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TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Polk County resident Tammy Lenze can’t drive to her medical treatments due to her disability. She relies on medical transport services covered by her health insurer to get to and from weekly appointments. What should have been another routine ride to the doctor on Dec. 28 turned into a harrowing experience. Lenze said the medical transport driver lost his temper after she got into the back seat of a car sent by Safe Choice Transport. Minutes into the trip, Lenze told the I-Team that the man behind the wheel started speeding and driving erratically. An app...

Students in the nonprofit agriculture program 4H, which teaches youth ages 9-19 how to raise livestock, found their animals fatally wounded Saturday morning. Four animals were stabbed in the head and face; two lambs were killed, and one lamb and piglet are recovering from the attack. The piglet is seemingly in good health with a minor gash to the head, while the sheep sustained a broken leg. Police are investigating the gruesome attack captured on surveillance footage, which shows a male suspect, according to the program's sheep leader, Erin Askew. "The first thing that went through my mind was I...

Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other attorneys general joined Catholic Bishops protesting religious profiling in a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation memo. Last week, an FBI internal memorandum dated Jan. 23, was published by Undercover DC, an investigative journalism organization. It mentioned Virginia Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, some of whom are not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, according to information from the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. The attorneys general seven-page letter of complaint was addressed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The letter states the FBI memo “identifies ‘radical-traditionalist...

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Cardinal Roche Clarifies that Francis Is The ResponsibleCardinal Roche, prefect for the Novus Ordo, has made it clear that it is an “absurdity” to think that a prefect of a dicastery would do anything other than carry out the wishes of [authoritarian] Francis, he told WherePeterIs.com (February 17).For Roche, attacks on him are attacks on Francis' authority. Using harsh terms reminiscent of Luther, he describes such mostly justified criticism as "an astonishing act full of hubris.”According to Roche, "many Catholics" disagree with Francis' "mission", [private] "teachings", and initiatives.Emphasising a pagan concept of "authoritarianism," Roche believes that these Catholics are allegedly...

Officials at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are reporting seeing larger rafts of sea otters off of the Cannery Row area in Monterey. A raft is a group of sea otters resting in the kelp. “This is a really cool phenomenon that we don't typically see in this area. We have seen rafts of this size on the Peninsula but they are typically offshore,” Jessica Fujii, Sea Otter Program Manager for Monterey Bay Aquarium, said. Fujii says it appears to be more of a localized movement rather than a big migration. Usually, in this area, one can see anywhere from five...

Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing. The guilty verdict, which came after three days of deliberation in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, was a stunning downfall for Mr. García Luna, a jut-jawed former law-enforcement officer who was so enmeshed in his country’s security establishment that he was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of...

Former President Donald Trump, who is running in the Republican primary for a second term in office, says everyone running for president should agree to take a mental competency test, a step further than Nikki Haley’s call to only have politicians over the age of 75 should take the test.Haley, who announced a run for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, is stressing the need for “generational change” in politics and has suggested that politicians over 75 years old should have to mandatorily take a “competency test.”The idea of having a competency test was a dig at...

Senate Republicans nervous about former President Trump’s lead in presidential primary polls are impatiently awaiting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to jump into the race. GOP lawmakers don’t expect DeSantis to make his move until after the Florida legislative session ends in early May, but the waiting game is playing on nerves, with some thinking DeSantis has lost political momentum since his big reelection win in November. [cut] Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) said he also expects DeSantis to keep his focus on Florida for a while, saying “he’s probably got a window that takes him — if he wants...

SNIP “There was like this giant communal Slack chat for the whole company that became sort of the digital gallows,” he told me. “And all these angry, backbiting staffers were gathering there and demanding that heads roll and the most bloodthirsty of the employees were these sort of weird tech and audio staffers and then a handful of people who wrote for like the Arts and Leisure section, and the Style section, and the magazine, which, in other words, you know, it was no one who was actually out covering any of the protests or the riots or the politics....

Former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in a video released late Tuesday night after the speech.The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the response, which Trump called the “real State of the Union.” Trump’s speech focuses on the border crisis, inflation, and high gas prices. He also says that Biden’s Department Of Justice is “waging war” on free speech and persecuting Biden’s political opponents. Trump mentions that he is running for president in 2024 and that he hopes to complete the “unfinished business” of making America great again.“Over the past two years,...

Missing British child Madeleine McCann’s parents have agreed to a DNA test for a Polish woman who believes she’s their daughter — though even representatives for the young woman making the stunning claims admit that her background is “messy.” Gerry and Kate McCann, whose 3-year-old daughter, Madeleine, disappeared on vacation in Portugal over 15 years ago, are following up on Julia Faustyna’s claims that she is the kidnapped toddler, a source told the Daily Beast this week. Faustyna, 21, became an internet sensation this month after she started posting on social media under the handle @iammadeleinemccann. Earlier this week, she...

President Joe Biden made a “surprise” visit to Ukraine Monday. It doesn’t take a cynic to wonder how many tales from the trip he’ll come up with to pad his already bursting catalog of self-aggrandizing lies, which the media has mostly ignored for decades. We can imagine Biden in the coming months telling audiences that “we were shot down twice” as the Air Force Special Air Mission jet approached the Rzeszow airport in Poland near the Ukraine border, and then while visiting the front, the Ukrainian forces “let me shoot some of their artillery,” which was particularly rewarding because “I...

Justices turned down a request for rehearing by Raland Brunson, a Utah man who brought the case. Justices did not explain their decision and a vote tally was not made available. The court periodically releases lists of orders, and the Feb. 21 list included the decision on Brunson v. Alma Adams.

The FBI’s Memo Unintentionally Reveals the Crimes Being Committed Against Traditional Catholics Thanks to former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin who broke the story, and the many leaders who have stood firm in defense of truth, the FBI has retracted its memorandum targeting Traditional Catholics. While we can applaud this victory for common sense and Catholicism, there is also an important lesson that we, and perhaps even the FBI, can learn from the memo: it subtly reveals the staggering crimes being committed against the Catholic Church and the Traditional Catholics who belong to it.The “smoking gun” is revealed in the...

DHS awarded a sole source contract to Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 801 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004 for expert and consultant legal services. Debevoise & Plimpton (Debevoise) is the only law firm that has the necessary experience to provide the legal services to DHS for advice and representation relating to potential impeachment proceedings. The effort was awarded on a Time and Material (T&M) basis.The total value of the contract (including options) is as shown below: Period Total Base Year 12 mo. $1,500,000 Option Period 1 3 mo. $375,000 Option Period 2 3 mo. $375,000 Option Period 3 3 mo....

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee on Tuesday formally launched her campaign for the Senate seat held by the retiring Dianne Feinstein, joining two fellow House Democrats in the race in the nation's most populous state. --Video from previous coverage. In a video posted on Twitter, Lee ran through a list of the personal and professional battles she has taken on in her life, including fighting to be her school's first Black cheerleader, championing protections for survivors of domestic violence and being the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization for the use of military force after the Sept. 11,...

Explanation: They are both falling. The water in Yosemite Falls, California, USA, is falling toward the Earth. Comet ZTF is falling toward the Sun. This double cosmic cascade was captured late last month as fading Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) had just passed its closest to planet Earth. The orange star just over the falls is Kochab. With the exception of a brief encounter with a black bear, the featured image was a well-planned composite of a moonlit-foreground and long-duration background exposures - all designed to reconstruct a deep version of an actual single sight. Although Comet ZTF is now fading...

Work less, get more. A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that an overwhelming majority of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours and that most employees were less stressed and had better work-life balance. That was all while companies reported revenue largely stayed the same during the trial period last year and even grew compared with the same six months a year earlier, according to findings released this week. […] The university (of Cambridge)’s team worked with researchers from Boston College; Autonomy,...

A defector from North Korea said Tuesday “woke ideologies” taught in American classrooms are no different from those taught in the classrooms in her home country.“When I came to America, having no idea, I thought somehow this was a free country where individuals can have different thoughts and opinions. When I started university at Columbia University, I couldn’t believe because they were exactly saying the same things that my North Korean teachers told me in the North Korean classroom,” Yeonmi Park, author of the book “While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America,” told Fox News...