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After the Uvalde City Council voted against a leave of absence for embattled school district police chief Pete Arredondo on Tuesday evening, Mayor Don McLaughlin harshly criticized Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw for blaming local police in last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School. It came hours after McCraw told a special committee in the Texas senate that there was "a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject" within three minutes of the shooting, but Arredondo "decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children." McLaughlin told...

Not long after al Qaeda terrorists flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia, Major League Baseball teams started playing “God Bless America” in the seventh inning of their games. Many of these games were played in stadiums owned by local governments. Did that establish a religion? In Boston, the municipal government concluded that allowing a private group — Camp Constitution — to temporarily lift its Christian flag on a city-owned flagpole would suggest that the city was establishing a religion — and, thus, violating the First Amendment. On the same...

A group of around 200 partiers broke into an $8million Florida home and turned the foyer into a boxing ring before fleeing from police. The Walton County Sheriff's Office was called by security to a house in Watercolor for a 'noise complaint' on Saturday after a large group of rowdy partiers broke in and damaged the property. A flyer was allegedly passed around for a week on Snapchat, announcing the break-in, which the Sheriff's Office said in its post: 'Yes, we know about that too.' 'This had been advertised for an entire week, so that's going to be apart of...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love...

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The Russians are deliberately killing civilian Ukrainians and burning our fields. This is stated by Censor.NЕТ with reference to рress service of State Emergency Service According to rescuers, more than 80 hectares of wheat have burned as a result of Russian shelling in the Mykolaiv region in the last day alone. "However, thanks to the work of rescuers, it was possible to prevent the fire from overturning another 215 hectares of crops. In total, during the day on June 21 in the territory of the Mykolaiv region recorded 19 fires, as a result of military action - 8," - said...

Operatively the situation in our area is consistently tense, but controlled. The enemy continues to conduct combat operations at a certain line of Defense. To prove its power, it uses the tactics of dispersed, but almost simultaneous missile strikes in combination with multiple launch rocket systems or artillery. So, in the morning at the same time cruise missiles attacked Nikolaev and Ochakov, affected the port infrastructure, destroyed trucks, damaged buildings of enterprises and electrical networks. In parallel, the Multiple Launch Rocket System "Hurricane" shelled residential areas of Nikolaev. At the same time, prohibited cluster munitions were again used. One of...

The burn rate for this government (Ukraine...) is somewhere between five and six billion dollars a month and that is a staggering burn rate. USAID was part of president Biden's commitment in disbursing a billion dollars to the world bank trust fund. Thanks to congress and rare bipartisanship in this town we have 7.5 billion dollars more direct budget support that we wish to be providing to Ukraine. That is a lot of money and that is money that we know is not going to be enough. We know that more direct budget support is going to be needed down...

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New Version of footage San Francisco 1906, A Trip Down Market Street, Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building,

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Democrat Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated drug reimbursement rules for low-income patients in a blistering decision that the media is largely ignoring.President Donald J. Trump was in an epic battle with the HHS for his entire administration, wanting the massive and overblown agency to make better choices to serve the American people, and the left absolutely freaked out at the notion that a Government institution was not just a jobs program for them and their cronies- but was actually meant to serve the American people- effectively.He was so...

Nearly 1,300 Southwest Airline pilots gathered outside the Dallas Love Field airport on Tuesday to protest ongoing staff shortages as travel chaos continued on the first official day of summer - with more than 200 flights across the United States canceled. The Southwest Pilots Association called for better treatment of its pilots at the protest, which it called 'the largest display of unity in Southwest Airlines history.' It described the demonstration in Dallas, Texas an 'informational picket' in an effort to raise awareness of pilot fatigue, stress caused by ongoing pilot shortages - which it says is to blame for...

The U.S. Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an online FAQ allowing Americans to continue funding China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).The PLA is on the verge of launching its third aircraft carrier as part of its $9 billion dollar carrier program. This hefty price tag represents a small fraction of money the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has received from U.S. investors.China “exploits United States investors to finance the development and modernization of its military” wrote then-U.S. President Donald Trump on Nov. 12, 2020, in an executive order banning investment in Chinese stocks linked to the PLA. In the order, Trump accurately...

Remember the booming housing market — where Americans had great opportunities to relocate and/or trade up? Those days are likely to become a fading memory, thanks to rising interest rates, and arguably have already come to a screeching halt. CNBC reported that the latest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showed the worst result in two years for sales of existing homes:Sales of existing homes in May dropped 3.4% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 5.41 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors.Sales were 8.6% lower than in May 2021. April’s sales were revised slightly...

...the journal The Anatomical Record has published a study coordinated by Emiliano Bruner, who leads the Paleoneurology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), that analyzes the distribution of certain craniovascular traits in four native populations from the late Holocene in the southernmost regions of South America.The sample includes 70 skulls, dated to between 200 and 3,000 years old, from populations of four regions in Argentina: the pampas (Buenos Aires), southern Andes (Salta), central Patagonia (Chubut), and southern Patagonia (Tierra del Fuego). The four groups do not present substantial differences although, as has been observed...

The summer travel season has not exactly gotten off to a great start. Demand is up due to people ready to travel after an almost two-year pandemic kept many travelers at home. There is a pilot shortage now, though, and it is causing cancelations and delays. American Airlines told FOX Business on Monday that it is ending service to three cities on September 7. Those cities are Islip and Ithaca, New York, and Toledo, Ohio.The pilot shortage has been building since the pandemic. Some pilots were put on furlough. Others decided to retire or go into other areas of employment....

HOUSTON — A man was shot and killed Tuesday by a gun store employee in southwest Houston, police said. Around 3 p.m., investigators said the man walked inside Carter's Country gun store, located at 11800 Wilcrest Drive, with a "bladed object," went straight to the cash register and started taking money. Police said an employee confronted the suspect and fired two shots. After being shot, investigators said, the suspect left the store, leaving behind a trail of blood. .......

In case you didn’t know (between the horrid “bi-partisan” gun bill the Senate is attempting to pass and the distressing news out of Uvalde), there are several primaries and runoff elections happening tonight.One race that RedState has watched closely is the Alabama Senate contest. Former President Donald J. Trump first endorsed, then pulled said endorsement from U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, and instead backed his challenger Katie Britt, a former Chief of Staff to Sen. Richard Shelby, who is retiring from this Senate seat.The runoff contest became a choice between the true MAGA candidate and the Republican establishment candidate.On Tuesday night,...

Bassania was an Illyrian city that came under Roman control during the Illyrian Wars. The location of Bassania has previously been suggested to be near the village of Pedhanë in the Lezhë County, or the village of Bushat in the Shkodër County. Bassania was described by the Roman historian Livius (59 BC – AD 17) in the context of the struggle of the Roman army with the last king of the Illyrians, Gentios.The site was first discovered in 2018, when researchers from the University of Warsaw identified cyclopean defensive walls and two stone structures previously thought to be natural rock...