[Breitbart] Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) as part of the tech giant’s efforts to stop the governor from passing legislation in the state that would require app stores to verify the ages of its users.
Last week, Cook called Abbott to ask for changes to the online child safety legislation, or if that failed, the Apple CEO requested a veto, people familiar with the call told the Wall Street Journal.
The sources added that the conversation between the two men was cordial, noting that the purpose of the call was to make it clear to Gov. Abbott that Apple’s desire to see the law stopped goes all the way to the top of the company.
The Texas governor has not yet revealed whether he plans to sign the bill, which has already passed through the state’s legislature with veto-proof majorities.
Notably, Apple deployed lobbyists to pressure lawmakers in the weeks leading up to the legislation passing through the Texas legislature, but those moves were apparently to no avail.
If the bill is signed by Gov. Abbott, it would make Texas the largest state in the nation to implement what is known as an App Store accountability law. So far, Utah is the only state that has passed similar legislation, while at least nine other states have seen the law proposed.
But the legislation being passed in Texas is crucial, as some believe it could set the precedent for more states to follow suit, and thus, possibly create new costs for Apple and Google, tech giants that are currently worth 2.92 trillion and $2.076 trillion, respectively.
The online child safety law would mandate that tech giants housing app stores verify the age of a device owner, so that if the user is a minor, their app store account will be connected to a parent’s account, allowing parents to have more control over what their children are doing on their smartphones.
[Daily Mail where America gets it news] An Italian tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and taunted with a chainsaw for weeks inside a lavish SoHo apartment by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, it's been revealed.
John Woeltz, 37, was arrested in New York on Friday after the unnamed tourist escaped the house of horrors and informed a police officer that he had been kidnapped and tortured for weeks.
Kentucky-born Woeltz was allegedly part of a group that concocted a sadistic scheme to lure the tourist to New York so they could access his crypto account.
Police said the victim was tied up with electrical cords and electrocuted as Woeltz attempted to gain access to his passwords, reports the New York Post.
The victim, a 28-year-old man, was then tasered with his feet in the water and pistol-whipped.
The alleged kidnappers even had a chainsaw and threatened to cut the victim's legs off if he didn't reveal his passwords to his crypto accounts.
In addition to the disturbing physical torture, Woeltz and his associates are accused of forcing the victim to take cocaine.
They documented the bone-chilling acts using a Polaroid camera. Police uncovered the photographs in the house of horrors, sources told the Post.
Investigators said the victim met Woeltz on May 6, and the two had prior business dealings with one another.
Woeltz then led the man back to his luxury townhouse in SoHo, where he allegedly snatched his passport and held him captive.
The victim told police that he escaped the house of horrors on Friday after his captors allegedly warned they were planning on killing him later that day.
He flagged down a nearby police officer, and Woeltz was subsequently arrested barefoot in his bathrobe.
The victim was transported to a local hospital with cuts and injuries he sustained from the torture.
A jewelry vendor on the block told the New York Post, 'I knew there was something weird going on, I just assumed they were shooting porn or something. I couldn’t have guessed all this.'
Woeltz is a crypto entrepreneur and investor from Kentucky and was renting the luxurious 8-bedroom 10-bathroom home on Prince Street.
The photos show an absolutely beautiful property — a wonderful example of big city living, for those who can afford such things.
The listing was most recently rented for $75,000.
A woman named Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also arrested in connection with the kidnapping, the NYPD confirmed.
Two other individuals believed to have worked for Woeltz were also interviewed by police, but no other arrests have been made.
Soon to be the basis for the usual crime television shows.
BLUF: Suffering an excess of adrenalin after an exciting exercise, they acted like thoughtless idiots in public, scaring innocent civilians. Take your punishment like gentlemen, guys, and don’t be that kind of stupid again.
[ZeroHedge] New viral video has emerged showing an incident near a beach and popular tourist island spot off Florida, which the US Army is now investigating. The unusual incident has quickly made national headlines.
Eighteen soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion were temporarily suspended as instructors amid a formal inquiry into the May 16 incident, which involved some of them discharging their weapons at a public beach. Soldiers shot blanks into the air from a small tactical boat while closely surrounded by civilian boats.
The shots from machine guns caused enough of a scene for people nearby to call 911 - not realizing they were blanks. It all happened at a crowded beach and boating area along Florida’s Emerald Coast, and in one social media video a woman can be heard frantically asking whether real bullets were being fired.
Many cars can also be seen in one video traversing a nearby bridge at a distance behind where the weapons discharges were happening aboard the Army boats.
Apparently there was screaming and some bystanders ran for cover, thinking there was some kind of mass shooting incident. According to the NY Times:
Earlier that day, the Rangers had gone to a popular boating area several miles away, Crab Island, which is in Choctawhatchee Bay, and some fired blanks there, too, according to city officials.
Video posted on social media showed two small boats with uniformed military personnel in a crowded area near other vessels carrying passengers as well as bathers in the water. In the video, at least one of the personnel fires into the air.
It seems not every incident of shooting was caught on film, but other locations where blanks were fired may have caused more chaos among unsuspecting beach revelers.
"At least five calls reporting the gunfire came in to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office just before 3:30 p.m. on May 16, a spokeswoman said," NY Times notes.
A local city official said as follows: "What happened at Crab Island was not part of the Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival, nor was it approved by either the City of Fort Walton Beach or the Billy Bowlegs organization."
The comment was based on speculation that the firing of blanks by the Army Rangers had been part of a large boating festival which involves mock gun battles and fireworks displays.
"We take this situation seriously and are investigating," an Army spokesperson has said. "The Army will ensure accountability based on the outcome of the investigation."
The large-scale suspension of the instructors, which is highly unusual, may actually delay a training program which had been ongoing.
Pix/heartwarmingcover.jpg[Daily Mail, whree America gets its news] When three San Diego police officers walked up Anthony Elliott's driveway, they mentally prepared to deliver the awful news that their colleague and friend had been shot in the head.
But before they could even ring the doorbell, Tony's voice crackled through the speaker - calm, unmistakable, alive.
It was December 2023 when Sergeant Elliott, a decorated San Diego police officer, former Navy sailor, SWAT team member, and father-of-two, was chasing a suspect through rows of shopping carts at the front of a grocery store in the leafy suburb of Carmel Valley when everything went black.
The suspect, involved in a domestic violence case and known to be dangerous, climbed over a brick wall before turning back around with a concealed weapon and firing.
'He jumped a wall. I was right behind him. I didn't even see the gun because of the angle. Next thing I know, I'm five feet away and he shoots me in the head.'
The bullet struck Elliott in the head, entering his skull, burrowing into his brain, but incredibly stopping just short of ending his life - but remarkably, Elliott never lost consciousness.
He remembers the moment with chilling clarity - the way he caught himself on nearby shopping carts with the one side of his body that still worked, preventing a second impact to his head that might have proven fatal.
'It's ironic,' he said. 'It's usually the secondary blow - hitting the pavement - that finishes you off. But I caught myself. That probably saved my life.'
While blood pooled onto the concrete beneath him, Elliott still had the presence of mind to issue instructions to his squad - not about tactics or arrests, but about love.
'Tell my kids daddy's going to be okay,' he told one of them. 'Tell my wife I love her. I wanted them to know I tried.
He remembers telling his fellow officers how to tend to his wound and remembers thinking of his toddler son and his newborn brother.
'I knew what was happening. I told my guys to check for an exit wound. I knew I was shot. I couldn't move my left side. I figured this is it. So I started saying my goodbyes.'
Touchingly recalling the moment, Elliott explained: 'I wasn't thinking about my career. I wasn't thinking about my house or my job,' he said. 'I was thinking about my wife and my boys. That's all.'
Medics rushed him into an ambulance and began ripping off his uniform on the trauma bed, and Elliott somehow still had his phone.
'I've seen that bed a thousand times - I've stood over it while others laid on it. Now it was me.'
He tried calling Laura, but her phone was off. With two babies at home, she was catching up on some sleep. His experience told him what would come next.
'I knew they were going to come to my house and say I'd been shot in the head,' Elliott recalled in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
'Before they can say "...but he's okay," she'll already think I'm dead. I couldn't let her feel that.
'I wanted my wife Laura to hear my voice. I figured, how could I be dead if she could hear me talking?'
So he waited for the Ring camera to activate. And when three of his fellow officers showed up to deliver the dreaded news, Elliott spoke through the speaker, shocking his colleagues while also attempting to soothe his wife in his darkest moment.
Officers flinched in disbelief. Elliott, laying in a trauma unit with a bullet lodged in his brain, had accessed his Ring camera remotely - all to spare his wife a few seconds of anguish.
'You guys are good looking,' Elliott said through the Ring camera.
'What’s up dude?' one of his colleagues said casually in response.
'She's going to freak out when she sees you, just be prepared,' he told them, with one officer telling him he was there because she would recognize them.
Another asks 'how are you feeling?' prompting a candid, 'I'm feeling like I got shot in the head' from Elliott.
As they walk in, one officer says, 'hey Tony, we're inside... we'll see you soon alright.'
Doctors were stunned Elliott survived the initial injury. Even more astonishing was the fact he was talking, thinking, planning. His brain had absorbed the bullet, but it hadn't shut down.
'The doctors wanted to see what I could do - if I could still speak, if I still had presence of mind. They let me go through with the call.'
Days later he was flown on December 23, 2023 to Craig Hospital in Colorado, one of the nation's top neurological rehab centers.
Upon arrival, the Denver Police SWAT team stood at attention in salute - a rare and emotional show of solidarity for one of their own from across the country.
At Craig, doctors told Elliott he would likely leave in a wheelchair but such was his level of determination to overcome his injuries he walked out less than four weeks later.
'It was like drinking from a fire hose,' Elliott said. 'They push you hard - walk on one foot, recite the alphabet, balance, everything. But I said yes to everything.
'I pushed myself every day. They told me to take one step - the next day, I asked to do five. Instead, they said, 'We're climbing stairs today.' So we did.'
His mission was to flood the brain with motion, activity, memory - anything to rebuild neural pathways before the window of opportunity closed.
'I had to do as much as possible in six months, before the swelling went down. That's the sweet spot for recovery.'
By January 16, 2024, Elliott was back in San Diego - standing, walking, holding his kids. But the recovery wasn't over.
He entered a brain therapy outpatient program at Scripps to relearn how to write, plan, and organize.
His left leg remained numb. He struggled with brain fog. But he kept pushing.
'Still feels like static, like a fuzzy TV screen. But I run on it anyway,' he said referring to his leg.
He told how the best therapy of all was wrestling with his toddlers on the floor of the family's North County apartment every evening.
'My wife brought the kids to Denver. After therapy, I'd come home to our little apartment, and they'd want to wrestle. So I wrestled with one arm. That was the best therapy.
'That's what healed me. Not just the rehab - the routine. The bedtime stories, the tickle fights, the diapers. That's what made me fight.'
In September 2024, Elliott returned to work, initially first in a desk role with the SWAT unit. Then, just one week ago, he stunned his department again as he was back on patrol.
'I'm not going to do it forever,' he insists. 'My wife, Laura, is sacrificing so much just to let me try. It's hard on her. But I needed closure. I needed to know I could still do it.'
The first day back in the car was jarring.
'I felt like I didn't belong, like I'd forgotten everything. But by day two, it all came back. It was like I never left.'
For now, he's back on graveyard shifts, checking boxes, closing cases, and proving the impossible is sometimes just a mindset.
Elliott says he doesn't plan to stay forever - just long enough to prove he can. Then, he'll find a role that's safer for his family. Because while his job matters, his home is everything.
'When I was dying, I wasn't thinking about promotions. I was thinking about bedtime stories. That's what matters.'
Elliott has now begun to try his hand at public speaking, sharing his journey to motivate others.
His themes: resilience, mindset, never getting complacent, and always remembering what matters most.
'Everyone preaches resilience,' he said. 'But unless you've really had to claw your way back from something, it's just talk. I've lived it. I want to help others live through it too.
'And if my kids grow up knowing daddy didn't quit - that he fought to come back, for them - maybe that'll mean something.
'If I learned anything,' he said, 'it's that family is everything. When I thought I was dying, I didn't think about medals or jobs. I just wanted to tell my kids I love them. I just wanted to play with them one more time.'
In the midst of all the horrors, a small thing worth celebrating.
[Garowe] The Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... Ministry of Education and Higher Learning announced Saturday that 23,768 students are registered to sit for the unified 8th and 12th grade exams this year, representing a 9.61% increase compared with 2024.
Last year, 21,685 students took the exams, meaning an increase of 2,083 candidates in 2025. The ministry attributed the rise to ongoing efforts to improve education quality and expand equal access to learning opportunities across the Federal State in northeastern Somalia.
The exams are being held at 151 centers across 33 districts. Puntland’s Vice President, Ilyas Osman Lugatoor, officially inaugurated the unified exams on Saturday Morning, May 24.
Officials said the growing number of exam candidates reflects increasing public confidence in the government’s education system. The ministry emphasized its commitment to providing quality education services, particularly in remote areas and underserved communities.
This year, the ministry also expanded exam centers and strengthened measures to ensure transparency and integrity throughout the exam process.
Passing the 8th grade exam typically allows students to advance to secondary school, while success in the 12th grade exam opens doors to university studies.
Parents, teachers, security officials, and local communities were praised for their support during the exam period.
The ministry pledged to continue enhancing education in Puntland to further increase student enrollment and improve education standards in the future.
[Euro News] The European Union vowed to drastically cut imports of gas from Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine but data shows the bloc's purchases of Russian-made liquefied natural gas (LNG) have soared.
According to new findings released by Global Witness, an environmental watchdog organisation, the European Union bought 21.6 million cubic metres (mcm) of Russian LNG between January and July of this year, a small increase compared to the same period in 2022, when imports totalled 21.3 mcm.
But when the 2023 figure is measured against the same period in 2021, prior to the Kremlin's decision to wage war on Ukraine, it results in a 39.5% surge, an embarrassing percentage for a bloc that has forcefully condemned the invasion as an illegal, brutal and ruthless attempt to subjugate Ukraine's independence.
Making matters more uncomfortable, three member states can be found among the five major clients of Russian LNG in the first seven months of his year: China came on top with 8.7 mcm in purchases, followed by Spain (7.5 mcm), Belgium (7.1 mcm), Japan (7 mcm) and France (4.5 mcm).
As coastal countries, Spain, Belgium and France have become busy destinations for LNG carriers, which need to unload their supplies on sophisticated terminals where the cooled-down liquid is turned back into gaseous form and sent to power plants.
[AnNahar] 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... is seeking to arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer, as it denied the warship suffered major damage — a claim quickly met with outside skepticism.
A statement from North Korea on its handling of the botched launch came after 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... expressed fury over the incident that he said was caused by criminal negligence. The main military committee said Friday that those responsible would be held accountable for their "unpardonable criminal act."
Satellite imagery on the site showed the vessel lying on its side and draped in blue covers, with parts of it submerged. North Korea says it will take about 10 days to repair the damage, but outside observers question that timeframe because damage to the ship appeared much worse than what North Korea claims.
Here is what you need to know about the failed ship launch:
HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS THERE TO THE SHIP?
North Korea's state media said Friday the severity of the damage to the 5,000-ton-class destroyer was "not serious" as it canceled an earlier assessment that the bottom of the hull had been left with holes.
It said the hull on the starboard side was scratched and some seawater had flowed into the stern section. It said it needs a total of 10 days to pump out the seawater, set the ship upright and fix the scratches.
It's almost impossible to verify the assessment because of the extremely secretive nature of North Korea. It has a history of manipulating or covering up military-related setbacks, policy fiascoes and other mishaps, though it has periodically acknowledged some in recent years.
Lee Illwoo, an expert with the Korea Defense Network in South Korea, said the North Korean warship likely suffered much worse damage, including the flooding of its engine room located in the stern section, and holes in the starboard. He said North Korea could simply set the ship upright, paint it over and claim the ship has been launched, but that repairs could take more than a year as the replacement of an engine requires cutting the hull.
WHY THE SHIP'S LAUNCH FAILED
According to the North Korean account, the destroyer was damaged when a transport cradle on the ship's stern detached early during a launch ceremony at the northeastern port of Chongjin on Wednesday.
Moon Keun-sik, a navy expert who teaches at Seoul's Hanyang University, said North Korean workers are probably not familiar with launching a 5,000-ton-class warship, which is a few times heavier than its existing main navy ships.
Observers say North Korea tried to launch the destroyer sideways, a method it has never used for warships, although it has previously employed it with big cargo and passenger ships.
Compared with those non-military vessels, Lee sad it would be more difficult to maintain balance with the destroyer because it's equipped with heavy weapons systems. He suspected North Korean scientists and officials likely did not factor that in.
HOW KIM HAS REACTED
The damaged ship is assessed as the same class as North Korea's first destroyer, launched with great fanfare last month with a floating dry dock at a western shipyard. It is North Korea's biggest and most advanced warship to date, and Kim called its construction "a breakthrough" in modernizing North Korea's naval forces to cope with what he calls U.S.-led security threats.
Subsequently, a failure to launch the second destroyer was an embarrassment for Kim. But by disclosing the failure both internally and externally, Kim could be trying to show his resolve in building greater naval forces and boosting discipline at home. He ordered officials to repair the warship before a ruling Workers' Party meeting in late June.
The official Korean Central News Agency said Friday that a team of prosecutors and experts began steps to arrest and investigate those responsible as part of their full-scale investigation into the case. KCNA said that Hong Kil Ho, manager of the Chongjin shipyard, has been summoned for questioning.
"No matter how good the state of the warship is, the fact that the accident is an unpardonable criminal act remains unchanged, and those responsible for it can never evade their responsibility for the crime," the North's Central Military Commission said in an instruction to the investigation team, according to KCNA.
Kim Dong-yub, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said North Korea appears to be using the failed launch as a chance to strengthen the ruling party's control over science and technological sectors.
Lee Choon Geun, an honorary research fellow at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute, said that North Korea's handling of the damaged warship could have long-term consequences for its defense science sector.
"If scientists are held severely accountable, I would say the future of North Korea's defense science doesn't look very bright, as it would be a sign that political responsibility is being prioritized over technical accountability," Lee wrote on Facebook.
[Epoch Times] China is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19, with patients reporting symptoms of severe, burning throat pain, experts say. "Razor blade throat" is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
Dr. Li Tongzeng, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Beijing You’an Hospital, told Chinese media that the new wave of COVID-19, which began in March, is expected to peak in late May.
According to Zhong, the dominant strain in this wave is the Omicron XDV variant, which is highly transmissible but relatively less virulent. Early symptoms include fever, headaches, fatigue, a burning throat, and severe coughing.
A female Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times: "I had a fever, sore throat, yellow phlegm with blood streaks, nosebleeds, cough, sneezing, a runny nose, dizziness, and no energy. It’s terrifying—I sneezed once and my nose started bleeding, which scared me to death. This round of COVID is too severe."
COVID-19 cases have also risen in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Dr. Zhong said that from a pathogenic perspective, the COVID-19 virus may reduce its virulence to ensure its survival, but it is too early to judge whether it will become "flu-like" in the future. FWIW, I tracked CDC upper respiratory deaths for three years and deaths from regular ol' pneumonia was always just 20-30% less than COVID deaths. There are two established vaccines for pneumonia, covering 35 strains. I've had both vaccines, and still had pneumonia twice. Strangely, pneumonia never caught the media's attention.
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[Epoch Times] President Donald Trump announced on May 23 that he has approved the "planned partnership" between U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel, stating that the company will stay in Pittsburgh and is expected to create at least 70,000 jobs.
"I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Nippon Steel, the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, announced in December 2023 that it would purchase U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion in an all-cash agreement. A few months later, U.S. Steel shareholders approved the takeover bid.
However, President Joe Biden opposed the deal, citing national security concerns.
"U.S. Steel has been an iconic American company for more than a century, and it should remain totally American," Biden told union workers during a speech at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 17, 2024. Ironic, Joe and Trump agreeing. Except Trump made something positive happen.
In February, standing alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump said Nippon Steel would "invest heavily in U.S. Steel, as opposed to [owning] it," and welcomed the proposed capital infusion. "Investment is mutually beneficial," Ishiba said during the joint press conference at the White House.
"Japanese technology will be provided, and better quality products will be manufactured in the United States."
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[Modernity] House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has announced that he is seeking depositions from four former Biden staffers in addition to former White House physician Kevin O’Connor in an effort to find out if they were influencing the cognitively impaired Joe Biden and acting as ’de facto Presidents’.
Describing the former handlers as "unelected bureaucrats", Comer told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the committee has identified them "as the main gatekeepers for the Biden White House."
When asked who they are, Comer responded that "they’re no names that anyone that normally watches Fox would know," adding "They’re behind the scenes."
[Hot Air] The surest way to trigger the collapse of New York City is to elect an antisemitic mayor.
Throughout history, rising antisemitism is a bellwether of societal ruin: When attacks on Jews are tolerated or encouraged, the dissolution of everyone's rights and the abandonment of basic freedoms follow.
See the Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for examples.
It could happen here. Electing a Jew-hating mayor who turns a blind eye to antisemitic crime will drive out huge numbers of city residents -- including some of its wealthiest -- erode the real estate market, hollow out cultural institutions and lead to moral implosion.
Everyone who can leave, Jews and non-Jews alike, will flee.
Being Jewish in NYC is already getting uncomfortable.
We see swastikas scrawled on walls and desks in some public schools, students elsewhere casually referring to high performers in math as "the Jew table," a Queens community garden posting a ban on Zionists, a 13-year-old Jewish boy slapped in the face while riding his bike through his neighborhood -- such incidents are no longer shocking.
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[Regnum] Archaeologists have discovered traces of a settlement in one of the gorges located in the Dzheyrakh district of Ingushetia, which may be an ancient proto-city. This was reported by the press service of the school of masons and restorers "Heritage".
"In the Galgaevsky Gorge along the Akhk-Khiy (Tetritskali) River, traces of a settlement were discovered, which may be an ancient proto-city - the cradle of the Ingush people. Under an untouched layer of turf, regular stone walls were hidden, indicating previously unknown structures," the report says.
The school of mason-restorers noted that this discovery could change the understanding of the history of the region.
“We discovered not just individual walls, but a whole system of structures, which allows us to talk about the possible existence of an ancient proto-city here,” said Ramzan Sultygov, general director of the Heritage school.
It is specified that earlier in the same area, structures of cyclopean masonry dating back to the second millennium BC were discovered. The new finds, say archaeologists, may indicate the continuity of life in this territory and confirm the hypothesis about the existence of a large settlement that played an important role in the formation of the Ingush ethnic group.
[FoxNews] For Caroline Laubach, being a Wandercraft test pilot is about more than just trying out new technology. It's about reclaiming a sense of freedom and connection that many wheelchair users miss. Laubach, a spinal stroke survivor and full-time wheelchair user, has played a key role in demonstrating the personal AI-powered prototype exoskeleton's development, and her experience highlights just how life-changing this device can be.
"When I'm in the exoskeleton, I feel more free than I do in my daily life," said Laubach. "It gives me the opportunity to walk around and talk to people at eye level. I don't have to look up at people all the time.
"It makes me feel more visible and able to connect with others. One thing I noticed right away, was how inclusive the exoskeleton would be to a wide variety of disabilities. The goal is to have disabled people able to use this exoskeleton to live their daily life out in the world; I can definitely see that happening in the future."
Laubach's story is at the heart of Wandercraft's mission: to help people move through the world with greater walking independence and upright mobility.
[PJ Media] According to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Iran is now capable of spinning up enough of its highly enriched uranium (HEU) from its current level of 60% to the 90% necessary to build a nuclear bomb, in "probably less than one week."
The timeline for Israel to act against Iran's nuclear program has now compressed considerably. Coupled with the glacial pace of U.S. talks with Iran on its nuclear program, and the state of readiness of Israeli strike forces, some analysts have concluded that Israel is prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities in a matter of days.
The impasse in nuclear talks with Iran is "irreconcilable," according to the Israelis. Iran insists it will not give up its ability to enrich uranium. The U.S. demands a complete end to Iran's enrichment. For Iran, it is a matter of national honor to be able to enrich uranium. It's now part of their national identity and will not give it up under any circumstances.
The talks are continuing with minor progress on ancillary points in the dispute. The fundamental differences are broad and deep. The question now is, why continue the negotiations?
Indeed, chief U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff left the talks in Rome early on Friday, citing his "flight schedule." The technical experts were left to make a list of the dozens of issues that still need to be resolved before formal talks can even begin.
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.
Pix/heartwarmingcover.jpg[Daily Mail, whree America gets its news] When three San Diego police officers walked up Anthony Elliott's driveway, they mentally prepared to deliver the awful news that their colleague and friend had been shot in the head. 
...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...
[Epoch Times] China is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19, with patients reporting symptoms of severe, burning throat pain, experts say. "Razor blade throat" is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
"I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh," Trump wrote on Truth Social. 
