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Recently, Hurricane Ian caused significant damage and flooding throughout Florida and the southeastern United States. During the response and reconstitution after the hurricane, first responders encountered numerous vehicle fires involving electric vehicles (EVs) that are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Subsequent investigations have revealed that the vehicle fires resulted from exposure of the lithium-ion batteries to salt water. Many vehicles had been susceptible to flooding. Saltwater exposure can significantly degrade lithium-ion batteries, causing a chemical reaction that creates an extreme fire risk. Review of vehicle registration records revealed there are over 7,000 EVs in Lee County, Fla., with potential for damage.

By Alan Patterson 02.03.2023 An imminent ban on U.S. exports to Huawei is seen as the first volley in a new wave of restrictions that will impair China’s semiconductor, AI and quantum computing industries—all critical for tech dominance in military and commercial realms. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has stopped licensing U.S. companies to export to Huawei as Washington aims for a total ban on sales of U.S. technology to the Chinese telecom equipment giant, the Financial Times reported this week, citing people inside the White House familiar with the plan. China’s largest chipmakers like Semiconductor Manufacturing International...

Migrant patients are overwhelming a border town's sole hospital, straining medical resources and placing the facility on the brink of collapse without sufficient funding to accommodate the influx of people. Dr. Robert Transchel, the president and CEO of Yuma, Arizona's Yuma Regional Medical Center, told co-hsot Rachel Campos-Duffy Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend" that the problem is nothing new. "It's been a long journey," he said. "We've been at this for well over a year now. We tracked our uncompensated care for a period of over six months, and we calculated that we've provided over $20 million in uncompensated...

A New York State Police trooper was arrested and charged with issuing over two dozen fake traffic tickets to unsuspecting motorists in 2021 and 2022. Edward Longo, 34, issued 32 tickets and supporting depositions containing false statements and false information without performing traffic stops or observing traffic violations on eight different occasions between May 10, 2021, and October 2, 2022, according to the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors allege that Longo never actually conducted a stop or witnessed a traffic violation. One of the people Longo is accused of falsely ticketing had died prior to their supposed interaction, officials...

This story from last week keeps getting worse. The husband of 32-year-old Lindsay Clancy went to the store for about 20-minutes. When he returned, he found his three small children unconscious, suffocated by their mother. Now, her attorney is saying she was overmedicated with 13 psychiatric drugs at the time of the murders. According to One America News:

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Americans have been hung out to dry by the Biden administration. Between the rising prices of goods to the potential ramifications of all-out nuclear war in Eastern Europe, it’s only taken two short years for Joe Biden and the radical tyrants in his circle to dismantle the positive strides toward American sovereignty made during the Trump administration.As 2024 approaches, the golden days of Trump’s America First agenda are beginning to look better and better – even to the critics. As Joe Biden fumbles his way through a classified document scandal and continues...

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) on Sunday called it “unacceptable” for the United States to get to a point where it is unable to pay its bills if the debt ceiling is not raised. “The worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk and we don’t pay our debts,” Gottheimer told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That’s unacceptable. You can’t not pay your bills.”

WASHINGTON – China on Sunday protested against Washington’s decision to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over North America, accusing the United States of overreacting and warning that it reserves the right to take retaliatory measures. But with bipartisan consensus in the US foreign and national security establishments regarding China as an existential threat, it was long clear that President Joe Biden did not have any choice but to shoot the balloon down. Shooting it down safely gave Mr Biden a chance to look confident and in charge, in the face of a chorus from China hawks in Congress....

In this funny video, the Golden retriever dog is seen dragging its human dad out of the room and shutting the door behind him for rushing the food its grandma is eating. I know the dog is trained to do this but it is so freaking adorable!

5 February 20235th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Agatha’s Cathedral, Catania, Sicily Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 58:7-10 ©Then will your light shine like the dawnThus says the Lord:Share your bread with the hungry,and shelter the homeless poor,clothe the man you see to be nakedand do not turn from your own kin.Then will your light shine like the dawnand your wound be quickly healed over.Your integrity will go before youand the glory of the Lord behind you.Cry, and the Lord will answer;call, and he will say, ‘I am here.’If you do away with the yoke,the clenched fist,...

A recent poll showed that 25% of Americans believe they know someone who has died from the Covid jab. The real shocker is that 75% of Americans are living in denial- with their heads in the sand. Or maybe they’re just watching CNN. I’ve seen the data of dramatically rising mortality rates in America (and around the world). The rise in deaths is far worse than seen during World War 2. Even more telling is the data from life insurance companies reporting on the largest death rates and life insurance payouts in history. A top insurance analyst has analyzed the...

Truth is, I shouldn’t be writing anything about Ilhan Omar, because I lack journalistic distance and detachment on this topic. The problem is…I can’t stand this squirrel who wormed her way in from Somalia and who now personifies everything that is wrong with America…and whose remarks against Jews and Israel affect us all in the most negative and harmful ways. As a member of Congress, her hateful comments travel far and wide and are taken seriously, often by the wrong people. Which means that I can’t be fair, nor objective, nor reasonable to this person who by herself stinks up...

President Joe Biden ordered the action on Wednesday, but it was delayed until the balloon was over water off the coast of South Carolina to ensure no Americans on the ground were harmed. "The balloon, which was being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above U.S. territorial waters," Austin said. The action was taken in coordination and support of the Canadian government. "We thank Canada for its contribution to tracking and analysis of the balloon through [North American Aerospace Defense Command] as it transited North America," Austin...

The case against a Bridge City Center for Youth escapee and another youth who allegedly carjacked and shot an Uptown man was dismissed after the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office missed a deadline to bring formal charges in adult court. Escapee Kendell Myles, 17, will remain incarcerated for a separate violent crime at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center. Co-defendant Kayla Smith, 16, is still being held at the youth lockup currently, according to her attorney, Jerome Mathews. Police accused the two teens of shooting and carjacking Scott Toups, 59, as he unloaded Mardi Gras beads into a recycling bin in...

Will a pro-Israel legal advocacy group manage to defeat one of the world's biggest tech giants? We sat down with Nitzana Darshan Leitner, the chairwoman of Shurat Hadin, a pro-Israel legal advocacy group that will soon face Google in the United States Supreme Court on allegations the tech company aided and abetted terrorism. "This is the end of a very long journey, which we started in 2015 when we started filing lawsuits against social media giants, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, for aiding and abetting terrorism," Darshan Leitner recounts and explains: "The argument was that social media provides social services to...

Former President Donald Trump warned on Friday that China has “many thousands of spies working in the United States” in various industries amid a revelation that a Chinese spy balloon is flying over the continental United States.“It’s rarely even mentioned that China has many thousands of spies working in the United States in business, finance, academia, technology, media and likely, even government, very sadly,” Trump declared.Trump then called out President Joe Biden for ending Trump’s Department of Justice initiative that focused on combatting Chinese espionage within the country. Trump said:As President, I established a special initiative at the Department of...

By November 1944, almost in a cruel and desperate afterthought to what seemed a lost cause, balloons launched from Japan and carrying explosive and incendiary bombs drifted east on the jet stream to the United States. Once again, the goal was to start forest fires and wreak devastation. On December 6 after a "mysterious explosion" in Wyoming, officials found balloon parts and bomb casing fragments from what had been a 33 pound high explosive bomb. During the next several months, Japan launched over 9,000 balloon bombs resulting in over 342 incidents registered throughout western United States and Canada. Oregon alone...

Morning Consult’s latest 2024 GOP Primary Tracker showed President Donald J. Trump vastly ahead of his opponents. The results, shared by Interactive Polls on Tuesday, displayed the America First candidate gaining 48 percent of the vote.2024 National Republican Primary:Trump: 48% DeSantis: 31% Pence: 8% Haley: 3% Cheney: 3% Cruz: 2% Abbott: 1% Noem: 1% Pompeo: 1%Youngkin: 1%T. Scott: 1%@MorningConsult | Jan 27-29 | 3,459 RV https://t.co/dQctcc2gBX— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) January 31, 2023There has been much speculation about other potential candidates, but President Trump is the favorite. Throughout January, he released over a dozen videos decrying online censorship, the “two-tier justice system,”...

Flemington Borough Councilman Malik Johnston was arrested on charges of selling cocaine and methamphetamine, the Office of the Hunterdon County Prosecutor announced Friday. "On various occasions between December 2022 and February 2023 in Raritan Township, Mr. Johnston sold quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine to an undercover police officer," the statement says.

Video of the beating: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1621503944005668866Video by Former NYPD Officer Zeek Arkham: https://twitter.com/ZeekArkham/status/1621965430930669569This is pure fire. After 15 years in law enforcement, Zeek Arkham knows about the problems we face as a nation with crime and violence. A viral video showing a teen boy mercilessly beating a 9-year-old girl on a school bus prompted this reaction from Arkham.