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A D.C. mother was trying to bury her 10-year-old daughter after a shooter killed the child on Mother’s Day — but a deadly shooting carried out by the funeral home owner interrupted her burial service, police and the mother said.
The mother of Arianna Davis, Antionette Belk, said the shooting at Washington National Cemetery on Tuesday killed a family friend, injured a family member and prevented her from seeing her child’s casket get lowered into the ground.
h/t DS
A self-driving Google car ran over and killed a small dog during a test drive in San Francisco — adding to local officials’ fears over a massive planned rollout of the ride-sharing robotaxis.
An online DMV report said the car by Waymo — previously the Google Self-Driving Car Project — hit a small dog “which did not survive.”
A women’s spa, where nudity is compulsory, has been ordered by a judge to admit pre-op trans women with penises after an activist complained when the owner tried to ban them.
Olympus Spa had attempted to sue the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC) after being ordered to change their rules.
Trans woman Haven Wilvich’s membership application for the Korean spa was declined. She alleged the spa told her ‘transgender women without surgery are not welcome’ and complained to the commission.
Over the past few months, the Democrats and their media have been running a full-fledged jihad against No Labels for committing the crime of democracy by trying to field a third-party campaign. Since the only Dem strategy is to run Biden as the “alternative to Trump”, the panic is understandable. Being asked to vote for a senile crook who outsourced his administration to Elizabeth Warren because he’s the only “alternative to Trump” doesn’t work as well if there are any other candidates in the race who aren’t senile crooks with the popularity rating of a deranged alligator on the subway.
MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes —- beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death and dismembering them.
It looks like chicken, it smells like chicken and, what do you know, it tastes like chicken.
You would never guess that the piece of meat in front of me did not come from a farm. It was made in a laboratory on an industrial estate just a few miles down the road.
I’m in Huber’s Butchery and Bistro in Singapore, which is the only restaurant in world to have so-called cultivated meat on the menu.
Feedback from customers has been “phenomenal”, according to the restaurant’s owner.
Leaked emails indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has assisted a Ukrainian intelligence initiative to regulate social media users and gain access to their personal data. In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent forwarded a list of Twitter accounts to the platform on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s primary intelligence agency.
FBI? What country do they work for?
h/t Mauser
Organisers of the Mrs Russia beauty pageant have been forced to defend their winner, blaming a photograph taken at a bad angle after she was mercilessly mocked online.
Images of Natalya Oskar, from Khabarovsk, who won the contest on Tuesday, became an object of vitriol as social media users – many of them from Ukraine – ridiculed her looks.
Prince Harry today admitted to a judge he was not aware of ‘any evidence’ he had been hacked by a tabloid news group.
But he said it would be an ‘injustice’ if he was denied victory in his High Court phone-hacking case against the publisher of the Mirror.
Andrew Green KC, for Mirror Group Newspapers, put it to the prince that he was ‘in the land of total speculation’ and there were no phonecall records to back up his allegations.
Twitter’s founder recently endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr
In late January 2023, Jack Dorsey retweeted a classic: “setting up my twttr”. His first tweet, from 2006, and the first ever message on the entire Twitter platform. It can now be read as a sign. After many years of maintaining a diplomatic silence, finally, Dorsey speaks.
Just what is happening to this country?
The Calgary city council has approved a bylaw amendment that will fine pro-life groups up to $3,000 if they distribute uncensored images of aborted babies to people’s homes.
Now the city wants to hide and censor those pictures and further cancel the pro-life protesters.
Teacher at @GlendaleUSD goes on unhinged rant at board meeting. Claims kids as young as 3 can know they are trans. These are the people teaching your kids. pic.twitter.com/rw4x7ZKJJn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 7, 2023
Canadian auto insurers lost more than $1-billion last year from stolen vehicles as organized crime rings helped push up car thefts by nearly 50 per cent in Ontario and Quebec.
In a report released Tuesday, Équité Association estimates the insurance industry nationally lost more than $1-billion in vehicle-theft claims in 2022, up from $700-million in 2021. And Équité, a not-for-profit organization that assists in insurance fraud and crime investigations, expects the losses to continue to climb.
A top London state school has introduced a ban on pupils using the titles “sir” or “miss” to address headteachers, arguing the terms are “deeply unequal”.
James Handscombe, executive principal at Harris Westminster Sixth Form and Harris Clapham Sixth Form, said the school would require students to call teachers by their names to avoid “cultural misogyny”.
h/t TB
A world population nearing 10 billion people by the middle of this century is “unsustainable,” U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry declared Wednesday, before setting out his future plans for planet earth.
Since November, the global population has officially crossed eight billion, more than three times the figure in 1950.
