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Rescuers in Thailand are racing against time to get a youth soccer team out of the partially flooded cave where they have been trapped for more than a week as forecasters predict heavy rains in the coming days. (please see full article at the link)

After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write, it should be noted that the Fake News constantly likes to pore over my tweets looking for a mistake. I capitalize certain words only for emphasis, not b/c they should be capitalized!

A bear who couldn't apparently bear the temperatures any longer was recorded lapping up a margarita and hanging in an unheated hot tub at a California home over the weekend -- proving the furry mammals have more in common with humans than science may have taught us. Mark Hough, of Altadena, filmed the encounter Friday afternoon in which the beer was spotted lazing around his jacuzzi. The man told The Associated Press that he mistook the bear climbing a fence into his yard as noise coming from his neighbor's.

The Department of Public Works in San Francisco received no less than four 311 alerts about a “big bag of poo” at the corner of Polk and Cedar streets over the weekend. By Monday, the agency had closed the cases, indicating the feces had been removed. A records search of city’s non-emergency 311 site showed people complaining about it. There’s a “strong smell of feces,” someone wrote to the agency, “there must be a tone of it somewhere nearby.” The complaints abounded also on Reddit, as one user took a photo of what appeared to be “20 pounds of poop”...

“Do you have a Chinese passport?” She stared at me with a cold, calm intensity, clutching my British passport. I took out my Chinese passport and handed it to her through the narrow window. She flipped through its pages. The way she handled it gave me a sudden stomach ache. I sensed something bad was coming. “You know it’s illegal to possess two passports as a Chinese citizen?” she remarked in her even-toned, slightly jarring voice. “Illegal?” I repeated. My surprise was totally genuine. It had never occurred to me that having two passports was against Chinese law. The woman...

In one night alone “vandals” destroyed 185 glass panes at 70 different bus stops across the city of Gothenburg and the nearby municipality of Mölndal. The attacks occurred the weekend before Midsummer day in Sweden and no arrests have been made, according to police, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. The vandals have become known as “shelter breakers”, according to the public transport company, who say the incidents are not uncommon. “Unfortunately, shelter breakers are not at all an unknown phenomenon for us, and it’s not uncommon for a big weekend,” press communications officer for the public transport company Västtrafik Alice Roman...

Liberals are employing the ultimate scare tactic in trying to stave off President Trump’s appointment of the next Supreme Court justice. On this evening’s Hardball, Rob “Meathead” Reiner suggested that if Trump gets his way, women having abortions might be “executed.” Reiner: “The pro-life people think of abortion as murder . . . What is the punishment for murder? It’s either life in prison, or the death penalty. So what are we talking about here? Are we saying that the woman and the doctor both have to be put in jail for the rest of their lives, or executed?” Get...

Everyone has a memory of their favorite toys they grew up with. Which toy or toys do you think every child should grow up without? GI Joes for boys? A doll for girls? what do you think?

Back on June 6, the A's announced that they had signed Edwin Jackson to a Minor League contract. Not a particularly noteworthy move on its face, sure, but longtime readers of Cut4 realized that it put some MLB history within reach: Oakland marked Jackson's 13th organization over 15 big league seasons -- leaving the veteran righty just a phone call away from tying Octavio Dotel's all-time record. Just a few short weeks later, we're pleased to report that the day has finally come: The A's have called Jackson up, and he's now set to take the hill for Oakland's game...

The Department of Justice sent Intel Chairman Devin Nunes a response on Friday night to requests for information from the DOJ and FBI on internal spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, something that is unprecedented in US history. Rep. Nunes warned last week “there will be hell to pay” if the documents are not turned over.

The Red Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in the Shenandoah Valley, has been flooded with mostly one- and five-star Yelp reviews after White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted that the owner had asked her to leave Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump... "Despicable and outlandish behavior. The only thing served here … if they agree to serve you ... is a heaping plate of arrogance and hypocrisy," Yelper Russell H of McKinney, Texas, wrote on Saturday morning in a one-star review.

Until the breathtaking box office failure of Solo, Disney was brimming with plans to fill out the Star Wars universe with standalone stories like Rogue One and Solo. In fact, movies about Obi-Wan Kenobi and the bounty hunter Boba Fett were already in active development. The plan now, according to Collider, is for Lucasfilm to retreat from these standalones to “focus their attention on Star Wars: Episode IX and what the next trilogy of Star Wars films will be after that film.” While it will be nearly impossible to articulate just what a disaster this is for Disney, let me...

It seems that we have a few new technologies that becomes commonplace everywhere, and completely changes the world. Here is roughly what I understand they have been call: Late 50s to late 60s: television, rocketry Late 60s to late 70s: (not sure, handheld calculators and digital watches? Cassette players?) 80s: the use of electronics everywhere, home PCS 90s: internet, pagers, cell phones appear 2000s fast internet, flip phones, digital photography, digital music 2010's: smartphones, social media, digital movies I know those dates are not exact, but pretty close. So what do you think the big technology trends that will change...

Ferry commuters were stunned to see a man in a suit paddleboarding across the Hudson River Thursday morning The man, Scott Holt, tells News 4 he was running late for a meeting so he decided to hop on his paddleboard from Jersey City He made it across in 30 minutes, but was met by a confused cop and an angry ferry captain, he says Sure, it's common in New York City to see men in suits commuting on the subway or in taxis -- but on a paddleboard across the Hudson River? That may be a first. Eunice Rivers was...

A Salinas man is facing 22 years behind bars for robbing a K-Mart at gunpoint.

It’s hard to tell where it truly went wrong for LiAngelo Ball and his father’s master plan. Maybe it was when he left the UCLA basketball team after being arrested in China for shoplifting. Maybe it was when he shot 24.3 percent from three-point range in Lithuania and left the team earlier than expected. Maybe it was when he worked out for only the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in the pre-draft process. Or maybe he was just never good enough at basketball to be drafted, as NBA executives believed. Whatever the case, what happened is that...

Definition of hypocrite 1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion 2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings 3 : see above pics of “Camera” Hogg in NYC

After canceling the comedy following star Roseanne Barr's racist tweet, the Disney-owned network has found a way to move forward with the original cast, creators and likely crew as 'The Conners.' Weeks after its stunning decision to cancel Roseanne, ABC is officially moving forward with a spinoff of TV's current No. 1 series — without controversial star Roseanne Barr. Following aggressive talks with exec producer Tom Werner, the Disney-owned broadcaster has handed out a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for Roseanne spinoff The Conners (working title). The new take, which will also be a multicamera comedy and premiere in the fall, will...

It is clear to anyone with half a brain that the FBI is a corrupt organization that has been the lead agency in an ongoing attempt to lead an Insurrection against the Constitutionally elected President. It is time to dissolve the FBI and reconstitute a new agency that is much less powerful. Also, no lawyers should be appointed to lead the new agency. Only experienced law enforcement officers and preferably former Sheriffs should be hired to lead the new agency. I am sure that many FBI field agents are not part of this Marxist Subversion, but each and every one...

The attractive nuisance doctrine states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on the land that is likely to attract children. The doctrine is designed to protect children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object. For instance, if you have a pool or trampoline in your backyard and a neighborhood child sneaks in to play and is hurt or killed YOU will be found guilty...even if you are the neighborhood grouch that chases kids away from your lawn. The way...