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Robbie Knievel, the son of the famed stuntman and daredevil Evel Knievel, has tragically died aged 60. The news was first reported by TMZ, which reports that a source close to the family revealed that Robbie Knievel had been receiving hospice care as he battled pancreatic cancer. Knievel reportedly died on Friday morning (January 13), with his daughters by his side. Following in his father's footsteps as a thrillseeking performer, Robbie rode his first bike when he was just four years old, and went on to perform at his father's Madison Square Garden show when he was just eight. Throughout...

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday a new rule targeting pistol attachments known as "stabilizing braces," implementing a key move in the Biden administration's efforts to beef up gun control regulations. A stabilizing brace is an attachment to a pistol that functionally turns it into a short-barreled rifle, similar to a sawed-off shotgun. Such weapons are considered particularly deadly as they offer the power of a traditional rifle, but are much easier to conceal. For decades, short-barreled rifles have been subject to strict regulations, including a law known as the National Rifle Act, which...

Severe flooding hit California’s Salinas Valley on Thursday, as the Salinas River burst its banks, flooding farmland and threatening to cut off access to the Monterey Peninsula. Several levees have broken along the banks of the Salinas River, located just south of the Bay Area, with footage of the destruction going viral on Friday morning. So much water is pouring out of the basin that the entirety of the Monterey Peninsula risks being cut off entirely from road access, NBC News reported.

It’s 2028. Our non-binary Emporer/Empress Kamala Harris has outlawed guns, meat, combustible engines, gas stoves, and testicles. Americans are starving except for those lucky enough to live in the Great Plains states, where federally-sanctioned locusts are mercifully plentiful this year. The Billboard # 1 song is “I’m dreaming of a Diverse Christmas” for three years straight until Christmas is outlawed. Auto insurance and driver’s licenses have been banned so as not to offend those who prefer to drive without them. Thankfully, a quick scan of the chip in your head will tell the ESG police everything they need to know...

Some Freepers will find this uplifting. Some will probably not like it.I found it to have a very positive kick at the end.I would tell you what it's about but it would spoil the ending. And it's only 30 src.

U.S. — Male M&M's everywhere rejoiced after the announcement by Mars, Inc. that the female M&M's are getting their own bag. The male M&M's hope this change will finally give them some much sought-after peace and quiet. According to sources, the red, yellow, blue, and orange M&M's are hoping this means they can finally get a little rest and relaxation, lounge around all day, and just hang out with the bros without being nagged to death. "Yeah! Um, 'Empowered Women Empower Women' or whatever it is, right guys?!" said the Red M&M. "It's more important than ever to support women...

He’s going from one big house to another. A failed lawyer and movie executive from Florida has been sentenced to 8½ years in prison for stealing $7.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds, which he used to buy luxury cars and a 12,500-square-foot mansion on a 12-acre estate. Don Cisternino, 47, of Chuluota, Fla., pleaded guilty in September in federal court in Orlando to wire-fraud and identity-theft charges for the scam in which he submitted applications for pandemic aid programs. Cisternino claimed he had a film and theater production and marketing business that had 441 employees, when in reality it had...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) issued a joint statement Friday calling on Congress to avoid a potential default “forced by extreme MAGA Republicans,” the opening salvo in what will be a months-long battle over raising the federal debt limit. Lawmakers in both parties predict the Democratic-controlled White House and Senate are headed for a showdown with newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the debt limit after McCarthy pledged to House conservatives last week to attach spending reforms to debt limit legislation. Schumer and Jeffries called on Republicans to move quickly on...

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) launched the first congressional investigation into classified documents stored at Joe Biden’s private office and home. It was revealed this week that Joe Biden improperly stored stolen classified documents at his private office and in his garage next to his Corvette. ....Snip...... According to CNN, the classified documents were found in a folder labeled “personal.” Chairman Jordan on Friday sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland informing him of the investigation and asked him to provide a list of documents related to GarageGate. Rep. Jordan asked for all documents and communications relating...

“Nothing critical [was diagnosed], the president’s condition closer to nighttime was stable, he can get around on his own, with pain in the coccyx area while sitting being the only thing that bothers him,” it added.

The Centers for Disease Control says that a preliminary COVID-19 vaccine "safety signal" has been identified and is investigating whether the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 and older. In the statement, the CDC says that the preliminary signal hasn't been identified with Bivalent Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

It’s not every day you find a government document calling for Cato Institute employees to be charged with treason, but as a new article in The Dispatch details, here we are: "In March 2020, a maritime shipping advisory panel offered a simple suggestion to the government: Charge all past and current members of two libertarian think tanks with treason. "It is certainly not the first time a bunch of libertarians angered members of a bureaucratic panel. But this backlash stemmed from criticism of the Jones Act, a century‐​old law that imposes requirements for shipping between American ports." Haley Byrd Wilt’s...

As a young music journalist, Jeff Beck was on the short list of icons who I really wanted to interview. I knew he had a repuation of being somewhat curmudgeonly so I wasn’t even sure if I really wanted it to happen. But in 1999 he was doing some interviews around his album Who Else!, and I took my shot and to my surprise, was approved. When I interviewed legendary rockers – particularly ones who have collaborated with a lot of other artists – I would always ask about the different interesting things that they did. In Jeff’s case, I...

<p>State Duma Deputy Viktor Sobolev announced on Friday that Russian reservists who are 30 and older and have no military experience will be trained after adopting a law that would change the call-up age for conscripts, Russian news agency URA.RU reported.</p>

Explanation: The most massive young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud is NGC 346, embedded in our small satellite galaxy's largest star forming region some 210,000 light-years distant. Of course the massive stars of NGC 346 are short lived, but very energetic. Their winds and radiation sculpt the edges of the region's dusty molecular cloud triggering star-formation within. The star forming region also appears to contain a large population of infant stars. A mere 3 to 5 million years old and not yet burning hydrogen in their cores, the infant stars are strewn about the embedded star cluster. This...

Did US Air Force Academy cadet Hunter Brown collapse and die suddenly from vaccine SADS, on the way to class?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are! Claim : Cadet Hunter Brown Collapsed From Vaccine SADS! When news broke that US Air Force Academy cadet Hunter Brown suddenly collapsed and died on the way to class, anti-vaccination activists immediately claimed that he died from the COVID-19 vaccine! We know he had the jab because he had to stay to in the Air Force. This is really getting out of hand…how many more...

The Klaus Schwab-run World Economic Forum summit upped its security in Davos on Friday with reports of police and military personnel blocking roads and checking fingerprints. A video posted on Twitter by Disclose.tv showed Swiss police scanning a person’s finger near the event location in Davos.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Two men in a pickup truck with “stolen tag” written on a piece of cardboard to serve as a license plate were arrested in connection with multiple burglaries in Brevard County, according to sheriff’s officials. Anthony Sosa, 31, and Chad Doulette, 36, were taken into custody Thursday and face multiple charges of grand theft and burglary. According to a probable cause affidavit, the pickup was spotted Wednesday at several houses on Tropical Trail on Merritt Island, where the burglaries occurred. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said jewelry worth thousands of dollars and a handgun were stolen...

The Agriculture Improvement Act, known as the farm bill, is up for renewal this year and lawmakers will soon debate whether to extend key provisions that currently help 34 million people suffering from food insecurity in America. But in today’s divisive political environment, where 15 voting rounds are needed to elect a Speaker of the U.S. House, the likelihood that our leaders will reach a consensus on this important legislation, sadly, seems entirely unthinkable. The bill, which requires reauthorization every five years, historically provides funding for nutritional and anti-hunger programs for income-challenged Americans. The bill’s current term, which expires later...

John Fogerty has finally gained worldwide control of his Creedence Clearwater Revival publishing rights, putting to bed one of the longest, nastiest battles in music industry history. Fogerty’s legal woes began nearly 60 years ago when CCR signed to Fantasy Records, which film producer and record company executive Saul Zaentz bought in 1967. Fogerty came to see the terms of the deal as unfair and tried for years to extricate himself from Fantasy Records. To get out of the deal, Fogerty relinquished his royalties to Zaentz in 1980 and did not see a payment from them for decades. Zaentz famously...