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Three of the four victims have been identified, including a flight instructor, a college student and a 67-year-old man. Where the planes departed from and what caused the deadly collision remains unknown... the crash happened around 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT) near the Winter Haven Regional Airport & FBO. After the collision, one of the planes was 21ft (6m) under water while the other was partially submerged. One of the two planes involved was a Cherokee Piper 161. It carried Faith Irene Baker, 24, a flight instructor with Sunrise Aviation, and Zachary Jean Mace, 19, a student at Polk State College....

Some 40 million people have had their student-debt payments paused because the government thinks they need the help. But one big financial technology company, which refinances student loans, disapproves of the public policy and wants the payments resumed immediately to help its bottom line. SoFi Technologies, a financial technology company involved in the student loan refinancing business, is suing the Department of Education over the student loan payment pause. In a suit filed in federal court late last week, the company alleges that the latest extension of the COVID-era pause on student loan payments, interest and collections “is unlawful on...

Dr. Robert Redfield, the former CDC Director, says Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins excluded him from meetings Because he didn’t support natural COVID origin

Patrick Rooney, host of "DECLARATION of Independence," sits down with Professor David Clements, a leading voice for stopping the use of election machines and returning to paper ballots. Professor Clements was fired from his teaching position at New Mexico State University for his bold stance against their masking and vaccine mandates. He has been featured on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," and many other programs. Professor Clements is currently on a nationwide mission to restore trust in our elections. You can reach the professor: https://www.theprofessorsrecord.com https://rumble.com/c/theprofessorsrecord https://telegram.me/s/theprofessorsrecord How to take back your county: https://tworedpills.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Did-My-Vote-Count3.pdf Old School (Patrick Rooney's site: Natural Health /...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Parts of California have seen record-setting snow this year. The statewide Sierra snowpack is 192% of the average right now, the Northern Sierra is at 154%, the Central Sierra is 197%, and the Southern Sierra is at 230% of the average for this date. The following ski resorts already have more than 600 inches of snow this season. China Peak: 606 inches Boreal: 610 inches Sugar Bowl: 605 inches Dodge Ridge: 612 inches The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab is reporting that "this is the ninth snowiest year since the Snow Lab was built in...

Marianne Williamson's 'This Week' interview: Full transcript about her 2024 campaign Marianne Williamson on Saturday announced her 2024 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. On Sunday, ABC's "This Week" aired her interview with ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. Below is their complete conversation. For previous show transcripts, visit the "This Week" transcript archive. JONATHAN KARL, CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Oh, thank you for having me. KARL: Why do you want to be president? WILLIAMSON: I want to be president because this country needs to make an...

Sure, President Joe Biden unilaterally canceling student loan debt without Congressional approval is probably illegal, but whatever. At least, that’s the argument The Washington Post editors are running with. The Post editorial board ran a dim-witted editorial headlined: “Biden overreached on student loans. But the court shouldn’t stop him.” The president abused his executive authority when he canceled $10,000 in debt for “most borrowers” and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients on Aug. 24, 2022. The act hit taxpayers with a price tag in the billions, according to CNBC. The Post admitted that Biden’s plan was “expensive,” “ill-targeted” and “made worse...

For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula. Acclaimed classicists Hanson and Heath raise an impassioned call to arms: if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, we lose our understanding of who...

'We found this galaxy to be super-chemically abundant, something none of us expected.' A gravitationally lensed view of a ring-shaped slice of the galaxy SPT0418-47, as seen by the ALMA array in Chile. Recent observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveal that the galaxy has a satellite that's rich in star formation. A gravitationally lensed view of a ring-shaped slice of the galaxy SPT0418-47, as seen by the ALMA array in Chile. Recent observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveal that the galaxy has a satellite that's rich in star formation. (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al.)...

The Devil, the Pope & Merrick Garland If you're not Catholic, you must find it absolutely bizarre that the most powerful organizations in the world are positively obsessed with the Catholic Mass as it was said for more than a thousand years, right up and until 1969.In this week's Remnant Underground (on Remnant-TV DOT com, YouTube, Rumble, and Spotify), we have clips of Senator Josh Hawley on the floor of the Senate Judiciary Committee, grilling Joe Biden's Attorney General about the FBI's plan to infiltrate Latin Mass parishes."Why are you doing this?" shouts an astonished Senator Hawley (a Presbyterian)....

Governor Jay Inslee can’t identify Ukraine on a map but wants Washingtonians to know he stands firm with Ukrainians. After all, Inslee knows what it’s like fighting for democracy. The governor is now pretending Russia’s assault on Ukraine is similar to unarmed Americans rioting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Inslee hosted Finnish President Sauli Niinistö at the state capitol for a legislative address and press conference. It was the first time a foreign leader addressed the state Legislature. The focus of the remarks was on energy and climate change, as we’re partners with the country on transportation and...

Relativity Space will launch its first 3D printer-made rocket from the space station on Wednesday. Photo courtesy Relativity Space March 8 (UPI) -- The Relativity Space launcher Terran 1 will try to become the first 3D-printed rocket to reach space when it blasts off Wednesday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The test flight mission dubbed "Good Luck Have Fun" is scheduled to take off at about 1 p.m., EST. Some 85% of the mass of the 110-foot tall, two-stage rocket was made by a 3D printer and could play a key role in driving down the cost of...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk called GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s party affiliation into question Tuesday after McConnell condemned Fox News for publishing videos recorded in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, McConnell trashed Fox News’ Tucker Carlson for publishing new footage of the Capitol building from the Jan. 6, 2021 riot that undermined the Democrats’ narrative of a “deadly insurrection.”“With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6th,” McConnell said.Hours...

In his famous 1950 Hillel House lectures, “Jerusalem and Athens,” Leo Strauss laid a vision of what he saw as a fundamental (but complimentary) tension between Jerusalem and Athens or between Scripture and philosophy. While Christian theologians might disagree with Strauss’s approach, and scholars and laymen alike might argue for a more inclusive vision of the sources of Western civilization, Strauss is at least right no note that Western civilization as we know it would be inconceivable without Greek philosophy and the Bible. Indeed, in the contemporary attempt to cancel, modify, and, in some cases, abolish Western civilization, the classics,...

If New Hampshire’s Republican primary were held today, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would win, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Sunday. “Right now, if the election were today, Ron DeSantis would win in New Hampshire. There’s no doubt about that in my mind,” Sununu told host Chuck Todd during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in which he also said that Trump won’t end up the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.

New Hampshire 2024: Trump Holds 41-Point Lead for Republican Nomination • Trump — 58% • DeSantis — 17% • Sununu — 7% • Haley — 6% • Pence — 4% • Pompeo — 2% • T. Scott — 1% • Noem — 1% @EmersonPolling 1,025 RV | March 3-5 https://emersoncollegepolling.com/new-hampshire-2024-trump-holds-41-point-lead-for-republican-nomination/

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget address Tuesday laid out his vision of policies to prioritize in his proposed $44.4 billion budget, and he made an attempt to unify those listening. “Let’s work together,” he urged House and Senate members who assembled to hear his plan. And, “believe in us,” Shapiro, a Democrat, asked of those who didn’t vote for him. He offered ideas that have potential for bipartisan support such as better funded police and expanding the property tax rent rebate program for seniors and for disabled residents, increasing the maximum rebate from $650 to $1,000 a year and raising...

The man's words were more powerful than a Million Nukes, and the Evil Empire fell. He spoke with power of the Holy Spirit.

It is a cruel joke on the nation that McConnell is still the titular leader of Senate Republicans in Washington.Manu Raju is a Democrat activist and CNN reporter who camps out in congressional hallways to ask questions that help advance his party’s political agenda. He’s done it for years. Whether the Democrats are doing their Brett Kavanaugh smear, impeachment shenanigans, Russia-collusion hoax, or anything else, he’s there to ask questions that help his team. He’s been doing it for so long that you’d have to be something of an idiot to fall for it, much less more than once.So, for...

Recently, President Trump urged Republicans to “...become masters of ballot harvesting.” He told an audience at CPAC they need to start harvesting ballots (legally) to counter the harvesting by Democrats. Perhaps I am hung up on semantics, but I think ballot harvesting is awful and usually illegal. What is “Ballot Harvesting”? A harvester is usually an anonymous political operative, or someone paid by a political operative, who rounds up ballots and places them in voter drop boxes or mailboxes -- sometimes after altering them. In other cases he gives the ballots to a political organization, where they are “reviewed” prior...