[Breitbart] A baby was discovered alive in a dumpster at an apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, according to the Austin Police Department (APD).
The baby girl was found in a dumpster in the 8600 block of North Lamar Boulevard, according to the department’s Watch Command, KVUE reported. The police department was first notified about the child at around 1:35 p.m.
Perry Lewis, a resident of the apartment, said he was getting ready to leave home when his neighbor told him that he heard crying from the dumpster.
“He said it might be a baby,” Lewis said. “So we ran over there, and it took us a couple of seconds.”
Lewis said they ran over to the dumpster, where they saw a baby girl covered in trash and dirt. Lewis said the baby was “covered in blood” and her “umbilical cord [was] still attached.”
Another resident, Lerrssy Frausto, said she grabbed the infant and began chest compressions while they called first responders.
“The way that she was found in the trash can – upside down, with her head facing the trash can – hurt me. Me trying to open up her eye – I couldn’t open up her eye, but it broke me,” Frausto said. “Her other eye just started rolling to the back of her head, and I’m just like, ‘Please stay with me.'”
APD Officer Aaron Townsend said first responders transported the baby girl to Dell Children’s Medical Center. Authorities said the baby girl is doing well but is still in the hospital for evaluation, according to the report. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said the little girl is healthy and will likely be discharged soon.
Townsend said detectives are working to track down the mother and whoever else may be responsible for abandoning the child.
Frausto told the outlet her biggest hope is that the baby ends up with “someone that loves her, that truly loves her, truly wants to be a parent to her.”
Frausto named the baby “Miracle Angel.”
“She’s a miracle from God and an angel from the skies,” Frausto said. “She was crying in the trash can. That’s how they heard her cry, so she saved herself before anybody could save her.”
Police said they do not know how long the baby was in the dumpster before she was found.
Texas has a Safe Haven law that allows for the legal surrender of an unharmed newborn up to 60 days after birth to hospitals, fire stations, EMS providers, and baby boxes, according to the organization Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
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Texas has a Safe Haven law that allows for the legal surrender of an unharmed newborn up to 60 days after birth to hospitals, fire stations, EMS providers, and baby boxes, according to the organization Safe Haven Baby Boxes
my guess - an illegal, who may or may not have been exploited resulting in the child.
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Sinclair and Nexstar are affiliates carrying ~39% of ABC's crap. Sinclair already said they won't carry Kimmel without a full apology - He's a money-losing pit
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People are more enthusiastic when McDonalds brings back the McRib for the 40th year in a row. Nobody was watching Kimmel before he was taken off. The Libs will support him for a week and then lose interest. Sinclair can improve performance in the demo by broadcasting a nostalgic test pattern.
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A test pattern would also be better content.
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My concern is some idiot will use a different Test pattern and make this P.O.S. a new Left Icon for gun control.
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Kimmel was only drawing 129,000 viewers before the shooting, far less than his already-weak competitors. It is remarkable that he stayed on the air long enough to make his rude comments about Kirk. It will be interesting to see if his return outdraws the news programming Sinclair is pre-empting him with in their markets.
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Kimmel can stay on the air for 30 more years. I'll never watch that cry-baby turd (remember when he cried over a shot lion in Africa?). Same for that vaccine lover Colbert. Those two dooooshies are irrelevant to me.
A super typhoon is the equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.
[BBC] A super typhoon that caused thousands to be evacuated in the Philippines has "slightly" weakened, according to the country's weather bureau.
Super typhoon Ragasa made landfall over Panuitan Island, one of the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines' northern Cagayan province, at 15:00 local time (08:00 GMT) Monday. Ragasa, packing 285km/h (177mph) wind gusts, is expected to barrel west towards southern China.
Despite its small change in intensity, it still brings a "high risk of life-threatening storm surge", with peak heights exceeding 3m (10ft), the Philippine weather bureau said.
Authorities have warned of widespread flooding and landslides and damage to homes and infrastructure.
Shrimp can absorb cesium-137 from their environment if it is contaminated, but may also pick up the substance if they are washed in contaminated water.
There are no nuclear power plants in Indonesia, but the Southern Shrimp Alliance, a Florida-based organization of shrimp sellers, previously suggested the shellfish might have picked up contamination released by Fukushima in 2011, which is expected to remain radioactive for at least 30 years.
[GetPocket - TheWarZone] This Man Owns The World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets: A conversation with the owner of Air USA about probably the most incredible private aircraft purchase of all time and the future of his adversary business.
For the last 30+ years, Don Kirlin has been flying for the airlines, working on real estate deals, setting up the world's biggest skydiving meets, and building a private air force the likes of which even he has a hard time believing is possible. In March 2020, The War Zone was among the first to report that his company would be purchasing multiple squadrons worth of surplus Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornets to be used in the contractor adversary air support role here in the United States. In that role, they would primarily fly against U.S. military fighter pilots, replicating aerial threats from potential enemy nations. So basically, they are bad guys for hire, but strictly for training and development work.
Now, not only do we have all the details on that purchase, which is even more impressive than it initially seemed, but we talked at length with the entrepreneur owner of Air USA, located in Quincy, Illinois, about his company’s past and what is turning into a remarkable, if not downright historic, future.
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He doesn't have them yet. The Hornets are to be retired as the Aussies get their F-35's, which will happen in waves. He does have about a dozen others in hand, including 4 Fulcrums. Which are maintenance hogs.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushed hard to improve ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) capabilities on the front lines, and one of those planned purchases involved about 30 King Air 350/ C-12 aircraft for the Army. These “MC-12s” have proven to be very useful as a component of the Army’s Task Force ODIN, which has combined the respective advantages of UAVs and manned aircraft to improve aerial surveillance and response over Iraq.
Kim Jong Un told North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly he has fond memories of Donald Trump and is open to future U.S. talks—provided he retains his nuclear arsenal. - AFP. pic.twitter.com/kqeoxpQ6SW
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Nice try, you had your chance to make peace during Trump's first term. Besides, our troops in South Korea are strategically positioned and China fears them greatly. A quick paradrop into Beijing and presto.
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Seems unlikely that NK will be allowed to talk to the US by the CCP.
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The real objective in Trumps meeting with Kim was to split NK away from China. That must still be desirable. And never underestimate a commies capacity for treachery.
[TWZ] China has simultaneously debuted its J-35 stealth fighter, J-15T fighter and KJ-600 radar plane operating from its first catapult-equipped carrier.
Lots of colour photos.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has demonstrated its ability to launch and recover aircraft from its first catapult-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian. Official imagery released by the PLAN today confirms that the new J-35 naval stealth fighters and KJ-600 airborne early warning and control aircraft are carrying out carrier trials, something that had not been seen until now. Meanwhile, we’ve also got a much better view of the J-15T single-seat carrier-based fighter launching and recovering aboard Fujian, having previously seen it in position for a catapult launch with its afterburners engaged. The sudden appearance of video of all three aircraft operating from the ship for the first time is something of a stunning revelation, one of many that has come this year from China’s air power portfolio.
The undated videos and photos showing flight operations aboard Fujian reveal examples of all three aircraft being prepared for catapult launch, taking off, and then making arrested recoveries. The aircraft are also shown in flight, including in formation with a J-15D series electronic warfare aircraft, and Fujian is shown from above, with the J-35, KJ-600, and J-15T arranged on its deck.
Fujian has been conducting sea trials since May 2024, and there have been growing signs that fixed-wing flight operations were underway. In August of this year, official imagery showed J-15s on the deck of the carrier and flying at low level above it. At that stage, however, there were no clear indications that the J-15 had actually taken off from and/or landed on Fujian.
An earlier video is shown below of J-15 activity aboard Fujian, but without presenting any carrier takeoffs or recoveries:
While we don’t know how long these fixed-wing aircraft types have now been conducting flight operations aboard the carrier, revealing all three in action at once is something of a coup.
Of the three types, the J-15 family is a Chinese development of the Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker, with the T version being specifically developed for catapult launch. Earlier variants of the J-15, as well as the Su-33, were designed for use on short takeoff but assisted recovery (STOBAR) carriers with ‘ski jumps’ rather than catapults, like the PLAN’s first two flattops. The J-15T had previously been seen operating from these two earlier vessels, in which case it relies on the STOBAR mode. However, the addition of a catapult launch bar (and less visible additional structural modifications) means the T-model is very much optimized for Fujian, from which it will be able to launch at higher operating weights than in STOBAR mode.
The J-35 is the PLAN’s next-generation carrier fighter, a stealthy design that was intended to conduct catapult takeoff but assisted recovery (CATOBAR) operations from the outset. Developed from the land-based FC-31, there are also signs that the J-35, like the J-15T, might also eventually embark on the Liaoning and Shandong. Until now, however, it hadn’t been seen taking part in any kind of carrier operations, other than in the form of mock-ups.
Whatever trials and tribulations the PLAN might have faced with its new homegrown carrier, its advanced electromagnetic catapults, and its new-look air wing, the Fujian project is indicative of a broader modernization drive within the service.
As well as increasingly advanced and powerful surface combatants and submarines, China is understood to be already working on its next CATOBAR carrier. Generally referred to as the Type 004, this may also be nuclear-powered.
The expanding PLAN carrier force also reflects growing strategic ambitions for the PLAN, as it pivots toward being able to take part in higher-end regional missions, such as intervention against Taiwan, as well as longer-range blue water operations in the Pacific and beyond.
For China, therefore, Fujian is much more than just a point of national and naval pride. With the carrier now expected to enter operational service by the end of this year, we will surely learn more about this landmark design for the PLAN, and the various aircraft that will serve aboard it.
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How's their bluewater fire-fighting capabilities?
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Launching aircraft off a carrier is the easy part. Landing them back on it, particularly in bad weather, is where the tale is told.
If you can't use the airplane more than once, it's just a big missile.
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China seems bent on building a naval mirror image of US seapower. Complete with CATOBAR aircraft carriers, AEGIS destroyers and amphibious assault carriers.
Xi must be impressed by the US Navy.
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#1 We await Chinese fire drills at sea.
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As it's been mentioned before - what the Chinese just demonstrated translates to, "Welcome to the 1950s."
It's taken us just shy of 100 years to run these things without killing numbers of people in the process, and then do it in coordination with other ships and aircraft. We've not seen CVBG-level underway replenishment yet either, which they have to have in order to move into the far ocean and stay there.
Keep an eye on them? Yes. Worry about them? A while yet.
[TheRegister] Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Europe, the source of the problem is a company called Collins Aerospace that makes a product called ARINC cMUSE that it describes as a “next-generation common-use passenger processing system solution that allows multiple airlines to share check-in desks and boarding gate positions at an airport rather than having their own dedicated infrastructure.”
Maybe it does that when it’s working, but according to Brussels Airport, Collins Aerospace experienced “a cyberattack” that means passengers should expect delays and flight cancellations.
Collins Aviation told Reuters that it suffered a "cyber-related disruption" that means electronic customer check-in and baggage drop isn’t working, but that manual check-in operations remain possible.
[BBC] The EU's cyber security agency says criminals are using ransomware to cause chaos in airports around the world.
Several of Europe's busiest airports have spent the past few days trying to restore normal operations, after a cyber-attack on Friday disrupted their automatic check-in and boarding software.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, told the BBC on Monday that the malicious software was used to scramble automatic check-in systems.
"The type of ransomware has been identified. Law enforcement is involved to investigate," the agency said in a statement to news agency Reuters.
It's not known who is behind the attack, but criminal gangs often use ransomware to seriously disrupt their victims' systems and demand a ransom in bitcoin to reverse the damage.
The BBC has seen internal crisis communications from staff inside Heathrow Airport which urges airlines to continue to use manual workarounds to board and check in passengers as the recovery is ongoing.
Heathrow said on Sunday it was still working to resolve the issue, and apologised to customers who had faced delayed travel.
It stressed "the vast majority of flights have continued to operate" and urged passengers to check their flight status before travelling to the airport.
The BBC understands about half of the airlines flying from Heathrow were back online in some form by Sunday - including British Airways, which has been using a back-up system since Saturday.
CONTINUED DISRUPTION
The attack against US software maker Collins Aerospace was discovered on Friday night and resulted in disruption across several airports on Saturday.
While this had eased significantly in Berlin and London Heathrow by Sunday, delays and flight cancellations remained.
Brussels Airport, also affected, said the "service provider is actively working on the issue" but it was still "unclear" when the issue would be resolved.
They have asked airlines to cancel nearly 140 of their 276 scheduled outbound flights for Monday, according to the AP news agency.
Meanwhile, a Berlin Airport spokesperson told the BBC some airlines were still boarding passengers manually and it had no indication on how long the electronic outage would last.
It is understood that hackers behind the attack targeted a popular checking software called Muse.
Collins Aerospace has not explained what happened or told the public how long things will take to be resolved. The company is still referring to it as a 'cyber incident'.
In a statement on Monday morning, the software provider said it was in the final stages of completing necessary software updates.
The internal memo sent to Heathrow staff, seen by the BBC, says more than a thousand computers may have been "corrupted" and most of the work to bring them back online is having to be done in person and not remotely.
The note also says that Collins rebuilt its systems and relaunched them only to realise the hackers were still inside the system.
In separate advice to airlines, Collins told staff not to turn off computers or log out of the Muse software if they were logged in.
The company declined to comment on the memo and its contents.
Ransomware attacks are a prolific problem for organisations around the country, with organised cyber crime gangs earning hundreds of millions of dollars from ransoms every year.
In April, UK retailer Marks and Spencer was hit by ransomware that cost it at least £400m to recover from and months of disruption. The company has declined to say if it paid attackers a ransom.
A spokesperson for the UK's National Cyber Security Centre said on Saturday it was working with Collins Aerospace, affected UK airports, the Department for Transport and law enforcement to fully understand the impact of the incident.
Cyberattacks in the aviation sector have increased by 600% over the past year, according to a recent report by French aerospace company Thales.
[BBC] Panic, confusion and then a hasty White House climbdown - it was a weekend of whiplash for hundreds of thousands of Indians on H-1B visas.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump stunned the tech world by announcing an up to 50-fold hike in the cost of skilled worker permits - to $100,000. Chaos followed: Silicon Valley firms urged staff not to travel outside the country, overseas workers scrambled for flights, and immigration lawyers worked overtime to decode the order.
By Saturday, the White House sought to calm the storm, clarifying that the fee applied only to new applicants and was a one-off. Yet, the long-standing H-1B programme - criticised for undercutting American workers but praised for attracting global talent - still faces an uncertain future.
Even with the tweak, the policy effectively shutters the H-1B pipeline that, for three decades, powered the American dream for millions of Indians and, more importantly, supplied the lifeblood of talent to US industries.
That pipeline reshaped both countries. For India, the H-1B became a vehicle of aspiration: small-town coders turned dollar earners, families vaulted into the middle class, and entire industries - from airlines to real estate - catered to a new class of globe-trotting Indians.
For the US, it meant an infusion of talent that filled labs, classrooms, hospitals and start-ups. Today, Indian-origin executives run Google, Microsoft and IBM, and Indian doctors make up nearly 6% of the US physician workforce.
Indians dominate the H-1B programme, making up more than 70% of the recipients in recent years. (China was the second-largest source, making up about 12% of beneficiaries.)
In tech, their presence is even starker: a Freedom of Information Act request in 2015 showed over 80% of "computer" jobs went to Indian nationals - a share industry insiders say hasn't shifted much.
The medical sector underlines the stakes. In 2023, more than 8,200 H-1Bs were approved to work in general medicine and surgical hospitals.
India is the largest single source of international medical graduates (who are typically in US on H-1B visas) and make up about 22% of all international doctors. With international doctors forming up to a quarter of US physicians, Indian H-1B holders likely account for around 5-6% of the total.
Experts say pay data shows why Trump's new $100,000 fee is unworkable. In 2023, the median salary for new H-1B employees was $94,000, compared with $129,000 for those already in the system. Since the fee targets new hires, most won't even earn enough to cover it, say experts.
"Since the latest White House directive indicates that the fee would only apply to new H-1B recipients, this is more likely to cause medium and long-term labour shortages instead of immediate disruption," Gil Guerra, an immigration policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, told the BBC.
India may feel the shock first, but the ripple effects could run deeper in the US. Indian outsourcing giants such as TCS and Infosys have long prepared for this by building local workforces and shifting delivery offshore.
The numbers tell the story: Indians still account for 70% of H-1B recipients, but only three of the top 10 H-1B employers had ties to India in 2023, down from six in 2016, according to Pew Research.
To be sure, India's $283bn IT sector faces a reckoning with its reliance on shuttling skilled workers to the US, which accounts for over half its revenue.
IT industry body Nasscom believes the visa fee hike could "disrupt business continuity for certain onshore projects". Clients are likely to push for repricing or delay projects until legal uncertainties are cleared, while companies may rethink staffing models - shifting work offshore, reducing onshore roles and becoming far more selective in sponsorship decisions.
Indian firms are also likely to pass on the increased visa costs to US clients, says Aditya Narayan Mishra of CIEL HR, a leading staffing firm.
"With employers reluctant to commit to the heavy cost of sponsorship, we could see greater reliance on remote contracting, offshore delivery and gig workers."
The broader impact on the US could be severe: hospitals facing doctor shortages, universities struggling to attract STEM students, and start-ups without the lobbying muscle of Google or Amazon are likely to be hit hardest.
"It [visa fee hike] will force US companies to radically change their hiring policies and offshore a significant amount of their work. It will also ban founders and CEOs coming to manage US-based businesses. It will deal a devastating blow to US innovation and competitiveness," David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, told BBC.
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"H-1B pipeline that, for three decades, powered the American dream for millions of Indians and, more importantly, supplied the lifeblood of talent to US industries." Bullroar. It was the cheap labor express that benefited corporations but not the nation.
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The concept makes sense; the price tag may need to be changed as things unfold. Is $100,000 per year too much for employers to pay for the top talent they really want? Will those jobs just move to, say, India, instead? (And who will run our 7-11s? /s)
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[Regnum] Boeing has begun development and production of the sixth-generation F-47 fighter jet for the US Air Force. The new aircraft's first flight is scheduled for 2028, The War Zone (TWZ)reported on September 22
"We are prepared to act quickly. We have no other choice," the publication quotes Air Force Chief of Staff General David Alvin as saying during his speech at the Air, Space, and Cyberspace 2025 conference.
Details of the F-47 program and aircraft design remain classified. It is only known that the fighter will have a combat radius of over 1,000 nautical miles and will be capable of reaching speeds in excess of Mach 2.
On March 21, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States had been testing the sixth-generation F-47 fighter jet, which will be "the most lethal aircraft" for five years. He claimed that stealth technology will make the new fighter virtually invisible to radar.
The American leader also announced that Boeing had awarded the contract to develop the fighter jet under the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program (F-47). The development and production of the new aircraft will cost at least $20 billion. The cost of the aircraft themselves is expected to reach approximately $300 million per unit.
Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, believes that Trump's statements about the F-47 tests are more motivated by political PR than by military-technical implications. According to the expert, the simulated multimedia flight of the sixth-generation fighter jet doesn't tell the whole story, as it would be worthwhile to see such a fighter take off and perform aerobatics first.
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.
[Breitbart] A baby was discovered alive in a dumpster at an apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, according to the Austin Police Department (APD).
