Several people have been shot in Times Square, New York City and a suspect in custody, per Viral News NYC. "Bodies are on the ground."pic.twitter.com/idBak9lytV
[NYPOST] A tourist was among the three people shot in Times Square early Saturday, the victims told The Post.
The 17-year-old gunman was inside the restaurant Raising Cane on Broadway when he got into an argument with a Citibike rider just after 1 a.m. and decided to settle his beef by leaving the eatery — and opening fire, sources said.
He went onto the street and fired three shots at a group of about a dozen Citibike riders, striking one of them — a 19-year-old — in the foot as well as a man, 65, standing on the sidewalk, the sources added.
That sounds like we got us a feral yoot.
His bullets also grazed the neck of an 18-year-old tourist as she road with her parents and siblings in an Uber, her mother and father, who were visiting from Maryland, told The Post. road?
"We heard gunshots," the teen’s mom said. "My daughter was holding her neck. She was bleeding."
The parents — who also had their 11-year-old twins with them — had just taken a late night bus tour around the city and were getting a ride back to their car in a parking lot.
"It’s a very horrific experience," said the mom, who asked to remain anonymous. "We decided to take our time to come to Times Square. We just felt that we would have a beautiful experience at night to see the whole city."
Her daughter was treated at Bellevue Hospital and released. She plans to start college at Morgan State University in the fall.
"They were going to put stitches in but decided not to," the mom said.
"We were traumatized," said the father, who’s originally from Nigeria. "If anyone told me to come to Times Square for even $1 million I wouldn’t do it."
The injured 65-year-old was also taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.
Cops pulled the teen shooter into custody at the scene and recovered a Glock from him, the sources said. Three .380 mm shell casings were also recovered at the scene.
Rodney Booij, manager of Carmine’s restaurant, near the scene said there was a shooting nearby a couple weeks earlier.
"If you look at the subways, you have more police controlling everything, so if it’s not happening there," he said. "Since the police is there, it’s happening here."
Shootings were down in the Midtown South Precinct, which covers Times Square, so far this year over the same period last year from four to one as of Aug. 3, according to NYPD data.
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Seems like a dumb era to tour most cities in the US.
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I went to NYC last year. I went looking for Times Square. I walked past it several times looking for it. When I finally convinced myself I was in the right spot, I was like, "this is it?"
Barely distinguishable from the surrounding streets.
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[Regnum] Police in Paris detained three men who climbed the Eiffel Tower, one of them jumped with a parachute from the tower. This was reported on August 9 by the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
It is specified that the security service reported people climbing the tower at 05:20 local time (06:20 Moscow time). Police officers and firefighters immediately arrived at the scene.
"Almost an hour later, one of the men even parachuted and was arrested on the ground without incident near the Champ de Mars. His two companions descended, accompanied by members of the Group for Intervention in Dangerous Environments (GRIMP) and firefighters, and were then handed over to the police," the article states.
All those arrested were remanded in police custody for "unauthorized entry into a listed building."
A representative of the Eiffel Tower's operating company intends to file a complaint over the incident.
It was previously reported that almost a year ago, on August 11, 2024, a man climbed the Eiffel Tower a few hours before the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. He was discovered between the first and second floors of the structure and was then detained. The offender turned out to be a 33-year-old professional climber from Britain.
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Considering that the Earth is composed of accumulated material that predates Earth, this is not particularly surprising.
In fact, if it didn't, that would be surprising.
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… “The subject looked toward the direction of the responding deputies as they identified themselves and provided a command to the suspect to drop the shotgun.”
Fryhoff added, “The suspect then proceeded to discharge the shotgun and a deputy involved sh00ting occurred.”
Saad was pronounced dead at the scene
According to a GoFundMe for the family, Mr. Saad had long suffered from mental health issues. There are also photos at the link.
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A few hundred Afrikaans speaking whites are a problem but 20 million illegals flooding the Southern border is evidently alright. I believe I see can detect the unspoken them of her concern.
Using this stupid logic, should the US deport all Blacks or Arabs with criminal records back to the nation of Origin? Even after 100+ years of the family being here and/or was born here?
[Ynet] Israeli cybersecurity firm Zenity stunned attendees at the Black Hat 2025 conference in the U.S. by demonstrating a groundbreaking "zero-click" hack into ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. The attack, a global first, allows hackers to seize control of user accounts and access sensitive data without any user interaction.
Building on last year’s revelation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s AI tools, Zenity’s co-founder and CTO, Michael Bargury, showcased how researchers breached ChatGPT and other platforms like Copilot Studio and Salesforce Einstein, exposing worsening security risks in widely used AI systems.
[NYP] Farm equipment giant John Deere announced this year it is investing nearly $20 billion over the next decade to bolster its US operations as part of its ongoing commitment to American manufacturing.
"We look forward to carrying forward our founder’s legacy of ingenuity as we continue building and investing in America," Cory Reed, president of Deere & Co.’s worldwide agriculture and turf division for production and precision agriculture in the Americas and Australia, told FOX Business.
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Market share is lost easily. Getting it back is a long long slog.
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Yea, John Deere lost me as a customer forever. I won't even buy their yard maintenance equipment, nor will I shop at businesses that carry their products!
[FoxBusinessNews] Canada lost 40,800 jobs in July, partially reversing June's gains
Canada shed tens of thousands of jobs in July, dragging the country’s employment rate to its lowest point in eight months as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs rippled through key industries.
The labor market’s reversal came just weeks after a surge in hiring. Statistics Canada data, cited by Reuters, showed the economy created 83,000 jobs in June but lost 40,800 in July, erasing nearly half of that gain.
The share of working-age Canadians with jobs slipped to 60.7%, while the unemployment rate held steady at a near-multi-year high of 6.9%, according to the outlet.
Trump's sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos have hit the manufacturing sector hard and reduced the hiring intentions of companies, Reuters said, citing statements from the Bank of Canada.
As part of a broader "America First" trade policy, Trump introduced sector-specific tariffs in an effort to protect U.S. manufacturing and reduce trade deficits with key partners.
Manufacturing employment fell by nearly 10,000 from a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada, Reuters said.
Marty Warren, national director of the United Steelworkers union, confirmed to the outlet that about 1,000 of its members have been laid off.
Youth workers were hit especially hard. Unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds jumped to 14.6%, while their employment rate fell to 53.6%, levels unseen since the late 1990s, excluding pandemic years, Reuters added.
Despite the setbacks, the national layoff rate stayed at 1.1%, suggesting some stability in other parts of the economy, the outlet said.
The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged this week but reportedly hinted it could move to cut rates if growth continues to falter and inflation remains under control.
Oxford Economics economist Tony Davenport expects further job losses ahead, forecasting about 140,000 more layoffs and unemployment climbing into the mid-7% range later this year, according to Reuters.
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Yoiks! What kinda way is that for a Canuckistani man of labor to talk, Mr. McCoy? Did we all imagine it, or weren't you, mere moments ago, an admirably sincere and committed Vaushnik? Might help tie your various personae together for confused readers if you had a nice theme song to play behind every post.
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Thank you, my dear. I found this Wikitubia page on him. Not my kind of thing at all, as far as I can tell — I find it utterly exhausting in a refusal-to-learn kind of way. But I can see where others might enjoy the argument, the facile cleverness, or laughing at him.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The State Department is rolling out a yearlong pilot program that will require certain travelers looking for US tourism or business visas to pay a significant bond, hoping to stop people from overstaying their welcome.
It's a decision that could make the process unaffordable for aspiring visitors - and force them rethink their plans altogether.
The department outlined the new 'visa bond' initiative this week, which targets countries with high rates of visa overstays.
The list will first apply to nationals of Malawi and Zambia applying for a tourist visa, but could be amended throughout the program to consider other countries. The pair of African countries were targeted first because they have a high rate of unauthorized overstays.
According to State Department officials, the bond could reach as much as $15,000 per person, though officers will typically set the amount at $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per child. The amount will be determined during the visa interview.
The department adds that the bond payment will be returned if the applicants comply with all of the terms set in the visa.
The Daily Mail reached out to both embassies for a reaction to this move, and learned that they were not communicated with by either the White House or State Department on the changes.
The Republic of Zambia Minister of Foreign Affairs Mulambo Haimbe, tells the Daily Mail, 'The Zambian government views this development with serious concern, given its potential economic implications on trade, investment, tourism and people-to-people exchanges. This includes the unnecessary financial strain on Zambian Nationals.'
According to the Department of Homeland Security's most recent data, nationals of Malawi and Zambia who traveled to the United States on nonimmigrant visas exceeded their authorized period of admission at higher rates.
Other countries with reported high overstay rates include Colombia, Brazil, Haiti, Ecuador and Spain.
Additional department data shows that, at the end of the fiscal year 2023, there were over 510,000 suspected in-country overstays, which represented 1.3% of the total expected departures.
This plan was announced as the Trump administration started tightening requirements for individuals applying for a visa, particularly for citizens of Africa.
Last week, the State department made the announcement that a significant number of visa renewal applicants may have to submit an additional interview in person as part of their application process.
The plan is set to be implemented on Aug. 20 and last until Aug. 5, 2026.
For citizens of countries that are enrolled in the visa waiver program, which allows travel for business or tourism for up to 90 days, the bond would not apply.
Both countries are landlocked nations in South Africa that face significant challenges related to poverty. According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization, both Zambia and Malawi's population stands at about 21 million people each.
According to the US travel Association, tourism has already dropped—11.6% decline for overseas visitors in March as well as a 20% year-over-year decrease from Canada and Mexico—prompting industry warnings that such policies could cause further damage. Data projections shows the tourism industry is set to lose billions of dollars this year.
[IsraelTimes] Memorial for US atomic bombing of Japanese city during WWII attended by representatives from some 100 countries, amid prayers for global peace, nuclear weapons ban. Nagasaki
[Rudaw] Iraq is experiencing its worst drought since 1933, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative said on Saturday. Farmland available for cultivation has been halved and rural families are being driven from their homes.
The entire region has been affected by drought, but Iraq is bearing the brunt of the crisis, Salah Haj told Rudaw’s Bakhtiar Aziz.
"Iraq's preparations and infrastructure are not adequate considering these challenges. The negative effects first hit the wetlands, where the drying rate has reached over 70 percent - a very dangerous level," he said.
Sandstorms have worsened the situation for buffalo herders, many of whom have left their villages as wetlands shrink. Farmland cultivation has also dropped by half, forcing farmers to seek livelihoods elsewhere.
Haj urged Iraq to modernize its irrigation systems, water storage, and planting methods to conserve water and called for a substantial budget and targeted programs to combat drought and desertification.
FAO is working with the federal and Kurdistan Regional governments on water projects, including restoring a water-sensing system in Erbil to optimize irrigation times. Haj said the Kurdistan Region’s situation is better than the rest of Iraq’s.
Iraq’s water crisis is caused by reduced precipitation, rising temperatures, and mismanagement. The lack of a comprehensive water-sharing agreement with neighbors The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Iran, who have built dams on shared rivers, has deepened the crisis.
More than 17,000 families have left Iraq’s southern provinces over the past decade due to drought and desertification, Ali Abbas, spokesperson for the Migration and Displaced Ministry, said in July.
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Turkey completed a massive dam at Ilisu a few years ago. It is a few miles north of the border w Syria and Iraq. It is over 400' high and over 1500' wide and holds over 35k acre-feet of water.
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[FoxNews] Drone system fires powder pellets to incapacitate threats before law enforcement arrives on scene
A drone system designed to confront a school shooter within seconds could soon become a frontline defense in classrooms across America.
Texas-based Campus Guardian Angel has developed the technology which stations drones inside schools, ready to deploy the moment an emergency alert is triggered.
The drones, all controlled remotely at a central operation center in Austin, Texas, are stored in charging boxes inside schools.
Once activated, they are designed to fire powder pellets to incapacitate a shooter within 60 seconds and buy time for local law enforcement to arrive at the scene.
Campus Guardian Angel founder and CEO Justin Marston joined "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday to detail the process.
"In mass shootings, most of the shooting happens in the first 120 seconds, and the majority are over before law enforcement arrives on the scene… You've got to be there already, and in some of the joint tests we've done with schools, even when law enforcement's on site, we still get there a minute before law enforcement can get there just because we're staged throughout the building," he said.
Marston compared the system to sprinklers in that the tool to neutralize the threat is already on-site and can be deployed at any time.
He also said the approach is cost-effective, amounting to around $4 per kid per month, but that amount drops off with volume in larger districts.
"So to protect your child with an air force during the entirety of their time in K-12 education would cost about the same as a one-way domestic economy flight ticket," he explained.
Marston said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already approved pilot projects with the drones in three counties across the Sunshine State and private schools in other states are currently working with Campus Guardian Angel to secure their locations.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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