[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More than three dozen missing children were rescued from sex traffickers in North Florida after a massive sting.
The rescue effort, named Operation Northern Lights, found 43 missing children across 14 counties with more children found in other states, the US Marshals Service announced Thursday.
Federal authorities said the youngest victims were one-year-olds and that one of the young victims had been abducted from Florida and located in Louisiana.
Nine people were arrested after the staggering operation, which law enforcement said took two weeks to conduct.
Additional charges could include human trafficking, child endangerment and custodial interference.
The sting turned up additional missing children in North Florida, but also in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
'This was the most successful missing child operation ever conducted in Northern Florida,' Greg Leljedal, acting US Marshal for the Northern District of Florida, said.
'Because of the tireless dedication of the U.S. Marshals and our law enforcement partners, 43 endangered children will now be home safe for the holidays.'
The victims included a one–year–old who authorities said was missing from Leon County and had been found in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Another one–year–old missing out of Okaloosa County was found outside Jackson, Mississippi, alongside a 17–year–old.
In that case, a 'non–custodial adult' was arrested for interference with child custody.
Other recoveries listed by the US Marshals Service were a 17–year–old missing out of Suwannee County found in Meadville, Mississippi, a 13–year–old missing out of Suwannee County found in Jacksonville and a 15–year–old out of Okaloosa County found in Ocala.
The US Marshals Service said the complexity of the sting had 'not been previously undertaken in Northern Florida until this month'.
More than 80 workers from 25 different agencies across law enforcement, social services, attorney's offices and nonprofit organizations worked together to find the children, who were considered 'critically missing.'
That means that the minors are believed to face an elevated risk of violent crime or other serious harm, such as substance abuse, sexual exploitation, crime exposure or domestic violence.
Authorities said the rescue mission was carried out under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, which allowed the US Marshals Service to assist other law enforcement agencies in missing child cases.
Nearly 4,000 missing children have been found since then, marking a 66 percent hit rate, per the agency.
The list of sheriff's offices involved in the successful operation included Leon County, Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Okaloosa County, Walton County, Bay County, Jackson County, Wakulla County, Madison County, Taylor County, Suwannee County, Alachua County and Marion County.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Office chief deputy Randy Tifft said some of the children had been taken by older adults.
'They coerce a lot of these young kids on online apps to meet up with them,' he told WEAR. 'And a lot of them are kids that are having some troubles in schools or troubles at home.'
Other law enforcement agencies that contributed to the search were the Tallahassee Police Department, Pensacola Police Department and Crestview Police Department.
At the state level, the Florida Attorney General's Office, Department of Law Enforcement, Highway Patrol, Department of Children and Families and Department of Juvenile Justice were thanked for their work in the mission. Homeland Security Investigations also participated on a federal level.
The US Marshals Service also credited the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Called2Rescue and Shadows of Strength as advocacy groups that aided in the sting.
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[Regnum] Snow fell in parts of Saudi Arabia, including the mountains and deserts. Frost hit in some areas, leaving roads covered in ice, Arab News reported.
Snowfalls and cold rains fell in the northwestern part of the kingdom on December 17 and 18, with subzero temperatures recorded. In the capital, Riyadh, dense clouds persisted, and schools there switched to distance learning due to the inclement weather.
Forecasters explained that cold air masses accompanied by rain clouds had arrived in the region. They warned that snowfalls in the north of the country could continue in the coming days.
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In Tehran, it is 30F and clear. No precipitation expected for the next few days.
Jewish Space Lasers, man. They use them to push away the moisture in the atmosphere.
Haiti – Boat sinks: more than a dozen armed bandits drowned in attack
More than a dozen members of armed gangs perished at sea after their boat capsized. These individuals were transporting weapons and ammunition intended for an attack against the town of Arcahaie, also known as… pic.twitter.com/WReCzWrfBa
Haiti – Boat sinks: more than a dozen armed bandits drowned in attack
More than a dozen members of armed gangs perished at sea after their boat capsized. These individuals were transporting weapons and ammunition intended for an attack against the town of Arcahaie, also known as "the city of the flag".
The accident occurred as their boat was crossing the waters towards Arcahaie. Rough sea conditions caused the vessel to capsize, resulting in the drowning of all occupants.
This shipwreck puts a stop to the attackers' plans, whose weapons and ammunition went down with them, leaving the population of the town momentarily spared from this threat.
[BBC] At least three people have been killed and nine others injured as a knife-wielding attacker went on a rampage in the Taiwanese capital Taipei.
The 27-year-old suspect set off smoke bombs at Taipei's main metro station, before running to another station in a busy shopping district, stabbing people along the way, Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai said.
The suspect, named by officials as Taiwanese man Chang Wen, later died after falling from a multi-storey building, Cho added. His motive remains unclear.
Attacks of this kind are rare in Taiwan, which has low rates of violent crime. The last time a similar incident struck Taipei was more than a decade ago in 2014.
Friday's attack took place at about 17:20 local time (09:20 GMT) during the city's evening rush hour.
Videos shared on social media show people fleeing the scene in panic as an individual wearing a baseball cap and black clothing lobs smoke bombs across a busy road.
He can then be seen carrying a large knife as he walks past several cars.
Cho said the suspect had detonated smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at Taipei's Main Station, which is connected to a busy underground shopping street.
A man reportedly tried to stop the attacker but was struck with a blunt object and later died in hospital.
The suspect then fled through an underground shopping centre to the nearby Zhongshan Station, about a 800m walk away.
After a detour to his hotel, where he picked up a weapon, he ran back to the street outside Zhongshan Station and set off further smoke bombs. He also stabbed more people.
The attacker went into a nearby bookshop and department store, but fell from the building after police surrounded him. He died shortly after in hospital.
The suspect had a criminal record and was wanted by the authorities, according to local media reports.
The last major incident of this kind, in 2014, saw a man kill four people on an underground train in Taipei, shocking people in Taiwan. The perpetrator of that attack was executed two years later.
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Some of this is spiritual darkness impacting all the folks with marginal psychological traits.
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Expect a lot more such attacks - "Only the strong leadership of Beijing can restore order!".
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[Regnum] The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passed through its closest point to Earth, bringing the distance from the celestial body to the planet to approximately 269 million km. This was reported on December 16 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"At approximately 7:16 Moscow time, the 3I/ATLAS object passed its closest point to Earth. The distance to the object at that moment was, and, in fact, still is, 269,918,000 km—a huge distance by Earth standards, though, of course, completely insignificant in terms of interstellar distances," the Telegram channel reported.
3I/ATLAS's next stop will be Jupiter, which it will pass on March 16 at a distance of approximately 53 million km.
It is noted that in the second half of 2026, the object will go beyond the orbit of Jupiter and completely disappear from the field of view of all terrestrial instruments.
On November 29, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that the brightness of 3I/ATLAS decreased by more than a third as it approached Earth. According to scientists, despite this, the interstellar object is the fourth brightest among the nearly 100 comets observable in the Earth's sky.
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Some thoughts on this. Taking the astronomers on their claim this asteroid is from another galaxy. It is outgassing and acting erratically, why? Here are some thoughts. Space is not a giant void of nothingness. Just like saying air is the same density at sea level as it is at 20,000 feet. Space has an amazing amount of things going on in the void. First is the density issue, to think this density is the same across the universe is false. Gravity from all the planets and stars affect everything about space, and we still know very little about it. I would bet the density of space, if we knew how to measure it, would be different near Pluto from say Mercury. Now we have the energy from stars racing through the space. On one side of a spaceship its 400 below and on the run side its boiling hot. There is mass in space, however small, but its there. Imagine our density could be much less than the galaxy it came from, our heat and gravity could be higher. That would explain the outgassing, as well as the wobbling.
What this rock from another galaxy has taught me is that we know very little about space and a simple rock from our neighbors jar our every belief in physics...
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Our seed-ship missions to bring the necessary precursors to this system have been a success. Life has taken hold on Planet 3 (see Appendix). Unfortunately, the planet is currently overrun with monkeys. Deemed Not Habitable at this time.
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