Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:41 p.m. No.18134890   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://nypost.com/2023/01/12/newlywed-wife-decapitated-by-husband-in-gruesome-killing-texas-sheriff/

Newlywed wife decapitated in ‘gruesome’ killing by husband

The decapitated body of a young wife married for less than four months was found by Texas authorities, who have charged her husband in the “gruesome” murder, the Waller County sheriff confirmed to The Post.

The 21-year-old Hispanic woman’s body was discovered in the home, but her head was not, Sheriff Troy Guidry said.

“It was a portion of a body, dismembered, and a residence that was covered in blood — a gruesome scene, at best,” he told reporters Thursday.

The husband, Jared Dicus, 21, was interviewed by cops and confessed to the killing, Guidry revealed.

The wife has not yet been identified by authorities, but a social media post by a county judge who married the duo on Oct. 21 identified her as Anggy Diaz and thanked the couple for allowing him to be part of their ceremony.

A knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was found at the property with Diaz’s severed head.

Dicus’ family members called deputies to the couple’s home — a small cottage located behind a main house where the husband’s parents live in a rural area northwest of Houston — Wednesday afternoon.

Diaz was believed to be dead since around 11 p.m. the night before her remains were discovered.

“There have been prior calls, disturbance-wise, but nothing to this effect, to this level of violence,” Guidry shared.

The young wife is a Nicaraguan citizen who was described as “undocumented” by the sheriff.

Her social media posts show her involved in fitness and feature multiple photos of her and Dicus.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:47 p.m. No.18134914   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4941

>>18134907

https://nypost.com/2023/01/12/ag-merrick-garland-names-robert-hur-special-counsel-to-probe-biden-classified-docs/

Attorney General Merrick Garland names Robert Hur special counsel to probe Biden classified docs

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday he had appointed former Maryland US Attorney Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up at an office President Biden used at his namesake think tank in Washington, DC, as well as at his home in Delaware.

Hur, a Trump appointee who left the Justice Department in early 2021 to enter private practice, will take over the investigation from Chicago federal prosecutor John Lausch, to whom Garland turned in November to review the materials — and who recommended to the AG last week that a special counsel be appointed

“Under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter,” Garland told reporters at the Justice Department. “This appointment underscores for the public the department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts, and the law.

“I am confident that Mr. Hur will carry out his responsibility in an even-handed and urgent manner and in accordance with the highest traditions of this department,” added the attorney general, who did not take questions.

A special counsel is an attorney appointed to investigate, and possibly prosecute, a case in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.

Though they’re not subject to the day-to-day supervision of the Justice Department, special counsels must still comply with department regulations, policies and procedures. They also technically report to the attorney general — the one government official who can fire them.

Special counsels are provided with a budget and can request a staff of attorneys, both inside and outside the department, if they need extra help. The can bring indictments, as well as issue subpoenas and search warrants.

“The special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department, but he must comply with the regulations, procedures and policies of the department,” said Garland, who added that Hur is authorized to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in removing documents from the Obama White House in early 2017 and not turning them over to the National Archives.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:48 p.m. No.18134919   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4921 >>5029

Biden left office as vice president in 2017 and had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term until 2019. On February 8, 2018, the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement says that it opened its doors in Washington, D.C.

So if these documents were removed when Biden left office, where were they in the prior year and were they moved repeatedly before they ended up in the Washington office?

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:48 p.m. No.18134920   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hur played a key role in a number of high-profile cases, including a children’s book scandal involving then-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh that resulted in Pugh being sentenced to three years in prison.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:51 p.m. No.18134928   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5010 >>5018 >>5108

At the Justice Department, Hur worked with Rosenstein on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the former deputy attorney general told CNN.

Hur “was my point person and he had biweekly meetings with Mueller’s team and then briefed me on the progress of the Russian special counsel investigation,” Rosenstein said. “So he has seen that firsthand and he knows that you need not to be influenced by politics and make decisions based on fact and the law and the Department of Justice policy, and I think we can count on Rob to do that.”

Rosenstein added: “Rob, like a lot of people I worked with at DOJ, believes it is important to engage in public service and feels a sense of responsibility. So it is hard to say ‘no’ when someone calls on you to do what you know is going to be a an unpleasant job.”

While serving as a top aide to Rosenstein, Hur also appeared at a Trump White House press conference in July 2017, touting the administration’s efforts to crack down on the notorious MS-13 gang. The appearance at the White House press briefing podium was unusual as DOJ generally seeks to keep a distance from the White House on matters that could be seen as political in nature.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 8:53 p.m. No.18134941   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18134914

>Hur is authorized to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in removing documents from the Obama White House in early 2017 and not turning them over to the National Archives.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 9:04 p.m. No.18135018   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18134928

>Hur also appeared at a Trump White House press conference in July 2017, touting the administration’s efforts to crack down on the notorious MS-13 gang

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 9:24 p.m. No.18135120   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18135108

>Exo 24:14

And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 9:35 p.m. No.18135181   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5197

>>18135155

>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-should-name-the-giant-panda-cub-after-elvis-presley-heres-why/2015/09/13/8d1c2ffa-58a1-11e5-b8c9-944725fcd3b9_story.html

We should name the giant panda cub after Elvis Presley. Here’s why.

On Dec. 21, 1970, Elvis Presley visited Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. On Feb. 21, 1972, President Nixon visited China. On April 16, 1972, two giant pandas — Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing — arrived at the National Zoo in Washington.

That, my friends, is what we call cause and effect: a straight line from Elvis to Nixon, from Nixon to the pandas.

We must continue that line, completing the circle: from the pandas back to Elvis. We must name the National Zoo’s new panda cub after the King of Rock and Roll.

The photo of Elvis Presley shaking hands with Richard Nixon is one of the most striking images in modern U.S. history, the very embodiment of incongruity. It began with a restless Elvis flying from Memphis to Washington, then to Los Angeles before deciding to head back east.

Writer Peter Carlson recounted the curious meeting in a 2010 article in Smithsonian magazine: “Elvis was traveling with some guns and his collection of police badges, and he decided that what he really wanted was a badge from the federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs back in Washington. ‘The narc badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him,’ Priscilla Presley wrote in her memoir, ‘Elvis and Me.’ ‘With the federal narcotics badge, he [believed he] could legally enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished.’ ”

Aboard the flight, Elvis wrote a note to Nixon decrying the drug culture and “hippie elements” that were threatening the nation. He offered to help combat them. “I will be [in Washington] for as long as it takes to get the credentials of a Federal Agent,” he wrote. “I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.”

After the plane landed, Elvis delivered the note to the White House. Six hours later — clad in a purple velvet suit, a massive belt buckle and a shirt collar as big as a nurse’s wimple — he was ushered into the Oval Office.

When Elvis left the building, he had his badge, the ostensible purpose of his visit.

But what if there was more to that meeting? What if the narc badge was just a cover for Elvis’s true reason for visiting Nixon: to formally request the importation from China of a giant panda?

Scoff if you will, but Elvis had a well-chronicled connection to pandas. In 1956, after cutting “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel” in a Manhattan recording studio, the singer took the train from New York to Memphis. Photographer Al Wertheimer accompanied him.

The train ride was a butt-numbing 27 hours long. Elvis killed time listening to acetates of his recordings on a small portable record player. Then someone in his entourage produced a gigantic stuffed panda. It became an ice-breaking prop as Elvis walked through the train’s carriages, flirting with girls along the way. Wertheimer snapped photo after photo of Elvis: Here is the panda perched on Elvis’s hip like a toddler. Here it is sitting next to him. Here it is stuffed in an overhead luggage rack.

At one point, two teenagers said they didn’t believe Elvis really was who he said he was.

“See that photographer over there?” he asked. “Would he be taking my picture if I wasn’t Elvis Presley?”

The rich black-and-white images Wertheimer captured are striking. It’s hard to decide who’s cuter: the fuzzy panda or the nascent heartthrob. (Just search online for the images.)

Elvis was to have another interaction with pandas of the stuffed variety. In December 1957, he had a “date” with 8-year-old Mary Kosloski, the national March of Dimes poster girl. A photograph exists of Elvis and Mary sitting on the stairs at Graceland surrounded by . . . stuffed pandas. The plush toys were purchased by Elvis to be auctioned as a fundraiser for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Elvis may have sung about teddy bears, but he obviously had a thing for panda bears. (He also had a dead twin, just like the new panda.)

In their day, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley were polarizing figures. Their legacies are controversial. But we must not forget that one brought us unforgettable music. The other opened the door to China. Together, they brought us giant pandas. Let us honor that legacy. Let us name the new panda “Elvis.”

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 10:02 p.m. No.18135289   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5304

Mexican authorities have said Penn’s meeting with Guzmán, arranged by the actor Kate del Castillo, helped lead them to the drug baron.

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 10:04 p.m. No.18135301   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://twitter.com/samanthapeszek/status/1611929895839453184

This is actually so scary and disturbing and cringey. I’m embarrassed for them…

Anonymous ID: 56eabe Jan. 12, 2023, 10:13 p.m. No.18135341   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5348 >>5353 >>5363

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-ufo-report-number-incidents-reported-increasing/story?id=96389000

New UFO report shows hundreds more incidents than previously thought

More than 500 incidents are now being looked at by the U.S. government

The U.S. intelligence community said Thursday that the number of UFO reports involving U.S. military personnel is increasing, "enabling a greater awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve" what is actually being reported.

Roughly half of the new incidents reported in the report had terrestrial explanations, the report said.

The increase in reporting is being partially attributed to the continuing effort to destigmatize the reporting of such incidents and focusing on the potential safety risks they could pose to U.S. personnel.

The report released Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that since its first June 2021 unclassified report on what are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), it is now aware of 510 such reports.

That is significantly more than the 144 incidents reviewed in the initial report, only one of which could be explained.

The new report said the Pentagon's new office looking at UAP reports has looked at 366 new reported incidents and initially determined that about half of them have "unremarkable characteristics."

Twenty-six are being attributed to drones, 163 characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities, and six are attributed to clutter.

The report says these initial assessments do "not mean positively resolved or unidentified" but will aid investigators in trying to determine how to explain "the remaining 171 uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports" some of which "appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis."

 

Video footage released by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science purportedly shows pilots observing a UFO while aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft.