Chicago mom left waiting hours for help after 911 call for home invasion: ‘We have no units to send you’

A Chicago mom who called 911 during a terrifying break-in was left on her own for hours — with dispatchers telling her to call her local representative to demand more police funding.

Michelle called the emergency hotline six times after coming face-to-face with two masked bandits, only for the strained supervisor to tell her the city’s severe budget cuts had left them with a bare-bones staff.

“A gentleman got on and said sorry to say we have no units to send you … then there was an awkward pause,” Michelle told NBC Chicago Wednesday, declining to share her name or face while her would-be robbers are still on the loose.

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Harry and Meghan were welcomed to Nigeria by a fugitive airline boss wanted in the US over $20M money laundering operation

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were welcomed to Nigeria last week by a fugitive who has been federally indicted in the United States for allegedly orchestrating a $20million money laundering and bank fraud scheme, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Air Peace CEO and Chairman, Dr. Allen Onyema, whose airline the royals took for their flight from the nation’s capital Abuja into its largest city Lagos on May 12 was a key member of the welcoming committee that met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex when they touched down on the tarmac as part of their three-day-tour of Nigeria.

Dressed in navy and wearing shades and a red kufi hat, Onyema was one of a small group of dignitaries, which included senior military and government officials, photographed alongside the Sussexes as they deboarded their Air Peace aircraft.

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Chinese Spy Defector Shares New Info on Dissident Whose ‘Mysterious’ Death in Canada Was Cited as a Warning

A former Chinese spy has revealed new information about the Chinese regime’s targeting of a Chinese dissident who died in British Columbia in 2022.

While the RCMP says the death was not suspicious, it was raised as a warning last year to another exiled Chinese activist now living in Toronto. The warning was conveyed in a phone call between the activist and one of his friends in China, whom the activist said was under pressure from Chinese police and described the death as being “under mysterious circumstances.”

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‘Scientists lose our credibility when we become climate activists’

She can eat her hat later.

A Cambridge climate scientist has called on his colleagues to step back from activism, arguing that they risk undermining the science to fit the politics.

Writing in the journal NPJ Climate Action, Ulf Büntgen, professor of environmental systems analysis, said that he was “concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists.”

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There are no accidents …

Searches ongoing after Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter involved in ‘hard landing’

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In Trudeau’s Canada, bodies go unclaimed as costs put funerals out of reach

TORONTO, May 18 (Reuters) – Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains.

The phenomenon has prompted at least one province to build a new storage facility. Demand for memorial fundraisers has surged. The overall cost of a funeral in Canada at the top end has increased to about $8,800 from about $6,000 in 1998, according to industry trade group estimates.

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‘Demographic Shock’ of Immigration Intensifying Affordable House Crisis: Bank

The “demographic shock” of mass immigration is aggravating Canada’s affordable housing problem, the National Bank of Canada says in a new report.

Canada’s working-age population—people aged 15 and older—increased by more than 100,000 in April alone, bringing total population growth to more than 410,000 in the first four months of 2024, according to the May 15 “Hot Charts“ published by National Bank Financial, Inc. (NBF), a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, Canada’s sixth-largest commercial bank.
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The young children facing anti-Semitic abuse at school – while their teachers remain silent

“It started with a fellow pupil saying ‘Heil Hitler’ to my son – in the classroom, the school corridor and the playground.” Sarah’s* teenage child didn’t want to go to school the day after this happened. “He was very upset,” she says. “He was also worried about reporting it and being seen as a snitch. There are incidents all the time and it’s not a nice environment for him.”

Sarah’s son attends a state secondary school in Surrey. As a Jewish pupil, he had experienced one incident of anti-Semitism there before Oct 7 last year. But since Hamas’s terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the British schoolboy has found himself at the sharp end of an escalation in anti-Semitic abuse from his peers, some of whom have taken to incorporating the word “Jew” into his name.

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GUNTER: Canadians living the low life

Canadians’ standard of living has declined to a level not seen for nearly 40 years. The average Canadian is now only as well off as when another Trudeau was in the prime minister’s office.

The last time our standard of living was this low, the top movies were Footloose, Terminator and Ghostbusters and the top pop hits were “When Doves Cry,” “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Karma Chameleon.” (Remember Boy George?)

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Back-to-Back Hunter Biden Trials Are a Big Political Problem for the President

But he and his faux special counsel might yet find a solution.

With the just-scheduled first presidential debate between President Biden and former president Trump only six weeks away, it appears the Democrats’ anti-Trump lawfare campaign is sputtering. Whether it revs up again in time for a pre-election federal trial will depend on how the Supreme Court resolves the immunity and obstruction cases that could have major ramifications for Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s election-interference prosecution against Trump.

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Covid ‘Expert’ Francis Collins Finally Admits There Was No Science For Six-Foot Social Distancing

My wife is a wonderful woman, but she has horrible taste in television. She, at times, will acknowledge this shortcoming as “guilty pleasures.”

One of her favorite streaming “programs” is the hospital drama “New Amsterdam.” It’s god-awful. More unreal than reality TV. This woke piece of soap opera pabulum is utterly unwatchable. Every once in a while, perhaps to punish me for crimes I am not aware I have committed, she will turn “New Amsterdam” on the bedroom TV before we go to sleep. When the latest overwrought episode mercifully comes to an end, I ask the love of my life the same two questions: Why do you hate me, and where do I go to get the last hour of my life back?

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As Biden’s Polls Drop, Hunter’s Patron Stops Paying His Bills

The Hunter Biden story has lots of strange twists and turns, but one of the strangest may be Kevin Morris.

Morris is a Hollywood lawyer who met Hunter at a Biden fundraiser, took over his investments, paid his bills and bought his artwork. Morris provided Hunter with $6.5 million in loans, which including paying his back taxes, covering rent, payments on a Porsche, lawyer fees, child support and whatever else might been on the tab.

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Sinwar in Exchange for Rafah

The Biden team’s offer to trade Yahya Sinwar, the man believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, for guarantees that the Israeli military stay out of Rafah points to two disturbing truths about the current conflict in the Middle East. The first is that the U.S. knows plenty about what the Hamas terror group is doing and has done. The second is that Washington has been keeping key information—like the terror leader’s whereabouts—from the Israelis, thereby prolonging the war that it claims to decry.

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