Thieves Run Over Cop With Motorcycles After Robbing Jewelry Story Of $1 Million

Story out of London, England:

The thugs were trying to flee luxury jewellery shop Chronext in Mayfair, central London, after the daring raid on August 3 when they knocked down a Met detective.

Dramatic footage shows them pulling up onto the pavement outside the upmarket watch store on scooters before breaking through the front door and smashing at the jewellery counters.

They shouted  “don’t f****** move” at staff as they targeted millions of pounds worth of Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Patak Phillippe watches.

Plain-clothed officers had been lying in wait for the gang and can be seen in the footage chasing them out of the store armed with batons and Tasers.

The gang attempted to flee on their mopeds but DC Richard Watson, a 43-year-old Met Flying Squad detective, was left seriously injured with head wounds, broken ribs, a broken fibula and a bleed on the brain after being hit by a scooter ridden by Kavanagh.

All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob at Blackfriars Crown Court while Kavanagh admitted causing injury by dangerous driving and Hopkins admitted unlawful wounding with reckless intent. Cont.

Story from - The Sun

"Fake Love Scam" - Scam Artist Tricks 92-Year-Old Man Out Of Life Savings

Story out of Cook County, Illinois:

It’s called the “Fake Love Scam,” and it’s heartbreaking.

Younger people woo and even marry elderly victims and then strip them of everything they have.

The public guardian’s office alleged in court filings that Sophie Miller got Aloysius Mack, 92, to pay $80,000 for a now-shuttered laundromat business. Mack also bought her a $40,000 van and put her on his bank accounts totaling about $335,000.  And she got him to change his will so she would inherit Mack’s Schaumburg home valued at $260,000.

“She scammed me,” Mack says. “And the worst thing of all she stole my hard-earned life savings.”

Mack’s great-niece was appointed his guardian this week and a protection order was entered prohibiting Sophie Miller from contacting him. The Public Guardian’s Office was able to get back $40,000 of the $80,000 he paid for the laundromat.

Now attorneys are trying to get the marriage annulled so they can undo all the legal documents Mack signed tying his finances to her. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Man Sues Krispy Kreme For $5 Million Over Missing Fruit

This is no Mini lawsuit, I'm sure the company can poke Holes into the case and then just let it Fritter away. The claimant will walk away with a Glazed look on his face.

Story out of Los Angeles, California:

Jason Saidian, of Los Angeles, filed a suit in a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday, accusing the popular donut chain of 'false and misleading business practices'.

He claims Krispy Kreme's 'Chocolate Iced Raspberry Filled,' 'Glazed Raspberry Filled,' 'Maple Bar,' and 'Glazed Blueberry Cake' products don't actually contain real raspberries, maple or blueberries but use 'nutritionally inferior ingredients.'

He claims that other Krispy Kreme products, such as the firm's Glazed Lemon Filled and Glazed Strawberry Filled doughnuts, do contain real fruit.

Stacy Pincus from Chicago filed papers in federal court claiming the company is engaged in false advertising and consumer fraud as it was making customers overpay for the hand-blended iced coffee, teas and other drinks because up to half of the product contains ice. Cont.

Story from - Daily Mail

Shoes.com Removes Ivanka Trump's Products After #GrabYourWallet Gains Momentum

It seems everyone disappointed with the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election has their own way of voicing their displeasure.

Some have participated in full-blown, nationwide protests. Others are wearing safety pins as a sense of solidarity for those who feel vulnerable to a Donald Trump presidency.

The latest protest involves a boycott of businesses that support companies allegedly associated with President-Elect Trump. The campaign has been picking up steam on social media via the hashtag #GrabYourWallet. There's even a spreadsheet listing the nearly 50 businesses that should be boycotted.

Marketing strategist Shannon Coulter began the movement in late October with a boycott of Ivanka Trump's clothing line. It has since expanded to included businesses like Macy's, Amazon, Forbes.com, NASCAR, HSN, Nordstrom, Zappos and more.

Shoes.com was on the list, but has since removed Trump products from its site after the boycott began. Cont.

Story from - Cleveland.com

After Getting Stuck In Bath, Woman Starts Crowdfunder To Have Breast Reduction

She shouldn't have used the Booble Bath.

A woman who struggled to get in and out of bed and once got stuck in a bath because of her HH breasts has started a crowdfunder to have them reduced.

Kya Granito said she had been forced to start the fundraiser because it was affecting her life.

She said that her breasts continue to grow causing her back ache. She also said they are constantly tender and cause her to hunch because of their weight.

Launching the £8,000 fundraiser she said: ‘I can’t afford a bra cause they’ve gotten so big, I’m getting new clothes every two weeks cause my breasts out grow them every time, my back is in so much distress that I can’t move out of my bed sometimes or get off the sofa and few times I’ve been stuck in the bath cause of them, but apparently according to the doctors they’re ‘not’ affecting my life.’

The problem has become so bad it has affected her mental health.

She added: ‘I suffer with desperation and anxiety and my breast [sic] have made it ten times worse, I have low self esteem cause of them, a lot of the time I don’t go out the house because of them, my grooves in my shoulders from bra straps are so bad they’ve made me bleed a few times with it loose.’

‘I would be very grateful and I would be able to live a life where don’t have to worry about getting up or going out and being able to play with my brothers and sisters and be able to exercise again. You’re donation will be helping tremendously.’ Cont.

Story from - Metro

Man Found Guilty Of Smuggling $165,000 Worth Of Gold Pucks Up His Applebottom

God, this story is so Canadian. He keeps setting off the metal detectors and they continue to let him through.

I'm just glad he didn't try to cram them all up there at the same time.

Story out of Ottawa, Ontario:

A former Royal Canadian Mint employee has been found guilty of smuggling $165,000 worth of gold from the building on Sussex Drive — apparently in his rectum, an Ottawa judge ruled Wednesday morning.

Leston Lawrence "clearly had the opportunity" to steal the gold because he often worked alone and the security cameras would not have caught him slipping gold pucks into his pocket, Justice Peter Doody ruled.

"His locker contained Vaseline and latex gloves, which could have been used to insert a puck into his rectum," he ruled, adding that there were no cameras in the locker room.

Lawrence set off the mint's walk-through metal detectors more than any other employee without a metal implant — 28 times between December 2014 and March 2015, court heard. But when a secondary check with handheld detectors failed to alert guards to the gold, Lawrence was able to leave with it each time, Doody found.

Though there was no video evidence of Lawrence stealing the gold from the mint, Lawrence was found guilty of the theft of 22 gold "pucks" worth $165,000, and laundering 18 of them via Ottawa Gold Buyers.

Experts analyzed the gold pucks, and found that they matched the purity of gold at the mint (albeit a little ripe). The pucks were identical in diameter to those produced at the mint, and fit (ha) the ladle used exclusively by the mint perfectly, Doody's decision detailed. Cont.

Story from - CBC News

Insurance Company Pays Out 8$ Instead Of $50,000 For 12-Year-Old Girl's Traumatic Eye Injury

Story out of North Vancouver, BC:

The mother of a 12-year-old girl who suffered a traumatic eye injury playing soccer is angry that her insurance company won't pay out because it says the injury isn't sufficiently severe.

Emily Laprise took a ball in the eye during a game in North Vancouver last fall.

She remembers falling to the ground, screaming in pain.

"I was telling them, 'I can't see anything! I can't see anything!'" Laprise said.

The ball detached the retina in her left eye and tore a hole in the retinal lining.

A surgeon was able to reattach the retina, but the hole remains.

Nancy Desrosiers, Emily's mother bought accident insurance from Industrial Alliance, the fourth largest insurance company in Canada.

But when Desrosiers submitted her claim, it was denied.

The insurance giant says even though Laprise only sees black in the bottom half of her vision, she can wear strong prescription glasses to eliminate blurry, double vision in the upper field, so she doesn't qualify for coverage.

All players with the BC Soccer Association are covered under a sport accident policy, administered by Crawford & Company.

Last week, Desrosiers learned her daughter will receive $15,000 for "irrecoverable loss of sight in one eye."

The payout, says Desrosiers, is "bittersweet," but she's grateful the claim was handled without dispute. Cont.

Story from - CBC News

Trump Super-PAC Funneling Money To Rudy Giuliani's Law Firm

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Rudy Giuliani $563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

The PAC, originally called Keep the Promise 1, supported Ted Cruz before shifting to Donald Trump after he secured the Republican nomination this spring. It began paying Bracewell & Giuliani for legal and compliance services in June of 2015, making $336,495 in payments until February 14, 2016. It stopped using Bracewell a couple of weeks after Giuliani left the firm in January.

In May, on the 12th, the PAC retained Giuliani’s new firm, Greenberg & Traurig, initially paying $99,470 for legal and compliance services. In June, the PAC changed its name and aligned itself squarely with Trump. On its website, the group described itself as “supporting conservative principles, upholding the rule of law, and opposing ethically challenged candidates… It’s (sic) first special project entitled, ‘Defeat Crooked Hillary’, will shed light on what the Clinton’s (sic) want to keep in the dark.”

While his firm has been on the PAC payroll, Giuliani has been fanning the flames of every Clinton controversy. But he has made it clear that he thinks the Clinton Foundation issues are the worst, saying on Fox this week: “This was the one I always thought was clearer.” Invoking his history as a federal prosecutor, Giuliani said he could make a case against the Clintons on the foundation “in two months.” The foundation has long been a fixation of the Mercers as well. They fund the Bannon-led non-profit Government Accountability Institute whose president, Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” an innuendo-strewn book about the foundation that apparently became fodder for a probe initiated by FBI agents from the New York office earlier this year. Rebekah Mercer serves on the Institute’s board and co-produced, with David Bossie, the longtime head of Citizens United, a documentary based on the book that was released just before the Democratic National Convention. Cont.

Story from - The Daily Beast

Richard Branson Reveals Meeting Trump Where All He Would Talk About Were His Enemies

Trump's enemy list:
- Literature
- Tanning Spray Removal
- Women Under 35
- Women 
- Microphones
- Human Thought
- People Who Were Captured
- Gold Star Families
- Busy Ties
- Salad

Some years ago, Mr Trump invited me to lunch for a one-to-one meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. We had not met before and I accepted. Even before the starters arrived he began telling me about how he had asked a number of people for help after his latest bankruptcy and how five of them were unwilling to help. He told me he was going to spend the rest of his life destroying these five people.

He didn’t speak about anything else and I found it very bizarre. I told him I didn’t think it was the best way of spending his life. I said it was going to eat him up, and do more damage to him than them. There must be more constructive ways to spend the rest of your life. (Hopefully my advice didn’t lead to him running for President!)

I left the lunch feeling disturbed and saddened by what I’d heard. There are a lot of frightening things about this election; not least that policy has been pushed so far down the agenda. What concerns me most, based upon my personal experiences with Donald Trump, is his vindictive streak, which could be so dangerous if he got into the White House. For somebody who is running to be the leader of the free world to be so wrapped up in himself, rather than concerned with global issues, is very worrying. Cont.

Story from - Virgin

New York City Controller Can't Find Evidence Found Trump Gave To 9/11 Families

In an exclusive interview with New York City Controller Scott Stringer, it was revealed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may not have actually given to any 9/11 charities after all.

According to a New York Daily News interview, Stringer revealed that records show Trump pledged $10,000 to a major 9/11 charity but the donation never surfaced. Previously, Trump claimed he gave generously to help the city. This confirms claims that were made in November 2015 made by the Smoking Gun blog that Trump never actually donated anything.

The donation was part of a fundraising effort Howard Stern was pushing in the months that followed the attack. Audio recordings of Stern’s interview with Trump October 10, 2001 (below) confirms that he and co-host Robin Quivers thanked Trump for his $10,000 pledge.

There is no evidence that Trump gave, at least in the year following the attacks. According to their office, there was a review period that covered the year that followed September 11, 2001, and they were unable to conclude Trump gave to either of the funds he claimed he donated to.

The Daily News obtained every 990 Forms from the Donald J. Trump Foundation from 2001 and 2014 and it proves there are no donations from the foundation. There was a $1,000 donation in 2006 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, but that group was using sketchy scientific methods approved by the “Church” of Scientology to hep rescue workers. In April 2016, Trump’s foundation did donate $100,000 to the 9/11 Museum, but that was after he stopped giving money to his foundation and was requesting donations from others to his foundation.

Trump also previously claimed that he received $150,000 from a government fund designed to help businesses recover after 9/11. While that is true, Trump claimed it was reimbursement for his help for the 9/11 victims he said he took into his nearby building at 40 Wall Street. He also bragged that his building was now the tallest since the towers fell. Cont.

Story from - Raw Story

Linda McMahon, WWE Co-Founder, Head Of Women's Leadership LIVE, Gave Trump Campaign $6 Million

Linda McMahon, co-founder of the professional wrestling franchise WWE and a former Republican Senate candidate from Connecticut, infused a super PAC supporting Donald Trump with $6 million in August and September, new campaign finance filings show.

The donations from McMahon made up nearly one-third of the nearly $18 million that Rebuilding America Now pulled in during the last quarter. She made five separate contributions, giving a final $1 million on Sept. 22.

The latest donations make Linda McMahon one of the GOP presidential nominee's biggest outside benefactors — a somewhat surprising development, since she has been critical of his rhetoric in the past. During the GOP primary contest, she told Yahoo's Katie Couric that she was offended by Trump's disparaging comments of women, calling them “deplorable.”

“He’s not helping, certainly, to put women in the best light,” said McMahon, who now oversees Women's Leadership LIVE, a company that seeks to promote women in business. “Maybe he regrets them, maybe he doesn’t. I realize he punches hard when he punches back, but that’s just over the top.”

Even with McMahon's backing, Rebuilding America Now and other pro-Trump super PACs are still vastly outmatched by the dominant super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton.

Priorities USA Action, which is run by top Clinton aides, raised $132 million through the end of August, including $21.7 million that month. Meanwhile, nine pro-Trump groups pulled in $33.5 million during the past three months. Cont.

Story from - Washington Post

"Done. Over." - Mark Cuban Says Of Trump As No One Is Frequenting Trump's New DC Hotel

Story out of Washington, DC:

It’s now pretty clear that Donald Trump has been using his presidential campaign to promote his various business ventures. Remember when he touted his Turnberry, Scotland, golf course as a beneficiary of Great Britain’s exit from the European Union this summer? But if Trump hoped his campaign would elevate the value of his brand, it looks like just the opposite is happening.

Trump’s biggest disaster of the campaign — the revelations of a lewd tape in which he boasted about sexually accosting women — has led critics to throw more shade on his businesses. Fellow celebrity-billionaire Mark Cuban tweeted this on Friday night:

"Every single @realDonaldTrump hotel and golf course is toast. Done. Over. Bernie Madoff now has a better brand." — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 8, 2016

He might not be wrong. Take Trump’s latest, most lavish venture: the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., which has become a focal point for grievances against the unconventional Republican presidential candidate.

The 263-room five-star hotel in the historic Old Post Office building opened last month. But even with a prime location near the White House, swanky interiors, and aggressive promotion by the candidate himself, empty rooms have forced the hotel to reduce rates during a peak season. At the same time, the hotel has lost two planned restaurants, Hispanic employees are making claims of discrimination, and protesters are gearing up to do whatever they can to cause trouble for the hotel. Cont.

Story from - New York Magazine

Buyers Remorse - Two Big-Money Donors Demand Money Back From Orange Faced Goon

Two big-money donors who have given or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump are livid at the Republican presidential nominee and are asking for their money back, according to a bundler who raised money for Trump.

"I cannot express my disappointment enough regarding the recent events surrounding Mr. Trump," one donor wrote to a Trump fundraiser in an email with the subject line "Trump support withdrawal."

"I regret coming to the Trump support event, and in particular allowing my son to be a part of it," the donor, who had given to and raised money for Trump, said. "I respectfully request that my money be refunded."

The donor has buyer's remorse after the release of a vulgar videotape last Friday that reveals Trump describing unwanted sexual advances on women.

A second donor also requested his money be returned because he is "mortified" over the leaked videotape, according to another email obtained by NBC News.

"I can not (sic) support a sexist man. I have three young children and will not support a crude sexist man," the second donor wrote. "I expect a refund of my donation. Please process immediately and I thank you for your help."

The fundraiser, or "bundler," who collected the donations said that the two donors together have contributed or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Trump. Bundlers, common in major party presidential campaigns, are supporters who tap into their own networks to raise money for a candidate.

This bundler, who says he has raised close to $1 million for Trump, said he, too, is fed up with the nominee and has informed the Trump Victory fundraising leaders that he's done raising money for the candidate. Cont. (Video)

Story from - NBC News

“It Was Just Completely Demeaning” - Black Architect Has To Prove To Bank She Works For Company To Deposit Cheque

Story out of Washington, DC:

Trish Doolin’s story gained traction when her friend Sugar (who declined to give her last name for safety reasons) took a screenshot of Doolin’s Facebook status describing her experience at a KeyBank branch in Kirkland and tweeted it.

"Pls. RT When you're 1 of a handful of Black female architects EVER and you try to cash your payroll check @keybank."  — bald headed Sug (@whoissugar)

Doolin, a job captain of architecture at design firm Nelson, Inc., told BuzzFeed News that she had just moved to Seattle a few weeks ago and stopped at KeyBank on Wednesday morning to deposit her paycheck.

Nelson had recently moved to Washington, Doolin said, and employees’ direct-deposit service hadn’t taken effect yet.

“I went in, deposited my check, and went about my day,” the 37-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, native said.

A few minutes later, the banker called her, told her there had been a problem with her check, and asked her to return to the bank.

Doolin said she was taken into a cubicle and noticed when she sat down that the bank teller — whom she described as white — had already pulled up her design firm’s website on his computer.

“He asked my profession, and then asked why the company’s headquarters were in Philadelphia,” she said. “Then he asked if HR could verify that I was an employee there.”

As he dialed her company, Doolin said he “kept saying it was for the bank’s safety,” adding that at no point did he ask for her ID.

When her company didn’t answer the phone, the man proceeded to tell Doolin that because her account had not been open for 30 days, the bank had to hold her paycheck for nine days to verify the funds.

“When I realized that I was defending who I was, trying to prove to someone I didn’t know who I was, I knew I was being discriminated against,” she said. “It was just completely demeaning.” Cont.

Story from - BuzzFeed

Trump Lied So Much In The 1990s His Bankruptcy Lawyers Had To Talk To Him In Pairs

Donald Trump’s own bankruptcy lawyers testified that they had a policy of not meeting with the real estate mogul alone because he had a “problem” of constantly lying.

On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published thousands of pages of court filings from three of Trump’s bankruptcies in the 1990s. Twitter user @nycsouthpaw highlighted several pages from the Trump Plaza depositions, which reveal the extraordinary steps Trump’s lawyers took to deal with his tenuous relationship with the truth.

In depo for Trump Plaza bankruptcy case, Trump's own lawyer testifies they often met with him in pairs because Trump lies so much. pic.twitter.com/TdEkdf4ZiB

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 6, 2016

Cont.

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Father Creates Joke GoFundMe Page After Hospital Charges $39 To Hold New Born Baby

Story out of Salt Lake City, Utah:

Ryan Grassley had to pay nearly $40 to hold his baby immediately after the child was born via cesarean section.

The Spanish Fork, Utah father only wanted to share the laugh he and his wife got out of seeing the itemized bill with a $39.35 charge for skin-to-skin time. The practice, viewed to have many benefits, is when a baby’s bare skin is placed against its mother’s to help them bond.

Grassley said on Sept. 4 his son was born at Utah Valley Hospital and the operating room nurse asked if the couple wanted to do skin-to-skin. The baby was cleaned up after the C-section and ready for his moment with mommy.

“The nurse let me hold the baby on my wife's neck/chest,” Grassley, a.k.a. Reddit user halfthrottle, posted. “Even borrowed my camera to take a few pictures for us. Everyone involved in the process was great, and we had a positive experience. We just got a chuckle out of seeing that on the bill.”

Grassley wrote on his GoFundMe page it has been interesting to see the shock from people around the world about the cost of medical procedures in the U.S.

Yes, you read that right. Grassley has set up a tongue-in-cheek GoFundMe account with a fundraising goal of $39.35 to pay off the “ridiculous” fee. He writes any excess money donated will be put toward a vasectomy because, “I never want to go through these sleepless new baby nights again.” Cont.

Story from - KUTV
Photo from - Imgur

Update - He's up to $120, go help him get that vasectomy... or not.

Trump's Company Violated US Embargo Against Cuba (Because Of He Course Did)

The embargo was ridiculous to begin with but that stink fish has not found a US law or (or 13-year-old) he doesn't want to violate.

A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after the fact to a charitable effort. (POS)

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami, where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

He did not disclose that, seven months earlier, Trump Hotels already had reimbursed its consultants for the money they spent on their secret business trip to Havana. Cont.

Story from - Newsweek

U.S. Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For Trump's "Yuge" And "Classy" Champagne Jet

Taxpayers are now picking up most of Donald Trump’s air travel costs, unnecessarily spending millions of dollars because he insists on flying aboard his luxury 757 instead of a practical plane.

And because the GOP presidential nominee owns both the company that owns the jetliner and the one that operates it, some percentage of that taxpayer money is likely winding up as profit in Trump’s personal bank account.

The bombastic businessman has often bragged about the comforts of his ride, with its full bedroom, shower and 24-karat gold-plated bathroom fixtures. But because it seats so few passengers, Trump’s Secret Service agents appear to make up more than half of the plane’s flight manifests. And that means taxpayers are now legally required to pick up the majority of its staggering running costs.

Over the first three months of this year, after Trump asked for and received Secret Service protection, the agency’s payments to his campaign accounted for 48 percent of the $1.7 million that it paid Tag Air Inc., the candidate’s company that operates the aging jet.

Politico, which first reported these payments, put the total the Secret Service paid to the Trump campaign at $1.6 million. But a closer look at campaign finance filings shows that the U.S. Secret Service covered more than $2.3 million of the $3.8 million Trump’s campaign has paid Tag Air in 2016.

This lavish spending, though, came at the expense of donors who willingly gave money to Trump. The Secret Service payments to fly on Trump’s glitzy but inefficient plane hit taxpayers, potentially creating problems for him if public anger translates into a drop in support, the Center for Responsive Politics’ Bob Biersack said.

“The issue is that he’s chosen that particular plane,” Biersack said, adding that FEC commissioners likely never contemplated that a candidate would choose such an extravagant mode of transportation. Nor did anyone guess that taxpayers could wind up on the hook if it did happen, Biersack added. “It was never anticipated that the proportion of campaign travelers would be so heavily tilted toward federal officials.” Cont.

Story from - Huffington Post

Hillary Clinton's Health Influencing Mexican Peso

When Hillary gets sick the peso goes down a little. So if that 300 lbs, fast food obsessed, orange Pendejo dies, Mexico will become the richest nation on earth.

Economists have long said that when the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia.

But analysts now say that Hillary Clinton‘s pneumonia has given Mexico’s peso something worse.

The peso broke the psychological barrier of 20 pesos per dollar Monday, and analysts and commentators cite the role of the U.S. presidential campaign.

A Banco Base analysis says the strength of Republican candidate Donald Trump influenced the peso. Mexico newspaper columnist Carlos Loret says Democrat candidate Clinton’s health problems are key.

Trump has been critical of Mexico and the trade agreements its economy relies on.

The U.S. has an outsize influence on Mexico’s economy, buying about 80 per cent of Mexico’s exports. Cont. (Video)

Story from - Global News/CP

Woman Spends $500 Saving Her Pet Gold Fish 'Conquer'

Story out of Brisbane, Australia:

Emma Marsh, 21, of Kuraby, said she rushed her one-year-old fish to Brisbane Bird and Exotics Veterinary Service in Greenslopes after she saw him ingest the pebble and start choking.

“I treat fish like they’re any other pet,” she said.

Veterinarian Emma McMillan said even she was surprised by the size of the pebble Conquer swallowed.

“He is 13g and only 5cm long,” she said. “The pebble was about 8 or 9mm long and was stuck lengthways across the side of his mouth, which is why he couldn’t spit it back out.

Dr. McMillan and her team dripped anaesthetic into Conquer’s water until the goldfish fell asleep, and then tilted his mouth slightly out of the water in order to place forceps into his mouth to dislodge the stubborn pebble.

Ms Marsh said the emergency consultation cost more than $100, with another $400 for the anaesthetic and overnight hospital stay, but Conquer was now doing fine. Cont.

Story from - The Courier Mail