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The Santa Fe district attorney investigating the fatal "Rust" shooting has shut down allegations of "sabotage." DA Mary Carmack-Altwies said authorities don't have "any proof" to back up what she called "conspiracy theories." Lawyers for the film's armorer claimed without evidence that someone may have tried to "sabotage" the set by putting a live round in a box of dummy rounds. The Santa Fe district attorney investigating the fatal shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin's latest movie "Rust" has shut down the "sabotage" allegations floated by attorneys for the film's armorer. "I know that some defense attorneys have come...

Elton John admits he is in pain — so why, in just a few short weeks, will he embark on a 150-date tour around the globe? At age 74, the music legend just had a hip replacement following an injurious fall that forced him to reschedule his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour. He was seen supporting using a cane Wednesday as he received a prestigious honor from Prince Charles. The musician leaned on the walking stick as he was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor for his music career and campaigning work on AIDS during...

A second suspected missile target in the shape of a U.S. aircraft carrier has been spotted in a rural Chinese desert, according to satellite photos obtained by USNI News.The site consists of a single aircraft carrier target, miles from the nearest town in the Xinjiang region, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The carrier target is about 300 miles away from a larger suspected missile range in the Taklamakan Desert, first reported by USNI News on Sunday. The two sites share similar characteristics and are aligned on a map with the carriers facing the...

Pennsylvania’s requirement that teachers and school students and staff must wear masks to guard against COVID-19 is invalid because the official who issued it lacked authority to do so, a sharply divided Commonwealth Court ruled Wednesday. Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam issued that order in August and it has been in force since Sept. 7, causing considerable discord among parents who oppose or favor the measure. Yet Beam had no legal standing to issue such and edict because Gov. Tom Wolf did not have a disaster emergency proclamation in effect that would make the measure enforceable, Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon...

In a phone conference with reporters on Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West said the Biden administration is considering a “roadmap” to normalizing relations with the Taliban regime. The vague roadmap West spoke of included some requirements the Taliban seems to have little interest in meeting.

Mike Zimmer revealed during his Wednesday press conference that the Vikings had a player — who is vaccinated — go to the emergency room on Tuesday night because of symptoms from COVID-19. That player is guard Dakota Dozier, according to ESPN's Courtney Cronin. Zimmer said the player is currently stable and still in the hospital, but that the situation was scary. "I’m not a doctor, but it was COVID pneumonia or something, he had a hard time breathing," Zimmer said. The Vikings have placed five players on the Reserve/COVID list over the past week, including Dozier. Here is the timeline...

KUALA LUMPUR – While the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) has departed the Western Pacific, there is still a significant amount of maritime activity from deployed naval groups. The main body of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021 (IPD21) task group, which includes JMSDF helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) and JS Murasame (DD101), carried out joint training in the South China Sea with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group from Oct. 29 through Nov. 3. The American CSG includes carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and embarked Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW 2), cruisers USS Lake Champlain...

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) released pages of transcripts and exhibits Wednesday from her office's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against the state's former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), according to NBC New York. These transcripts follow the August release of the New York attorney general report concluding that Cuomo had sexually harassed several women, some of whom were state employees, according to The New York Times. Among the documents released Wednesday was a transcript from an 11-hour interview conducted with Cuomo about his alleged misconduct against women, reports the Times. The transcript is 515 pages long.

“They can speak to their exercises and what they’re training against. It’s been pretty fairly obvious and we just released the China military report a week ago that I think makes it very clear what our understanding of their intentions are and their capabilities are and how they’re developing those capabilities and to what ends,” Kirby told reporters today.“And clearly they have invested a lot in particularly air and maritime capabilities that are designed largely to try to prevent the United States from having access to certain areas in the Indo-Pacific. What we’re focused on is that pacing challenge and...

As I sit down to expound on this topic, I’m taking deep breaths. Are my lips pursed? Yes. Are my nostrils flared? You betcha. Is my butt clenched? Probably. Even the mere thought of people crowding the kitchen, asking me questions, standing right in front of that drawer at the precise moment I need to open it, and generally making noise while I need to focus and finish my Thanksgiving cooking assignment infuses me with ambient, imagined anxiety. While some easygoing, preternaturally social creatures may find it energizing to be surrounded by loved ones while they prepare food, some of...

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed off the idea of encouraging more domestic oil production as a means of making transportation more affordable. "The whole point of cancelling pipelines and drilling leases was explicitly to deter cheap energy from luring people into unnecessary and unproductive travel," she pointed out. "For us to turn back now would impede the Presidents build back better program." "Look, for what it's worth, President Biden already asked the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase oil production, but they refused," the Secretary said. "He figured that since it was his executive order that...

Forgive me for being late to the party, but it was only this week that I saw most of Disney’s new movie Jungle Cruise. The movie is rated PG 13 and is based on the Disney theme park ride of the same name. It features megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and tells the story of a courageous single woman in search of a healing cure located on the Amazon. Johnson is the boat captain, and the woman (Emily Blunt) is accompanied by her utterly wimpy, fear-filled brother (Jack Whitehall), who, it turns out, is gay. But why, oh why, must...

If you want to understand just how much American political fortunes have changed over a few short months, a gander at favorability ratings will help you along. USA Today/Suffolk is no right-wing pollster. Quite the opposite. But what it found in its polling this month is really something.

BUTLER, Pennsylvania — A longtime nanny to Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell’s three children testified on Tuesday that she had never witnessed Parnell abuse his children, an allegation Parnell’s wife leveled against him last week as part of a bitter custody battle. Lori McGoogan said under oath during the final day of custody hearings at the Butler County Courthouse that she has provided child care for the children for about a decade — including in-home care starting about five years ago, overnight care, and completion of household tasks like laundry and dinner preparation — and that she never witnessed Parnell become...

Emerald Robinson was a news host for Newsmax. She was recently taken off the air for her anti-vaccine statements and then Twitter suspended her permanently. In a statement provided to The Hill, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed that Robinson’s second suspension in one week’s time is now a permanent banning. To quote Robinson’s frequent political missives on Twitter, “RIP Emerald Robinson.” HuffPost put it this wayNewsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson was permanently banned from Twitter on Tuesday for repeatedly violating its rules on COVID-19 misinformation. Now we have to ask ourselves- what is the suspension for- misinformation or COVID misinformation?...

During the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden promised not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000. He vowed to stand up for the working class and to protect the paychecks of everyday Americans. "Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes raised, period, bingo,” Biden said in May 2020.But Biden's economic policies as president, which have led to rampant, runaway inflation on items Americans use every day, have broken that promise. Inflation Just Hit Another New, Three Decade High Americans for Tax Reform has a breakdown of price increases: Gasoline has increased 49.6% in the past 12...

In the past, people displayed their membership of the upper class with their material accoutrements. But today, luxury goods are more affordable than before. And people are less likely to receive validation for the material items they display. This is a problem for the affluent, who still want to broadcast their high social position.… …the biologist Amotz Zahavi proposed that animals evolve certain displays because they are so costly. The most famous example is the peacock’s tail. Only a healthy bird is capable of growing such plumage while managing to evade predators. This idea might extend to humans, too. More...

No matter what anyone, official or unofficial, says or does, those who fought alongside our Afghan allies will never desert them. Over the past 20 years we toiled in hot dusty summers and cruel oppressive winters in the air starved mountains of Afghanistan. We left our friends and family at home and gained new friends and family in the most unlikely of places, in a land much different than ours. Alongside us these past 20 years were those whose ancestors have been in that land for 2,000 years. Such forefathers, hospitable people and superstitious warriors as they are, threw out...

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but Georgia IS the smoking gun… Everything that happened in that state from the stadium incident, to the obfuscation of Georgia’s officials like Kemp and Raffensperger were enough to make any sane person raise a brow. The results of the Maricopa County audit were no doubt illuminating, but in my opinion what happened there doesn’t hold a candle to the obvious fraud which took place in Georgia. That being said, Georgia is back in the news for election integrity issues, and this time it’s even more serious than before…. According to...

More than 2,500 young children taking part in Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison MADISON, Wis. — With kids as young as 5 years old getting COVID-19 vaccinations, a small group of Wisconsin preschoolers and even some babies are getting the shots. The groundbreaking research is taking place at the University of Wisconsin Health in Madison. Children as young as 6 months old are taking part in the trials. Four-year-old twins Sam and Theo Rodriguez are part of those studies. "I didn't even feel a thing," Theo told WISN 12 about his vaccine injection. The...