[Daily Caller] The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Wednesday that Emiliano Garduno-Galvez, a previously deported illegal migrant from Mexico, will be charged for attempted murder in the ongoing Los Angeles riots.
June 7 footage from the DHS shows Garduno-Galvez lighting a Molotov cocktail behind a tree as officers approached. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Los Angeles arrested Garduno-Galvez on June 9, according to a DHS press release, and he was charged with attempted murder the next day.
[WHAS11] MURRAY, Ky. — A man from Murray, Kentucky, was arrested last week after police say he released a raccoon inside a business. This comes just months after the same man was arrested for attempting to evade police officers on a mule.
On June 6, 2025, Murray Police Department responded to a call that a person had intentionally released a raccoon into an open business, and that he had fled the scene.
Soon after, officers initiated a traffic stop on Jonathan Mason, 40. According to police, he refused to roll down his windows or exit his vehicle. Officers physically removed Mason from the vehicle.
Investigators learned the raccoon that was released into the business bit a person,
…oboy — rabies shots, just in case!
and that Mason was previously warned that he was not allowed on the property of the business.
Mason was arrested and charged with Assault 2nd Degree, Criminal Trespassing 3rd Degree, Resisting Arrest, and Failure of Owner to Maintain Required Insurance 1st Offense. He was lodged in the Calloway County Jail.
About six months prior to this incident, Mason was arrested for a different crime, also involving an animal.
In December 2024, Murray Police Department responded to a local bar after an "unruly individual", who had been asked to leave was refusing to do so. Officers found Murray outside the business under the influence of alcohol.
Mason had ridden a mule to the establishment and refused to stop when ordered by an officer. Authorities say Mason resisted as the officer continued to try to place him under arrest.
Witnesses told investigators they say Mason whip the mule at a different establishment an "unnecessary amount" of times in addition to mistreating the animal in other ways.
As a result, Mason was arrested, the mule was stabled, and Mason was charged with Disorderly Conduct 2nd Degree, Alcohol Intoxication In a Public Place, Criminal Trespassing 3rd Degree, Resisting Arrest and Cruelty to Animals 2nd Degree.
Just two days after the mule incident, Mason was arrested once more for attempting to flee police while riding the mule down the roadway intoxicated. He was charged with Fleeing or Evading Police 3rd Degree and Cruelty to Animals 2nd Degree.
[BBC] Brian Wilson's work with The Beach Boys made him one of pop music's true geniuses.
His songs, including Surfin' USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows, have become classics.
His vision, incorporating complex melodies, intricate harmonies and avant-garde themes, was a watershed in popular music, moving it away from the boy-meets-girl narrative that had dominated the genre.
But the pressure of fame combined with increasing dependence on drugs created a prison from which Wilson found it increasingly difficult to escape.
Against all the odds, he re-emerged in the new millennium to delight his old fans and capture a new generation of music lovers.
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As a young kid growing up in Ohio in the 60's, the Beach Boys were my favorites. The first concert I ever saw. Embodied how I thought California must be. Lots of beach fun, good music and pretty girls. Re-enforced by Annette and Frankie movies.
My impression of CA - having lived there for 14 years and with the most recent events has changed. The time of innocence is long past.. RIP Brian
[Military.com] It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week, which culminates with a Washington, D.C., parade slated for Saturday.
Instead, what unfolded Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, bore little resemblance to the customary visit from a president and defense secretary. There, President Donald Trump unleashed a speech laced with partisan invective, goading jeers from a crowd of soldiers positioned behind his podium -- blurring the long-standing and sacrosanct line between the military and partisan politics.
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom -- amid the president's controversial move to deploy the National Guard and Marines against protesters in Los Angeles -- as well as former President Joe Biden and the press. The soldiers roared with laughter and applauded Trump's diatribe in a shocking and rare public display of troops taking part in naked political partisanship.
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[AFRICANEWS] Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe is facing growing pressure following a government clampdown on protests calling for his resignation over recent changes in the constitution that could effectively keep him in power indefinitely.
Activists on Tuesday condemned the arrest and alleged maltreatment of dozens of people following staged protests late last week in Togo's capital, Lome, and on social media.
The Togolese leader, who has ruled since 2005 after the death of his father, was sworn in as President of the Council of Ministers in May. The powerful role has no official term limits, and he is eligible to be re-elected by parliament indefinitely.
Opposition politicians have denounced the move as a ''constitutional coup.''
Around half of the 80 protesters who were arrested were released late Monday. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... at least 25 remain in jug, a local rights group said, urging authorities to release the others.
''What we know is that several people were beaten during their arrest,'' Aim Adi, director of Amnesty International's office in Togo, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
In addition to the release of the remaining detainees, "what the Togolese now want is the end of this regime, which can no longer offer anything to the people after 20 years of absolute and repressive power of Faure Gnassingbe,'' said a coalition of political groups known as ''Hands Off My Constitution''.
Demonstrations are rare in Togo as they have been banned in the country since 2022, following a deadly attack at Lome's main market. But the latest change in government structure has been widely criticised in a region threatened by rampant coups and other threats to democracy.
Public prosecutor Talaka Mawama has defended the arrests and described the protests as ''part of a revolt against the institutions of the Republic.''
[AFRICANEWS] The Northwest provincial authorities said no family members came to claim the 30 bodies. More were expected to be buried in the coming days. Weren't they already buried?
In total, 78 corpses were recovered during an operation to get illegal miners - also known as zama zamas - out of a decomissioned gold mine in Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg in January.
Most of the miners hailed from Zim-bob-we, Lesotho and Mozambique.
So far, only 25 bodies have been claimed and handed over to relatives, according to the province's department of health.
The province explained that the law only allows it to keep bodies for 30 days after which they are interred as unclaimed persons.
Nearly 2000 illegal miners were arrested at the old gold mine in Stilfontein. Of these, 1,128 are from Mozambique, 473 from Zim-bob-we, and 197 from Lesotho.
South African authorities were accused by activists and rights groups of using starvation to push the miners out of the pits where they had barricaded themselves.
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It is such a typical moral and civilized African Socialist ran country. Desmond Tutu using his "religious cloak" to hide the socialist agenda sure taught them: Tribal Slave Labor, how to use labor camps and how to use the hate of 1 tribe or race, to unify a nation to take abd keep power.
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[Regnum] Researchers from Colombia have studied coins scattered around the wreckage of a ship that sank in the Caribbean Sea and have obtained evidence that the fragments are part of the Spanish galleon "San Jose" that sank more than 300 years ago. This was reported on June 11 by Live Science magazine.
Wreck diving is so cool.
The coins, minted in 1707, point to a vessel that followed the route of the Tierra Firme fleet in the early 18th century. The galleon San José is the only vessel that matches these characteristics.
The wreckage was discovered in 2015 but has only now been identified.
Using special underwater equipment, the researchers took detailed photographs of the coins found at the shipwreck site. They were able to establish that the finds included hand-minted, irregularly shaped coins that served as the main currency in Latin America during the Spanish Empire.
The coins bear the date of minting and the location of the mint in Peru. Analysis of these features helped to establish the time frame of the shipwreck and determine the route of the sunken vessel.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in December last year, underwater archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro stated that approximately 250 treasure ships were lying in the area of the Azores and Madeira archipelagos, as well as on the Portuguese mainland. As an example, he cited information discovered about the Spanish ship Nossa Senhora do Rosario from 1589, which sank near the Troia Peninsula. According to archival records, the ship was officially carrying 22 tons of gold and silver.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Whole Foods has issued a warning to customers following a cyberattack on its main supplier.
The supplier, United Natural Foods (UNFI), was forced to shut down certain systems after detecting unauthorized activity on its internal networks in recent days.
As a result, Whole Foods has alerted employees about the potential for food shortages at its more than 500 locations across the US, according to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch.
The Amazon-owned grocery store added that the cyberattack has impacted UNFI's 'ability to select and ship products from their warehouses,' and that this will 'impact our normal delivery schedules and product availability.'
Whole Foods spokesperson Nathan Cimbala said: 'We are working to restock our shelves as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused for customers.'
Shoppers have shared images of their trips to the store, showing that many of the shelves are empty.
Ed Clearly, a Florida native spending the summer in Pennsylvania, posted on X: 'Small sample size of how empty these store shelves were today. Truly remarkable.'
'[I] haven't seen a store like this since a hurricane was barreling towards Florida.'
UNFI said Wednesday that it is slowly restoring its systems, adding that it should increase 'capacity over the coming days.'
The supplier is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of 'healthier food options' in the US and Canada, according to its website.
It operates 53 distribution centers and delivers goods to over 30,000 stores.
In May 2024 the company announced an eight-year extension to serve as primary distributor for Amazon-owned Whole Foods.
The memo also provided staff a talking point when dealing with questions from customers, prompting them to only says that UNFI has been experiencing a 'nationwide technology system outage,' according to TechCrunch.
Julie Chang, a California local, was met with empty shelves during her visit to a Whole Foods in San Diego.
'At Whole Foods just now. Lotsa shelves empty I asked what's going on. One of the largest food distributors in the US got cyberattacked,' she posted on X.
'That's troubling the food supply can be disrupted this way.'
The same scene has also been reported in Illinois, Colorado and Florida.
One Whole Food shopper shared that their location 'hasn't had water, eggs, real or milk substitutes for days.'
The grocery store has been forced to display signs where shelves and cases are barren, which read: 'We are experiencing a temporary out of stock issue on some products.'
The company said the incident temporarily hurt its 'ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders.'
'We apologize for the inconvenience and should have your favorite product back in stock soon.'
A Whole Foods spokesperson told Reuters in an email on Monday that the company was 'working to restock our shelves as quickly as possible' and referred additional questions back to United Natural.
UNFI, based in Rhode Island, said in a June 9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it “proactively” took some systems offline after becoming aware June 5 of unauthorized activity on certain networks.
The company said the incident temporarily hurt its "ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders.” It added that the incident "is expected to continue to cause temporary disruptions" to its operations.
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[Regnum] The United States may face a default on its national debt in the second half of the summer. This was stated on June 11 by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Bloomberg reports. That sounds like there is an if attached to that.
It is specified that at a hearing in the Committee on Revenue and Expenditure of the US House of Representatives, Bessent was asked when the US will reach the ceiling on the national debt, which exceeds $36.9 trillion.
"In mid to late summer," the US Treasury Secretary replied.
Bessent clarified that he could not name a specific month, since, in his words, it was a “moving target.” In addition, he clarified that the current White House administration intends to reduce the deficit ratio to less than 4% by the end of US President Donald Trump’s term.
Earlier, Regnum reported that US Treasury Secretary Bessent said the White House would never declare a default on US government debt. According to him, the US administration always "keeps its finger on the pulse", preventing the collapse of the financial system.
In late March, The New York Times reported that Washington could default on its national debt between July and October 2025. According to the newspaper, the White House is actively trying to cut government jobs and spending.
In May, US President Trump introduced a bill to reduce government spending that would increase defense spending. In particular, the spending concerns the creation of the Golden Dome air defense system and tightening border controls.
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.
[WHAS11] MURRAY, Ky. — A man from Murray, Kentucky, was arrested last week after police say he released a raccoon inside a business. This comes just months after the same man was arrested for attempting to evade police officers on a mule.
[Military.com] It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week, which culminates with a Washington, D.C., parade slated for Saturday._(cropped).jpg)
