[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Missouri mother was sexually assaulted during a home invasion while her two daughters and their friend were upstairs.
The suspect is being held in the county jail without bond.
On Monday, Sarah Bommarito was at her house in Lee's Summit when a man followed her children into her home.
'Hey, I think you're in the wrong house.' That's what I said to him… you're in the wrong house,' Bommarito said told Fox 4.
The man, who has now been identified as 20-year-old Khalil Malik Cooper, refused to leave the property. Bommarito's motherly instincts took the forefront, and she fought back.
She locked her door and called 911, but Cooper was relentless.
'He went to my front door and incessantly rang the bell – just over and over and over again – just pounding,' she described.
Cooper managed to get into the house through another door. Once he entered the house, he began sexually assaulting Bommarito, all while her children were playing upstairs.
Bommarito stayed on the phone with 911 during the entire attack. The assault was recorded, documented, and used as evidence.
'The outcome of what happened to me is so different because of the officer that came in that side door and didn't wait – he didn't wait for back up,' Bommarito said.
Officer Price was the first policeman on the scene. He had to physically pry Cooper off of Bommarito and tackle him to the ground until more officers came and helped Price.
Cooper has been charged with three felonies, including two counts of sodomy or attempted sodomy and burglary.
[NY Post] HBCU Pride. "What do you mean 'at capacity'? We family!"
A graduation ceremony for nursing students at Howard University ended abruptly and in chaos after angry family members chanted "Let us in!" and pounded on the doors and smashed a window after being locked out when the auditorium hit capacity.
Loved ones of students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences packed into the Cramton Auditorium in Washington, DC, on Thursday, but not all relatives made it inside the building before the ceremony was abruptly canceled during the keynote address.
Chaotic video footage shows dozens of people standing outside the auditorium chanting "Let us in! Let us in!" as the ceremony began. Pictures showed a glass door had been shattered during the commotion as people banged on the doors and tried to push past security to go inside.
"While they were doing the keynote speaker, there was, like, loud banging, even before that, for like 10 minutes straight," graduate Bria Flowers told NBC Washington. "Just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."
School officials told students and their families mid-ceremony that the fire department had come to shut things down.
"Because of the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down," Dr. Gina S. Brown, dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, said to a roaring response of boos.
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A graduation ceremony for nursing students at Howard University ended abruptly and in chaos after angry family members chanted "Let us in!" and pounded on the doors and smashed a window after being locked out when the auditorium hit capacity.
And here we've been blaming the educational system for the students, enraged monkey, behavior.
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Once you teach people that rioting gets them what they want, they are going to riot to get what they want.
To be fair, the excluded loved ones were victims of racist occupancy limits. How can occupancy limits be racist, you ask? We have settled case law that any process or procedure that produces disparate racial outcomes is racism, even if the process or procure itself is racially neutral. In this case, the excluded persons were all of the black persuasion. Hence, the occupancy limits were racist. QED, bitches!
[The Athletic = via an Aggie friend] COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Sam Salz emerged from Texas A&M’s Bright Football Complex at dusk in early February, eager to explain how he got here.
"Over there," he pointed, patting down his yarmulke with his other hand. "That’s where it happened."
The patch of land in the distance sat adjacent to where the Aggies football team practiced. Salz, just a student with a dream in the spring of 2021, would arrive at the field every day an hour before Texas A&M practiced and stay an hour after the practice concluded.
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[Regnum] The magnetic storm on Earth has reached its peak; auroras can be observed in the southern regions of Russia. This was reported on May 11 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS).
Experts noted that the fastest clouds of plasma ejected by the Sun during a powerful flare reached the Earth. The speed of the solar wind reaches 1000 km/s.
“The magnetic storm is passing through its peak. Field fluctuations have returned to extreme values of the fifth level,” the report says.
We had all our batteries charged, just in case, but I didn’t notice anything untoward. Oh well.
The auroras over Russia will be even more powerful, their oval may descend to the southern borders of the country, the laboratory added.
As IA Regnum reported, on May 11, the Earth was covered by a magnetic storm of the fifth, highest level, which has not happened since September 11, 2005. Over the course of three days, from May 7 to May 9, the Sun ejected four clouds of plasma of exceptional size towards the Earth.
Leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, Mikhail Leus, noted that the peak of storm activity would occur on May 11. The total duration of a magnetic storm can be from 20 to 40 hours. In Russia, the zone where auroras are observed has expanded. In particular, crimson flashes in the sky were captured on cameras by residents of the Rostov region.
Roscosmos stated that solar flares and geomagnetic storms will not require correction of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), it is operating normally.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain on Saturday expressed condolences on the tragic loss of over 300 precious lives and widespread damage to properties caused by devastating floods in Afghanistan.
More than 300 people were killed in flash floods that destroyed multiple Afghan provinces, the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.
In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said: "The government and the people of Pakistain express their heartfelt condolences on the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to property caused by heavy rains and flash floods in several provinces of Afghanistan."
She further said that their thoughts and prayers were with the families of the victims, injured and the communities affected by this natural calamity.
"We pray for the early recovery of those missing."
Pakistain stands in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan during this difficult time, she added.
It is pertinent to mention here that heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, with northern Baghlan one of the hardest hit.
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[Regnum] The South Korean authorities suspected the North Korean hacker group Lazarus of hacking the country's judicial system and withdrawing over a thousand gigabytes of data over two years. The Yonhap agency reported this on May 11, citing law enforcement agencies.
An unknown organization, presumably Lazarus, hacked the computer networks of South Korean courts on January 7, 2021. Data in the amount of 1.14 thousand GB were pumped from the courts’ information systems to eight servers, including foreign ones, until February 9, 2023.
The hacker attack was investigated by the National Police Investigation Department, the National Intelligence Service and the Prosecutor's Office. Law enforcement officers managed to identify the data of about 5.2 thousand files with a volume of 4.7 GB, which were stored on one of the servers in South Korea. These turned out to be files with personal information, including financial and medical information, passport data and information about military service, only 0.5% of the total volume of the leak.
The backup storage period on the remaining servers has expired and the data has been deleted. It is possible that the hack occurred even before 2021 and the damage from it could be greater.
The agency notes that Supreme Court specialists who manage the computer network began their own investigation in February 2023, but the police became fully involved in the proceedings only after reports of the hack appeared in the media.
It is also indicated that the judicial information system in South Korea was hacked for the first time. The authorities intend to strengthen control over the use of personal computers, USB drives and the Internet in courts, as well as expand staffing and purchase additional equipment to protect information.
As Regnum reported, the United States previously accused the hacker group Lazarus of attacks on its energy companies, as well as companies in Canada and Japan. In September 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported on a special operation by US intelligence agencies that resulted in the confiscation of more than $30 million in cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency was allegedly stolen by the North Korean-linked hacker group Lazarus.
According to Chainalysis experts, from January to July 2022, hackers stole $1.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency. At the same time, North Korean hackers, including the hacker group Lazarus Group, were involved in the theft of $1 billion.
[Washington Examiner] Baltimore-area businesses are adapting to a new routine two months after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, but many are still concerned about the downstream impact the March 26 accident will have on their bottom lines.
Seafood restaurants and vendors, a staple of the city’s identity, are particularly concerned with how increased traffic, coupled with a down crab season on the Eastern Shore, are impacting product supply heading into summer, the busiest time of the year.
Joe Gold, the general manager at Key Brewing, a brewery and restaurant in Dundalk on the eastern end of the Key Bridge, said the city is "used to tragedy."
"It’s just the nature of where we’re from, and we’re gritty folks," Gold said during an interview with the Washington Examiner. "I think the optimism in our city is divided in that the people that have been affected the most, probably, have the most optimism."
But Gold acknowledged that while local patrons, many of whom work at the Port of Baltimore, appear to be coming in more frequently, Key Brewing has also lost any new business coming across the water from the city proper.
"We’re literally cut off from sort of that side of the river, so you got to go up and around, and hazmats have to go all the way around, but we can go into the two tunnels," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "But what’s happened is the commute from our side became more tedious on our people, but people that live on that side aren’t coming this way. They have other options."
[ZERO] When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations across four states.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by Biden in November 2021, allocated $7.5 billion for EV charging, the Washington Post writes. Of this amount, $5 billion went to states as "formula funding" for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program to establish a network of fast chargers along major highways.
Today, there's seven chargers with a total of just 38 parking spots. And, come on: when the Post is calling it out, you know the results have been horrible.
The Post added that with the Biden administration's new emissions rules requiring more electric and hybrid vehicles, the slow pace of charging infrastructure development could hinder the transition to electric cars. Twelve additional states have awarded contracts for charging station construction, while 17 states have yet to issue proposals.
Alexander Laska, deputy director for transportation and innovation at the center-left think tank Third Way, told The Post: "I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline."
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I would consider a good hybrid (I am, actually) just not a plug-in hybrid. Maybe a diesel hybrid even. I shall never consider an EV. I'd sooner not drive.
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So exactly, who stole all this money?
Or was it the standard Biden thing, where it all goes for bribes?
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Whiskey Mike: we have 2hybrids and biggest shortfall, for us anyway, is inability to pull small trailer ( garden supplies, home depot runs, that sort of thing. Keeping the 2000 accord around for that. Cannot justify a pickup ( on many fronts).
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The slow rollout of the Federally funded EV chargers is due mainly to the strict standards these stations are required to meet (e.g. availability, interoperability). The 'strict standard' was made by regulation after input from the public in response to a proposed regulation.
Very little of the funds have been spent since this is a reimbursement program and companies that provide the charging station are paid after installation and inspection.
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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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]…Challenger, reverses over him, straddles and kisses him before stabbing him nine times
