One injured after plane hits truck while landing in Newark

One injured after plane hits truck while landing in Newark

A truck driver has suffered minor injuries after a United Airlines plane clipped his vehicle and a streetlight as it approached Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Sunday.

The Boeing 767, operating a flight from Venice, Italy, managed to land safely, with no reported injuries among the 231 passengers and crew on board.

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The mystery of the missing scientists linked to top-secret Nasa research

The mystery of the missing scientists linked to top-secret Nasa research

It sounds like the plot for an episode of The X-Files: at least 10 scientists – and counting – who all supposedly had access to sensitive US government research are dead or missing under mysterious circumstances.

Four worked for Nasa; three of them were even on the same team. Two had worked together at the same national laboratory in New Mexico. Another – a former senior air force research engineer who left his home on Feb 27 and hasn’t been seen since – had been involved in UFO research after his retirement.

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Inside Mexican town where girls are ‘sold from moment they’re born’

Inside Mexican town where girls are ‘sold from moment they’re born’

The pimp sat on a plastic chair in a small room off a dark courtyard as the music from the town’s spring festival blared from outside. He was sweating. This was the first time he had told anyone what had happened here and he was nervous.

He started haltingly. Telling the story of Tenancingo, the small town that is a nerve centre of Mexico’s sex trafficking industry, is dangerous. The padrotes, or pimps, who who have been known to run the town for decades, making millions from selling women and girls across Mexico and the United States, could target anyone who speaks out.

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Alarm bells for Trump as Mark Carney joins European summit

Alarm bells for Trump as Mark Carney joins European summit

Officials in Brussels often joke about Canada joining the EU.

Some European leaders, including Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president, have even started to entertain the idea.

It remains a pipe dream for now – but Mark Carney will at least get to play the part of a European leader in Yerevan on Monday.

The Canadian prime minister will become the first leader of a non-European state to join a summit of the European Political Community.

(more…)

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‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health

‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health

In February 2025, Robert F Kennedy Jr began his tenure as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with an unusual message for the federal department responsible for protecting public health.

America’s greatest challenge, he said, was not just chronic disease but a “spiritual malaise”, a kind of soul-sickness derived from America’s moral decline.

“Spiritual and physical maladies thrive on one another,” Kennedy told HHS employees in his first address. The solution, he said, “must begin with a spiritual question”, of personal responsibility and inward vigilance against the dark forces that would keep Americans “sedated” and “compliant”.


They gotta cut back on the caffeine, the cigarettes, the pot, the coke whatever.

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Planning a World Cup Watch Party at a Bar? The ‘FIFA Police’ Are Lurking

Planning a World Cup Watch Party at a Bar? The ‘FIFA Police’ Are Lurking

When Italy advanced to the 2006 World Cup semifinals, Rocco Mastrangelo Jr. mobilized his family’s Italian restaurant in Toronto to host a full house of soccer fans for the nail-biter match.

He printed thousands of fliers, bought radio ads and had a billboard installed near a major subway stop to advertise the semifinal screening at Cafe Diplomatico, his restaurant and bar.

Just hours before kickoff, representatives from FIFA, the tournament organizer, threatened legal action against Mr. Mastrangelo Jr. for violating its copyright — unless he took everything down.

What a racket.

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Failed refugee claimant, MS-13 gang informant, identity thief and forger can stay in Canada

Failed refugee claimant, MS-13 gang informant, identity thief and forger can stay in Canada

A failed refugee claimant convicted in the United States in 2006 and 2009 of identity theft and forgery has won a stay of the order issued by Canadian authorities last November to deport him to Honduras.

The man, identified only by the initials FGH in a recent Federal Court decision, “acted as an informant against the MS-13 gang in exchange for deferral of his removal from the United States.”

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