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The Mount Dora City Council unanimously approved a divisive program that seeks to encourage local business owners to display opposition to hate crime stickers in a city that has zero hate crimes. Mount Dora, located in suburban Central Florida, instituted the controversial program on Tuesday, while other issues, such as sustainable development and downtown parking woes, are greater concerns to residents. Mount Dora calls the program the “Safe Place Initiative.” The program seeks to push every business or organization within the city limits to post a “symbol of safety” as a signal to patrons the business is safe “for the...

As the City of Los Angeles struggled to reduce pedestrian deaths after its deadliest year in decades, state lawmakers have repealed jaywalking laws in the name of equity. And one high-profile prosecutor questioned whether the new rules are saving any lives. So far this year, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, the city is on track to see a reduction from 2022's 20-year high in pedestrian fatalities. But nearly three-quarters of the deaths involved potential jaywalkers. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, the DA candidate who landed a life prison sentence for the man who killed rapper Nipsey Hussle, is...

The Gulf of Mexico reached record heat in the first half of August, setting the stage for an intense hurricane season in a region that is no stranger to devastating storms. Average temperature data from the Southeast Regional Climate Center from Aug. 1-15 indicated record high temperatures on coastal stations, across an unbroken swath of coast stretching from Matamoros in northeastern Mexico to Miami. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Average Gulf Coast temperatures reach record highs BY ZACK BUDRYK - 08/16/23 3:31 PM ET SHARE TWEET A man walks his dog along the beach Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Galveston, Texas, as...

The sprawling racketeering indictment returned this week by a grand jury in Fulton County presents a wide range of challenges. with so many defendants, prosecutors and defense lawyers will labor to keep the names and conflicting stories straight for those jurors over weeks or months. There will be countless legal details and basic logistics to argue or work out — even down to finding a courtroom big enough to fit everyone.

The investment firm run by liberal billionaire George Soros was a major investor in a now-bankrupt electric bus company that was heralded by the Biden administration as the future of green transit, and lost as much as $105 million in the two years since the company went public, according to a Daily Wire analysis. Soros Fund Management was one of the earliest investors in Proterra — when the company went public in June 2021 the fund owned 7.75 million shares of the company, an investment worth over $132 million dollars, according to legally required quarterly disclosures. The stock price of...

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, in an interview published Wednesday, said it will “absolutely be incumbent” on Republican presidential candidates during the first primary debate to address the criminal charges former President Trump faces. “It will absolutely be incumbent upon them to address [Trump’s criminal charges],” MacCall“Voters need to hear how they see it, and the option that they’re trying to provide. It’s very tricky territory for these candidates. They know that well,” she added. “It’s kind of a minefield.”um told “Vanity Fair.”

A serial creep from Los Angeles County is back on the streets after dozens of arrests for a slew of sex offenses and other crimes stretching back to 2005, despite being caught on video accosting women just days ago. Calese Carron Crowder, 37, was identified as the man seen on viral TikTok videos who appears to follow women around a Burbank Barnes & Noble bookstore "sniffing" their backsides. Glendale police arrested him for allegedly peeping on a Glendale home with children inside last week, according to authorities. Crowder has felony convictions of robbery and burglary, law enforcement sources told Fox...

BREAKING: @LibertyMutual partnered with the same company as Best Buy to offer a “management training program” which excludes white people. “Current program criteria include” not being white. Liberty Mutual discriminates against white employees.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is assigned to the January 6 case against former President Donald Trump, is related to some of the “most influential” Jamaican Marxists. Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on four counts related to his alleged effort to steal the 2020 election at the beginning of the month. Interestingly, the Article III Project revealed that Chutkan has family ties with the top Marxist revolutionaries in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962, Chutkan’s grandfather, Frank Hill, and great uncle, Ken Hill, played a key role in founding Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP). Ken Hill was...

Fulton County resident Matt Kim knows the damn score.

President Joe Biden was criticized for remarks he made in which he falsely stated that he saw a bridge in Pittsburgh collapse. While speaking in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Biden spoke about Bidenomics and later brought up the topic of having seen the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapse. The Fern Hollow Bridge, which was built in 1973, collapsed on Jan. 28, 2022, according to the Associated Press. “Pittsburgh is a city of bridges. More bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America,” Biden claimed. “I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse,” Biden said...

This is hilarious. BMW driver uses his engine to clear the road. Climate Darwin Award. VIDEO AT LINK!.....................

After the horrific wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui last week that took the lives of at least 99 and left more than 1,000 unaccounted for, many Americans are donating money to help the victims. Many more are offering their thoughts and prayers, including former President Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but infamously said after a mass shooting in 2015: “Thoughts and prayers are not enough.” At the time, Obama condemned the phrase, saying, “Our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should...

A female Connecticut police officer was ferociously attacked by a hammer-wielding man, police said. The Middletown Police Department said that on Saturday, August 12 at 6:33 p.m., authorities received a complaint about noise and breaking glass on a residential street. Detective Karli Travis, who runs the Middletown Police Cadet Program and serves in the patrol division, was the first officer who responded to the call. She approached the resident on foot and police said that she immediately noticed that the suspect, 52-year-old Winston Tate, was wielding a blunt object. In a press conference on Tuesday, August 15, Chief Eric McCallister...

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The Biden administration pushed through plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer aid to the Palestinians despite internal assessments that those plans could boost the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. State Department officials in 2021 outlined the concerns in private communications, asking the Treasury Department to exempt them from laws that bar the U.S. government from injecting taxpayer aid into territories controlled by Palestinian terror groups. The Biden administration needed this authorization in order to move forward with its plans to unfreeze more than $360 million in U.S....

I think he’s in a lot of legal trouble, and I’ve been saying this...for a while and people, you know, attack that. But hey, I live in the real world and the real world is telling us that Donald Trump has a lot of legal problems. He’s probably going to get convicted in one or more of these cases. And people need to wake up and people need to understand what’s happening. And people also need to understand that, while he is not to blame for the hyperpartisan actions of the prosecutors, he left himself very vulnerable. He handed a...

BERLIN, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The German government has retreated from a plan to legally commit itself to meeting NATO's 2% military spending target on an annual basis, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday. A corresponding clause in a draft of the budget financing law passed by the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday was deleted at short notice, the source said. The change means that Germany will be able to stick to its current pledge of meeting the 2% target on average over a five-year period. This wording is softer than Scholz's original pledge in a speech...

The office of Michigan’s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has confirmed there was a state investigation into a large number of voter registrations suspected to be fraudulent, with the case being referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2021.Danny Wimmer, Nessel’s press secretary, recently admitted a number of some 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms delivered to the Muskegon clerk by a “black female” in the run-up to 2020 presidential elections “were found to be suspicious or fraudulent.”Some of the irregularities included a number voter registrations being written in the same handwriting and addresses on multiple forms being “invalid...

Out in West Texas is a rugged landscape full of grand vistas and big skies. It's also a place that's dealing with a large increase of migrants. Join me as we meet up with Sheriff Ronny Dodson of Brewster County to get a better understanding of this complex situation.