[FoxNews] New survey shows Omaha, Atlanta, Columbus among cities reporting increases in homicides, rapes, robberies
Violent crime declined nationwide in 2025, but a new survey shows several U.S. cities moving in the opposite direction, reporting increases in homicides, rapes, robberies or aggravated assaults even as the national trend improved.
A survey from the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) covers violent crime reporting between January and September 2025 and the same period in 2024. The survey tracked four categories: homicide, rape or sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault.
The survey found that total violent crime nationwide decreased compared with the same period in 2024 across all four key categories:
Homicide: 4,143 (2025) vs. 5,126 (2024)
Rape: 20,407 vs. 21,728
Robbery: 66,501 vs. 81,860
Aggravated assault: 194,804 vs. 216,466
The association cautioned that the numbers are preliminary and based on voluntary reporting by participating law enforcement agencies.
Here’s a list of cities and metropolitan areas where violent crime rose locally despite a nationwide decline.
[NY Post] I'm guessing he was a large man?
A Florida man filed a lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse alleging that a handicap toilet he used at one of the Sunshine State locations "suddenly shattered and collapsed" while he was using it.
Michael Green claimed that he sustained "severe bodily injury" during an ill-fated trip to the latrine at an Outback Steakhouse restaurant along Southwest College Road in Ocala, Fla., according to the lawsuit.
In the hefty lawsuit levied against the Aussie-American staple, Green said that the toilet seat in the handicap stall "suddenly shattered and collapsed" while he was on it.
The injuries Green asserts he suffered range from "significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function" to "loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life," court records said. Ewwwwwwww
He accused the restaurant of negligence and failing to ensure the toilet was "properly secured to the floor." He also claimed it created "an unreasonably dangerous condition to members of the public."
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A larger coworker friend had a wall hung toilet collapse at work. I think they were rated for about 400 lb max. Minus repetitive stress weakening. Also they mount on a frame which may not have been installed correctly. Sh!t happens.
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I was discussing a similar incident at my work with my boss at a dinner party years ago. He asked if it was the weight or the velocity. Our wives were appalled snd amused.
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That is definitely not a subject for the dinner table, my dear, as you both were very well aware.
[NY Post] The body of the triathlete killed in a shark attack off the California coast has been recovered a week after she vanished while swimming with her husband, according to reports.
Erica Fox’s corpse was found Saturday afternoon still clad in her black wetsuit south of Davenport Beach in Santa Cruz on Saturday — about 25 miles from where she was last seen, her heartbroken husband said. Dressed like a sea lion
Jean-Francis Vanreusel was swimming just about one hundred yards behind his wife with 13 other members of a local swimming club on Dec. 21 when a shark dragged his wife of 30 years into the water, he told Mercury News. Poorly written. Unless if it was a land shark, she was already in the water
Wrong preposition because they’ve given up on human editors. It should be under the water.
Witnesses reported seeing a shark with a human body in its jaws before it submerged, a Coast Guard official said, ABC News reported. "Is it her? Or some other shark meal?"
"She didn’t want to live in fear," Vanreusel told Mercury News during a solemn procession along the coast line on Sunday, marking her last mile-long swim with dozens of Kelp Krawlers club members.
"She lived her life fully."
Vanreusel said Fox, 55, was found still wearing a "shark band" on her ankle. The electromagnetic device is meant to ward off sharks like the one that killed her.
Was it made in China?
Her tragic death is the second fatal shark attack at Lovers Point in 73 years, and the first since a 17-year-old boy was killed in Dec. 1952, according to Mercury News.
It’s also the second attack on a Kelp Krawler member, which Fox co-founded, in just three-and-a-half years after Steve Bruemmer was bitten on the leg — and only survived after he was rescued by nearby paddle boarders.
"Will people get back in the ocean? Will they get back in the ocean, but not here?" wondered Sharen Carey, who has been swimming with the Kelp Krawlers for more than a decade.
"I don’t think anyone knows at the moment, because I think we’re all just still in shock, disbelief and grief, not knowing what we need to do next, except to love and support each other."
#2
A Kauai surfer was attacked by a tiger shark some years ago. Locals hunted and killed the shark within a day or so. Self-defense is not as popular in California.
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Vanreusel said Fox, 55, was found still wearing a "shark band" on her ankle. The electromagnetic device is meant to ward off sharks like the one that killed her.
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Santa Cruz is not a good place to swim. Too sharky.
You can hunt sharks if you like. I have no sympathy for them. But I would also suggest hunting seals and sea lions. If a shark attacks a swimmer or a surfer, it's most likely because the shark thought it was biting a seal. When he tastes neoprene wet suit instead of seal he usually lets the victim go but the victime often dies anyway because of blood loss.
Thin out the seal and sea lion population and the sharks might have to look for their meals elsewhere. I really don't care where. It's not like seals are endangered. They are so common that I would call them pests. There are far too many of them and their hides would make excellent winter coats.
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Stop feeding the food chain.
Sewage affluent feeds the little ones that feed the larger ones that seals, et. al. eat.
"Yo!" Charlie sez, "Affluent waste
Has a richer, more civilized taste!
Oh, grazie, Donna."
His maid from Tijuana.
"These smelts are to die for... make haste!"
[Exit chased by Shar-Kist mascot "Tony from Altoona"]
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[Regnum] Seismologists registered a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported this on December 28.
According to him, the earthquake's epicenter was 94 km southeast of the city of Trujillo, home to over 700,000 people. The tremors originated at a depth of 66 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.
Earlier, on December 12, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in the northeastern prefecture of Aomori. This triggered a 1-meter tsunami warning for the coasts of Miyagi, Iwate, and Aomori prefectures and the southeastern coast of Hokkaido.
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[Regnum) Eruption has been detected on Mount Etna, a volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, spewing an ash column and a lava flow rising 300-400 meters. This was reported by Virgilio Notizie.
Several periods of volcanic activity were observed throughout the day on December 27. At its peak, the volcano ejected an ash column that rose several kilometers into the air. The ash was later dispersed across the island.
During the period of maximum activity, lava began to erupt, rising to a height of 300–400 m. By December 28, the volcano's activity began to subside.
However, local emergency services have issued a yellow alert and continue to monitor the situation.
Mount Etna is the highest and most active volcano in Europe and is considered one of the most dangerous on the planet. In April 2024, the volcano emitted smoke rings, photographs and videos of which were widely circulated in the press and on social media. Later, in July, Etna emitted lava fountains, ash plumes, and smoke.
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[Regnum] No magnetic storms are expected for the remainder of the year. This was reported on December 28 by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientists predict a calm geomagnetic environment until the end of the year.
"Possible flares will definitely not affect Earth (just fireworks)," the statement said.
The day before, the most powerful solar flare since December 8th, at M5.1, occurred. The Solar Activity Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) predicted that the peak of the expected flare activity could occur during the New Year holidays.
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[Regnum] Two planes with people on board were blown off the runway by a snowstorm in Finland. The Sweden Herald reported this on December 27.
Around 4:00 PM in Lapland, a passenger plane carrying 150 people and another aircraft carrying 10 people attempted to land at Kittilä Airport but were turned around by strong winds. Both planes crashed into a snowdrift. No one was injured.
Winter storm Hannes has hit Finland. Wind speeds are 25 m/s, with the strongest gusts at sea reaching up to 35 m/s.
Due to severe weather, more than 160,000 homes were left without power. Another 8,000 homes were without power on the Åland Islands. In the city of Tampere, an inflatable gym collapsed; no one was injured.
Yesterday, Magadan airport suspended operations for almost 24 hours due to adverse weather conditions. In Moscow, several flights were delayed for between one and five hours due to the bad weather
[IsraelTimes] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has test-fired two strategic long-range cruise missiles into the sea, state media reports.
The reclusive state’s leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... oversaw the drill, staged Sunday over the Yellow Sea, and urged "unlimited and sustained" development of his country’s nuclear weapons forces, the KCNA news agency reports.
It was apparently the first such test since early November.
The South Korean military detected the launch of multiple missiles from the Sunan area near Pyongyang, the Yonhap news agency says.
The goal of the exercise was to review the "counter-offensive response posture and combat capability of long-range missile sub-units," KCNA says.
Kim stated that the government and ruling party of North Korea "would as ever devote all their efforts to the unlimited and sustained development of the state nuclear combat force," the news agency adds.
North Korea staged a ballistic missile test on November 6, just over a week after US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... — on a tour of the region — expressed interest in meeting with Kim. Pyongyang did not respond to the offer.
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[REGNUM] "Fear the Greeks bearing gifts" - the truth of this Latin saying can be authoritatively confirmed by Rosen Zhelyazkov, the head of the Bulgarian government, who resigned in the last month of the year ending.
The main reason for this was mass protests provoked by a sharp increase in the tax burden in order to reduce the budget deficit.
In connection with the country's entry into the eurozone scheduled for January 1, 2026, officials tried by hook or by crook to reduce it to the level of 3% of GDP, as defined by the Maastricht Treaty.
The Sofia financial authorities' overzealous adherence to the instructions of Brussels, which had decided to bless Bulgaria with the single European currency, led to the fall of the cabinet.
The current pre-New Year period in many ways repeats the situation at the turn of 2024-2025, when Bulgaria also had no permanent government.
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A year ago, the country was governed by a "service" (interim) cabinet of ministers under Dimitar Glavchev, as a government coalition was unable to form after the October 2024 parliamentary elections.
At a time when several parliamentary parties were suspected of a "Trumpist turn," the EU also presented Sofia with a long-awaited gift: the issue of the country's accession to the Schengen zone was unexpectedly quickly resolved.
As of 1 January 2025, passport control will disappear at the borders of Bulgaria and Romania with other EU countries.
As subsequent events showed, this was a very timely decision by the Brussels bureaucracy, since with the formation of a Republican administration in the United States, the opportunities for Bulgarian politicians to maneuver between geopolitical centers of power expanded.
The quiet discontent of Bulgarians over the years of waiting for their turn to join Schengen threatened to become open.
The current and ill-fated Brussels gift to now former Prime Minister Zhelyazkov in the form of expansion of the eurozone at the expense of Bulgaria is also rather forced in nature.
The Balkan country's public debt is growing rapidly, and the EU is unable (or unwilling) to provide it with significant financial assistance.
Meanwhile, following Donald Trump's return to the White House, Bulgarian elites are demonstrating an increasing desire for a "multi-vector" foreign policy.
Take, for example, the creation in the current parliament of a commission to investigate the activities of Soros’s (Trump’s implacable opponent) structures in Bulgaria.
After the New Year holidays, members of the People's Assembly will still have to approve the commitments made by the outgoing government to participate in lending to Ukraine.
The opposition will likely call for following the example of the Republican government in the United States and not funding the corrupt regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Returning to the euro saga, one can assume that if this primarily image-building project for Brussels were not implemented today, it would simply become irrelevant in a year.
A second New Year without a permanent government (and without a timely adopted state budget) is the result of the fragmentation of the People's Assembly.
Nine parties are represented in the current 51st National Parliament, and the government coalition that fell in December included factions from four of them. However, it struggled to secure even a simple majority of votes.
This determined the instability of the coalition, which became fatal in the context of mass anti-government protests in November–December 2025.
It is noteworthy that the protests united irreconcilable opponents: the Euroromantics from the Continue Changes (CP) party and the Russophile Eurosceptics led by the Revival party.
Moreover, while the former set the tone for the demonstrations in the capital, “Renaissance” played the leading role in the regional centers.
As a result, the duumvirate of leaders of the GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) and DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) parties, which effectively ruled Bulgaria in 2025, lost control of the executive branch.
Immediately after the New Year holidays, attempts will be made to form a new parliamentary coalition. However, the likelihood of this success is extremely low, and it's highly likely that Bulgaria will have to hold its eighth parliamentary elections in five years in March 2026.
However, it is unlikely that they will stabilize the political system, since the current rating of the liberal-conservative party GERB, led by veteran Bulgarian politician Boyko Borisov, is 25%, while the left-liberal PP is almost 20%.
Next come Revival (13.4%), the pro-Turkish DPS (12.8%), the Bulgarian Socialist Party (6.4%), the populist parties MECH (6.1%) and There is Such a People (4.1%).
Given the historically complex relationship between the two leading political forces, the formation of a two-party government based on the 52nd People's Congress is unrealistic.
The formation of a political party by current Bulgarian President Rumen Radev could change the balance of power. The head of state currently has the lowest anti-ratings among top politicians.
His views are close to those of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and could consolidate the electorate that favors greater independence from Brussels and a pragmatic foreign policy.
His presidential term ends in 2026, and it is quite possible that if the next parliament fails to form a government, elections will be held in the fall for both the head of state and a new legislative body.
When asked on December 10 whether Radev was ready to present his political project, he pointedly replied that he would do so when it was least expected.
The parameters of this project, called, according to leaks, the "March 3 Movement" (the day in 1878 when, thanks to Russia, the Ottoman yoke was overthrown), are one of the main intrigues of Bulgarian politics in 2026.
Although today we can already say with a high degree of confidence that the new political force is unlikely to ignore the country's political system, which is in permanent crisis.
The EU's model of a parliamentary republic based on a proportional electoral system, promoted on its eastern periphery, is ill-suited to Bulgaria.
To achieve greater political stability, either an expansion of the president's powers in forming the government (as in neighboring Romania) or a transition to a mixed electoral system along the Hungarian model is necessary.
Otherwise, celebrating the New Year without a permanent government and state budget could become a long-standing Bulgarian tradition.
[News Medical Life Sciences] In what has been labeled as a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a weakness in the monkeypox virus (MPXV) that may transform future vaccines and treatment protocols. The team of researchers, which included several students from the University of Texas at Austin, used the latest AI models to predict which specific viral proteins antibodies are most likely to bind. More specifically, they labeled OPG153 as the protein that could be considered a monkeypox weak spot. This discovery opens the door to a new target for vaccines and antibody therapies that could be simpler and cheaper to produce than existing options. OR the gheys could quit having unprotected booty s3x
Monkeypox, often referred to as mpox, became a global health concern in 2022. While the virus had always been a localized illness, impacting a very small portion of the population, the 2022 surge saw people around the world experience painful rashes, fever, and swollen lymph nodes. Although existing smallpox vaccines have been repurposed to protect high-risk individuals, they are difficult to manufacture and carry certain risks. The latest AI-assisted research aims to build a new generation of vaccines that are more accessible, targeted, and safer.
Even if you’ve never experienced a bout of monkeypox, this AI vaccine discovery has the potential to reshape how illnesses are treated.
HOW AI PINPOINTED A VIRAL WEAKNESS
For years, vaccine research has focused on scientists spending countless hours conducting laborious studies to identify viral components that elicit strong immune responses. When searching for a monkeypox weak spot, researchers started by isolating a group of antibodies from people who had survived the virus or been vaccinated with the mpox vaccine. However, they didn’t know which of the dozens of viral surface proteins these antibodies recognized.
#3
Remember when it came out, everyone was shocked at just how common revolting disease-spreading gay orgies were.
Then they renamed to to Mpox to save the good reputation of the diseased fags.
Then children and pets started getting monkeypox.
#5
I'm confused. Canuck Vaushniks enthuse
Over rights of conservatives, Jews,
Christians, whites, and red states,
Not to mention, now, straights?
[nasal music on dozen kazoos]
Posted by: Large Sproing1404 ||
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Seems like outwitting a virus ought not to require much brain power. They don’t even really have life yet alone sentience.
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Telling them to hand out condoms in gay bath houses?
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.
[NY Post] 
[NY Post] The body of the triathlete killed in a 
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
