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Lyle Menendez received the same recommendation as his brother Erik when he was denied parole Friday after serving decades in prison for the murder of their parents in 1989.
A panel of two commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public.
The brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion almost exactly 36 years ago on Aug. 20, 1989. While defense attorneys argued that the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers sought a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
A judge reduced their sentences in May, and they became immediately eligible for parole. The parole hearings marked the closest they have come to winning freedom since their convictions almost 30 years ago.
Erik Menendez, who is being held at the same prison in San Diego, was denied parole Thursday after commissioners determined his misbehavior in prison made him still a risk to public safety.
A day later, Lyle Menendez told the parole board details about the abuse he suffered under his parents. He cried, face reddened, while delivering his closing statement. He seemed to still want to protect his "baby brother," telling commissioners he took sole responsibility for the murders.
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Parole denial should be accompanied by 12 months of half-rations, the penalty for asking.
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They were both grown at the time of the cold blooded murder of their parents. If the parents were so abusive, the brothers could have simply left. But they wanted their inheritance.
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[Forbes] David Ketchum, a character actor, writer and familiar face on television during the 1960s and 1970s, best remembered for his recurring role as the perpetually unlucky Agent 13 on Get Smart, died in a care facility in Thousand Oaks, California on August 10. He was 97.
Born on February 4, 1928, Ketchum began his entertainment career as a stand-up comic before transitioning to acting. He was a series regular in two short-lived sitcoms — I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster (1962—63) and Camp Runamuck (1965—66) — before landing his most iconic role.
From 1966 to 1967, Ketchum appeared on the hit spy spoof Get Smart as Agent 13, the hapless undercover operative who always found himself hidden in the most inconvenient places — from vending machines to mailboxes — when receiving orders from Maxwell Smart (Don Adams). Though his appearances were brief, his deadpan delivery and perfectly pitched frustration made the character a fan favorite.
[DM] Deaths in one of the world's most popular tourist destinations surged in 2023, and scientists have finally figured out why.
In August 2023, six wildfires ripped through Hawaii's island of Maui, including the resort town of Lāhainā, killing 102 people, destroying almost 3,000 buildings and burning more than 2,000 acres.
Researchers at NYU Grossman calculated excess deaths for the fires, or how many more people died in Maui than what's expected under normal circumstances, by comparing the five-year average for deaths in August to the number recorded in the same month in 2023.
Overall, they said there was a 67 percent spike in excess deaths in that month, or 86 more fatalities than expected, with 205 deaths recorded compared to the 123 expected.
In the week of August 19, they found that deaths spiked 367 percent alone, with 67 more deaths than expected.
Researchers said the rise was likely due to burns and asphyxiation from the fires, but also attributed the increase to overstretched emergency services and blocked roads leading to problems reaching patients.
They added that there may have been a drop in deaths from other causes, such as car crashes, at the time of the fires. Their study also only considered one month, whereas the official toll may have included fatalities that occurred later.
Michelle Nakatsuka, a medical student who led the study, said: 'Wildfires can cause a measurable, population-wide increase in mortality, beyond what is captured in official counts.
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Kinda like the way deaths surged in the New Orleans area after Katrina. Even after surviving the disaster, trying to start over was more than a lot of people were ready for.
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After Katrina departed New Orleans, the real surge in excess deaths began. A longlasting failure of electric power there meant no AC. No AC in an elderly population meant deaths from the heat. I recollect but have no link to news articles showing most of the post Katrina deaths were among the elderly. Elderly are also highly likely to be unaware of dangerous levels of heat until they collapse from it.
"It's not the fall that gets ya..."
[FoxNews] An experienced British skydiver — who died during a jump earlier this year — deliberately fell to her death just one day after she and her partner had ended their relationship.
Jade Damarell, 32, of Wales, fell into a field in County Durham, northern England, on April 27 and died of blunt trauma injuries, officials said, according to The Guardian. Coroner Leslie Hamilton ruled the death a suicide during an inquest held on Thursday, the outlet reported.
The previously planned grants did not offer the government an ownership stake, but came with technical goals that Intel may not be able to meet in the current climate, making the revised deal a palatable alternative. Intel stock was up 5.5% after the news broke on Friday.
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Hmmm, the federal government picking sides and buying into private industry. Mussolini would love it.
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Congressthings are a bit different. Sure, their salaries are from our tax dollars, but to have the USG as an entity buying stock in an individual company is not cool. That means we do not have much of a "free" market (we don't anyway, but...), only government intervention. Not good. Not much different than Obama and Biden dumping billions into failed "green" companies. Somebody made a lot of money, but that's not exactly how/where I want to see my tax dollars go.
It sounds like a kind of free range Montessori offshoot with a high tech gloss.
[ZeroHedge] Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is throwing his support behind Alpha School, a private education network that blends artificial intelligence with an unconventional approach to learning, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The school, which already operates in Texas, Florida, and California, plans to open a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade campus in Manhattan this fall.
Alpha’s model is unusual: students complete math, reading, and other fundamentals in just two hours a day using AI-driven software. The rest of the schedule is filled with activities meant to build confidence and practical skills, such as bike rides or drone workshops.
“We do not let anything—political, social issues—come in the way,” said co-founder MacKenzie Price. “We stay very much out of that.”
Price, who has become a prominent critic of traditional education on social media, launched Alpha more than a decade ago. The school employs “guides” rather than certified teachers and charges families between $40,000 and $65,000 annually, depending on location. Ouch!
Ackman, best known for running the $20 billion firm Pershing Square, has recently taken on the role of informal booster for Alpha. He first heard about the school earlier this year and was impressed by its reliance on technology and its decision to avoid hot-button debates around diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has since hosted parents at Alpha’s Austin campus and is scheduled to appear on a panel about education at his Hamptons home, alongside Price, Alpha principal Joe Liemandt, and financier Michael Milken.
The Journal writes that though not an investor, Ackman’s enthusiasm has elevated the school’s profile. A person close to Alpha described him as a “de facto ambassador.” On social media, he praised its approach in what some observers saw as a glowing endorsement.
Ackman’s embrace of Alpha fits into his broader criticism of higher education, especially his attacks on Harvard University’s handling of campus antisemitism and its embrace of DEI initiatives. His online campaign against Harvard leadership last year helped push the school’s president to resign.
Alpha plans to expand quickly, with new schools opening in Arizona, North Carolina, Virginia, California, and Puerto Rico. Price has said she may eventually raise outside investment to fund growth, but for now Ackman’s backing is giving the school an influential foothold in New York’s crowded private-education market.
[Just The News] The Dow Jones Industrial Average clinched a record high Friday for the first time this year hours after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed may soon lower interest rates.
The Dow climbed 846 points, or 1.89%, from Thursday’s close to an all-time high of 45,631.74.
Both the broadly diversified S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq have recorded more than 15 record highs in 2025.
Investors across the country watched Powell’s live streamed address at an economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Friday, where he described the economic conditions facing Americans and the Fed. The data indicate that rising inflation and weakening employment are more likely than not, according to Powell, creating a "challenging situation."
"When our goals are in tension like this, our framework calls for us to balance both sides of our dual mandate," which he explained as "[fostering] maximum employment and stable prices for the American people."
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"Cracker Barrel is the Kathleen Kennedy of restaurants."
Accurate. Not mine.
In my feed, people who wouldn't be caught dead in a Cracker Barrel, even with avocado toast on the menu.
'Cracker Barrel isn't going woke, but going woke is not a bad thing.'
Prediction. There will be some interest, but most of it will be disaster tourists, then the only cooking Cracker Barrel will be doing is the books until it is too obvious they find out about Copybook Headings.
Someone pointed out, doesn't it seem odd that all the people making these decisions all seem to be the same age group?
Honolulu, HI has the most expensive grocery costs in the nation, with prices more than 20% higher than in New York City as of mid-year 2025.
San Francisco, CA ranks in second, hovering just above New York, NY.
Grocery bills vary dramatically across the U.S., and some cities are feeling the pinch more than others.
Adding to the strain are record meat prices, driving up up food price inflation 3% compared to June of last year. Meanwhile, vegetable prices are spiking as farmers struggle with labor shortages amid rising deportations.
This visualization ranks the top 20 American cities with the highest cost of groceries, based on data from Numbeo.
Imagine if retiree COLAS's were based on actual cost per item, or ounce? Thus taking into account whole picture of shrinkflation (Size & Price).
Or like some EU nations that require product vendors to clearly state size/content changes. Not the USA "NEW & IMPROVE" or the "BIG SIZE" sales dodges now commonly used to hide increases.
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Unrelated but interesting. Yesterday, I had an occasion to take someone to the local Wells Fargo bank near my home. I waited in the parking lot for him to finish his transaction inside. Appeared to be a very busy Friday. Within 5 minutes I had identified the predominate ethnic clientele of Wells Fargo bank in this Georgia town.
BTW, this region is experiencing a yuge boom in rental residences and apartments.
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How bizarre! Out of 404 entries on the list there are no, Zero, repeat no listings of any cities in Alaska. IIRC there are no listings of Russian cities above the Arctic circle either ...cost of living is brutal when you have to import everything up north.
[ZeroHedge] A Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological materials into a U.S. university lab has pleaded no contest to four charges.
Han Chengxuan, a doctoral candidate from the Chinese city of Wuhan who sent multiple packages containing concealed biological materials, pleaded to three smuggling charges and to lying to U.S. customs officials, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced.
Han is studying at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan and has co-authored two articles relating to the use of roundworms, known scientifically as C. elegans. She told federal agents that she arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a J1 visa in June, intending to start a one-year research project at a University of Michigan lab.
Han estimates that she has sent between five and 10 packages, with several lost on the way, according to the federal complaint.
U.S. customs intercepted four such shipments between September 2024 and March 2025, addressed to individuals associated with a University of Michigan laboratory with content varying from plasmids—DNA fragments often used to induce genetic modification of organisms—and petri dishes for growing earthworms, the court filing said.
She is the third Chinese researcher facing charges over smuggling materials for biological research. The other two, the Justice Department alleged, attempted to smuggle in a crop-killing fungus for research use at the University of Michigan.
Prosecutors alleged that Han made repeated efforts to mask her actions both while shipping the goods and while speaking with the interrogators.
During an interview with customs agents upon arrival, she initially denied knowledge about sending anything to one recipient until officers brought up specific packages, the complaint stated.
A transcript of the conversation showed that Han described the petri dishes as a water solution containing sodium oxide and sugar, stating: “These ingredients exist in fruit jelly.”
One of the shipments, the prosecutors said, was a book with an envelope with suspected biological materials concealed inside. When confronted, Han initially said she designed a picture game and wanted to send it to the lab associate “to give him a surprise,” according to the court documents.
Omitted in Han’s early statement was the plasmids in the envelope, which she only acknowledged upon close questioning, the prosecutors said.
She told the agents that the recipient and she were classmates in the same major and believed that “he will understand my design.”
Han deleted content on her electronic devices three days before arriving in the United States, stating she wanted to “start fresh,” the federal complaint said.
According to the interview transcripts, Han said that the chat history “takes memory space” and that she cleans messages regularly.
“The University of Michigan invited this Chinese national into our state to be a visiting scholar, where it was going to give her more than $41,000 in a year to do her worm research at the Life Sciences Institute. Something is wrong in Ann Arbor,” said Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Jerome Gorgon.
Han’s sentencing is set for Sept. 10. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison for smuggling goods into the United States and another five years for making false statements.
[Task & Purpose] Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired two more senior military officials, relieving the heads of the Navy Reserve and Naval Special Warfare Command of their positions.
A Navy official confirmed the firings to Task & Purpose. Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, and Rear Adm. Milton "Jamie " Sands III, head of Naval Special Warfare Command, had each been in their leadership roles for a year. USNI News first reported on their removals.
No reason for the firings was given by the Navy official. They were the latest in a string of high-profile firings in the Department of Defense on Aug. 22.
Lacore joined the Navy in 1990 and became a naval aviator, piloting helicopters with Helicopter Combat Support Squadrons Three and Eight, before moving to staff positions. She became Chief of Navy Reserve on Aug. 23, 2024. Sands entered the Navy in 1992. A Navy SEAL, he has deployed to the war in Afghanistan. He had been in charge of Naval Special Warfare Command since Aug. 2, 2024.
[FoxNews] DHS says Secretary Kristi Noem is personally reviewing and signing off on or declining any contract over $100,000, resulting in a $10.7 billion reduction, the department says. She’s reviewed over 5,000 contracts, and DHS says decisions are made within a day.
"It is stunning that, for years, career bureaucrats were unilaterally signing off on hundred-million-dollar contracts leading to massive waste, fraud and abuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.
[JustTheNews] The Trump administration is cracking down on noncitizens receiving Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program benefits, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The center launched an oversight program, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to provide states with reports of individuals enrolled in Medicaid who do not appear on federal databases.
“We are tightening oversight of enrollment to safeguard taxpayer dollars and guarantee that these vital programs serve only those who are truly eligible under the law,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
States are required to review the federal reports, identify immigration status discrepancies, request information and enforce noncitizen eligibility rules.
Federal law typically does not allow noncitizens to enroll in Medicaid. However, 1.4 million people are enrolled in Medicaid who do not meet citizenship and immigration status requirements, according to data from the Congressional Budget Office.
Some states, like California, Oregon and Colorado, have extended Medicaid eligibility to undocumented immigrants, which accounts for the large number of recipients. It is unclear how cooperation will go between states who have expanded Medicaid enrollment.
“Every dollar misspent is a dollar taken away from an eligible, vulnerable individual in need of Medicaid,” said CMS administrator Mehmet Oz.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law July 4, implemented tighter restrictions on Medicaid eligibility including a crackdown on work requirements for able-bodied adults, frequent eligibility redeterminations and increased restrictions on noncitizens.
The move from the health department comes as the Trump administration has worked to share more data on individuals enrolled in Medicaid. The health department first gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to enrollment records for individuals on Medicaid in June.
Twenty states, including California, Colorado and New York, filed a lawsuit against the department in July. A federal judge temporarily blocked the health agency from sharing information in those states last week.
“Using CMS data for immigration enforcement threatens to significantly disrupt the operation of Medicaid—a program that Congress has deemed critical for the provision of health coverage to the nation’s most vulnerable residents,” Judge Vince Chhabria wrote in the order.
[JustTheNews] ODNI was created to be a small oversight agency after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks exposed systemic intelligence and law enforcement failures. Over the years the agency ballooned to between 1,750 and 2000 workers.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday unveiled a massive reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community that will cut hundreds of positions inside her own office and put pressure on other spy agencies to do the same after bombshell revelations over politicized weaponization of intelligence.
The current plan will cut about 40% of the ODNI workforce and save taxpayers more than $700 million per year, refocusing the agency on its core mission as the central hub for integration, strategic guidance, and oversight of the U.S. intelligence community, officials said.
“Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence,” Gabbard said. “ODNI and the IC must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers.
"Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust which has long been eroded," she added. "Under President Trump’s leadership, ODNI 2.0 is the start of a new era focused on serving our country, fulfilling our core national security mission with excellence, always grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Pregnant women should only take paracetamol on the advice of a doctor, Harvard scientists have warned—amid fears the common painkiller could raise the risk of autism and ADHD in their children.
Paracetamol—known as acetaminophen and often sold under the brand name Tylenol in the US—is widely used by expectant mothers to treat pain, headaches and fever.
But dozens of studies have already linked it to higher rates of autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Now US researchers from Mount Sinai and Harvard's School of Public Health say their analysis of more than 100,000 people is the most comprehensive yet—and provides the 'strongest evidence so far' of a link.
They urged mothers-to-be to use paracetamol sparingly, recommending only 'the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time.'
However, the team stressed the findings do not prove the drug directly causes neurodevelopmental disorders—only that the association is consistent and worrying enough to demand further investigation.
Dr Diddier Prada, assistant professor of population health science at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and co-author of the study, said: 'Our findings show that higher-quality studies are more likely to show a link between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and increased risks of autism and ADHD.'
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'Our findings show that higher-quality studies are more likely to show a link between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and increased risks of autism and ADHD.'
Objection, your Honor! Numerical self-abuse and assuming facts not in evidence.
Studies are good, but studies have shown most studies are BS that never gets confirmed after making a big newsy splash.
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As opposed to scummy outfits such as Pfizer which wanted to protect its "research" for its Mengele clot shot Fauci Flu "vaccine" for a TOP SECRET-like 75 years.
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My studies have shown that everyone who ingests pharmaceuticals DIES, given enough time. I won't mention what becomes of those who NEVER take pharmaceuticals.
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.
