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The promise of a trove buried underneath the now-destroyed Georgia Guidestones appears to be a bust.
The mysterious structure unveiled in 1980 was demolished Wednesday after an explosion that caused extensive damage, but there was lingering intrigue about the possibility of a time capsule.
A slab on-site had two unfinished lines that said, “Placed six feet below this spot on …” that was “to be opened on,” leading to a search by county officials.
Last week, residents of Nogales, Arizona—a border-hugging town of about 20,000 people—awoke to find a large white blimp stationed in the sky. Even elected officials had no idea the blimp was coming. “What the hell?” Mayor Arturo Garino told Nogales International. “Did it land here by mistake?”
Thousands gathered in the US capital on Saturday, marching through pouring rain and risking arrest to protest over the reversal of abortion rights last month.
The demonstration came two weeks after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v Wade – the ruling that had guaranteed abortion access nationwide for nearly 50 years.
Chanting “we won’t go back”, protesters converged on the White House, with some tying themselves to the gates outside.
Toronto police have released fresh images following an alleged “random” attack on a woman at Toronto’s Kipling Subway Station.
Police said officers responded to an assault at the station, which is located in the Dundas Street and Kipling Avenue area, around 11:15 a.m. on Thursday.
A man assaulted an 85-year-old woman and the victim was taken to hospital to be treated for her injuries, police said.
Superforecasters predict how far it will spread
Just as we were starting to put the two years of the pandemic behind us, the last thing anyone wanted to hear was that a new infectious disease was spreading unexpectedly. Yet this is exactly what has happened: towards the end of April 2022, cases of the viral disease monkeypox were detected in several countries around the world. By the end of May, 57 people had been diagnosed with the disease in the UK, and another 100 around 14 different countries.
A father of three was shot and killed after an altercation involving several “squeegee kids” in downtown Baltimore. Timothy Reynolds, a 48-year-old mechanical engineer, was shot to death after confronting a group of teens and young men with a baseball bat.
I recall when they were a huge nuisance in Toronto. Olivia Chowcescu supported them of course.
Wow… this is what kids in San Francisco have to walk through to get home from school… watch till end pic.twitter.com/zMdsC16Jlf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 9, 2022
Thousands of protesters in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo have stormed the president’s residence and taken over his administrative offices amid growing calls for him to resign.
In extraordinary scenes, protesters who had gathered on the streets of Colombo to demand President Gotabaya Rajapaksa steps down as the country continues to struggle through its worst economic crisis since independence, charged into the president’s official residence on Saturday morning.
The president was not at home, having fled the night before and taken into military protection. His location was unknown on Saturday amid rumours he was fleeing the country.
Justin Trudeau’s template?
“Heavily armed” police descended on the home of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Friday, following a call to law enforcement falsely claiming there was a shooter at the address.
Providers of sex education in schools are teaching children that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal.
Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found.
One organisation encouraged pupils to demonstrate where they like to touch themselves sexually, in a practise criticised as “sex abuse” by campaigners.
Organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” discussed using their ties to Métis identity to play the “race card” as part of an overall strategy to control their public image and garner sympathy for their cause, text messages suggest.
The messages between Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, obtained by Ottawa police and entered as evidence by the Crown in Lich’s bail hearing this week, indicate how acutely aware the organizers were of the optics of the protest.
The pair of suspects arrested for allegedly plotting to “shoot up” a Fourth of July celebration in Richmond, Virginia — thwarted by an American citizen — are illegal aliens, court records state.
“Those [dollars] are hers. She earned them.” Drag queen teaches a child to perform for cash tips at a “family-friendly” drag show pic.twitter.com/v3Kd0cXpJj
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 8, 2022
The watchdog body overseeing Canada’s intelligence agencies is looking into whether polygraph tests — popularly known as lie detector tests — should be used to hire spies.
Its investigation has some of Canada’s cyber intelligence officials and agents worried that their most personal information could be viewed by strangers.
The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency [NSIRA] is in the midst of reviewing internal security programs at the Communication Security Establishment [CSE], the foreign signals intelligence agency. Among other things, NSIRA is looking into whether the use of polygraph tests in CSE recruitment “is lawful, reasonable and necessary.”
