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The madman who opened fire on a Brooklyn subway car and left 29 injured, 10 of them shot has been taken into custody, law enforcement sources told The Post.Frank James, 62, was named by cops as the sole person of interest after a man in a gas mask, helmet, and neon construction vest threw two smoke grenades and opened fire on straphangers while riding the Manhattan-bound N train just before 8:30 a.m.James rented a U-Haul van linked to the attack, authorities said during a news conference on Tuesday.The suspect had posted several rambling conspiracy-laden YouTube videos, railing against the city’s...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California wants electric vehicle sales to triple in the next four years to 35% of all new car purchases, an aggressive target set as part of the goal to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars. Emissions spewed from gas-powered passenger vehicles make up about a quarter of the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Californians would still be allowed to drive gas-powered cars and sell used ones. The rules would require 35% of new car sales for model year 2026 to be zero-emission vehicles, including battery or hydrogen powered, or plug-in electric hybrids. That’s a sharp...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government has approved a proposal to increase at-sea monitoring of some commercial fishing trips to 100%. The government approved the new, higher percentage of trip cover on Tuesday, said Michael Pentony, a regional administrator with the National Marine Fisheries Service. The rules apply to valuable species that are harvested in the Northeast such as cod, haddock and flounder. Pentony said the new rules will replace the old process of calculating a target for the level of monitoring coverage every year. The coverage target will instead be 100% for four years as long as federal...

Wednesday of Holy Week Matthew 26:14-25 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus asks his disciples to go into Jerusalem and prepare a Passover supper. At the heart of the Passover meal was the eating of a lamb, which had been sacrificed, in remembrance of the lambs of the original Passover, whose blood had been smeared on the doorposts of the Israelites in Egypt. Making his Last Supper a Passover meal, Jesus was signaling the fulfillment of John the Baptist’s prophecy that he, Jesus, would be the Lamb of God and the definitive sacrifice. This sacrifice is made sacramentally present at every...

I can imagine that chatting about home and family might be part of a normal day in Kindergarten. But what I cannot imagine is that it is impossible to educate small children without telling them about your love life and outlining prospects for theirs. The really damning thing about the reaction to Florida’s bill is not that some teachers think it’s appropriate to mention their after-school activities in class. It’s that LGBT maximalists think it’s mandatory for all children to know about and endorse every possible variety of sexual pursuit, parental attitudes notwithstanding. This entitlement to other people’s kids is...

The first bus-load of illegal immigrants caught at the Texas border has arrived at the nation's capitol.This busing strategy is part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's response to the Biden Administration's decision to end a public health rule, which has been used to expedite deportations. Abbott says his state is overwhelmed with illegal immigrants. They were from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and were dropped off near Union Station, in front of the building that houses Fox News, NBC News and CSPAN. A second bus is currently en route to Washington, D.C, according to the governor's office.

LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization has slammed the global community for its focus on the war in Ukraine, arguing that crises elsewhere, including in his home country of Ethiopia, are not being given equal consideration, possibly because those suffering are not white. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus questioned “if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,” given that the ongoing emergencies in Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria have garnered only a “fraction” of the global concern for Ukraine. He was speaking in a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Wednesday. Last...

The airline industry is continuing to call for the end of the federal mask mandate, making it clear “we need to remove these mandates” as federal health officials extend it yet again. The federal mask requirement for public transportation was slated to expire in less than a week, on April 18, 2022. However, the Biden White House will allow its extension yet again, as federal health officials previously made it clear that yet another extension is “on the table.”

Actress Gillian Anderson gushed over meeting former President Bill Clinton in 1992, which she said was such an “intimate” experience, that she expected to get a phone call from him afterward. Gillian Anderson recalled the “intimate” experience she had while meeting Clinton for the first time in 1992, when she attended a luncheon at someone’s house while he was campaigning for president.

Russian general's body recovered almost one month after he was killed Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, was killed in an ambush fighting in Mariupol It is claimed that Russia has lost seven generals in the invasion of Ukraine so far First was Chechen Major General Magomed Tushayev, killed on second day The body was recovered after reports that a Ukrainian brigade had surrendered Russia has finally retrieved the body of one of its seven generals slain in Ukraine almost a month after he was killed, reports say. The corpse of a general believed to be Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of...

Bodybuilder Cedric McMillan has died at the age of 44, his sponsor confirmed Tuesday. "We regret to inform you that our friend and brother @cedricmcmillan passed away today. Cedric will be greatly missed as an athlete, comrade, friend, and father," Black Skull USA, a supplements company, wrote in a post on Instagram. The company didn't provide further details around McMillan's death. "Our prayers are with all his family and friends. He 'fought the good fight' and now he rests," it added. ... McMillan was a member of the South Carolina National Guard at the time of his death, a spokeswoman...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether state law allows for voters to give their absentee ballot to someone else to return or whether drop boxes can be placed outside municipal clerk offices. The court’s ruling later this spring or summer is expected to establish rules for the upcoming midterm election where the battleground state’s Democratic governor and Republican U.S. senator are on the ballot. The court in February barred the use of drop boxes outside election clerk offices for the April spring election where local offices such as mayor, city council and school board...

Boston’s police force will increase its presence around subway stations as the city prepares for the Boston Marathon on Monday, following a shooting on a Brooklyn subway train. Boston police Superintendent-In-Chief Gregory Long said at a press conference Tuesday that although there is no credible threat to the city at this point, the police force is closely monitoring any suspicious activity.

What is a pronoun? Pronouns are some of the most useful words in the English language. They are used in the place of a noun to avoid it having to be named twice. For example: Suzy threw the boomerang and it came back to her. In this sentence, "it" is a pronoun that represents the boomerang, and "her" is a pronoun that refers to Suzy. Without pronouns, we'd have to say Suzy threw the boomerang and the boomerang came back to Suzy. Without pronouns, how would we even say "we"? Definition of Pronoun In English, the part of speech used...

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist. Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron has had a strange last 48 hours on the campaign trail, denouncing one voter as not living in the “real world” over her criticisms of the President’s lockdown policy, while praising another woman for being both a feminist who wears an Islamic veil, she said, voluntarily.

Leonid and Friends, a favorite of many FReepets just released a cover of Tower of Power So Very Hard to Go. Serge Tyagnaradno, their outstanding lead singer and citizen of Ukraine has left the band. He’s been replaced by Michael Puntov who performs this song with heat skill. Check leonidandf.band for upcoming tour dates.

The goal of socialism is communism. That’s Vladimir Lenin’s famed “socialism leads to communism quote,” a good one to preface any list of socialism quotes. Marxists usually regard socialism as the stepping stone to communism, a state of utopia in which the government controls everything its citizens say and do. Any socialists who don’t believe this are obliviously doing the Marxists’ work for them. How does socialism breed communism? Well, once the government is in charge of redistributing wealth, it becomes increasingly picky about just who can have any. Party officials, whose work is paramount to the continued operations of...

Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO. An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki. The missile systems are thought to be the K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence system, designed to take out surface ships up to and including aircraft carrier battle groups. The Russian deployment comes as Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she expects her government 'will end...

If you've got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling. If you feel like there's been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what's going on with this war, it's because that's exactly what has been happening. If you can't recall ever seeing such intense mass media spin about a war before, it's because you haven't. If you get the distinct impression that this may be the most aggressively perception-managed...

Just one week after “Rigged” exposed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plot to influence the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden, the nonprofit that facilitated most of his donations announced new plans for this year’s midterm elections. If you want to see the film that just may have scared Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, enough to stay out of the next elections, get “Rigged” here right now for just $4.99. According to ABC News, the Center for Tech and Civic Life announced Monday it will not distribute donations for this year’s midterm elections like it did during the 2020 cycle....