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French clash over air conditioners as another heatwave looms


RT
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:29 UTC
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© Jeanne Accorsini/ShutterstockCustomers queued outside a Lidl store in Paris to take advantage of discounted air conditioners because of the second heatwave
Chaotic scenes have unfolded at supermarkets across France as shoppers fight over discounted air conditioners ahead of another heatwave.

Hundreds of people descended on Lidl supermarkets in and around Paris on Thursday after the retailer put around 200,000 discounted air conditioners and fans on sale nationwide.

With few air conditioners available elsewhere for less than €1,200 ($1,400), shoppers rushed to buy basic models priced from €179, prompting police intervention after scuffles and shouting matches broke out.

Videos show crowds storming stores, wrestling over air conditioners, and stripping shelves within minutes as demand quickly outstripped supply.
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Minnesota Gov Walz pardons convicted child-molester to block his deportation

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:52 UTC
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© DHS photoTou Lue Vang told the pardons board that he had regrets about abusing a 10-year-old girl multiple times; Minnesota's pardon for Vang
A Minnesota pardon board that includes Gov Tim Walz among its three members has issued a full pardon to a convicted Laotian child-molester, torpedoing Homeland Security's effort to deport him. The 42-year-old convict, Tou Lue Vang, submitted a letter to the board saying he regretted what he did -- and just like that, his criminal record is now clean as a whistle via unanimous decision.

"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," said DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl."

In a storyline that has Democrats co-conspiring to infuse precious "diversity" into the American bloodstream over more than three decades, the Clinton administration granted Vang legal status after he entered the United States as a child in 1994. Now, 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has helped guarantee that the convicted sex fiend will be safe from deportation. The two other members of the pardon board are Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and chief Supreme Court justice, Natalie Hudson.
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Bullseye

Don't relax just yet: News of woke's death is greatly exaggerated

John Murawski
RealClearInvestigations
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:10 UTC
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© AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu
Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of "cultural appropriation." Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized "fatphobia," even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies and papers and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are "the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness."

Today, as universities are dismantling their DEI bureaucracies, corporations are scaling back antiracism training, and academic trigger warnings and diversity pledges have become punch lines rather than cudgels, it is tempting to believe that the excesses of the woke movement have not just peaked but are a thing of the past, a passing fever dream of a peculiar era.
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Bomb

Twist in Monaco bombing investigation: Suspect identified as a Ukrainian woman

Bill Hutchinson
ABC News
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:12 UTC
suspect ukraine monaco bombing oligarch woman
© Valery Hache/AFP via Getty ImagesDuring a news conference, July 3, 2026, Monaco's Public Safety Director Eric Arella holds up the red notice issued by Interpol against Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, a Ukrainian suspected of planting a bomb in Monaco that injured three people, including a Ukrainian-born tycoon.
In a major twist in the investigation of a bombing in Monaco that injured three people, including a business tycoon from Ukraine, prosecutors on Friday said the suspect is a Ukrainian woman.

Interpol, the international criminal police organization, issued a "red notice," or arrest warrant, for 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovsk, identified as the suspect in the June 29 bombing at an apartment building in the Mediterranean sovereign principality, known for its casino and wealthy residents.

Investigators previously described the suspect as a man, but during a news conference on Friday, prosecutors said Berezovsk was allegedly dressed as a man during the package bomb attack.

Berezovsk, who authorities believe lives in Germany, remained at large on Friday. Prosecutors said investigators managed to identify her as the suspected bomber by combing through hours of surveillance video that recorded her at the scene of the attack.

Comment: Investigators looking at Zelensky's secret police for Monaco bomb attack on Ukrainian oligarch

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South Lebanon: A landscape of loss, resistance, and persistence

William Van Wagenen
The Cradle
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
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© The Cradle
A journey through south Lebanon reveals a resilient population refusing to abandon its land as Israel intensifies its campaign of destruction, ethnic cleansing, and permanent occupation.

When The Cradle arrived in the Lebanese town of Nabatieh on the afternoon of 18 June, the sight of the immense damage inflicted by months of Israeli bombing was shocking. Particularly hard hit was the town center, home to the city's historical market. It was targeted in the last war in 2024 and rebuilt, only to be struck and destroyed again after the war resumed in early March.

Upon entering the town center, we saw pictures of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and martyred Hezbollah fighters hanging on a light pole, overlooking the destruction on the main street passing the market.
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Passport

It's time to stop pretending that migrants are entitled to equal citizenship

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
haitians protest
Yet another civil conflict is brewing this week as the Supreme Court tackles a number of foreign citizenship debates, including Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Birthright Citizenship. The court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants residing in the US under TPS are no longer safe from mass deportations (a win). But, they have also ruled in favor of migrant anchor babies (a big loss).

Both issues deal with changing American perceptions on what is "constitutional" when it comes to foreign access to citizenship. The Supreme Court's decisions aside, I find it mind boggling that this debate has been ongoing for so many decades. Frankly, foreigners should not have any citizenship rights under the constitution until they have demonstrated assimilation. Until that time, there should be a separate set of rules handling newcomers (and invaders).
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Handcuffs

Mother of twins who died 8 days after vaccinations charged with murder

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
The Defender
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownAndrea Shaw family• Twins Dallas and Tyson
Police in Payette, Idaho, arrested Andrea Shaw on Tuesday afternoon, more than a year after her two children — fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — were found dead at their home on May 1, 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines. Police charged Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder. Shaw said doctors ignored her when she warned that the twins' father had previously experienced a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.

A 23-year-old mother charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her twin toddlers was set to be arraigned later today, after an Idaho grand jury indicted her late Monday, the Payette Police Department said in a press release.

The Payette Police Department said the arrest follows "a lengthy and thorough investigation" and said it would have no further comment regarding evidence in the case. "Future information will be presented through the judicial process," officials said.

Shaw alleges that her twins' deaths were caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor's appointment.
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Bulb

Tucker Carlson says he's starting a new political party after break with Trump and GOP

Victor Nava
New York Post
Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:11 UTC
Tucker Carlson intends to start a new political party after disavowing President Trump and the Republican Party over the Iran war.
© AFP via Getty ImagesTucker Carlson intends to start a new political party after disavowing President Trump and the Republican Party over the Iran war.
Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson intends to start a new political party after disavowing President Trump and the Republican Party over the Iran war.

"I'm going to help build a third party," Carlson said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review published Wednesday. "There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country."

The former Fox News host argued that when it comes to the two issues he views as most consequential for Americans - "war and finance" - Democrats and Republicans "are in lockstep solidarity with each other."

"That's not a democracy," he said. "That's a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken, and there's going to be a third party, and I'm going to do everything I can to bring that about."

Comment: Carlson is merely representative of the tens of millions of Americans who feel completely let down by the broken promises and incredibly damaging policies of Trump's Iran war and handling of the Epstein files, among other things.

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Airplane

JetBlue flight reports drone strike during approach to New York airport: FAA

Bonny Chu
Fox News
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:15 UTC
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© John Stillwell/PA Images via Getty Images)
A JetBlue flight reportedly struck a drone while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport for landing Monday morning, according to federal officials.

The incident involved JetBlue Airlines Flight 948, which departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Preliminary reports indicate the aircraft struck the drone at an altitude of about 3,000 feet.

"The pilot of JetBlue Airlines Flight 948 reported striking a drone at approximately 3,000 feet altitude while on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. local time on Monday," the FAA said.
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Arrow Up

Mamdani's rent-freeze approved by NYC guidelines board

tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00 UTC
NYC appartments
© UnknownNew York City apartment buildings
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to freeze rents on about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments for up to two years, giving tenants a win on a central campaign promise from Mayor Zohran Mamdani while revealing tensions over the board's independence.

The board set the annual increase at zero percent for both one-year and two-year leases starting in October. The affected apartments house roughly 2.5 million residents. The board's 2025 study found the average monthly rent in regulated units was $1,599 last year, far below the $3,950 that listings agency StreetEasy said was the median for new market-rate leases citywide.

As Kimberley Hayek reports for The Epoch Times, the decision comes after the board's usual review of wages, inflation, maintenance costs, taxes, and landlord incomes. Tenants at public hearings called for a freeze or outright reduction, citing stagnant pay and higher living costs. Landlord representatives argued that a zero percent increase would hurt building upkeep and mortgage payments. Some owners have offset losses by raising rents on unregulated apartments, the board was told.
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