Riley Williams thought he won a sweepstakes contest. Instead, his life changed in the negative direction when he lost $100,000 and almost a lot more. Williams, 81, a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer from Knoxville, Tenn., who has Parkinson’s and dementia, was scammed out of a reported $100,000 after he gave repeated batches of money to a scammer who claimed he had won a prize but needed to pay taxes to receive it, according to local news outlet WATE. The scam started when Williams received a call in January from an individual claiming to be called David Martin, who…
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Rasmus Midgett was patrolling the North Carolina coast during a hurricane when he heard voices somewhere beyond the dark surf. The barkentine Priscilla, a type of sailing ship with three or more masts, had run aground and begun breaking apart; its wooden hull splintering and collapsing under the pounding surf. Ten survivors remained aboard. Midgett was alone, and returning to the Gull Shoal Life-Saving Station for help would cost several hours they might not have. Instead, he went into the water. Midgett directed seven men to jump from the wreck one at a time, catching them as the waves carried…
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Support us! GearJunkie may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More Any piece of gear has its fans and its detractors — and that includes the magnetic carabiner launched by Black Diamond back in 2012. But in the case of the Magnetron, the “fans” just happen to include some of the greatest climbers of all time. It’s the favorite locking carabiner of Free Solo‘s Alex Honnold, and an example of “perfect engineering,” according to British crusher Hazel Findlay. An auto-locking carabiner that uses magnets instead of screw gates, the Magnetron is also prized for its light…
I wish I could say I was surprised, but I’m not. While I enjoyed all the time I ever spent in the city of Chicago, that was when I was 20 and loved the overall excitement of such a famous city. It was also not something I’d want to repeat now, even without all the crime, but the crime certainly doesn’t help. Neither does the gun control that was supposed to stop all that crime. Obviously, it hasn’t. Despite decades of anti-gun efforts by Illinois lawmakers, mostly from Chicago itself, the gun laws have not done…
The U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel has referred charges against a doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of individuals over an approximate five-year period. On Aug. 3, charges were referred against Major. Blaine McGraw, an obstetrician gynecologist who was assigned to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Ford Hood, Texas. His case includes nine total charges and 272 specifications that are alleged to have occurred on various occasions between 2021 and 2026. There are 93 total alleged victims. His charges are as follows: 91 specifications of abusive sexual contact and sexual assault. One specification of attempted…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLet’s be blunt—your mind is under attack. Not just by algorithms or platforms, but with encouragement from state actors, media networks, and other interests with something to gain by using us. Code. Curated chaos. The attention economy and psyop campaigns thrive on outrage, fear, and distraction, and you’re the product. Every angry scroll, every anxious click, every late-night doom-dive, every bit of influence gained over you? That’s more money and control in someone else’s pocket. And the cost to you? Clarity. Sanity. The ability to focus on what matters most. That feeling of overwhelm,…
Lithium-ion batteries power our lights, thermals, tools, cameras, and phones, but when they fail, they can fail violently. After one friend lost a house and my brother nearly lost his, I stopped treating battery storage like an afterthought. Lithium-ion batteries power everything from flashlights to power tools, but safe storage often gets overlooked until disaster strikes. We rely on lithium-ion batteries every day. They power our thermal scopes, flashlights, trail cameras, cordless tools, battery banks, and even the phones in our pockets. However, after seeing one house destroyed and another nearly burned down from lithium batteries, I take battery storage…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Hezbollah militant group agreed Friday to stop attacking each other, officials said, after talks between the U.S. and Iran were called off because of intense fighting in southern Lebanon that deepened doubts about the initial agreement to end the war in Iran. The apparent truce emerged after a heavy exchange of fire killed at least 47 people in southern Lebanon and four Israeli soldiers. Word of the attempt to halt the fighting came from two regional officials and a U.S. official. It was mediated by Qatar, the U.S. and Iran, the regional officials said.…
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDisaster strikes. The grid goes dark. Infrastructure stops. Your kid goes from eating waffles on the couch to hauling buckets of water up the stairs. Your spouse is trying to cook dinner on a camp stove while rationing batteries. And you’re looking around, trying to figure out how to keep everyone moving forward when the world just hit the pause button. That’s the kind of shift families face in any serious disaster — whether it’s a hurricane grinding the coast or a blackout with no end in sight. And it doesn’t just test your…
As if to say to the United States that it has no control over Israel whatsoever, West Jerusalem is continuing to pound Lebanon. The strikes come in spite of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not signed the MoU. This begs the question: Should Israel be tied to whatever the US does? Or is it its own sovereign state? It seems to be proving the latter as Trump signs what amounted to a surrender deal with Iran, and the American public is sold a victory they…
The automobile has been in development for over 140 years to get to where we are. On a global scale, we suspect a graph of development would show a gradual curve upward, even through the 1970s when things got a little rocky for the automotive industry. The reason we believe the 1980s became the most important decade for cars is because just about every technology that could be applied to a car took a big step forward in this period. At the same time, many automakers were doing well enough financially that they could spend money on research and development,…
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