Washington Times,
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Sean Salai
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Rising fuel prices motivated California gun owners to give 134 firearms to the Sacramento Police Department in exchange for $50 gas cards, the department reported Sunday. A statement posted on the department’s Facebook page said the Gas for Guns Buyback program ran out of gift cards 45 minutes into Saturday’s five-hour event.
“Among the firearms received was at least one assault weapon, numerous components for privately manufactured firearms (ghost guns), and multiple other illegally configured firearms,” the statement read. California has among the highest gas prices in the nation. According to Gas Buddy, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in California on Monday morning was $6.051,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jennifer Smith
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Richard Harbus
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The Goldman Sachs employee shot dead in a random subway attack on Sunday was only on the train because Uber was too expensive and ordinarily avoided it because it is so dangerous, his grief-stricken partner has revealed. Daniel Enriquez, 48, 'never' took the subway in crime-ridden New York City and would have taken an Uber to have brunch with his brother yesterday had it not been so expensive.
His partner Adam Pollack told DailyMail.com on Monday morning that he only went for the train because an Uber to and from Williamsburg would have cost $80.(Snip)While he remains on-the-run and while the victim's family grieves,
New York Post,
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Joshua Rhett Miller
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Black Lives Matter donated $200,000 to a Chicago-based advocacy group “founded by and for post-incarcerated people” whose executive director has derided cops as “pigs” and “bastards” while calling for police to be defunded, tax documents show. The group, Equality and Transformation, was established in 2018 with an aim to “uplift the voices and power” of black Chicagoans and to build “social and economic equity” for workers while “dismantling anti-Black” racism, according to its website. But it’s founder and executive director, Richard Wallace, has persistently attacked police officers—calling them “pigs” on Twitter, claiming it’s “time to defund these bastards” and noting his approval of a poll
New York Post,
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Joe Marino
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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The family of the Goldman Sachs employee who was gunned down in a random subway attack Sunday morning has a message for Mayor Eric Adams—“Do your job.” Griselda Vile decried the gun violence that cut short the life of her 48-year-old brother, Daniel Enriquez, while he was riding a Q train on his way to brunch. “No one, no one, no one should have this happen to their family,” Vile told The Post Sunday evening. “And the worst part is, even if they catch this person he’s going to be out again,” she added, touching on the state’s bail reform laws that have let so many criminals
Guardian [U.K.],
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Ramon Antonio Vargas
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A top White House economic adviser on Sunday said he was hopeful there would be more baby formula on American store shelves this upcoming week, especially after a plane full of the product arrived from an airbase in Germany. Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash that the plane carrying 70,000lb of baby formula–enough for half a million bottles–from Ramstein airbase in Germany which landed in Indianapolis on Sunday morning should cover about 15% of the product’s nationwide shortage.(Snip)When asked how the US ended up needing to fly in baby formula from another country,
Guardian [U.K.],
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Rupert Neate
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A group of millionaires have joined protests against the World Economic Forum gathering of the business and political elite in Davos, Switzerland, demanding that governments “tax us now” to tackle the burgeoning gulf between rich and poor. The unlikely protesters, who describe themselves as “patriotic millionaires”, called on world leaders attending the annual conference on Sunday to immediately introduce fresh taxes on the wealthy in order to tackle the “cost of living scandal playing out in multiple nations around the world”. The charity Oxfam recently said rising inequality could push as many as 263 million more people into extreme poverty in 2022, reversing decades of progress.
Washington Times,
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Sean Salai
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Supply chain issues and a record number of feline adoptions during the pandemic are driving a growing cat food shortage.
Reports have emerged in recent weeks from Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota and Montana that pet stores are running out of cat food. Industry insiders blame global supply chain shortages of turkey, chicken and duck flavors and aluminum cans used in production.(Snip)“For cat stuff, it’s the canned food that we’re having the most trouble with,” said Martasia Brown, merchandise manager at Unleashed pet store in Arlington.
Ms. Brown told The Times that restocking orders of Tiki Cat, Science Diet and Royal Canin canned cat food have gone unfilled in recent
New York Post,
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Joe Marino
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Tina Moore
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A 46-year-old man was killed when he was shot on a Manhattan subway train Sunday morning, cops said. The man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was shot on a moving northbound Q subway near the Canal Street Station around 11:42 a.m., according to cops. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. The shooter was wearing a gray hoodie that said “Aeropostale” on it, police sources said.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jamie Phillips
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Belgium has become the first country to introduce a compulsory 21-day monkeypox quarantine—as 14 countries now confirm outbreaks o f the viral disease and doctors warn of a 'significant rise' in UK cases. Those who contract the virus will now have to self-isolate for three weeks, Belgian health authorities have said, after three cases were recorded in the country. The infections, the first of which was recorded on Friday, are all linked to a festival in the port city of Antwerp.(Snip)'The community transmission is largely centred in urban areas and we are predominantly seeing it in individuals who self-identify as gay or bisexual
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Prescott
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His neon artworks of the Queen fetch five-figure sums. But punk artist Mark Sloper has discovered that there is no demand for another of his Royal subjects–Prince Harry. He spent a small fortune creating the likeness of the Duke of Sussex with ‘potential H-bomb’ written across it in neon–a phrase that features in the Sex Pistols’ controversial 1977 hit God Save The Queen–but now fears he will have to scrap it. ‘No one wants to buy it,’ he tells me. ‘There is absolutely zero interest. It is currently sitting in the studio and is worth about ten grand, but I think I will have to
New York Post,
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Susan Edelman
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Dean Balsamini
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The city’s vaccine mandate has been put on “pause” for the NYPD so the force can avoid losing nearly 5,000 cops and employees as the weather— and crime—heats up, The Post has learned. Currently, 91 percent of the NYPD’s uniformed cops and other personnel are vaccinated, City Hall says. That leaves an estimated 4,659 NYPD employees unvaccinated despite a deadline to get the shots by Oct. 29. “In a nutshell, no decisions will be made, no further members will be forced to leave until further notice,” said a veteran NYPD sergeant, explaining the unwritten rule. “There hasn’t been any memo, just basically keep everything status quo
New York Post,
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Rich Calder
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A Harlem councilwoman is pushing legislation that would require city leaders overseeing museums and nightlife to appoint a laureate of the Big Apple’s growing drag performance scene. Democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan introduced a bill Thursday that would require a “drag laureate” to be picked annually by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in consultation with the head of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife. During Thursday’s City Council meeting, Richardson Jordan said the drag laureate would serve as the city’s “ambassador to LGBTQ nightlife.” “As a black queer woman, I know what it is to feel invisible,” said Richardson Jordan, who has come under fire during her first year
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The wise refusers should win raises and promotions for having the intelligence to reject peer pressure and sidestep the worthless and dangerous shots, and the integrity to take the correct actions even under threat of job loss.