Secret Service agent shoots himself in leg while escorting Jill Biden at Philadelphia International Airport

“Decency is on the ballot”

A Secret Service agent shot and wounded himself in the leg while guarding former first lady Jill Biden at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday, according to the agency and a report.

The on-duty agent’s gun went off around 8:30 a.m. while helping escort former President Joe Biden’s wife at the busy travel hub, sources told KYW Newsradio.

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Leftist Mayor Calls for Police to Be Disarmed in Multicultural Paris Suburb

Municipal police should be disarmed in the multicultural Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, the city’s recently elected radical Mayor Bally Bagayoko said this week, despite the history of violence and unrest in the area.

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Toronto councillors approve city-run grocery store pilot project

Toronto City Hall is so good at filling potholes, they’re now planning to put a chicken in every pot.

City council approved a pilot project late Thursday, proposed by Councillor Anthony Perruzza, that calls for four city-run grocery stores. His hope is that if the stores “forgo” profits and get a break on property taxes, Torontonians can buy good food for less.

h/t Auntie Polly

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The Kill Switch Society

Increasingly, automobiles, once tools to facilitate individual independence, have been repurposed into systems of monitoring and control.

There was a time — not very long ago — when the automobile represented one of the clearest expressions of individual choice in a free society. Limited only by fuel, roads, and imagination, a person could choose where to go, when to go, and how to get there. The car was not merely a machine. It was mobility made personal — an extension of autonomy and freedom.

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Asylum seeker accused of gang-raping woman on Brighton beach ‘filmed assault to gather evidence for police’, court hears

Nice Try Rapist

An Egyptian asylum seeker accused of gang-raping a lone, drunk woman on Brighton beach claimed he filmed the assault to gather evidence for police, a court has heard.

Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, said he was shocked when he saw two of his friends raping the woman behind a beach hut.

The 33-year-old woman has claimed she was dragged onto the beach and raped after a night out with friends in the seaside city on October 4 last year.

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Canada might help oil tankers cross Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire, Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.

Reporters asked Carney on Thursday how Ottawa might get involved in efforts to reopen shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blockaded in response to the U.S. and Israel launching a war on Iran a month ago.

Carney says Canada is talking to allies about how it could help restore the movement of vessels in the strait, offering the clearest scenario yet of how it might get involved.

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Carney says apology needed for Indigenous spying program

The prime minister said there should be a public apology for a spying operation targeting hundreds of Indigenous people that had the support of the federal government.

“Yes, there should be an apology,” Mark Carney said during a news conference in Halifax on Thursday. “It’s a reprehensible practice. Never should’ve happened.”

Carney was responding to reporting from CBC Indigenous, which revealed extensive RCMP surveillance activities dating back to the late 1960s against Indigenous leaders and organizations.


He panders as much as Junior.

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