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Two people were killed in a shooting in a Jewish neighborhood in Montreal, Canada, on Monday, police said.Montreal police said the suspect had been neutralized. A police officer and a civilian were killed in the Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood, while another officer and a second civilian were injured.Israeli media initially reported that Rabbi Michael Moshe Mizrahi, a member of the local Chabad center, had been killed. ZAKA later said, however, that Mizrahi had been injured and was undergoing emergency surgery.Videos from the scene show a police presence near the Supermarché PA shopping center on Westbury Avenue. The surrounding area has been cordoned…
Animal rights activists documented the beginning of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival on the summer solstice Sunday – a gory sight in which the Chinese city is taken over by rows of tables featuring the open-air slaughter and butchering of thousands of animals. Yulin, a city located in far-south Guangxi province, has hosted an annual event beginning on the first day of summer since 2010, meant to boost local sales of dog meat. In the past decade, the horrific spectacle has attracted international attention, particularly from celebrities tied to animal rights causes, prompting the Chinese Communist Party to outlaw…
The Import Invasion Hollowed Out U.S. Factories Why did America’s manufacturing productivity crash as we opened our markets to the world? The trade-off with globalized trade was supposed to work something like this. Globalization would allow for additional specialization, improving productivity. We would concentrate on stuff we could produce most effectively, while importing stuff were comparatively less effective at making. U.S. factories might employ fewer people, but the remaining workers would be producing more with better machines, better software, better supply chains, and better management. Productivity improvement was supposed to be the consolation prize for deindustrialization. We were losing jobs,…
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Donald Trump should go to jail or get sued for the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool renovations. Goldberg said, “He is claiming that vandals are to blame. He says they illegally placed chemicals in the water and left a 300-foot gash in the pool. Now, five people are said to have been arrested. He says a ten-year prison sentence will be strictly enforced. Well, if he says he’s going to jail for 10 years, I’m going to let him go. It seems to me, that had he not messed with the pool,…
The Senate on Monday overwhelmingly passed a long-awaited bipartisan housing bill, which is expected to set the legislation on a glide path to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature as soon as this week. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which passed 85-5 and contains almost 60 individual provisions, aims to tackle housing affordability and boost housing supply and homeownership. Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) voted “no.” The legislation now moves on to the House, which could take up the bill for final passage as soon as…
Thirteen people drowned over the weekend as soaring temperatures drove crowds to beaches, rivers, and lakes At least five people died in France on Sunday and Monday as temperatures topped 42°C (107.6°F) in parts of the country in the midst of a severe heatwave gripping much of Europe.Among the victims were two children, aged two and four, who were found dead in their family car in the southern town of Carpentras on Monday. Prosecutors said heat exposure was the suspected cause of death.A day earlier, three elderly people were found dead in their homes in the suburbs of Bordeaux, local…
The Iranian government was caught trying to sneak a terrorist into the U.S.A. as a fake member of its World Cup national men’s soccer team, American officials say. U.S. officials refused entry to an Iranian who they say has direct ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and who was claiming to be the president of Iran’s soccer federation, the New York Post reported. Department of Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin told the media that the Iranian was prevented from entering the U.S. with the Iranian team when they tried to prepare to fly to the U.S. from Mexico.…
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” morning drive radio host Charlamagne tha God claimed there was “no dignity in the White House anymore.” Co-host Ana Navarro said, “We saw Bill Clinton and Hillary. We saw the Bidens there and we didn’t see you know who, as Whoopi likes to call him. We didn’t see Trump there. And he spent the weekend tweeting against it, saying his library is going to be much better, competing with Obama, saying his Iran deal is much better than Obama’s. Why is it that Obama seems to live rent free in his head? Why are they always…
Sen. Mitch McConnell will not return to the Senate this week, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Republican said Monday. “Senator McConnell is still working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery. However, he will not be voting this week,” said the spokesperson, David Popp. McConnell’s ongoing absence means planned Senate Appropriations Committee markups scheduled for later this week will be canceled, according to a committee aide who was granted anonymity to speak ahead of a formal announcement. The former GOP leader was hospitalized earlier this month for undisclosed reasons and missed votes last…
Five Eyes cyber agencies have warned that frontier models could soon transform offensive hacking capabilities Advanced artificial intelligence models could soon give hackers the ability to cripple governments, businesses, and critical systems, cyber agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence group have warned.In a rare joint statement published on Monday, cyber security leaders from Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, and New Zealand said frontier AI models are developing faster than expected and are “anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.”“The timeline is not years, it is months,” the agencies said, adding that “cyber…