[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A disgruntled employee doused two women in gasoline and set them on fire outside a Detroit, Michigan workplace.
An unidentified male suspect who was 'recently suspended or terminated' from his job at Tompkins Products approached his former co-workers - one in 50s and one in her 60s - around 6.00am Monday.
He allegedly covered the vehicle they were sitting in with the accelerant and lit the car on fire before fleeing the scene.
Chief James White with the Detroit Police Department said the angry man targeted the women because he saw them 'as being part of the reason he was suspended' from the company, which is a screw machine supplier.
The female workers were taken to a nearby hospital after suffering severe burns to their face, neck, upper torso and shoulders. They are expected to survive.
The man attacked the women as they were getting out of the car they arrived in together for their shift that morning.
He then poured gasoline on the outside of the vehicle before taking a cigarette lighter to it, Dennis Richardson, Chief of the Detroit Fire Department Fire Investigation Division, said.
Richardson told WDIV it appeared the woman were 'self-extinguished' by the time emergency personnel responded.
Thomas Saldana, an employee who witnessed the horrid act, told WXYZ he pursued the suspect and knocked him off his bike while two other bystanders held him until police arrived minutes later.
The suspect was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries.
He is expected to face criminal charges, including attempted murder, White said.
'My last briefing was that it was likely to be an attempted murder charge. But we're going to be going after some additional charges.
'Fire is looking at some things with some arson charges as well. But, we're going to be looking for, at the very least, an attempted murder charge,' White said.
The Sheriff added that the suspect 'didn't appear intoxicated' at the time of the incident but has 'very violent priors.'
He was fired for leaving the two women threatening notes at work. Romero was on probation for another assault in which he is accused of holding a butcher knife to a man's neck and also attempted to hit the man in the head with a bike chain.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The leader of the congressional committee investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump says the autopsy report of shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is stomach-churning.
Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., the top Republican in charge of the probe told DailyMail.com that the report and its grisly details are 'gruesome.' However, he did not provide a timetable for when the autopsy would be released publicly. Kelly, who represents Butler, Pennsylvania, where the shooting occurred, has led several investigative trips to the fairgrounds where Trump spoke to further uncover details about the tragedy that left one dead and several, including the former president, injured.
Kelly also disclosed that the FBI told him Crooks exhibited strange behavior before the shooting. That included 'walking around the house talking to himself' and 'flapping his arms,' Punchbowl news first reported.
Sounds likea psychotic break. Was he on antidepressants?
'There was some indication that something was wrong,' the chairman said.
And as the slow drip of information related to the shooting continues, a new report indicates that a top Secret Service leader has been asked to step down. The Office of Protective Operations Assistant Director Michael Plati has been asked by his bosses to retire, Fox News first reported Tuesday morning. It indicated that Plati will end his service with the agency in the coming days.
Sources told the outlet that the move is related to the agency's performance during Trump's Butler shooting on July 13. Plati was apparently asked to step down by the top brass, including Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, who previously testified before Congress about the assassination attempt.
The agency reportedly also has another briefing planned for Congress in the coming days.
But a Secret Service spokesperson told DailyMail.com that Plati is stepping down on his own accord.
'Assistant Director Plati was not asked to resign or retire by anyone. This was a personal decision that he has made and we thank him for his 27 years of dedicated service to the federal government,' they said in a statement.
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Cutting open a dead human body is certainly not for the faint of heart. But I went to the Daily Mail article and didn't see anything new. I'm with Melania. We need the truth.
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It’s new that Assistant Director Plati is being forced into retirement. Is he the designated Judas goat?
[Variety] Will Ferrell is no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs. During an interview on The New York Times’ "The Interview" podcast alongside his longtime friend and former "Saturday Night Live" head writer Harper Steele, Ferrell expressed a bit of regret over the "Janet Reno’s Fantasies" sketch from Season 23 of the sketch comedy show. The sketch featured Ferrell in drag as the eponymous attorney general, with his appearance dressing up as a woman being used for laughs. So he'll be giving all the $ he made from the gig back to SNL management?
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon unavailable for comment.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two Delta Airlines planes have collided on a runway at the country's busiest airport.
The incident took place at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia just after 10am on Tuesday.
The crash occurred after Tokyo-bound flight DL295 clipped the back of flight DL5526 to Louisiana as it was taxiing for takeoff.
Pilot error or something missed in the control tower?
The regional jet, an Endeavor Air CRJ-900, was left with a severed tail while the Airbus 350 sustained damage to its wing.
Dramatic photos from witnesses appear to show the back end of the Louisiana-bound flight bent at a 90 degree angle. "Go ahead and take off. The wind will straighten it out"
So far, no injuries have been reported among the combined 277 passengers on board the jets.
Delta said that the Airbus rammed into the Lafayette-bound plane as it was sat on an adjacent runway, 'resulting in damage to the tail of the regional jet and the wing of the A350'.
[BBC] British luxury retailer Harrods has begun selling peaches from Japan's Fukushima region as part of efforts to restore trust in produce grown there following 2011's nuclear disaster.
The sale of the fruit at Harrods for £80 ($104) per box of three marks the first time peaches from Fukushima have been available in a European store.
The meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's reactors after a devastating tsunami caused a radiation leak that is still being dealt with to this day.
Since 2011, farms in the region - which is the second-largest producer of peaches in Japan - have struggled to sell their produce because of contamination fears.
The peaches' sale at Harrods is part of efforts by the power plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), to restore the region's reputation internationally.
It comes two years after the UK lifted its last import restrictions on Fukushima food products and following trial sales at cultural events.
Harrods is due to also begin selling a variety of grape called the Shine Muscat from the region in October.
Tepco has also staged similar campaigns in countries including the US and Thailand.
All farm and fishery produce exported from the area now has to undergo radiation testing.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced a $10,000 raise for police cadets and additional incentives during a visit to the academy.
Whitmire visited members of Cadet Class #267 on Monday alongside newly-installed police chief Noe Diaz.
There he revealed the cadets will receive a boost in their base salary from $42,000 to $52,000. After they complete the academy and Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Certification they will get a $5,000 one-time incentive.
Once they finish their probationary period, the officer's salary will increase to $62,574.
'This is an investment in the men and women of our police department who put their lives on the line daily to keep our community safe,' said Whitmire.
There’s a cost to all the talk about defunding the police.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ohio's attorney general slammed the federal government for an influx of Haitian migrants as he reacted to wild claims that they are eating pets and driving recklessly.
Republican Dave Yost directed his office to research legal avenues to stop 'the federal government from sending an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities,' particularly the city of Springfield.
'There’s got to be a limiting principle,' Yost said in a statement on Monday. 'We’re going to find a way to get this disaster in front of a federal judge.'
The AG said that the migrant influx has strained the state' social services and said the federal government has not worked with local officials to prepare for the newcomers.
Yost added: 'This is absurd – Springfield has swollen by more than a third due to migrants.”
The AG's statement comes amid unfounded claims that have been circulating on social media about Haitian migrants eating people's pets.
Springfield officials have denied the rumors, telling DailyMail.com on Monday that 'there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.'
Despite the claims being unconfirmed, Ohio senator and VP candidate JD Vance has repeated rumors that Haitian migrants have been eating people's pets.
After many pointed out that the rumors are unconfirmed, Vance said on Tuesday: 'In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.'
Vance's post added: 'Do you know what's confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here. That local health services have been overwhelmed. That communicable diseases--like TB and HIV--have been on the rise. That local schools have struggled to keep up with newcomers who don't know English. That rents have risen so fast that many Springfield families can't afford to put a roof over their head.'
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The moderators wasted no time in saying that President Trump's statement was false, but let Harris' multiple statements that had been previously been debunked go without a single objection.
Like when Harris framed Trump as not only personally responsible for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade but then personally went state to state to enact anti-abortion laws?
Honestly, going 90 minutes against 2 and a half henpecking lying women was remarkable.
[RT] The federal government has increased security in Manipur, where ethnic violence has claimed hundreds of lives since last year.
New Delhi has deployed thousands of troops to the northeastern Indian state of Manipur to address a resurgence of violence that has resulted in hundreds of deaths since last year.
The violence largely stems from a conflict between the majority Meitei community inhabiting the interior plains and the minority Kukis living in the surrounding hills. Since the start of the conflict in May 2023, approximately 200 people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
...the majority in this case are Meitei, who are mostly Hindus and live in and around the city of Imphal, while the minority are the mainly Christian Kuki who live in the surrounding hills. The issue is that the Meirei want to be treated like another minority in order to get government set-asides, too. Apparently shame and raping Kuki womenfolk after beating and murdering their men is the way the Meitei have chosen to achieve this...
After a brief lull of about four months, a new wave of violence erupted in Manipur last week, with multiple attacks and killings reported across several districts. Media reports suggest that improvised rockets and drones were used to drop crude bombs, resulting in casualties.
India’s Home Ministry has ordered around 2,000 troops from the Central Reserve Police Force to the state, according to media reports on Monday, citing government sources.
On Tuesday, around 50 students were injured in a clash with security forces as they attempted to storm the chief minister’s residence and the governor’s house. In response, internet access has been suspended, and a curfew has been imposed in several districts – a similar measure introduced last year amid violent clashes.
Manipur University has postponed all undergraduate and postgraduate exams amid the ongoing unrest. Police have deployed anti-drone systems in the region and are acquiring additional anti-drone equipment and firearms, according to the Hindustan Times.
[Stars & Stripes] the new aircraft that defense officials have selected to watch over special operators working in austere environments and consider slowing its purchase of the planes, a federal watchdog warned in a new report.
The Government Accountability Office — an independent federal auditing agency — warned in a report published last week that U.S. Special Operations Command had yet to complete an analysis justifying its plans to purchase dozens of the new planes, dubbed OA-1K armed overwatch aircraft.
The warning follows a similar assessment completed by GAO in December when the watchdog urged SOCOM and the Defense Department to slow the $2 billion armed overwatch program until they could determine precisely how many of the new aircraft are needed. In its latest report — based on new findings including a classified assessment of SOCOM’s armed overwatch program — GAO suggested the Pentagon reevaluate the number of OA-1Ks needed, limit the purchases to testing aircraft for now, and study the risks and challenges special operators could face when supported by the planes. GAO officials wrote questions remained about how to use the new aircraft and the logistics programs needed to deploy them into the austere locations where they are believed to be most useful.
"It is essential that the Department of Defense act quickly to fully address GAO’s open recommendations," the report reads. "Otherwise, it risks buying more aircraft than it needs. In addition, it may not be able to fully utilize the aircraft because it has not addressed identified challenges." The GAO report did not elaborate on most of the challenges that it found with the OA-1K aircraft, which officials said are detailed in the classified report on the program. The OA-1K is a single-engine, turboprop aircraft manufactured by L3 Harris and Air Tractor. It is based on the manufacturers’ AT-802U Sky Warden, a heavily modified crop dusting-style plane that can be outfitted to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations and can carry 500-pound to 1,000-pound bombs and guns from .50-caliber machine guns to 20mm cannons. SOCOM earlier this year trimmed the OA-1K program from a planned 75-plane fleet down to 62 planes. The command said the cuts were based on budgeting issues and not based on the GAO’s recommendations in December.
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I thought the F4U Corsair had a cockpit so far back that the pilot had to guess what was under the nose ... The A-29 Super Turcano looks like it has a better cockpit for "eyeballing" terrain in close air support than this beast.
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.
