NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Simmons, television’s hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday.
Los Angeles police and fire departments say they responded to a Los Angeles house where a man was declared dead from natural causes. Neither provided a name, but The Associated Press matched the address and age to Simmons through public records.
[Epoch Times] Health care providers in the Portland, Oregon, area said Thursday that 2,400 patients should get blood tests because an anesthesiologist may have exposed them to HIV as well as hepatitis B and C in recent months.
In a statement, Providence Health said that it "recently learned that Providence’s comprehensive infection control practices may not have been followed by a physician during some procedures" at several hospitals."
The individual who was allegedly responsible is a physician previously employed by the Oregon Anesthesiology Group, said Legacy in the statement. The unnamed person is no longer employed by Oregon Anesthesiology Group and the company is no longer contracted by Providence, it said.
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[FoxNews] Wild bodycam footage has been released showing the moment a police officer, clinging to a speeding car, shoots a fleeing suspect dead while a terrified child screams in the passenger seat.
The shocking video, released by the Buffalo Police Department in New York on Thursday, captured Officer Ronald Ammerman pulling over 25-year-old Dae’von Roberts for speeding just after midnight Wednesday on Kingston Avenue before the suspect hit the gas in a desperate attempt to getaway from law enforcement.
Ammerman is seen clinging onto the car for dear life, pleading with Roberts to stop, saying, "You’re gonna kill me, bro," as a 6-year-old boy screams in horror.
As the car speeds away for about 20 seconds, Ammerman fires off several shots as they both tumble to the ground.
"Shots fired! There’s a kid in the car still. He tried killing me," Ammerman shouts into his radio.
Ammerman then rushes over to check on the child, who was uninjured, and grabs hold of him until back up arrives.
Roberts was confirmed dead at a local hospital. A gun was later found inside the vehicle, police said.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said he backed Ammerman’s actions to defend himself from imminent danger.
At the beginning of the video, Ammerman approaches the driver’s side of the car and tells Roberts he is being pulled over for excessive speed and for having tinted windows.
Ammerman asks Roberts to pull down the rear tinted window, which he does, revealing a child's car seat and a 6-year-old boy in the front passenger seat without a seat belt on. Roberts refers to the child as his "little cousin" and "his nephew" and says he is on the way to dropping him home.
Ammerman then asks Roberts to provide identification, to which he agrees, showing him an out-of-state ID on his phone. Roberts tells Ammerman he is from Georgia and was driving his sister’s vehicle.
However, after checking the ID, Ammerman found the ID was invalid and that Roberts did not have a license in either state.
Ammerman, who has been with the department for seven and a half years, then told Roberts that police would do a different search for his name before the officer appeared to reach into the car and open the door.
That was when Roberts put his foot down and sped off – with Ammerman anxiously clinging onto the door.
In April, Roberts was charged in relation to an alleged shots-fired incident at a memorial for his half-brother Jaylen Griffin, whose body was found at a South Buffalo home in April after he went missing in August 2020, WIVB News 4 reports.
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Kudo's to the officer for surviving that and that his first concern wasn't the wounded POS on the ground but he ran back over 100 yards to check on the kid.
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[Regnum] Western sanctions against Russia have reduced the attractiveness of the US dollar as a global currency. This was reported on July 12 by Asia Times, citing a forecast by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
"The exceptional measures taken by the US and its allies against Russia have thrown major reserve-holding countries into disarray," she said.
Yellen also acknowledged that while the countries of the Global South cannot completely abandon the dollar, most of them no longer want to work with it. According to the head of the US Treasury, this is facilitated by the policy of weakening the American currency, which is being carried out by the interstate association BRICS.
As the author of the publication noted, the decision of US President Joe Biden's team to freeze part of Russia's foreign exchange reserves turned out to be similar to crossing a red line for many investors, and the current situation shows that Yellen is right to fear de-dollarization, since this process has already been launched.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 9, Newsweek columnist Adam Gallagher wrote that the meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers and its partners held in June indicates growing dissatisfaction with US policy in the world. At the same time, he pointed out the particular danger to Washington's interests from the de-dollarization proposed by the organization, since following the meeting, its participants spoke in favor of wider use of national currencies in settlements.
On July 7, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov noted that a single currency will not be created in the BRICS space in the near future, but the movement towards its creation is obvious. The diplomat specified that the participants of the association are striving to create a financial system that is not dependent on any dominant third party.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 17 that the American authorities themselves are undermining the trust of other countries in the dollar and its role as the world's reserve currency. The head of state called this terrible stupidity.
[Epoch Times] As the seller’s market persists throughout most of the United States, prices continue to rise and affordable housing appears to be slipping through the fingers of the average American. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported the highest ever national median sales price of $419,300 for a single-family home in May.
"We’re actually forecasting that home prices will continue to grow based on the lack of inventory and demand for home ownership," Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, told The Epoch Times. See apparently conflicting 'sales down, inventory up', for May, below.
A $400,000 price tag translates to a $40,000 down payment—with the usual requirement of 10 percent of the home cost. "That’s a lot of money for first-time homebuyers, which means sometimes they may have to borrow from parents or friends to make it happen," Ms. Lautz said.
NAR reported that May’s existing home sales dropped 2.8 percent from one year ago while inventory of unsold existing homes grew 6.7 percent from the previous month.
First-time homebuyers are waiting longer to purchase homes. Last year the median age for these buyers was 35. Some of them are still waiting for either prices or mortgage rates to fall, but Ms. Lautz believes rates may stay between 6—7 percent through the end of the year.
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Housing prices and stock market are huge bubbles as in 2008. People purchase high priced homes (10,000/ month mortgage monthly payments). All expecting interest rates to decline. All I see are empty buildings threw out the country (Florida being a hot spot to look at as well).
But in the Donbass, on the other hand...
[Regnum] Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis did not see a global strategic breakthrough in the results of the NATO summit. He noted that political expectations from the summit were low from the very beginning.
“What hasn’t happened is any major strategic breakthrough,” the politician wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
He stressed that no one had high expectations from the summit, since the final provisions of the declaration were known several months before the event.
The diplomat called the fact that at the summit the participants once again did not give Ukraine permission to strike deep into Russia with Western weapons the biggest missed opportunity.
The NATO summit took place in Washington from July 9 to 11.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the joint declaration of the participants of the NATO summit in Washington, which is taking place on July 9-11, contains a thesis on the "irreversibility" of Ukraine's entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. However, the document notes that at the moment the alliance is not ready to send Ukraine a direct invitation, including due to the lack of full agreement among NATO member countries.
At the same time, after the summit, on July 12, US President Joe Biden said that permission to strike targets along the border with Russia was short-term . According to the American leader, there was “no need” for the US to further lift restrictions on Kiev’s use of American weapons to strike Russia.
On June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called Ukraine's official refusal to join NATO one of the mandatory conditions, upon fulfillment of which it will be possible to hold negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
On July 12, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that NATO long-range missiles are already striking Russian territory, and a possible increase in the range of such strikes will be a new stage in the escalation of the conflict.
This was before the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
[IsraelTimes] Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super PAC working to elect former US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... , Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
The report does not indicate how much Musk donated, but says "a sizable amount" was given to a group called America PAC.
There is no response in the report from Musk, Trump or America PAC.
A front man for US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... cited in the report says, "Elon knows Trump is a sucker who will sell America out, cutting his taxes while raising taxes on the middle class by $2,500."
Bloomberg also quotes anonymous sources as saying that Republican billionaires Ken Griffin and Paul Singer, both of whom have criticized Trump in the past, have met with the presidential hopeful to discuss donating to his campaign.
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[Regnum] American billionaire and supporter of former US President Donald Trump David Sachs accused the Democratic Party elite, who are planning to exclude Joe Biden from the election race, of attempting to organize a coup d'état.
"A group of party officials are planning to remove him [Biden] on the grounds that he cannot win. This is a coup against the president," Sachs wrote on his X social media page on July 12.
According to Fox News, the businessman made this statement a few hours after the Axios portal published a report stating that American Democratic officials who served in the Barack Obama and Bill Clinton administrations were looking for an opportunity to convince Biden to drop out of the election race. It was noted that the number of opponents of the current president is only growing every day, and the Democrats are afraid of becoming obvious outsiders.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier the American publication The New York Times reported that a number of major donors to the Democratic Party had frozen donations totaling about $90 million and demanded that Joe Biden announce his withdrawal from the election race. The article also noted that after the debates with Donald Trump, the public began to follow the speeches of the American president more closely. The disappointment of supporters of the Democratic Party has increased against the backdrop of Biden's recent incoherent speeches, including those made at the NATO summit in Washington. In addition, it was reported that some advisers from his inner circle also intend to try to convince Biden to leave the election campaign .
However, according to Donald Trump, the current president will compete with him in the upcoming elections, unlike US Vice President Kamala Harris, who could replace Biden if he refuses to participate in the elections.
US President Joseph Biden's slips of the tongue at the NATO summit in Washington are a sure sign that it is time for the politician to immediately leave his post. This statement was made on July 12 by former Pentagon adviser Colonel Douglas MacGregor on the YouTube channel of the organization Our Country Our Choice.
"Mr. President, for the sake of our country, I ask you to resign immediately. I know this is a difficult decision, but it is also the right one," McGregor addressed the head of the White House.
As the officer explained, the people who allow Biden to work are in fact using an elderly man with obvious health problems for their own selfish political purposes. McGregor pointed out that a sick person leading the United States is a direct threat to the country's security. Colonel McGregor believes that the president's constant mistakes are a sign of his steadily deteriorating cognitive skills.
"Every day President Biden takes office brings with it a greater threat to the security and stability of our nation. The country is in danger," McGregor warned.
In addition, the former Pentagon adviser recalled that abuse of the elderly is prosecuted by law in several states.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that EU countries began seeking contacts with former White House chief Donald Trump after current US leader Biden confused the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech .
In turn, Telegraph editor Tony Diver pointed out that US President Biden's misspellings of names during his speech at the NATO summit had caused indignation among Democrats. Diver suggested that Biden's mistakes would cause even more Democrats to refuse to support him in the election race.
A number of major donors to the Democratic Party have frozen donations totaling about $90 million and demanded that incumbent US President Biden withdraw from the election race.
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[Regnum] A photograph of two galaxies, NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, in the shape of a penguin with an egg, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, was published by NASA on July 12 in the telescope's official account on the social network X.
"Penguins are great parents, even in space. <…> This new Webb image shows two galaxies: Penguin (NGC 2936) and the Egg (NGC 2937). <…> They are in a cosmic embrace, connected by a bluish haze of stars and gases," the caption to the photo explains.
In addition, the publication says that the "egg" and "penguin" have been approaching each other for tens of millions of years and will eventually merge into one galaxy. At the moment, the distance between NGC 2936 and NGC 2937 is 25 times smaller than between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, which is closest to it.
NASA timed the publication to coincide with the second anniversary of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. To date, it is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched by humanity. The telescope is an orbiting infrared observatory, it was launched on December 25, 2021, and its first scientific research began in the summer of 2022.
The processes of star formation and the assemblage of galaxies were faster, more efficient or just different from what theorists had assumed.
This is how science is supposed to work: A new instrument with a novel way of looking at nature puts hard data where previously there had been only theories, computer models and notions.
Except, of course, as the WaPo knows - where the science is settled.
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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.
[Epoch Times] Health care providers in the Portland, Oregon, area said Thursday that 2,400 patients should get blood tests because an anesthesiologist may have exposed them to HIV as well as hepatitis B and C in recent months.
"We’re actually forecasting that home prices will continue to grow based on the lack of inventory and demand for home ownership," Jessica Lautz, NAR deputy chief economist and vice president of research, told The Epoch Times.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
