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<p>A Florida man grabbed his wife’s car and chased after three armed suspects accused of stealing his vehicle, according to a report.</p><p>Driving a Dodge Caravan, Edgar Diaz arrived in a parking lot off Commander Drive in Orlando when he was approached by three armed suspects, police told FOX 35.</p>

Another US billionaire in the oil/gas industry (or in commodity markets) blamed the Biden administration’s energy policies for soaring fuel costs and said it would magnify the current crisis.John Arnold, former Enron trader and hedge fund manager, known as the “king of natural gas,” unleashed a tweetstorm Tuesday directed at Biden for the worsening supply outlook that sent natgas futures to 13-year highs. US Natgas supplies are trending below a 5-year mean. Source: Houston-based energy firm Criterion ResearchHe said the federal government should invoke the Defense Production Act to spur increased production, or prices could rise even more and cause...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called out President Biden, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrats Wednesday while urging the House to approve legislation boosting protection for Supreme Court justices “before the sun sets today” after an armed man was arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home. “This is where we are … an assassination attempt against a sitting justice or something close to it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “This is exactly the kind of event that many worried that the unhinged, reckless, apocalyptic rhetoric from prominent figures ​t​oward the court​, ​going back many months, and...

Pro-abortion protesters are planning to protest at the homes of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts Wednesday evening in the wake of an assassination attempt on Kavanaugh by an armed man who told police he traveled from California to kill Kavanaugh. The man got out of a taxi in front of Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after 1 a.m. Wednesday but walked away when he was spotted by U.S. Marshals. He was arrested after he called 911 and said he was armed and planned to kill Kavanaugh but was also suicidal. The announcement for protests at homes of...

Explanation: What are those unusual streaks? Some images of planet Earth show clear bright streaks that follow the paths of ships. Known as ship tracks, these low and narrow bands are caused by the ship's engine exhaust. Water vapor condenses around small bits of exhaust known as aerosols, which soon grow into floating water drops that efficiently reflect sunlight. Ship tracks were first discovered in 1965 in Earth images taken by NASA's TIROS satellites. Multiple ship tracks are visible across the featured image that was captured in 2009 over the Pacific Ocean by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite....

A former professor at the University of South Florida is suing the university’s Board of Trustees for over $100,000 in damages, alleging bias and discrimination. Andrew Bugajski (pictured), who worked for the College of Nursing, stated that Usha Menon, dean and senior associate vice president for USF Health, discriminated against him with derisive identity-based comments and “hostility.” As a result, he “suffered damage to his professional and personal reputations,” “mental anguish,” and lost income, according to documents filed in Hillsborough County court. Bugajski said he was “forced to resign” in May 2021 after nearly three years’ employment at the university...

Kremlin Declares “Land Bridge” Complete From Western Russia To Donbas To CrimeaRussia’s military has declared that its desired strategic “land bridge” connecting Russian national territory with the Donbas and Crimea is complete, according to statements given to CNN senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt. The Tuesday Russian military statement said that “roads and rail lines between western Russia and Crimea are operational,” which marks that “the land bridge is complete.”“Conditions have been created for the resumption of full-fledged traffic between Russia, Donbas, Ukraine and Crimea on six railway sections,” Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. “Automobile communication has been opened from...

Twitter is giving in to Elon Musk's request for access to its" firehose" of internal data, according to a report from the Washington Post. A weekslong battle over the proprietary data stream has slowed down Musk's proposed takeover of the social-media platform. Musk's proposal to buy and privatize Twitter has been plagued with strife and chaos from the jump. Musk has noted that he can walk away from the purchase, which has recently thrown off his efforts to finance the bid. Previously, Musk attorney Mike Ringler wrote that Twitter was "thwarting" requests for data about fake accounts and spammers. Meanwhile,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre was delivering her third on-camera goodbye to a departing staffer in less than 24 hours when she quipped to reporters, “I promise we will have a press shop.” She added: “Not everyone is leaving.” It’s a dynamic playing out across the White House complex this month

MILWAUKEE - A federal judge in Milwaukee has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to bar Republican U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany as well as Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson from the 2022 ballot because they supported Donald Trump leading up to the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Capital Times newspaper in Madison reported Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman dismissed the case on Friday. He said the lawsuit wasn’t "procedurally proper." The lawsuit alleged the three Republicans violated the "Disqualification Clause" of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The clause prohibits anyone from holding...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol played out for the world to see, but the House committee investigating the attack believes a more chilling story has yet to be told -- about the president and the people whose actions put American democracy at risk. With personal accounts and gruesome videos the 1/6 committee expects Thursday’s prime-time hearing to begin to show that America’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power came close to slipping away. It will reconstruct how the president, Donald Trump, refused to concede the 2020 election, spread false claims of...

The pro-choice activist group leading protests outside the home of Supreme Court justices vowed not to stop its “civil disobedience” despite laws prohibiting the gathering outside of the justices’ homes. A spokesperson from the organization Ruth Sent Us said American law is “designed to protect corrupt officials and their property.”

U.S.—Excitement across the nation has reached a fever pitch as the famed Powerball Lottery jackpot reached the staggering sum of two tanks of gas. "Two tanks! Can you imagine?" said local man Bob Porter as he waited in line outside a 7-Eleven. "I'd use one to fill up my truck, and sell the other to pay off my kid's college and buy me a mansion! Move over, Billy Gates!" The rush on lottery tickets is unprecedented since the creation of the Powerball. "I've never seen anything like it," said Ohio gas station attendant Marie Billings. "I will say though, part...

The Washington Post desperately tried to protect President Joe Biden from the political fallout of a gas price spike that it pretended in 2020 wouldn’t happen under his leadership. The Post’s liberal fact-checker Glenn Kessler once published a story in July 2021 headlined: “The bogus GOP claim that Biden is responsible for higher gasoline prices.” The newspaper’s leftist opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin wailed in March 2022 that Republican assertions blaming Biden for spiking gas prices were “untrue.” The Post even claimed May 31, 2022 that the surging gas prices stemmed from “factors beyond the president’s control.” But insulating Biden from...

The so-called “deadlock” over resolving the global food crisis is just as artificially manufactured as its origins since Kiev has now officially declared that it won’t resume wheat exports by sea to the Global South unless it receives anti-ship missiles first. Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar officially demanded weapons in exchange for resuming wheat exports by sea in what amounts to the blatant blackmailing of the Global South in the midst of the artificially manufactured food crisis. He said that “Effective security guarantees are required for maritime shipments to resume. These guarantees must be provided through the supply of...

Lawmakers in the European Parliament plenary voted Wednesday to mandate that all new car and van sales should be zero emissions from 2035 as part of efforts to clean up road transport. Lawmakers backed the final report on revised vehicle CO2 emission standards legislation with 339 in favor, 249 against and with 24 abstentions. The legislation is a key part of the Fit for 55 package and mandates that carmakers should reduce their fleetwide emission averages by 100 percent from 2035, with interim steps in 2025 and 2030.

In March, Schumer, D-N.Y., was criticized after standing outside the Supreme Court, surrounded by abortion rights supporters, and commenting that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh "have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," The comments came while the justices were deliberating a crucial Louisiana abortion case, and before the Roe v. Wade leak indicating that the court would overturn the landmark 1973 decision. She also said that there has been no effort to go after the person who leaked the Roe v. Wade draft decision, which...

In the fall of 2018, protesters opposed to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination disrupted the hearings and chased one senator into an elevator and another out of a restaurant. Some “protesters broke through Capitol Police barricades and rushed up the steps to the Capitol Rotunda.” Other protesters “pushed past a police line, storming up steps to pound on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court.” All of this led to hundreds of arrests, which predictably were treated with lenience on the theory that political protesters breaching the Capitol was no big deal. In March 2020, standing on the steps of the Supreme...

I thought it would be fun. That's what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car. I'd made long road trips before, surviving popped tires, blown headlights and shredded wheel-well liners in my 2008 Volkswagen Jetta. I figured driving the brand-new Kia EV6 I'd rented would be a piece of cake. If, that is, the public-charging infrastructure cooperated. We wouldn't be the first to test it. Sales of pure and hybrid plug-ins doubled in the U.S. last year to 656,866 -- over 4% of...

A military aircraft carrying nuclear material has crashed in California, leaving officials to believe all five passengers are dead. The plane crashed in Imperial County near Highway 78 and the town of Glamis - 30 miles north of the Mexican border, and 150 miles east of San Diego. The crash was confirmed by Naval Air Facility El Centro, 30 miles from the crash site. Officials believe at least five people were aboard at the time of the crash. Investigators have presumed all passengers are dead, according to FOX 5 reporter Malik Earnest.