August 17, 2026

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Threats Force U.S. to Suspend Activities in Mexico’s Avocado Heartland– legalinsurrection.com

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Threats Force U.S. to Suspend Activities in Mexico’s Avocado Heartland– legalinsurrection.com
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U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Mexico announced the State Department has suspended activities in Michoacan State.

“Due to a threat against American interests, U.S. government activities in Michoacan State have been suspended as of August 5,” according to the warning. “Reminder that the U.S. travel advisory designates Michoacan as a Level 4 ‘Do Not Travel’ area.”

While the State Department did not specify the threat, four cartels work out of Michoacan State, all of which the administration designated as terrorist organizations:

  • Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)
  • Los Viagras
  • La Nueva Familia Michoacána
  • Cárteles Unidos

45,000 Islamic “Soldiers” Attend Massive Ashura Procession Through Dearborn Streets, Attack Citizen Journalist– gellerreport.com

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45,000 Islamic “Soldiers” Attend Massive Ashura Procession Through Dearborn Streets, Attack Citizen Journalist– gellerreport.com
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Amy Mek: Tens of thousands flooded Michigan this weekend in a massive Islamic procession – black flags, Arabic chants, Hezbollah-linked imagery – a scene ripped straight out of the Middle East.

This isn’t a cultural festival.

It’s a victory parade.

A living reminder that Dearborn has already been conquered without a single shot fired.

While the streets belong to the new majority, Christians and Jews are reduced to second-class citizens in their own city – told they’re “not welcome,” ignored when they complain about discrimination, and left unprotected.

And our federal government? Turning a blind eye.

This is what demographic conquest looks like when no one stops it.

BLM activists set up autonomous zone in Madison, Wisconsin—city provides bathroom facilities | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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BLM activists set up autonomous zone in Madison, Wisconsin—city provides bathroom facilities | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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The area, called the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone” or “CRAZ” was established following the July 22 police shooting of Ruiz, an armed felon.

Protesters in Wisconsin have established an autonomous zone in downtown Madison following the police shooting of Corey Ruiz.

The area, called the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone” or “CRAZ” was established following the July 22 police shooting of Ruiz, an armed felon who was killed after allegedly attacking a police officer with a knife. According to a report by the Gateway Pundit, protesters set up barricades made out of furniture, spike strips, and wooden pallets. They also set up tents and occupied part of the city in a manner similar to Seattle’s CHOP/CHAZ zone in 2020.

WMTV15 News reported that the city of Madison has been aiding the movement, placing portable restrooms in the area. District 6 Alder Davy Mayer said the city was working on providing basic services, including using city salt trucks as street blockades in place of trash cans. He also said a homeless population moved into the zone.

Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials– www.404media.co

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Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials– www.404media.co
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Scientists have designed a virtual model of an alien cell and dropped it onto a hypothetical exoplanet to see how it behaves, an approach that could help astronomers recognize signs of extraterrestrial life on distant worlds, according to a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The results revealed new insights about how microbes that produce methane gas, known as methanogens, might evolve on different exoplanets, such as Earth-sized ocean worlds or a class of hypothetical giant “Hycean planets” that host global oceans and hydrogen-rich atmospheres.

Predicting the impacts that methanogens might have on their environments could help scientists recognize potential signs of life, known as biosignatures, in the skies of worlds outside of our solar system.

Whereas many past studies have speculated about what forms of life might evolve on a particular type of exoplanet, this approach flips the idea on its head by starting with a general cell model and then considering how it might evolve in different biospheres.

NYPD: Antisemitic Attacks Are Surging in Mamdani’s New York City– slaynews.com

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NYPD: Antisemitic Attacks Are Surging in Mamdani’s New York City– slaynews.com
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Jews were the victims in roughly 70% of all hate crimes recorded in New York City last month, according to new NYPD data released Monday, underscoring the continued surge in antisemitic attacks across the nation’s largest city.

Of the 33 confirmed hate crimes reported citywide in July, 23 targeted Jewish victims, marking an increase of more than 50% from the 15 antisemitic incidents recorded during the same month last year.

The latest figures continue a years-long trend in which Jews have been targeted more frequently than every other protected group combined.

Putin Signs Law Targeting Exiled Russians Convicted in Absentia– www.themoscowtimes.com

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Putin Signs Law Targeting Exiled Russians Convicted in Absentia– www.themoscowtimes.com
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President Vladimir Putin has signed a law imposing sweeping financial, property and consular restrictions on Russians living abroad who have been convicted in absentia, including under legislation used to prosecute Kremlin critics.

The measure was one of several laws signed by Putin on Tuesday that expand state oversight of Russian citizens and the economy. Separate legislation establishes a tightly controlled cryptocurrency market and gives government agencies access to confidential data across the food supply chain.

The new restrictions will apply to Russians convicted of any criminal offense as well as selected administrative offenses, including violations of Russia’s “foreign agent” rules, participation in “undesirable organizations,” “discrediting” the military, calling for sanctions or challenging Russia’s territorial integrity.

New Kansas Supreme Court Judge Strikes Down Key Pro-Life Law– www.lifenews.com

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New Kansas Supreme Court Judge Strikes Down Key Pro-Life Law– www.lifenews.com
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Just hours before being sworn in to the Kansas Supreme Court yesterday, Johnson County District Judge Christopher Jayaram struck down Kansas’ Women’s Right to Know Act.

This commonsense informed consent law provided a 24-hour waiting period and ensured that women received information about potential health risks and alternatives to abortion. The law had been in place since 1997 and had broad bipartisan support.

Judge Jayaram will join the Kansas Supreme Court after being selected through the so-called “merit” process currently in place.

The timing of the decision demonstrates the abortion industry’s strategic attacks on commonsense protections for women and babies and complete disregard for human suffering.

Mike Rogers Secures Republican Nomination for Michigan Senate– www.breitbart.com

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Mike Rogers Secures Republican Nomination for Michigan Senate– www.breitbart.com
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Former FBI special agent Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan after running unopposed in the primary.

Rogers secured the election quickly after the polls closed in Michigan on Tuesday due to his having no challenger in what will likely become one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the upcoming midterms, per Washington Examiner:

The seat is open after Democratic Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) announced he would not seek a third term, creating one of the GOP’s best pickup opportunities as the party looks to expand its Senate majority.

Rogers is making his second straight run for the Senate after narrowly losing in 2024. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) defeated Rogers in that contest by roughly 19,000 votes, or about one-third of a percentage point, even as Trump carried Michigan at the top of the ticket. The narrow defeat cemented Rogers as one of the GOP’s strongest statewide candidates and helped persuade national Republicans to rally behind another bid when Peters announced his retirement.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare– www.404media.co

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The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare– www.404media.co
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On Wednesday morning, Ted Cruz’s Senate Commerce Committee will convene on five bills aimed at age verification and “child safety.” The bills each have their own issues when it comes to privacy, data collection, parental rights, and free speech. But one bill, the partisan Republican SCREEN Act, is a Christian nationalist nightmare.

Utah Senator Mike Lee introduced the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act in February 2025, alongside exclusively Republican cosponsors and supporters Senators John Curtis, Jim Banks, and Representative Mary Miller.

The SCREEN Act would require every website that includes even one piece of what the legislation describes as “harmful to minors” to verify visitors’ ages. It defines “harmful to minors” as content that “depicts, describes, or represents, in a patently offensive way with respect to what is suitable for minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual acts, or lewd exhibition of the genitals;” is “obscene” or “child pornography;” or “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion.”

Socialist William Lawrence wins Democratic primary in Michigan race– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Socialist William Lawrence wins Democratic primary in Michigan race– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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William Lawrence, a progressive insurgent, upset the Democratic establishment Tuesday to win the tense primary to run against Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI), possibly thwarting one of the top pickup opportunities for Democrats in November.

Lawrence led with a plurality of the vote in the three-way field, 43%, when the Associated Press called the race at 11:23 p.m. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink had 29%, while former Navy SEAL Matt Maasdam had 28%. 55% of the vote was tabulated when the race was called.

The bitter battle between Brink and Maasdam to secure the nomination was turned upside down by the upstart Lawrence, whose surge in the weeks leading up to the primary was enough to clinch the nomination. As attack ads ran against both Brink and Maasdam in the closing weeks, Lawrence ended up being the beneficiary and clinched the nomination.

Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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The diary of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), might be the best thing to happen to us filthy, unvaxxed, granny-killing conspiracy wackadoos who took grenades from weak, terror-stricken Democrats during the COVID era.

FACT-O-RAMA!  A Rasmussen poll from January 2022 showed that roughly 59% of Democrats wanted the unvaxxed confined to their homes at all times (except for emergencies), 58% wanted fines and imprisonment for those who questioned the efficacy of the COVID “vaccine,” and 45% of wanted the unvaxxed sent to a “COVID camp.”

In the days since “the Fauch’s” diary was released, We the People have learned what many of us have already kinda, sorta known: Fauci is an evil, lying Keebler elf of death who wrought unspeakable peccancies on the world for fame and fortune, and every day brings another pack of lies Fauci told the world to keep those good times rolling.

Here are some of the greatest lies (thus far) to emerge from Fauci’s

Trump Administration Finalizes Misguided Approach to Public Charge Rule | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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Trump Administration Finalizes Misguided Approach to Public Charge Rule | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org
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A longstanding law generally bars immigration by any person who, in the “opinion” of the government, “is likely at any time to become a public charge.” This law, commonly called the public charge rule, seeks to prevent potential immigrants from imposing undue fiscal burdens on American taxpayers. In a previous blog post, I discussed the Trump administration’s misguided proposal to change the regulations that implement the public charge rule. After receiving public comments, the administration has now finalized the proposed regulation without change, slating it to take effect on September 18.

The administration’s own analysis of the new regulation indicates that it will serve no legitimate purpose because it will rarely affect people who are subject to the public charge rule. However, confusion created by the regulation will prompt many people who are not subject to the public charge rule, including some US citizens, to forego government benefits to which they are legally entitled.

Campus free speech hits 20-year high under Trump administration– www.washingtontimes.com

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Campus free speech hits 20-year high under Trump administration– www.washingtontimes.com
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Colleges are purging restrictive speech codes under the Trump administration and removing “bias reporting” policies that solicited anonymous complaints about microaggressions, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression reports.

The Philadelphia-based free-speech group flagged a record-low 66 schools, or 13.2% of all institutions, with a “red light” rating for written policies stifling campus protests, speaking events and online discussions. That’s down 1.5 percentage points from last year, and reverses two consecutive years of increases under the Biden administration.

At the same time, FIRE’s 20th annual report awarded a “green light” to 76 schools — 15.4% of 493 institutions surveyed — for placing no limits on First Amendment rights. That’s up from 73 last year and marks the second consecutive year of green lights outnumbering reds.

“Pressure from many state legislatures, as well as the reelection of Donald Trump and subsequent federal investigations, lawsuits, and shifts in research funding, have prompted internal review at many schools,” FIRE senior program counsel Ryan Ansloan said in a statement. “We hope this will translate to taking the side of free speech when controversies arise.”

FIRE started rating university speech codes with green, yellow or red lights in 2006, when just 2.4% of schools earned a green light and 97.6% received a yellow or red light.

31 States Now Opting Into Trump’s Federal School Choice Program – RedState– redstate.com

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31 States Now Opting Into Trump’s Federal School Choice Program – RedState– redstate.com
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School choice is still a hot topic for parents, even parents in some deep blue districts who are caught between the teachers’ unions and the local anti-school choice Democrats who are the teacher’s union pets. The Trump administration, thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, has now created a federal school choice program, and 31 states have opted in.

That’s what we call a good start.

Thirty-one states have opted in to the federal Education Freedom Scholarship Program, while 19 states and Washington, D.C. have not done so, ahead of the January 2027 deadline.

The Trump administration launched the school choice initiative in 2025 through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This created a federal income tax credit of up to $1,700 annually for individuals who donate to certified Scholarship Granting Organizations.

Capitol One Claims It Debanked Trump Organization in 2021 over ‘Money Laundering’ Concerns, Not Political Bias– www.breitbart.com

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Capitol One Claims It Debanked Trump Organization in 2021 over ‘Money Laundering’ Concerns, Not Political Bias– www.breitbart.com
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Capital One has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of debanking President Donald Trump’s company after the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol in Washington, DC, claiming it closed Trump Organization accounts following an anti-money-laundering review.

The bank submitted a court filing on Friday and said the internal review was conducted due to patterns that “are among the types of activity flagged by federal banking guidance,” Bloomberg reported Saturday.

“The filing does not give details about the transactions at issue or accuse Trump or his company of wrongdoing,” the outlet said. “The decision to close the accounts was made as part of a process involving the lender’s anti-money-laundering professionals ‘with decades of law enforcement experience,’ the bank said.”

Pennsylvania Voter Roll Purge Wipes Out Tens of Thousands Democrats in Just One Week– gellerreport.com

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Pennsylvania Voter Roll Purge Wipes Out Tens of Thousands Democrats in Just One Week– gellerreport.com
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Pennsylvania just purged its voter rolls and Democrats lost TENS OF THOUSANDS of voters versus Republicans in ONE WEEK

🔵 DEMOCRATS: -54,178
🔴 NET GOP GAIN: +30,195

Last week, Dems led statewide by 56K voters…that D lead has been cut in more than HALF to 26K.

This comes after NJ got CAUGHT letting noncitizens onto the rolls.

Secure our elections at all costs and Republicans win!

We must pass the SAVE AMERICA Act.

Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’– www.lifesitenews.com

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Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’– www.lifesitenews.com
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned in a sermon this weekend that “nothing is more dangerous for a religion” than “interference with the liturgy.”

The auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, defended the importance of upholding the Church’s sacred tradition, including its traditional liturgy, during a visit to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Limerick, Ireland.

He emphasized that it is a perpetual precept of the Catholic Church to remain faithful to its tradition, both “doctrinally and liturgically,” The Catholic Herald reported.

“True piety admits no other rule than that only those things which have been (faithfully) received from our fathers, those same are to be (faithfully) consigned to our children,” said Schneider.

UCLA Student Paper Says Misgendering is Too Harmful for Free Speech– legalinsurrection.com

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UCLA Student Paper Says Misgendering is Too Harmful for Free Speech– legalinsurrection.com
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Mind you, these exceptions only flow in one direction. Leftists will still be allowed to call conservatives Nazis.

Aspiring journalists still want First Amendment exceptions for hurt feelings

A month ago, The College Fix reported on Defending Education’s lawsuit against the University of California system for allegedly requiring the use of “preferred pronouns.”

The lawsuit asserted that a student “who uses ‘he’ or ‘him’ when referring to a biological male who identifies as a female will be punished for ‘misgendering’ that student.”

Defending Education Senior Legal Counsel Sarah Parshall Perry noted colleges certainly can act to prohibit true harassment — “targeted, severe, and pervasive conduct that interferes with a student’s education” — but can’t “weaponize vague harassment policies to regulate viewpoints on matters of public concern, such as biological sex and gender identity.”

Planned Parenthood shuts down three Michigan facilities after $5.6 million loss– www.lifesitenews.com

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Planned Parenthood shuts down three Michigan facilities after $5.6 million loss– www.lifesitenews.com
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Three Planned Parenthood facilities will close in Michigan as the one-year, temporary defunding of abortion vendors took a toll on its profits.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan said that the closures were driven by “$5.6 million in uncompensated and undercompensated care.”

The three closed locations in Lansing, Warren, and Livonia did not commit abortions at their facilities, though they did refer for dangerous chemical abortion drugs. The closure of these facilities further shows that abortion is a moneymaker for Planned Parenthood while some other services are not.

While the one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood expired on July 4 of this year, the effects of it in just 365 days illustrate the importance of extending the cuts. Planned Parenthood also cited its exclusion from Title X “family planning” funds as a reason for its financial losses.

“For decades, federal family planning funding and reimbursement for patient care helped Planned Parenthood expand access across the state,” Paula Greear, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan, stated in a news release.

Astronomers reveal the true size of the biggest known galaxy– www.techexplorist.com

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Astronomers reveal the true size of the biggest known galaxy– www.techexplorist.com
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When you look up at the night sky, the stars you see are part of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. But out there in the universe, galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, and some are truly enormous. A galaxy’s size is closely tied to how many stars it contains. One of them, IC 1101, has just been confirmed as the largest galaxy ever measured.

IC 1101 stretches an incredible 520,000 light-years across. To put that in perspective: In contrast to the Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light-years wide, IC 1101 is more than five times larger.

If you placed it where the Milky Way is, it would swallow up not just our galaxy but also many of our closest neighbors.

Scientists estimate that there are 3.4 trillion stars inside this galaxy, compared to a mere 200–400 billion in the Milky Way.

Memo Reveals Blueprint For Investigation Into Covid Origins Paper– thefederalist.com

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Memo Reveals Blueprint For Investigation Into Covid Origins Paper– thefederalist.com
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The Counterlawfare Institute obtained a previously undisclosed June 8, 2025, memo laying out a blueprint for the Department of Justice to investigate Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health’s contributions toward the influential “Proximal Origin” scientific paper that argued the Covid-19 virus originated from nature, not a lab.

The memorandum was written by Michael Caputo, a former senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official who later served as an adviser in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and addressed to Ed Martin, then director of the Department of Justice’s Weaponization Working Group. It later emerged that Caputo was under secret federal surveillance at the time.

In the memo, Caputo encourages the DOJ to investigate whether federal officials misled U.S. intelligence and directed millions of taxpayer dollars to scientists who “falsely distracted the public from government misconduct that lead to massive illness and deaths worldwide.”

Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe’s rivers– www.bbc.co.uk

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Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe’s rivers– www.bbc.co.uk
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Renewed heatwave conditions are due to continue for at least another week, pushing temperatures above 40C in many central and southern European countries.

Germany’s Low Water Information System (NIWIS) said that 44% of the Rhine measuring stations and 78% of those on the Danube had recorded extremely low water levels at the end of July.

The Rhine – which starts in the Swiss Alps and empties in the North Sea – is one of Europe’s busiest waterways. Decreasing water levels have sparked concerns about the economic fallout of having to limit navigation and shipping.

On Friday, the navigable water depth at the chokepoint of Kaub near Koblenz hit the 2018 record low of 25cm, before recovering slightly on Monday.

Seven killed as drone hits packed Russian beach and tourists run for their lives– www.mirror.co.uk

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Seven killed as drone hits packed Russian beach and tourists run for their lives– www.mirror.co.uk
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Drone dive-bombs beach in southern Russia killing tourists

At least seven people have been killed, including three children, as a “downed” Ukrainian drone crashed and exploded onto sunbathers on a Russian beach.

Forty people were also injured, with 21 of them taken to hospital, as the unmanned device exploded in Arkhipo-Osipovka. The drone was seen dive-bombing onto tourists at the popular beach as temperatures reached 29C.

Beachgoers have claimed no warning sirens were heard before the incident as some sheltered under sun loungers.

Japan, US confirm joint yen-buying intervention, signal more action– www.channelnewsasia.com

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Japan, US confirm joint yen-buying intervention, signal more action– www.channelnewsasia.com
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Japan has been struggling to curb a relentless drop in the yen that pushes up import prices and stokes broader inflation, hitting households’ wallets and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s public approval ratings.

Tokyo’s solo intervention conducted between late April and early May caused only a brief yen rebound. The BOJ’s June rate hike to a 31-year high of 1 per cent also gave the struggling currency little lasting boost.

Friday’s joint intervention followed Tokyo’s solo intervention worth up to US$58.97 billion in New York markets a day earlier.

In a sign of further Japan-US coordination, Bessent said the United States would consider increasing in coming months the size of the Federal Reserve’s repurchase facility providing temporary dollar liquidity, calling the tool an “important backstop”.