SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday fired a barrage of suspected ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, according to South Korea’s military, days after its attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure but still drew strong condemnation from its rivals.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing around 10 projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles from an area near its capital, Pyongyang. It said the suspected missiles flew around 350 kilometers (217 miles) before landing in waters off the North’s eastern coast. It said the South Korean military has increased surveillance and vigilance and is closely sharing information with the United States and Japan.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Each year, as much as $35 billion worth of gold produced by artisanal and small-scale mining in Africa — the world’s top gold producing continent — goes undeclared and then smuggled out of its borders.
The vast majority of it goes to the United Arab Emirates, according to research published by the independent Switzerland-based aid and advocacy organization SwissAid.
“More than 435 tonnes of gold was smuggled out of Africa in 2022, representing more than a tonne a day,” the organization’s report, published Thursday, wrote. One tonne refers to a metric ton, which is equivalent to 2,204 pounds.
Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler will be dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world’s top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship.
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell, a local prosecutor, asked a judge Wednesday afternoon to drop the four charges against Scheffle, who was not required to be in the courtroom Wednesday in Louisville, Ky.
“Based upon the totality of the evidence, my office cannot move forward in the prosecution of the charges filed against Mr. Scheffler,” O’Connell said during the hearing that lasted less than 10 minutes. “Mr. Scheffler’s characterization that this was ‘a big misunderstanding’ is corroborated by the evidence.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over flags that flew over his homes.
In letters to members of Congress Wednesday, Alito says his wife was responsible for flying an upside down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year.
Neither incident merits his recusal, he wrote.
“I am therefore duty-bound to reject your recusal request,” he wrote.
China’s army has a new weapon in its arsenal: four-legged robot dogs with rifles mounted on their back, exhibited during its Golden Dragon training with Cambodia.
Pope Francis, 87, is alleged to have made the offensive homosexual slur during a private meeting where bishops discussed whether gay men should train to be priests
SPRINGFIELD — Instead of delivering a decisive budget victory to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Democrats stood on the Illinois House floor scratching their heads early Wednesday as they searched for a key vote needed to pass the state’s budget.
When all was said and done, the Democratic-led House eked out a vote of 60-47, the bare minimum needed to clear a revenue package — one of three budget bills that had been approved by the Senate on Sunday. By 4:43 a.m., more than four hours after legislators began taking up the budget, the House approved the $53.1 billion budget that relies on $1.2 billion in revenue from several changes to the state’s tax code.
“No matter what the other chamber says, no one’s ever said the House is boring,” Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, told lawmakers after the contentious vote. “The House is definitely not boring.”
Adobe released findings of its Future of Trust Study for India, which surveyed over 2,000 Indians about their experience encountering misinformation online and concerns about the impact of generative AI. Tied to its work on Responsible Innovation, Adobe commissioned the study to understand public perceptions and sentiment about the societal impact of generative AI and misinformation, including its implications within the context of the ongoing elections in India. Among the findings, the study highlights strong desire from consumers to have tools to verify the trustworthiness of digital content and the urgent need for proactive measures to address misinformation’s potential impact on election integrity in the country.
Thai prosecutors on Wednesday said former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges.
WASHINGTON — A fund to compensate Americans sickened by exposure to atomic bomb tests, uranium mining and radioactive waste expires in just under 15 days, and activists and lawmakers are scrambling to keep the fund active and open to additional victims.
A bill to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, often shortened to RECA, sailed through the U.S. Senate in early March on a bipartisan 69-30 vote, but the House has yet to take it up for a vote.
Critics cite high costs, but bipartisan lawmakers and activists rallying in favor of the bill say the victims have already paid the price through medical bills and lost loved ones, and that it’s ultimately the government’s wrong to make right.
The U.S. Senate-passed legislation, championed by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, aims to extend the program by six years and expand eligibility to several new locations, including his state of Missouri where, over decades, residents witnessed numerous rare similar cancers among neighbors in and around St. Louis.
Hunter Biden’s legal team may try to argue in his upcoming firearms trial that he was not addicted to drugs at the time he bought the gun in 2018 because he’d just gone to rehab, according to recent court filings.
“Someone like Mr. Biden who had just completed an 11-day rehabilitation program and lived with a sober companion after that could surely believe he was not a present tense user or addict,” Mr. Biden’s defense lawyer, Abbe Lowell wrote.
Mr. Biden, whose trial begins next week, is facing multiple federal felony charges for lying about his drug use to buy a gun in 2018. Dueling filings from the defense and prosecution suggest that some of the trial will revolve around disagreements on what defines an addict, and on how Mr. Biden’s substance abuse disorder could be characterized in October of 2018, when he bought the gun.
An illegal immigrant is back in custody after being arrested for the tenth time in as many months. Since arriving in Chicago last summer, Carlos Mavarez Viloria has been booked on charges ranging from shoplifting to possession of drug paraphernalia. Viloria was released the previous nine times, however his most recent arrest was his first felony, meaning even if he is freed, he will have to abide by certain conditions.
According to CWBChicago, Viloria was apprehended on May 15 in downtown Chicago’s Pritzker Park on shoplifting charges. The TJ Maxx on 11 North State Street had alerted police that they had reason to believe he had stolen $450 worth of merchandise from them on four occassions between April 9 and May 7.
During the arrest, Viloria struggled with officers, pushing one of them to the ground, causing injuries to their hand and arm. In addition to the shoplifting charges, he was hit with reckless conduct, resisting arrest, and felony aggravated battery of a peace officer.
Severe weather in Texas is disrupting the state’s primary runoff elections as storms batter the region.
At least three counties in the state are experiencing power outages, damage to polling stations, or delays as severe weather and tornadoes threaten the region. Dallas County, Collin County, and Denton County, all three neighboring counties, are facing problems.
Due to a tornado warning and severe weather conditions affecting our area, Dallas County Elections is experiencing some delays. The safety of our election workers, voters, & community is our top priority, and we are closely monitoring the situation. #DallasCountyVotespic.twitter.com/fDIw5sVRpR
— Dallas County Elections (@DallasElections) May 28, 2024
Newsweek was first to report late last week that Harry’s 2016 statement confirming his relationship with now wife Meghan, 42, has been removed from the royal family’s website — Royal.uk. Harry, 39, made headlines at the time for issuing a groundbreaking statement via the Kensington Palace communications secretary Jason Knauf.
While it’s unclear exactly when the statement was removed, Newsweek reported that archive website Wayback Machine had a functioning version of the webpage on December 3 of last year. By December 10, it appeared that Harry’s message had been taken down from the site.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a number of cases questioning whether state court juries must have a dozen members when they are weighing serious criminal charges.
A series of appeals challenging Florida’s use of six-member juries has been pending at the Supreme Court for months. Six states – Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah – allow six- or eight-member juries to decide felony cases.
The criminal defendants asserted that the practice violates the 6th Amendment.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a dissent from the decision to deny the cases.
There are 124 cities with a population over 200,000 in the U.S. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates for last year, more than 90% of the U.S. population growth last year took place outside of its 124 largest cities.
About a third of those cities lost population last year. The total growth in the population of cities with more than 200,000 residents grew by .23%, less than half of what the U.S. grew last year.
Roughly a third of those that lost population were located in New York and California. The three largest cities in the U.S., New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, all lost population again in 2023. Between the three cities, more than 700,000 people have left since the 2020 census. New York is by far the biggest loser at 546,000. That is about 6.2% of its 2020 population.
(NewsNation) — Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is “doing great” after he suffered a reported health scare while on a flight on Sunday, according to reports.
The 57-year-old boxing legend had a medical emergency while aboard a flight from Miami and Los Angeles on Sunday, In Touch reported.
Tyson, who is scheduled to face social media influencer Jake Paul in an exhibition boxing match in July, was tended to by paramedics who boarded the flight to tend to the boxer, the report said.
Donald Trump already owes writer E. Jean Carroll $91 million for defaming and sexually abusing her and then defaming her again. That’s obviously a lot of money for anyone to cough up, but particularly for a guy who has also been ordered to pay nearly half a billion dollars in an unrelated case involving him being a fraud. Yet apparently the ex-president is unconcerned with running up his tab, as he spent the long weekend resuming his attacks on Carroll.
In a characteristically unhinged rant on Truth Social that began “Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country,” Trump insisted that he’d “never met” Carroll, and claimed that the fact that she didn’t know the exact date the assault in question took place, didn’t file a police report, and didn’t “produce” the outfit she was wearing at the time suggested the attack never happened. He also used the post to lash out at the judge who presided over the Carroll case. (Trump has attempted to appeal the defamation judgment and delay its enforcement, but a federal judge rejected his most recent request.)
A MAGA fan accused of “ramming” police officers with a giant, metal “TRUMP” sign during the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 has been arrested in South Dakota, according to court records and an NBC News report.
“William George Knight faces more than a half-dozen charges in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, including felony charges of assault on a federal officer and obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder,” reported Ryan J. Reilly.
Knight was apprehended as a suspect due to the online detective work of the “sedition hunters,” a loose-knit collective that has helped track down hundreds of people to assist the FBI, according to the report.
After the massacre occurred in the tents of Rafah by “Israel”, thousands of protesters around the world took to the streets to condemn both “Israel” and the world leaders’ silence on the genocide.
A protester holding a banner during a protest in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, against the Israeli massacre in Rafah (X/@drgloryjjjjj958)
Thousands of protesters around the world took to the streets to condemn both “Israel” and the world leaders’ silence on the genocide, following the horrendous massacre “Israel” committed as it targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah.
On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against dozens of displaced persons by bombing their tents set up in UNRWA warehouses in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, an alleged “safe zone”.
A study conducted by Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough shows patients who have had at least one mRNA Covid-19 vaccine have experienced a 1,200 percent increase in unexplained deaths. The study tracked patients who had received the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine and resided in King County, Washington.
From the study, “Our analysis revealed a 25.7% increase in total cardiopulmonary arrests and a 25.4% increase in cardiopulmonary arrest mortality from 2020 to 2023 in King County, WA. Excess cardiopulmonary arrest deaths were estimated to have increased by 1,236% from 2020 to 2023, rising from 11 excess deaths (95% CI: -12, 34) in 2020 to 147 excess deaths (95% CI: 123, 170) in 2023. A quadratic increase in excess cardiopulmonary arrest mortality was observed with higher COVID-19 vaccination rates.”
A jolting new study has found that deaths surge by over 1,200 percent among people who have received at least one Covid mRNA shot.
The study was conducted by a group of world-renowned epidemiologists, cardiologists, and data experts.
The pre-print paper for the study, co-authored by celebrated cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, was published Monday.
The study, titled “Excess Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Mortality after COVID-19 Vaccination in King County, Washington,” sought to investigate concerns about major spikes in serious cardiovascular adverse events, including myocarditis, myocardial infarction, and venous thromboembolism, all of which can lead to cardiopulmonary arrest.
The team of experts analyzed data on deaths in King County, Washington between 2020 and 2023.
The county has one of the highest rates of vaccinations in the United States.
98 percent of King County’s residents received at least one Covid injection by 2023.
The county has also suffered from a surge in excess deaths since the Covid mRNA shots were first rolled out for public use in 2021.
The CCP and Soros-Funded insurrectionists laying siege to American colleges and universities have decided to openly call for violence and social disruption “in every city” to force Americans to “care” about the death cult calling for the extermination of the Jews in “Palestine.”
The student organizers are now telling their followers to “escalate protests to an open intifada in every capital and city in order to deprive the world from its heavy slumber….and disrupt all facets of daily life.” The called for an “open intifada” against “every settler and soldier… in every capital.”
Students who are part of the anti-Israel ‘Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee’ are now eschewing protests and calling for ‘open intifada’ in ‘every capital and city.
Remember when Democrats and the media called the Tea Party a terrorist organization? Where are they now? These student radicals are getting a pass because they’re part of the Democrat voter base.
Students at @Penn, @Harvard, @BrownUniversity, and @Princeton are calling on people to “escalate protests to an open intifada in every capital and city in order to deprive the world from its heavy slumber” and “disrupt all facets of daily life.” https://t.co/HtsZ6Vq4DT
Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee has abandoned protests in favor of promoting an “open intifada” against “every settler and soldier…in every capital.” Let’s be clear: this isn’t about free speech, this is a call to terrorism, plain and simple. pic.twitter.com/NnAuhShtn7
— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) May 28, 2024
