[NYP] Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted in 2013 of killing three babies who were born alive in a case that made nationwide headlines, has died. He was 85.
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens said Gosnell died March 1 at a hospital outside the prison system. He had most recently been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Gosnell was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder of the newborns as well as involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion at his West Philadelphia clinic known as the "house of horrors."
Nearly a decade before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Gosnell case became a flashpoint in the nationwide debate over abortion.
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The Grateful Dead and its offshoots have been offering psychedelic retreats for decades. And despite it being over 30 years since Jerry died, demand is growing.
[NYP] Coastal Florida towns are playing hot potato with spring breakers who use social media to organize "takeovers" of gatherings by drunken flash mobs, leading to violence and mass arrests.
Cops locked down Daytona Beach this week after a string of shootings and a beach "takeover" that ended in a mass stampede of high-school and college students fleeing for their lives.
Opening the link and investigating further may not be worth your while.
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Guess they're finding out why Atlanta stopped freaknik years ago.
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^^I lived on 10th St across from Piedmont Park. What a nightmare, I called APD and they told me to drive the wrong down one way streets and gave me an officer’s name and badge number if I got stopped.
They told me to just get out of there.
The pot festival was worse people would stumble into the house wanting to use the bathroom but they were so high they weren’t dangerous
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Drones. Specifically, agricultural drones spraying non-lethal crowd control agents. Easy to deploy, quick to arrive on-scene, and able to cover a wide area. A great force-multiplier for the greatly outnumbered cops. Wouldn't hurt to have packs of robot dogs for extra drama.
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I just stay of ATL altogether now. Not as much shit has flowed into Marietta as much as other surrounding counties.
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There actually were people tying to sue businesses in Galveston that just shut down during spring break, rather than deal with it. One of then turned his parking lot over to police and EMS as a staging area.
When you see a place moving outside vending machines inside, and rolling down the steel hurricane shutters, there's a problem.
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Some locals leave.
I'm told some stay to enjoy the buffet.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A massive oil refinery in Texas burst into flames, sending smoke billowing through the air Monday night.
Emergency crews rushed to the scene of the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas after multiple people in the neighborhood reported hearing a loud boom that rattled their homes, according to KPLC.
Black smoke was seen billowing up into the sky from the refinery, which processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel at a rate of 435,000 barrels each day.
Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said the explosion was likely caused by an industrial heater, KDFM reports.
The explosion has prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place order for the west part of the city, but no injuries have been reported.
Residents in the surrounding area were also being encouraged to remain indoors, keep windows and doors closed and follow all guidance from local officials.
[YouTube] William Neil McCasland, a retired Air Force officer with knowledge of UAPs, went missing Feb. 27 after last being seen at his Albuquerque, N.M., home. Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart joins “Katie Pavlich Tonight” with the latest.
Prior to the general, one of his staff has disappeared too.
Nine months earlier.
Andrew Black, a former FBI special agent in charge in Tucson, Arizona, discusses the disappearance of Maj. Gen. William McCasland and his former colleague, Monica Reza.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Dec. 16, 2025 that Nuno Loureiro, a former professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics at the university, had died at age 47 after sustaining gunshot wounds.
Carl Grillmair, 67, a prominent astrophysicist at California Institute of Technology’s IPAC Science and Data Center for Astronomy and Planetary Science, was killed at gunpoint on Feb. 16 at his home in Llano, California, The New York Post reported.
A body recovered from Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, Massachusetts on March 17 is believed to belong to Jason Thomas, a 45-year-old scientist with multinational pharmaceutical corporation Novartis, who suddenly disappeared on Dec. 12, 2025, People reported.
Lydia Mugambe, 49, was found guilty of forcing someone to work and conspiring to breach UK immigration law
A UN judge has been convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave who she “exploited and abused”.
Lydia Mugambe, 49, took “advantage of her status” over the victim in the “most egregious way” by preventing her from holding down steady employment and forcing her to work as her maid and to provide childcare without payment, prosecutors said.
Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, was found guilty on Thursday of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness after a trial at Oxford crown court.
Caroline Haughey KC, prosecuting, told jurors during the trial: “Lydia Mugambe has exploited and abused [the victim], taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid employment and deceiving her as to the purpose of her coming to the UK.”
Jurors accepted the prosecution’s case that Mugambe – who was studying for a law PhD at the University of Oxford – had engaged in “illegal folly” by arranging for the young woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to come to the UK.
The trial heard that Mugambe had the intention of “obtaining someone to make her life easier and at the least possible cost to herself”.
Mugambe denied forcing the young Ugandan woman to do household chores and said she “always” treated her with love, care and patience.
But the young woman had told the court she felt “lonely” and “stuck” because her working hours elsewhere were limited.
Haughey told the court: “On her arrival she was made to work for Lydia Mugambe from the very start, unremunerated and acting as maid and for childcare to give Mugambe back her life.
“Deprived of her freedom to choose her own work, to control her ID documents, she was beholden to Lydia Mugambe.”
She added: “A young woman brought in for the convenience of Ms Mugambe’s life but mistreated – mistreated by Ms Mugambe, a woman of power and intelligence who had no qualms in lying not only to [the victim] but to the police when they sought to ensure her safety and wellbeing.”
In footage of her arrest released by Thames Valley police, Mugambe appeared shocked when an officer said he was arresting her under the Modern Slavery Act.
She then had a conversation with the officer, in which she said: “I am a judge in my country, I even have immunity. I am not a criminal.”
Asked to reaffirm that she had immunity, she told the officer: “Yes, I have a diplomatic passport.”
According to her profile on the UN website, Mugambe was appointed to the body’s judicial roster in May 2023 – three months after police were called to her address in Oxfordshire.
Conspiring to do an act to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-UK national
Arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation
Requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour
Conspiracy to intimidate a witness
Eran Cutliffe, Specialist Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, said: "The victim showed tremendous bravery in speaking out and supporting the prosecution of the powerful woman who exploited her.
"I hope the Jury’s verdict provides her with some closure and ability to rebuild her life."
Lynette Woodrow, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor and national lead for modern slavery, said: “Lydia Mugambe took advantage of the young victim’s lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid employment.
“She exploited and abused the victim, who was hidden in plain sight through forced labour working as a maid and providing childcare for free.
“As a qualified lawyer, a Ugandan High Court judge and a United Nations Criminal Tribunal judge, Lydia Mugambe understood the rule of law and chose to overlook it.
“Modern slavery offences such as this one are incredibly serious and can have a profound effect on the lives of victims.
“The CPS is determined to tackle modern slavery, and we will continue to work hard alongside our partners to bring offenders to justice.”
Notes to editors
Lydia Mugambe (DOB: 24/03/1975) formerly of Kidlington, Oxfordshire was convicted at Oxford Crown Court on 13 March 2025
Mugambe is sentenced to six years and four months
She will also pay the Victim compensation totalling: £12,160
An Indefinite Restraining Order preventing Mugambe from contacting the victim directly or indirectly has been granted
Victims of Modern Slavery are entitled to lifelong anonymity
[ZERO] Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring down helicopters.
The international arms trafficking conspiracy deepens an already troubling portrait of the military reach and intelligence ties of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. Court documents unsealed by the Department of Justice, in an investigation first reported by The Bureau, revealed that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security publicly issued threats directing the cartel to execute Goldie Ghamari — a prominent Iranian-Canadian activist and former Ontario politician — at her Ottawa home, offering a $250,000 bounty. The arms case suggests that the cartel Iran chose as its instrument of political assassination was simultaneously seeking the weapons inventory of a mid-tier military force.
The investigation was carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division — an elite, little-known counternarcotics unit that deploys high-grade intelligence tradecraft and has built its reputation targeting criminals of international reach, including those with connections to senior officials in hostile and corrupt states.
[FoxNews] Rob Undersander: 'I have purchased lobster and filet mignon on my EBT card'
Ahead of a Tuesday hearing where Minnesota lawmakers will discuss food stamp fraud, Fox News Digital spoke to a millionaire who says he was able to qualify for food stamps through a loophole — one that he hopes will soon be closed as the state grapples with a massive fraud scandal.
Rob Undersander, a retired engineer who volunteers to help seniors navigate the government benefits system, said he learned during training that eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Minnesota was based on income only, not assets. Because his retirement income was low, he realized he could qualify even though he had significant savings and property.
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.
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