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Jacksonville, Fl — At least one person has died in a crash on the Buckman Bridge in Mandarin this morning. Florida Highway Patrol says a Road Ranger was headed northbound toward Orange Park around 3:30 this morning when he hit a car, sending the car into the St. Johns River.

Local fishermen discovered the remains of a missing man inside a shark they had captured, authorities say. The remains of Diego Barría, 32, were found inside the belly of a 4.9 foot school shark the two fishermen caught and cleaned off the coast of Argentina’s southern Chubut province in February, The Associated Press reported. Barría was last seen riding his ATV near the coast on Feb. 18, but when his damaged vehicle was found two days later on a beach near Rocas Coloradas, authorities instigated a search for the missing father of three, the outlet reported. On Feb. 26, the...

Innocent Canadian children have died in the thousands because of the death vaccine.Odessa Orlewicz joins Stew to talk about the plethora of kids who are dying suddenly.80% of Canadian children have been double vaxxed. Provinces are no longer reporting the number of flu deaths to conceal the surge in vaccine-related fatalities.A murderous regime from around the world has colluded together to kill our children!

@RepThomasMassie Reminder: the United States is one of the very few countries on the planet that has a COVID vaccine mandate on legal international visitors. Biden should revoke his xenophobic policy now. The House passed my bill, HR 185, to repeal the mandate, but the Senate has yet to act

Throughout the vast history of warfare, there have been certain conflicts which have served as key hinge points in the advancement of military science. The foreshortened lens of history beguiles us with the view of wars as static monoliths: two sides slugging it out to a certain conclusion. We see entire years, or even decades, compressed into short highlight reels—whether literal in video form, or the textual equivalent; history books whose chapters gloss over years in a few choice and pithy gestures. [Snip] But most major and lengthy wars, in fact, incur seminal advancements throughout their course, such that the...

A form of lightning with a knack for sparking wildfires may surge under climate change. An analysis of satellite data suggests “hot lightning” — strikes that channel electrical charge for an extended period — may be more likely to set landscapes ablaze than more ephemeral flashes, researchers report February 10 in Nature Communications. Each 1 degree Celsius of warming could spur a 10 percent increase in the most incendiary of these Promethean bolts, boosting their flash rate to about four times per second by 2090 — up from nearly three times per second in 2011. That’s dangerous, warns physicist Francisco...

Half the nation won't even share space with the other half because they've been told by teachers and the media that having different opinions and beliefs is racist, oppressive, and evil. What a time to be alive…

Chicago voters will be casting ballots for mayor, members of the City Council and, for the first time in city history, members of police district councils on Tuesday. Early voting —both in person and by mail — has been ongoing for weeks. But if you haven’t made your choices yet, we have organized our coverage to help you make up your mind. We have scores of stories about the mayoral race and the nine candidates running for mayor, including incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot. We also have tackled the biggest of the 50 aldermanic races, as well as a primer on...

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine will become a member of the alliance in the "long-term", but for now it needs to remain independent in the face of Russia's invasion. Ukraine has sought to join the US-led military alliance for years. After Russia's invasion of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked for that request to be fast-tracked. Ukraine also applied for EU membership days after Russia invaded, and gained candidate status in June. "Nato allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance, but at the same time that is a long-term perspective," Mr Stoltenberg told reporters...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday said it has been “open and transparent” in the search for the origins of COVID-19, after questions about how the pandemic began received new attention. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Energy assessed with “low confidence” that the pandemic that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 began with the leak of a virus from a lab. The report hasn’t been made public. China had “shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing research,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao...

That's the rationale of the Democrats in the Virginia state Legislature. Recently, Republicans in the Virginia state Legislature proposed a bill to instruct students on the dangers and victims of communism. All of the Democrats in the state Legislature opposed the bill. The College Fix reports: Democrats in both legislative chambers voted "nay" following the Virginia Education Association's claim that the bill might lead to negative reactions against Asian students. According to the VEA's Emily Yen, this is because four of the planet's five remaining communist countries happen to be in Asia: China, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. (The fifth...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 7Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.[h] 32 There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. 33 After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. 34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh...

It would be interesting to see a “moderate Muslim” spokesman in the West, one of the legion who hoodwink conservatives by claiming that Islam, rightly understood, is peaceful and benign, discuss or debate these assertions with Islam Behery, or try to refute what he says here. Instead, they will ignore it. Now, why is that? “Egyptian Researcher Islam Behery: Mainstream Islamic Scholarship Is Radical, Leads To Terrorism – It Seeks To Wage Jihad, Spread Islam,” MEMRI, January 29, 2023: https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-researcher-behery-islamic-jurisprudence-needs-reform-terrorism-jihad Egyptian researcher Islam Behery said in a January 29, 2023 interview on Sky News Arabia (UAE) that like other fields...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 27. After the failure of the second Finance Conference Committee to agree, and the report of the fact, an effort was made to induce the House to recede. This the House refused to do, and a new Committee was asked for. The conscript bill will come up to-morrow in the Senate, with the House amendments. It would have been taken up to-day, but the Peace Democrats asked for a day's delay, saying they wouldn't filibuster; but as they failed to make speeches against it when it was in the Senate before, they want an opportunity to do...

Ruslan Kubay was surprised to receive a draft notice in late January. Registered as seriously disabled since childhood—Mr Kubay is missing both hands—he falls under a list of automatic exemptions from service. Even more surprising, however, was the reaction of officials at the local registration office in Drohobych, near Lviv. Far from admitting their error, they doubled down and declared him fit for service. Only a social-media post and subsequent national scandal reversed the decision. “I was disgusted by how easily our blind people can start seeing,” he wrote on Facebook. Mr Kubay’s case was an extreme, but far from...

Everywhere you look, you're told what to think, what to say, what to do, what to buy. We are enslaved as never before in this country, and half of us want more enslavement and for government to "take care of us," even at the cost of enslavement. What does it mean, to be enslaved? First and foremost, it means that we have lost freedom of choice, and with it, acceptance of the fact that choices have consequences. That blank stare at the screen that I see in so many viewers reveals just how brainwashed they have become. Vote for Biden...

Ideally, the process of the judicial system would be free or cheap and painless. Unfortunately, it is expensive and painful, with long delays, expensive lawyer fees, and much uncertainty. The process of the judicial system has become a punishment in itself. A bill which would help alleviate punishment by process in self defense cases in North Dakota, has passed the North Dakota House by 50 to 40 on January 20, 2023. The bill, HB 1213, would allow a judge to provide reinbursement of costs to people who are prosecuted by the State for self defense, and are then found not...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Tuesday said it will require companies winning funds from its $52 billion U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research program to share excess profits and explain how they plan to provide affordable childcare. The Commerce Department on Tuesday is releasing its plans to begin accepting applications in late June for a $39 billion manufacturing subsidy program. The law also creates a 25% investment tax credit for building chip plants estimated to be worth $24 billion. Recipients who receive more than $150 million in direct funding "will be required to share with the U.S. government a...

Much of the world lives in a split reality — divided between normalcy and despair. Most adults understand that at any given time, there are any number of possible calamities bearing down on the earth. Nuclear threats from Russia and/or China could mean disaster tomorrow. Economic meltdown could be only days away. A new plague could hit with more speed and greater impact than the last one. But such fears do not change the routine patterns of daily life. Most folks will get up tomorrow morning, go to work or school, return home at the appointed time, and generally go...