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A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that had run out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht reportedly was closer to the crippled vessel but ignored calls for help. The Alaska Beacon reports that Michael Love, a passenger aboard the small cruise ship that rescued the stranded boat, described the incident on social media. What caught his attention most, he said, was when the ship’s captain announced that a nearby yacht belonging to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was closer to the stranded boat but…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Del Rio, Texas, Port of Entry thwarted a cartel smuggling attempt to import more than $1.7 million in cocaine into the U.S. on August 4. Authorities arrested a 29-year-old United States citizen who arrived at the port of entry and is suspected of attempting to move the narcotics farther into the United States. According to CBP, on Tuesday, a man attempted to enter the United States from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, through the Del Rio Port of Entry driving a 2013 Dodge Durango. A CBP Office of Field Operations officer selected the…

The pro-Iranian group said the attack on the Yemeni port of Mokha was a response to Riyadh’s “aggression” Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi-backed government forces in the Yemeni port city of Mokha on Sunday, describing the attack as a tit-for-tat response to the kingdom’s “aggression.”Fighting in civil war-torn Yemen intensified last week, prompting fears of further disruptions to global energy supplies in the wake of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the US war with Iran.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the latest barrage came in response to the “mobilization” of government…

Abdul-El-Sayed appears on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. Credit: Meet the Press screenshot Islamo-Marxist Michigan Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has made a startling admission about his socialist healthcare scheme that will surely appear in Republican ads soon. On Sunday, El-Sayed appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press to discuss a variety of topics, including his relationship with privileged anti-American communist Hasan Piker, President Trump’s comments about him, and his die-hard support for Medicare for All. El-Sayed’s support for this Marxist takeover of health care is so complete that he wrote an entire book about it. When host Kristen Welker noted…

The AI boom has driven up demand for memory chips so sharply that companies in other industries, from tech giants like Apple to medical device manufacturers, are now asking the federal government for help securing chip supplies. The New York Times reports that memory chips, which store data in everything from smartphones to cars, are being bought up by AI companies for giant data centers. Prices have quadrupled in a year, a problem that impacts everything from iPhones to MRI machines. Medical device makers, car manufacturers and consumer electronics companies such as Apple are pressing the government for help. Interviews…

Brexit boss Nigel Farage followed up the announcement his Reform UK party has opened talks with El Salvador to offshore prison for migrant offenders with other robust policies to end the present practice of widespread early release over a shortage of prison places. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and spokesman Zia Yusuf rejected the government’s official position that crime is actually falling on Monday morning and vowed to implement a raft of new policies to keep criminals off the streets if elected to form a future British government. Offering a simple and long-effective idea — that criminals should spend time…

Authorities in Mexico arrested the leader of a regional cartel that is linked to the ongoing wave of violence plaguing various cities in the Mexican Caribbean resort area, including Playa Del Carmen and Cancun. The arrest took place in Zapopan, Jalisco, during a joint operation by agents from the attorney general’s offices of Jalisco and Quintana Roo, who tracked down Angel Eduardo “N”, known in the region as El Ruso. Due to changes in Mexican law, authorities do not release the last names of individuals they arrest and instead use “N,” while partially covering their faces in mugshots. Mexican authorities…

At least four Moroccan minors under 14 have received hospital treatment for alleged sexual assaults as reception facilities in Ceuta struggle with overcrowding At least four girls under 14 have been treated for alleged sexual assaults in the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta, after a massive migrant influx overwhelmed reception facilities in the area and left minors sleeping on the streets, Euronews has reported.The victims are reportedly Moroccan minors who entered Ceuta during the unprecedented migration surge in late July, the outlet said on Sunday, citing medical officials.A boy is also believed to be among the victims, while medical…

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. At least 70 people are dead. The epicenter of the quake was in San Jose Del Palmar about 250 miles west of Bogota. People ran as buildings collapsed. The AP reported: A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 69 people, trapping residents under debris of collapsed buildings and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá. The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers)…

AP — Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia´s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 75 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000. Russian officials didn’t say what the drones targeted, but the city is home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant. Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily…