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Campbell Mulholland's family have been left gutted at the "undignified" move as their beloved relative was returned to the morgue after his service.A man has been denied his last wishes of being buried in his family grave leaving his relatives heartbroken. The family of Campbell Mullholland was told by the council just 24 hours before his funeral that the 94-year-old had been refused entry because the grave was half-an-inch too small. Mr Mulholland wanted to be with his infant son and wife when the time came and died on February 2 expecting to be buried with them. Campbell's family members...

Snowy winters could become a thing of the past as climate change affects the UK, Met Office analysis suggests. It is one of a series of projections about how UK's climate could change, shared with BBC Panorama. It suggests by the 2040s most of southern England could no longer see sub-zero days. By the 2060s only high ground and northern Scotland are still likely to experience such cold days. The projections are based on global emissions accelerating. It could mean the end of sledging, snowmen and snowball fights, says Dr Lizzie Kendon, a senior Met Office scientist who worked on...

Duke Energy Florida is continuing their mission to bring cleaner, cost-effective energy to consumers, breaking ground on several new solar sites in the Sunshine State. The company made the announcement on Tuesday, stating that they would be constructing new solar power facilities in Manatee and Hardee counties. The new sites, which are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021, is expected to create approximately 200 to 300 temporary jobs. Additionally, the plants will generate quiet, carbon free energy that will bring tax benefits to the counties. The Florida utility company, a subsidiary of Duke Energy headquartered in Charlotte,...

This week it was announced that Colt Manufacturing, the world-famous American gun maker that helped popularize the revolver, is being acquired by the Czech-based Česká zbrojovka Group (CZG) in a deal worth about $220 million and 1.1 million shares of the Czech firm’s stock. It will allow CZG to expand its global customer base, but also increase its production capacity in the United States and Canada.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday dodged a question about whether or not former President Donald Trump should face criminal charges for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Instead of using her background as a prosecutor to opine on Trump’s Senate impeachment acquittal, Harris told NBC’s “Today” she is “reviewing the case of COVID in America.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A man from Tennessee was arrested after allegedly applying for a gun permit under former President Obama’s name, according to a report. Robert Joseph Hallick, 51, was arrested in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 11 and is charged with perjury, forgery and identity theft, WTVC reported. He was booked into Hamilton County Jail. Hallick allegedly first used his own name to apply for a Tennessee Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit in November 2020 but was denied. His rejection letter from the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Handgun Unit cited an "adjudicated or committed mental defective and...

The far-left Antifa/Black Lives Matter agitator, who was charged by federal authorities for his role in the January 6 Capitol riots, was paid thousands by anti-Trump "news" networks CNN and NBC, bombshell court documents have revealed. Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that prominent BLM activist John Sullivan was arrested by the FBI and charged with inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol building.

The images of frozen wind turbines and solar panels brought to life how one of the most independent and powerful energy states in the country could fall to its knees when snow, ice, and frigid temperatures battered its power grid. It was imagery that tells a cautionary tale of what the future in this country could look like if the Biden administration continues its dismantling of fossil fuel and related infrastructure industries. In short, what happened in Texas could happen anywhere, whether under the strain of a winter storm in Texas and Oklahoma or a heat wave in California. The...

President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday night that “everybody knows I like kids better than people.” At the beginning of the program, anchor Anderson Cooper said, “It’s nice to see you, sir.”

Since taking office in January, President Biden has issued an unprecedented number of Executive Orders aimed at undoing President Trump’s signature deregulatory agenda, namely issuing a suite of climate related executive orders including re-entering the Paris Climate Accord, cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline, freezing new oil and gas leases on federal lands, and directing the federal government to replace its nearly 600,000 vehicle fleet with electric vehicles (EVs). Citing climate change as an existential threat, Congressional Democrats have their own green agenda to push electric vehicles, introducing legislation to extend major tax credits for EVs along with credits and subsidies...

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough ripped into Republican Senators Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham, deriding them as "sad" dummies who are "challenged." Scarborough began by mocking Johnson's intellect. Pausing, and considering his words, he called Johnson "a man who's challenged, he's challenged." Given Scarborough's past mocking of Johnson, it's clear he meant that Johnson is mentally "challenged." Here was Scarborough not long ago saying: "Ron Johnson sometimes doesn't know the difference between a microwave, and a blender, and his lawnmower . . . he gets confused easily." Turning to Graham, Scarborough once again claimed that, post-January 6th, Lindsey changed...

Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.” But those tranquil accounts are at odds with reports by The Associated Press and other media witnesses of how prisoners’ stomachs rolled, shook and shuddered as the pentobarbital took effect inside the U.S. penitentiary death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. The AP witnessed every execution.

White House senior adviser on the COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt on Wednesday voiced his support for the wearing of multiple masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Slavitt told “MSNBC Live” anchor Stephanie Ruhle that he has been practicing wearing a cloth mask on top of a surgical mask, and it “feels very effective.

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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education approved a plan Tuesday to cut one-third of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) force and use the funds to help improve black student achievement. The cuts came last year after activists protested to “abolish” or “defund” the school police department, which protects students from crime — particularly in predominantly black and Latino areas of the city, where there is more gang activity. As Breitbart News reported last year: Los Angeles School Police Chief Todd Chamberlain resigned Wednesday after the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted the night...

Microsoft released a new servicing stack update (KB5001078) after an older one caused problems for Windows users installing Patch Tuesday security updates.Microsoft has removed a faulty servicing stack update, which was causing issues for Windows users when they tried to install last week’s Patch Tuesday security updates.Microsoft’s servicing stack update provides fixes for the component that installs Windows updates. This particular defective update (KB4601392) applied to Windows 10 users (version 1607 for 32-bit and x64-based systems) and Windows Server 2016 users.To address this issue, Microsoft has removed the faulty update and released a new one (KB5001078).“There is a known issue...

On Monday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent an entire segment of her prime time show promulgating the need to replace Republicans with far-left Democrats. The partisan host invited Amanda Litman, a co-founder and executive director of the left-wing candidate recruitment operation, Run For Something, to discuss the importance of ousting any Trump-supporting GOP politicians in office. Maddow prefaced the segment by expressing her dismay and disgust over the fact that at least 57 Republican elected officials from across the country exercised their First Amendment right and attended President Trump’s rally on January 6. According to Maddow and her guest, those...

In early January, the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea issued a surprising judgment with potentially far-reaching global impact, ordering the Government of Japan to pay $91,800 to each of the 12 last surviving “comfort women” from Japan's World War II-era military brothels.The ruling not only represents a setback in diplomatic relations for the region at large but also seeks to challenge longstanding principles of international law.The announcement, which additionally included execution orders to seize Japanese government-owned property, was met with mixed reactions. South Korean civic groups who have long advocated on this issue celebrated. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu...

I’m hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general, his wife. Joe Biden’s wife. She would never do it, but, yeah, she’s a hell of a doctor. She’s an amazing doctor,” proclaimed actress and co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg last March. After someone alerted Whoopi to the fact that “Dr. Jill” has a doctor of education (EdD) degree from the University of Delaware and not a medical degree, Goldberg apologized. “I was wrong about his wife. I was wrong, before you start texting and emailing,” she said. Starting with Goldberg’s slip-up in March and ending with Joseph Epstein’s Wall Street...

A SWAT Officer puts Vortex's 1×8 Low Variable Power Optic through its Paces at Two-Day Carbine Class. Holographic optics have come a long way in a very short time. They went mainstream in the late 1990s, and by the early 2000s were extremely popular with the military, law enforcement and civilian shooters. In the beginning there were a few major brands: Aimpoint, EO Tech, Trijicon. But the Global War on Terrorism turned holographic optics from “nice to have” into “must have,” as American troops were routinely outshooting their opponents armed primarily with iron sight weapons. In the field of magnified...