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The FBI faced a grilling on the Hill Wednesday as Director Christopher Wray answered multiple questions about how our nation’s top investigative and domestic intelligence agency has devolved into a rogue security bureau. From questions surrounding a raid on a pro-life activist’s home to whether the FBI is illegally obtaining location data without warrants, it seemed everyone has a question regarding the conduct of this once reputable law enforcement body. "They did not storm his house...not at gunpoint!" pic.twitter.com/G8c6tHFNGa— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 12, 2023Katie wrote about how the FBI acquires the personal bank records of Americans who have purchased firearms....

Kids LGBTQ Youtube Channel Reads Abortion Picture Book LGBT Youtube channel for kids reads a picture book about what abortion is to kids. They should just talk about "What does an IED explosion look like anyway"

Dog the Bounty Hunter delivered a string of homophobic comments during an interview Tuesday with online Christian ministry founder Sharell Barrera. Sitting alongside his wife Francie, who emphatically cheered him on, the reality star repeatedly targeted the LGBTQ+ community and said he’d give two black eyes to Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender woman swept up in the Bud Light controversy. “If I ever see him, I’m dropping him,” Dog said, in what appeared to be a purposeful misgendering of Mulvaney. “The pride comes before the fall,” Dog stated earlier in the conversation, referring to the recent Pride Month celebrations across the...

Lt. Paul Mayhair of the Secret Service Uniformed Division said federal officers with the division tried to pull over the vehicle after spotting its expired registration. 'The suspect indicated that they would stop the vehicle, but then quickly fled southbound on 17th Street NW,' said Mayhair in a statement. While fleeing, the driver ran a red light and struck several people walking through the intersection, fatally injuring one of them, he said. The driver remained at large on Wednesday evening, and an alert has been issued to law enforcement agencies in the area to be on the lookout.

On this date, July 13, in 2010, George Steinbrenner died, and, much earlier, in 1865, publisher and Whig politician, Horace Greeley, is said to have advised his readers: “Washington [D.C.] is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.” (Has anything changed?) Steinbrenner was born in Ohio and died in Florida, but is most famous for owning the New York Yankees for 37 colorful years. His brash leadership is said to have been...

Explanation: Why do some spiral galaxies have a ring around the center? Spiral galaxy NGC 1398 not only has a ring of pearly stars, gas and dust around its center, but a bar of stars and gas across its center, and spiral arms that appear like ribbons farther out. The featured deep image from Observatorio El Sauce in Chile shows the grand spiral galaxy in impressive detail. NGC 1398 lies about 65 million light years distant, meaning the light we see today left this galaxy when dinosaurs were disappearing from the Earth. The photogenic galaxy is visible with a small...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the Fox News audience was “a giant monster that you have to feed every night” while discussing Arizona man Ray Epps suing the network. Carville said, “If you remember right after January 6th, they needed an alternative story, and said it was really Antifa. But there’s no such thing at Antifa, so you can’t defame it. There is no organization, there’s no Antifa headquarters, there’s no Antifa board. So if they would have just stuck with Antifa, they would have probably been okay. But then they single Mr. Epps...

The details of Ray Epps' civil complaint against Fox News reveals that he is being criminally charged by the DOJ, almost three years after the fact. "Finally, in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later. The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges" the complaint reads. The complaint continues, blaming Fox News for the criminal charges: "... it is difficult to believe that the Department of Justice would have pursued this matter...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ To Terrorists, With Love! U.S. Marines from the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, conduct joint training exercises with Peruvian Marines from the Batallòn de Ingeniería de Infantería de Marina on the Salinas firing range in support of Resolute Sentinel 23 in Peru, July 6, 2023. Resolute Sentinel improves readiness of U.S. and partner nation military and interagency personnel through joint defense interoperability training, engineering projects and knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Nicholas Monteleone) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting...

After 127 years in business, San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company is shutting down. According to a press release, the brewery has been facing challenging economic factors and declining sales since 2016. "This was an extremely difficult decision that Anchor reached only after many months of careful evaluation," Anchor Brewing spokesperson Sam Singer said. "We recognize the importance and historic significance of Anchor to San Francisco and to the craft brewing industry, but the impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to...

Update from Ukraine | Did Ukraine lost the NATO deal | One more Ruzzian General is lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Lhbx8XxxY The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 12th July 2023 – 22:00 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-504-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

The mother of a Seattle liquor store robber who was shot and killed by cops has demanded an apology after a mock tomb stone for her son was spotted in a precinct break room. Damarius Butts, 19, was killed while fleeing a robbery at a downtown convenience store on April 20, 2017. He tried to steal beer, before officers chased him and exchanged gunfire. But now, a video has captured a glimpse of a small gray mock tombstone on the shelf in the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct break room, with his name inscribed on it and the date he...

While discussing artificial intelligence with civil rights leaders and consumer protection experts, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a concise explanation for the technology. “AI is kind of a fancy thing — first of all, it's two letters — it means artificial intelligence,” Harris said Wednesday during the AI roundtable. “It's about machine learning. And so the machine is taught.” The vice president talked about the inherent risks tied to AI and how the Biden administration should regulate the rapidly advancing technology as the White House and Congress ramp up efforts to tackle national security concerns related to the field. Link...

The incident occurred in the Valladolid municipality of Tudela where at least 10 police vehicles and dozens of officers were dispatched to a property to detain a woman suspected of jihadist activities. As the result of a search carried out in the detainee’s home, explosives were discovered according to the Guardia Civil. She is said to be a foreigner who has strong ties to Spain and was confirmed by the force as having alleged links to jihadism. Today’s operation was carried out jointly by officers from the Madrid and Valladolid Information Service commands of the Guardia Civil. They conducted several...

Greece and Türkiye agreed on Wednesday (Jul 12) to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new "positive climate" in ties after more than a year of tensions between the historic foes. The two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have been at odds for decades over a range of issues including where their continental shelves start and end, energy resources, overflights of the Aegean Sea, and ethnically split Cyprus. Last year, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan halted bilateral talks in a dispute over airspace violations and after accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of pressuring the United States...

Archaeologists working in Peru have uncovered a 3,000-year-old sealed corridor dubbed “the condor’s passageway” that likely leads to other chambers inside what was once a massive temple complex pertaining to the ancient Chavin culture. Located around 190 miles (306 km) northeast of Lima, the Chavin de Huantar archeological site is among the culture’s most important centers, thriving from around 1,500-550 B.C. The Chavin are well-known for their advanced art, often featuring depictions of birds and felines. They date back to the first sedentary farming communities in the northern highlands of the Peruvian Andes, more than 2,000 years before the Inca...

A Michigan hair salon owner says anyone who does not identify as either a man or woman is "not welcome" at her business and should instead go to a pet groomer — a statement that sparked outrage from the LGBTQ+ community. "If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer," a now-deleted Facebook post from Studio 8 Hair Lab read. "You are not welcome at this salon. Period. Should you request to have a preferred pronoun used please note we may simply refer to you as ‘hey you.’" A Michigan hair...

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Wednesday he thinks China is interested in a cooperative international framework on artificial intelligence, from conversations he had when he visited China a few weeks ago. Musk made the remarks in a Twitter Space event with two U.S. congressmen, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Mike Gallagher. "China is definitely interested in working in a cooperative international framework for AI regulation," Musk said. He added that he has advocated for artificial intelligence regulations and oversight, including in his meetings in China. The remarks came on the same day that Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup,...

Automated real-time fact-checking is the future, but current AI still has a long way to go towards achieving it, say Joel Skadiang and Jaga Naidu from independent fact-checking platform Black Dot Research.In an era of rapidly advancing technology, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools capable of generating human-like text and transforming various industries. LLMs, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, are computerised language models that have been pre-trained on large textual datasets. With these large databases at their disposal, these language models are capable of generating detailed text based on simple user prompts, capturing much of...

Just published my first ebook “The Combesville Dome 1888”. It is a story of a group of people who live in 2188. The Dome program is a recreational form where people can spend a weekend living their lives in a different era, completely cut off from the rest of the outside world. Not bad for an 82 year old, first time author, even if I do say so myself.