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https://ground.news/article/a-9-year-old-came-to-arizona-to-get-a-trump-tattoo-heres-what-happened

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https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/business/nearly-10-of-nycs-drugstores-closed-in-2024-amid-rampant-crime-study/

Nearly 10% of New York City’s drugstores have closed this year — a dramatic drop following a decade of retreats that has slashed their number by 40% as shoplifting continues to run rampant, according an explosive study.

The number of Walgreens, Duane Reade, CVS and Rite Aid stores across the city shrunk to 395 locations in 2024. That’s versus 435 last year, and down sharply from a peak of 656 in 2014, according to The Center for an Urban Future’s annual report titled “State of the Chains.”

Locals blame recent changes to the law where offenders are detained then released back onto the streets often within the same day.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sopfeu-plane-grounded-1.7427777

A Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles has been grounded after it collided with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said.

The collision left the CL-415 plane with a "sizable hole in its wing," said Christopher Thomas, a spokesperson with the California state firefighting agency, Cal Fire.

"Fortunately, they landed the plane without incident," Thomas said in an interview Friday.

The incident downed all aircraft fighting the fire for nearly half an hour on Thursday while officials made sure the skies were clear, he said.

"We all know how fast a fire can travel in half an hour. So this is a seriously dangerous situation because now that fire is able to go a little more unchecked," he said.

"This makes me very angry. It is extremely irresponsible and people could have been killed."

Laura Eimiller, a spokesperson for the FBI Los Angeles field office, told CBC News in an email that the incident is under investigation. The FBI's counter unmanned aircraft systems task force is in contact with the agency's local partners, she said.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14267057/Girlfriend-31-slices-partners-penis-night-BDSM-session-turned-increasingly-violent.html

A woman sliced off her partner's penis during a drunken all-night BDSM session that turned increasingly violent.

Alena, 31, had invited Denis, 36, to stay overnight at her flat in war-ravaged resort Mariupol, in Russian-occupied Ukraine. One version from news outlet BAZA is that the supermarket security guard severed his manhood with a knife during a drunken BDSM session.

Neighbours heard what they believed was a furious argument which 'led to the woman using a knife to attack his penis'.

'She saw blood, realised what she had done, and called an ambulance,' reported Mash news outlet.

The man's life was saved by an ambulance crew but his penis could not be rescued.

But BAZA - with links to Russian law enforcement - reported that Alena told police she cut his manhood 'by accident during a BDSM session' rather than during an argument.

The report stated the couple 'indulged in lovemaking all night long'.

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https://news.sky.com/story/wrong-to-say-group-based-child-abuse-is-predominantly-committed-by-pakistani-men-police-chiefs-13286550

WRONG TO SAY GROUP BASED CHILD ABUSE IS PREDOMINANTLY COMMITTED BY PAKISTANI MEN.

It's important to address "all the threats from all races and ethnicities", warns Assistant Chief Constable Becky Riggs, the National Police Chiefs' Council's lead for child protection and abuse investigation.

It is wrong to say group-based child abuse is predominantly committed by Pakistani men, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has said.

Figures from the police database show where ethnicity is recorded, that in the first three quarters of 2024 - 85% of group-based child abusers were white, while 3.9% were of Pakistani origin

The figure increases for Pakistani offenders to 13.7% if you remove institutional groups, such as sports groups, schools and church-based group offenders, and group child abuse committed in a family setting.

The same calculation for 2023 showed 70% of offenders were white, and 6.9% were Pakistani

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Zuckerberg admits during a three hour interview that the Biden administration regularly tried to censor speech on Meta
Biden administration officials would call Meta's team and "scream at them and curse" at them demanding they remove memes and "humor and satire".
Zucker stated "the Biden administration also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it."
Zuckerberg stated that if when they didn't comply with the Biden administration, they would launch "brutal investigations" against the platform. This is consistent with their policy of lawfare.
https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-unloads-biden-white-house-joe-rogan-interview-2013394
Mark Zuckerberg Unloads on Biden White House in Joe Rogan Interview

Mark Zuckerberg unloaded on President Joe Biden and his administration during a surprise appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that was published Friday.

Zuckerberg attacked the White House over the way senior officials pressured Meta to moderate content on its social media networks, part of a scathing interview just 10 days before Biden is set to leave office.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for comment.

Zuckerberg also spent a chunk of the interview airing his grievances with President Biden and members of his administration, whom he claimed "would call up our team and scream at them and curse" over COVID-related posts they wanted Meta to take down.


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NOTE: No mention of bodycam footage to be found anywhere online, yet.

https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-pizzagate-gunman-killed-by-police-in-north-carolina-after-traffic-stop-authorities-say/

by: Associated Press
Posted: Jan 9, 2025 / 06:52 PM EST
Updated: Jan 9, 2025 / 06:52 PM EST

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation’s capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop.

Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a Kannapolis Police Department news release. One of the officers recognized the car as the vehicle of someone he had arrested and who had an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation - Welch, police said.

When the officers approached the vehicle to arrest Welch, police said the man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers. After he was instructed to drop the weapon but didn’t, two officers shot Welch, authorities said.

Emergency responders took Welch to the hospital and he died from his injuries two days later, according to the release. None of the officers, nor the driver and another passenger, were injured.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/california-los-angeles-fires-home-insurance

After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims’ ordeal may just be beginning

‘Now we have to make sure there’s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,’ says consumer advocate

After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims’ ordeal may just be beginning

‘Now we have to make sure there’s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,’ says consumer advocate

California homeowners who lost everything in this week’s devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to battle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners’ policies – if they are lucky enough to have insurance at all.

With estimates of the economic damage from the fires now reaching $52bn-$57bn, consumer advocates and veterans of past disasters say homeowners can expect weeks or months of paperwork to prove that they have lost what they say they have lost, if not also pressure from claims adjusters and a whole class of disaster professionals to make a quick settlement for less than they are entitled to under their policies.

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META just ack'ed their DEI team. The pro-racism team at meta has been fired because the supreme Court had to make the obvious ruling that "yes, discrimination against heteros, men, or white people is still discrimination and it is illegal to discriminate"
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340846/meta-disbands-diversity-dei-team-charged
Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’ / The move follows Meta’s recent content moderation overhaul that removes restrictions on topics like immigration and gender.

The Verge
Meta is eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs because of the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” in the US, according to a memo to employees seen by Axios. Meta will also roll back representation goals and end its “diverse slate approach” to hiring.

The memo, which was written by Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, said the company would replace DEI programs with ones “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background,” as reported by Axios. The company will also “end efforts to source business suppliers from diverse-owned businesses.”

“The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI,” Gale wrote. “The term ‘DEI’ has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”

Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confirmed to The Verge that Axios’ reporting is accurate.

The news follows Meta’s appointment of the Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta also recently announced its plans to replace third-party fact-checking with a Community Notes system similar to Elon Musk’s X.

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Majority of public says Elon Musk having a negative impact on British politics, poll finds

https://news.sky.com/story/majority-of-public-says-elon-musk-having-a-negative-impact-on-british-politics-poll-finds-13287462

Some 53% of people told Opinium they thought Elon Musk was having a negative impact politics, compared to just 12% who thought he was having a positive one.

Half the public think Elon Musk is having a negative impact on British politics following his rants on X about Labour and Sir Keir Starmer, according to a new survey.

The South African-born billionaire has spent much of the past week attacking the prime minister over his opposition to another national inquiry into grooming gangs.

And he also asked his 212 million followers whether America should "liberate" the UK from its "tyrannical government".

A poll published on Saturday suggested widespread opposition to Musk's involvement in British politics.

On his comments about grooming gangs specifically, 47% said they thought Mr Musk was being "unhelpful", compared to 26% who thought the opposite.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/elon-musk-backtracks-federal-budget-cuts/index.html

Elon Musk has walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday that half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

Musk, who has been tasked by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, called the $2 trillion target “the best-case outcome.”

“If we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting one,” Musk said in an interview streamed Wednesday evening on X, which he owns. “And if we can drop the budget deficit from $2 trillion to $1 trillion and kind of free up the economy to have additional growth — such that the output of goods and services keeps pace with the increase in the money supply — then there will be no inflation. So that, I think, would be an epic outcome.”

There’s no shortage of money-saving targets in the federal government, Musk said, without offering any specifics.

“It’s very, very hard for people to care about spending someone else’s money,” he said.
“Actually, I know people in the government who do care about, just as a matter of principle, spending money effectively. And they try to do so, and they can’t. The system prevents them from doing so.”

Musk, the world’s richest person, is looking to downsize the federal budget and operations by slashing spending, curbing regulations and cutting the workforce. However, budget experts have scoffed at his pronouncements, saying that eliminating $2 trillion from a roughly $6.8 trillion budget is unrealistic.


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https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/01/08/college-students-charged-in-catch-a-predator-style-ambush-on-soldier/

https://www.trtworld.com/europe/trump-jr-bribed-poor-residents-to-back-fathers-plan-to-buy-greenland-18252198

Denmark's public broadcaster says Donald Trump's oldest son, who recently visited the mineral-rich Danish territory, bribed poor Greenlanders to show support for his father’s plan to annex the autonomous territory.

The eldest son of US President-elect Donald Trump bribed poor Greenlanders to show support for his father's plans to annex the territory, the Danish public broadcaster has reported.

Several sources said a portion of the people who appeared in a video by Trump's campaign team that was recorded at a restaurant in the capital city of Nuuk, and pictures on social media, are homeless and socially disadvantaged, DR said on Thursday.

Trump's office did not return calls by the broadcaster to comment on, but his local supporters rejected the accusations.

"That some poor and socially disadvantaged people attended the dinner at the restaurant doesn’t mean they were bribed," said Jorgen Boassen, who called himself the biggest fan of Trump in Greenland.

"People are free to express their opinion whether they oppose or support Trump's plans," he added.

Trump reignited his contentious proposal on Monday on his Truth Social platform.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/shiraz-friday-imam-threatens-to-turn-white-house-into-shia-prayer-house/ar-BB1rfMqm?cvid=2cfba5a12f1e4664be23ff8a1907b19d&ei=45
Ayatollah Lotfollah Dezhkam told worshipers in Shiraz during Friday prayers that "God willing, we will turn the White House into a Husseiniyeh, and the leaders of America, God willing, can be sure that this promise will be fulfilled," according to local media.

He also told them that "Trump will die like Carter and will take to his grave the desire to harm the system [regime]."

Dezhkam is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the southwestern Fars province and is a member of the Assembly of Experts, the group that will select the next Supreme Leader.

A Husseiniyeh is a type of prayer house unique to Shia Islam and is considered distinct from a Mosque. It is typically reserved for prayer sessions related to the events of the life of Imam Husayn, the prophet Muhammed's grandson, such as Ashura.

Dezhkam's comments come just before President-elect Donald Trump's inaguration for his second term.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/la-residents-rip-mayor-bass-as-wildfire-burns-homes-to-the-ground-youre-useless/

Furious Los Angeles residents tore into their absent Mayor Karen Bass, who was 7,400 miles away in Arica on a political trip as raging fires turned the City of Angels into an apocalyptic hellscape Tuesday.

“RESIGN! WHY ARE YOU IN GHANA?!,” one person commented on an X post by Bass’ office giving an update on the wildfires.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/biden-set-to-become-a-great-grandfather-wednesday/

WASHINGTON — Retiring President Biden became a great-grandfather Wednesday when his granddaughter Naomi gave birth in Los Angeles — with Biden announcing the “good news” as three large wildfires raged nearby.

“The good news is, I’m a great-grandfather as of today,” Biden, 82, said during a briefing on the blazes in the Pacific Palisades, which have killed at least two people and left dozens more homeless.

“I’ll remember this day for a lot of reasons,” the president told reporters at a Santa Monica fire station before declining to answer questions from the press about the natural disaster, which has destroyed at least 1,000 buildings.