A woman wound up in critical condition at a hospital after she was dragged across a Costco parking lot when thieves grabbed her purse after a shopping trip‚ police say. The 37-year-old woman was putting away her groceries in the City of Industry on Sunday at about 6:45 p.m. when two men pulled up in an SUV‚ according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.One of the men jumped out and grabbed her purse‚ but she refused to let go. She said that he punched her numerous times. Deputy Miguel Meza told KNBC-TV that the woman was dragged between 40 and 50 feet from the suspect's car while trying to hold on to her purse. The woman suffered a facial fracture‚ abrasions‚ and lacerations to her scalp‚ but she is expected to survive. She said that she was with two friends but that none of them suspected she was going to be targeted by the thieves. Police said the incident happened in a spot of the parking lot with little light‚ so it is difficult to identify the men from surveillance video. The two men are believed to have broken into another car in the same parking lot‚ according to investigators. Police are asking for help from the public to identify the two suspects who were driving a dark-colored Infiniti QX60 SUV.“I hope there is a witness‚” the victim said to KTLA from her hospital bed. Brian DeSoto‚ a resident who lives nearby‚ said the neighborhood used to be nice but had become more dangerous in recent years. "If you are elderly or frail‚ you need to be cognizant of the potential problem that someone may be targeting you as a victim‚ especially if you’re wearing expensive jewelry if you’re driving an expensive car‚" said DeSoto.Here's a local news report about the incident: Costco purse snatching victim in critical condition after being dragged www.youtube.com Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger‚ who turned 100 years old earlier this year‚ passed away at his Connecticut residence on Wednesday‚ according to a Kissinger Associates‚ Inc. press release.Kissinger served as secretary of state during a portion of Republican President Richard Nixon's White House tenure and then under President Gerald Ford after Nixon resigned.Kissinger was born in Germany in 1923‚ but his Jewish family immigrated to the U.S. in 1938‚ according to history.state.gov‚ which noted that Kissinger's name‚ which had been Heinz‚ was switched to Henry. "During World War II‚ Kissinger became a naturalized citizen and served in the U.S. Army as a German interpreter‚" the government website notes."As a refugee from Nazi Germany‚ he had lost 13 family members and countless friends to the Holocaust. He returned to his native Germany as an American soldier‚ participating in the liberation of the Ahlem concentration camp near Hannover‚" Kissinger's son David wrote of his father in a Washington Post piece posted earlier this year. "He has an unquenchable curiosity that keeps him dynamically engaged with the world. His mind is a heat-seeking weapon that identifies and grapples with the existential challenges of the day. In the 1950s‚ the issue was the rise of nuclear weapons and their threat to humanity. About five years ago‚ as a promising young man of 95‚ my father became obsessed with the philosophical and practical implications of artificial intelligence‚" David Kissinger wrote.GOP Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida described Kissinger as "a patriot who lived a life of great consequence."Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina described Kissinger as "a man of keen insight and sage advice; the gold standard for foreign policy."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Monica Lewinsky has written a piece advocating for several amendments to the U.S. Constitution.One of her suggestions is to scrap the Electoral College system that is used for electing the president. "The most fundamental underpinning of a democracy is the fact that those who govern are chosen through free and fair elections. Especially heads of state. The Electoral College ain't it‚" she claimed.She also supports age and term limits for elected leaders."Not to be ageist‚ but there should also be a retirement age for elected officials as well as term limits‚ especially when you consider that long-term decisions can impact the citizens‚ the nation‚ and the world for years after you've served your time in office‚" she wrote. She also pointed to polling that indicates strong public support for upper age limits for elected officials and Supreme Court justices.Lewinski also believes there should be security clearance checks for individuals to be eligible to hold office. "In my view‚ you should not be able to have your name on any presidential or US congressional ballot if you can't pass a rigorous security clearance‚" she noted.Lewinski declared that "presidents should not be able to pardon themselves" and suggested that pardons of relatives "should be subject to some sort of bipartisan congressional mechanism."She also advocated for "amendments such as the long-languishing Equal Rights Amendment‚ along with one that would reassert a woman's right to reproductive freedom.""The Constitution cannot be suspended. Full Stop. Even if the country is under martial law‚" she also wrote.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Archaeologists excavating the ancient Wari site of Pachacámac near Lima‚ Peru‚ have unearthed 73 intact mummy bundles‚ some of them with “false heads‚” masks made of wood or ceramic. They date to the second half of the Middle Horizon period‚ between 800 and 1100 A.D.‚ a period when the Wari Empire was expanding in territory and political power. The burials were found in a complex of cemeteries from different periods at the foot of the Inca-era Painted Temple. The cemetery complex was first discovered in the late 19th century by German archaeologist Max Uhle. They had been widely damaged in the “extirpation of the idolatries” during the colonial period and would be repeatedly looted after Uhle’s excavation. The discovery of 73 undamaged burials is therefore of great archaeological significance. The team focused on excavating an area where a high wall of adobe bricks built in the Inca and colonial periods had collapsed. They deduced that any burials at the foot of the wall might have been protected by the heavy piles of bricks deterring looters. They were right. The burials include people of both sexes. The earliest ones were buried individually. Later ones were buried in groups. The bundles are in excellent condition‚ with organic materials including finely-woven multi-colored patterned textiles‚ carved wooden masks‚ elaborately knotted ropes and human remains in an exceptional state of preservation. Two wooden staffs depicting Wari deities were found next to the cemetery covered with a layer of Spondydus princeps shells imported from Ecuador. The style of these staff is comparable to the famous cult image known as the ‘idol of Pachacámac’. This wooden carving depicts two deities standing on a high pedestal. Each of them looks towards the other like the Roman Janus‚ but the two figures are clearly joined back to back and each has a different character‚ i.e. a celestial aspect versus a telluric aspect‚ and are possibly also of different sexes. Stylistically‚ the idol is closer to the iconography known from the Castillo de Huarmey‚ among other places‚ than from the Wari religious centres at Ayacucho. The team’s findings contradict the previous understanding of Pachacámac history. It was not‚ as historians have posited‚ a sacred city from the construction of the Old Temple during by the Lima culture ca. 200 A.D. through the arrival of the Spanish. During the Wari Empire‚ it was not the monumental sacred site that was one of the most important in the central Andes. That only happened after it was absorbed in the Inca Empire. The results of the research to date indicate that during the Wari Empire period‚ specifically between 800 and 1100 AD‚ Pachacámac had the character of a settlement‚ with a ceremonial platform. This platform is currently hidden under the rubble and terraces of the Painted Temple from the Inca period. The cemetery uncovered by Professor Makowski’s excavations does not have the character of an elite necropolis as suggested by Uhle. It is instead comparable to the Ancón site‚ which was the burial place of fishermen‚ from the part of the coast between the Chancay and Chillón valleys both during the Wari Empire and in later periods. Due to the state of preservation and the precision of the documentation of the context of the finds at the time of excavation‚ as well as the laboratory analyses‚ the burial assemblages uncovered are a veritable goldmine of information on the social position of men‚ women and children according to kinship ties‚ the care of invalids‚ indicators of war and domestic violence. Nineteen of the bundles‚ with their lower part preserved and an intact structure‚ could be transferred to the laboratory in their entirety in order to document them three-dimensionally using CT scanning without having to be opened.

Henry Kissinger‚ one of the most dominant figures of the Watergate and Vietnam War eras‚ has died. The Wall Street Journal:Former presidential adviser Henry Kissinger has died‚ according to a statement…