there have been other setbacks.
In May, Rear Admiral Kevin Smith, the top officer for 'unmanned and small combatants programs' was relieved after a complaint was made against him.
A Navy spokesman said: 'The Navy maintains the highest standards for leaders and holds them accountable when those standards are not met.'
There have also been reports of a paused software contract.
A key Navy document, known as Project 33, that drone boats are still considered the way forward.
'This navigation plan drives toward two strategic ends: readiness for the possibility of war with the People’s Republic of China by 2027 and enhancing the Navy’s long-term advantage,' it says.
'By 2027, we will integrate proven robotic and autonomous systems for routine use by the commanders who will employ them.'
#2
I have always thought of the old fashioned boat-, sub- or plane-launched torpedoes as "kamikaze robot boats". News writers are still getting carried away with "creativity". Next step will be to call bullets "kamikaze propellant launched projectiles" if you will. Author Murray Leinster wrote a SF short story in 1942, called "The Wabbler" about a slightly more exotic version of a torpedo/mine device.
#3
Research contracts have been out on this stuff for many decades...
Including Robot Subs being fueled, loaded and unloaded on robot boats.
Robot subs are the toughest to implement as one doesn't use radio communication deep in the ocean so they need lots of computers for a deep AI.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FDA has approved the first clinical trials for human use of genetically modified pig organs to address the severe organ shortage crisis.
The move comes after three patients in the US successfully received genetically engineered pig kidneys, known as an EGEN-2784 kidneys, in the past year.
Massachusetts-based biotech company eGenesis and Mass General Brigham in Boston will provide the same gene-edited pig kidney transplants to 30 people age 50 or older who are on dialysis and the organ transplant list.
Genetically modified kidneys for xenotransplantation (the process of grafting or transplanting organs or tissues between members of different species) are created by using gene-editing technology, such as CRISPR/Cas9, to alter the DNA of pig embryos before they are born.
This involves removing pig genes that can trigger a strong immune response or cause the organ to grow too large, inactivating pig viruses that could infect humans, and adding human genes to improve compatibility with the human immune system.
All US transplants of animal organs into living humans have received FDA approval on the grounds of 'compassionate use,' which is meant for cases in which the person's life is at risk and there are no comparable treatments.
But so far, there have not been clinical studies for widespread human use.
Bill Stewart, 54, from New Hampshire, is been the latest patient to receive a gene-edited pig kidney and he is faring well after his June 14 operation.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... a pig kidney has kept another New Hampshire man, Tim Andrews, off dialysis for a record seven months, and Richard Slayman, then aged 62, was the first ever patient to have survived after an organ transplant from an animal in 2024.
Slayman died two months later.
In January 2022, surgeons performed a heart transplant from a pig to human for the first time ever. The patient died after two months with the organ.
Until now, the longest that a gene-edited pig organ transplant was known to last was 130 days.
Protesters set fire to Nepal's parliament building as anti-corruption protests escalate
They are dancing and chanting around fires, as all the windows have been smashed inside the building
It comes after the country's prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, resigned
Young people took to the streets, fuelled by anger over corruption and "nepo kids" -
The director of the Civil Service Hospital tells the BBC 209 people were admitted during Tuesday's protest.
Of these, 186 have been discharged, Dipak Poudel adds.
The head of the National Trauma Centre, Dr Badri Rijal, says nearly 40 people with injuries were brought for treatment at the hospital.
In Nepal's capital Kathmandu, several locations have been targeted by anti-corruption protesters since Monday.
Fires have been started and hundreds of protesters have broken into the country's parliament building. Graffiti and anti-corruption messages are being spray painted onto the building's exterior and windows have been smashed - here's how our reporter on the ground describes the scene.
The Singha Durbar, a large complex in the city which houses Nepal's government offices, has similarly been stormed by crowds of protesters.
Located within this complex is the prime minister's office, which has also been targeted. As a reminder, prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, resigned earlier today following the large-scale protests.
Elsewhere, Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport is closed, according to the arrivals and departures board on its website.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017....
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FDA has approved the first clinical trials for human use of genetically modified pig organs to address the severe organ shortage crisis. 
