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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Friday released extremely detailed surveillance and body camera video surrounding a police-involved shooting right after Christmas on the Westside. The intense and graphic 15-minute video, which was posted to JSO’s YouTube page (Viewer discretion advised), shows the suspect shooting through the window of a key shop on the Westside before he traveled to another store and rammed his car through the front door after shooting through it. Eventually, there was a JSO SWAT Team standoff on the Westside. Drone video showed police shooting the suspect, later identified as Paton Pinette, 26. According...

According to a report by the Pentagon inspector general, more than 40,000 weapons worth more than $1 billion were shipped to Ukraine but never made it to the battlefield. Many of the weapons were sent to a U.S. military logistics hub in Poland, while others were shipped directly to Ukraine. The equipment includes shoulder-fired missiles, kamikaze drones, and night-vision goggles. Alexandra "Sasha" Baker, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, said last November, when a draft of the report was leaked, that required accounting procedures “are not practical in a dynamic and hostile wartime environment." The IG report found that...

Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden from leaving the country without special exemption. A contentious new bill seeks to mobilise another 500,000 men for military service. Border Guard officers anticipate that the new mobilisation will increase the numbers trying to flee the country. In the initial stages of the war, most men trying to flee the country used fake papers stating they were exempt because they were carers or had three children or more. Many hid themselves in vehicles leaving Ukraine over official border crossings. Men make attempts every day to cross the borders between Ukraine,...

The delivery of Columbia’s stern section is a milestone for the first ballistic missile submarine built for the Navy since the 1990s. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ he first Columbia class submarine stern section has been delivered to General Dynamics Electric Boat. The massive component will serve as the propulsion section of the inaugural Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine, the USS District of Columbia. The vessel is the first of a planned 12 boat fleet designed to replace the existing 14 Ohio-class boomers in what the Navy says is its top-priority acquisition program. Images of the first stern section were released on Wednesday by...

Dr Deborah Birx, who served as White House Coordinator from 2020-2021, claimed that, like HIV, Covid 'quietly destroyed' some people's immune systems even if they were asymptomatic Symptoms include chronic pain, brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain and intense fatigue. It is thought that long Covid is caused by persisting pieces of the Covid virus in the body which cause problems for years after infection. Dr Birx told News Nation: 'We're learning now about mitochondria and viral impact and brain fog, and the changes in our neurons and the cells that nourish the neurons that really allow us to...

A Vermont-based baking company is under fire for hosting a competition that barred white contestants from participating, an attempt to “foster greater inclusivity” in the world of baking. The 2024 Baking Pitchfest, hosted by King Arthur Baking, says it will provide “equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” gracing the winners with “financial support, brand exposure, and mentorship to help accelerate their businesses.” The competition is billed as an “accelerator program,” and will consist of two parts, a product edition and a bakery edition, which are limited to those defined as a “person of color led business” and a “person...

It’s been well established that Joe Biden’s poll numbers are terrible. In addition to being behind Trump in national polling, he’s also trailing him in battleground state polling. It is widely acknowledged that the outcome of the 2024 election will come down to a small number of battleground states, and one of them is Pennsylvania. Donald Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, but in 2020, Biden narrowly took the state, though there are countless sworn statements from poll workers claiming shenanigans were going on that may have impacted the results. Regardless of what you believe about what happened in Pennsylvania in...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has waded in on a woke row after a hospital listed people automatically guilty of privilege. Musk took to social media to leave a short but clear comment on the matter. The 52-year-old, who acquired the social media giant in October 2022, simply said: “This must end!” Musk was responding to an update released by a hospital in Baltimore. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has waded in on a woke row after a hospital listed people automatically guilty of privilege. Musk took to social media to leave a short but clear comment on the matter. The 52-year-old,...

At this point, Joe Biden and the Bidenites don’t just have a little blood on their hands, they’re bathing in it. A few days back, AT published an essay by contributor C.S. Boddie that highlighted a recent tragedy in Colorado: an illegal alien, who had been deported four times before, killed a mother and her 16-year-old son, as he drove (allegedly) completely inebriated near a high school. The illegal had four “alcohol-related driving” convictions under his belt, and just days before, he’d received probation, community service, and work release from a Colorado judge; Boddie’s piece also included a number of...

AI, China’s impact on global events, upcoming elections, major developments in Israel, and many more events are shaping the world in 2024. I would like to provide a brief overview of what I consider “six mega-trends” for the upcoming year, which carry important prophetic significance.

The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that what’s behind those numbers could be even worse. The Associated Press asked more than three dozen scientists in interviews and emails what the smashed records mean. Most said they fear acceleration of climate change that is already right at the edge of the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) increase since pre-industrial times that nations had hoped to stay within. “The heat over the last calendar year was a dramatic message from Mother Nature,” said University of Arizona climate...

Forecasters are warning that “life-threatening” blizzard conditions are heading toward Iowa this weekend ahead of the caucuses on Monday. A blizzard warning has been issued over much of Iowa for Friday into Saturday, with several areas under a winter storm warning, as well, the National Weather Service (NWS) advised. NWS predicts that 3-5 inches of snow could fall in Des Moines, and some areas could see up to 8 inches over the next three days. Winds are expected to increase Friday and create life-threatening blizzard conditions overnight into Saturday. Temperatures are expected to be dangerously low throughout the weekend and...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) went after former President Trump on Friday, demanding in a letter that he return about $7.8 million Trump’s companies received from foreign governments while he was in office. House Oversight and Accountability Committee Democrats first made the allegation in a report last week, claiming Trump’s companies accepted money from foreign entities in 20 countries and alleging the payments violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. HOUSE Raskin demands Trump return $7.8M foreign governments paid his companies during presidency BY NICK ROBERTSON - 01/12/24 10:53 AM ET SHARE TWEET Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Greg Nash Rep. Jamie...

Government power is causing inflation and middle class economic repression. For example, US credit card debt is at an all-time high as consumers attempt to cope with inflation under Biden. While inflation RATE is finally cooling off, the LEVEL of inflation remains high. Purchasing power for consumers is down 15% under Vacation Joe. Following yesterday’s hotter-than-expected CPI, this morning’s Producer Price Index was expected to accelerate (headline not core). However, it did not – headline PPI actually decline 0.1% MoM (+0.1% MoM exp). That is the 3rd straight month of ‘deflation’ but inched PPI YoY up to +1.0% I am...

12 January 2024 Friday of week 1 in Ordinary Time Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys - Brookfield, Connecticut Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Samuel 8:4-7,10-22 ©The people of Israel demand a kingAll the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. ‘Look,’ they said to him ‘you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. So give us a king to rule over us, like the other nations.’ It displeased Samuel that they should say, ‘Let us have a king to rule us’, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord said...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was recently diagnosed and is being treated for prostate cancer. He is one of the nearly 290,000 American men who will be diagnosed with the condition this year. Nearly all types of cancer have become less deadly over the last 30 years, with one notable exception: advanced-stage prostate cancer, according to a recent report from the American Cancer Society (ACS). “We have had more men diagnosed with more advanced prostate cancer over the last decade,” Dr. Sam S. Chang, the Chief Surgical Officer at the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, told The Epoch Times in an...

The multimillionaire star’s Barwood Films Ltd. received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020 and 2021 — then had them written off by the federal government. Among the workers paid through Barwood Films in 2020 and 2021 was a groundskeeper responsible for the gardens at her $20 million Malibu clifftop home — where the business is registered — and an “executive support” employee. Her spokesman claimed Streisand’s gardener had not been paid with taxpayer funds. The Post has confirmed that the groundskeeper was employed by Barwood Films when it took public money to make payroll.

President Joe Biden announced on Friday that federal student loans will be wiped out for borrowers who received less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for the past decade. Starting in February federal loan borrowers 'who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately,' Biden said in a statement.

'To date, you have failed to respond to any of our requests...' Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, whose net worth reportedly stands at $250 million, wasted approximately $4.3 million in taxpayer funds to pay his climate office within the Biden administration, according to newly revealed documents. The multi-million-dollar bill surfaced through documents released on Monday via a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Boston Herald. Strikingly, the office declined to disclose the identities of Kerry’s top officials despite handling U.S. policy abroad.

SCARSDALE, NY — As thousands of illegal migrants continue to arrive in New York, a local white liberal resident was seen quietly removing his "All Are Welcome Here" sign from his front yard. The man, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being canceled by friends and neighbors in his gated community, removed the sign shortly after seeing yet another bus full of foreign nationals arrive down the street. "I want them to feel welcome here…but not, like, HERE here," he said as he tossed the sign away and out of view. "I believe very strongly that these people...