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Jan. 8 (UPI) — Police in Saskatchewan, Canada, released a list of the “top ten reasons not to call 911” based on incidents from 2024, including a person who didn’t want to clean their room and a resident’s “mean” cat.The Saskatchewan RCMP posted a video to Facebook featuring operators from its Divisional Operational Communications Center giving a rundown of the top 10 most unusual non-emergency calls that came in through the 911 emergency number in 2024.The No. 10 spot on the list had to do with a not-so-tech-savvy individual who “called 911 to advise that they didn’t recognize someone on…

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that the wildfires ripping through the Los Angeles region were “a true tragedy” and blamed the disaster in part on the state’s Democratic governor. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom for the scarcity of water that has made it harder to fight fires that have killed at least five people. He didn’t explain what the governor could have done about the dry, windy conditions. “This is a true tragedy and it’s a mistake of the governor, and you could say the administration,” Trump said.“The governor…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month.Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last men at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, including those charged in some of the gravest attacks of the 21st century.President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing to resolve as many of the cases as possible, on its terms, before Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inboxSee for yourself — The…

1/8/25 UPDATE: This review has been updated with instrumented test results.Automakers know better than anyone that complexity is the enemy of execution. This is evident across the industry in the widespread reduction of trim levels and configurations of late. Even pickup trucks, known for offering more choice than just about any other segment, have succumbed. Many of today’s mid-size pickups have whittled their lineups down to a single configuration: a crew cab with a short bed. But Nissan, facing the death of the full-size Titan pickup, is doubling down on offering more configurations than before on the 2025 Frontier, which…

US President-elect Donald Trump’s idea of taking Greenland is not good and will never actually happen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.Trump has argued that US control over the Arctic island is a matter of national security and has refused to rule out taking the Danish autonomous territory by force if necessary.“The idea expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one,” Blinken said on Wednesday, during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in Paris.“But it’s not going to happen, so we shouldn’t waste time talking about it,” he added.Blinken is visiting South Korea, Japan…

Nearly two weeks after the Biden administration quietly finalized new climate rules targeting natural gas-powered water heaters—following years of far-left politicians and shady “green” nonprofits waging war against NatGas stoves under the guise of improving “indoor air quality”—President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly had enough of these games. He plans to issue an executive order to protect NatGas-powered appliances.Reuters cites two sources familiar with Trump’s executive order protecting NatGas-powered appliances, including water heaters, furnaces, ovens, cooktops, and dryers, from federal and state regulators who have been on a green crusade to eliminate them from new home construction, businesses, and/or new multi-family buildings. Details of the executive order…

You’ve got to love a happy ending. After insulting Ron DeSantis and celebrating a loophole in state law, a transgender activist got a thank you letter from the state of Florida. The Gateway Pundit reported, In a self-congratulatory TikTok post, transgender activist James Rose recently boasted about exploiting a “loophole” to change the sex listed on his Florida driver’s license to female, despite state legislation that explicitly prohibits such alterations. Rose’s celebratory moment, however, was short-lived as Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) swiftly corrected the error and issued a replacement license identifying Rose as male. In…

Topline The death toll due to wildfires in Los Angeles County grew to five Wednesday afternoon, as authorities fight multiple fires that have prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, with conditions prime for the fires to expand. Los Angeles County firefighters spray water on a burning home torched by the Eaton Fire. (Photo by … [+] Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty Images Timeline Wednesday 5:11 p.m. PSTPresident Joe Biden approves a Major Disaster Declaration for California, making federal funding available to those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles County. Wednesday 3:10 p.m.Officials told The New York Times the…

by Doug Casey International Man International Man: Vivek Ramaswamy recently faced backlash for supporting the H-1B visa program and criticizing American culture.Many saw his comments as endorsing replacement immigration for highly paid tech jobs (link).What’s your take?Doug Casey: Unfortunately, he’s mostly right about US workers. Their work ethic has been corrupted by cradle-to-grave benefits, class resentment, and a general degradation of Western values—something we’ve often discussed.But importing Indians won’t improve the culture, it’ll further destroy what’s left of American culture. Maintaining the culture, not a few low-level jobs is the main problem that we’re facing. The culture is what makes America America. It’s…

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD is under investigation for using “irregular visas” to ship workers to Brazil, where they were kept in what Brazilian inspectors described as “slavery-like conditions.” The Brazilian government stopped issuing work visas to BYD last month after 163 Chinese nationals were rescued from deplorable conditions at a BYD factory under construction in the city of Camacari. The Brazil Public Prosecutor’s Office said on December 23 that construction work on the factory was halted after the discovery. According to local inspectors, BYD contracted with a firm called the Jinjiang Group to import workers who labored under…