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STATESVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A plane crash at an airport in Iredell County resulted in multiple deaths on Thursday, the sheriff confirmed. The Cessna C550 airplane crashed at Statesville Regional Airport around 10:15 a.m. on Dec. 18. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told CBS News that six people were aboard the plane. It was not immediately clear whether there were any survivors. A picture from the airport showed the plane in a massive ball of flames after it crashed on the runway. Flight tracking records showed a Cessna 550 that took off from Statesville Regional Airport at 10:06 a.m. is...

Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden's biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns A 12-year-old child assassin has been arrested for allegedly shooting the wrong person in a botched £20,000 hit job. ‌ The boy is accused of murdering a 21-year-old man in a drive-by shooting in Malmö, Sweden, last Friday. ‌ Local media reports the child shot the wrong target and was supposed to hit someone else in the vehicle. Police believe the victim was shot while travelling in an Audi with his friends travelling along Galgebacksvägen in the Oxie area at around 10.30pm when...

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. The prestigious Washington, D.C., cultural center’s board of trustees, who were appointed by President Donald Trump in February, “have just voted unanimously” on the name change, Leavitt said in an X post. They did so “because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building,” Leavitt said. “Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be...

Hundreds of new laws are taking effect in California in the new year. Here is a partial list.

New research is pulling back the curtain on how large numbers of kids are using AI companion apps — and what it found is troubling. A new report conducted by the digital security company Aura found that a significant percentage of kids who turn to AI for companionship are engaging in violent roleplays — and that violence, which can include sexual violence, drove more engagement than any other topic kids engaged with. Drawing from anonymized data gathered from the online activity of roughly 3,000 children aged five to 17 whose parents use Aura’s parental control tool, as well as additional...

President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reportedly setting out an ambitious plan to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans who are found to have fraudulently secured the legal status. The denaturalization plan, detailed in The New York Times, will be spearheaded by USCIS Director Joe Edlow and focus on referring 100 to 200 denaturalization cases every month to the agency’s Office of Immigration Litigation. “If the cases are successful, it would represent a massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era, experts said. By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just...

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John Rain @johnthenoticer: Charlie Hebdo is a French left-wing satirical newspaper. You might not remember, but back in 2015, their editorial team was the victim of a terror attack carried out by two North African Islamists, in which 12 people were killed. Ten years later, two Muslim Pakistanis kill Jews on a beach in Australia, and look at who is depicted to illustrate these two Pakistanis in their latest front page: two white people who are disparaging caricatures of working-class French citizens. (In the image, the father says, 'We're going to the beach to k*ll Jews,' and the headline reads...

My dear friend, this Christmas Season, do YOU personally know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? There is great pardon and forgiveness to all that call upon His name (Eph. 2:1-10, 2 Cor. 5:17-21)! As the Day of the Lord approaches ever more closely and man’s plague-laden remedies fail to contain the EXPONENTIAL fiscal and social damage and consequences unleashed today by man’s lawless addictions to the demons released from Pandora’s Box, May Almighty God and the true biblical message of Christmas be your hope, joy, peace, refuge and strength! The Messiah (Christ) of Almighty God is America's ONLY...

India has emerged as the world's largest and most active market for large language model (LLM) adoption, according to an analysis by Bank of America (BofA) on Wednesday. The country now leads globally in the number of users for popular AI apps such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, both in terms of monthly active users (MAUs) and daily active users (DAUs). India has the second-largest online population in the world, with more than 700-750 million mobile internet users. Affordable data plans have made AI access easier, with users able to consume 20-30 GB of data a month at around $2....

Online education platform Coursera (COUR.N), opens new tab said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy (UDMY.O), opens new tab in an all-stock deal, valuing the combined company at $2.5 billion, as the industry consolidates after a post-pandemic slowdown and heightened investor scrutiny. Udemy shareholders would receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for each held, valuing the company at about $930 million, according to Reuters calculation. Coursera shares were up about 4%, while Udemy jumped nearly 22%. Coursera and Udemy bet that a combined platform will be better positioned to capture corporate demand for workforce training, particularly in artificial intelligence, data...

Trump Media & Technology is merging with fusion energy company TAE Technologies in a deal worth more than $6 billion, aiming to harness the fledgling technology to power energy-hungry artificial intelligence data centers. TAE, which is privately owned, is developing technology aimed at producing energy by fusing atomic nuclei. Trump Media & Technology owns President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform. The merger comes amid a difficult year for Trump Media shares, which trade under the ticker DJT — the same as Mr. Trump's initials. Through Wednesday, the stock was down 69% for the year, even as the S&P 500 had...

There is an old American promise that has always been more fragile than we like to admit, and today it is being broken in plain sight. The promise was never that everyone would succeed. It was that everyone would be allowed to compete under one set of rules, and that those rules would not be rewritten midstream to punish someone for what he is rather than what he has done. When Americans say they reject caste, they mean that no class of people is preemptively marked for exclusion. That promise is now being quietly revoked. Over roughly the last...

Sergey Naryshkin noted that "there are clear tendencies toward isolationism, which US President Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance do not hide"MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. The United States’ new national security strategy puts America's interests first, a rational approach, Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said in an interview with TASS. "Of course, it is pro-American, and it is very sound. Undoubtedly, it is based on US national interests," Naryshkin said in response to a question on the matter. He added that "there are clear tendencies toward isolationism, which [US President Donald] Trump and [US...

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced a merger Thursday with the nuclear fusion company, TAE Technologies (TAE). The all-stock transaction is valued at more than $6 billion, according to TMTG. President Donald Trump has previously moved to bolster nuclear energy through executive action — though fusion technology has infamously struggled to deliver commercially viable and grid-scale power, despite decades of research.

The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilots played a role in causing the Jan. 29 collision between an airliner and a Black Hawk near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people, including a group of elite young figure skaters. It was the deadliest plane crash on American soil in more than two decades. The figure skaters, their parents and coaches who had just attended the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, were among those on the plane. The official response, made in court documents responding to the first lawsuit filed...

'I believe in Hell': Kirk Cameron clarifies position on eternal damnation, announces plans for roundtable discussionActor and evangelist Kirk Cameron has responded to controversy surrounding a recent discussion on the doctrine of Hell, emphasizing that he fully believes in Hell, judgment and conscious suffering, but is openly questioning whether that suffering is eternal.In a video posted to social media Wednesday, Cameron addressed the "swirling" controversy sparked by his Dec. 3 podcast episode with his son James, where he voiced support for the theological position of conditional immortality, also known as annihilationism.Cameron, 55, began by posing a hypothetical question from a...

It’s been three days since the jihad against innocent Jews at Sydney’s Bondi beach. A nation’s grief is swiftly turning to anger and Australia’s prime minister is floundering. As more is learned about the father-and-son killers who took 15 lives and wounded many more, questions are piling up. How did the father enter the country? How did security agencies lose track of the son, who not only imbibed his father’s Jew hate, but may have been further radicalised by reportedly studying with one of Sydney’s most notorious Islamist hate preachers? How did they manage to go to a militant area...

CHICO, Calif. - A viral video filmed inside a Chico Target has stirred controversy this week. The video, featuring an Enloe Health medical assistant confronting a Target employee over her shirt, has gained nationwide attention. The incident occurred on Monday night and quickly spread online. Jeanie Beeman, the Target employee involved, spoke with Action News Now about her experience. She said she was unaware of the video until police visited her home to check on her Tuesday evening. Beeman said she was shocked by the encounter and did not expect the reaction over what she was wearing, a red shirt...