[DM] A mob of feral teen cyclists have been caught on camera beating up a driver after he got out of his car to confront them on the streets of Los Angeles.
Disturbing video shared by Los Angeles Police Department shows the moment more than 20 hooded youths descended on the man as he lay motionless on the ground.
Shot from inside a nearby vehicle, the footage shows a large group of teens who police said were aged between 16 and 18 attack a man by punching and kicking him.
The person filming can he heard saying 'wow' while her passenger exclaimed 'oh my God' as more youths sprinted towards the victim to join the mass attack.
Several of the teenagers appeared so excited to join the rabid assault they leapt off their bikes and cast them aside in the middle of the highway.
The victim is surrounded by so many tracksuit-clad assailants he could only be seen in brief glimpses. He appeared motionless on the ground towards the end of the clip.
LAPD said they released the video in the hopes of locating the suspects 'responsible for assaulting a man in broad daylight' around 5pm on Saturday.
The shocking incident unfolded at the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and Carrillo Drive in Mid-Wilshire, just east of Beverly Hills.
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[Regnum] The search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 that went missing in 2014, flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, has resumed in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. This was reported on February 25 by the 9News TV channel.
“Today, a new search for the long-missing MH370 will begin in the Indian Ocean, more than ten years after the passenger plane disappeared… The new search is much more targeted and precise than the previous ones, which covered about 200,000 square kilometers,” the journalists specified.
The work is complicated by the topography of the ocean floor at depths of several kilometers, including underwater rocks and volcanoes.
The UK-based US company Ocean Infinity has signed a contract with the Malaysian government to explore about 15,000 square kilometres of ocean approximately 1,500 kilometres off the coast of Perth.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the night of March 8, 2014, and disappeared from radars about two hours later. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. What happened to the plane is unknown. Repeated attempts to find the wreckage of the missing plane, in which China and Australia took part, were unsuccessful and were abandoned. In January 2015, Malaysian authorities declared the plane a disaster and all people dead.
According to one version, the plane disappeared over the Andaman Sea and crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 miles southwest of Australia. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, citing senior Malaysian government officials, claimed that the plane crashed due to the suicide of the crew commander, Zachariah Ahmad Shah.
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Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, citing senior Malaysian government officials, claimed that the plane crashed due to the suicide of the crew commander, Zachariah Ahmad Shah.
[IndependentJournalReview] Republican North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer suffered a brain injury Sunday afternoon after slipping on ice in the backyard of his North Dakota home.
Cramer, 64, said he was hospitalized and diagnosed with a “severe concussion, a seizure and a slight brain bleed” in a statement posted to Facebook Monday evening. He said he did not know when he plans to return to Washingto, D.C., but that he could return quickly for a critical vote if necessary.
“Late yesterday afternoon, I walked to my backyard intending to retrieve a piece of conduit which came off my dock and was laying on the ice,” Cramer wrote. “While walking on the hill down to the dock, I stepped on ice and evidently fell hard, hitting the back of my head. I do not remember anything from the fall until arriving at Sanford Health emergency room with [wife] Kris. After seeing the emergency doctor, taking some tests, including a CT Scan, and seeing a neurologist, I was diagnosed with a severe concussion, a seizure, and a slight brain bleed.”
“The wound on my head wouldn’t stop oozing, so the doctor punched a couple of staples on the laceration and admitted me,” Cramer said. “I had a good night sleep before getting a second CT Scan. I am better today with only a slight brain bleed and pretty bad headaches. Doctors prefer I rest a little longer before returning to DC, so I do not know exactly when that will happen. It will be da y to day this week, but I am ready to return quickly if events require it.”
A spokesperson for Cramer told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the senator is recovering at home.
The Senate is slated to confirm additional Trump nominees this week, including Army Secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Given Senate Republicans’ 53-seat majority, Senate GOP leadership will still have enough votes to confirm the president’s nominees despite Cramer’s likely absence.
Cramer is serving in his second Senate term and is a member of several prominent Senate committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee.
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FYI, anyone over 60 who takes a hard knock to the head like Cramer's should get a brain scan even without many symptoms afterwards. It is the best way to identify bleeding in & around the brain. That bleeding can result in symptoms resembling a run of the mill stroke, symptoms can start with the fall or develop days later. Treatment of posttraumatic brain bleeding can differ greatly from bleeding due to other causes, and needs to be found ASAP. I lost my grandmother to a posttraumatic bleed misdiagnosed as a stroke.
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[Regnum] On Tuesday night, the Sun ejected the largest plasma cloud this year. This was reported by specialists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
“In the images received from space coronagraphs, the expanding plasma cloud could be observed from about 1 a.m. Moscow time until 9–10 a.m., after which the ejection moved away from the Sun and was no longer visible in the instrument’s field of view,” the laboratory’s website says.
It has been preliminarily established that the source of the emission is on the far side of the Sun, and this event does not pose a threat to the Earth. However, active areas directed towards our planet may remain potentially dangerous for about 1.5 days.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on February 23, scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISTP SB RAS) recorded a high-magnitude solar flare. The flare, which lasted 12 minutes, was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4001 (N25W86). This event was the result of a rapid increase in solar activity, which began less than a day ago and continues to develop. In the middle of the day, astronomers recorded three more flares of medium M level.
[BBC] Apple plans to invest more than $500bn (£396bn) in the US over the next four years, starting with a new advanced manufacturing factory in Texas.
Not California, for some reason…
The tech giant said it expected to create 20,000 new jobs over that time, with the "vast majority" of roles in research and development, software and artificial intelligence (AI).
A new home for those tech types leaving the government, perhaps…
It is not clear to what extent the spending is an acceleration of the company's current activities. Apple said the sum included everything from spending on suppliers to Apple TV+ productions.
The announcement comes days after Apple boss Tim Cook met with President Donald Trump, who has made increased corporate investment in the US a priority.
In its announcement, Apple said its investment was its "largest-ever spend commitment" and would expand its support for American manufacturing.
"We are bullish on the future of American innovation," Cook said.
The new 250,000 sq ft factory in Houston, Texas, is set to produce servers that were "previously manufactured outside the US" to support Apple Intelligence, the company's AI system, the company said.
The iPhone maker added it would open in 2026 and create thousands of jobs.
Apple is also expanding its data centre capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada, and doubling its support for a fund dedicated to US manufacturing, which it created in Trump's first term, from $5bn to $10bn.
Trump previewed the announcement last week, claiming it was partially a response to his trade policies, including tariffs.
On Monday, the president took credit for the news on social media, saying the reason for the investment was "faith in what we are doing, without which, they wouldn't be investing ten cents".
Trump has said he wants to see more companies making their products in the US, threatening to raise tariffs drastically in a bid to make domestic manufacturing more attractive.
Last month, he imposed a new 10% border tax on all imports from China, where Apple has a significant manufacturing presence.
He has also proposed tariffs on products made in many other countries, including neighbouring nations Mexico and Canada.
Eileen Burbidge, a venture capital investor in tech businesses and a founding partner of Passion Capital, said Apple had made similar announcements before.
In 2018 the company announced a $350bn investment in the US, and in 2021 it said it was committing $430bn to its home market, both times saying the investments would add 20,000 jobs over five years.
"It's starting to become a bit business as usual," she told the BBC. "But obviously it's music to Donald Trump's ears."
Investing in its own research and development (R&D) was in the company's best interests, she said, although the US investment was "relatively small" compared to what it spends on R&D globally.
"[But] bringing some of that back to the US - again that's a really smart political move to make these large announcements in order to demonstrate commitment to US industry."
[FoxNews] The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution that will eventually become a massive multi-trillion-dollar bill full of President Donald Trump's priorities on the border, defense, energy and taxes.
In a major victory for House GOP leaders, the resolution passed in a 217 to 215 vote.
All Democrats voted against the measure, along with lone Republican rebel Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who was concerned about its effect on the national deficit.
The next step is now for the relevant House committees to meet and build their own proposals, which will eventually be returned into the framework and negotiated into a compromise deal with the Senate.
It was a dramatic scene in the House chamber on Monday night as Republican leaders delayed formally ending a vote for roughly 45 minutes as they worked to convince conservative fiscal hawks to support the legislation.
Impatient Democrats called out loud for the vote to be closed as Republicans huddled in varied groups.
Two people on the House floor told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump got involved at one point, speaking to one of the holdouts, Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., by phone.
Reps. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, could be seen on the phone at other points on the House floor as well, but it's not clear if they were speaking with Trump.
At one point, House GOP leaders appeared to lose confidence that they had enough support and abruptly canceled the planned vote.
The House resolution aimed to increase spending on border security, the judiciary and defense by roughly $300 billion, while seeking at least $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere.
Moments later, however, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were rushing back to the House floor and Fox News Digital was told the vote would be held.
Meanwhile, three House Democrats who had been absent early in the day returned for the Tuesday evening vote in dramatic fashion.
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., who had a baby roughly a month ago, returned to the House floor with her infant to oppose the bill. And Rep. Kevin Mullin, R-Calif., who was recently hospitalized for an infection, appeared in the chamber aided by a walker.
House and Senate Republicans are aiming to use their majorities to advance Trump's agenda via the budget reconciliation process.
It's a Senate maneuver that lowers the threshold for passage from two-thirds to a simple majority, but it's used when a party controls both houses of Congress and the White House because it allows that party to pass its policy goals even under the slimmest margins.
And Republicans are dealing with slim margins indeed; with current numbers, the House GOP can afford no more than one defection to pass anything without Democratic votes if all liberals are voting.
On the Senate side, Republicans can lose no more than two of their own in the reconciliation process.
The House resolution aimed to increase spending on border security, the judiciary and defense by roughly $300 billion, while seeking at least $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere.
As written, the House bill also provided $4.5 trillion to extend President Donald Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions, which expire at the end of this year.
An amendment negotiated by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and conservatives on his panel would also force lawmakers to make $2 trillion in cuts, or else risk the $4.5 trillion for Trump's tax cuts getting reduced by the difference.
The resolution also fulfilled Trump's directive to act on the debt limit, raising it by $4 trillion or roughly two years.
A bipartisan deal struck in 2023 saw the debt limit suspended until January 2025. Now, projections show the U.S. could run out of cash to pay its debts by spring if Congress does not act.
The resolution's odds were touch and go for much of the week so far, since House lawmakers returned from a week-long recess period Monday.
Several fiscal conservatives had demanded more assurances from House GOP leadership that Republicans would seek deep spending cuts to offset the cost of Trump's priorities.
The House resolution aimed to increase spending on border security, the judiciary and defense by roughly $300 billion, while seeking at least $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere.
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who had a baby roughly a month ago, returned to the House floor with her infant to oppose the bill.
Ugh. Really? She flip out a titty and start feeding too? "I'm voting against fiscal responsibility to fight against the girl math meme and to save my baby xer."
Sweep nets and magnets to somehow be deployed, I imagine. Both fun and useful.
[JustTheNews] “As the commercial space industry continues to grow, we need to safely track and manage objects in orbit to prevent collisions,” said former NASA astronaut and current U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona.
U.S. senators, including a former astronaut, want to make outer space safer.
They've introduced a bipartisan bill to help track space junk in low Earth orbit and increase international collaboration in space. The legislation, called the Situational Awareness of Flying Elements in Orbit Act or SAFE, would create a public database for tracking satellites and other objects in an increasingly commercially-operated sector.
“As the commercial space industry continues to grow, we need to safely track and manage objects in orbit to prevent collisions,” said former NASA astronaut and current U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona. “I’ve had to directly deal with the consequences of orbital debris, and I know it’s critical we provide the tools to empower scientists and innovators to successfully explore this critical frontier and strengthen American leadership in space.”
The SAFE bill would develop a public database to track satellites and prevent high-speed incidents in low-Earth orbit – the section of space within 1,200 miles of Earth where the International Space Station, as well as 10,000 satellites, operate.
The U.S. government, operating through the Office of Space Commerce, would be immune from legal action for use of this tracking data.
As commercial activity increases in low-Earth orbit, the potential for collision between satellites grows.
Thousands of defunct satellites are joined in this space by an estimated 100 million small pieces of debris, according to Siamak Hesar, co-founder and CEO of Kayhan Space. Hesar has supported NASA missions as a flight dynamics engineer and space situational awareness specialist.
In the coming years, these numbers of objects in low-Earth orbit are expected to skyrocket and create a dangerous and costly field of high-speed space traffic. Hesar said low-Earth orbit congestion will likely increase substantially.
“Commercial space objects in low-Earth orbit can help scientists make new discoveries and spur technological innovation, but this hinges on the ability to conduct safe and effective space traffic coordination,” said U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. “The SAFE Orbit Act would prevent dangerous and costly accidental collisions in low-Earth orbit and improve access to data collection and analysis to help propel the United States into the next phase of space exploration.”
Supporters of the SAFE bill have highlighted how it would strengthen U.S. presence in space.
“The world is entering a new space race, and we must equip American innovators with every resource to win,” said U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee.
But the bill also encourages international cooperation to share satellite data and help the public database track as many objects as possible.
“As we enter this new frontier, we must be certain that we prioritize safety and coordination with our partners around the globe," Blackburn said.
Besides senators from Arizona, Texas and Tennessee, the bill is being introduced by U.S. Sens. Gary Peters, D-Michigan; Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri; Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi; Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, and John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump turned his attention to the Keystone XL Pipeline on Monday evening, calling for the company building it to "come back to America, and get it built — NOW!"
Trump said he was "just thinking" about how construction on the pipeline was "viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden Administration," and promised things are different now under his leadership.
"I know they were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!"
The pipeline has been at the forefront of political debate since the project began construction in 2010, and was eventually halted by former President Barack Obama before it was finished. Trump revived it during his first term.
However, former President Joe Biden ordered the pipeline cancelation via executive order on his first day in office in January 2021, leading to thousands of job losses.
TC Energy, the operator of the Keystone XL pipeline, ultimately gave up on the project in June 2021 as a result of Biden's decision to cancel its federal permits.
Then, in 2023, a federal judge tossed a legal challenge from nearly two dozen states asking the court to reinstate the pipeline's permits.
The pipeline had been scheduled to be completed in early 2023 and would transport an additional 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the U.S. through an existing pipeline network, according to TC Energy. It was also projected to create thousands of jobs, many of which would have been union jobs.
In December 2022, the Biden administration's Department of Energy (DOE) published a report that said the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs and would have had a positive economic impact of between $3.4 and $9.6 billion, citing various studies.
"Joe Biden’s action cost tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars and every American family is still paying more every day," Daniel Turner, the founder and executive director of Power the Future, shared with Fox News Digital in a previous statement.
The system was designed to carry oil from Alberta to states like Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma.
In January, Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, Canada, said that she was interested in talking to the Trump administration about potentially reopening the pipeline project.
"Restarting the Keystone XL pipeline aligns with President Trump’s agenda to lower food and energy costs by bolstering North American energy infrastructure and reducing reliance on costly imports," Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute (AEI), previously told Fox News Digital.
Another expert said that Trump will likely face litigation if he chooses to proceed with construction of the pipeline, but that Congress could help limit legal action.
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TC Energy Corporation (formerly TransCanada Corporation) is a major North American energy company, based in the TC Energy Tower building in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that develops and operates energy infrastructure in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
[BBC] India is home to 1.4 billion people but around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report estimates.
The country's consuming class, effectively the potential market for start-ups or business owners, is only about as big as Mexico, 130-140 million people, according to the report from Blume Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Another 300 million are "emerging" or "aspirant" consumers but they are reluctant spenders who have only just begun to open their purse strings, as click-of-a-button digital payments make it easy to transact.
What is more, the consuming class in Asia's third largest economy is not "widening" as much as it is "deepening", according to the report. That basically means India's wealthy population is not really growing in numbers, even though those who are already rich are getting even wealthier.
All of this is shaping the country's consumer market in distinct ways, particularly accelerating the trend of "premiumisation" where brands drive growth by doubling down on expensive, upgraded products catering to the wealthy, rather than focusing on mass-market offerings.
This is evident in zooming sales of ultra-luxury gated housing and premium phones, even as their lower-end variants struggle. Affordable homes now constitute just 18% of India's overall market compared with 40% five years ago. Branded goods are also capturing a bigger share of the market. And the "experience economy" is booming, with expensive tickets for concerts by international artists like Coldplay and Ed Sheeran selling like hot cakes.
Companies that have adapted to these shifts have thrived, Sajith Pai, one of the report's authors, told the BBC. "Those who are too focused at the mass end or have a product mix that doesn't have exposure to the premium end have lost market share."
The report's findings bolster the long-held view that India's post-pandemic recovery has been K-shaped - where the rich have got richer, while the poor have lost purchasing power.
In fact, this has been a long-term structural trend that began even before the pandemic. India has been getting increasingly more unequal, with the top 10% of Indians now holding 57.7% of national income compared with 34% in 1990. The bottom half have seen their share of national income fall from 22.2% to 15%.
The Marcellus report also points out that white-collar urban jobs are becoming harder to come by as artificial intelligence automates clerical, secretarial and other routine work. "The number of supervisors employed in manufacturing units [as a percentage of all employed] in India has gone down significantly," it adds.
The government's recent economic survey has flagged these concerns as well.
It says labour displacement as a result of these technological advancements is of particular concern for a mainly services-driven economy like India, where a significant share of the IT workforce is employed in low value-added services sectors that are most prone to disruption.
"India is also a consumption-based economy, thus the fall in consumption that can result from the displacement of its workforce is bound to have macroeconomic implications. If the worst-case projections materialise, this could have the potential to set the country's economic growth trajectory off course," the survey says.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia has cleared its outstanding financial dues to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , ending 35 years on the Security Council’s list of countries in arrears and marking a significant milestone in the nation’s diplomatic resurgence, officials announced Monday.
The payment, finalized this month, removes Somalia from a roster of nations prohibited from voting in the UN General Assembly due to unpaid contributions. The list, which has historically included countries facing economic or political challenges, imposes restrictions under Article 19 of the UN Charter, barring delinquent members from participating in key votes until their debts are settled.
Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, hailed the development as a testament to the country’s commitment to reestablishing its standing in the international community. In an interview with the state-run Somali National News Agency, Fiqi said the settlement reflects years of effort by the government to stabilize its finances and strengthen ties with global institutions.
"This achievement is a clear signal of Somalia’s determination to fully engage with the world," Fiqi said. "For the first time in decades, we will take our place as a voting member of the General Assembly, contributing to decisions that shape our shared future."
The Horn of Africa nation, long plagued by civil conflict and economic instability, had accrued the debt over decades amid successive governments’ struggles to maintain fiscal stability. Officials did not disclose the exact amount of the settled dues, but Somalia’s return to good standing with the UN underscores a broader push toward recovery under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s administration, which has prioritized governance reforms and international cooperation since taking office in 2022.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric welcomed Somalia’s payment during a briefing at the organization’s headquarters in New York, calling it "a positive step" for both the country and the UN. "We look forward to Somalia’s active participation in the General Assembly," Dujarric said, declining to comment on other nations still in arrears.
Somalia’s reinstatement comes at a pivotal moment, as the country seeks to amplify its voice on issues like climate change, security, and development—challenges that disproportionately affect the region. Analysts say the move could also bolster Somalia’s bids for foreign investment and aid, signaling reliability to donors and partners.
For many Somalis, the news offers a rare moment of optimism. "This is about dignity," said Amina Hassan, a 34-year-old teacher in Mogadishu. "It’s not just about money—it’s about showing the world we’re moving forward."
Somalia last voted in the General Assembly in the late 1980s, before the collapse of its central government in 1991 plunged the nation into chaos. With this payment, completed as of Feb. 24, 2025, Somalia joins a growing list of countries emerging from prolonged isolation to reclaim their roles on the global stage.
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.
