Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday. The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash. The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health. read more
A Toronto man has been acquitted of a choking attack on a young girl after a judge ruled that he had been under the influence of marijuana and said that the attack was due to a "psychotic episode." During the attack, he invoked Allah, according to court documents. Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking after an August 2023 attack in which he left his home wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis. The towel fell off and he started chasing a family that he encountered in the driveway. "He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a T-shirt," Justice Mara Greene wrote, recounting the incident. read more
Data shows small businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during Operation Metro Surge. A Hennepin County program launched to help them ended up shutting down. Nearly half of the applications for taxpayer-funded recovery money were fake. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said. Lunde says it was an unfortunate win. In March 2026, Hennepin County Commissioners approved $2 million to help small businesses cover rent or mortgage payments as Operation Metro Surge kept customers away. read more
BURLINGAME: The California Teachers Association, today, filed a lawsuit against the withholding of nearly $6 billion in constitutionally guaranteed Prop. 98 funding from California public schools in the 2025-2026 and 2024-25 school years. These funds were guaranteed to public schools through Prop. 98, enshrined in the California constitution for nearly 40 years. read more
A federal appellate court has upheld a decision allowing Hamtramck to ban Pride flags on city-owned property. The ruling, issued Aug. 21 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed the Sept. 2025 dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of a challenge to Hamtramck's 2023 ban on flying Pride and other group flags on city-owned flagpoles. The court held that even assuming the poles had previously been a forum for private speech, the city is permitted to change the purpose of that forum and restrict the poles to specified flags, making the display government speech. read more
Another thread where people that want to save the planet should be happy, yet the people on this site are outraged.
Its not about climate change is it?
Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere, said Mitloehner, a professor and air quality specialist in the Department of Animal Science.
www.ucdavis.edu
When your opponent embraces your policies, we shouldn't kick them to the curb, but embrace and extend.
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what exactly is the fraud one can commit?
Its not the beneficiaries, they trying to go after providers. These flyby night providers are signing up people, and then billing the government.
www.ncoa.org
The "wealthiest nation on earth" cannot provide its citizens with healthcare or education or care for its elderly.
Canada is killing its elderly in fact more elderly have been euthanized than gun murders in the US.
www.junonews.com
It's just the conventional forces that are funneled into buying ------ military.
They are allowed to purchase what they want as well. This is just the standard issue.
Troops can currently wear non-American-made boots if they purchase them on their own (through allowances). That standard could change, however, as federal lawmakers consider the Better Outfitting Our Troops, or BOOTS, Act.
www.militarytimes.com
Inspectors at Camp Lejeune examined 4,423 boots and found 538 defective pairs, a failure rate of 12.17 percent; July inspections revealed substantially higher defects than April results, indicating notable deterioration in product quality.
Commanders purchased replacement M77 boots from local stores 'at a higher and unanticipated cost' to sustain training, as the Marine Corps confirmed observing 'out-of-the-box workmanship failures' firsthand during the exercise.
ground.news
Well, this is interesting.
2025 - The Marine Corps is developing new footwear after it found that a significant percentage of boots Marines were buying had quality issues, resulting in Marine Corps Exchange stores having to return nearly one-quarter of its boot stocks.
The Optional Boot Program, which was publicized in a service news release last week, is meant to quickly get high-quality boots to Marines through inspections, fleet feedback, real-world testing and industry competition after COVID-era supply chain issues began rattling quality and inflating prices starting years ago.
Having served as program manager for the CSS for two years, Gillikin said that he has received plenty of feedback from Marines about boot quality and cost, and that fit and durability are often top feedback points for footwear. The release from last Friday said that service-approved boots can range between $189 and $399 and, while enlisted Marines receive a uniform allowance, it often doesn't cover the cost of top-rated footwear.
www.military.com
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corky, you don't know the difference between a state run media, and a State that has its own media outlet?
This is why you live in the dumbest county in the dumbest state.
It's far better than the department of disinformation that lumpers were pushing under Biden.
or when Obama banned photographers at WhiteHouse events
www.motherjones.com
And far better than controlling "independent" news outlets.
SA has enough US hardware and support to do the job.
Time for SA to put on its big girl pants.