All posts tagged: Sucking

California man gets 6 years in prison after breaking into woman’s house and sucking her toes

Published by Sam Flores

A California man has been sentenced to more than 6 years in prison after breaking into a woman’s house and sucking her toes, according to officials. Cristian Solorio, a 28-year-old from Modesto, was convicted of stalking and breaking into a residence with the intent to commit a sex act, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office announced on Facebook last Friday. Solorio first saw the unnamed woman at her workplace in February 2025 and “immediately became obsessed with her,” the DA’s office said. He would show up at her job multiple times a day, loitering outside as he waited to approach her when she left, according to prosecutors. Solorio asked the woman out multiple times and sent her a letter in which he said he “wanted to take her to Mexico,” the DA’s office said. He harassed the woman for several weeks and learned where she lived, according to prosecutors. On the night of May 21, 2025, he went to her house, and after her father left the home, he broke in, the DA’s office said. …

Iran’s Azeris fear ethnic strife, sucking Turkey and Azerbaijan into the war

Published by Sam Flores

Over the past few months, Ehsan Hosseinzadeh, like many Iranians in the diaspora, had come to believe a foreign military intervention was necessary to help his people oust an Islamic regime that was oppressing and massacring innocent civilians. But a week after Israel and the US launched a war in his home country, the 38-year-old refugee in France is worried about the conflict dragging in regional powers – to the detriment of Iran and its citizens. Hosseinzadeh has every reason to fear a conflagration erupting along ethnic, religious and civilizational fault lines that could rip open the wounds of history in an ancient land. Born in Urmia – a city in the northwestern extremity of Iran that shares borders with Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iraq – Hosseinzadeh understands a thing or two about the explosive mix of identity and grievance. An ethnic Azeri (also called Azerbaijani and Azerbaijani-Turkish in Iran) Hosseinzadeh belongs to the largest minority community, constituting around 24% of Iran’s 93 million population. His birthplace is also home to a significant Kurdish population, …

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Mosquitoes are undeniably the deadliest animals to humans. Malaria infections carried by the insects still kill over 600,000 people every year, while around half the world’s population remains at risk of exposure despite significant medical advances. Meanwhile, mosquito saliva regularly spreads a number of other dangerous diseases including West Nile virus, dengue fever, and various forms of encephalitis. Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s roughly 3,500 known mosquito species. So when and why did humans fall prey to such a pernicious threat? Based on recent genetic analysis, the deadly saga started when early hominins migrated into Southeast Asia around 1.8 million years ago. The evidence is detailed in an international research team’s study published today in the journal Scientific Reports. To investigate the issue, biologists sequenced DNA from 38 mosquitoes spanning 11 different species in the Leucosphyrus …

Prediction Markets Are Sucking Huge Numbers of Young People Into Gambling

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Gambling has taken over the country. But it’s not just sports betting that’s emptying wallets. Now, the rise of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi to bet on almost any conceivable outcome, ranging from presidential elections to military interventions to celebrity dramas to the return of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. The nature of the wagers open up whole new avenues of insider trading and other dishonest practices. Take, for example, the Polymarket bet on the number of tweets Elon Musk will make between February 6 and February 13, which currently has nearly $15 million worth of bets placed. What’s stopping Musk from seeing this and telling a friend how much he’s going to tweet? The answer: practically nothing — hence the numerous scandals that have already emerged over this clear vulnerability. Just as nefarious is that prediction markets have perfected a wildly addictive formula, especially among young, inexperienced bettors. Part of the appeal is that instead of betting against the house, these platforms claim, …

“The Giant Sucking Sound”: Exodus From California Continues For Taxpayers & Businesses

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is virtually chasing taxpayers and companies out of the state with a massive state deficit, rising taxes, crippling regulations, and wasteful programs. Recently, Gavin Newsom boasted, “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world — we’re setting the pace.” Recent data shows he is right. There is a record number of U-Hauls fleeing the state — more than any other state. Indeed, the only thing harder to find than a wealthy taxpayer in California appears to be a U-Haul. According to U-Haul’s data, the state is again leading blue states in the exodus. The Washington Post noted this week that “California came in last. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and New Jersey rounded out the bottom five. Of the bottom 10, seven voted blue …

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