A teenage mom who was apparently living in the country illegally has given a sickening excuse for placing her newborn baby in a trash bag and tossing it in a dumpster.
Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, 18, a Guatemalan national, was taken into custody on Thursday for allegedly leaving the baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached in the dumpster outside of an apartment building in Houston, Texas on July 21.
She allegedly told police in the aftermath that she thought she had 'no choice' but to put the baby in the dumpster because she didn't want her boyfriend to break up with her, according to court documents obtained by Law & Crime.
The documents go on to reveal she gave birth 'on the ground behind the food truck where she works' and then taking the baby - referred to in court documents as John Doe or CW - and placing him in a dumpster.
'[Defendant] put the child, placenta and umbilical cord into a trash bag, took the trash bag to a dumpster and left the child in the dumpster tied inside the trash bag,' a magistrate judge wrote in a bond order, noting that the 'event' was caught on surveillance footage.
Eventually, a passerby heard the newborn crying from the dumpster and called 911.
Officers with the Houston Police Department and emergency personnel responded to the scene at around 1.15pm.
Cux-Ajtzalam is now charged with one count of felony abandoning a child without the intent to return.
Cux-Ajtzalam's bond was later raised to $200,000 on Monday, ABC 13 reports.
She is said to be a flight risk, having no ties to the country, according to Click 2 Houston.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement have also placed a hold on her release, and court documents noted she was previously arrested in 2023 by Customs and Border Patrol.
The court documents also note she has a mental disability.
[IsraelTimes] Former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted liquidation in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent says.
The expected interview with the 2024 Republican presidential nominee is part of the FBI’s standard protocol to speak with victims during the course of its criminal investigations. The FBI said on Friday that Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet or a fragment of one during the July 13 liquidation attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"We want to get his perspective on what he observed," says Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office. "It is a standard victim interview like we would do for any other victim of crime, under any other circumstance."
Trump says in a Fox News interview that he expects the FBI interview to take place Thursday.
Through more than 450 interviews, the FBI has fleshed out a portrait of the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, that reveals him to be a "highly intelligent" but reclusive 20-year-old whose primary social circle was his family and who maintained few friends and acquaintances throughout his life, Rojek says. Even in online gaming platforms that Crooks visited, his interactions with peers appeared to have been minimal, the FBI says.
His parents have been "extremely cooperative," with the investigation, Rojek says. They have said they had no advance knowledge of the shooting.
The FBI has not uncovered a motive as to why he chose to target Trump, but Sherlocks believe the shooting was the result of extensive planning, including the purchase under an alias in recent months of chemical precursors that Sherlocks believe were used to create the bombs found in his car and his home, and the deployment of a drone about 200 yards (180 meters) from the rally site in the hours before the event.
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Are we starting to see the Leadership of the assigned protectors looking to find reasons to blame the victim for their well documented screwup?
BTW: Hats off and salutes to those that used their own bodies to shield Trump from the shooter and the still strongly suspected possibility of a 2nd sniper.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Staff at a facility for abused women and children unknowingly sheltered a transgender woman for weeks before she stabbed a warden so viciously her 'internal organs were exposed', police say.
Michelle Silva Perez was offered a place at Shepherd's Gate in Greenville, South Carolina, less than four miles from a men's shelter also run by Miracle Hill Ministries.
The 36-year-old had been evicted the evening before for 'not following the guidelines of the facility' but returned on July 18 armed with a sword before nearly disemboweling a staffer called Kirby.
'We found out last night that this attacker, who had been a resident at Shepherd's Gate for a few weeks, was in fact a male,' Miracle Hill Ministries CEO Ryan T. Duerk said in a statement that night.
'Let me assure you that we did not know this or suspect it, and Shepherd's Gate followed all their procedures for intake appropriately.'
Police were called at 11am when witnesses reported seeing saw Perez push the woman to the ground before stabbing her in the torso.
The victim was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery where she remains in a stable condition.
Perez was arrested at the scene and has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime'.
She was denied bond during a hearing last week and is currently being held at Greenville County Jail where she has been booked in as a male.
Lieutenant Ryan Flood of the Greenville County Sheriff's Department said she is 'in isolation because she is still transitioning to being a woman'.
The case echoes that of Harvey Marcelin, 84, who identifying as a transgender lesbian when she murdered Susan Leyden, 68, in the women's section of a New York homeless shelter in 2022.
He had already been convicted of two previous homicides by the time he was admitted to the Sage Center at Stonewall House in Brooklyn where he was filmed stuffing Leyden's headless torso into a garbage bag and dumping it in a shopping cart.
Separate store surveillance footage recorded Marcelin sitting on a severed human leg in his electric wheelchair.
Last week it emerged that a transgender murderer who pleaded to be moved to a female prison because she was suffering 'chronic diarrhea' and stress had her request denied by a federal judge.
Michelle Renee Lamb, 83, is serving three consecutive life sentences for abducting two women, strangling one to death and leaving her naked body in a field in 1969.
She is currently being held at the Topeka Correctional Facility in Kansas, having moved from a men's prison in January 2023 when she had gender-affirming surgery.
'I also suffered frequent bouts of diarrhea. This was never a problem until I was put into this hateful environment,' Lamb - who previously identified as Thomas - said in the handwritten lawsuit.
[MAIL] William Calley, the army officer who was the only person to be convicted in relation to the mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, including children, in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre, has died at the age of 80.
The Washington Post on Monday first reported Calley's death, which happened in April, according to a death certificate the newspaper cited. The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death.
Neither paper reported a cause of death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned.
American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16, 1968, in Son My, a collection of hamlets between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings shocked the U.S. and galvanized the anti-war movement.
Initially charged in an Army court martial for 102 deaths, Calley was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for the killing of 22 civilians. He was behind bars only three days before then President Richard Nixon ordered him released under house arrest. After being discharged from the service, he lived out his life quietly in Georgia.
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The Viet Cong and the NVA committed similar atrocities against hostile civilians in the South. The Tet Offensive was when a tiny portion of these atrocities came to light. The dreary reality is that they were essential in order to rapidly force civilians who were aiding the enemy to switch sides. The ROKs in Vietnam used similar measures, and in so doing, rejiggered the balance of terror such that the civilians in their sector feared the Koreans more than they feared the VC. The result being that the VC learned to avoid ROK sectors because civilians there would not hide, feed or supply them, for fear of being tortured or killed by the Koreans. For whatever reason, Korean threats outweighed similar VC threats.
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#1 I know you weren't. He was a scapegoat. My point is such events may not have even occurred if better people were selected to fill those offices and those parents of those better people insisted that the pols win and not play f*ing games.
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#5 Armed conflict may not be the only measure of a Man, but it is revelatory. Consider Hamilton Fish, William Tiffany and Woodberry Caton to mention but a few of the genuinely privileged who worried about not qualifying to be Rough Riders, and made their way to the action once they did.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Sweden is going to fight to the last gender-neutral person.
Following Sweden's accession to NATO, the Swedish Armed Forces have updated their motto and now promise to fight for LGBT* values, the US and NATO to the last gender-neutral man.
The Swedish Armed Forces have published a new advertisement in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, in which the military emphasizes its role in promoting LGBT* values and loyalty to the US and NATO.
If the Swedish military's motto used to be "We will fight to the last man," it has now been changed to "We will fight to the last gender-neutral man."
That is, they replaced the word "man" with something in between "he" and "she," namely the word "hen."
Hen is a recently introduced Swedish gender-neutral personal pronoun used when the sex or gender identity is unknown or to refer to people who do not wish to be called he or she.
"We will fight to the end. "We are proud to defend Sweden, our allies and our right to identify ourselves as we wish," reads the large ad that graces the front page of Svenska Dagbladet today.
In recent years, Sweden has been devoting significant resources to an LGBT propaganda campaign among the military, alongside its traditional mission of defending the country, which was expanded this year to include defending not only Sweden itself, but also the interests of the United States and other NATO members.
Not everyone in Sweden was pleased with the military's updated motto. The Ministry of Defence responded immediately.
"The Armed Forces have long worked to promote diversity and inclusion. The new campaign is another step in showing how important it is to remind everyone of their equal value. We believe that diversity strengthens our defence and makes us better prepared to face future challenges," says Johan Landeström, Marketing Director of the Swedish Armed Forces.
But there is still one mystery that remains unanswered. The thing is that in "Vi kommer kämpa till siste hen" (We will fight until the last something) the adjective "siste" (last) must precede the masculine pronoun. It turns out that the Swedes will fight until the last gender-neutral male creature.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A massive swarm of dragonflies descended on a Rhode Island beach forcing terrified beachgoers to take cover as their day in the sun became something reminiscent of biblical plague.
Beachgoers were heard screaming as a cloud of insects swarmed Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly on Saturday afternoon.
Video shows how a swarm of dragonflies buzzed across the beach and past the dozens of scared visitors, whipping over towels, through umbrellas and past beachgoers' bodies.
Children were heard screaming as they swatted away at the bugs with shovels and sand toes. Some sunbathers packed up their things and left, while others hunkered down and took shelter in their car.
Witnesses recalled how other visitors seemingly embraced the chaotic 'invasion'. They stood and watched as the bugs flew past, with some even 'trying to catch them'.
Dombrowski, who claims the massive swarm only lasted about five minutes, added: 'I thought it was beautiful. I was very lucky to experience it.'
Dragonfly swarms tend to occur in the summer months when the insects are breeding or after the smaller insects they feed on are kicked into the air by human or weather disturbances, WBUR reported.
Individual swarms can include billions of dragonflies and have, in some instances, been so large that they are detected by radar systems.
Dragonflies feed on mosquitos and various flies, but can also prey on small mammals like hummingbirds. Not likely
Although a massive swarm can appear scary, experts say dragonflies pose no threat to humans.
"Many in the arena of media criticism suggest that open-sourcing of what should remain empirical social science corrodes the integrity of information."
[Breitbart] A report has found that the United States military is "not prepared" to fight in a major war, as "major powers" — such as Russia and China — have become "top threats" to the U.S., with China "outpacing" the U.S.
The report, which the Commission on the National Defense Strategy released in July, reveals that while the U.S. is currently facing some of "the most serious and most challenging" threats since 1945, several problems are preventing the U.S. military from being able to address threats from China or Russia.
Among the problems preventing the U.S. military from addressing threats from China and Russia is reportedly the Department of Defense’s (DOD) "business practices, byzantine research," and its "reliance on decades-old military hardware," which reflects "an era of uncontested military dominance." The report adds that "such methods" are "not suited to today’s strategic environment."
#2
What the US military is prepared for is a lot of 'hut-hut' for the grunts, while the guys with stars figure out how to order gold nicknacks from the defense contractors.
It's the business they're in, and they like it.
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... ‘Not Prepared' for War
Maybe not, but they'll dominate the next Pride Parade.
[Red State] Over 50 fighters from the Russian-controlled Wagner Group PMC may have been killed in an engagement with Tuareg separatists in the West African country of Mali. This defeat marks the single largest loss of life for Wagner Group guns-for-hire since any day it spent in Ukraine. While this was not the first time a Wagner Group expedition has been soundly spanked — see Three Hundred Dead and Wounded Russians Are a Reminder of US Airpower in Syria and The Mystery of the Dead Russian Mercenaries in Syria Deepens — it is the first time Wagner Group has been roughed up in Africa.
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"The Wagner PMC justified their defeat by a sandstorm that caught the Russians after the cleansing operation near Tin Zaouatine. The rebels ambushed the Russians there and launched a counterattack, taking advantage of the weather conditions." - cite
we know from the 2018 situation that a lot of the enlisted troops are anti regime; back then the anti regime people were able to get a few generals to defect but didn't get much farther than that
In the months before now, Maduro promoted many officers hoping to get loyalty. I saw one estimate that there are now about 1 General or Admiral and 30 other officers for every 60 enlisted soldiers.
Every situation has potential moments that can change the balance.
Also some estimate that Iran and Cuba have a few hundred soldiers on site to keep the Venezuelan military in line but this is just a rumor.
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Avanza por la Av. Francisco de Miranda, en Caracas, caravana de motorizados de Petare en protesta contra el fraude de Maduro. pic.twitter.com/BMLVmMC9Sp
Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result.
Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains surrounding the city, towards the presidential palace.
Protests erupted in the Venezuelan capital the day after President Nicolás Maduro claimed he had won.
The opposition has disputed Mr Maduro's declaration of victory as fraudulent, saying its candidate Edmundo González won convincingly with 73.2% of the vote.
Opinion polls ahead of the election suggested a clear victory for the challenger.
Opposition parties had united behind Mr González in an attempt to unseat President Maduro after 11 years in power, amid widespread discontent over the country's economic crisis.
A number of Western and Latin American countries, as well as international bodies including the UN, have called on the Venezuelan authorities to release voting records from individual polling stations.
Argentina is one country which has refused to recognise President Maduro's election victory, and in response Venezuela recalled diplomats from Buenos Aires.
Diplomats from six other Latin American countries - Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay - have also been withdrawn for what Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil described on social media as "interventionist actions and statements".
Venezuela's government also announced a temporary suspension of commercial air flights to and from Venezuela with Panama and the Dominican Republic starting from 20:00 local time on Wednesday.
A heavy military and police presence, including water cannons, was on the streets of Caracas with the aim of trying to disperse protesters and prevent them from approaching the presidential palace.
Crowds of people chanted “Freedom, freedom!” and called for the government to fall.
Footage showed tyres burning on highways and large numbers of people on the streets, with police on motorbikes firing tear gas.
In some areas, posters of President Maduro were ripped down and burned while tyres, cars and rubbish have also been set alight.
Armed police, military and left-wing paramilitaries who are sympathetic to the government clashed with protesters and blocked off many roads around the city centre.
[FoxNews] Infamous NK dictator reportedly weighs about 308 pounds, despite standing at only 5'8"
Pray for sepsis, as our Dr. Steve used to say.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has regained weight and appears to have obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes, and his officials are looking for new medicines abroad to treat them, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday.
The 40-year-old Kim, known for heavy drinking and smoking, comes from a family with a history of heart problems. Both his father and grandfather, who ruled North Korea before his 2011 inheritance of power, died of heart issues.
Some observers said Kim, who is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and previously weighed 308 pounds, appeared to have lost a large amount of weight in 2021, likely from changing his diet. But recent state media footage show he has regained the weight.
On Monday, the National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s main spy agency, told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that Kim is estimated to weigh about 308 pounds again and belongs to a high-risk group for heart disease, according to Lee Seong Kweun, one of the lawmakers.
Lee said the NIS told lawmakers that Kim has shown symptoms of high blood pressure and diabetes since his early 30s. Another lawmaker, Park Sunwon, said the NIS believes Kim’s obesity is linked to his drinking, smoking and stress.
[FoxNews] The United States will announce a major revamp of its military structure in Asia, unveiling a new command in Tokyo as it deepens ties with Japan in response to China’s increased ambition in the region.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are scheduled to hold talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara on Sunday, according to a report from Reuters, where Austin will announce a shift of U.S. forces in Japan.
"Secretary Austin plans to announce that the United States intends to reconstitute U.S. Forces Japan as a Joint Force Headquarters, reporting to the commander of U.S. INDOPACOM," a U.S. official told Reuters.
Japan has been looking to establish a new joint headquarters in the country to better coordinate with U.S. forces as it sees growing threats in the region, the report notes, with Japan citing increased missile tests by North Korea and China’s growing military ambitions.
Japan had hoped the new command would be headed by a four-star general, but the U.S. official told Reuters that a three-star general will take control of the new organization.
Talks between the U.S. and Japan Sunday are expected to cover "extended deterrence," the U.S. official said, the term the U.S. uses to describe how it deploys nuclear forces to deter attacks on its allies. Starts with Strategic Bombers.
Japan already hosts a U.S. military base with 54,000 American troops, hundreds of aircraft, and a forward-deployed carrier strike group, the report notes, but the new command will allow for greater cooperation between the two countries. Japan recently committed to double defense spending from 1% of GDP to 2% as it seeks greater deterrence over China and North Korea.
The move also comes as President Biden has looked to increase cooperation between Japan and South Korea, another key U.S. ally in the region. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the early 20th century. Add Taiwan.
The three nations on Sunday signed an agreement to "institutionalize" trilateral cooperation, according to the report, which will include sharing of real-time North Korean missile information and increased joint-military exercises.
"This memorandum, strengthens the cooperation between Japan, the United States and South Korea, making our partnership unshakable no matter how the international situation changes," Kihara told reporters after the agreement was signed.
The White House did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment. The Pentagon declined to comment.
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[Regnum] The US national debt has exceeded $35 trillion for the first time in history. The relevant data was published on July 29 by the country's Treasury Department.
The US national debt exceeded the $34 trillion mark in January.
According to the forecast of the US Congressional Budget Office, the country's national debt in 2034 will exceed $50 trillion, which will amount to more than 122% of the country's GDP.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 8, the head of the US Federal Reserve System, Jerome Powell, said that the country's national debt had reached a critical point of $35 trillion, which makes it virtually impossible to continue borrowing. The US authorities need to take some action, he said.
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Finance and Banking at RANEPA Yuri Tverdokhleb told Regnum on July 1 that the world has reached a stalemate with the US national debt. The expert specified that the rule of US President Joe Biden has led to the national debt reaching an unprecedented level and continues to grow against the backdrop of a recession and deterioration of all other macroeconomic indicators.
During a meeting of the heads of central banks and finance ministries of the G20 countries in Brazil, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Finance Ivan Chebeskov spoke about the worsening situation with the growing public debt in the world, as well as the need to avoid the approaching systemic debt crisis. Of particular concern is the lack of attention from the state to the very high and continuing to increase level of debt in developed countries, Chebeskov emphasized.
[Barrons] An explosion and subsequent fire Monday at the main plant of German chemical giant BASF left 18 people slightly injured including seven firefighters, police said.
The explosion occurred around at the massive Ludwigshafen plant, BASF said, setting off a fire that was extinguished by an hour later.
The company said its injured employees had received care on site.
Images showed a cloud of smoke emanating from the Ludwigshafen plant, the largest chemicals complex in the world.
Residents were initially told to keep doors and windows shut, but authorities in the western German city later gave the all-clear.
Environmental monitoring vehicles had detected "slightly elevated levels of hydrocarbons" in the immediate area, BASF said. I always worry about that'll happen once Islam takes over Europe and Muslim rulers have European dhimmi engineers at their disposal. But, maybe I shouldn't.
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[Regnum] The United States of America has withdrawn its B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania near the border with Ukraine, the US Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.
"The bombers have completed the final deployment of the European Bomber Task Force," the statement said.
It is noted that American bombers carried out operations together with aircraft from the air forces of Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Romania.
U.S. Air Force aircraft have returned to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 21, Russian MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters prevented a pair of US Air Force B-52H strategic bombers from violating the Russian Federation's state border.
The Russian Defense Ministry clarified that Russian airspace control systems over the Barents Sea detected a group of air targets approaching the Russian state border. In connection with this, MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters from the air defense forces on duty were scrambled to identify the air target.
On June 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported an increase in the intensity of flights of American strategic drones over the Black Sea.
The United States could have withdrawn B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Romanian air base Mihail Kogalniceanu to send them to Ukraine. This was stated by military expert, associate professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Oleg Glazunov in an interview with Lenta.ru.
He also suggested that the US could reinforce Poland or the Baltics with bombers. According to him, the Americans are constantly rotating and can send their planes "even to the Middle East."
“If they moved it to Ukraine, then it’s also interesting where – they are probably preparing some kind of attack,” Glazunov said.
Russian intelligence and special services monitor such movements, and the analysis of the information should take place at the level of the General Staff, he added.
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I sure hope somebody in Kamala's brain trust (she sure has none of her own) doesn't decide that "firmness" against Russia is that's needed to win the elections. That is, I hope they do have some brains.
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He also suggested that the US could reinforce Poland or the Baltics with bombers. According to him, the Americans are constantly rotating and can send their planes "even to the Middle East."
“If they moved it to Ukraine, then it’s also interesting where – they are probably preparing some kind of attack,” Glazunov said.
No great military mind here^
Putting bombers on the front line is just plain stupid when the first shots of Desert Storm were from 4 B-52s that flew out of Louisiana.
[FoxNews] After narrowly losing Arizona's gubernatorial election in 2022, Trump surrogate Kari Lake is the clear front-runner in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary
The key southwestern general election battleground state of Arizona holds primaries on Tuesday, which will set the stage for likely competitive autumn showdowns that may determine control of the House and Senate.
The contest grabbing the most national attention is the race to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat-turned-independent who is not seeking a second six-year term in the Senate.
Kari Lake, the front-runner for the Republican Senate nomination, on the eve of the primary teamed up with former President Trump for a tele-rally. Lake is a top surrogate for the former president as he seeks to regain the White House and gave an address two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Lake, the former TV anchor and major MAGA supporter who never acknowledged her narrow 2022 election defeat for governor, enjoys Trump's backing as she runs for the Senate in a race that is one of a handful that may determine if the GOP wins back the chamber's majority.
Besides enjoying the Republican presidential nominee's support, Lake also has a major fundraising advantage over her two GOP primary rivals: Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and neuroscientist Elizabeth Reye.
Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, but Republicans are looking at a favorable Senate map with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs. Three of those seats are in red states Trump easily carried in 2020: West Virginia, Montana and Ohio.
Five other seats are in key swing states narrowly carried by President Biden in 2020: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In the race for the House, the GOP holds a fragile majority in the chamber. And in Arizona, Democrats are aiming to unseat two vulnerable Republican incumbents in districts Biden carried four years ago.
In the 1st Congressional District, which includes parts of northeast Phoenix and surrounding suburbs, seven-term GOP incumbent Rep. David Schweikert is the front-runner in a field of primary rivals that includes businessman Robert Backie and former FBI agent and corporate investigator Kim George.
There's a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party's nomination.
In the southeastern part of the state, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani is running for a second term in a district that includes much of suburban Tucson.
He's facing off on Tuesday in a GOP primary that includes challenger Kathleen Winn, who came in third in the 2022 nomination race.
If Ciscomani wins the primary as expected, he'll face off in November against Democrat Kisten Engel in a rematch of their extremely close 2022 election showdown.
Meanwhile, in the red-leaning 8th Congressional District, Trump has endorsed both major candidates in the Republican primary, Blake Masters and Abe Hamadeh, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate and state attorney general in 2022.
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[Regnum] The United States of America conducted a test launch of a hypersonic weapon, a military official told reporters.
"The U.S. Army and Navy recently tested a conventional hypersonic system on the space station at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida," he said.
The official said the test was an important step in developing operational hypersonic technology. The test provided the United States with important data for the country's further progress in hypersonic weapons, he added.
As reported by Regnum, according to Bloomberg, the US military is unlikely to receive the first batch of eight new hypersonic missiles before 2025. After unsuccessful tests in the past, the US, according to assurances from the US military, is "on track to implement the necessary corrective actions." If a problem is discovered during flight tests, the delivery of missiles and the commissioning of the first operational system may be further delayed. Hypersonic weapons are not yet in service with the US.
At the same time, Russia, a leader in the development of hypersonic weapons, has created many models of such missiles in recent years, including the air-based Kinzhal and the sea-based Zircon.
In his address to the Federal Assembly in 2018, President Vladimir Putin announced for the first time that Russia had created the Avangard hypersonic gliding cruise missile and other new weapons.
In 2021, the first regiment of "Avangards" took up combat duty.
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.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
