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Five people are dead after several adults entered a river in Ohio to help a struggling swimmer, authorities said. A search and rescue effort unfolded Sunday night, when a motorist noticed a “clearly distraught” child running along a state highway near the Scioto River, according to Delaware County Sheriff Jeffrey Balzer. Severe weather threat continues …
They need to stop spreading lies and start learning basic statistics before they open their mouths. SOCIALIST ACTIVIST: "These people have to have multiple jobs in order to sustain a lifestyle!" CALEB HAMMER: "Not the median American… What percent of the American population is relying on federal minimum wage?" ACTIVIST: "I don't know… I've met …
“Iran continues to punish Gulf states for hosting American military. The video shows oil infrastructure destruction in Dubai. Dubai is helping people leave the country on planes at a rate of 48 planes per hour. Iran’s IRGC says it has completely destroyed Amazon’s central data hub in Bahrain with several cruise missiles and warns more …
At least 18 US service members dead in Iran war — WaPo Nine were killed in drone and missile strikes across Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia Six more died when a refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq And three were lost in last week’s escalation pic.twitter.com/ASEIbYASgu — RT (@RT_com) July 21, 2026
8th Amendment excessive fines. Taken 14 years to get this far. What an awful system we have now, while the crooks in office loot people. The conviction was a misdemeanor for alcohol importation. But under Alaska law, the state was required to confiscate his plane — his entire livelihood — valued at $95,000. A trial …
Elaine Forbes started as Sausalito City Manager on July 1 with a 275,000 dollar base salary plus benefits totaling about 335,000 dollars. After only three weeks she was put on administrative leave then arrested on July 18 for felony burglary. Forbes boarded a 75 foot yacht she did not own at Sausalito Yacht Harbor. She …
Scott Bessent probably didn’t expect one sentence to reveal so much. US Treasury Secretary Bessent: With government stakes in companies, we are trying to create market signals — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 21, 2026 When the Treasury Secretary said the government is taking stakes in companies to create “market signals,” he wasn’t just defending a policy. …
A data center the size of 1,600 football fields is rising in the New Mexico desert. Locals call it Project Jupiter — and what they’re dealing with is now happening in towns across America. In this video, homeowners in Georgia, Virginia, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and beyond speak out about what happens when a massive AI …
View post on imgur.com https://x.com/YourTaylorFarms/status/2079037403973738528 why'd they delete it 👀 https://t.co/H0UE9qvfR8 pic.twitter.com/Ezdzlc6Z7t — Kirsche 🥥 🧁 (@KirscheVerstahl) July 21, 2026 To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA’s ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms. Over the weekend, FDA alerted Taylor …
“A FEDERAL JUDGE JUST APPROVED THE LARGEST KNOWN U.S. COPYRIGHT SETTLEMENT Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, will pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded and stored pirated books while building its AI training library. The deal covers 482,460 copyrighted works. Eligible rightsholders are expected to receive roughly $3,000 per claimed work, divided …
“As a young naval aviator, Commodore Steve Jermy’s first operational deployment was in the Falklands War flying from HMS Invincible. As a senior naval officer, his final operational deployment was in Afghanistan as Strategy Director in the British Embassy, Kabul. In between: at sea, he commanded 4 ships and a destroyer squadron; ashore, he served …
The aggressive investment products are tailored to pay out twice the profits of a single stock but also twice the losses, and have been criticised for exposing retail investors to market hype and volatility. Since the new ETFs were listed on May 27, the stocks of Samsung and SK hynix have fallen around 16 percent …
After nearly five months of war, Iran’s missile capabilities remain lethal. At least two U.S. servicemembers were killed in Jordan on Saturday following an Iranian attack of ballistic missiles and drones. In addition, U.S. officials were working Sunday to try to identify additional human remains found at the site in Jordan as a third servicemember …
He’s running for a senate seat, and all I’ve seen on X are clips of him taking about his rectal periods and now this?The Democratic Party is FAR beyond merely being a joke anymore. These people are just flat out fucking batshitcrazy…😬 God save the Republic! — SasEoldArmyBroad (@OldArmyBroad) July 21, 2026 A Senate candidate …
Look, I think it’s important — in my personal view — for all of our international partners to have a role in this. I mean, we’ve got all of our allied nations, NATO, we’ve had the Arab countries over there, the Gulf states that are in closest proximity to Iran. Iran has now fired on …
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill admitted a DMV software error registered over 6,600 non-citizens to vote. The system was erroneously registering people even when they checked “no” on the citizenship question. Roughly 400 of these non-citizens cast ballots before the error was caught. All improper registrations have now been removed from the voter rolls. The …
With four of them reporting this week the figure is almost certain to keep climbing. It shows how deep these companies are going to dominate the next tech wave and how much leverage they are willing to take on to get there. DATA: Off-balance-sheet debt at $GOOG, $MSFT, $AMZN , $META and $ORCL surged eightfold …
Short term it can move prices but the real play is long term dominance in strategic tech. This kind of direct state buying is how they fight back against restrictions from the west and it is only going to get more aggressive. JUST IN 🚨: China's government just pumped 13.8 Billion Yuan ($2 Billion USD) …
If given enough time, the rules will always be gamed in order to subvert the game itself and defeat the purpose of the contest in the first place. This is inevitable because the rewards are too great. The point is never to have a good time or even to entertain the audience. The… https://t.co/wBUnVk7H04 — …
New York City has roughly 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized “zombie apartments,” many of which landlords say cost more to repair and maintain than they could legally recover in rent. To illustrate the growing problem, a group of small property owners had actors dressed as zombies march outside a Rent Guidelines Board hearing in mid-June, warning that …
by confoundedinterest17 US home prices are clearly unaffordable for younger households, given the dearth of true starter homes. As of Q1 2026, REAL US residential property prices fell -2.1% YoY. China’s real residential property prices are declining even faster than the US. The US Federal Reserve is printing money M2 at a 5.6% YoY pace. …
SEC. HEGSETH: “Every night we're degrading [Iran] further and further.” pic.twitter.com/cJaQ9wCGb0 — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) July 21, 2026 "The Iran war has restarted. But America does not have a plausible plan for victory," per FT — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 21, 2026
The dignified transfer of the U.S. service members who were killed in the war with Iran is no longer happening Tuesday. It comes as airstrikes continued in the region overnight. Here’s the latest.
A rescued sloth bear sent villagers and wildlife workers scrambling moments after being pulled from a well in Odisha, India, on July 12. Video shows the startled animal suddenly charging toward the crowd before disappearing into nearby vegetation. No injuries were reported.
Nvidia became the most valuable company because of insatiable demand for its graphics processing unit, or GPU, the primary chip used for creating and deploying artificial intelligence. But the chip giant is now shipping its own central processing units, or CPUs, which cloud providers could decide to deploy in place of those from Advanced Micro …
Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle the fantasy that AI is poised to become an almost magical money-maker. Case in point, OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone — even …
