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A Shaw Air Force Base airman shot an individual who attempted to illegally get into the property in South Carolina on Friday. According to a press release, the individual who attempted to enter the base is being described as a "gate runner," WCBD reported. The individual was taken to a local hospital....

Hong Kong CNN — Almost 250 million people in China may have caught Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate from the nation’s top health officials, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times reported Friday. If correct, the estimate – which CNN cannot independently confirm – would account for roughly 18% of China’s 1.4 billion people and represent the largest Covid-19 outbreak to date globally. The figures cited were presented during an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday, according to both outlets – which cited sources familiar with the matter or...

On Friday evening, suspended Texas Longhorns head coach Chris Beard's fiance released a statement through her attorney disputing aspects of the account she gave police officers that led to Beard's arrest and a third-degree felony charge for assault by strangulation/suffocation - family violence. [Linked article lists what she told and showed to Police - She basically recants everything]

SHANGHAI/TAIPEI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - China expressed anger on Saturday at a new U.S. defence authorisation law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan, while Taipei cheered it for helping boost the island's security. China, which considers democratically governed Taiwan its own territory, expressed "strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition"... ...It said the $858 billion military spending measure, which authorises up to $10 billion in security assistance and fast-tracked weapons procurement for Taiwan, contained provisions that "cause serious damage ....

“Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work” (Proverbs 24:28-29).

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s onwards, many of which are currently held in the British Museum. They stem from the ancient city of Nineveh which, for a time, was likely the most dazzling in the world. There is evidence of occupation at the site already by 3,000 BC, an era known as the late Uruk period. But it...

Andy Griffith Show, Christmas Episode (1960) https://youtu.be/ZDwa7DQvXeE

Border patrol officers on the southern border caught 233,740 illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico last month. The figure is the highest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded for November underscoring the chaos that exists even while the Title 42 pandemic border expulsion policy has been delayed. The Department of Homeland Security announced the numbers quietly on in a Friday night data dump.

Whoopi Goldberg has once again claimed that the Holocaust was not about race, insisting the Nazis 'were not killing racial' and repeating the argument that saw her suspended in February from her $8 million-a-year role hosting talk show The View. The Oscar-winning actress was suspended from The View in February for saying the Holocaust was not about race, but rather 'white on white' violence and 'man's inhumanity to man' - and the interviewer was told in advance not to discuss the chat show. Yet Goldberg readily repeated her controversial comments, when it was pointed out that the Nazis certainly believed...

Can supercooled running water freeze due to a pressure change? Thursday I spent almost all day prepping for our "Arctic blast" that rolled in late in the afternoon. (Most impressive!) Among many other things, I checked to make sure the small thermostatically controlled heating element under our water tank was plugged in. (The wellhouse is part of but outside our house proper.) I ended up getting to sleep around 2 am -- exhausted & filthy I just crashed out on the carpet in the LR. (With all my warm clothes on it was quite comfy.) I woke up ~8 am:...

Tesla had his obsessions and did display what is perhaps ritualistic behavior. At one point during his life, Tesla said that “if you only knew the magnificence of the numbers 3, 6, and 9, then you would have a key to the universe. What exactly he meant by this remains an enigma. Still, many of his followers and historians believe it had great significance, not only for Tesla but for the future of mankind. Tesla, for example, would walk around a block exactly THREE times before he decided to walk into a building. He wore gloves and was afraid of...

The Jin Jiyan Azadi movement ticks lots of boxes for me. They are female lead and non violent. They do not want military intervention despite the theocratic tyranny in their country. They love freedom and they live by it. They are standing up for human rights which the West is allowing to disappear in the West. We can learn from them. Even Tulsi Gabbard. God Bless Mogud for being such a beautiful spokesperson for freedom.

NORAD Santa Tracker Christmas Eve 2022 Santa is currently packing his sleigh at the North Pole and departs for his spectacular trip across the Heavens in 3 hours. Merry Christmas FReepers.

Ok, so I'm behind on computer tech: So far as I can tell, most current desktop and laptop computers have gone to* a single (TRRS) Tip-Ring-Ring-Sleeve audio jack (plug) for audio in and out, configured as: Tip = Out/Left, Outer Ring = Out/Right, Inner Ring = Ground, Sleeve = Mic/In. Well, hooey bluey, this means there's no stereo line input... Is the best option to use a stereo-line-to-USB adaptor?**

"a con job and a disgrace, they want to stop us from taking back our country" That's some of the message from President Trump... Tik Tok says that its employees used the company's app to track the movements... Facebook's parent company Meta paying 725 million dollars to settle a lawsuit... A New Zealand man on the FBI's most wanted list arrested by police in Spain... At 13 initially reported dead in a fire at an illegal nursing home in Russia... In Chile a massive fire has left two ded and destroyed at least 200 homes... Politics in Arizona a quick...

December 23 may not mean much to you (unless it’s your or someone you love and care about’s birthday, obviously), but to others, it’s maybe the most important and sacred day of the entire year. That’s right, y’all. It’s Festivus. pic.twitter.com/lEPC6T8y5d — no context seinfeld (@casualseinfeld) December 23, 2022 Now, normally, Festivus features a dinner at which you gather your family around, and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year! But what if the people who have disappointed you the most have other plans? We highly doubt that all 18 Republican senators who voted...

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers, turnpike personnel and first responders from several agencies remain on the scene hours after a multi-vehicle crash on the Ohio Turnpike left four dead and many injured Friday afternoon. As of 9:10 p.m., 15 commercial vehicles are being cleared from the roadway. The crash happened eastbound between State Route 53 and State Route 4 in Sandusky County and eventually stretched into Erie County. Forty-six vehicles were involved in the crash, according to OSHP Sgt. Ryan Purpura. At least three of the four victims were in different vehicles, and none of their identities have been released....

@RepChipRoy "Everything the American people is watching right now is a complete SHAM, it's a FRAUD...The American people deserve us to be here over Christmas actually FIGHTING for them!" "What you see here on the floor of the House should make everybody ASHAMED!" Video.. [5 min]

Some families in the U.S. are taking to social media to share their dislike for Santa Claus. Like Sierra McKenzie, who has three children aged three weeks to three years and went on TikTok to exclaim why she is against Jolly Old Saint Nick. McKenzie, 23, had more to say. “Telling kids that Santa is real is a lie, and I don’t believe in building my kids up on a lie,” McKenzie, who hails from North Dakota, told The New York Post. “Your kids can still enjoy the magic of Christmas without believing in Santa,” she said, adding that the...