Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world’s oldest known mummies, researchers say– www.cbsnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Scientists have discovered what’s thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to 12,000 years.
Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies. The process can happen naturally in places like the sands of Chile’s Atacama Desert or the bogs of Ireland where conditions can fend off decomposition. Humans across various cultures also mummified their ancestors through embalming to honor them or send their souls to the afterlife.
Egypt’s mummies may be the most well-known, but until now some of the oldest mummies were prepared by a fishing people called the Chinchorro about 7,000 years ago in what’s now Peru and Chile.
A new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pushes that timeline back.
Vance urges people to go hard against anyone ‘justifying or celebrating’ Charlie Kirk’s killing – live | Charlie Kirk shooting– www.theguardian.com Source Link Excerpt:
To close out as guest host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, JD Vance went hard against what he called the far left and an increased tolerance for violence on it, saying the administration would be working to dismantle those who celebrate Kirk’s death and political violence against their opponents.
Vance said that after he left Kirk’s family in Arizona, he read a story in the Nation, a leftwing publication, where the author detailed Kirk’s views and, he said, took a quote about a supreme court justice out of context to imply it applied to all Black women.
The magazine was not a “fringe blog” but a “well-funded, well-respected magazine whose publishing history goes back to the American civil war. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation funds this magazine, as does the Ford Foundation and many other wealthy titans of the American progressive movement,” Vance said, hinting at the organizations the administration might target in the aftermath of Kirk’s murder. Vance later mentioned that the foundations that helped fund the magazine are tax-exempt, a sign that the government could go after that status.
“Charlie was gunned down in broad daylight, and well-funded institutions of the left lied about what he said so as to justify his murder,” Vance claimed. “This is soulless and evil, but I was struck not just by the dishonesty of the smear, but by the glee over a young husband’s and young father’s death.”
Vance said Erica Kirk asked his wife, Usha, for advice on how to tell her children that their father had been murdered on the vice-president’s visit to escort Kirk’s remains back to Arizona. As she was asking for that advice, Vance said, “there were people dancing on that father’s grave”.
For Britain, independence is its only hope of survival– www.americanthinker.com Source Link Excerpt:
Irony of ironies, the British government, which oppressed its American colonists to the point of revolt, is now doing the same on its own island. English law, which provided the foundation for our own laws, and for our own freedoms, including freedom of speech, is now being used to suppress and silence British patriots.
Britons are now literally put in prison for expressing opinions that in America are taken for granted as a protected right. Offending a sex pervert in Britain is a serious crime.
The oppression stems from unrestricted immigration, especially of Muslims, who share nothing in common with Classic British liberal values, neither in language nor culture nor common law. Worse yet, while Britons remain underserved in return for the excessive taxation and regulation which Parliament imposes on them, their Muslim guests receive luxurious accommodations at taxpayer expense.
Muslim law, which blames non-Muslim women if they are raped by Muslim men, has found its way into British courts, where the rapes of small children and British women are treated as a minor misbehavior—and the rapes are reaching near epidemic proportions. Bear in mind that Muslim law, as practiced by Muslims, does not recognize any rights of any non-Muslim.
BREAKING: Trump establishes Memphis Safe Task Force to crack down on crime | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com Source Link Excerpt:
Memphis has the highest violent crime rate among US cities with populations over 250,000.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a memorandum creating the Memphis Safe Task Force, an interagency initiative modeled on Washington, DC’s crime crackdown and aimed at addressing violent crime in the Tennessee city.
“We have to save our country from vioIent crime!” Trump said in remarks at the White House. “Our team will deploy the full powers of federal law enforcement agencies and enforcement generally to restore public safety and get dangerous career criminals off of our streets.”
Trump pointed to Memphis’s crime record: “In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate, and the third highest murder rate of any city in the nation. Other than that, they’re doing quite well.”
Teacher raped schoolboy, 11, in her own bed then gave pathetic excuse | World | News– www.express.co.uk Source Link Excerpt:
A teacher who raped an 11-year-old boy after luring him back to her home confessed to police with a disgusting excuse. Horrifying bodycam footage has captured the moment Alley Bardfield admitted to enticing her victim home for “play dates” in her bed.
The married 34-year-old was arrested and subsequently confessed to having sexual intercourse with the child on the bed she usually shared with her husband at their residence. The newly released bodycam footage revealed the US teacher’s shocking 12-word confession after the arresting officer questioned her motives towards the young lad.
It was also heard in court that Bardfield had sent over £500 to the teenager over several months and swapped explicit photos with the boy on Snapchat.
When asked by the arresting officer why she sent nude pictures to the boy, she responded: “He kept asking and asking and asking and wouldn’t leave me alone.”
In a shocking twist, Bardfield told a police officer that the young boy made advances towards her and blamed him for the revolting incident. This revelation came about when the boy’s parents grew suspicious after observing their son’s unusual behaviour at home, reports the Daily Star.
The parents discovered that their 11-year-old had been visiting Bardfield’s house in Mount Zion, Illinois, after going through his mobile phone. These visits were referred to as “play dates” by Bardfield, one of which disturbingly led to a sexual encounter.
Texas Tech student arrested after ‘mocking’ Charlie Kirk vigil: officials– www.foxnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
An 18-year-old Texas Tech student was arrested and expelled after she was caught on video making disturbing comments at a vigil for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, officials say.
Shocking video shows Camryn Giselle Booker shouting at students gathered Friday near the university’s Student Union Building during a vigil for the conservative activist, allegedly yelling, “F–k y’all homie dead, he got shot in the head.”
Booker was arrested and charged with one count of assault, classified as a Class C misdemeanor in Texas — the lowest level of criminal offense, a spokesperson for the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital on Monday.
“The Texas Tech Police Department arrested a student for simple assault, which occurred on the west side of the Student Union Building (free speech area),” The Texas Tech Police Department said in a statement. “The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.”
Camryn Giselle Booker, 18, was arrested after she was caught on video disrupting a vigil for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
U.S. and Chinese trade negotiations concluded in Spain Monday, after two days of talks on several sticking points ranging from tariff rates, export controls and the imminent deadline for a divestment of Chinese-owned TikTok.
Talks on trade were overshadowed by a “framework” deal regarding the social media platform, announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Monday.
“It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon,” he said from U.S.-China talks in Madrid. Both President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak on Friday to discuss the terms.
The news comes ahead of a Wednesday deadline to either divest TikTok’s U.S. business or shut down the social media app in the country.
Bessent led negotiations alongside Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the U.S. side, with the Chinese represented by Vice Premier He Lifeng and top trade negotiator Li Chenggang.
US adds Colombia to list of nations failing to cooperate in drug war– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Trump administration added Colombia to a list of countries failing to cooperate in the war on drugs for the first time in nearly 30 years.
The designation reflects the deteriorating relations between the United States and one of its closest Latin American allies. Trump’s vision has repeatedly clashed with that of the left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, whose soft-handed approach to cocaine production has failed to stop the skyrocketing of cocaine cultivation. In a presidential determination, Trump laid the deterioration in relations squarely at Petro’s feet.
Soldiers patrol a street in El Carmelo, Colombia, a day after a deadly attack on a police station that authorities blame on a dissident faction of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
“The failure of Colombia to meet its drug control obligations over the past year rests solely with its political leadership,” Trump said, bashing Petro’s government for not decreasing production and criticizing his “failed attempts to seek accommodations with narco-terrorist groups.”
Voting underway in Malawi elections– abcnews.go.com Source Link Excerpt:
BLANTYRE, Malawi — Voting was underway Tuesday in Malawi’s elections, where the country will choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives.
President Lazarus Chakwera, 70, is seeking a second term against 16 other candidates. Former President Peter Mutharika, 85, is expected to be his strongest challenger.
The elections are the first national polls in the southern African nation of 21 million since the 2019 presidential vote was nullified and ordered to be redone in 2020 because of widespread irregularities.
In that election, Mutharika was the incumbent and declared the winner of the first vote only for a court to throw out the result. Chakwera won the redo, which followed months of street protests.
It marked only the second time in Africa a presidential election result was canceled and redone, and the first time an incumbent was removed in a redo election.
Tuesday’s elections come as an economic crisis grips Malawi, one of Africa’s poorer and least-developed countries that is also struggling with steep inflation and food and fuel shortages.
On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Carol Denise McNair (11).
With its large African American congregation, the 16th Street Baptist Church served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., who once called Birmingham a “symbol of hardcore resistance to integration.” Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, made preserving racial segregation one of the central goals of his administration, and Birmingham had one of the most violent and lawless chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
The church bombing was the third in Birmingham in 11 days after a federal order came down to integrate Alabama’s school system.
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says– www.bbc.com Source Link Excerpt:
A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.
Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as “distorted and false”.
It accused the three experts on the commission of serving as “Hamas proxies” and relying “entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others” that had “already been thoroughly debunked”.
“In stark contrast to the lies in the report, Hamas is the party that attempted genocide in Israel – murdering 1,200 people, raping women, burning families alive, and openly declaring its goal of killing every Jew,” the ministry added.
Trump Gets a Second State Visit to the U.K.– www.nytimes.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Trump will visit the U.K. this week in an unprecedented second state visit. Mark Landler, the London bureau chief of The New York Times, describes the efforts the British are making to stay on Trump’s good side, and what they hope to get in return.
Rubio vows continued US-Israel partnership amid ongoing Gaza war fallout– www.foxnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
JERUSALEM: Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists the U.S. relationship with Israel remains unchanged, despite the blowback over Israel’s strike targeting Hamas negotiators in Qatar last week.
“We’re going to continue to be strong allies and partners,” Rubio vowed in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Fox News in Jerusalem. “As the president said, he wasn’t happy with the way things went down. That doesn’t mean we’re going [to] stop being their partner and their ally.”
Rubio told Fox News he is now heading to Doha on Tuesday where he’ll urge Qatar to continue playing a “constructive role” in ending the war in Gaza and securing the release of hostages still being held by Hamas.
GOP responds to Charlie Kirk’s death with anything but gun control– www.dailykos.com Source Link Excerpt:
Conservatives have come up with a host of measures they want taken to avenge right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s murder—none of which include gun reforms.
Most of the proposals are retributive, with Republicans blaming the nebulous “left” for Kirk’s death and demanding that the “left” face punishment for it.
President Donald Trump—who was so distraught by Kirk’s death that he was seen happily dancing the next day at a Yankees game—said he wants to target progressive groups, claiming without evidence that they “contributed to this atrocity.”
Congressional Republicans seemed happy to help Trump in that endeavor, with Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and nearly two dozen other House Republicans demanding that GOP Speaker Mike Johnson create a new committee to investigate progressive groups that they baselessly accused of being responsible for Kirk’s death.
“In the wake of numerous attacks on our way of life, the destruction of the rule of law, and the murder of innocent Americans, prominent and unknown alike, we must take every step to follow the money and uncover the force behind the NGOs, donors, media, public officials, and all entities driving this coordinated attack,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Johnson, specifically referencing right-wing boogeyman George Soros and the Southern Poverty Law Center as groups they want to see investigated.
‘People Like JD Vance’ Are Trying to Make Kirk’s Murder a ‘Divisive Thing’– www.breitbart.com Source Link Excerpt:
Monday on CNN’s “OutFront,” chronic Trump critic Adam Kinzinger claimed “people like” Vice President JD Vance were trying to make the assassination of Charlie Kirk a “divisive thing.”
Host Erin Burnett said, “As you are both aware, a bunch of people have been fired for saying things after the Charlie Kirk murder. Congressman, so when you hear JD Vance hosting that podcast, the sitting Vice President of the United States hosting the Kirk podcast today, I know you had a chance to listen to much of it. You know, what did you think?”
Kinzinger said, “I mean, look, this is the weirdest time. It’s you know, there’s only as I see it, only one kind of group of people trying to make this a very divisive thing and that is people like JD Vance. I mean I’ve only seen, like, we can all go on Twitter and see people that celebrate it. They’re usually faceless, nameless people and it’s disgusting. But every Democratic leader I’ve seen has expressed remorse for what happened, has expressed concern, has expressed compassion for the family. It’s like they’re trying to stir this thing up and it’s this is so dangerous. That’s the thing is, this is such a dangerous moment because a cycle of violence is what I fear, and a cycle of violence doesn’t end well for anybody. Nobody wanted this to happen to Charlie Kirk. this is awful. and for the vice president to say he knows who did it and the motivation. I don’t even think law enforcement has said that there was a specific motivation behind it. So this is really dangerous.”
EU Delays New Sanctions on Russia – Politico– www.themoscowtimes.com Source Link Excerpt:
The European Union has indefinitely postponed the adoption of its 19th sanctions package against Russia, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with the decision.
European capitals were informed of the delay on Monday afternoon, though it remains unclear when the package might be finalized or what prompted the holdup. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas had said that the bloc’s latest measures “should be ready” by the end of the month.
Some member states have pushed for the new sanctions to include tighter restrictions on visas for Russian citizens. Visa issuance currently falls under the authority of individual countries, leading to wide variation. Poland and the Netherlands, for example, stopped issuing tourist visas to Russians after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, while Spain and Slovakia recently reopened application centers in Moscow.
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