[FoxNews] Tyler Brown allegedly fired 50 to 60 rounds, striking two drivers on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Outrage erupted online following a chaotic police-involved shooting in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, with critics pointing to the suspected gunman’s criminal history after authorities said he opened fire along a busy roadway.
Video shared by FOX 25 Boston appears to show the suspect, identified by Middlesex County District Attorney Marian T. Ryan as Tyler Brown, walking down the street while firing as cars pass nearby, prompting a heavy law enforcement response.
The station reported the video shows the suspect being shot, though the portion of the footage it shared does not include that moment.
Massachusetts State Police said troopers responded around 1:20 p.m. to a shooting involving law enforcement in the area of Memorial Drive and River Street.
"EMS has responded to the scene to treat at least one individual for a gunshot wound," the agency said, adding that no additional details about the circumstances were immediately available.
Cambridge Police Department (CPD) said officers were called shortly after 1:30 p.m. for reports of gunshots in the same area, noting there is no ongoing danger to the public.
Ryan said the incident began after Boston police alerted authorities about a man acting erratically who was believed to be armed with a rifle.
By the time officers arrived, the situation had escalated into what officials described as an active shooter incident, with the suspect walking down the middle of Memorial Drive and firing in an erratic manner as traffic came to a halt.
"In the course of doing that, two males in vehicles separately were struck by gunfire," Ryan said.
Authorities said a Massachusetts State Police trooper and an armed civilian — described as a former Marine licensed to carry — confronted the suspect as people fled their vehicles and sought cover.
Both the trooper and the civilian fired their weapons, striking Brown multiple times in the extremities, Ryan said. Brown was treated at the scene and transported to a Boston hospital, where he remains in custody.
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Governments claim to made Gun control laws to protect its citizens. But Criminals do not obey Gun control laws. As such, gun control laws tend to protect criminals more than citizens.
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How things have changed. I grew up in western MA. My grandmother bought me my first gun when I was 14... with Green Stamps... only 16 books as I recall...
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[RUSVESNA] The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released declassified documents containing reports of mysterious creatures approximately 1.2 meters tall emerging from unidentified flying objects in the 1960s, according to the Daily Mail, citing the files.
Researchers pointed to 1965 as the year with the highest number of UFO sightings worldwide. FBI reports described supposed metallic objects capable of hovering silently in the air, reaching high speeds, and interfering with electromagnetic equipment.
There are also mentions of the discovery of "flying saucer" debris and materials of unknown origin, including structures containing microscopic spheres. The documents devote special attention to eyewitness accounts of witnesses who claimed to have observed the "crews" of these objects. According to them, the beings were approximately 1.1–1.2 meters tall and were dressed in suits resembling spacesuits and helmets.
It’s a great distractor from all the important and urgent things going on elsewhere. I wonder what that lot made of the experimental series a Korean War veteran/factory mechanic friend of mine and his temporarily idle colleagues got up to back in the 1970s to see what people would think they saw. It is very, very dangerous to leave such men enough free time to find their own amusements… In this case, they inflated and sealed large trash bags, singly and in groups of various sizes, lights/no lights/blinking lights in patterns, set to float at various heights… And then they watched the local and national news, snickering. Since nobody knew where the things came from, they were legitimately characterized as unidentified flying objects. I still have my copy of his memoir of the work they did somewhere.
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I argue that if these are distractors, what are they distracting from?
No one get's punished.
No one goes to jail.
No one gets investigated.
There's increasing little curiosity in the growing pool of low iqs.
If there was no UFO story in the news cycle, what would get traction? This does not seem to steal any momentum from any other thing. If this was not in the news cycle, I have zero expectations that anything else would get more coverage.
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What from? Giving news space to DOGE and other government clean-ups, ICE round ups, building on to the border wall, DOJ/FBI research and arrests, downsizing the fed… all the things the Democrats/ Pro progressive like to gather together about a beat up innocent passers by.
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^ my first guess would be a multi-media immersion indoctrination training aid for the primitiveness(?) of nose camera tracking video. Cop body-cam 'in your face' videos are so much more titillating. AI political sound bite videos are less general, more directed, more refined. Detracts from the superior military technology meme.
Which is a smoke screen for what's really out there.
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NOBODY mentioned in the Epstein files has been arrested.
This little green men nonsense is a distraction, as was correctly noted above. Where are the arrests, the trials, the prison sentences? There never will be any.
PS love the pro-athiest meme, saved it!
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump is eyeing oil-rich Venezuela as a potential 51st state as officials continue to court oil companies for investments in the South American country following the U.S. intervention that removed President Nicolas Maduro from power.
Trump said in a phone call with Fox News that he is motivated by the estimated $40 trillion value of oil in Venezuela, adding that he is popular with the country's citizens.
"Venezuela loves Trump," Trump said.
After U.S. military officials captured Maduro in January, whom the Justice Department indicted on narco-terrorism charges, Trump said the United States would "run" the country during its transitional period and work with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
In January, Trump pledged to have the U.S. oil industry "up and and running" again in Venezuela. Major energy companies like Exxon and Conoco were expelled from the country nearly 20 years ago when former President Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil industry, leaving Chevron as the only U.S. major oil company with investments in Venezuela.
[FoxNews] Under Chinese law, the suspended death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment without parole
Two former Chinese defense ministers have been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption, in one of the most severe punishments handed down to senior military officials in recent years.
Reuters reported that Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu received the suspended death sentences on May 7 following graft convictions by China’s military court, according to state media.
The ruling underscores the depth of President Xi Jinping’s long-running anti-corruption campaign within the armed forces, the outlet said.
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, Wei was convicted of accepting bribes, while Li was found guilty of both accepting and offering bribes, based on court documents.
Both men were also stripped of their political rights for life and ordered to forfeit all personal property.
Under Chinese law, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve is typically commuted to life imprisonment if the individual does not commit further crimes during the suspension period.
In this case, the penalties will be reduced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or further commutation after the reprieve period ends.
Wei Fenghe, 72, served as China’s defense minister from 2018 to 2023, while Li Shangfu, 68, held the post for only a few months as his successor.
Both men were former state councillors and members of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), the top military leadership body chaired by Xi.
They also previously led the People’s Liberation Army’s Rocket Force, a key branch established in 2015 as part of Xi’s sweeping military reforms.
The Rocket Force oversees China’s nuclear arsenal as well as its conventional missile systems, making it one of the most strategically significant arms of the military.
The sentences signal an escalation in Xi’s campaign to root out corruption in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), a drive that has targeted senior officials since he took power in 2012.
The crackdown intensified in 2023, when investigations reached the Rocket Force and other elite units.
Both Wei and Li were expelled from the ruling Communist Party in June 2024.
Singapore-based security scholar James Char told Reuters the sentences were the harshest imposed on members of the Central Military Commission in recent history.
"That Wei and Li have been commuted to life imprisonment without parole or commutation underlines the severity of their offences," he said.
[NewsFutunn] Starting from the end of May, well-known Japanese snack manufacturer Calbee will begin shipping chips, shrimp crackers, and cereal in black-and-white packaging to retailers; ② Some Japanese netizens have commented that even people who do not follow Middle Eastern affairs will feel “something is off” when they see the “black-and-white” chips in supermarkets.
Cailian Press report on May 12 (edited by Shi Zhengzhi) As a tangible manifestation of the impact of the Iran war on oil supplies, it was reported late Monday Tokyo time that Japanese snack maker Calbee would switch its flagship product packaging to black and white due to the inability to secure a supply of color printing ink.
According to sample images provided by the company, this change seems not limited to black-and-white printing as the chips and cartoon character endorsements on the packaging have also disappeared.
Calbee stated that this change was “influenced by the situation in the Middle East,” as procurement of packaging materials such as ink has become unstable, prompting the decision to adopt a simpler design. As for how long the “black-and-white packaging” will last, no specific date has been announced at this time.
It is reported that Calbee had already notified retailers and wholesalers on May 8 that this change would affect 14 key products, with the first batch scheduled for shipment on May 25. Consumers may see black-and-white packaged Calbee chips, shrimp crackers, and cereal on supermarket shelves by the end of May.
The company informed its trading partners: “If circumstances change in the future, new impacts may arise, and additional measures may be required along with cooperation from all parties.”
As background, since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February, the obstruction of the Hormuz shipping route has persisted for nearly two and a half months, causing a shortage of naphtha, a key raw material for the chemical industry, which in turn affected the supply of solvents and resins—both essential components for printing ink.
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FYI - the related articles (Naphtha) are not found on this server.
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Yes, they are, NN2N1. In the 5/4 article — a round-up on Ukraine, naphtha is mentioned twice in item 14.55, in the bottom two lines of that paragraph. The other two articles no doubt have similar scant information.
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Sometimes weirdness from the translation impedes fast scans.
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 3, 2026 14.55 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky informed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Major General Yevgeniy Khmara, about the success of the attack on hostile targets near the port of Primorsk. In other words, as a result of a comprehensive operation of the SBU, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the State Cordon Service, the following objects of the Russian Federation were damaged: a missile ship "Karakurt"; patrol boat; tanker of dark naphtha fleet. The infrastructure of the naphtha loading port of the aggressor region has also experienced significant improvements.
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 27, 2026 20.11 Naphtha obstruction, which broke down after the fire at the terminal in Tuapse, continues to expand and has now extended to 77 km along the coast of the Black Sea. Kommersant informs the Russian government about this, following the statement of a member of the Human Rights Committee under the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, ecologist Evgen Vitishka.
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: March 24, 2026 20.24 In the Leningrad region of Russia, they still cannot extinguish the fire at the oil depot in the port of Primorsk, which was attacked by drones. The Russian service of Radio Liberty reported about this.
The attack on the “tank with naphtha products” was previously confirmed by the regional governor Oleksandr Drozdenko. In his own words, “we obtained over 50 units of equipment for extermination.”
[ZERO] In a significant development announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice, Arcadia, California Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government - the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Wang, 58, has agreed to plead guilty to the felony, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. She resigned from her position as mayor and Arcadia City Council member this afternoon following the unsealing of the case.
According to court filings and the DOJ’s Central District of California announcement, Wang and her former fiancé, Yaoning "Mike" Sun, operated the U.S. News Center, a website that presented itself as a news source for the local Chinese-American community. From late 2020 through 2022, they received and executed directives from PRC government officials - primarily via WeChat - to post pro-PRC propaganda. Examples include publishing pre-written articles denying forced labor or genocide in Xinjiang, editing content at the direction of Chinese officials, and sharing view counts and links in coordinated group chats. PRC officials reportedly praised the speed and effectiveness of the posts, with messages such as "So fast, thank you everyone" and "Great!"
[NYP] WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort to end potentially risky experiments with viruses pursuant to President Trump’s executive order on so-called "gain-of-function" research.
Gabbard told The Post Monday in a statement that her team is going "to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ’research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world."
"The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have," the spy chief also said.
"Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called health professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth."
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My guess is that they are funded by the CIA. I guess I’m a conspiracy theorist through and through. I thought Ray Epps was a Fed. I just can’t break my streak of wrong guesses.
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/\ I just can’t break my streak of wrong guesses.
If ANY nation is gonna play with deadly bugs.
Then it should be mandatory, that it be done on a remote isolated island with strict access, travel and Isolation rules.
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.
[ZERO] In a significant development announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice, Arcadia, California Mayor 
[NYP] WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort to end potentially risky experiments with viruses pursuant to President Trump’s executive order on so-called "gain-of-function" research.
