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On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.He was about to commit mass murder.Inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door, and headed towards his getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse, then another.At precisely 9:02 a.m., the bomb exploded.Within moments, the surrounding area looked like a war zone. A third of the building had...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) thinks Mayor Eric Adams should fund community violence prevention programs without law enforcement rather than increase police wages. In an interview with “The Daily Show,” Ocasio-Cortez discussed the “Stand Up to Violence” program at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, which addresses violence as a public health issue and allows social workers to investigate shootings without law enforcement. When the show’s host, Jordan Klepper, asked if Mayor Adams misplaced funding that bumps rookie NYPD cop’s annual salary by 28%, Ocasio-Cortez said she “thinks so.” “We are now at a point where officially, most officers are paid...

From China to the U.S. to the European Union, rice production is falling and driving up prices for more than 3.5 billion people across the globe, particularly in Asia-Pacific – which consumes 90% of the world’s rice. The global rice market is set to log its largest shortfall in two decades in 2023, according to Fitch Solutions. And a deficit of this magnitude for one of the world’s most cultivated grains will hurt major importers, analysts told CNBC. “At the global level, the most evident impact of the global rice deficit has been, and still is, decade-high rice prices,” Fitch...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma residents, and the state’s governor, are calling for three McCurtain County officials to resign after they were allegedly heard discussing the potential murder of two journalists and the hanging of Black people in an audio recording. Overheard in the recording, which was from a March county commissioner meeting, are County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, County Commissioner Mark Jennings and county sheriff employee Alicia Manning, according to the McCurtain Gazette. The Gazette first reported on the recording over the weekend, saying its employees, father and son duo Bruce and Chris Willingham, are the ones being threatened in...

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"I'm happy to endorse Donald J. Trump for president in 2024," Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Newsmax Monday, making him the fifth member member of Congress from his state to back the former president over Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presumptive GOP presidential challenger.Other Florida GOP representatives to endorse Trump include Reps. Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Cory Mills, and Anna Paulina Luna."He's the only person that can reverse, on day one, all these disastrous policies of the Biden administration and the type of things that have happened under the Biden administration would have never happened under President Trump," Steube told "Rob...

On April 15, Germany stopped producing any electricity from nuclear power plants. The move was expected, but is nonetheless seen as a blow to climate advocates who support nuclear energy as a clean, zero-carbon source of electricity. Others who fear nuclear accidents believe closing the reactors is a wise decision and paves the way for Germany's stated commitment to ramp up its renewable energy. 'The whole thing is incomprehensible' A collection of esteemed scientists, including two Nobel laureates and professors from the likes of MIT and Columbia, made a last-minute plea in an open letter published on April 14 on...

President Trump delivers a T47 policy video covering the topic of homelessness, drug addiction and dangerously deranged. [Direct Rumble Link]“For a small fraction of what we spend upon Ukraine, we could take care of every homeless veteran in America. Our veterans are being treated horribly.” ~ President Donald Trump

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks Mayor Eric Adams gave away the store this month when he greenlit raises for cops under City Hall’s recent agreement with the Big Apple’s largest police union – after the thin blue line went seven years without a raise. “We are in New York City, and you’re talking about funding violence prevention outside of the police and yet Eric Adams has just increased police wages by 28%. Is that misplaced?” “The Daily Show” host Jordan Klepper asked the “Squad” member Monday. “I think so,” the pol agreed while touring Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx....

Former President Donald Trump nabbed another key endorsement from Florida as state defections against his main rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), pile up. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) endorsed Trump on Monday evening, contending that the former president is the only one who can rectify the "disastrous policies of the Biden administration." Trump, a Florida resident, has clinched roughly half a dozen endorsements from Florida's congressional delegation. SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN JOINS WAVE OF TENNESSEE ENDORSING TRUMP"Today I continue my unwavering support for the America First movement by endorsing the leader of our party, President Donald Trump for re-election to President of...

Not much change in the last week according to the Morning Consult polling [DATA HERE]:[Source Link]The next two weeks are critical for the non-Trump team consisting of Ron DeSantis handlers, multinational corporations, GOPe professional political class, most elements of the RNC and the 2024 spearhead institution of the Republican Governors Association (RGA). DeSantis handlers have him scheduled in Washington DC today, in an effort to circle the DeceptiCon wagons and fend off the MAGA insurgency.However, as the DeSantis team call everyone trying to stop MAGA advancements, Florida Rep. Greg Steube became the fifth member of the sunshine state’s 20-member Republican...

A Southwest Airlines passenger on board a flight to Orlando, Florida, was recorded screaming and swearing at the parents of a child that wouldn't stop crying. The epic tantrum - thrown by the grown man, not the toddler - left other passengers in hysterics as he screamed about the baby's consistent crying for 45 minutes. The ordeal unfolded when their flight was forced into a holding pattern around the area outside Palm Beach due to a bad weather front. Clearly frustrated by the wailing infant, the man started his raucous rant about how he paid a ticket to have a...

It’s no secret Joe Biden is floundering. Chinese spy balloons drift unmolested across the United States, our southern border remains wide open to any immigrant or drug trafficker who wants to come in, and now we learn that many of our most sensitive national security communications have been exposed to the world. But Biden’s incompetence on the economy may be most damaging to ordinary Americans. A 40-year Wall Street legend who appears regularly on CNBC and Fox Business and is frequently quoted by MarketWatch, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens more outlets has just issued an urgent warning for...

Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Dublin, Ireland... We left the question hanging yesterday…like a man dangling at the end of a rope…lynched and gurgling… Why didn’t the Argentines stop the cycle? Spending, borrowing, defaulting, printing…from excess to distress…back and forth, over and over, for the last 70+ years. Why didn’t they stop it? Why did Zimbabwe, Germany, Venezuela…et al…let inflation go to over a million percent? One of the ‘basket cases’ we hear little about is Lebanon. Here’s our son, Henry, reporting from Paris: In 2021, the Lebanese pound traded on the black market for 10,000 pounds to the dollar....

The Food and Drug Administration pulled the emergency use authorizations for the original COVID vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer on Tuesday. Both vaccines were authorized for emergency use more than two years ago after they were developed under Operation Warp Speed during the Trump administration. In a news release, the FDA explained the older vaccines no longer offer full protection from new strains of the virus. The agency said it had amended the emergency use authorizations of the initial Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in order to “simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals.” “This action includes authorizing the current...

Sixteen and Seventeen year olds arrested for four counts of Reckless Murder in Dadeville mass shooting.

Truth Dies in DarknessCan you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave.A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be careful what they say in the classroom for fear of inadvertently offending a student. This same school assigns each of its high school students a faculty member as an advisor.Recently, my acquaintance—let’s call him Tom—was meeting with an advisee, a senior, whom he...

(Last Updated On: April 14, 2023) NATIONAL BANANA DAY On the third Wednesday in April, take a bite of the fruit that also makes an excellent prop for jokes on National Banana Day! #NationalBananaDay The day focuses on the nutrition of the fruit as well as the way comedy has used the banana in its acts. This low-fat, low-calorie snack offers a boost of fiber, potassium, and vitamins, with B6 and C leading the way. It also provides a healthy gram of protein, too. Add a banana to your morning cereal or grab one to go with your granola. They...

In this new video, former BLM activist Xaviaer DuRousseau – who marched in the George Floyd protests and preached the importance of being a “woke ally” – describes how he stumbled onto PragerU videos. He set out with a grand plan to create a series debunking them, but instead, he “accidentally red-pilled” himself and transformed from a lost, angry young man into a calm and confident voice for the conservative movement.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...