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When a police officer is sued for misconduct, it’s typically their employer — generally the city, county or state — who pays out legal damages or settlement funds to close the claim, as opposed to the officer or police department. That’s left between one-fourth and one-third of all government bodies in Minnesota on the hook for more than $160 million in largely taxpayer-funded payouts over a 10-year period, according to a recent report. The vast majority of those dollars originated in one city — Minneapolis — that alone paid out $136 million, or nearly 85% of the statewide total. St....

The lobster was caught in Casco Bay by Capt. Gregg Turner. The odds of catching an orange lobster are about one-in-30-million. By comparison, Blue lobsters are considered to be a one-in-two-million finds, and split-colored lobsters are a one-in-50-million catch.A brightly colored orange lobster found off the coast of Maine is now part of a collection of multicolored crustaceans that call the University of New England home. According to the university, the one-in-30 million catch was found Friday by Captain Gregg Turner and his crew in Casco Bay, Maine. Most lobsters are known to be a mottled brown color, but according...

Authorities reportedly knew immediately that it was Cedric Richmond involved in the wreckCedric Richmond, former Biden aide and senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee, was not tested for driving while intoxicated, despite a police report revealing that he was slurring his speech after causing a single-car accident. On April 23, Richmond was driving his young son in New Orleans when he reportedly crashed his vehicle into a tree. The two were injured, and Richmond was taken to the hospital in an emergency vehicle to be treated for a "suspected serious injury." The police report stated that Richmond was "in...

He is the 12th Republican to announce his candidacy.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has seen his approval rating fall dramatically two weeks after announcing his 2024 presidential bid.According to online polling company Civiqs' dynamic approval rating graph, DeSantis currently has a net approval rating of negative 19 points, with an average of 55 percent of respondents disapproving of him, compared with 36 percent who have a favorable view of the Republican.The data shows DeSantis has a major unfavorable rating from those aged 18-34 (63 percent), women (62 percent), as well as African Americans (85 percent), and the Hispanic/Latino population (68 percent).

BREAKING: Biden DOJ notifies President Trump that he will be indicted next week. DOJ declines to delay charges to allow an investigation into witness tampering. There is a link to a podcast that I am not posting here.

According to internal documents reviewed by Vice, the Department of Homeland Security in 2018 sought to develop a method for assigning “risk scores” to social media users, in a program to identify “disinformation” efforts named “Night Fury” by the DHS. The DHS worked with the University of Alabama to develop the “Night Fury” system, the concept of which bears a striking resemblance to the Chinese “social credit” scores assigned to citizens to measure their compliance with the regime.

President Biden reportedly exploded several times over what he believed were excuses from his team for inaction at the southern border, according to a Washington Post story on Wednesday. As the pandemic-era immigration restriction policy Title 42 is set to expire, the outlet reported that Biden got upset with his aides over what to do about the border crisis. "When Biden would have explosions, and he did have a bunch of them, he’d say: ‘D--- it, you haven’t told me anything different from what you told me last week,’" a former official, who remained anonymous, told The Washington Post.

“The film is nonpolitical and thus nonjudgmental,” Tom Hanks said of Forrest Gump (1994), the year’s winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture and landmark moment in Hanks’ illustrious film career. Yet, in the more than two decades since its release, Forrest Gump has been repeatedly labeled a piece of conservative propaganda that acts as a condemnation of the counterculture movements of the 1960s and a promotion of general conservative values. It has appeared a number of times on “Best Conservative Films” lists and publications, and has been analyzed by film scholars to that end. During his Academy Award...

Former Vice President Mike Pence opened his bid for the Republican nomination for president Wednesday with a firm denunciation of former President Donald Trump, accusing his two-time running mate of abandoning conservative principles and being guilty of dereliction of duty on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence, launching his campaign in a suburb of Des Moines, became the first vice president in modern history to challenge the president under whom he served. He said Trump had disqualified himself when he insisted that Pence had the power to keep him in office — even though he did not. Trump, he said, “endangered my...

”The king of late night is off … you get the Rodney King of late night,“ the ”Fox Across America“ comedian saidApparently there’s too far even for a “Gutfeld!” live studio audience – a joke that guest host Jimmy Failla told Thursday night at the expense of Dylan Mulvaney drew a cold, hard silence from the live studio audience after the “Fox Across America” comedian referred to the transgender influencer as “him.” Failla, a former NYC cab driver with a relentlessly crass sense of humor, got a modest laugh with his first dig at Mulvaney early in his monologue. The...

Bet you're wrong The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant church of a particularly liberal and woke persuasion and, in their desire to be "anti-racist" they put out this inclusive desk calendar. It's got kids of all different races holding hands and smiling. It's obviously meant to promote a message of racial equality. It's so dang cute. The only problem? Yep, it's STILL racist. Why, you ask? Well, the UCC explains in their OFFICIAL APOLOGY for the calendar. Are you still confused? Yeah? Well, that's because you're not a racist and equity-obsessed weirdo. Here's what the church is...

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum entered the Republican race for president Wednesday, offering himself as a candidate of "small town values" who can help steer the country in a different direction. "We need a leader who understands the real work that Americans do every day — someone who’s worked alongside our farmers or ranchers and our small-business owners," Burgum said during his announcement speech in Fargo. "Someone who’s held jobs where you shower at the end of the day, not at the beginning." Burgum, 66, is the latest addition to a field that is expanding with GOP hopefuls eager to...

We’re all done for.Bet you forgot.See Greta Thunberg’s tweet at link.

Kourtney Kardashian faces criticism for her choice of clothing. She wore a jersey while going out with her husband. People online found the jersey offensive and called her out for it. Kourtney Kardashian faces criticism for her choice of clothing. She wore a jersey while going out with her husband, Travis Barker, on Friday. People online found the jersey offensive and called her out for it. Kourtney Kardashian and her husband, Travis Barker, were photographed leaving a Greek restaurant, Taverna Tony, while holding hands on their date night. During their casual date, Travis wore black pants, a white t-shirt, a...

A lower-carbohydrate and lower-sugar diet could increase life expectancy for adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to research. Replacing carbohydrate with protein and/or replacing sugar with non-sugar carbohydrate seems to reduce mortality risk, the study found. Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the general population recommend a low fat/low carbohydrate diet, making protein the primary energy source. However, the WHO recommends a low protein diet for those with CKD as high levels of protein are thought to accelerate kidney deterioration. CKD is a common condition, affecting around 15% of people. An optimal diet can effectively prevent CKD from...

NKSFB, the largest business management firm in the country and one of Hollywood's most trusted advisors, is at war with its parent company Focus Financial Partners.NKSFB, one of the most prominent business management firms in Hollywood and the largest in the country, is asking an L.A. judge to invalidate non-competes for dozens of business managers. They claim their parent company, Focus Financial Partners, is trying to evade California law and illegally bar them from pursuing their careers if they leave. On Wednesday, about 50 Nigro Karlin principals — including THR Power Business Managers Mickey Segal, Michael Karlin, Richard Feldstein, David...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal. In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine’s main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” In an attached memo, the SBU asked Twitter to remove the accounts and hand over their user data.

Firearm purchase is at the center of a Justice Department investigation into the troubled first son In the 48 hours before Hunter Biden's handgun purchase that is now under investigation by federal prosecutors, President Joe Biden's troubled son was being hounded about hundreds of thousands of dollars he owed in debts, juggling texts from his brother's widow and her sister, who were also his lovers, and coordinating what appears to be a drug deal at a local 7-Eleven with a man saved in his phone only as "Q." Justice Department prosecutors are reportedly investigating the younger Biden for several potential...

The Supreme Court will soon rule on college admissions affirmative action. What should the Supreme Court do next? Here are some key points the Court should make in upcoming years to counter the growing antiwhite hate and discrimination of our era. In an increasingly childish age in which the dominant worldview tends to be similar to those of Marvel movies in which there are Good Guys who clearly deserve to beat up the Bad Guys, the Court can speak out for the grown-up idea that in American law no race is born good or bad.