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The widow and son of a black motorist shot in the head by a white state trooper during a traffic stop over a broken tail light will receive a settlement of nearly $5 million. Julian Lewis, 60, was shot and killed by trooper Jacob Thompson, 28, in the countryside 60 miles south of Savannah, Georgia in August 2020. After the state cop signaled Lewis to pull over and he failed to do so, Thompson rammed his car into a ditch. When Lewis began driving out of the trench and toward the trooper, Thompson pulled the trigger. The state of Georgia...

Portland grocery chain Fred Meyers (Kroger subsidiary) plays loud classical music in its parking lot to deter illegal activities, including gangs, drug deals, and other crime. And it is working. But some neighbors complain it is "irritating and inhumane". Fred Meyer released a statement saying the deterrent is effective. Portland Police refuse to pursue the noise complaints. Details in video.

Joe Biden's transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has a smarmy, smiling message for all of us pudknocker Americans who don't quite buy into the 'going green' agenda of the Bidenites: BUTTIGIEG: “Until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy,” get used to price hikes. pic.twitter.com/UMWBrVPe9R — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 3, 2022 Here's what he actually said:...so, less dependent on foreign oil, and that protects us from shortages at fuel stations, but here's the thing to remember, even if all of the oil we use in the U.S.A. were made in the U.S.A., the price...

Hunter Biden is renting a home in Malibu, California, for $20,000 per month — and the Secret Service is paying $30,000 per month to rent an adjacent home to provide him with 24/7 protection, according to a report Monday by ABC News. The president’s son is living in the exclusive location and pursuing his art career, even as critics call for a special counsel to take over the investigation into his alleged influence-peddling, which is documented on his infamous laptop, now verified. ABC News reports: Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father’s presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Fifteen-year-old Natalie R. is fed up with the poor air quality in her home state of Utah. But rather than simply complain, she and a group of other young people are taking on who they see as the enablers of this pollution: government officials who continue to green-light fossil fuel development. Earlier this month, seven young activists filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah with the help of Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit law firm that focuses on climate justice. Natalie R. v. State of Utah alleges that the state and its elected officials unconstitutionally favor fossil fuel companies...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in response to written questions, has told the Senate she does not hold a position on whether individuals have natural rights that come from God, not the law. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Judiciary Committee that will vote on Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court, told a hearing on Monday that Jackson took a pass on that important question: Here's what Grassley said at the beginning of today’s hearing, as he explained why he is a “no” vote on Jackson’s confirmation: "Now, at one point in written questions to her, Sen. Cruz posed...

RAT LAND—A rat colony underneath Washington, D.C. recently became aware of a surface world with blue skies, warm sunlight, and abundant garbage. The colony, ruled by a council of noble volunteers, was planning a great move to the "land of plenty" until it was discovered to be infested with hundreds of politicians. "Ewww! No wonder our ancestors made their home in the bowels of the earth," said Whisker Nosewrangle in ancient Sumerian, the language all rats speak. "Disgusting!" "Rats, it is hereby forbidden to breach the surface," said a representative of the rat council. "The way is shut! We cannot...

Over the years, Republicans have shown that they know how to do token diversity outreach efforts... One often gets the sense that some Republican politicians would rather just pack these voters into gerrymandered districts designed to elect Democrats, shrug, and ignore them...Trump dramatically improved his party's margins in South Texas..South Texas Democratic congressman Filemon Vela resigned to become a lobbyist just before midnight Friday. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has the power to call a special election. If he does, the Republican nominee will be favored to win and represent this 84% Hispanic district... There hasn't been anything quite like this...

There are “no offensive biologic weapons” in the Ukraine laboratories that the United States has been funding, a Pentagon official told Congress on April 1.Deborah Rosenbaum, the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs, told the House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations on Friday that there are “unequivocally … no offensive biologic weapons in the Ukraine laboratories that the United States has been involved with.”The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a support agency within the Department of Defense for countering weapons of mass destruction, and both U.S and...

As we reach a month of the Ukrainian war amid talks of possible peace, a strategic appraisal is in order. It appears the Russians thought the war would be easy and fast, the Ukrainians would simply roll over and surrender, and the common people would rise up to greet Russians as liberators. Russian strategic decision-making, worsened by ideological bubbles, turned out to be as haunting as British and American misadventures in Iraq and Libya.The Russian officer attrition in this war is on a level rarely observed in any recent conflict, partially because this level of high-intensity, state versus state, multi-domain...

President Biden received hundreds of thousands of “excess” votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election, according to an academic study on voter fraud that suggests the push to relax voting standards created new opportunities for electoral mischief. John R. Lott Jr., the man behind the research, teased out those numbers by comparing Democratic-dominant areas to Republican-dominant places over the past two presidential elections, particularly in places where claims of election fraud were reported in 2020. Looking at six swing states, the data he crunched found that voter turnout in Republican areas increased from 2016 to 2020 while voter turnout...

Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing warned that cutting off imports of Russian gas would have severe consequences for Germany's economy and would drive it into a recession. Calls for a ban on Russian gas imports have been growing since atrocities committed by Russian troops in Bucha and other towns around Kyiv were revealed over the past few days, especially after the three Baltic countries announced they had cut Russian gas imports starting April 1. But according to Sewing, there would be "a further deterioration of the situation if there's a stop to imports or deliveries of Russian oil...

Forty-eight hours after Sarah Palin got in the special election to replace the late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee got her first major endorsement — from Donald Trump. In a strongly-worded endorsement issued by his Save America Political Action Committee, the former president hailed Palin as "a true America First Fighter" and "a champion for Alaska values, Alaska energy, Alaska jobs, and the great people of Alaska." "Sarah shocked many when she endorsed me very early in 2016, and we won big," recalled Trump, "Now, it's my turn!"

Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence branch of the FSB, which is the Russian security service. They were allegedly the main proponents of the assumption that Ukraine would swiftly collapse, which has proved deeply flawed. But, as has become increasingly clear over many years, Vladimir Putin has become intolerant of opinions that contradict his preferred course of action. So although the intelligence was flawed, Beseda’s claims likely manipulated facts to fit what the Russian president wanted to believe. Having led the...

Cuba and Nicaragua have opened a new air passageway to the American southern border and thousands of U.S.-bound Cubans have poured through the short-cut while tens of thousands more are reportedly lining up daily in Havana for tickets.

President Biden said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin should face trial for war crimes after horrifying images emerged over the weekend of the aftermath of civilian massacres carried out by Kremlin forces in Ukraine. “You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal,” Biden told reporters as he arrived back in Washington after spending the weekend in Delaware. “Well, the truth of the matter, you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants — he is a war criminal.”

Key points: “It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,” IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea said. The 1.5 degrees Celsius goal is the aspirational temperature threshold ascribed in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement. The IPCC’s latest report follows a series of mind-bending extreme weather events worldwide. For instance, in just the last few weeks, an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica following record high temperatures and heavy rains deluged Australia’s east coast, submerging entire towns. The IPCC has warned that about half of the world's population is...

The string of staff members in Vice President Kamala Harris's office grows longer, as deputy chief of staff Michael Fuchs is now leaving the Biden administration, Fox News has confirmed. First reported by Reuters, Fuchs's departure was announced in an internal memo on Monday.

Following a weekend where Ukraine released a barrage of videos it says depicts massacres of civilians in the town of Bucha on the outskirts of Kiev, Western powers are mulling and readying a next wave of anti-Russia sanctions due to what the US and others say are war crimes. The European Council said in a Monday statement: "The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the reported atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in a number of occupied Ukrainian towns, that have now been liberated."Ukrainian and Western media sources are widely citing that at least 300 residents of...