A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico today at 2:05 pm. The earthquake hit Michoacan, Mexico, and has left at least one person dead.

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said that the victim died after a fence fell in a shopping center in Manzanillo, Colima.

There is now a threat of a tsunami hitting Hawaii. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is monitoring the situation. The biggest threat for Hawaii will be over the next six hours.

“Hazardous tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 300 km of the earthquake epicenter,” according to an official government document.

Today is also the anniversary date of two other huge earthquakes “that hit Mexico City in 1985 and 2017.”

In total, 370 people died in the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that hit Mexico City in 2017, and more than 6,000 were injured.

The 1985 earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 left 10,000 people dead, 30,000 more injured, and thousands of others became homeless.

Coincidently, only an hour before the earthquake, nine states, including Mexico City, practiced earthquake drills.

Almost 14,000 loudspeakers were planned to play the mock alarm and then people were expected to evacuate or take other safety measures.

“Drills remind us that Mexico is a seismically active country and allow us to practice Civil Protection recommendations with regard to what to do before, during and after an earthquake,” the National Seismological Service said.

Myriam Urzúa, Mexico City’s minister for risk management and civil protection said: “We live in a city where earthquakes occur practically every day so we have to prepare citizens.”

Prayers for Mexico and the families affected by the earthquake. Prayers for Hawaii as well.

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Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest today in Windsor. She was laid to rest next to her husband of 73 years, Prince Phillip, as well as her parents. People from all over the world came today to say their goodbyes.

Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years. She made a mark in the 20th and 21st centuries. She made a lot of history and lived through good times and bad times and a whole lot of change throughout the years. She reigned through 15 prime ministers, starting with Winston Churchill and ending with the newest Prime Minister, Liz Truss.

In our recollections of countless royal events, TV addresses, foreign tours, State visits, Jubilees and ceremonies great and small . . . all the joyous highs and heartbreaking lows of an extraordinary life of service played out in public.

Millions of people of all ages watched her farewell. No one will forget this day in history.

The spectacle exceeded even our expectations, from the majestic beauty of the services to the processions’ shimmering pomp.

Britain fell silent, respectful but awestruck too as the royals and regiments marched in the September sun.

We were unified by the overwhelming emotional power of this magnificently choreographed communal farewell to our longest-reigning monarch in 1,200 years.

No one will forget the day Britain, with the admirable help of leaders from all over the world, buried our Queen.

King Charles III is now the reigning King. He learned from Queen Elizabeth II what his duty is to the Commonwealth. They seem to have confidence in him. It will be a great many years before there is another reigning Queen. After Charles, next in line is Prince William and then Prince George.

Goodbye, our Queen. God bless you.

And God save the King.

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President Biden told 60 Minutes that “the pandemic is over.” In the interview, Biden also hinted at allowing large events and not requiring masks.

“The pandemic is over,” Biden told “60 Minutes” from the Detroit auto show last Wednesday, the first time the even has been held since the onset of the pandemic in 2020.

“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s — but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”

With the spread of contagious variants throughout the world, it is almost impossible to get rid of the virus fully. With that information, President Biden and his administration have focused on telling the country how important vaccination and boosters are.

But as we all know The World Health Organization or WHO, has not declared the pandemic over. They are the only people who can declare it over. Though Biden has said we have “turned a corner on the pandemic.”

“I think you’d agree that the impact on the psyche of the American people as a consequence of the pandemic is profound,” Biden said in his interview with Scott Pelley. “Think of how that has changed everything. You know, people’s attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities. And so there’s a lot of uncertainty out there, a great deal of uncertainty. And we lost a million people. A million people to COVID.

“When I got in office, when I got elected, only 2 million people had been vaccinated. I got 220 million — my point is it takes time,” he added. “We were left in a very difficult situation. It’s been a very difficult time. Very difficult.”

I think most Americans are going to listen to WHO. Wanting the pandemic to be over and it being safe for it to be over are two different things.

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Candace Owens says even though Andrew Tate “has stupid ideas” she doesn’t want him, or anyone really, banned from social media.

“Do I agree that if your girl has an OnlyFans account, as he once said, that you should be entitled to 80% of it because your woman is your property?” Owens asked. “No, I don’t agree with that. But I would host him and I would debate him on that. I’m not offended by him even saying it. I think it’s stupid, and I would debate him any day of the week on that because I think it’s just, it’s not even productive to society. But why is he getting banned for this?”

Andrew Tate has been banned from many outlets, including TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Meta, says that he has violated policies, including “dangerous organizations and individuals.”

Tate argued that clips of him in “comedic character” are being taken out of context to misrepresent him. “It is very unfortunate that old videos of me, where I was playing a comedic character, have been taken out of context and amplified to the point where people believe absolutely false narratives about me,” the internet personality said in a statement.

Candance Owens says that he was banned because “he holds views that go against the leftist narrative.” She also said, “TikTok continues to platform people spreading far more dangerous ideas.”

“People that are advocating for the castration of our children, teaching children that they can pick their gender and that they should want and aspire to go on puberty blockers, which we know causes irreparable harm to their bodies,” she said.

“What’s worse: these celebrities that are advocating for the harm of our children through all of these various means, or a guy that’s a part of a ‘manosphere’ that’s clearly playing a part?” Owens added.

What are your thoughts on this? Do both sides of the debate have pros and cons?

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Jolissa Fuentes has been missing for over forty days. She was last seen on August 7 sometime around 4 am. There is video footage of her buying snacks at a gas station in California. After so long and no answers Jolissa’s family has decided to take matters into their own hands.

“We’re not waiting for the police to find her,” her mom Norma Nunez said. “We’re going to bring her home.”

On Wednesday they raised the reward for information about Jolissa’s whereabouts to $15,000 and today released new photos to The U.S. Sun.

All of the reward money came from either donations or raised through raffles and GoFundMe.

“I’m praying today and everyday that she comes home. Whoever has her has to let her go. Her family needs her back,” Nunez said.

According to Selma police “Jolissa’s disappearance is being investigated as a criminal matter.” Jolissa’s mother believes her daughter has been kidnapped. She said, “Someone has her.”

Adventures With Purpose (AWP), an Oregon-based volunteer diving search team that found missing girl Kiely Rodni’s truck and body in the water, scoured the lakes where Jolissa’s phone last pinged.

But there was no sign of her, which her mom called a relief.

Jolissa said she would “be right back” to her brother on her way out the door. She also stopped by her grandmother’s house as well. She attempted to facetime her sister at around 3:59 am. Her sister was asleep and missed the call.

“Why did she FaceTime? Did she want to show us something? Was something wrong?” her mom said.

“Everything’s been going through our heads.”

There are a large amount of woods and lakes around the cities of Selma and Sanger, as well as several close mountains. Jolissa could be anywhere. Her family and friends are doing everything they can to find her.

Source The Sun

Chick-Fil-A Employee Mykel Gordon saved a mother and her child from being carjacked. He ran to her and held down the man who tried to carjack her until the police arrived. Mykel is being called a “local hero.”

The woman was taking her child out of her car outside a Chick-fil-A in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, when a man approached her with a stick, according to The Washington Post. He then snatched her keys away and entered the vehicle as she screamed out for help.

Those cries were answered by Chick-fil-A worker Mikel Gordon, who witnessed the ordeal and rushed to her aid. Footage shows Gordon getting into an altercation with the man, whom the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office identified in a Facebook post as 43-year-old William Branch.

A witness, who stayed safely in their car, filmed the altercation. The video, and altercation, lasted only one minute.

It shows Gordon tackling a man to the ground and putting him in a headlock. His colleagues eventually arrived, alongside a woman carrying her baby — who doled out some verbal justice.

“She had a baby in her hand,” the woman screamed. “She had a baby in her hand! How dare you! How dare you scare her like that!”

Footage shows Gordon standing up after winning the fight and placing his hands on the other man to ensure he stayed put. The man remained seated on the concrete without causing problems until authorities placed him in handcuffs.

This isn’t the first time Mykel has saved a life. While working at the Fort Walton Beach location in 2008, he witnessed a crane collapse and fall into a car.

Gordon rushed over and noticed a teenage driver and her friend trapped inside, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News. He told the outlet he carried one of them to safety before bystanders sprung into action to help the other.

“I didn’t have any time to react,” Gordon told the paper. “It was nothing but instinct, and I ran to the car.”

The assailant has been charged with battery and carjacking with a weapon.

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Prosecutors have requested to quash the previous ruling in the case of Adnan Syed. He is a convicted murderer and was sentenced to life in prison.

The state attorney for the city of Baltimore said in a motion on Wednesday that a year-long investigation found new evidence that suggests two alternative suspects.

Now infamous, the Maryland case gained international attention as the focus of the 2014 podcast Serial.

Baltimore’s attorney’s office currently recommends Syed be released while the investigation is pending, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Hae Min Lee was strangled in 1999 when she was only 17 years old. Adnan Syed, Lee’s ex-girlfriend, was found guilty of strangling her and sentenced to life in prison. Here is what the new investigation found:

During the reinvestigation, prosecutors reportedly found a document in a file for the trial that detailed an incriminating statement from another suspect, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Per the court file, the suspect allegedly said: “…he would make her [Ms. Lee] disappear. He would kill her…”

According to this filing, the exculpatory evidence was requested from the prosecution and never provided to the defense counsel, which is against the law.

Ms. Lee’s car was found in a grassy lot during the initial investigation.

This lot has reportedly been considered valuable new evidence, as the document states it sits behind a residence that once belonged to an unnamed suspect’s relative.

Advancements in evidence have been marked in the case file as “persuasive support substantiating the defense that another person was responsible for the victim’s death.”

Additional investigating found that one of the suspects in question assaulted a stranger while she was in her vehicle, on top of the discovery that a suspect was tried and convicted of sexual assault.

What are the chances that his conviction is overturned? It’s up to the judge to decide if the new evidence is overturning the conviction.

Source The Sun

The World Health Organization, or WHO, has said that “the Covid pandemic may be nearing a close.” Last week’s numbers of cases and deaths have decreased.

New weekly deaths reached their lowest point last week since March 2020. The WHO recorded around 11,000 deaths globally from the week of Sept. 5-11, a 22% decrease from the week prior.

New weekly cases also fell 28% in that time, from nearly 4.2 million during the week of August 29 to Sept. 4 to around 3.1 million last week, according to the WHO.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Wednesday briefing. “We are not there yet, but the end is in sight.”

Even though global deaths are at an all-time low deaths in the United States have remained close to the same over the last couple of weeks.

The U.S. is recording a weekly average of 478 Covid deaths per day, which is far above its lowest rate ever. The country has yet to match the low from early July 2021: The seven-day average on July 6 was just 168 daily deaths. In June 2022, the average dropped as low as 258 daily deaths.

However, new recorded Covid cases have declined 14% in the last two weeks to fewer than 73,000 per day, on average.

What about the new booster shot? Is it helping with cases and deaths? The new booster shot targets the original strain and the omicron subvariants. This will most likely provide better protection and probably has more lasting protection against severe illness.

Some people may be asking when who officially declares the pandemic over. That is up to the WHO.

The WHO is responsible for declaring an end to Covid as a public health emergency of international concern, a designation it reserves for the most serious global disease outbreaks. Tedros did not indicate on Wednesday that such a declaration was imminent.

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In December of 2021, President Biden claimed that the United States was at “the peak” of inflation. Inflation year-over-year, at that point, was 6.8%. So what is Biden right with his claims?

On Tuesday, the Consumer Price Index rose 8.3% between August 2021 and August 2022, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is now the sixth straight month with year-over-year inflation above 8.2% and the ninth consecutive month with annual inflation higher than 6.8%.

So to answer my question, no, it doesn’t look like Biden’s claims were correct. Data is showing that inflation is higher.

Despite that reality, Biden declared economic success yet again on Tuesday. The president made such claims despite data, and commonsense, indicating otherwise.

We all know over the last year things have more and more expensive.

Gasoline is up 25.6%, fuel and oil are up 68.8%, electricity is up 15.8%, meat, poultry, and fish are up 8.8%, milk is up 17%, eggs are up 39.8%, baby food is up 12.6%, and airline tickets are up 33.4%.

President Biden sign the “Inflation Reduction Act” into law in August 2022. The Bill will put billions of dollars into our economy. He has already tried this once. So who is to blame for the economic failure? Biden has an opinion on that.

In late February, Biden first complained that Americans were too psychologically damaged from COVID to appreciate his economy. Since then, everybody from Big Meat to Republicans to Big Oil to Russian President Vladimir Putin has earned the ire of the complainer-in-chief.

Will this new bill help the economy? I don’t know, but the last one didn’t. Would it help if the President cut out spending? Maybe Americans could help stimulate the economy if there were tax cuts.

Source Daily Wire

Kayla Montgomery, the stepmother of Harmony Montgomery, has been arrested again. This time for not showing up for court.

Harmony Montgomery was last seen alive in October of 2019. She was five years old at the time. Harmony wasn’t reported missing until December of 2021. Allen Altenberg, Manchester Police Chief, said that there is “biological evidence” that leads them to conclude that she was killed in December of 2019.

He didn’t elaborate with further information. And now, Harmony’s stepmother Kayla is facing unrelated gun charges and perjury charges.

The girl’s father Adam also faces child abuse and unrelated gun charges.

They both have pleaded not guilty to all charges, and neither has been charged in connection with Harmony’s death.

One of the claims against Kayla is that she continued to receive and use food assistant benefits that were for Harmony, even after she went missing. Kayla was “indicted on felony charges of Welfare fraud.”

Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, is being charged with felony second-degree assault “stemming from an alleged attack against Harmony in 2019.”

The 31-year-old is also facing a misdemeanor charge of interference with custody and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Adam’s brother, Michael, told police the 31-year-old was physically abusive to Harmony and gave her a black eye.

A detective then spoke to Harmony’s uncle Kevin Montgomery and asked him about Harmony’s eye injury.

According to court documents, he said Adam told him in July 2019 that he [Adam] “bashed her [Harmony] around the house.”

Adam was allegedly angry at Harmony because she was supposed to be watching her infant brother but he started crying.

The uncle also said Adam spanked his daughter, forced her to stand in the corner for hours, and ordered her to scrub a toilet with her toothbrush.

Kayla and Adam Montgomery have not been charged in the death of Harmony Montgomery.

Source The Sun