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China’s homemade FH-95 electronic warfare and armed reconnaissance drone recently passed a milestone performance test, providing a new dimension to the nation’s electronic warfare capabilities, according to the Communist Party-run Global Times. Citing the Beijing-based magazine Unmanned Vehicles, the Global Times report said that the FH-95, manufactured by Aerospace Times Feihong Technology Corporation (ATFTC) under the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, last month completed a successful test at an undisclosed air base. The Global Times has released limited information on the FH-95’s specifications, noting only that it has a one-ton takeoff weight, can carry a 250-kilogram payload and...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Despite our high vaccination rate, COVID-19 activity remains high in San Diego County, the Health and Human Services Agency reported Friday, even as hospitalizations are on a slow decline. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved San Diego County to the high-risk level for COVID-19 three weeks ago and cases continue to trend high. Dr. Wilma Wooten has publicly supported the CDC’s recommendations to wear masks indoors in public spaces, get vaccinated and boosted, and stay home if you are feeling sick. Despite these recommendations from San Diego County, none of our elected officials...

The United Nations reports that at least 5,237 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the Ukraine war – but other estimates place this figure at more than 10,000. Ukraine, meanwhile, has started more than 16,000 investigations into suspected war crimes committed by Russians. For me and my colleagues – who since 1998 have worked in securing forensic evidence of these types of crimes in Afghanistan, Guatemala and other places – it is apparent that identifying and collecting evidence of international crimes like killing civilians during conflict is beyond the capabilities and resources of local police crime scene teams, criminal investigators...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is getting roasted … over her weekend grilling. Twitter users are mocking the New York governor — who is currently running to be elected to her first full term in office — after she posted a photo of herself grilling burgers and dogs on Sunday that seemed very staged. “Great day for a barbecue, New York,” Gov. Kathy Hochul wrote in the post alongside a photo of her wearing a perfectly white dress and even cleaner white apron wrapped around it while holding a hamburger patty on a spatula. Twitter critics said it looked clear from the...

The sanctuary jurisdictions are listed below. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, denying ICE access to interview incarcerated aliens, or otherwise impeding communication or information exchanges between their personnel and federal immigration officers. A detainer is the primary tool used by ICE to gain custody of criminal aliens for deportation. It is a notice to another law enforcement agency that ICE intends to assume...

Oklahoma Sooners assistant football coach Cale Gundy has resigned from his position after he used a “shameful” word during a team meeting. SNIP “I owe it to Sooner Nation to be transparent about what led to this decision: Last week, during a film session, I instructed my players to take notes,” the statement read. “I noticed a player was distracted and picked up his iPad and read aloud the words that were written on his screen. The words displayed had nothing to do with football. One particular word that I should never — under any circumstance — have uttered was...

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCu4G_ZkBI0Surveillance video inside a vape shop in Las Vegas shows an owner defending himself with a knife from would-be robbers. On Aug. 3, Johnny Nguyen, 22, was captured on film stabbing one of three juveniles who tried to rob his store, the Smokestrom Smoke Shop in the neighborhood of West Sahara in Las Vegas. According to Nguyen, two masked individuals entered his shop while another stood by the door at around 3:25 p.m.on Aug. 3. In the video, Nguyen can be heard asking them as they approach the counter, ”Why are you guys wearing masks like that?” After...

(CNN)Doug Mastriano, the Trump-endorsed GOP nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, is expected to appear virtually on Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection but might not end up answering any questions due to a dispute over his testimony, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

Axios.com reported Monday that photos exist of ripped-up notes allegedly found in a White House toilet that staff believed were disposed of by then-President Donald Trump.The photos, if authenticated, would help to corroborate earlier claims that Trump disposed of White House documents in unconventional ways, raising questions about whether he violated federal laws on the preservation of government documents.SCOOP: Maggie Haberman’s new book about former President Trump will report that White House staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president was the flusher.Well, it turns out there are photos. https://t.co/GJyxxtOjH9— Axios (@axios) August...

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Olivia Newton-John died "peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends," according to an Instagram post shared by her family. She was 73. "We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time. Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer." The Australian singer was known just as much for her top hits, including "Physical" and "You're the One That I Want," as she was for her starring role alongside John Travolta in the classic film, "Grease."

A political strategist known for helping a Tea Party challenger unseat former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will manage the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Dan Cox. Cox announced Friday that Zach Werrell will serve as his campaign manager, touting his “extensive statewide campaign experience with national contacts.” Werrell managed the 2014 congressional primary election campaign of Republican Dave Brat of Virginia, who ousted Cantor in a stunning upset. Cox faces Democrat Wes Moore in Maryland’s November election. Werrell, who grew up in Southern Maryland, is co-author of “How to Bag a RINO: The Whiz Kids Who Brought Down House Majority...

CBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing. CBS tweeted on Monday that it had removed a a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine's front lines. It said it was updating the documentary, called "Arming Ukraine," with "new information" about the delivery of military aid to Ukraine. Among the material removed was a quote the founder of pro-Ukraine nonprofit Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman, who said in late April that only around 30% of aid was...

Anne Heche likely won't spend "any significant time" in jail after she crashed her car into a home in Los Angeles on Friday. Heche, 53, will most likely be charged with hit-and-run along with reckless driving, a legal expert told Fox News Digital. Former U.S. Attorney Neama Rahmani explained the actress would only receive misdemeanor charges since she didn't cause any bodily injuries to anyone involved in the crashes. The actress crashed her Mini Cooper twice on Friday, with the second crash igniting a fire that left a home destroyed in the Mar Vista neighborhood. Heche suffered burn injuries, but...

"And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him." "And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen." "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his...

A 4-year-old child has captured hearts — and sparked a heated online debate — after announcing he was a boy via a rainbow-fueled gender reveal at the Vancouver Pride Parade. Charlie Danger Lloyd of Canada was assigned female at birth — but from a young age expressed he was a boy, his mom said. Now-viral footage and photos captured the moment young Charlie — with his grandmother by his side — released a confetti canon that filled the area with blue smoke. “Once they closed the road, Charlie strutted out with Grammy and they faced the sidelines and after a...

Gun-grabbing leftist Beto O’Rourke got the boot from Rockdale, Texas this weekend. The Democrat nominee for governor held an event at the Kay Theater in Rockdale, Texas on Saturday night. There were more anti-Beto Republicans across the street from the venue than there were Beto supporters inside the Kay Theater. (His real name is Robert O’Rourke…he took on the nickname “Beto” in recent years to try and fool voters that he was Latino.) Beto was surrounded. This leftist activist tried to pretend that Republicans would have attacked O’Rourke. Nope…it is the left which attacks Republicans, sets churches and courthouses on...

(WGHP) — Olivia Newton-John died at 73 on Monday morning at her home in California, according to her husband.Newton-John died of breast cancer after a 30-year battle with the disease, TMZ reports.The singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and activist won four Grammys and had five No .1 hits and ten top-10 hits. She also had two No. 1 albums in the 1970s.She is most well known for her role as Sandy Olsson in “Grease” and was passionate about the environment and animal rights.Her husband released the following statement:Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this...

A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system. Its purpose is not justice but population control. n Thursday, Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder decided it was the time to bring the subtext of the Jan. 6 show trials and related domestic security state activities into the open. “My guess is that by the end of this process, you’re going to see indictments involving high-level people in the White House, you’re going to see indictments against people outside the White House who were advising them with regard to the attempt to steal the election,...

One day after officials touted the passage of the Connecticut Clean Air Act, including plans for thousands of electric vehicles to hit the road, one of the state-run electric buses caught on fire over the weekend. The blaze engulfed a CTtransit bus in a Hamden parking lot Saturday morning, sending two workers and a firefighter to the hospital, officials said. “Lithium ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,” Hamden fire officials said. Two transit workers were hospitalized as a precaution after being exposed to the smoke. A...