[NYPost] A Houston family party turned into a mass shooting, with one person dead and 14 wounded, after an uninvited guest opened fire after getting kicked out, according to cops.
People at the party returned fire, sparking a running gun battle that was still raging when police showed up.
An uninvited guest opened fired after being kicked out, according to police.
The chaos broke out around 12:50 a.m. in southeast Houston when the unidentified party crasher was asked to leave a family gathering, according to the Houston Police Department.
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"An uninvited guest opened fired after being kicked out"
I wonder if a GoFundMe page will be created. I mean after all, about a month ago, a young man who was asked to leave a function, also in Texas, IIRC, stabbed somebody to death.
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No good ever comes from a "house party" after midnight. Actually no good comes from a "house party" before midnight either in my experience.
The chaos broke out around 12:50 a.m. in southeast Houston when the unidentified party crasher was asked to leave a family gathering, according to the Houston Police Department.
The uninvited guest is believed to have started the shootout, with other partygoers opening fire on the assailant, Assistant Chief Patricia Cantu said during a news briefing
An intoxicated man was shot and killed by a bystander near Austin’s Riverside on May 1
APD said the man was arguing with his girlfriend and banging on the door of her job
The man, identified as Marcos Valerio-Rodriguez, 37, pulled a knife out on a bystander who intervened and shot him Classic 'man brings knife to gunfight' scenario.
Three months after the deadliest aviation disaster in more than two decades, two passengers planes were forced to abort their landings at Reagan National Airport after an Army Black Hawk helicopter veered off course.
The two commercial airliners were both forced into last-second go-arounds on Thursday afternoon when the Army aircraft deviated from its approved flight path flying dangerously close to the arriving passenger jets.
The incident is particularly alarming given its parallels to the January disaster in which another Army Black Hawk collided midair with an American Eagle CRJ-700, killing 67 people in the worst US aviation accident since 2001.
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[Examiner] For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life — and in her case, it really has been — is not to argue.
Caterham, who is 115, became the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, after Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died on Wednesday at the tender age of 116.
"Never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like," she said from her nursing home in Surrey, southwest of London, on the secret to her longevity.
She was born on August 21, 1909, in the village of Shipton Bellinger in the south of England, five years before the outbreak of World War I. She was the second youngest of eight siblings.
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127 years after my grandmother was born, I asked a county clerk for a certified copy of gma's birth certificate. The clerk then said she wouldn't issue it to me unless I provided her with grandma's death certificate. Something to do with prevention of identity theft. Clerk relented when I point out that if gma still lived, she would be the oldest person on earth. Clerk basically didn't want to do her job & so came up with a convenient excuse.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump is so desperate for a new Air Force One jet that he asked a Florida-based company to overhaul a plane once used by the Qatari government.
The moves comes amid years-long delays in the provision of two replacements for the aging presidential planes that the president commissioned during his last time in office.
After becoming frustrated at Boeing's apparently inability to deliver the order Trump wants L3Harris, a defense contractor, to transform the luxury aircraft previously used by Qatar by the fall, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Back in February, Trump traveled to Palm Beach International Airport and toured the plane on the tarmac.
Based on pictures of interior, which boasted leather furniture along with glimmering floors and ceilings, it matched perfectly with Trump's famously opulent taste in décor.
Its a major setback for Boeing, which had been tapped during Trump's first term to deliver a new pair of state-of-the-art planes to replace the old ones that have been in service since George H.W. Bush administration.
Boeing has fallen so behind on the $3.9 billion project that it now fears it won't be able to finish building the planes before Trump leaves office. They were supposed to be finished last year, but a series of supplier and engineering snags has caused the project to take years and go billions over budget.
Behind the scenes it appears Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg's visit to the White House on April 18 did nothing to smooth things over.
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#2 Hmm....did they EMP proof the electronics?
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P2K,
My understanding is that the electronics have been the biggest issue - basically having to rewire the complete airframe, which is something normally done during construction, and a long difficult process at best one the plane's assembled. That's complicated by the requirements of an EMP resistant ( not -proof, nothing can be) airframe.
Boeing has built the most EMP-resistant airframes ever, the E-4 Nightwatch and the current Air Force Ones. They are, however, incapable of doing so now.
[FoxWeather] Measuring up to 8-feet long, the nonvenomous eastern indigo snakes are the longest snakes native to North America.
Officials released 42 eastern indigo snakes into the wilds of Florida this week in an effort to recover local populations of the species.
Measuring up to 8-feet long, the nonvenomous eastern indigo snakes are the longest snakes native to North America, according to The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The apex predator species serves a critical role in keeping the wildlife community balanced by eating small rodents and even other snakes.
But due to habitat loss and fragmentation, the eastern indigo snake population plummeted and largely disappeared from northern Florida by the early 1980s.
The recent reintroduction of 22 female and 20 male eastern indigo snakes into the northern Florida preserve known as TNC’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve (ABRP) is the latest in a nearly decade-long campaign to help the snakes rebound and provide balance to the ecosystem.
This brings the number of eastern indigo snakes released into ABRP to over 200.
The latest snake cohort was bred at the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC), The Nature Conservancy said. The animals then spent their first year of life at the OCIC before they spent their second year at Welaka National Fish Hatchery.
"The eastern indigo snake reintroduction program continues to make strides towards success," said Michelle Hoffman, biologist with the OCIC. "With increased monitoring efforts we are able to gather data to better inform the status of the reintroduced animals and how they persist on the landscape."
The snakes’ success also means the success of the landscape where they live. Officials said that the eastern indigo snake population is tied to the restoration of longleaf pine forests in northern Florida.
Once covering more than 90 million acres across the Southeast, they only cover about 5 million acres today. By reintroducing the eastern indigo snakes into longleaf pine forests, such as those in the ABRP, officials say the snakes will play an important part in bringing pine forests back.
[FoxNews] Felix Rojas has an ICE detainer for his arrest after his alleged heinous crime on a New York City subway
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slammed The New York Times Saturday over a story about a suspect who allegedly raped a corpse on a New York City subway, saying the reporters failed to mention the man was in the U.S. illegally.
"The New York Times refused to mention anywhere in its 400-word story on the monstrous rape of a corpse on the NYC subway that the depraved perpetrator is an ILLEGAL alien," Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, wrote on X. "Why not report the facts, @nytimes?"
Fox News Digital has reached out to The New York Times for comment.
Several other outlets also failed to report on Rojas' immigration status, and the New York Post reported that his immigration status was unknown at the time of its story Tuesday about the incident. On Friday, the Post followed up with a separate story reporting that Rojas was in the U.S. illegally.
DHS issued a news release announcing Rojas' ICE detainer May 1, three days after the Times story, which does not appear to have been updated with his immigration status since Monday. The Times hasn't written any additional stories about Rojas since.
According to DHS, Rojas, who illegally entered the country multiple times dating back to 1998, was arrested in New York City and charged with rape and grand larceny for allegedly raping a corpse on a subway in Manhattan.
A man who died of natural causes on the R train was slumped over in a seat, the NYPD told Fox News. Rojas allegedly rummaged through the man's pockets and then had sex with the man's dead body after looking around to see if anyone was watching, police say.
Investigators are now looking into the possibility he could be linked to other crimes across the city.
"With impunity, open-border policies have allowed violent criminal aliens to terrorize America’s towns and cities," McLaughlin said in a statement. "Under President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s leadership, ICE is working around the clock to remove the worst of the worst from our communities. If you are here illegally and break the law, we will hunt you down, arrest you and lock you up."
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I will pray for Felix, but it seems as if he will be an unpopular roommate in Gen Pop. Not sure how NY subways could get more dystopian. Probably, would be a good idea not to have Felix take the stand in his own defense.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk has won a vote to create his own Texas city as part of his ambitious pledge to colonize Mars.
The SpaceX boss will turn his company's headquarters at Boca Chica - at the southern tip of the Lone Star State - into a city named Starbase.
Residents voted 173 to 4 to incorporate Starbase as a city, Bloomberg reported.
Most of the voters who live there are Musk's employees at SpaceX, which he relocated to Texas over California's new gender identity laws earlier this year.
The vote also appointed the city's first mayor Bobby Peden and two city commissioners - Jenna Petrzelka and Jordan Buss. All three are current and former SpaceX employees.
Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.
Musk first floated the idea of Starbase in 2021 and approval of the new city was all but certain. Most of the 283 eligible voters in the area are Starbase workers.
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Someone help me here.
What was the name of that 1970's SciFi, where the elites started a Space Mass Travel shame, telling people they were colonizing a like Earth planet 20 + travel years away. Only to dump them along the way to reduce earth population?
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[Regnum] Tremors of magnitude 6.0 were recorded in the Gorontalo region of Indonesia. This was reported on May 3 by the Indonesian seismological and meteorological agency BMKG.
It is specified that the earthquake was felt in such remote areas of Gorontalo as North Sulawesi, North Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a depth of 97 km.
There were no reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami threat was announced.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a strong earthquake measuring 7.5 struck off the coast of Chile on May 2. A tsunami warning was issued due to the tremors. The coastal area of the Magallanes region in the south of the country is being evacuated because of this.
Earlier, on April 27, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 was recorded in the South Pacific Ocean near Macquarie Island, which is part of Australia. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a distance of about 1.5 thousand km from the large island of Tasmania.
[Telegraph via MSN] The man who masterminded Donald Trump's tariffs regime says Britain is now a 'compliant servant of communist China' that faces having its 'blood sucked' by leaders in Beijing.
Economist Peter Navarro's influence on the President has helped redraw the boundaries of global trade over the past month.
Navarro is known for his hostility towards China and claims that, in the face of overwhelming US tariffs of 145 per cent against the Asian superpower, the Chinese may turn their attentions towards the UK.
'If the Chinese vampire can't suck the American blood, it's going to suck the UK blood and the EU blood,' he told The Telegraph.
Navarro said the present moment was 'a very dangerous time for the world economies' in terms of their exposure to Chinese money.
He added: 'And let's face it, the UK has been an all too compliant servant of the Chinese Communist Party because of the string-laden gifts that China gives as a way of spreading its soft power.'
The decision by China's Jingye Steel to shutter the Scunthorpe steel works has reinforced fears about the Chinese government's power in the UK.
The UK government has now taken control of the Scunthorpe site and senior figures inside the Labour Party have urged the government to carry out a full review of Chinese investment in critical UK infrastructure and industry.
[RFI.FR] Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just six votes, as it picked up gains in other localities including one mayoralty.
The group's strong showing continues momentum it built up at last year's general election and appears to confirm a trend that the UK is entering an era of multi-party politics.
"For the movement, for the party it's a very, very big moment indeed," Brexit champion Farage said of Reform's first-ever by-election win and Starmer's first electoral loss since he took office last July.
Reform also picked up dozens of council seats from both Labour and the Conservatives as Britannia's political landscape shows signs of splintering.
In the fight for six mayoralties, Reform won Greater Lincolnshire with Labour holding three. Labour, however, only narrowly held the North Tyneside mayoralty after a 26-percent swing to Reform.
New Greater Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns said the "fightback to save the heart and soul of our great country has now begun".
"Now that Reform is in a place of power, we can help start rebuilding Britannia. Inch by inch," she said.
The polls were the first since Starmer became prime minister and Kemi Badenoch took over the reins of the struggling opposition Conservatives last year.
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Farage is just a kind of lightning rod for focusing and then dispersing British nationalism and the wish to rule themselves.
He betrays his voters at every opportunity.
[GEO.TV] Australia's Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as Prime Minister on Saturday, in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters' concerns about the influence of US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own seat — echoing the fate of Canada's conservatives and their leader whose election loss days earlier was also attributed to a Trump backlash.
Supporters at Labor's election party in Sydney cheered and hugged each other as Albanese claimed victory and said Labor would form a majority government.
''This is a win for the ages,'' Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers told ABC. Albanese "has pulled off one of the great political victories since federation.''
The results coming in were "absolutely unbelievable", Labor supporter Melinda Adderley, 54, said through her tears at the election party.
Albanese would be the first Australian prime minister to win a consecutive term in two decades.
The Australian Electoral Commission website published early results showing Labor ahead of a coalition of the Liberal and National parties, 55.94%-44% on a two-party preferred basis.
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Another win for the Israel-haters following the recent election in Canada.
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[Regnum] Eight OPEC+ countries that voluntarily comply with their commitments to limit oil production will increase production by 411 thousand barrels per day in June compared to May figures. This is stated in a joint statement on the OPEC website.
The report said that the volume of oil by which production is planned to increase in June does not exceed the previously approved plan for production growth over three months. The next meeting of OPEC+ representatives is expected to determine the production plan for July. It will take place on June 1.
OPEC's statement suggests that the decision to increase oil production rates was dictated by current "healthy" fundamental factors in the oil market, as well as low commercial reserves in the world.
The organization specifically draws attention to the fact that the increase in resource extraction may be suspended. This will depend on the current market situation.
"This flexibility will allow the group to continue to maintain stability in the oil market," the statement said.
OPEC also noted that the decision taken today will allow countries that have exceeded the agreement on reducing oil production to increase compensation for overproduction.
The eight OPEC+ countries, which include Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman, meet monthly to review the current state of the oil market and the extent to which the OPEC+ deal is being implemented.
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They would have to increase production to achieve the same revenue as American production returns to pre-Biden levels. The end result should be price drops seen at the pump this summer.
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oil futures on the Mercantile price in only a $1 decrease between now and mid summer
a lot could happen
if China's factories close for more than a month or two demand goes down and price goes down
if production shuts down on any of the non OPEC countries, price goes up
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[RFI.FR] Romanians head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election re-run, five months after the previous vote was annulled over allegations of Russian interference — a decision that plunged the country into political chaos and mass protests. The election will determine the country's leadership at a time when its position within the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... , as well as its foreign policy direction, face significant challenges.
The unprecedented annulment of the presidential election on 6 December, 2024 came after allegations of Russian interference favouring the initial front-runner, Calin Georgescu.
The move plunged the country into widespread protests and political instability, fuelled by US Vice-President JD Vance, who, during a speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, questioned European values of democracy if "European courts cancel elections".
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I hope they overturn democracy again.
Just make it even more clear that the European people are the real enemy, much more than Russia ever could be.
JD Vance was right.
Time to start treating Europe as an adversary. Just like we do Russia and Iran and North Korea and all the others who hate our democracy and our values.
We are well-placed to begin military interventions against Europe, just like we're ready to begin military intervention against Iran, and for the same reasons.
[Twitchy] The British National Health Service has been dialing back the 'gender-affirming' insanity when it comes to kids, after several studies and reports showed things like puberty blockers do more harm than good.
Opponents of 'transitioning' kids have fought for years to stop the nonsense because of the harm done, and because a lot of supposed 'trans' kids are actually autistic and not experiencing 'gender dysphoria.'
So it's good that the NHS is recognizing this and testing accordingly:
The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph.
Every child referred to a gender clinic will be 'screened for neurodevelopmental conditions' such as autism and ADHD under new guidance, to be introduced in the wake of the Cass review.
The review, by paediatrician Baroness Cass, found that the mental health conditions were disproportionately common among children and young people with gender dysphoria.
Medics will also evaluate each child’s mental health, their relationship with their family and their sexual development, including whether they are experiencing same-sex attraction.
As part of a proposal to incorporate Lady Cass’s recommendations, the health service will move away from the 'medical model' operated by the controversial Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service in favour of a 'holistic' approach.
This is good. Will American health care follow suit?
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What does a professional truck driver’s life look like?
How are the fuel tanks and filled on long distance drives?
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Really need robots to do things like garbage collection, dishwashing, long term care.
or at least robotic assisted work
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What does a professional truck driver’s life look like?
How are the fuel tanks and filled on long distance drives?
What about the "lot lizards"? Will they also become unemployed?
As an aside to the immigrant truck driver, allegedly, slamming on the brakes and killing a bunch of people because their direction device told him he missed and exit;
Regionally a truck driver didn't heed multiple bridge out signs and tried to go around the out bridge in the most retarded manner possible, argue fair or not, the go to take is a major trucking company passed a driver who didn't know his shit, up to and including being able to read English.
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.
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...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
