[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bone-chilling data has revealed nearly 200 corpses have been pulled from Houston's bayous in the last eight years, prompting terrified locals to demand answers.
Officials continue to insist that the alarmingly high figure is not the work of a serial killer.
But since 2017, 189 dead bodies have been found in the Texas city's swampy waters according to Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office records, obtained by KPRC 2.
Of these deaths, 17 were classified as murders with 75 deaths marked as 'unexplained'.
'That's definitely worthy of further investigation,' Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and criminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley, told the Daily Mail.
Fears of a serial killer were ignited in late September after officials announced that five dead bodies had been recovered over the course of just five days.
On Friday The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said that the causes of all but one of deaths still remain undetermined, per CW39. The death of Arnulfo Alvarado was ruled an accidental drowning mixed with the effects of methamphetamine.
Since the start of the year, the death toll has risen to 27 according to the data obtained by KPRC 2.
The new figures also indicate that the most common age of was between 30 and 39, with a quarter of the bodies pulled matching this demographic.
'Just the sheer number of cases, the fact that a few of them could be connected, I think that the percentage of something being connected - at least one or two of them - is pretty high,' Giacalone said.
He urged Houston investigators to explore the possibility of 'companion cases, or dare I say, patterns,' among the deaths.
Although he added that he wouldn't want to 'go out and over-speculate on anything'.
Among the unexplained deaths is that of Jade Elise McKissic, 20, who was a student at the University of Houston.
McKissic was last seen alive leaving a bar to get a drink at a gas station. She left her phone behind, the Houston Police homicide division said.
Her body was found in Brays Bayou on September 15, four days later, at around 10am. Police said there were no signs of trauma or foul play.
Of all the deaths, 39 percent have undetermined causes, while 24 percent were attributed to accidental drowning.
Thirteen percent of them have been ruled suicides, nine percent were deemed homicides and sic percent were reportedly caused by accidents other than drowning.
Five percent of these cases are still pending autopsy results and the remaining four percent of victims reportedly died from natural causes.
Most of the people found, a total of 87 bodies, were between the ages of 18 and 39.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire and police officials have consistently shot down rumors of a serial killer.
'Enough is enough of wild speculation,' Whitmire said at a news conference on September 23.
'There is no evidence that there is a serial killer loose on the streets of Houston.'
The Democratic mayor has blamed homelessness and drug abuse to rationalize the uptick of recent deaths surrounding the city's 2,500 miles of bayous.
'Unfortunately, the homeless, when they pass, often end up in the bayou,' he said.
Giacalone slammed the mayor's response to the local crisis as 'mind-boggling,' considering that many of the cases made publicly known 'have nothing to do with the homeless population'.
And the vocal critics are not just those observing the dreadful events from afar. A private investigator probing a bayou death insinuated that there may be an evil plot at play.
Texas Private Investigator Colman Ryan, who was hired by the family of Kenneth Cutting Jr, 22, who was found dead in Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston last year, is not buying the Mayor's narrative either.
'They're saying they don't have a serial killer, but I'm not sure,' Ryan told Fox News. 'Maybe their objective isn't sexual assault. It's not robbery. But they're just throwing people in the bayou.'
Ryan's bombshell assertion came just before the Houston Medical Examiner admitted to an error in Cutting's autopsy report, in which his cause of death was ruled undetermined.
Cutting's cousin, Lauren Freeman, told KHOU 11 that she recently learned that a portion of his autopsy report was from another person's case.
'The doctor that did his autopsy said, "Oh, that was a mistake. It was for the body I did after that, but it was accidentally put in his medical report,"' she said.
'I don’t know how something like that is mistaken. Somebody has died and the information in the report has to be right.'
Cutting's family has called for police to reopen its probe into his death.
Ryan noted that neither Cutting nor McKissic was homeless or had a past of trauma.
Buffalo Bayou, where Cutting was found, has been the most common area for corpse discoveries, as per the fresh data obtained by KPRC 2.
Since 2017, 21 bodies have been found in the Downtown Houston Buffalo Bayou Park area.
The bayou located throughout the Eastwood and Lawndale-Wayside neighborhoods has harbored 17 bodies in the same time span, while 16 bodies were found in Houston's East Downtown near Navigation Boulevard.
🚨BREAKING: 4-time convicted felon on parole for rape and released under @GovKathyHochul just arrested for raping a 12-year-old girl in NYC.
Police say Eric McMichael grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and brutally raped her and should have never been back on the streets. pic.twitter.com/zzdsBiEGtO
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Police shared the footage which they said showed Silas Sampson, 22, driving recklessly before he careered into Bradley's bar in Tampa on Friday night.
The terrifying clip shows two cars racing down a nearby highway at breakneck speeds.
The overhead footage continued with both vehicles attempting to overtake each other, as they zoomed dangerously fast.
One of the cars, which police said Sampson was behind the wheel of, breaks away as he loses complete control.
Terrified pedestrians can be seen running for safety as the silver Toyota barrels through an intersection and hitting more than a dozen people on the patio of the bar.
Three were pronounced dead on the scene and another later died at the hospital because of their injuries.
At least 11 were injured, with one listed in critical condition, Tampa police said.
Sampson was detained by police and charged with four counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of aggravated fleeing to elude serious bodily injury or death, per Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office records.
As of Saturday night, he was being held at the Falkenburg Road Jail.
The owners of the bar said their 'hearts are broken' after the crash. Bradley's confirmed their co–host Esme Russell was safe, but 'shaken' by the experience.
'This tragedy has struck at the heart of Tampa's LGBTQ+ community,' the bar said in a statement.
'Bradley's on 7th is more than just a nightclub, it is a sanctuary, a space of celebration, love, and chosen family for countless people across Tampa Bay.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]A Texas teenager who smirked in his mugshot after a horrific head-on collision that wiped out a family has been sentenced to 65 years behind bars.
Luke Garrett Resecker, 19, was jailed this week nearly two years after the crash that prosecutors said was caused by his reckless, drug-fueled driving.
Resecker crossed the double yellow line on a highway near Cleburne, Texas, and plowed into a minivan carrying seven people on December 26, 2023.
Six members of the same family were killed instantly while a seventh was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Those killed were identified as Rushil Barri, 28; Naveena Potabathula, 39; Nageswararao Ponnada, 64; Sitamahalkshmi Ponnada, 60; Kruthik Potabathula, 10; and Nishidha Potabathula, 9.
The family had been returning from a trip to the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center on a holiday outing.
The lone survivor, a paralyzed 43-year-old Lokesh Potabathula, lost his wife, children, cousin, and in-laws.
During the trial, prosecutors described the impact as 'catastrophic,' showing photos of twisted metal and shattered glass strewn across the highway.
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If you go and read the article you will see another mugshot in which he is not smiling at all. He realizes what he is in for over the next six and a half decades.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two mysterious flashes have been spotted on the moon's surface, sparking a debate over what just struck our nearest neighbor in the solar system.
Astronomer Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, captured the first of these bright flashes on October 30, revealing a large round dot briefly illuminating the moon's surface before disappearing.
The second flash was spotted two days later, on November 1, near the moon's horizon from Fujii's perspective here on Earth.
Currently, the prevailing theory is that these flashes were impacts caused by space rocks from the passing Taurid meteor shower.
This particular meteor shower can be seen every year around late October and early November.
It's caused by Earth traveling through bits of dust and rock left behind by the debris trail of the comet Encke, creating nights full of harmless shooting stars.
Fujii noted while revealing the mystery flashes that the moon has no atmosphere, meaning we can't see meteors nearing its surface until they light up at the moment of impact and form a fiery crater.
Fujii added in a post on X that the Taurid meteor shower was currently at its peak when he spotted the bright flashes on the moon.
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[Regnum] Geomagnetic disturbances amid the magnetic storm will continue for several more days. This was stated by Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in a conversation with Regnum News Agency on Saturday, November 8.
Earlier, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that a magnetic storm has persisted on Earth for the third day in a row, and its intensity on the night of November 8 exceeded the G2.3 level.
"I believe that given the current solar activity, there could objectively be more powerful events than those observed. Solar activity is still ongoing, so it's likely that, while it may not be a storm, geomagnetic disturbances will continue for a few more days," Bogachev said.
According to the specialist, the magnetic storm has indeed been ongoing for three days, but it has been intermittent. The agency's source noted that the G2.3 storm's reported intensity is moderate and not record-breaking.
"The magnetic storm is ongoing because the Sun is experiencing a surge in solar activity. Generally, all storms are Earth's response to solar events. And there have been powerful explosions occurring there for about three to four days now. And, of course, the Earth was expected to respond. Moreover, according to preliminary calculations, the response should have been stronger. Yesterday, exceptionally strong storms were expected, possibly the largest of the year. But in the end, everything turned out to be mild," the expert concluded.
The institute previously reported that the strongest magnetic storms since the beginning of the year were expected on November 7. At that time, solar wind speeds reached 800 km/s (compared to the norm of 300–400 km/s), and the temperature of near-Earth plasma increased five to tenfold, reaching half a million degrees. Scientists warned that a frontal impact could have resulted in activity levels reaching the maximum G5 level.
[The Hill] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that air travel will be "reduced to a trickle" before Thanksgiving if the government shutdown continues.
"It’s only going to get worse," Duffy told CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "I look to the two weeks before Thanksgiving, you’re going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle."
"We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family, they want to celebrate this great American holiday," he added. "Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane." Wants, not needs.
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) directed all commercial airlines to reduce flights by 4 percent starting Friday. If the shutdown does not end, the cuts will increase to 6 percent by Nov. 11, 8 percent by Nov. 13 and 10 percent by Nov. 14.
The agency also directed 40 "high traffic" airports to temporarily scale back flights by 10 percent.
[Buzz 60] In a move sending shockwaves through communities nationwide, grocery giant Kroger announced plans to close 60 stores over the next 18 months. The decision will result in the loss of up to 9,000 jobs across multiple states.
The closures affect communities from Georgia to Washington, signaling mounting pressures facing America's retail sector.
For many neighborhoods, the shuttered storefronts mean more than lost convenience—they represent a profound shift in how millions access food and employment. Nothing to do with Food Stamps of course, nothing at all.
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In a move sending shockwaves through communities nationwide
Only in communities that treat theft as a right of the 'oppressed'. Last time I checked the Romans practiced 'nailing them down' showing remarkable success in reducing recidivism.
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Competitors are moving quickly to fill the void. Discount grocer Aldi is expanding aggressively, converting 220 former Winn-Dixie and Harveys locations and targeting regions where Kroger is pulling back. Aldi plans to open more than 225 new stores in 2025.
Walmart, already the nation's largest grocer, continues to capture market share. Kroger executives have identified Walmart, Costco, and Amazon as their primary competitors.
Maybe more than crime waves and food deserts.
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[American Greatness] n Friday, one of President Trump’s closest foreign leader friends, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, will visit the White House for the first time since Trump’s inauguration in January. This meeting will build on a successful relationship that has benefited American, Hungarian, and global security.
I had the opportunity to witness the Trump-Orbán relationship up close when I attended a meeting Mr. Trump held with the Hungarian leader at Mar-a-Lago in June 2024. I saw a genuine friendship rooted in the belief that Western society is under siege, as well as two leaders who had been ostracized for defending their nations against it.
Trump remembers his friends. Back in 2016, when elitists in the U.S. and Europe scoffed at Trump’s insurgent campaign, Orbán was the lone EU head of state to embrace him, recognizing a kindred spirit in the fight against the destructive trend of open borders and globalism. Trump reciprocated with effusive praise, calling Orbán "fantastic" and a model of effective leadership.
Trump also remembers that while European leaders were badmouthing him during the 2024 presidential campaign, Orbán openly endorsed his reelection. In addition, Orbán was the first foreign leader to meet with Trump during the campaign.
At the top of the agenda for the Trump/Orbán meeting will be protecting sovereignty and national borders. Trump and Orbán have both taken aggressive action to defend their nations against out-of-control immigration, which they believe is destroying Europe and has done significant damage to the United States.
Trump frequently condemned President Biden for refusing to secure America’s southern border and allowing an estimated 11 million illegal aliens to enter our country, a significant number of whom were criminals, terrorists, and drug traffickers. Trump has already met his campaign promise to fix this problem by sealing America’s borders and by his administration’s efforts to arrest and deport illegal migrants.
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[Regnum] The remains of seven children were discovered during excavations at an abandoned mother and baby home in Ireland. This was reported on November 8 by People magazine, citing the Office of the Commissioner of Inquiry in the city of Tuam.
The remains were recovered from an underground chamber that was formerly part of the orphanage's sewer system. Experts are conducting an examination to determine the infants' ages and dates of death.
The former Bon Secours orphanage operated from 1925 to 1961. Personal items were also found at the excavation site—a jar of meat extract and a straight razor.
Local historian Katherine Corless was the first to draw attention to the scale of child deaths at this orphanage. She found 796 records of infants who died there during the institution's operation,
…22 per year, if I calculated that correctly…
whose burials were undocumented.
"When I started, no one wanted to listen. I was accused of 'ruining the city's reputation.' But now, finally, we're righting that wrong. I'm simply asking: get these children out of the sewers and give them a Christian burial—the way they deserve," the publication quotes Corless as saying.
In 2017, the first test excavations began at the orphanage site. Forensic experts confirmed the presence of "a significant number of child remains" in the building's former sewer shafts. DNA testing revealed that the ages of the deceased ranged from 35 weeks to 3 years.
I thought things like dental and bone development showed age, but no doubt I am behind the times.
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^ Hey look, an actual use for AI! Or to be specific, for machine learning which is an actual thing and quite good at finding patterns and clusters is big data sets.
Using DNA methylation as a clock is very interesting. Thanks, Skid!
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[Regnum] Former US President Joe Biden's attack on the incompatibility of kings and democracy targeted European monarchies, not current White House incumbent Donald Trump. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on November 8.
"Someone woke Biden up, and he literally said, 'In a democracy, there are no kings.' He was aiming for Trump, but ended up overseas," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
She added ironically that it was now time for the British King Charles III to wake up and realize that there was no democracy in his country.
According to the diplomat, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will also have more work to do, as it will have to issue a resolution condemning Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and other monarchies for their retreat from democracy.
On November 7, Biden, speaking at a Democratic Party event in Omaha, declared that Trump's actions were a disgrace to the United States. He emphasized that there are no kings in a democracy and cited the demolition of the East Wing of the White House as one of the symbols of Trump's second term. This is precisely what Trump is doing to democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law, Biden added.
Former US President Joe Biden said on November 7 that current US leader Donald Trump is a disgrace to the country.
"I want you to understand, Mr. President, you work for us, not us for you. You work for us, not just the billionaires and millionaires. I'm angry. <…> This is a democracy, and in a democracy there are no kings, and his actions are a disgrace to us as a country," Biden said during a speech at a Democratic Party event in Omaha.
The former US leader drew a parallel between the demolition of the East Wing of the White House and Trump's approach to governing the country.
"Have you seen what he did to the East Wing <…> of the White House? It's a great symbol of his presidency," Biden emphasized.
According to the former US President, Trump is doing exactly the same with democracy, the constitution, and the rule of law.
Earlier, the White House chief stated from the UN General Assembly that the United States was the butt of ridicule around the world during Biden's presidency. According to the American leader, the situation has now changed and the United States once again enjoys international respect.
In May, the American leader accused Biden's entourage of treason. According to Trump, the former US president's entourage was aware of his physical and mental health problems but concealed them, jeopardizing the country's security.
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It's kinda like not fair to mock old Joe. Better to mock his wife and the Democrat Party bigwigs who put the poor, old, senile creep into a position where people paid attention to what he said.
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[Just The News] The Trump administration ordered states to retract Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that were distributed just days ago during the ongoing government shutdown.
The directive from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came after the Supreme Court paused lower court rulings that had required full benefits to continue, effectively reversing the legal momentum that had favored millions of low-income households.
More than two dozen states have pushed back on the order, warning that clawing back the payments could cause "catastrophic operational disruptions," according to the Associated Press.
Many states had already distributed benefits after last week’s judicial wins for Democratic-led coalitions and other groups.
[Fortune Magazine] PayPal cofounder and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel doubled down on his worries about generational conflict and the future of capitalism after a similar warning he issued in 2020 proved eerily prescient.
After Tuesday night’s election victory of democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor, an email Thiel sent five years ago went viral.
In the correspondence to Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen and others, he warned that "When 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why."
Thiel expanded on those concerns in an interview with the Free Press that was published on Friday, saying strict zoning laws and construction limits have been good for boomers, who have seen their properties appreciate, but they have been terrible for millennials, who are having an extremely hard time buying homes.
"If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist," he explained.
While Thiel, who backed Donald Trump’s re-election, disagrees with Mamdani’s answers to New York’s housing affordability problems, he credited the lawmaker for talking about the issue more than establishment figures have been.
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"If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist,"
However the communists already have treating males as the enemy and the cause of all evil. That's why young adult males have shifted heavily to the right.
File under You thoughtAmerica was bad, bud? Black Palestinians — whether descended from African slaves or pilgrims who never went home — reportedly have the same problem.
[Rudaw] Two Black candidates in Iraq’s parliamentary elections hope to end discrimination against their community that is looking for official recognition as a minority.
"We want to protect the rights of people with dark skin. Because of our cultural differences, which are closer to Gulf countries, we face discrimination," Zainab Garmali, who is running on the State of Law list headed by Nouri al-Maliki, told Rudaw on Friday.
"We want our representation in higher offices," Garmali added.
Black Iraqis are descended from East African slaves and migrants colonists and their history in Iraq dates back to the ninth century. Unofficial estimates put the numbers at between 1.5 and 2 million people, most of them living in Basra. They hold no senior positions in the local government and have never had representation in the parliament.
Like Garmali, Majid Khalidi, a candidate on the Sadiqun list that is affiliated with the Asaib Ahl al-Haq movement, is also hoping to win a seat in parliament.
Removing one of his campaign posters in Basra that was torn, Khalidi said, "We don’t know why it was removed. Is it because my skin color is dark?"
The two are among 571 candidates competing for 25 parliamentary seats in Basra.
Black Iraqis are pinning their hopes for recognition on a draft minority rights bill currently before parliament. It has had one reading, but has not yet been passed. One of the items in the draft law refers specifically to Black Iraqis.
"We are waiting for parliament to approve this draft law so that the community can be recognized, and later we can request similar measures for other groups in the Iraqi parliament," Salah Salman, director of the Ansar Hurria organization that specializes in protecting Black Iraqis, told Rudaw.
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In 2020, it was announced that the LRSO program would continue with Raytheon as the only contractor, and in 2021, the company was awarded an EMD (Engineering and Manufacturing Development) contract for the AGM-181 missile. Current plans call for a production decision in 2027, and an initial operational capability around 2030. The USAF plans to procure around 1000 missiles. The AGM-181 had completed at least 9 successful flight tests by the end of 2022.
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
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A Texas teenager who smirked in his mugshot after a horrific head-on collision that wiped out a family has been sentenced to 65 years behind bars. 
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