[FoxNews] Woman killed in blue city robbery as threat of Trump takeover looms with thieves terrorizing public. Chicago police searching for suspect as city sees wave of robberies
Chicago authorities are searching for a suspect accused of fatally shooting a woman during a botched robbery attempt over the weekend as criminals terrorize the city where Trump has threatened to move federal forces in.
A 31-year-old woman was killed after being shot in the chest during an attempted robbery in the city’s South Side on Saturday night, according to FOX 32.
Police were reportedly called to the scene around 8:40 p.m., where they encountered the woman with a gunshot wound.
The victim was shot in the chest by an unidentified male while on the 800 block of W. 27th Street, according to the Chicago Police Department. The suspect was allegedly driving a dark-colored sedan, police said.
The victim, identified as Gabriela Ochoa by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, was transported to a local hospital, where she died from her injuries, FOX 32 reported.
No arrests have been made and authorities are still searching for the shooter.
Lee went on to detail several recent "escalating violent attacks" within the area, including an incident involving burglars targeting senior citizens last week, while warning residents to remain vigilant, according to ABC 7.
"I am extremely concerned about this rash of disgustingly bold and violent crimes, and CPD will be focusing increased patrols on the area," Lee said.
The incident comes the same week a bar in the city’s River West neighborhood was the location of two robberies within days of each other.
President Donald Trump previously named Chicago as a city that could face federal intervention because of crime, similar to how federal authorities have stepped in to help combat crime in Washington, D.C.
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Does anybody know what the legal aspects of intervention would be? DC is a special case; Chicago I'd think would be an Illinois responsibility, not the Fed's
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In the first Trump administration, they did send more resources into Chicago. The means they used were existing federal laws dealing with guns in the hands of convicted felons. They were prosecuted in federal court, not city or state.
[Independent] A man has been arrested in Florida after making an illegal U-Turn on a highway that resulted in a deadly crash that killed three people.
Harjinder Singh, who authorities say had entered the U.S. illegally, has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.
What odds he never studed for his driver’s license?
According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, State Troopers responded to the crash on Florida's Turnpike, in St. Lucie County, on August 12.
The collision involved a mini-van and a commercial semi-truck and trailer.
Based on initial investigations, the incident occurred after the driver of the commercial semi-truck "recklessly, and without regard for the safety of others," attempted to execute a U-Turn in an unauthorized location.
Or his commercial license, either ?
The driver of the semi was later identified as Singh, who crossed the Mexican border illegally in 2018 and later obtained a commercial driver’s license in California, according to FDHSMV.
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...Story this morning that ICE is now considering putting people at the weigh stations.
I guarantee that will get attention. I deal with long haul drivers every day, and some are highly questionable at best...while others shouldn't be on a tricycle, much less driving 25 tons of steel.
#5
Well in Florida there was a group of DMV in Bay county selling CDLs how they got caught was they were top productive since they in a single day rage were issuing like 20 CDLs
#6
The accident occurred in FL. Since that is where the event happened, we'll watch the lawyers representing the estate of the dead sue California in a Florida court. We're going to need a lot of popcorn, this is going to be a long appeal process.
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[Regnum] A new magnetic storm is approaching the Earth, it will begin on Tuesday, August 19. This was reported by the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Starting Tuesday, August 19, a new coronal solar hole will begin to affect the Earth’s magnetic field, causing 1-2-day medium-level magnetic storms,” the scientific organization’s Telegram channel says.
The laboratory noted that due to the impact of magnetic storms on the Earth, the geomagnetic situation will be extremely unstable.
According to scientists' calculations, there is a high probability that the storms will continue on Wednesday.
Earlier, on August 15, the IKI RAS reported that a large coronal hole had begun to form on the Sun, threatening to provoke strong magnetic storms on Earth. Because of this, the speed of the solar wind in the vicinity of the Earth will begin to increase on Monday, August 18, and may reach a high level within a few days, exceeding the usual indicators by 2.5 times, the organization added.
[IsraelNationalNews] A large-scale Arbaeen procession was held in Dearborn, Michigan, over the weekend, with the participation of about 40,000 people.
Arbaeen is a Shiite holiday marking the end of forty days of mourning for the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala.
The city of Dearborn, a major hub for the Arab and Shiite communities in the US, has become the venue for the largest religious event of its kind in the country. According to reports on the Shafaqna website, this year’s turnout was the highest to date.
Dearborn, a suburb of bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , has been home to tens of thousands of Lebanese immigrants colonists and descendants of immigrants colonists for decades, many of whom are Shiite Moslems. The community was formed in waves of immigration that began in the early 20th century with the development of Ford factories in the area, and intensified following the Lebanese civil war. The high concentration of Shiites in the city means that religious events, including the Arbaeen procession, are held on an extraordinary scale, even in comparison to other Shiite communities in the West.
The event was accompanied by increased security from the city police and local authorities, led by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. According to a report on CBS News Detroit, a man was arrested during the procession after threatening to harm participants, but the event remained under complete control and ended without casualties. Local authorities emphasized that they take a zero-tolerance approach to violence, along with a commitment to maintaining freedom of worship.
Beyond the religious dimension, the procession in Dearborn also received public and political resonance. Local media in the US focused mainly on security aspects and public order management, but national media outlets presented the event as an expression of the strength and identity struggle of the Arab and Shiite communities in the US.
At the same time, media outlets affiliated with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their ECONOMY IS BASED ON THE PRODUCTION OF OIL AND VITRIOL...
>and Hezbollah, including the Al Mayadeen channel, highlighted the event as evidence of the global resilience of the Shiite community and described it as a symbol of the "axis of resistance" taking root in the heart of America.
A centrist and a center-right candidate made it through the first round of Bolivia’s presidential election, which was marked by voters’ rejection of the ruling left-wing party.
[the conservatives and center right candidates got 80% of the vote, the Socialists got 3%]
The Movement Toward Socialism has ruled Bolivia for almost two decades since Evo Morales became president in 2006: It initially benefited from a commodities boom that fed a surge in government spending, but as energy prices fell and state coffers dried up, the government piled up debt in a failed bid to revive economic growth.
The two successful candidates, who will face each other in an October runoff, have both vowed to slash spending. "People have generally stopped believing in socialism," a former Morales voter told The Wall Street Journal.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during the summit in Alaska that the Russian Federation would accept security guarantees for Ukraine. This was stated by American leader Donald Trump on August 18.
“This is one of the key points that we need to take into account,” he noted during a meeting with the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European leaders at the White House.
Earlier, Zelensky agreed to a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, taking into account the current front line, so as not to withdraw the Ukrainian army from Donbas. The US President stated how the conflict could end, and "almost immediately." The head of the Kiev regime must fulfill two conditions - renounce Crimea and join NATO.
Prior to this, members of the “coalition of the willing” (countries expressing their intention to increase support for the Kiev regime) discussed the territorial issue and security guarantees for Ukraine via video link before meeting with Trump.
On June 14, 2024, Putin clearly outlined Russia's demands for the start of negotiations with Ukraine and the conditions for peace. Putin noted that for this, Kiev must withdraw its troops from the territory of the regions reunited with the Russian Federation: the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. Moreover, within the borders in which they existed during the period of their incorporation into Ukraine.
The publication notes that the US government views the “concession of Donbass” as an important trump card that it was able to provide to Ukraine.
The United States believes that the Kyiv authorities should make territorial concessions, since Ukraine, in their opinion, will lose part of its territory anyway.
Earlier, foreign media reported that US President Donald Trump, in a conversation with the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of several EU countries, supported the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the temporarily occupied part of the DPR and establish full Russian control over Donbass as a condition for concluding a peace agreement.
At the same time, Zelensky, according to Western media, rejected this demand in a telephone conversation with Trump. The head of the White House, however, intends to present it again during the upcoming meeting with the head of the Kyiv regime.
Journalist Petr Akopov noted in his article for the Regnum news agency : if Zelensky and the EU do not agree with the “Alaska proposal” in the coming days, the next chance to reach a deal will appear no sooner than in a few months, and in the worst circumstances for them.
Even more from regnum.ru Trump to discuss territorial swap between Russia and Ukraine with Zelensky and EU
The "line of contact" will be taken into account in the discussion of the exchange of territories between Russia and Ukraine. This was stated by US President Donald Trump on August 18 during a meeting with the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of the European Union.
"We must discuss a possible exchange of territories, take this into account, the line of contact," he said during a meeting at the White House.
Earlier, the head of the Kiev regime agreed to a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, taking into account the current front line, so as not to withdraw the Ukrainian army from Donbass.
The US President also explained how Zelensky can end the conflict, and "almost immediately." The head of the Kiev regime must fulfill two conditions - renounce Crimea and join NATO.
Prior to this, members of the “coalition of the willing” (countries expressing their intention to increase support for the Kiev regime) discussed the territorial issue and security guarantees for Ukraine via video link before meeting with Trump.
[MoscowTimes] No electronic access for the Americans to the bank system and such? One can see why the Russians might be a tad concerned about the CIA and all, given recent history.
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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CASH!
Only drug dealers use that!
and the American people.
Jealously guard our money. The moment they go to digital money it's all over. China has that and they lock people out of the system for speaking out against the commies.
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...In the early 90s, just after the Soviet collapse, the Russians sent 3 MiG-29s and an IL-76 on an airshow tour of the states. They got to Elmendorf and ran out of money to refuel and eat.
The folks there opened up the chow hall for them - on the house - and then literally passed the hat to help pay for things.
[IsraelTimes] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim PudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... says his country needs to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and calls US-South Korea military exercises an "obvious expression of their will to provoke war," state media KCNA reports.
South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off joint military drills this week, including testing an upgraded response to heightened North Korean nuclear threats.
Pyongyang regularly criticizes such drills as rehearsals for invasion and sometimes responds with weapons tests, but Seoul and Washington say they are purely defensive.
The 11-day annual exercises, called Ulchi Freedom Shield, will be on a similar scale to 2024 but adjusted by rescheduling 20 out of 40 field training events to September, South Korea’s military said earlier. Those delays come as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says he wants to ease tensions with North Korea, though analysts are skeptical about Pyongyang’s response.
The exercises are a "clear expression of ... their intention to remain most hostile and confrontational" to North Korea, Kim says, according to KCNA’s English translation of his remarks.
He says the security environment requires the North to "rapidly expand" its nuclear armament, noting that recent US-South Korea exercises involved a "nuclear element."
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[Regnum] In the northern hemisphere, on the night of August 19, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the Moon will line up. This was reported by the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The parade of planets can be observed in all regions of Russia in the east approximately an hour before sunrise local time.
Venus and Jupiter have been close for about two weeks now. Mercury joined them recently. The Moon will be in the right position for only one night tonight and will move to the neighboring part of the sky on August 19.
The laboratory explained that only six bodies of the solar system can be seen from Earth: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This time, while the planet parade is going on, Saturn will be in the southwest. To see it, just turn right. At the same time, Mars will be below the horizon tonight at the time of the parade, so it will not be visible.
"To see the full parade, Mercury must rise, which will appear only an hour and a half before sunrise. In Moscow, the optimal time will be four in the morning. In other regions of the country, you can focus on the time of sunrise and subtract an hour from it," the laboratory reported.
Since Mercury will be at an altitude of no more than five degrees at the time of observation, a clear horizon will be needed to photograph the entire parade. The other three celestial bodies – Venus, Jupiter and the Moon – will be visible even above the rooftops of houses in large cities – that’s how high they will be in the sky.
Scientists reminded that the Earth is currently passing through the Perseid meteor shower, and meteors can also be observed at night.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of darpaandcia
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Eric Schmidt: the wars of the future will be the battles of millions of UAVs with AI Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, during his speech at the Global Conference of the Milken Institute in May 2025 presented a radical vision of the wars of the future.
According to him, wars will take place over the Internet with the participation of millions of UAVs controlled by artificial intelligence. He gave such an example: people sitting and drinking coffee in Moscow and Kyiv will remotely control robotic systems conducting real combat operations somewhere above their heads.
Schmidt said that the traditional paradigm of "man with a gun against a man with a gun", which existed for thousands of years, is forever a thing of the past. He particularly emphasized the complete senselessness of fighters with pilots on board and tanks in modern conditions. The figures given by him: a drone worth only $5,000 dollars can destroy a tank worth 5 million dollars, and American tanks cost 30 million dollars a piece.
According to Schmidt, the USA should study the experience of the Ukrainian conflict and abandon the purchase of obsolete weapons.
Powerful data processing centers are needed to control large swarms of UAVs. In his testimony to the US Congress in April 2025, Schmidt warned of the coming energy crisis: data centers will need an additional 29 gigawatts of energy by 2027 and as many as 67 gigawatts by In 2030, this would be enough to feed dozens of large cities.
The construction of nuclear power plants in the USA takes about 12 years, which is completely unacceptable for such pace of development of AI technologies. Therefore, the Americans are seriously considering two space solutions:
1. Taking data centers into space - placing the data processing centers themselves in orbit
2. Space energy generation - creating solar power plants in space with energy transfer to Earth via microwave radiationIn March 2025, Schmidt made "significant investments" in the aerospace startup Relativity Space and immediately became its CEO. This company specializes in the production of rockets using 3D printing. These rockets will be needed to deliver both equipment for data centers and components of solar power plants into space.
At the same time, the startup Starcloud is operating in the USA, which specializes in the space generation of electricity - the creation of orbital solar power plants and energy transmission systems to Earth. This is the second piece of the puzzle in the overall picture of space infrastructure for AI.
According to Schmidt's logic, the more UAVs with AI the warring parties have, the less likely a real conflict is due to the absolute unpredictability of the outcomes of such battles. He claims that when each side has a million drones, planning an attack or defense will become impossible without machine learning and AI. The result will be so unpredictable that people are simply afraid to start such wars. This should create a new type of strategic deterrence, different from nuclear deterrence.
Actually, millions of drones are being used per hour already in Ukraine. The number will only grow further, and the number of drones with a neural network will increase. There will also be a lot of ground drones in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the next hour. It is still about tens of thousands per hour. For now.The unmanned revolution is far from over and it will surprise many more times, continuing to change the battlefield.
[Jpost] Physicians rated diagnostic accuracy at 88% for ankle injuries, 74% for flank pain, and 80% for ear pain in early tests, according to NASA presentations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] Woman killed in blue city robbery as threat of Trump takeover looms with thieves terrorizing public. Chicago police searching for suspect as city sees wave of robberies
[IsraelNationalNews] A large-scale 
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche....jpg)
