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TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but it wasn't a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner. It was a 9-foot alligator Wednesday night ambling down a street not far from Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The urban gator whipped its tail several times when an officer first approached it, poking with an outstretched baton. A half dozen officers along with a crowd of spectators watched as lights from squad cars flashed on the blocked-off street, according to bodycam video released by...

After losing access to European markets for invading Ukraine, #Russia turned to #Iran and #India to make up for some of the shortfalls.

But for two pregnant women in New Jersey, the real-life repercussions of eating poppy seeds and then testing positive for drugs weren’t nearly as funny. The women ate bagels with poppy seeds last year before heading to two separate hospitals to give birth to their children. Hospital staff administered drug tests to both women — which came back positive for opioids, as a press release from the New Jersey ACLU indicated. The hospitals reported the women to the New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) for possible abuse and neglect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Secret Service agents escorted a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret — even from their own bosses. It was Oct. 10, 1973, and just a few agents knew the history they would make in ensuring that Vice President Spiro Agnew appeared in a federal courtroom to enter a plea and resign from office. “It was a big day for the country, and a sad day,” said Jerry Parr, one of those agents, in a 2010 interview. “And we didn’t tell anyone it was happening. For better and worse.”...

Americans suffering from anxiety and sleep disorders have been unable to get their prescriptions filled at pharmacies due to secret provisions in a recently settled lawsuit over the proliferation of opioids, according to a report. Pharmacists say that they are being prevented from fulfilling orders on key medications such as Xanax and Adderall due to a 2021 settlement with three of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson. Pharmacists say that they are being prevented from fulfilling orders on key medications such as Xanax and Adderall due to a 2021 settlement with three of the nation’s...

Florida lawmakers reportedly filed legislation Thursday that would repeal the state’s “Resign to Run” law.Repealing the law would pave the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without having to resign from his current position.The bill draft was filed “minutes after the announcement that President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on 30 counts related to alleged business fraud,” The Floridian reports.This could pave the way for @GovRonDeSantis to run for President. Read here:https://t.co/qSrSHLCSXJ— Chris Nelson 🇺🇸 🏝 (@ReOpenChris) March 31, 2023From The Floridian:The bill, “SPB 7050: Elections” could change Florida’s “Resign to Run”...

Explanation: What causes this unusual curving structure near the center of our Galaxy? The long parallel rays slanting across the top of the featured radio image are known collectively as the Galactic Center Radio Arc and point out from the Galactic plane. The Radio Arc is connected to the Galactic Center by strange curving filaments known as the Arches. The bright radio structure at the bottom right surrounds a black hole at the Galactic Center and is known as Sagittarius A*. One origin hypothesis holds that the Radio Arc and the Arches have their geometry because they contain hot plasma...

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) spiked significantly across the Big Apple following the lifting of lockdown restrictions, new data from the New York City Health Department reveals. The agency’s stats show chlamydia cases rose 9% between 2020 and 2021, while the number of females diagnosed with primary and secondary syphilis surged by 28.7%. The “significant” rise in infections has prompted public officials to plead with raunchy residents to urgently get tested to stop further spread. Some centers are now repurposing lab equipment used for COVID tests to screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea, the department said in a press release regarding the...

Flight LogFlight 49 Sol 752 Date April 2, 2023 Horizontal Distance 282 m ~925 ftMax. Altitude 16 m ~52 ftMax. Groundspeed 6.50 m/s ~14.5 mph Duration 142.7 seconds Route of Flight from Airfield Kappa to Airfield Lambda ***Flights 49 (as of 4/2/23)Distance Flown 11,224 meters (~36,826 ft)Highest Altitude 16 meters (~52 ft)Fastest Ground Speed 6.50 m/s (14.5 mph)Flight Time ~86.7 minutes (5,204 seconds)

Jack Webb (Dragnet) plays a Rod Serling-like role as he introduces us to Jerry Donovan – an average guy who shrugs off his inconvenient, civic responsibilities. Jerry “wakes up” in a communist-controlled town, where he's the only American left. This film was produced for the Defense Department by studio mogul Jack L Warner and stars many Warner Brothers stock actors – including Jack Kelly (Maverick), Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West) and Andrew Duggan. At the time, Jack L. Warner was very staunch anti-Communist, even though he released a pro-Communist feature film, Mission to Moscow, in 1943.

Advisers and close allies to President Joe Biden reportedly do not expect him to formally announce he is running for reelection any time soon — potentially waiting until the fall. “President Biden’s advisers and close allies don’t expect him to announce a run for re-election any time soon — and some now believe it could come as late as July, or perhaps even the fall,” Axios reported on Monday. New: Biden's advisers and close allies don't expect a Re-elect announcement any time soon — and some now believe it could come as late as July, or perhaps even the fall.https://t.co/J1zIdLPdox...

Who was the Zodiac killer? The infamous California serial killer has still not been found. (Cannot be posted, per FR rules)

The “novel” coronavirus pandemic marks the greatest turning point in U.S. monetary history since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. In large measure, the “novel” coronavirus pandemic narrative serves as a convenient cover story that distracts from and even masks the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented maneuvers in 2020—maneuvers that happen to have been planned and discussed in August 2019 some four months prior to the first mention of any “novel” virus in Wuhan, China. What marks the Fed’s maneuvers in March 2020 as unprecedented really is not its sudden creation of $3.5 trillion in reserves; that amount, $3.5 trillion...

U.S. — In a match made in heaven, a beverage that tries to pass itself as beer has hired as its spokesperson a man trying to pass himself off as a woman. "For decades, we've been putting carbonated backwash in a beer can and pretending it's beer," said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. "Who better to represent our brand than a guy throwing on a dress and pretending he's a woman?" Long a staple drink of people who hate actual beer, Bud Light felt putting Dylan Mulvaney's face on a can would also attract people who hate actual women. "As a...

1949 Republic Anti Communist Film staring, Robert Rockwell, Betty Lou Gerson, Hannelore Axman.

We knew Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg wasn’t smart enough to put the bogus Trump indictment together himself, but he was dumb enough and corrupt enough to follow through with it. The real culprit behind the “get Trump” radicals in New York is the corrupt, newly hired, former Obama-Biden DOJ attorney named Matt Colangelo. Attorney Mike Davis unloaded Colangelo’s name along with Steve Bannon on the War Room today. In their interview, Davis noted that Matt Colangelo is the link between the Biden DOJ and DA Bragg in their corrupt acts in targeting and putting together a BS indictment against...

New York City is a Black Lives Matter and Antifa city, yet, Mayor Eric Adams felt the need to tell Marjorie Taylor Greene to behave herself. He suggested that right-wing radicals were coming to town to stir up trouble. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell held a briefing Monday before Donald Trump’s arraignment. “Control yourselves,” Adams said disrespectfully at City Hall. “New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger. We are the safest large city in America because we respect the rule of law in New York City. No Threats...

"The View" co-hosts fumed over CBS' Lesley Stahl and said she didn't push back enough during her interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday. "I don't think it legitimizes her any more than her words embarrassed her but I actually in this instance think it was a bad move for ‘60 Minutes,’" co-host Sara Haines said. Co-host Ana Navarro claimed people were upset over the interview because many hold "60 Minutes" and Lesley Stahl to a "high level" and that the interview was unexpected. Haines argued CBS was giving her a "louder microphone than she deserved or has earned"...

Archaeologists with the University of Tübingen, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, uncovered ancient Egyptian murals depicting the zodiac signs beneath 2,000 years of grime and soot in the Temple of Esna. The archaeologists have been working to restore the temple, which lies on the West Bank of the Nile, near the city of Luxor, which was once known as Thebes. “The zodiac was used to decorate private tombs and sarcophagi and was of great importance in astrological texts, such as horoscopes found inscribed on pottery sherds,” Dr. Daniel von Recklinghausen, a Tübingen researcher, said in...

James Olson, the spy agency's former chief of counterintelligence, said he believes the sharks are now circling for the tyrant back home in Russia. Olson said that Putin is now in a "no win" situation - with the war either devolving into a grinding statelemate, or ending with Vlad's death. He said if Putin stays in power he will never give up the war - and so the way to end it is for Vlad to be killed or ousted. Olson, who served for over 30 years in the CIA and won medals for his service, explained that things don't...