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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighters have been fighting a fire at the still-under-construction Rise Doro apartments in Downtown Jacksonville since Sunday night. According to JFRD, the fire at RISE Doro started at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Fire crews battled the fire all through the night, and they are continuing to spray Tuesday morning for hot spots at the structure. City officials say the RISE Doro apartment complex was deemed unsafe, so they want to make sure nearby businesses remain closed. This includes Intuition Ale Works, Manifest Distilling, and the offices across A. Phillip Randolph, Jacksonville Mayor...

On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the suspension of support by several countries to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) amounts to punishment for the population of Gaza. "What has happened and is happening is collective punishment, prohibited by international humanitarian law," he said, commenting on the decision of 16 countries to stop funding this UN agency. Such a decision came after Israel said that a dozen UNRWA workers participated in the Hamas attack on October 7, which triggered the Israeli offensive against Gaza. Lavrov criticized the "wrong decision" to proceed...

An F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea off South Korea's southwestern coast near the city of Seosan on Wednesday, with a US Air Force pilot safely ejecting from it. "An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing here experienced an in-flight emergency over the West Sea and crashed at approximately 8:41 a.m . (2341 GMT) today," the US military said in a statement. "The pilot ejected safely and was recovered at around 9:30 a.m. He is conscious and was transported to a medical facility for assessment," it added. ... The 8th Fighter Wing includes two F-16 squadrons....

We have lost 20 years, 2,000,000,000,000 dollars, and 4,096 hopeful Americans... and what was it all worth? I had never heard it, but it's a beautiful song.

U.S. syphilis cases reach highest levels since the 1950s, creating a critical public health need. In response to the surging number of syphilis and congenital syphilis cases nationwide, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking action to slow the spread with a focus on those most significantly impacted. Through the establishment of the National Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Syndemic (NSCSS) Federal Task Force, the Department is utilizing its agencies, its expertise, and its stakeholder network to respond to the U.S. syphilis and congenital syphilis epidemic. The actions of the Task Force leverage federal resources to reduce...

Israeli forces pounded areas in northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday after the Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had received and was studying a new proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza. The proposal, presented by mediators after talks with Israel, appeared to be the most serious peace initiative for months in the Israel-Hamas war. The ceasefire proposal followed talks in Paris involving intelligence chiefs from Israel, the United States and Egypt, with the prime minister of Qatar. In a mark of the seriousness of the negotiations, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said he was going to...

Did those Americans die in vain? As a 9/11 Pentagon “survivor” who lost twenty-seven “shipmates” on that fateful day, I view the current situation in Iran and our yet to be determined response with deep skepticism. Prior to 9/11 and the highest loss of American lives since Pearl Harbor, our intelligence establishment had the exact location of Osama bin Laden pinpointed several times, to the point that we could have taken him out by a number of means. The only thing lacking was the political will and resolve by the National Command Authority (NCA) to give the green light to...

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Bush confirmed Tuesday the Department of Justice is investigating the more than $750,000 her campaign has spent on private security services since 2019. Bush came under fire last year after she married one of her private security guards, Cortney Merritts, who has received at least $74,000 in campaign funds protecting the Squad lawmaker. She has also paid $152,000 to her personal friend, Nathaniel Davis III, for security services. Davis claims to have a host of supernatural abilities, including the power to summon tornadoes at will and make fire appear out of nothing

How is Israeli public opinion on the war shifting? For the first three months or so of the war, Israelis, specifically Jewish Israelis, strongly supported the war and the government’s declared goal of defeating and dismantling Hamas. That consensus and unity are rapidly fraying. Netanyahu says continuing the war is the best way to release the hostages, but more and more Israelis, including the families of the hostages, are arguing that with every passing day that the war continues, the lives of the hostages are in greater danger. There’s also growing doubts about whether Israel can actually decisively defeat and...

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It has been said that intellectuals can reduce a city of stone to sand. Unfortunately, this is especially true as today’s “thinking class” wages all-hands-on deck warfare against Western Civilization. The most prominent of these attacks is the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) movement but DIE is not, however, the only assault. Less obvious, but of no less importance, is how “scholars” now attack Western Civilization by celebrating, “indigenous” cultures that had largely been replaced by Western Civilization. These enemies are not romantics wanting to “return to nature” by living off the grid sans modern conveniences. Rather, the enemies of...

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A large mob of migrants attacked two NYPD officers on Saturday near Times Square Anyone later arrested was released without bail

Illegal immigration has increased by almost 1000% over the past decade and is still rising rapidly.The United States is being overwhelmed. WATCH: America's illegal immigration crisis is shattering century-old records with alarming numbers. 2023: 3,201,1442022: 2,766,5822021: 1,956,5192020: 405,0362019: 859,5012018: 404,1422017: 310,5312016: 415,8162015: 337,1172014: 486,6512013: 420,7892012: 364,7682011: 340,2522010: 463,382 On President Biden's inaugural day, he introduced policies that incentivize illegal immigration:• Paused Deportations• Suspended "Remain in Mexico"• Stopped Border Wall Construction Since Biden's policy changes, over 8 million people have illegally entered the country, with millions more slipping past border patrol undetected.This surge in illegal immigration is a national security crisis,...

Some new shot cartridges caught this correspondent’s eye at the CCI part of the Vista Outdoors exhibit at the SHOT Show. There were three displayed: a 10mm offering using 109 grains of #9 lead shot, a 9mm using 43 grains of Hevi Bismuth, non-lead shot, and a .38 Special using 80 grains of Hevi Bismuth, non-lead shot.The 10mm is to satisfy those with 10mm handguns who find a shot cartridge useful for their needs. The Hevi Bismuth loads are to satisfy customers who want to be certain about their status on the law, where lead shot is prohibited. A CCI...

At least 275,000 illegal migrants crossed into Europe in 2023 (www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-migration-policy/), the highest figure since 2016. In Sweden net migration is expected to be 120,000 for 2023 (www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-projections/population-projections/pong/tables-and-graphs/immigration-and-emigration-by-sex-and-country-of-birth-and-projection/).

Two women have accused an aide to Vice President Kamala Harris of barring them from entering a campaign event because they were wearing hijabs. A video that has amassed 1.8million views on X appears to show two women being blocked from entering a campaign event in Las Vegas over the weekend. The video, posted Tuesday morning by an account called Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation, was filmed by a woman who can be heard but not seen. She and another woman, who is briefly shown to be wearing a hijab - headscarf worn by some Muslim women - confront a young...

In a statement issued last Friday, the California Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged a mistake that led to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Christina Pascucci receiving a “No Ballot Designation” identifier on both the March 5 primary ballot and the accompanying voter guide. Pascucci, a former Los Angeles TV news journalist, should have received the designation “Local Television Journalist,” according to a statement from Secretary Shirley Weber’s office. The mistake has been corrected online, but it is too late to fix the ballots or official voter information guides. Weber’s office said it was “an administrative error” that led to the mistake....

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi., D-Calif., was blasted on social media after a video surfaced from October in which she told pro-Palestinian protesters from Code Pink to "go back to China" where their "headquarters is." "In October, Pelosi told our members calling for a ceasefire to ‘go back to China,’ Code Pink posted on X on Monday along with a video of Pelosi interacting with protesters. "These same women have been protesting for peace at her house for 17 years. Pelosi takes thousands of dollars from AIPAC every year. Who’s the foreign agent here?" Social media users criticized Pelosi, including...