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Latino Couple Dragged From Car and Shot Dead by Mob of Black Men in Chicago
A man was shot dead and his girlfriend critically injured in a shooting Saturday night in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
The shooting took place as people were leaving Chicago’s 43rd Annual Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade, which people from all over the country attend.
The victims had a large Puerto Rican flag waving from their car when they were ambushed by a mob of black men and dragged from the car...
Insect Populations Have Declined By Up To 98 Percent In Some Areas Of The World
Scientists are calling it “the insect apocalypse”, and it has extremely serious implications for the future of our planet.
All over the globe, insect populations are plummeting dramatically. And since insects are at the very foundation of the global food chain, that is really bad news for all of us. In fact, one expert described what is happening to the global insect population as “hyper-alarming”....
MSNBC: Trump Is A Racist Modern-Day Holocaust Denier
MSNBC’s never ending Trump derangement fest continued this past weekend, with Joy Reid’s broadcast panel declaring that Trump is a virulent racist who is engaging in ‘modern day holocaust denial’.
The conversation centered around Trump’s comments questioning the purported death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria.
The President was defending against attacks that his administration did...
Category 5 Hurricane Maria Demolishes Dominica, Puerto Rico Braces for a Direct Hit
Plowing toward the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Category 5 Hurricane Maria has put locals on high alert after the powerful storm inflicted “mind-boggling” damage on the island of Dominica late Monday night.
“This is going to impact all of Puerto Rico with a force and violence that we haven’t seen for several generations,” Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló...
Puerto Rico files for historic $70 billion bankruptcy
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is seeking the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in US history, after failed negotiations with creditors over its $70 billion debt crisis. That’s more than four times the debt Detroit collapsed under.
On Wednesday, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced they had moved to place the US territory into federal bankruptcy court, making...
Airport Shooter Told The FBI In NOVEMBER He Was ISIS
Shooter Told FBI He Was ISIS
Law Enforcement officials are stating that in November 2016 Esteban Santiago walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that he was being forced to fight for ISIS. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
From CBS Miami:
Law enforcement said he was found with an active military ID and is an American citizen, born in New Jersey. Previous known addresses include Penuelas,...
Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooter Pictured in Islamic Garb
On Friday a lone shooter killed 4-5 people and injured several more at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport in Florida.
The gunman was later identified…
Shooter Identified: Esteban Santiago
Esteban Santiago was born in 1990 in New Jersey. He grew up in Puerto Rico and currently lived within walking distance of Alaska’s only mosque.
This photo of Esteban Santiago was first posted at GotNews.org.
The...
Florida braces for Erika after storm's deadly pass through the Caribbean
With tropical storm Erika likely to make landfall on Monday, Florida has declared a state of emergency and is bracing for impact. The storm has already devastated the island nation of Dominica, leaving as many as 20 dead in its wake.
Florida Governor Rick Scott issued the emergency proclamation on Friday, as the storm drenched Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while making its way towards Hispaniola....
Tropical storm hits Dominica, 4 killed
Tropical storm, Erika, lashing the shores of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica on August 27, 2015.
Tropical storm Erika has hit the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, killing at least four people and unleashing landslides there.
The storm caused power outages, knocked out water supplies and dumped 38 centimeters of rain on the small island, authorities said on Thursday.
Several people have...
Putin Orders Spacecraft Debris Removed From Iran As Alien Fleet Circles Earth
A report just issued by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that at today’s Security Council of Russia meeting, President Putin authorized the removal and transportation back to Federation territory of the debris collected by both Russian and Iranian military and scientific specialists from the alien spacecraft shot down over the Republic of Iran on 31 July.
The MoD had previously reported on the...
Chikungunya: New disease hits the Americas
Chikingunya, meaning “writhing around in pain”, has hit the American continent for the first time, with 1,200 cases reported in El Salvador and 57 imported cases in the United States of America. This viral disease, carried by the mosquito, was found in the Americas for the first time last December. There is one new case every two minutes in some areas.
The number of cases of Chikingunya...
More Americans Renouncing their Citizenship: 221% Increase In One Year
The number of Americans that renounced their citizenship was 221 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 2012. That is a staggering figure, and it is symptomatic of a larger trend. In recent years, a lot of really good people with very deep roots in this country have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to the United States permanently.
A few actually go to the trouble to renounce their citizenship,...
Evolution of prejudice: Study reveals racism in monkeys
Monkey business: A rhesus monkey on the uninhabited island of Cayo Santiago.
Racial, ethnic and religious prejudice may lie in our evolutionary past, according to new research using monkeys.
Several experiments have found the animals were more wary of outsiders and associated bad things with them.
The research was conducted on the uninhabited Puerto Rico island of Cayo Santiago, which has a large rhesus...