EDMOND, OK – At least 10 people are hospitalized, with more expected in coming hours, after a shooting at Lake Arcadia left multiple victims and multiple law enforcement agencies facing a chaotic scene late Sunday night.
According to Edmond Police, at approximately 9:00pm, multiple people were shot at an event at a Lake Arcadia campground that had been billed on social media as a “Sunday Funday” party, confirmed by law enforcement as “a large group of young people.” "Sunday Gunday" party, rather
Law enforcement reported multiple emergency calls all coming in shortly after, leading to Edmond Police, Edmond Fire, Oklahoma City Police, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol all converging on the scene.
After 11:00pm, Edmond Police Department spokesperson Emily Ward held a small press conference at the scene, confirming that 10 victims had been transported by ambulance to various hospitals across the Oklahoma City Metro. The conditions of the victims being transported were not detailed, and no fatalities had been reported or confirmed.
[IsraelTimes] 81-year-old former New York City mayor told his talk show audience on Friday that his voice was ‘a little under the weather’
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is hospitalized in critical but stable condition, his spokesperson said Sunday, days after the US Republican hoarsely told his talk show audience that his voice was "a little under the weather."
The spokesperson, Ted Goodman, didn’t say what sent Giuliani, 81, to the hospital, how long he’s been there, or what his prognosis is.
"Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak," Goodman said in a statement. He said that Giuliani "remains in critical but stable condition."
Giuliani’s eight-year tenure as the mayor of the country’s largest city was punctuated by the September 11, 2001, attack in his final months in office, and he became celebrated as "America’s mayor" for his leadership after the al-Qaeda terrorist attack that felled the World Trade Center twin towers.
Giuliani later made an unsuccessful run for president and was an adviser to US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... , spearheading his efforts to stay in office after his 2020 election loss.
Last year, Trump said he was awarding Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Giuliani coughed as he began his nightly online show "America’s Mayor Live" on Friday. As he spoke, he sounded more raspy than usual. Before launching into a commentary on the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... war, he remarked: "My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do, but I’ll get closer to the microphone."
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Giuliani "a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR."
"What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" Trump wrote. "They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!"
As Trump’s personal attorney and adviser, Giuliani became a vocal proponent of the president’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... . Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.
Two former Georgia election workers later won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani. As they sought to collect the judgment, the former federal prosecutor was found in contempt of court and faced a trial this winter over the ownership of some of his assets.
Giuliani ultimately struck a deal that let him keep his homes and various belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to stop speaking ill of the ex-election workers.
Giuliani was previously hospitalized in September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.
A native New Yorker, Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 after serving as one of the country’s highest-profile federal prosecutors, taking on mobsters and crooked Wall Street traders.
He ran for the US Senate in 2000 but abandoned his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay ... after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
In 2007, Giuliani ran for president. Buoyed by his post-9/11 popularity, he started as the front-runner for the Republican nomination. But that was short-lived. He withdrew from the race after struggling in the primaries amid GOP concerns about his past support for child sacrifice abortion rights, gay rights and gun control, and questions about his personal life and business ties to the Middle East.
He toyed with running for other offices before pivoting to political commentary.
In 2016, Trump leaned on Giuliani’s political acumen and loyalty and put him to work as a surrogate leading attacks on Clinton, his Democratic rival. After Trump won, Giuliani continued as his attack dog, even traveling to Ukraine to seek damaging information about Biden’s son, Hunter.
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The NY Post also reports critical but stable condition and that the cause is unknown, but adds that he is hospitalized in Florida, so at least he needn’t be concerned about malicious medical staff.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator, his spokesperson said Monday.
Giuliani, 81, remains in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, spokesperson Ted Goodman said.
Goodman said Giuliani’s condition was exacerbated by restrictive airway disease attributed to his exposure to dust and toxins from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
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Remembering Rudy walking through the dust haze. Not a good lung thing. Meanwhile another MN Governor POS Jessy the Body literally went into hiding keeping all his appointments hidden from the public.
Hats off to Giuliani for going to every fireman's funerals.
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[Regnum] In the Indian state of Kerala, an elephant smashed cars and trampled a man to death. This was reported by The Sun.
The article explained that the elephant was being taken to a Hindu temple for a festival. At one point, the enraged elephant broke free from its chains and began wreaking havoc. This continued for about two hours. Throughout this time, police and local residents attempted to calm it down, The Sun reported.
The resulting panic and chaos resulted in the death of 40-year-old Vishnu, who had brought the animal to the temple. Another person was injured and hospitalized. The elephant was tranquilized and tied to a tree near the temple.
Cases of elephant aggression toward people have been reported worldwide. In March, a Namibian woman was attacked by an elephant while attempting to take a selfie with what she thought was a dead animal. She approached the elephant and tugged its tail while taking the photo. The animal stood up and attacked the woman. The victim died instantly.
In September 2025, a female elephant capsized a canoe carrying tourists in Botswana after they got too close to her calves. Another elephant-on-human attack occurred in southwest India. The tourist was attempting to take a photo with the elephant. The elephant reacted to a bright flash, chased the man, knocked him down, and then stomped on him several times.
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Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing circus employee Walter "Red" Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
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[Regnum] A bear attacked a woman walking her dog in the city of Toyama, Japan. NHK reported this on May 3.
According to the publication, the incident occurred in late April when the 40-year-old woman was taking an evening walk with her dog in a residential area near the sea coast.
According to city authorities, the bear fled after the attack. The collision left the victim with severe lacerations to her head, neck, and face. Doctors currently assess her condition as stable, and there is no immediate threat to her life.
A large-scale search operation was launched in the area in the morning. Law enforcement officers and hunters surveyed the area using helicopters and drones. The predator was not located.
Due to the ongoing danger, the administration adjusted the class schedule at nearby educational institutions, and parents were strongly advised to personally accompany their children to school.
[Just The News] Three passengers have died and three more have been sickened by a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Sunday.
The U.N. health agency said one case of hantavirus infection has been laboratory confirmed, while five additional suspected cases are pending. Three of the six victims have died and one is hospitalized in intensive care in South Africa where the ship docked, officials said. South African ICU ?
"WHO is aware of and supporting a public health event involving a cruise vessel sailing in the Atlantic Ocean," the agency wrote on X. "To date, one case of hantavirus infection has been laboratory confirmed, and there are five additional suspected cases.
"Detailed investigations are ongoing, including further laboratory testing, and epidemiological investigations," it added. "Medical care and support are being provided to passengers and crew. Sequencing of the virus is also ongoing."
Hantavirus infections are typically linked to infected rodents’ urine or feces and can cause extreme respiratory distress.
The affected ship is the m/v Hondius, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions. Gatlinburg is so yesterday.
[LI] Surprise, surprise, surprise Meanwhile, a wastewater sample in Oahu, Hawaii has tested positive for the Clade I virus.
Last month, my colleague Mary Chastain reported that the New York City Health Department announced the city’s first case of the severe monkeypox strain, Clade 1.
Since it spreads most readily by skin-to-skin contact with men who have sex with other men, be sure to remain fully clothed in any orgy situations, just in case.
I have been following the spread of this particular virus for some time. Clade I mpox is a more severe strain of the mpox virus endemic to Central Africa, associated with higher fatality rates (up to 10% historically) than Clade II. It includes sub-clades Ia (associated with animal-to-human transmission) and Ib (linked to recent, more rapid sexual transmission).
Now, a case is being reported in San Francisco.
On April 14, 2026, the first clade I mpox case in San Francisco (SF) was confirmed. The case occurred in an unvaccinated adult who was hospitalized and is improving. The individual reported close contact with someone who traveled internationally to an area where clade I mpox is circulating.
Clade I mpox is distinct from clade II mpox. The mpox outbreak in the United States that began in 2022 is due to clade II mpox and has led to 1066 cases in SF as of April 9, 2026. In contrast, an outbreak of clade I mpox in Central and Eastern Africa has been ongoing since 2023, with sporadic travel-associated cases reported in non-endemic countries and increasing reports of locally-acquired clade I mpox in Europe. Over the last two years, 15 clade I mpox cases have been reported in the United States, including 6 in California. Public health officials are monitoring cases to determine if clade I mpox is more severe than clade II mpox in the United States.
The patient appears to be recovering. However, it should be noted that a quarter of the Clade 1 cases in this country have been diagnosed over the last month.
The patient, who had not received the mpox vaccine, was hospitalized and is improving, according to SFPDH.
The agency said that this clade I mpox patient had reported close contact with another person who had traveled internationally.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that until now, 15 cases of clade I mpox have been detected in the U.S. since late 2024. Over a quarter of these cases were diagnosed in March 2026 alone.
According to the CDC, all U.S. cases of clade I mpox — which are not linked — were in people who had either recently traveled to areas associated with the outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa or parts of Western Europe with more recent outbreaks, or, like the San Francisco case, were linked to travel.
Meanwhile, a wastewater sample in Oahu, Hawaii, has tested positive for the Clade I virus.
The Hawai‘i Department of Health is reporting a wastewater sample from O‘ahu that has tested positive for clade I mpox. The sample was collected on April 13, 2026, from a wastewater treatment facility on Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam. This is the first time clade I mpox has been detected in wastewater in Hawaiʻi. To date, no clinical case of clade I mpox has been identified in Hawai‘i.
At this time, the risk for the general public is low. The presence of clade I mpox virus in wastewater does not confirm a clinical case or community spread. Instead, it serves as an indicator to be alert for possible mpox cases. People at higher risk of mpox infection should consider being vaccinated with two doses of the JYNNEOS (mpox) vaccine if not already protected.
The JBPHH facility serves not only on-base military housing and facilities, but public sites that receive large numbers of residents and visitors, including the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Museum.
DOH was notified of the initial detection on April 20, 2026, with positive confirmatory results received on April 24, 2026.
Free Education for Hundreds of Boy Students in Herat
[ToloNews] A charitable foundation has provided free education opportunities for hundreds of students by constructing a standard school in a village in Injil district of Herat.
All essential supplies for students, including clothing, books, pens, and notebooks, have been provided free of charge.
Saad Khatibi, head of the charitable foundation, said: “We have provided in this school the kind of facilities that exist in neighboring and more developed countries. We have tried to ensure that all the requirements of a standard school are available here. Our primary focus is on talented students children who can become useful and effective members of society in the future.”
In addition to free education, clothing, books, school bags, pens, and notebooks are also distributed to students at no cost by the foundation.
Mustafa, one of the students, said: “Our school is a good place, and all the facilities we need are available. We have capable teachers who teach us very well.”
Keyhan, another student, said: “I have enrolled in this school, and both the facilities and the quality of education here are very good. We are not charged any fees, and clothing, bags, books, and all our necessities are provided free of charge so that we can study and serve our country in the future.”
Local residents say that the absence of a school in their village had previously deprived many children of access to education.
Sultan Mohammad, a local resident, said: “Previously, there was a school located farther away, but the quality of education was not good. Now that this school has been built, teachers provide proper instruction, and many people have turned to this school. It has more students than the previous one.”
Abdul Khalil, another resident, said: “The construction of this school has created many conveniences for the people. Children from all surrounding villages come here to study. Clothing and other student necessities are also free. This is a great service to the community, and we are grateful.”
According to officials of the charitable foundation, nearly one million dollars has been spent on the construction of this school and a nearby mosque.
They added that, to provide local youth with access to free higher education, a university is also planned to be built in the area in the near future.
The online school Darakht-e Danesh, operating under the “Right to Learn Afghanistan” initiative, has been named among the top 50 finalists for the 2026 global school prize. Final results of the competition are expected to be announced at the World Education Summit in London.
In a statement, the school said the competition is organized by the Varkey Foundation to recognize innovative educational programs worldwide.
The school was selected from around 3,000 entries across 113 countries and shortlisted in the “overcoming adversity” category for its work in expanding access to education.
The initiative was launched after the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in 2021, leaving millions without access to formal schooling across Afghanistan.
In response, the online platform was created to provide continued education for students unable to attend physical schools, particularly girls affected by restrictions.
Founded in 2022 with just 25 female students, the school has grown to more than 700 learners, about 92% of whom are girls.
Students are enrolled across 11 provinces in Afghanistan as well as in learning centers in Pakistan and Turkey, reflecting the program’s regional reach.
More than 4,000 additional students remain on a waiting list, highlighting strong demand for accessible and alternative education options.
The program delivers structured online lessons with qualified teachers, along with psychological support, academic counseling, and in some cases internationally recognized certification.
Over half of the teaching staff are women, and the initiative aims to promote equal access to education for both girls and boys despite ongoing restrictions.
The school has also introduced flexible learning models, including hybrid education for displaced students, English language support, offline learning during internet disruptions, and aid packages for vulnerable families.
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has again raised concerns over the continued ban on girls’ education, warning it could have serious long-term consequences for Afghanistan’s development and independence. His remarks come in response to a recent UNICEF report outlining the impact of current restrictions.
Citing the report, Karzai said Afghanistan could lose around 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030 if restrictions persist. He noted that more than two million girls are expected to be deprived of schooling during this period, deepening existing social and economic challenges.
Karzai stressed that denying education to girls weakens national capacity and increases reliance on foreign assistance. He warned that prolonged closures of schools and universities for girls would undermine Afghanistan’s ability to build a self-sustaining future.
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, secondary and higher education for girls has been largely suspended, drawing widespread international criticism. Efforts to reopen schools have so far failed to produce lasting policy changes, leaving millions without access to education.
The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have repeatedly highlighted the broader consequences of these restrictions, including their impact on public services. Female teachers and health workers play a critical role in Afghanistan, particularly in communities where cultural norms limit women’s access to male professionals.
UN projections indicate that by 2030, Afghanistan could face a shortage of about 20,000 female teachers and around 5,000 female health workers. Such gaps are expected to strain already fragile education and healthcare systems across the country.
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The Taliban will fall if the Iranian Mullahs fall. Not sure what the mechanism will be. Cutting our funding of them will help.
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Lots of governments and NGO have been donating to ongoing charitable projects in Afghanistan, each one no doubt worthy when examined on its own, all subject to rake-offs and cumshaw to the Taliban that gives the government a significant portion of the proceeds, stuff, jobs, and help, to the tune of millions or billions of dollars — but the donors and organizations comfort themselves that needy Afghans are getting at least some help.
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AFG is at least 1000 yrs behind us. Doubt there's any catching up in our lifetimes. They must be somewhere near the top of the list of incompatible cultures.
[ToloNews] A woman in Bamyan has created job opportunities for dozens of other women by establishing a dairy processing and packaging center.
At this center, milk collected daily from local livestock farmers is processed and then supplied to the market.
Fariba Andeshmand, 25, says that by setting up this center, she has provided direct and indirect job and income opportunities for dozens of women.
Speaking to TOLOnews, Fariba Andeshmand said: "The goal of establishing this center is to support the economic development of women and families in Bamyan. We are engaged in dairy processing, packaging, and the production of dried yogurt (qurut)."
She adds that she initially invested 100,000 Afghanis, but her operations have now expanded, and her investment has reached 1.5 million Afghanis.
Fariba Andeshmand said: "Directly and indirectly, around 150 families are registered with us. Of these, 100 families are organized into groups, each consisting of 25 families, while another 50 families supply products to our representatives in various sectors."
Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... some dairy sellers in Bamyan say that modern and processed dairy products have a better market compared to traditional ones and are more popular among consumers.
A dairy seller in Bamyan, Qurban Ali, said: "Products with standard packaging tend to sell better."
Local officials say they plan to establish two large dairy centers in different parts of the province to support livestock farmers and boost the production of quality dairy products.
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Too bad they don't have those pesky Buddhas attracting tourism $
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The Taliban don’t want that kind of tourist, Frank G. They’ve left archeological sites unguarded to encourage vandalism and theft, so that the evidence of a competing historical narrative evaporates. The Saudis have instead for decades erased historic sites, often by building over them, for the same reason.
[IsraelTimes] Fringe group is the latest to try, unsuccessfully, to revive animal sacrifice at the site of the ancient Jewish temples
Police said Sunday that they arrested 21 people suspected of trying to bring a sacrificial goat up to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday.
It was the second time in as many months that a group was arrested for attempting to perform a traditional sacrifice at the historical site of Judaism’s two ancient holy temples. While the temples have not existed and Jews have not performed such sacrifices for nearly 2,000 years, small groups ascend the mount perennially to try to revive the ritual, without success.
The Temple Mount, revered by Moslems as the Noble Sanctuary, is Judaism’s holiest site and one of the holiest sites in Islam, and has long been a flashpoint for conflict. Public Jewish prayer (and animal sacrifice) is prohibited there. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a frequent visitor to the site, has pushed to change the ban on prayer, prompting fury in the Moslem world and denials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the status quo has changed.
The group that took a goat to the mount on Friday was attempting to perform the sacrifice in honor of Pesach Sheni, or Second Passover. Before the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70 CE, the day offered an opportunity for Jews who were unable to bring the Passover sacrifice to do so exactly one Hebrew month later.
Police said that on Friday, "a group of rioters that arrived at one of the entrances tried to break through the gate with the goal of bringing a baby goat onto the grounds of the mount, thereby disrupting public order." "Is this your kid?"
They were arrested before they could perform the ritual sacrifice. The detainees were brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court and police sought to keep them in jug, but a judge released them.
Small groups have been trying to bring back sacrifice at the mount for years, connected to a fringe movement that seeks to build a Third Temple at the site where the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock now stand. Ritual sacrifice and actively working to reconstruct the temple have not been part of mainstream Jewish practice for many centuries,
…since the second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, in fact…
and Jewish legal authorities are divided on whether it is permissible for Jews to even set foot on the mount.
Back when the Maccabees took Jerusalem back from the Seleucid Empire of King Antiochus IV in about 167 BC, they first had to clean and reconsecrate the Temple and obtain pure olive oil for the menorah candelabra before bringing in the trained members of the priestly tribe of Levites to handle the services and sacrifices. There is now no Temple, no menorahs, no pure olive oil, and while the Cohens and Levites of the priestly tribe exist in abundance, none are trained to do the sacrifices as far as I am aware. How then can a bunch of radical doofuses accomplish anything but pollute the Temple Mount with their attempt? Idiots.
One month before Friday’s arrest, on the day when the Passover sacrifice would have been brought in ancient times, police arrested 14 Jewish men and boys for trying to smuggle sacrificial goats onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to the far-right legal aid group Honenu.
The group, called Returning to the Mount, has submitted a request annually to perform the Passover sacrifice, but has been denied by police. In 2024, 13 suspects, all between the ages of 13 and 21, were caught with goats in their possession that they intended to sacrifice for Passover, including one that was hidden inside a baby carriage and another inside a shopping bag, a police statement said at the time.
Similar incidents occurred in 2023 prior to Passover and sparked festivities with Moslem worshipers.
Nachum Israel Eber’s mutilated remains were discovered inside the abandoned closet after it was dumped on a street in Bogota on Sunday — just days after his family reported him missing, local media reported.
The 51-year-old divorced father, a member of the Belz Hasidic community in Borough Park, was looking for a love connection, a pal told The Post.
"It’s a terrible tragedy," friend Motti Dresdner said. "A person, a gentleman in his prime. He was always talking about his future, how he was going to get remarried and find a perfect bride and have a beautiful life. And to be cut off like this is very sad," he said.
He was originally mistaken for a rabbi by Colombian police and media, but his pal said he’s a property developer and plumber.
Authorities started searching for Eber after relatives in the Big Apple reported he had suddenly gone silent and stopped answering their calls.
Surveillance video captured Eber for the last time as he left his Airbnb in Bogota shortly after 9 p.m. on April 21 before he vanished without a trace.
Days later, locals reported finding the blue wardrobe with bloodstains around it dumped on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the city.
Authorities later confirmed that the remains were Eber’s.
Police in Bogota have not determined a motive for the grisly murder, but believe he may have fallen victim to violent mostly peaceful gangs that target tourists — and could have been robbed for his valuables and his identity, according to local outlets.
Eber’s family is now in the process of arranging for his remains to be transported to Israel, where he is expected to be buried.
They are pressuring Colombian authorities to avoid performing an autopsy on his body in keeping with their faith.
The US Embassy in Bogota did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"The community is devastated, the community is in shock, how a person goes there just to take care of personal business and ends up like this," Dresdner said. "It just makes everything feel unstable.
"He wouldn’t hurt a fly," he added. "He was always kind, always with a smile. He always spoke positively. In his hardest times, he would always talk about how things are going to work out for the best."
The Brooklyn Orthodox man brutally murdered in Colombia was reeling from the end of his one-month marriage to a teen bride — and was desperately looking for a new love when he was killed.
Yosef Matheron, a Colombian man who befriended Eber and helped translate for him, told The Post how Eber had met his 18-year-old wife before the brief union unraveled in January.
Thus far it matches the propaganda — 18 is indeed still a teenager, though of legal age to marry anywhere in America, so the outrage only works if the key detail is unmentioned. But wait — there’s more!
Eber met the much younger woman in Barranquilla and thought she was 20 years old, the pal said.
Matheron said he spent a lot of time with the pair, and he would often accompany them on dates to get ice cream.
“They were a religious couple, a very wholesome couple,” he said, “He didn’t drink alcohol, he didn’t use drugs, he was a religious man.”
The two were married in a ceremony in Barranquilla, and a dinner celebrating the union was held in Bogota, he said.
But it turns out his new in-laws lied about their daughter’s age — she was really 18, and was getting cold feet.
“The young woman eventually broke up with him, though mostly because she told him she didn’t feel ready — she felt she was too young and believed she had rushed into taking that step. But it was never something she was forced to do,” Matheron said of the marriage.
So it is a lurid tale, but not about an old Jewish pedophile preying on underage girls. Rather, this is about greedy foreign con men, possibly in connivance with a local matchmaker, or possibly they fooled the matchmaker too, lying to a good-hearted American mark to get access to a generous bank account and American citizenship, forcing their barely adult daughter to take part in the scam. It’s also about haters so gullible they’ll grab at anything to justify their prejudice, no matter how stupid, because it took me all of five minutes to find the truth, all at a single news site. Usually it takes me more work to track down the facts of a hoax. The discussion thread attached to the tweet is just as stupidly vile as you imagine, dear Reader.
[Inc] Researchers use AI to uncover how a chest gland shapes long‑term health outcomes.
Your upper chest could be the key to your long-term health. A new study found a correlation between the health of a human’s thymus and the likelihood of cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Published on Wednesday in the science journal Nature, researchers detailed the "crucial" effect of the thymus on long-term health and lifespan, reshaping prior assumptions about the organ.
"These findings reposition the thymus as a central regulator of immune‑ mediated aging and disease susceptibility in adulthood," the report states.
THYMUS HEALTH A KEY INDICATOR
Using AI tools, scientists analyzed more than 27,000 patient scans and medical records to evaluate thymus health. According to the journal, people with high thymic health had a mortality rate of 13.4 percent, compared with 25.5 percent among those with low thymic health.
The thymus, a two-lobed gland sitting in the upper chest between the lungs, is responsible for T-lymphocytes, white blood cells that protect the body against pathogens and diseases.
The team analyzed the size, shape, and composition of the thymus, generating a “thymic health” score. People with high thymic health scores had about a 50% lower risk of death, 63% lower risk of cardiovascular death, and 36% lower risk of developing lung cancer compared to those with low thymic health.
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What I can't understand is, if the battery in the robot is too big to fly, why did they let it on the plane to begin with? Anybody else would have been required to get off.
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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.
...every time you hear the phrase 
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