Russia's Putin: If West wants to beat us on battlefield, let them try

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that if the West wanted to defeat Russia on the battlefield, it was welcome to try. Russia was just getting started in Ukraine, Putin said in a hawkish speech to parliamentary leaders, and the prospects for any negotiation would grow dimmer the longer the conflict dragged on. "Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Full Kook With Mass Shooting Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed this week's mass shooting at a parade in Illinois could have been a secret operation carried out by gun control advocates. “Two shootings on July 4th, one in a rich, white neighborhood and the other at a fireworks display,” she said in a clip posted on Twitter by Patriot Takes, which monitors right-wing media. Greene was referring to the parade shooting in Highland Park, which left seven people dead, and likely an incident in Philadelphia that left two police officers wounded.

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  Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests 4th of July Shooting Was Orchestrated by Democrats

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  Marjorie Taylor Greene shares photoshopped image of Robert Crimo while pushing baseless shooting claims

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Biologists' fears confirmed on the lower Colorado River

Minutes later, the park service confirmed their worst fear: smallmouth bass had in fact been found and were likely reproducing in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. They may be a beloved sport fish, but smallmouth bass feast on humpback chub, an ancient, threatened fish that's native to the river, and that biologists like Arnold have been working hard to recover. The predators wreaked havoc in the upper river, but were held at bay in Lake Powell where Glen Canyon Dam has served as a barrier for years — until now.

YouTuber gets scam ring in India arrested after hacking into their office's CCTV cameras

A YouTuber allegedly hacked into the CCTV cameras of an India-based scam ring office and gathered enough evidence of fraud to alert local police, which ultimately led to five arrests. The most recent video uploaded by Scambaiter on Sunday, titled “I Got Scammers ARRESTED On Their CCTV Cameras!”, has garnered nearly a million views at the time of this writing. In the 20-minute clip, viewers are given a look at CCTV footage taken from June 13-24, beginning with video of the alleged scammers at work, posing as Best Buy's Geek Squad tech support employees, and ending with their arrest by local police in Punjab, India.

Russian missile hits an empty ship Operational Command South

IRYNA BALACHUK – THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2022, 13:20 One of the missiles that the Russians fired at Odesa region on 7 July hit the empty tanker "Millennial Spirit '', sailing under the flag of Moldova, which is drifting in the Black Sea. Source: Serhiy Bratchuk, the spokesman for the Odesa Military Administration, referring to the official message by Operational Command South, on Telegram Quote from Operational Command South': "In the following air strike on Odesa region, two X-31 missiles were launched from an Su-30 aircraft.

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  Russians hit Odesa region and Zmiinyi (Snake) Island with missiles

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  Khmelnytskyi region under missile attack: Russians target water tower

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Homeowner finds out guests took bed for a ‘test drive’ during open house: ‘I wish we had cameras’

Her home is for sale, so her agent hosted an open house. But the potential buyers were more interested in some of the furnishings than the home itself. mortgage truths that may surprise you “I wish we had cameras because I am seriously so curious about what happened in my house during this showing,” the caption read.

Family of Parade Suspect’s Only Friend: ‘It Blows My Mind’

Michele Rebollar remembers the moment during her son Anthony LaPorte's funeral when Bobby Crimo—now charged with massacring seven people and wounding two dozen others at a Chicago suburb's Fourth of July parade—stood up to speak. It was August 2017, and the long-haired, awkward Crimo described how Anthony was one of the only people he had to confide in. “My name is Bobby, and Anthony was the person I would call when I couldn't sleep and he would always reply,” Crimo says in a video of the memorial service reviewed by The Daily Beast.

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  Parade shooting suspect charged with murder

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  'There will be more charges': Suspect charged after mass shooting at Fourth of July parade

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‘The biggest Ponzi scheme in history’: This CEO warns that the Fed’s strategy has created a giant bubble in housing. Here’s what he likes for protection

Don't miss Mitt Romney says a billionaire tax will trigger demand for these two physical assets — get in now before the super-rich swarm Stocks are down, but “cash is not a safe investment,” says Ray Dalio — get creative to find strong returns Warren Buffett likes these 2 investment opportunities outside of the stock market Federal funds rate Morehead argues that the Fed made a big policy mistake by keeping the federal funds rate far too low. The difference between inflation (their mandate) and their policy tool (fed funds) is much larger than at any point in history — including the disastrous 1970s,” he writes. They left rates at zero.

Christians strip down at a South Texas nudist community

The gate opens to reveal a seemingly ordinary community. RVs and small homes line the roads, péntaque and pickleball courts offer residents recreational spaces, and the front office acts as the community's nucleus. Misty Katz, part owner of Nature's Resort, finds comfort in shunning clothes.

Exclusive: Trump left Sarasota media company weeks before federal subpoenas were issued

Donald Trump removed himself from the board of his Sarasota-based social media company, records show, just weeks before the company was issued federal subpoenas by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and a grand jury in Manhattan. Trump, the chairman of Trump Media and Technology Group, was one of six board members removed on June 8, state business records show. Among the board members removed were Kashyap Patel, Trump's former point man in the White House; Scott Glabe, a former assistant to Trump who was counsel for the media company; and Donald Trump, Jr. The SEC served Trump Media and Technology Group with a subpoena on June 27, according to a regulatory filing.

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  Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone to comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena

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  Georgia grand jury subpoenas Trump lawyers over effort to overturn election

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Look at My Face and Tell Me We Don’t Need Gun Control

The ambulances and police vehicles that kick off the parade came by, then the marching band passed. That's when we heard it: pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I thought it was fireworks until I saw people ducking.

'Fed up' Debra Messing says she got Biden elected during White House call about abortion rights: Report

The White House orchestrated a call with celebrity Democratic supporters amid the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade... and it didn't go very well. According to a report from CNN, Debra Messing was among the participants "fed up" about President Joe Biden's lack of urgency and the administration being unprepared despite weeks of warning. White House aides co-organized the call with the advocacy group Build Back Better Together.

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  Debra Messing 'fed up' during White House call about abortion rights, said she got Biden elected: Report

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  Debra Messing reportedly tells White House there’s no point in voting after Roe v Wade is overturned

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The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point: ‘Roe v. Wade’ Edition

In light of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision effectively overturning Roe v. Wade, many reproductive rights activists have criticized cisgender heterosexual men for staying silent on the issue of abortion rights — even though men are also impacted by the availability of safe, accessible abortion. One surprising straight man who has publicly come out in favor of abortion rights is Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports. Portnoy is no stranger to intense controversy — his former employees have accused him of fostering a toxic and misogynistic work environment, promoting cyberbullying and sexual harassment, and he was even accused of sexual misconduct in a Business Insider expose, which he has vehemently denied.

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  Parents who've told their kids about their abortion history share why: 'I wanted her to know because it was part of my history'

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  ‘My body, my choice’: Lubbock activists protest abortion ruling after Roe v Wade overturned

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Tearful WWII vet says on his 100th birthday that current state of America is 'not what they died for'

A U.S. veteran who saw action in World War II lamented the current state of the country while celebrating his 100th birthday. Carl Spurlin Dekel, who spent his special day on June 29 with friends and family, broke down in tears as he told Fox13 in an interview shared the day after that his fellow soldiers did not die in the war for what America has now purportedly become.

U.S. funeral home owner who sold body parts pleads guilty to fraud

A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal charge of defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting their family members' corpses and selling the body parts without permission, a practice exposed in a 2018 Reuters investigative report https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-funeral. Megan Hess, who operated a funeral home called Sunset Mesa and a human body parts business called Donor Services from the same building, entered the plea to the charge of fraud at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher in Grand Junction, Colorado. Gallagher scheduled Hess, who had previously pleaded not guilty, to be sentenced in January, with the prosecution calling for 12 to 15 years in prison.

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  Colorado funeral home operator accused of stealing and selling body parts pleads guilty

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  A funeral home owner sold organs and body parts without permission for years and returned fake cremations where customers received concrete mix or swapped ashes, prosecutors say

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Bill Gates just won legal approval to buy 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland worth $13.5M — and people are ‘livid’ about it all across the state

Bill Gates made his fortune in tech, but he's now betting big on something completely different: farmland. Last week, Gates secured the legal approval for purchasing 2,100 acres of farmland from northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms. Of course, this isn't first time Gates has invested in the asset class.

Woman learns her neighbor pays $600 more in rent than her: ‘Is that legal?’

A woman discovered her landlord is inflating rent prices for new tenants. TikToker @cal_cifer_2.0 dished on what she dubbed “community drama” after her neighbor did some sleuthing around. She lives in an area with a bunch of one-bedroom rentals.

Man lights firework on his head and it explodes into his skull, Texas cops say

A 43-year-old man lit a firework on top of his head, resulting in his near-sudden death in San Antonio, police say. Officers in San Antonio were called to a residential area just after midnight on Tuesday, July 5, following the firework mishap, according to a police report. First responders found the victim was suffering from severe head trauma, with brain matter exposed from his skull, police said.

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  Wichita Falls police respond to hundreds of fireworks calls during the Fourth of July weekend

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  "A chunk of his head was missing": Azusa man suffers serious injuries due to fireworks explosion

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Brazilian volunteer fighter killed in Ukraine

She died alongside another compatriot of hers, Brazilian army veteran Douglas Burgio. There are no details available yet about the attack from official sources. Do Valle's and Burgio's family members say their battalion came under heavy Russian fire near Kharkiv on June 30.

Taliban leader: Afghan soil won't be used to launch attacks

Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada said Wednesday that Afghan soil will not be used to launch attacks against other countries, and he asked the international community to not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs. The Taliban say they are adhering to an agreement they signed with the United States in 2020 — before retaking power — in which they promised to fight terrorists. Since their takeover last year, they have repeatedly said Afghanistan would not be used as a launching pad for attacks against other countries.

Police Arrest Illegal Immigrants after ‘Hero Citizen’ Tipped Off Authorities to Planned Mass Shooting

Police in Richmond, Va., said a tip from a “hero citizen” helped prevent two illegal immigrants from carrying out a planned shooting at a Fourth of July celebration. “A hero citizen picked up the phone and overheard a conversation there was a mass shooting being planned here in the city of Richmond, Virginia,” Richmond Chief of Police Gerald Smith said during a press conference on Wednesday. Police said they found evidence that Julio Alvarado-Dubon, 52, and Rolman Balacarcel, 38, were planning an attack at the city's Independence Day celebration at the Dogwood Deli amphitheater and a city baseball game.

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  Police in Richmond, Va., say a tip ‘saved numerous lives’ from a mass shooting planned for July 4

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  Richmond, Virginia police say they prevented a planned mass shooting

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Mitch McConnell says the labor shortage will be solved when people run out of stimulus money because Americans are 'flush for the moment'

The labor shortage may be driven in part by a lack of childcare or workers wanting better pay. Mitch McConnell says that labor shortages will end when workers run out of stimulus savings. For over a year, lawmakers and businesses have been bemoaning how hard it is to find workers.

TikTok discusses whether 8-hour sleep schedule is a 'scam' or not: 'We don't even realize it's a scam'

It turns out sleeping is a scam — or at least the way most Americans sleep. TikToker Robyn is a self-professed sleep expert. She answered a prompt from another user who asked, “What's a scam that's become so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?