Americans Warned of Kidnapping, Extortion as Violent Crime Grips Parts of Tourist Spot

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The State Department is warning Americans to steer clear of parts of a South American country as violent crime, terrorism and kidnapping raise safety concerns among tourists.

The State Department this week issued a Level 2 “Exercise Increased Caution” advisory for the nation of Ecuador.

In the advisory, officials warned of widespread crime across Ecuador, including murders, assaults, kidnappings and armed robberies linked to drug trafficking.

“Areas with transnational criminal organizations have much higher rates of violent crime,” officials said. “U.S. citizens and U.S. lawful permanent residents have been victims of kidnapping and extortion.”

The country sits between Colombia to the north and Peru to the south, along South America’s Pacific coast.Ecuador is sought by many tourists for its dramatic Andean landscapes, historic cities and the Galápagos Islands.

Americans make up Ecuador’s largest group of foreign visitors, accounting for roughly a third of international arrivals in 2025, according to Ecuador’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). (Read more from “Americans Warned of Kidnapping, Extortion as Violent Crime Grips Parts of Tourist Spot” HERE)

Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News Host ‘Are you circumcised?’ in Bizarre Moment as He Defends Sex Change Surgery for Minors

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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday — asking if he is circumcised — during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.

“Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed bluntly asked the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host, after arguing that the government shouldn’t get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.

Watters was floored by the question.

“Jesse, are you?” El-Sayed pressed.

“Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that’s a personal question — doctor,” Watters responded.

El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: “You probably should want to move on.” (Read more from “Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News Host ‘Are you circumcised?’ in Bizarre Moment as He Defends Sex Change Surgery for Minors” HERE)

I’m a Neurologist — the Quickest Test for Dementia is just 3 Hand Movements

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A clue about your risk for dementia may be in the palm of your hand. . .

But a quick and simple screening tool may give people a better idea of the state of their cognitive functioning — and you can do it at home without any equipment.

While dementia is often associated with memory loss, confusion and trouble focusing, it can also impair motor skills, making everyday tasks more difficult.

To check how well the frontal lobe is working, neurologist Dr. Adnan Husein shared a social media video demonstrating “the quickest test for dementia,” which involves three simple hand motions.

Known as the Luria Test or Fist-Edge-Palm Test, patients are tasked with making three gestures with their hands.

First, they make a fist with one hand, placing it in the palm of the second hand. They then open the hand, placing the pinky side down on their opposite palm, like a karate chop.

@adnanmd what can your hands reveal about your brain? 🧠 #dementia #alzheimers #frontotemporaldementia #neurology ♬ original sound – Dr. Ad | M.D.

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Supreme Court Rules in Trump’s Favor on Mail Ballot Rules

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of President Trump’s executive order increasing election integrity relating to mail ballots on Monday, saying states suing over the order did so improperly.

Today’s ruling is not the final action but comes as some states begin sending ballots to voters in early September. The opinion was issued in an unsigned order with the three liberal justices dissenting.

In March, President Trump signed the executive order in question directing the Department of Homeland Security to verify citizenship in each state. The order also directed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to initiate rulemaking to ensure only verified, eligible voters would receive ballots.

Last week, the USPS published their series of requirements in preparation of the order being allowed to go into effect. (Read more from “Supreme Court Rules in Trump’s Favor on Mail Ballot Rules” HERE)

23-year-old Aviator Pulls off Miraculous Water Landing after Engine Quit

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A young Florida pilot was able to swim away from a dramatic water landing in the Atlantic Ocean off Boca Raton on Saturday in a video captured by a beachgoer.

Faith Tenkley, 23, who has been a pilot for four years, maneuvered her family’s twin-engine Piper around buildings as she approached the coast and avoided paddleboarders before finding an open stretch of water next to the beach, she told Gulf Coast News. The plane made a smooth water landing at about 9:40 a.m. local time.

A lifeguard reached Tenkley within about a minute after the plane went down near 250 South Ocean Blvd., followed closely by a Boca Raton Ocean Rescue fire boat, according to local authorities.

Video captured the dramatic moments of the water landing, the quick rescue and the aftermath of a shaken Tenkley sitting on the beach, looking out to the sinking plane fully intact.

Tenkley, who Fox News Digital has reached out to for comment, has declined media interviews outside of Gulf Coast News’ Peter Busch. He reported she wanted to clear up misinformation that it was a male pilot rescued by a female surfer instead of vice versa. (Read more from “23-year-old Aviator Pulls off Miraculous Water Landing after Engine Quit” HERE)

Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands Of Projects To A Screeching Halt

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Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.

Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as Pennsylvania, have issued more restrictions on data center construction. Americans’ support for data centers has generally plummeted, as critics have linked them to higher utility bills — reflecting extraordinary water and energy usage — being experienced by local communities.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a sprawling data center moratorium in early August as residents soured on data centers. Abbott claimed his moratorium would protect Texans.

“My directive has halted up to 1,800 data center projects. I established guidelines & guardrails to protect Texas communities,” he wrote in a Wednesday post to social media, adding that data centers must not take water from communities, tax the Texas energy grid, or otherwise disrupt communities.

Abbott’s moratorium drew a range of responses from the private and public sectors.

“What Governor Abbott is doing is working. The Governor established clear guidelines: Data centers must invest their own money, provide their own power, reuse their own water, ensure that the power grid is gaining power— not losing power because of their operations — and must not disturb neighborhoods,” Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “Data centers across the state have announced their full compliance with those standards, which provide guardrails that protect our communities.” (Read more from “Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands Of Projects To A Screeching Halt” HERE)

Pentagon Makes Major Move Against Military News Outlet

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The Pentagon fired three key figures at a prominent military news outlet following a dispute over how it handled providing “independent news” to readers.

The U.S. Department of War (DOW) fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte on Friday, The Associated Press (AP) reported. In addition, publisher Max Lederer, who announced his retirement Tuesday, was also dismissed. The firings came after each of them reportedly expressed opposition to letting the Pentagon — which partially funds it — influence what the outlet covers.

While the DOW declined to comment, a Pentagon official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that “the separation notices are real.”

“Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker,” Korte said in an X post Friday.

She and Slavin had previously spoken out against the idea of the Pentagon interfering with the outlet’s coverage during a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview in July.

“We need to be able to provide independent news to service members. If we can’t do that, if we were turned into something other than that, if we were public relations, that’s … the foxhole,” Slavin said when asked what “foxholes” — or conflicts between the outlet and the Pentagon — he was “willing to die in.” (Read more from “Pentagon Makes Major Move Against Military News Outlet” HERE)

Iran Faces Massive New Triple-Threat as Hormuz Begins to Open, Cash Gets Tight and Pols Call to End the War

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Iran’s supreme leader is under mounting pressure over the war — as the regime’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz weakens, cash finally starts to get tight and top political leaders publicly urge the Islamists in charge to find a way out of the conflict.

The latest phase of the conflict has seen more and more ships quietly slipping through Hormuz, with nearly 200 vessel sailing through the strait last week, according to data from the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center.

The flow represents a 400% spike in the last two weeks, with maritime analysts Kpler noting that the traffic finding safe passage — aided by US Navy escorts — effectively means Iran has lost partial control of the strait.

And while more ships and oil are getting out, Iran’s own oil exports have dropped to near zero, under the renewed American blockade on its ports and President Trump’s “economic D-Day” measures.

There has been little to no activity seen at Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub, according to recent satellite images, leaving Iran with few options to offset its already ailing economy hit by historically high inflation and unemployment. (Read more from “Iran Faces Massive New Triple-Threat as Hormuz Begins to Open, Cash Gets Tight and Pols Call to End the War” HERE)

Lindsay Clancy’s Sick Fans are Just Normalizing the Horror of a Mother Killing her Three Children

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The bizarre fandom around Lindsay Clancy is the latest example of a moral rot infecting a small cohort of conspiracy-minded, self-engrossed women.

In a clear case of female empathy gone awry, they have transformed a Massachusetts nurse who strangled her three babies into the sole victim in this tragedy, while demonizing their poor father, Patrick.

The murdered children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months, barely get a mention in the outpouring of support for Lindsay, who has become a vehicle for the “TikTok Moms’ ” own fake victimhood.

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the 2023 murder of her children who she methodically strangled, one by one, with exercise bands after sending Patrick out to pick up dinner and medications. She does not dispute that she killed the children but claims she was “suffering from psychosis at the time.”

The prosecution contends she “acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to accomplish a very specific goal — to kill . . . She knew exactly what she was doing.”

The five-week trial has been televised to an increasingly obsessive audience of true crime nuts, assorted snoops and a disturbing number of women who have taken to filming themselves holding babies and whining about how hard it is to be a mom. (Read more from “Lindsay Clancy’s Sick Fans are Just Normalizing the Horror of a Mother Killing her Three Children” HERE)

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Natalie Harp’s ‘Freaky’ Alleged Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

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By Daily Beast. Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Donald Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart and saying she is “unworthy” of him.

“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump, “I don’t want to ever let you down.”

The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Barack Obama, described the situation as “a deadly serious issue” on Thursday.

Harp was one of the few people who accompanied Trump when he fled Air Force One in a catering truck in Turkey, leaving behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio, staff, and journalists as flying decoys, while he flew in a secret plane to avoid an apparent Iranian plot to target Air Force One.

The extraordinary letters were written in 2023, either during or after Harp accompanied Trump on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. She was 31 and Trump was 76. They reveal Harp’s utter devotion to Trump. She even tells him she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty.” (Read from “Natalie Harp’s ‘Freaky’ Alleged Letters to Trump Revealed in Full” HERE)

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‘Freaky’ Natalie Harp report unsettles observers: ‘Please tell me this isn’t real’

By Raw Story. The fully exposed letters of President Donald Trump’s aide Natalie Harp are drawing unease about how she writes him.

On Friday, online critics reacted to Harp’s letters that were released the previous evening by Trump biographer Michael Wolff and The Daily Beast, which produces his podcast Inside Trump’s Head. Harp has been in the spotlight lately after Sen. Jon Ossoff called the president out for preferring to “travel with Natalie Harp” rather than do his job, which drew scrutiny to her relationship with Trump.

“You are all that matters to me,” one line, highlighted in a post by HuffPost editor Philip Lewis, read. “I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the political news network MeidasTouch, pointed out that she randomly capitalizes words the way Trump does and related it to how she reportedly drafts Trump’s Truth Social posts.

“The syntax and random capitalizations in Natalie Harp’s letters to Trump are a Rosetta Stone that can be used to determine which he wrote and which are her writing him,” Filipkowski posted on X.

(Read more from “‘Freaky’ Natalie Harp report unsettles observers: ‘Please tell me this isn’t real’” HERE)