[Breitbart] A feud between two families from Honduras erupted in gunfire, resulting in three dead in a parking lot in Lawrence, Indiana, on August 19.
The three men who died, Juan Escobar, Candido Antunez, and Daniel Morales, met on a Sunday evening to renew an argument over land that had been roiling the Escobar and Antunez families before they even came to the United States from their home country of Honduras.
As several members of each family met in the eastern Indiana suburb, one of the victims attempted to be a peacemaker. Morales, 31, reportedly stepped between Escobar and Antunez to defuse the situation, according to WISH-TV. However, when the lead allegedly started flying, Morales, Antunez’s brother-in-law, fell right alongside the feuding family members who died that day.
Since he was allegedly caught in the crossfire, police have not determined who shot Morales.
Police added that Escobar and Antunez both pulled out their firearms, fired shots, and fell wounded at nearly the same instant.
Escobar had repeatedly warned police that he feared for his life and reportedly filed three police reports against Antunez.
Police arrested family members Santos Alfaro-Escobar and Justo Antunez-Escobar, who both allegedly fled the scene of the shooting.
There may have also been a love triangle element to the shooting. Members of the Antunez family said that Miguel Antunez, who was at the shootout, was having an affair with Juan Escobar’s former girlfriend and mother of his child.
Federal immigration authorities have placed the two arrested men on an immigration hold to prevent them from being released from prison and disappearing.
According to WTHR-TV, surveillance video taken that night reveals nearly a dozen shots being fired between the two families.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Security cam video shows woman being strangled in Brooklyn apartment after man followed her in.
A horrifying video shows a Brooklyn woman strangled in her own apartment building by a man who followed her, as New York City attempts to boost police budgets to deal with crime. The 25-year-old woman was walking into her building in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, near Prospect Park, at around 11.00pm on Thursday when the man snuck up behind her and wrapped his arm around her neck.
Police - who posted a clip of the man as he approached the woman - said the victim cried for help and begged the man to stop and even tried to kick him and fight back, as he told her to 'shut up' before releasing her. The man - described only as having a dark complexion by the authorities - then ran away but it was unclear in which direction he went.
The victim - who has not been identified - was unharmed and refused medical attention at the scene but her assailant remains at large, as police ask for any information that could lead to his arrest.
One neighbor told ABC7 the building has become unsafe of late and he's purchased a door camera.
Despite Adams' claims that crime was trending in the right direction late last year, the NYPD revealed that crime went up in virtually every category in 2023. The statistics paint a bleak picture of the city's efforts to address crime that's rocketed since the pandemic - a campaign that has been touted as successful several times over the past year by Mayor Eric Adams. However, statistics show the politician - who ran on promises of addressing violence on the city's streets and is now entering his second year as mayor - was mistaken.
The data, released by the department in December, came exactly two weeks after Adams assured citizens that officials had taken strides in the unrest, while touting supposed gains in public safety. The data shows that rapes, robberies, and assaults are all up from last year, since hitting highs not seen in decades in both 2020 and 2021.
Rape - which rocketed in 2020 when streets were empty and unemployment rife due to unrest caused by the coronavirus - rose by 7 percent, with more than 120 occurring this year than last.
Robberies, meanwhile, rose a shocking 20 percent, despite recent measures taken by Adams, 62, to increase police presence throughout the city.
Assaults and theft throughout the city, meanwhile, show a similarly pronounced rise, with felony assaults up 12 percent - 26,039 incidents this year compared to 22,835 seen last year - and burglaries up an alarming 25 percent.
All other crime categories - including grand larceny and motor vehicle theft - showed similar rises except for murders, despite the outset of the pandemic coming now nearly three years ago.
The statistics directly contradict repeated statements from Adams that New York - which saw incidents of violence and shootings swell to historic highs in 2020 when its streets were hollowed out by lockdowns - was well on the path to recovery, the most recent of which came just last month.
Perhaps because of that, the New York Police Department will see a massive cash boost next year after the City Council adopted a $112 billion budget despite dissent from Democratic socialists. The Big Apple's increase in police spending by roughly $72 million comes under a week after Squad progressive Congressman Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a defund the police advocate, lost his reelection bid to a moderate. The budget was adopted 46-3 in late June, with three Democratic socialist members voting against the measure partly because of the money for NYPD 'pet projects.'
The boosted law enforcement budget may now indicate New Yorkers' desires to get tough on crime, especially after Bowman's ousting.
Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the budget adoption in a statement.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Across Iowa, people have known for a long time what data is only now beginning to confirm — cancer incidence in the state is outstandingly high.
Iowa became the focus of national attention earlier this year when data showed it had the fastest growing rate of new cancers of any state in America.
That's more than the Rust Belt states, where lifelong factory work, smoking rates and lack of healthcare puts locals at a higher risk for developing the disease. And more than southern states where rates of obesity, alcohol use and poverty make them more prone to the disease.
A complex web of factors is thought to be at play - Iowa is a farming powerhouse and uses more potentially carcinogenic pesticides than anywhere else. It's also sitting on a hotbed of radioactive gas, called radon, which can leech into homes undetected and cause lung cancer.
Residents are unwilling to accept being sickened by their home and are demanding state leaders do something about the crisis.
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...it had the fastest growing rate of new cancers of any state in America.
So, its been relatively 'level' for a long time and now has the fastest increase. That would imply that what ever was around 20, 30 years ago may not be the particular culprit for the acceleration.
Lots of airplane mechanics have opinions over there in the comments.
[FoxNews] Two Delta Air Lines workers were killed and another person was injured at a Delta maintenance facility in Georgia early Tuesday morning, the company said.
The incident happened at a Delta TechOps maintenance facility near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Few official details about the fatal incident were immediately available, though sources told FOX 5 Atlanta that a tire exploded while it was being removed from a plane. No update on the injured person was immediately provided.
John Laughter, chief of operations and president at Delta TechOps, confirmed in a statement that the incident happened at the facility's wheel and brake shop.
The incident has not impacted operations at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the airport told FOX5.
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Sad but willing to bet they failed step one for removing a tire: deflate before loosening axle nut. Failed wheel bolts mean only axle nut is holding the thing together.
Nothing like a mass stabbing by unwanted guests to get the celebratory spirit right.
[Regnum] Five people were stabbed on the final day of the Afro-Caribbean culture carnival in London's Notting Hill. Scotland Yard police provided details.
It is noted that the condition of two victims is assessed as critical.
The condition of the 32-year-old woman who was stabbed remains serious. She came to the carnival with a small child.
In total, eight people were stabbed during the two days of the carnival. The police also recorded two cases of slash wounds, which are not classified as knife wounds, and one case of acid use.
Over the course of two days, 320 people were detained, many of whom had weapons and drugs. A total of 50 police officers were injured.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, at least 90 people were arrested on the first day of the Caribbean Carnival in London, three people were injured.
The Caribbean Carnival has been held regularly since 1966 on the last Monday of August, with celebrations starting on Sunday. The founder of the carnival is Rowan Laslett. Initially, the main idea of the carnival was to unite the local multi-ethnic community in order to end racial conflicts. However, for many years, Londoners have associated the carnival with crime, alcohol and drug use, mountains of garbage and increased noise levels.
On July 29, a young man attacked students at a dance school in Southport with a knife. As a result, two children died and nine more were hospitalized. A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of the attack.
[BBC] Australia will introduce a cap on the number of new international students it accepts, as it tries to reduce overall migration to pre-pandemic levels.
The nation has one of the biggest international student markets in the world, but the number of new enrolments will be limited to 270,000 for 2025.
Each higher education institution will be given an individual restriction, the government announced on Tuesday, with the biggest cuts to be borne by vocational education and training providers.
The change has angered the tertiary education industry, with some universities calling it "economic vandalism", but Canberra says it will improve the quality and longevity of the sector.
Australia is host to about 717,500 international students, according to the latest government figures from early 2024.
Education Minister Jason Clare acknowledged that higher education was hard-hit during the pandemic, when Australia sent foreign students home and introduced strict border controls. He also noted, however, that the number of international students at universities is now 10% higher than before Covid-19, while the number at private vocational and training providers is up 50%.
"Students are back but so are the shonks - people are seeking to exploit this industry to make a quick buck," Mr Clare said.
The government has previously accused some providers of "unethical" behaviour - including accepting students who don't have the language skills to succeed, offering a poor standard of education or training, and enrolling people who intend to work instead of study.
The restrictions will also help address Australia's record migration levels, he said, which have added pressure to existing housing and infrastructure woes.
The government has already announced tougher minimum English-language requirements for international students and more scrutiny of those applying for a second study visa, while punishing hundreds of "dodgy" providers.
Enrolments at public universities will be pared back to 145,000 in 2025, which is around their 2023 levels, Mr Clare said.
Private universities and non-university higher education providers will be able to enrol 30,000 new international students, while vocational education and training institutions will be limited to 95,000
But higher education providers say the industry is being made a "fall guy" for housing and migration issues, and that a cap would decimate the sector.
International education was worth A$36.4bn (£18.7bn, $24.7) to the Australian economy in 2022-23, making it the country's fourth largest export that year.
According to economic modelling commissioned earlier this year by Sydney University – where foreign students make up about half of enrolments – the proposed cuts could cost the Australian economy $4.1bn and result in about 22,000 job losses in 2025.
[Breitbart] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would be “reducing the number” of “temporary foreign workers” in the country.
In a post on X, Trudeau wrote that businesses in Canada should be investing in hiring “Canadian workers and youth.”
Trudeau’s words come as Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to make cuts to Trudeau’s migration flood, implying that immigration numbers would be linked to the rate of homes being built and the jobs that are created.
“We’re reducing the number of low-wage, temporary foreign workers in Canada,” Trudeau wrote. “The labour market has changed. Now is the time for our businesses to invest in Canadian workers and youth.”
During a press conference on Monday, Trudeau explained that Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program would be receiving an overhaul, according to BBC News.
Trudeau explained that not only is it “not fair to Canadians” who are having difficulties finding employment, but to some foreign workers who are being “mistreated and exploited.”
This comes as Canada saw the unemployment rate rise 0.2 percent to 6.4 in June, according to Statistics Canada.
Trudeau has previously acknowledged that young Canadians would be denied housing wealth due to the country’s housing market being impacted by an influx of foreign workers.
In April, Trudeau revealed that he had plans to reduce the number of migrant workers coming into the country and noted that “more and more businesses” in Canada were “relying on temporary foreign workers in a way that is driving down wages in some sectors.”
Canada was reported to have reached a population mark of 40 million in June 2023, and in March 2024, it was reported to have reached the 41 million mark.
Statistics Canada attributed the increase in Canada’s population to “international migration” during the first quarter of 2024.
The United States has similarly been grappling with low wages and increased housing prices due to an increasing number of illegal migrants. Under the Biden administration, roughly ten million migrants have been encountered at the U.S. southern border.
[BBC] Canada says it will impose a 100% tariff on imports of China-made electric vehicles (EV) after similar announcements by the US and European Union.
The country also plans to impose a 25% duty on Chinese steel and aluminium.
Canada and its Western allies accuse China of subsidising its EV industry, giving its car makers an unfair advantage.
China has called the move "trade protectionism" which "violates World Trade Organization rules".
"We are transforming Canada's automotive sector to be a global leader in building the vehicles of tomorrow, but actors like China have chosen to give themselves an unfair advantage in the global marketplace", said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada's duties on Chinese EVs are due to come into effect on 1 October, while those on steel and aluminium will be implemented from 15 October.
A Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said Canada's actions "seriously undermine the global economic system, and economic and trade rules".
"China urges the Canadian side to immediately correct its erroneous practices," they added.
China is Canada's second-largest trading partner, behind the US.
[GEOTV] Police in India fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday to demand the resignation of a top state minister in the wake of a gruesome rape and murder of a female trainee doctor.
Protesters led by university students broke through the iron barricades set up on the route of their march to the West Bengal state secretariat, television footage showed, resulting in a baton charge by the police, who had earlier declared the protest illegal.
The August 9 attack on the 31-year-old doctor has caused nationwide outrage, similar to the widespread protests witnessed after a 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi, with campaigners saying women continue to suffer from high levels of sexual violence despite tougher laws.
A police volunteer has been arrested for the crime and the federal police have taken over the investigation.
Junior doctors have refused to see non-emergency patients in many parts of the country since the incident at Kolkata's state-run RG Kar Medical College, as they launched protests demanding justice for the victim and greater safety for women at hospitals.
India's Supreme Court has created a hospital safety task force and has requested protesting doctors return to work, but some have refused to budge, including in West Bengal, of which Kolkata is the capital.
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[Hot Air] Wind turbines in Schuyler County, Missouri, seem to be having problems remaining upright. This happened Sunday morning. And as I looked around for more information, there were more turbines in Schuyler County that had either gone over or had chunks fly off onto the deck below.
This turbine came down in April in the same county and is owned by the same company. All wind turbines in Adair and Schuyler counties have been temporarily turned off while Ameren tries to figure out why the entire top of one turbine fell to the ground late last week and was destroyed.
The offshore wind industry is waking up to more disheartening news- another GE Vernova turbine blade has failed, this one off the northeast coast of England.
The failure occurred Thursday morning on an installed GE Vernova’s Haliade-X turbine at Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm.
The towers planned right now for the East Coast are enormous, and I haven't seen the stats for the floating turbines they want for the Pacific. But the newest turbines planned for off-shore projects in the UK are mind-numbingly huge - obscenely so. And will cover hundreds of square miles of ocean.
And there was one more little nugget of information I learned about these massive abominations where none should be, and I really thought about it when I read of the fishermen's defiant boat parade around the Vineyard Wind towers.
In the U.S., the radar interference issue emerged when Cape Wind was proposed and the potential of its wind turbines to disrupt the radar of neighboring military bases became a concern. The initial solution was to propose a huge vessel exclusionary area around the 24-square-mile wind farm.
The issue has not gone away as the Coast Guard has noted that radar interference will prevent it from conducting search-and-rescue operations within wind farms. Given the size of proposed East Coast wind farms, substantial areas where commercial and sport fishing is done, and where commercial ships and pleasure boats transit, the loss of the Coast Guard’s ability to operate in fulfillment of its mission is unacceptable.
That's before one even gets to the part about some of these towers being built 500+ feet above the FAA standards for air traffic. The Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind turbines stand 1,057 feet tall, 548 feet above the FAA standard. The wind turbines of Empire Offshore Wind are 952 feet tall, 453 feet above the allowed height.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A nationwide AT&T outage has prompted users across the United States to dial 911, as dispatch centers are reporting widespread failures.
The outage seemed to have begun Tuesday afternoon, with a spike in reports at around 6pm and 9pm, according to Down Detector - a website that monitors outages.
The states that seem to be the most affected so far are California, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, and Georgia - though more are starting to report problems, Nick Sotor said.
AT&T blamed the issue on a critical failure at one of its switching center, which has resulted in a cascade of problems - including service delays and a complete loss of network connectivity, according to The Mobile Report.
The issue is primarily affecting iPhone users, and has even affected emergency services, with officials in Seminole County, Florida urging those with an issue to contact its non-emergency line.
When customers were fortunate enough to get through to AT&T support, the company acknowledged there is an outage but offered little reassurance.
There is currently no work around and the company has not provided an estimated time that the issue may be resolved.
Making matters worse, most of the company's senior technical support staff have gone home from their shifts for the day - leaving the issue unresolved, according to The Mobile Report.
Still, AT&T officials say they are working to fix the issue - which they insist is only affecting a 'limited number of our customers.
'We are working to address a software issue that may affect the ability of a limited number of our customers to connect to our wireless network,' a spokesperson told DailyMail.com.
'Keeping our customers connected is our highest priority, so we appreciate their patience as we work to resolve this issue.'
By around 11.20pm EST a spokesperson for the company contacted DailyMail.com with an update about the situation.
'We’ve resolved a software issue that disrupted the ability of a limited number of our customers to connect to our wireless network,' a spokesperson said.
'We apologize for the inconvenience and we appreciate our customers’ patience as we worked to resolve this issue.'
The outage came the same day the FCC announced that AT&T would pay a $950,000 fine for failing to notify call centers about a similar outage in 2023 that affected police stations in Illinois, Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin.
[France24] Australia approved on Wednesday plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project billed as the "largest solar precinct in the world".
Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable's US$24 billion project in Australia's remote north that is slated to power three million homes.
The project, which will include an array of panels, batteries and, eventually, a cable linking Australia with Singapore, is backed by tech billionaire and green activist Mike Cannon-Brookes.
"It will be the largest solar precinct in the world -- and heralds Australia as the world leader in green energy," said Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
It is hoped that energy production will begin in 2030, providing four gigawatts of energy for domestic use.
Two more gigawatts would be sent to Singapore via undersea cable, supplying about 15 percent of the city-state's needs.
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.
[Breitbart] A feud between two families from Honduras erupted in gunfire, resulting in three dead in a parking lot in 
[FoxNews] Two Delta Air Lines workers were killed and another person was injured at a Delta maintenance facility in Georgia early Tuesday morning, the company said.
