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RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The Richland County sheriff held a press conference Thursday morning after a Fort Jackson trainee left the base and hijacked a school bus. Sheriff Leon Lott said the incident happened at about 7 a.m. Lott said the trainee was wearing PT clothes when he left the base with a rifle. The trainee attempted to hitch hike on I-77. Someone called the sheriff’s office about a man attempting to flag down cars on the interstate. Shortly after, a deputy was stopped on Percival Road by a parent of one of the students on the school bus....

U.S. Space Command said Tuesday that a 46,000-pound Chinese rocket that is orbiting the planet is expected to make an uncontrolled fall into the atmosphere on or around Saturday, placing people and cities worldwide at risk. The command said in a news release that it was "aware of and tracking the location of the Chinese Long March 5B in space" but would not be able to pinpoint the location at which it will fall into the Earth's atmosphere "until within hours of its reentry, which is expected around May 8." This has raised concerns because no one knows the precise...

<p>For the second time in less than a week, a massive brawl has broken out at Miami International Airport.</p><p>The fight this week began after two women were reportedly yelling at each other on the plane.</p><p>Then, both of the passengers were kicked off the plane and a brawl erupted in the boarding area.</p>

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is reportedly “checked out” and “already accepting her fate” ahead of her potential ousting as Republican Conference Chair. “House Republican sources tell us Cheney is ‘checked out’ and already accepting her fate. Unlike the last attempt to oust her in February, which she handily defeated, she’s not making calls or whipping,” Politico Playbook asserted Thursday. -snip- Breitbart News reported Tuesday Cheney met “off-the-record” with Fox News board member Paul Ryan amid rumors of a plot to dismantle her leadership position within the party.

Loss of smell or taste, or both, is common in COVID-19 infected patients, particularly in patients with mild symptoms. Although research has focused on the causes underlying lung infections in COVID-19 patients, the causes of neurological symptoms have remained a mystery.Researchers have now explained the mechanisms involved in the loss of smell (anosmia) in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at different stages of the disease, in an article published in Science Translational Medicine, “COVID-19-related anosmia is associated with viral persistence and inflammation in human olfactory epithelium and brain infection in hamsters.”Using noninvasive nasal brush sampling, scientists at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS,...

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. 1) There was no escape from ideological indoctrination—anywhere. TV commercials, a job in the bureaucracy, or military assignment all hinged not so much on merit, expertise, or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system. Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still...

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To be honest, it’s hard to keep up with Joe Biden’s confusion, and there was a part that was even crazier than I realized at the time I wrote that story. This part might be even more troubling because it’s flat-out bizarre, and there’s no way it could have happened the way Biden claimed. Biden told a story about a conversation he allegedly had with a conductor named Angelo Negri, a conversation that Biden places in his fourth or fifth year as vice-president (which would be around 2013-2014). Here are some of the problems. Biden’s mother died in 2010, so...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) defended his state’s controversial nursing home directive, which instructed nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients, contending this week it was Republicans who “politicized a health order” and referring to the order as a “smart” decision from a medical point of view.

Most Americans are aware of the election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, but not many may know about another crucial audit taking place. Donald Trump issued a powerful statement on Thursday reminding Americans about the election audit in New Hampshire. "Congratulations to the great Patriots of Windham, New Hampshire for their incredible fight to seek out the truth on the massive Election Fraud which took place in New Hampshire and the 2020 Presidential Election," Trump wrote.

Browsing a bit of CNN, just in between other things, for the purpose, to see what they are propogating... Their newest "boogyman/woman" They have a huge problem, trying to make the Liz Cheney affair as "sexist", yet, Stefaik is no male... and they still pushed for the "it's also about sexist" injection narrative. Their contradicting lines was so pathetic. Next, they seek to demonize Stefanik, as if it's not about principles. As if Trump didn't inact certain consrvative policies. Borders-security; not bowing to fascist Islamic Republuc of Iran, and much more.

"Maricopa County reported to the auditors today that they do not have the password to look in to administrative function of the machines"

On February 3, 2021, in the wake of the “deadly events” of 1/6, Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a 60-day stand-down and total purge of the U.S. military’s rampant, undefined “extremism” problem. Though the details of this purge were always kept vague and framed in apolitical terms, it was immediately obvious the target would be MAGA — with the buzzword “extremism” tagged onto various proxies for Trump supporters, conservatives, and opponents of globalism of all stripes. We now know the hatchet man the Pentagon has selected to carry out this MAGA purge of the American defense forces, and...

The biotech firm Oxitec has released its genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, with the goal of suppressing wild, disease-carrying mosquito populations in the region. This is the first time genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in the US. Oxitec previously released its modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Panama, and Malaysia, and the company reported that local A. aegypti populations fell by at least 90 percent in those locations, Live Science previously reported. A. aegypti can carry diseases such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, and releasing modified mosquitoes offers a way to control...

Just when it seemed like the NFL could not get any more “woke,” the league has taken things to a whole new level by hiring Barack Obama’s former communications director Katie Hill as their new Senior Vice President of Communications.

Several members of the House Democratic caucus were penalized for failing to pay taxes on their Washington, D.C., properties on time, according to city tax records. Records show that at least six Democratic members were penalized by the District of Columbia for failure to pay 2020 property taxes due at the end of March. Included in the group is Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D., Texas), who owed a combined $9,145.61 on the two Capitol Hill homes he listed on his financial disclosure forms. Gonzalez’s fellow tax delinquents were Democratic representatives John Garamendi (Calif.), Sean Casten (Ill.), Andy Kim (N.J.), Sean Patrick...

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russian interference in the U.S. election in 2016 is now “beyond a doubt” and that the country was likely involved in the Brexit vote, too. Mrs Clinton, who was First Lady during Bill Clinton’s presidency and U.S. Secretary of State for part of Barack Obama’s presidency, made the allegations during a Chatham House conversation with former Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and Tory leader William Hague, chaired by fellow ex-foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt MP.

A week-long exercise held by Nasa this week has concluded that a catastrophic event with an asteroid would be unavoidable, even given six months to prepare.The hypothetical impact scenario, which took place during a planetary defense conference hosted by the United Nations, confirmed that there is no current technology on earth that could stop an Asteroid if we knew in advance it was projected to hit the earth. "If confronted with the scenario in real life, we would not be able to launch any spacecraft on such short notice with current capabilities," the participants said.The only response to such an...

Not to get to far ahead of myself, I want to say that this isn’t picking on one individual but rather a mind set promulgated by the most insufficiently well-read of the populous. One of the many books that has informed my inflections on the world insofar as race was concerned was written by Carter G. Woodson. It was titled “The Miseducation of the negro. One the most astonishing passages that I recant goes as follows: “If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think...

Floridians who receive unemployment benefits will soon have to show proof they are job-hunting, according to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis took away the requirement that people on benefits look for work early in the pandemic when unemployment was on the rise and few employers were hiring.