[AP] A police pursuit through two states that involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought, authorities said.
Wilmington police said they began their pursuit of Yazmyn Stewart, 23, shortly before noon Tuesday at a Delaware residence, seeking to arrest her on a warrant stemming from a December 2023 shooting. She fled the home in a vehicle and rammed multiple police vehicles before driving along I-95 northbound into Pennsylvania, as Wilmington officers and Delaware state police troopers followed her.
Shortly after entering Pennsylvania, Stewart crashed her vehicle and started firing at the officers, and two troopers returned fire, authorities said. It’s not known if Stewart was struck by any shots at that time, authorities said.
[NYP] A Citi Bike-riding brute viciously beat two Orthodox Jewish boys, ages 11 and 13, playing on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday night in a disturbing, caught-on-video ordeal, cops and sources said.
Now the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating whether the attack — which saw the man kicking and stomping on one of the youngsters — was an antisemitic assault, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Several kids were playing in front of a condo building on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 9 p.m. Sunday when a stranger stopped his bike mid-block, between two parked cars, and stormed up to the kids, according to the video, obtained by Williamsburg 365 News.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
~ Martin Niemöller
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The squatter who used a Shake Shack receipt to try and prove that he had a legal right to live in a $930,000 New York City home faces a slew of charges by the Queens District Attorney's Office.
Lance White-Hunt, 24, was indicted on one count of second-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, five counts of first-degree identity theft, third-degree attempted grand larceny, petit larceny, third-degree attempted criminal possession of stolen property, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, tampering with physical evidence, and three counts of fourth-degree criminal mischief.
According to a blurb from the DA's office, White-Hunt allegedly began occupying the property in January, and when authorities showed up in March, he provided a "lease" document in which he allegedly forged the homeowner's broker's signature, and a bill from AT&T with an account number that did not exist.
He later sued homeowners Denis Kurlyand and Juliya Fulman for an "illegal lockout," however the suit was dismissed with prejudice by a judge.
White-Hunt was subsequently arrested on May 13 at an apartment on West 18th Street in Brooklyn and taken into custody.
He is due back in court on June 11. If found guilty, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
"You cannot claim rights to a home that you have entered illegally," Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz stated. "My office will not allow individuals to capitalize on the confusion surrounding squatters' rights for their own personal gain."
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[Pesquisa] The Brazilian historian Mônica Schpun, from the École des Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales, Paris, began researching the life of Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa (1908-2011), the second wife of writer, João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), in order to do justice to the history of Aracy who, as an employee of the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, helped Jews by giving them countless entry visas to Brazil, despite orders despatched to the contrary in secret circulars from Itamaraty [the Brazilian Foreign Office] at the time of Vargas.
The story has never been told in any depth and all merit is commonly attributed to the writer, because he was the one who had the real power to sign passports. The project has just become a book, Justa — Aracy de Carvalho e o resgate dos judeus trocando a Alemanha nazista pelo Brasil (Record) [Righteous — Aracy de Cravalho and the rescue of Jews, exchanging Nazi Germany for Brazil]. This long-awaited biography is important, because talking about Aracy is not only discovering the great influence she had on the writer’s work, but also going back to the time when Rosa lived in Germany, where the two met and witnessed together the horrors of the war and of the Nazi regime. At the same time, this experience allowed the writer to go deeper into the "wonders of German culture," which he used later as inspiration for his greatest creations, whose maximum expressions appear in the violence of Riobaldo and the Faustian path of the cowherd in Grande sertão: veredas [The Devil to Pay in the Backlands], which was in fact dedicated to "Ara," Aracy’s nickname. These are, it is noted, contradictory experiences of the same culture resulting in a dilemma whose resolution led Rosa to rethink his writing. The point in common between them is Aracy.
Called the "Angel of Hamburg," she is the only woman mentioned in the Holocaust Museum in Israel as one of the 18 diplomats who saved Jews from death and the only Brazilian female to deserve this honor, alongside Ambassador Souza Dantas who, disobeying orders from the Vargas government, granted entry visas to Brazil to French Jews. In 1982, she was recognized as "Righteous among the Nations," an honorary title given by Israel to people who, risking their own lives, helped persecuted Jews. To merit this honor it is necessary for several witnesses to supply information about the actions of the "Righteous Person" that justifies their nomination. Aracy received countless recommendations from people she helped. Nevertheless, there is a strange lack of knowledge about her. Even more serious is that there are those who deny she had any importance whatsoever in the work of her husband, despite three decades of a harmonious and loving life together. Aracy’s biography contains elements for changing this view, by not only recounting her courageous action in Nazi Germany, but also throwing new light on her role in the life and work of the writer, including the little discussed influence on the attitude of Rosa towards politics, a controversial point in his allegedly "apolitical" path.
[FOX] A team of university researchers in the Netherlands says they've developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that can recognize sarcasm, according to a new report.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that the research was presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Ottawa, Canada, on Thursday. At the event, Ph.D. student Xiyuan Gao said the research team used video clips and other text and audio content from American sitcoms like "Friends" and "The Big Bang Theory" to train a neural network.
The work leveraged a database called the Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (MUStARD), which another research team from the U.S. and Singapore had annotated with labels about whether sarcasm was present in a given piece of content as part of a push to build their own sarcasm detector.
After training their AI model on the data, the researchers said they're able to detect sarcasm in exchanges that were unlabeled by the researchers almost 75% of the time. They added that subsequent work at the lab using synthetic data has improved that accuracy level even further, though those research findings haven't yet been published, The Guardian wrote.
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[Regnum] In Indonesia, an eruption of volcanic ash was recorded over the peak of the Ibu volcano on the island of Halmahera. According to the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation, the ash rose to a height of up to five kilometers, Antara reported.
Mother Nature offsetting any clever ideas about anthropogenic global warming...
“The seismograph recorded an eruption with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 354 seconds,” geologists noted.
The eruption occurred at 09:58 local time. Thick gray clouds, influenced by the wind, headed northeast from the north.
The danger level in the area of the volcano was raised to the maximum, fourth according to the classification of eruptions adopted in Indonesia due to increased volcanic activity and seismicity.
The country's aviation was notified of the spread of volcanic ash. Residents around the Ibu volcano were advised by authorities not to approach the mountain within a radius of three kilometers and five kilometers from the side of the active crater. During ash rain, it was recommended to wear some form of protection for the nose, mouth and eyes.
In December 2023, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia killed 11 climbers. Then the Marapi volcano awakened. The deceased intended to climb the mountain. Three more people were evacuated.
As Regnum reported, at the beginning of April 2024, the largest volcano in Europe, Etna, located in Italy, awakened. Photos of smoke rings were circulated on social media. They are observed over the volcano quite often. However, volcanologists claimed that Etna broke all its previous records, sending hundreds, if not thousands of smoke rings into the sky.
In March, an ash column 1.8 km high was recorded over Ebeko Volcano in the Kuril Islands. The plume spread in a south-easterly direction over a distance of more than five kilometers. There was no threat to the lives of the population.
[BBC] US prosecutors have accused an American woman of helping North Koreans find remote jobs in the US and then send their wages back to North Korea.
Christina Chapman is charged alongside three North Korean nationals with participating in the elaborate plot.
The Arizona resident allegedly stole the identities of American citizens, then helped foreign IT workers use those identities to pose as Americans and gain employment at US companies, according to prosecutors.
Ms Chapman has been charged with nine counts of conspiracy to defraud the US.
Investigators said the "staggering" scheme used the stolen identities of 60 people, and generated nearly $7m (£5.5m) in funds that were sent back to North Korea, possibly to contribute to the country's weapons programme.
The scheme - involving some 300 US companies - allegedly started in October 2020. According to the indictment, the workers were "highly skilled information technology (IT) workers."
Other than the Dems and their lawyers, that is.
[Regnum] US intelligence agencies view Russia as the most active external “threat” to US elections, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Hines said at a May 15 Senate committee hearing. The event was broadcast by C-Span.
Well, if you’re going to talk about external threats, Russia! Russia! Russia! by definition is it, no matter what nonsense China might be getting up to. But we all know that Donald Trump voters, all white cis male conservatives, are the true threat.
In addition, China and Iran are on the list of such threats. Hines establishes that the number of outside forces that allegedly want to interfere in the US elections is growing.
At the same time, the head of national intelligence did not provide any evidence as part of the accusations against Moscow. The Russian authorities reject all such allegations and call them unfounded.
As Regnum reported, in December, the State Duma commission to investigate interference in Russian affairs announced that it had recorded the activation of NATO intelligence services in connection with the election campaign in the country. In addition, an increase in the activity of non-governmental organizations and agents of influence controlled by the intelligence services of Western states was revealed.
On March 17, Ambassador-at-Large and Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Commission on Elections Gennady Askaldovich said that all countries unfriendly to Russia, including the United States and Germany, had attempted to interfere in the Russian presidential election.
In early May, the Russian leader's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Russian Federation does not want other countries to interfere in its electoral processes and the preferences of its citizens.
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It just goes to show you how stupid our so-called intelligence agencies really are. A few bots on Rantburg, Facebook and X are going to swing the election? I don't think so.
You put Dominion voting machines on the internet, and don't tell me they're not on the internet, and the Chinese will hack the hell out of them.
You put Democrats in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit in charge of Dominion voting machines and you have a serious threat to democracy.
And then there are the cheat-by-mail-in ballots...You talk about a threat to democracy...
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Yeah, and then you have these very same "intelligence agencies" interfering in the affairs of other countries all over the world, engineering coups, funding opposition groups and at times using brute military force to overthrow governments that they don't like. We have the dumbest intel community in the world.
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#3&4 Spot on. With our current administration operating at an elementary level of education. They seem so out of touch with reality. Seems they prefer attacking normal America. On the job you have workers doing their job and many others doing nothing but the workers get all the negative attacks.
#6
It takes a modicum of intelligence to figure out that the Democrats are the most active "threat" to American elections, and also that US Intelligence Agencies are un-intelligent.
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[REGNUM] From July 2023, when French President Emmanuel Macron arrived on a visit to New Caledonia, until today, the island in the Pacific Ocean has not ceased to be shaken by popular unrest. And they are becoming more and more harsh. The reason for the current protests is said to be disagreement with the constitutional reform, for which both houses of the French parliament have already voted. And the difficulties faced by the process of political and economic change initiated by the central authorities make one wonder whether the inhabitants of this overseas territory are so unanimous in their desire to be French subjects? Although Macron’s arrival was precisely symbolic - after, in the course of three referendums, she finally decided to remain part of the French Republic.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Pesquisa] The Brazilian historian Mônica Schpun, from the École des Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales, Paris, began researching the life of Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa (1908-2011), the second wife of writer, João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), in order to do justice to the history of Aracy who, as an employee of the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, helped Jews by giving them countless entry visas to Brazil, despite orders despatched to the contrary in secret circulars from Itamaraty [the Brazilian Foreign Office] at the time of Vargas.
