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Federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have spent nearly $4 billion in taxpayer funds on guns, ammunition, and other "military-style equipment," a watchdog group found. Since 2006, "76 rank-and-file agencies" outside "traditional law enforcement entities" or the Department of Defense spent $3.7 billion on "guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment," according to watchdog group Open the Books's summary of its report. These agencies include the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Small Business Administration, among others that historically have played little to no role in law enforcement activities. Federal...

Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of bison and other large game herbivores...Folding digesta into these models will allow researchers to better address major questions in evolutionary anthropology. It even calls into question the idea that “hunting and gathering,” which all prehistoric people relied on until about 10,000 years ago, was divided by sex, according to author Raven Garvey, associate professor of anthropology and affiliate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the U-M Institute for Social Research.Early foragers may, in some contexts,...

FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER John 10:22-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that “the Father and I are one.” Jesus appeared two thousand years ago and announced that he had been sent by the Father. There was a strange “something more” regarding Jesus, for he spoke and acted in the very person of God. The first Christians had to come to grips with this strange duality: somehow Jesus was Son of God, both sent and divine. He was other than the Father, but somehow at the same level as the Father. Things got more complicated when the Holy Spirit came...

TEXARKANA, Texas (KSLA/Gray News) – A Texas A&M University-Texarkana baseball player was seriously injured when he was struck by a stray bullet during a game Saturday. Texarkana police said the gunfire happened in front of a house about 400 yards from George Dobson Field at Spring Lake Park where the baseball game was being held. A spokesperson with the university identified the player shot as 18-year-old Matthew Delany, who is from the Dallas area. Texas A&M University-Texarkana confirmed in a Facebook post that one of their baseball players was shot. Police said Delany was in the pitcher’s bull pen when...

There were 704 patients in hospitals waiting for admission to a bed this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organization. The hospitals worst affected are University Hospital Limerick with 105 patients waiting, Cork University Hospital with 68 patients waiting, Tallaght University Hospital with 51 patients waiting and Sligo University Hospital with 44. The high overcrowding comes after the May Bank Holiday weekend. […] The HSE said that each hospital group implemented plans to alleviate overcrowding in their hospital EDs over the bank holiday weekend, adding that hospital and community teams continue to work closely to identify patients suitable...

Coprophilous fungi spores, which are integral to the life cycle of large animals weighing over 45 kg, pass through the digestive systems of these creatures. Consequently, the presence of such spores in sediment samples indicates that these sizable animals once inhabited specific locations and time periods.Researchers led by the University of Exeter determined that the local extinction of large animals at Pantano de Monquentiva occurred approximately 23,000 years ago and again around 11,000 years ago, significantly affecting ecosystems. The study relied on samples taken from a peat bog in Pantano de Monquentiva, situated about 60 km from Bogota in the...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got in a tense exchange at Tuesday's daily press briefing when she was asked to defend a claim that illegal immigration had dropped 90 per cent. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy put the question to her, on a day when she also shut down a reporter's question about why President Joe Biden hadn't acknowledged his seventh grandchild amid a Hunter Biden custody dispute. 'You said yesterday that when it comes to illegal migration, you've seen it come down by more than 90%. Where did that number come from?' Doocy asked her. He tried to...

Was this Deceptive Trade? Paxton v. ModernaAmid ongoing reports concerning the integrity of Big Pharma, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he plans to investigate companies’ potential manipulation and misrepresentation of Covid vaccine trial data. Paxton’s investigation centers around Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practice Act according to his announcement to the New York Post. Under 17.46(b)(24) of the DPTA, Paxton must answer two questions to determine whether Big Pharma companies acted unlawfully. 1) Did the company fail to disclose known information concerning its Covid vaccine? 2) Was that failure intended to induce the public into getting the product?Alex Berenson’s...

Michelle Obama and Barack Obama have different styles when it comes to showing and receiving love — something that took time to get used to, she said on an April 25 episode of her Audible series "The Light Podcast." (snip) Michelle said that her husband is more verbally and physically affectionate because he and his family lived far apart and didn't get to see each other very often, whereas she grew up surrounded by extended family and considers expressing love as being present. "One of the things that's different in how we show love is that because his family lived...

The Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration have been tracking a balloon that was flying off the coast of Hawaii last week, but a defense official said Tuesday there’s no indication it is connected to China or any other adversary, and it presents no threats to aviation or national security. The balloon was first detected by radar on Friday and “Pacific Air Forces launched three F-22s to assess the situation and visually identified a spherical object,” U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said. “We monitored the transit of the object and assessed that it posed no threat.” The defense official said the...

PALM COAST, Fla. - A woman was arrested after she allegedly punched a Flagler County deputy in the face outside a bowling alley on Sunday. The Flagler Sheriff's Office said the deputy was working a special detail at Palm Coast Lanes when he noticed an altercation outside the business. When he tried to intervene, a woman, later identified as Elisa Armstrong, struck him, authorities said. The deputy placed Armstrong on the ground, handcuffed her, and then took her to his patrol car, where she began to pull and push away from the vehicle, the sheriff's office said in a...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett requested a further response from an Illinois locality after gun rights advocates sued over a recently passed ban on certain firearms.The gun rights advocates are challenging a city ordinance passed last year by Naperville, Illinois, which is similar to an Illinois state law enacted this year barring the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic rifles and magazines. Barrett, who handles appeals stemming from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, asked for Naperville officials to respond by noon on May 8.The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), in conjunction with the National...

Knowing that Crimea has been built into a fortress, Ukrainians talk about the “political military” liberation of Crimea, not a purely military counteroffensive, he said.Once we have cut off the roads, railroads, and waterways to the peninsula, and targeted the military infrastructure with drones, we presume that many Russian inhabitants, especially recent immigrants, will become convinced that they would be better off living elsewhere, he said.Some have reportedly fled already, The Atlantic noted, following an explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge (which connects Crimea to Russia) and other explosions on the peninsula.“We will take Crimea without a fight,” Reznikov told...

The 18 Ohio-class submarines are arguably the most destructive weapons on the planet. Here’s everything you need to know about these exceptional military machines. The 18 Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines are some of the most exceptional military machines in human history, packing more nuclear or conventional firepower than any other platform on air, land, or sea. One leg of America’s nuclear triad, the subs are designed to be ultra-quiet, bristle with nuclear weapons, and survive to carry out their mission at all costs. The 14 nuclear-armed Ohio-class submarines ensure that hundreds of nukes are resting quietly in the world’s oceans, ready...

A viral video of patrons standing up for the National Anthem inside a Southern California bar garnered disgust among TikTok users who left thousands of horrified comments on the post. The 14-second video posted by a user identified as 'Paulina' shows roughly a half dozen individuals standing for the Star-Spangled Banner as it played on a TV screen. 'By far the most dangerous situation I've ever been in,' Paulina wrote alongside the hashtags 'godblessamerica,' 'getout,' 'illegal,' and 'whitepeoplethings.' The video was taken at the Rainbow Oaks Restaurant in Fallbrook - a city located around 50 miles northeast of San Diego....

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Uses Journalists to Shoot His People in the BackArchbishop Giacomo Morandi told local media on April 27 how Francis appointed him to Reggio Emilia-Guastalla, Italy.Morandi was secretary of the CDF and one of Francis' sycophants, but Francis began to hate him for his cautious opposition to homosex “blessings” and the rigid Traditionis Custodes.Francis who doesn't tolerate dissent, decided to get rid of him. But when he called Morandi in December 2021 to inform him of his transfer to Reggio, Morandi had already read about it in the Gazzetta di Reggio, a local newspaper.This is how Francis works:...

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In newly leaked videos from his axed streaming show, Tucker Carlson is shown unloading on Fox Nation and cracking jokes about his 'post-menopausal fans' while joking around with his senior staff. The videos were leaked to Media Matters and published today in light of Tucker's firing last month. Some of the remarks were included in a New York Times report last week which suggested they were among a trove of highly incriminating clips. They show Tucker bantering with producers, assistants and fellow hosts. In one, he makes a reference to someone's girlfriend being 'yummy', and later, he jokes about relying...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson called a woman “yummy” and made other inappropriate comments on the set of his popular show, newly revealed footage shows. “If we’re going to talk about sex, I’d love to hit some of the fine points of technique. But, you know, but it’s your show. It’s totally up to you,” Carlson is seen saying on the video, leaked to Media Matters for America. Carlson is speaking in the video with Piers Morgan, another top pundit on Fox. “We can certainly talk about your sexual technique, especially after your tanning testicles last week,” Morgan replied,...