[USA Today] Faster, please
Florida has executed James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone within about five hours of each other. Duckett was a former cop convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl. Occhicone murdered his ex's parents.
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New chamber. New switch. Who will pull it?
Cue Florida man with a mullet.
"It's way less expensive..."
"And -- yay! -- more offensive..."
"To kill two condemned with one bullet."
Posted by: chris ||
07/29/2026 5:58 Comments ||
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James Duckett
was convicted on May 10, 1988, for the murder and sexual battery of 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee. He was finally flushed in 2026. That's 38 years of taxpayer feeding, housing and medically caring for this POS. Before finally flushing him, likely a few years before Old Age would have gotten him.
Dominick Occhicone
was convicted back in 1986 and it took the State of Fla. 40 years to finally flush this POS.
Note: Since he was 80 at the flush time. Did they have to wheelchair him to the execution?
[FoxNews] Class I recall marks 'hazard situation' with potential for 'serious, adverse health consequences or death'
More than 12,000 pounds of imported smoked bacon have been recalled, according to an alert from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The not-ready-to-eat bacon, which is sold in three states, is produced by Maple Leaf Foods, Inc., located in Lisle, Illinois. It was distributed to grocery distributors and retailers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Fox News Digital reached out to Maple Leaf Foods requesting comment.
The bacon was recalled because it was imported from Canada without undergoing a required U.S. import inspection, the USDA stated in its July 24 alert.
How did that happen? Did we skip a step or did someone up in Canada?
The issue was discovered during routine inspection activities.
The USDA classified this as a Class I recall, its most serious category of recalls.
The FSIS defines a Class I recall as a "health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."
The Class I designation reflects the potential risk posed by the inspection failure, but does not indicate any confirmed illnesses linked to consumption of the bacon.
The recalled products — produced on June 9, June 10, June 12, June 13 and June 15, 2026 — include the following, per the USDA alert.
Anyone who has any of these products in their fridge or freezer should throw them away or return them to the place where they were purchased, health officials advised.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency ( JMA ) reported this on July 28.
The tremors were recorded at 10:27 a.m. local time (4:27 a.m. Moscow time). The epicenter of the earthquake was in Kumamoto Prefecture. The maximum intensity on Japan's Shindo scale was 7.0, the highest level.
Following the earthquake, a tsunami warning of up to 1 meter in height was issued for the coasts of Ariake and Yatsushiro Bays. No casualties were reported.
Earlier, on June 25, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the northeastern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. The earthquake's center was located at a depth of 39 to 51.7 kilometers. The following day, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo. The earthquake's center was located at a depth of 20 kilometers. The tremors were felt across much of the country, and there was no tsunami threat.
REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨
I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
The names include:
- Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist
- Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder
- Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst
- Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter
- Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
Also identified:
- Steve Clemons, former The Hill editor-at-large
- David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter
- Jonathan Alter, NBC News and MSNBC political analyst
- David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor
- Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
Also on the roster:
- Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor
- Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek editor
- Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent
- Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist
- Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
The list continues:
- Craig Gilbert, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington bureau chief
- Tony Semerad, Salt Lake Tribune reporter
- Shikha Dalmia, former The Week columnist
- Jonathan Broder, former Newsweek senior writer
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
Also identified:
- Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor
- Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor
- Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
Trip organizer CUSEF was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a former senior official in the CCP’s United Front system, the influence apparatus Beijing uses to cultivate foreign elites and shape institutions outside China.
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
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Jul 27
A bipartisan congressional report says the United Front works to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition” to the CCP.
American media was not incidental to the strategy. It was a target.
#1
I think these folks were on the Chinese payroll the same way that Biden family members were. By that, I mean that they were paid by China and also by other countries and interests. Were big pharma or Ukraine also paying some of these people? I would think so.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/29/2026 6:50 Comments ||
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Yesterday was about American universities receiving CCP funding, today influential reporters
Tomorrow US congress-persons, friday government officials?
#3
The Chinese control of American politicians was in the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop which was released before the 2020 election.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/29/2026 7:52 Comments ||
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So what! This is out to do nothing more than further divide us. The Chinese probably leaked it out first. No one is going to charge them, not one of them. They are all rich, fat and happy. Their inner circle of friends are cheering and out government will do nothing, so again,,, SO WHAT!
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
07/29/2026 11:04 Comments ||
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Short version: All of them.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
07/29/2026 11:57 Comments ||
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Countries are allowed to have foreign agents as long as they register under FARA. This goes for every country: Russia, Belgium, Chad, Qatar and China. Being unregistered is the crime.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] American Airlines announced Tuesday evening that it was experiencing a 'systemwide IT outage' and had grounded all of its planes across the United States.
The airline posted on social media that its 'systems are down.'
'Our IT team is working as quickly as possible to get everything restored,' it added.
The Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control System Command Center then issued a ground stop advisory – preventing all American Airlines planes nationwide from taking off.
It remains unclear what may have caused the outage, but as of 6.30pm ET, more than 1,500 people reported having trouble with the American Airlines app on Downdetector.
Comments on a Reddit thread also suggested the issue was affecting employee systems, with one user bemoaning: 'I can't even sign into the company website or video training or anything.'
Amid the ground stop, FlightRadar24 reported there were approximately 130 fewer flights in the air than during the same time last week.
The issue seemed to have been resolved after about an hour, as the airline posted online that its systems were 'coming back online' and flights began to depart their airports.
Still, FlightAware showed that 30 percent of all American Airlines flights were delayed.
Yes, AA has been hacked/compromised a number of times over just the last 4 years alone. (eg.2022, 2024, and 2025)
But the IT techies are pointing to a more likely DNS or Routing outage/issue. Given the AA public website, mobile app's, and AA employee terminal networks all went down simultaneously. It could have just been a DNS, or BGP routing failure within AA's network. Or Yes, a DOS attack.
[IsraelTimes] Chad announced plans yesterday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the judicial body of ineffectiveness and bias against African countries.
The country submitted a letter to the United Nations to begin withdrawing from the court, which was established to prosecute people responsible for humanity’s worst crimes under its foundational treaty, the Rome Statute. The withdrawal process takes at least a year.
Chad is the fourth African country since 2025 to begin withdrawing from the ICC. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced last year they would pull out of the court based in The Hague.
Good to know.
The court is already facing daunting challenges, including the removal last week of its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, over sexual misconduct allegations.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this month said the US was launching a campaign to dismantle what he called the threat posed to its national sovereignty by the ICC. A February 2025 executive order signed by US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court over investigations of Israel.
The US Bureau of African Affairs called on more of the 125 member states to withdraw from the Rome Statute in a post yesterday on X.
“The United States welcomes Chad’s decision to withdraw from the ICC and join the growing number of nations reclaiming their sovereignty from this flawed institution,” the agency
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.
