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Aug. 1, 2007 is a date Minnesotans won’t forget. Thirteen people were killed and another 145 were injured when the Interstate 35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis suddenly collapsed during rush hour. The incident garnered national attention and sparked conversation about road and bridge safety across the United States. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the collapse on gusset plates, which were half as thick as they should have been due to a flaw in the original design. The new bridge opened to the public on Sept. 18, 2008, and a memorial for the victims was also built...

Scorching heat prevailed again on Monday over wider Japan, with temperatures soaring above 39 degrees Celsius in Obama City on the Sea of Japan coast. The Meteorological Agency says clear skies and burning sunshine engulfed western and eastern Japan, among other regions. The foehn phenomenon, in which winds blowing down from mountains become dry and push up temperatures, also reinforced the heat along the Sea of Japan and inland areas. Daytime temperatures reached a record 39.1 degrees in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, and 38.9 degrees in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture. The mercury topped 38 degrees in areas in Saitama Prefecture. Temperatures...

Jaime Herrera Beutler faces a Trump-backed primary challenger after she voted to impeach him over Jan 6. She says she's "never been in this position" and is used to winning elections by focusing on local issues. She hopes her "independent" approach will "continue to be the thing that's most important to voters." Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, who voted to impeach President Donald Trump following the January 6 assault on the Capitol, will facing challengers from the right flank of her party in a primary next week. She says it's a relatively new experience for her. "I've never...

University presidents make a difference. The best of them can steer a university to new heights of greatness, while the worst of them can bring costly mediocrity or even extinction. A few weeks ago, Mitch Daniels of Purdue, arguably the primus inter pares of American university presidents, announced that he was stepping down at the end of 2022 after a decade of extraordinary service. Usually when a president announces his pending resignation, the governing board takes a few months to appoint a huge search committee and hires a firm specializing in placing prospective leaders. This leads to a year or...

PHOENIX — Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers over the weekend responded to criticism from former President Donald Trump for his testimony before the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. Trump in a rally last month supporting Arizona candidates he endorsed for office called Bowers a “RINO coward,” adding the Republican disgraced himself and the state for detailing efforts of the former president’s allies to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army has issued another warning to Nancy Pelosi ahead of her expected trip to Taiwan with a video simulating a missile strike, aircraft carriers advancing and fighter jets in formation. The video was posted on WeChat on Monday morning following reports the U.S. House Speaker will arrive in Taipei on Tuesday night - despite Beijing warning they could shoot her plane down and launch a military response. Senior Taiwanese government officials and a US official both told CNN that the stop is on her trip, even though it is not on her public itinerary. Reports from...

Krugersdorp attack and gang rape: Cele - 'Police are leaving no stone unturned' The families of some of eight survivors of the Krugersdorp gang rape ordeal have called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to continue the strong police action to arrest their attackers On the eve of Women’s Day, Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, met six of the eight survivors of the gang rape that has shocked the nation, along with their families on Sunday 31 July at the Alexandra police station. Some of the survivors are singers, models, presenters, and professional make-up artists. The meeting follows the...

TIERRA MONTE, N.M., July 31 (Reuters) - After the U.S. government started the largest wildfire in New Mexico's recorded history in April, it is asking victims to share recovery costs on private land, jeopardizing relief efforts, according to residents and state officials. The blaze was sparked by U.S. Forest Service (USFS) prescribed fires to reduce wildfire risk. The burns went out of control after a series of missteps, torching 432 residences and over 530 square miles (1373 square km) of mostly privately owned forests and meadows, much of it held by members of centuries-old Indo-Hispano ranching communities. "Today I'm announcing...

Eight days before a tough primary, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler found herself standing on top of a wastewater treatment plant in Washougal, a small town in her district in southwest Washington state. Her opponents had spent the weekend staging town halls and glad-handing, but the congresswoman said she's focused on her job. That focus brought her to the plant, where Washougal staff thanked her for securing $1 million in federal funds to buy and install something called an anoxic selector. "That's how you say it?" she said with a laugh. "I'm not going to lie, I can read it....

In case you haven't heard, the United States is currently in the process of "transitioning." For reasons of decorum, and to not upset the rubes, from what to what is never quite spelled out, but those of us who have been following the "progressive" Left for the past six decades or so have a pretty clear idea of what they mean. It was first brazenly articulated by candidate Barack Obama in a campaign appearance just before the 2008 presidential election when he said, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” At the time, such...

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There are times when we need to be reminded of where the real greatness of America lies. It is not with politicians, political pundits, and prognosticators, and it is certainly not with those who seek to fundamentally transform the greatest nation the world has ever known. But what has made America this great nation? It is simple—the men and women whom we may never know who will stand guard on freedom's ramparts and say, “sleep well, I am on watch.” Last week, I had my first ever trip to Ft Jackson, South Carolina. My ROTC advanced training was at Ft....

You have to wade thru their 30 sec. commercial before watching this short hit with CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the Battleground Tracker's estimates on House control for the 2022 midterm elections. Air Date: Aug 1, 2022.

VIDEOIn reality there are now two political parties in America: MAGA and Anti-MAGA. Any new party that forms will only split the Anti-MAGA vote which is why liberals HATE the new Forward Party formed by Andrew Yang.

Ronna Romney McDaniel was on Varney and Co. this morning. McDaniel is famous for blowing a landslide presidential election win and allowing it to be stolen by a candidate with dementia who never left his basement. McDaniel did nothing when GOP observers were removed from the ballot counting rooms in the battleground states. ** McDaniel did nothing after Democrats dropped tens of thousands of illegal ballots into the state totals in the early morning following the 2020 election. ** McDaniel did nothing when Democrats continued to deliver hundreds of thousands of mysterious votes into the counting rooms days after the...

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The state agency is considering changes to the current NEM program, where solar energy users put excess energy into the state’s power grid to receive credits on their monthly bills. The proposed changes would eliminate this financial incentive and reversely tax users per month simply for having rooftop solar.

Was this a Biden commercial? Or just an Axios.com commercial touting Biden? At the end of Monday's Way Too Early, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire introduced their regular feature on Axios.com's "1 Big Thing." Axios co-founder Mike Allen (a former New York Times and Washington Post reporter) sounded like a Biden advertisement, gushing over "Biden's Success Story" on the economy and going so far as to compare him to Ronald Reagan at this point in their presidencies, even though Biden looks more like Jimmy Carter. Allen touted "Biden's winning streak" on legislation, a "rewiring of the economy." ALLEN: So we just...

Former President Donald Trump-backed candidates Kari Lake, running for governor, and Blake Masters, running for U.S. Senate, have taken commanding leads in the polls just days before Arizona’s primaries.The OH Predictive poll conducted on July 27 found that the GOP likely voters supported the Trump-backed candidates for office over the rest of the candidates’ respective fields.Among the 502 respondents, Lake, a former local Fox 10 news anchor, held a double-digit lead, with 51 percent saying they would vote for her. The next closest competitor was Karrin Taylor Robson, with 33 percent of the vote.The other candidates were Matt Salmon, with...

Russia has said its forces have destroyed two U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, also known as HIMARS, in Ukraine. The number adds to the four HIMARS launchers that Russia claimed to have destroyed over a two-week period in July. A "high-precision" strike in Kharkiv took out the systems and killed 53 people, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian defense ministry, said in an announcement on Monday, according to Russian state news agency TASS. "As a result of a high-precision strike in the city of Kharkiv, on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant, two American launchers...