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New York City's infamous "robocop" has officially ended its pilot program, according to an official from the city. The machine lasted only four months and costed $12,250. The 5-foot-tall 400lb security robot, K5, was introduced in October of last year to much fanfare from Mayor Eric Adams' office, however, the public was not as impressed and it was stashed away in a vacant storefront just two months into the city's six-month contract with its manufacturer, Knightscope. "The K5 Knightscope has completed its pilot in the NYC subway system," a spokesperson for the New York Police Department said in a statement...

The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Moscow, but disputed a claim he made that Western journalists hadn't attempted to interview the leader throughout the war. -snip- Peskov said Carlson is "wrong" by suggesting that Western journalists haven't attempted to interview Putin—an assertion the former Fox News host made in a lengthy video announcing his interview with the Russian leader. "He, in fact, cannot know this. We receive many requests for interviews with the president," Peskov said. -snip- Many Western journalists have interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

The federal government is accusing the state of Texas of violating the law in taking action to stop the influx of illegal aliens at its southern border, but the Lone Star State has both the legal and the moral high ground to do so. The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border reached a crescendo late last month after a narrow Supreme Court majority ruled in favor of the federal government’s authority to cut down razor wire Texas had put up in order to repel illegal aliens seeking to enter the state. This ruling and the subsequent actions of the Biden Administration...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is deploying the state police to target growing crime in Oakland, California, according to a Tuesday press release. Violent incidents rose by 21% from 2022 to 2023 with robberies and burglaries jumping 38% and 23%, respectively, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. As a result, Newsom said that 120 California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers were going to be sent to Oakland and the surrounding area to “restore a sense of safety,” according to the press release. “As crime rates across California decrease — including right across the Bay in San Francisco — Oakland is seeing the...

I've been here a long time (thanx for not kicking me out Jim, even when sometimes I SHOULD have been) and I have seen many, many times that statement;God is gonn'a have to apologize to Sodom and GomorrahWell, here we are in the midst of earthquakes, flooding and pestulence in a diverse place and no one is saying it . . . . . .Except I just did

The Marine helicopter was reported overdue amid California's 'atmospheric river' storm First responders have launched a search mission after a U.S. military helicopter carrying five U.S. Marines went missing on a flight from Nevada to California on Tuesday. "The U.S. Marine Corps is searching for five U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing," Marine Corps Air Station Miramar confirmed to Fox News. "The Marines were flying a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Feb. 6, 2024, when the aircraft was...

A man who served as a State Department security officer was arrested Tuesday by the FBI on four charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Kevin Alstrup, whose current status at the department is unclear, was arrested in Washington and faces four misdemeanor charges, including disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, unlawful picket and parading, entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct in the Capitol building. The Hill has reached out to the State Department for comment. According to the arrest affidavit, the FBI obtained information that Alstrup was employed by the State Department...

"In Nevada's Republican primary on Tuesday, Nikki Haley appeared to lose decisively to the option "none of these candidates," a troubling sign for her campaign as she seeks crucial electoral momentum against rival Donald Trump.With the majority of the expected vote reported, "none of these candidates" received nearly double the votes that Haley earned as of early Wednesday morning. (snip) Douglass voiced concerns about the use of "none of these candidates" as a form of political statement, saying it could backfire on future elections."That could come back to bite the party for future elections because now you have made the...

California search and rescue crews are looking for a missing helicopter with five Marines aboard, the U.S. Marine Corps said. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was "reported overdue" to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Tuesday night. The helicopter departed from Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas and was en route to Miramar, in San Diego. The Marines have asked for help from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Civil Air Patrol. The sheriff's department said it received a call at 1:50 a.m. and sent its own helicopter to search, but the helicopter wasn't able to reach the area...

Correspondence of the Associated Press. FORTRESS MONROE, Friday, Feb. The steamer Washington Irving arrived last evening from Newborn, N.C., with dispatches to Gen. BUTLER, and by her we received the following highly important intelligence for the Associated Press: On the morning of the 1st inst., before the break of day, the rebels, consisting of PICKETT's Division, from Kinston, N. C, and HOKE's Brigade, from Gen. LEE's army, made an assault on the outposts at Bachelor's Creek, eight miles from Newbern, which, after a desperate struggle, they carried, capturing 70 of our men and officers. One company of the Second North...

(Jacob Long/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) In December 2022, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility announced a historic milestone: for the first time, their laser-powered fusion reaction had 'broken even', producing more energy than it consumed. But advances as big as this need to be rigorously checked – and that can take some time. Importantly, a series of papers detailing the experimental design, technological advancements, and results of the initial breakthrough reaction have just passed peer review, meaning researchers not involved in the work have vetted the methods and findings in order to check the sums. "This achievement is the...

Every year on February 6th, America gets to celebrate anew the birth of its 40th President, Ronald Reagan, who was born on February 6, 1911. We remember and revere him not just because of his service to our nation, but for how he made us feel when he was President. We were patriotic, proud, and powerful under the Reagan presidency – all traits we seem to currently be lacking – and longing for. Americans love to remember Reagan because they love to recall the feeling they had when he was president - bold and unapologetic on the world stage, he...

The infamous jobs report from the BLS is like a scene from the film “Phantoms.” Where nothing is what is seems. The federal government in 2023 overestimated the number of jobs in the U.S. economy by an average of 105,000 per month in initial reports, equating to a cumulative monthly difference of 1.3 million, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The cumulative number of jobs reported each month was 1,255,000 less than previously thought, with new seasonal and census data affecting total employment estimates, according to data from the BLS calculated by the Daily Caller News...

7 February 2024 Wednesday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Relics of Saint Richard the Pilgrim, Basilica di San Frediano, LuccaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Kings 10:1-10 ©The Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of SolomonThe fame of Solomon having reached the queen of Sheba, she came to test him with difficult questions. She brought immense riches to Jerusalem with her, camels laden with spices, great quantities of gold, and precious stones. On coming to Solomon, she opened her mind freely to him; and Solomon had an answer for all her questions, not one of...

The one-time MAGA supporter became a born-again anti-Trumper in recent years, admitting she was “a very stupid girl” to support Trump in the early days of his ascendance. Ann Coulter didn’t mince her words when asked what former president Donald Trump could do to “help us take America back.” “Maybe he could die?” she wrote on X. The one-time MAGA supporter—and author of In Trump We Trust—became a born-again anti-Trumper in recent years, admitting she was “a very stupid girl” to support Trump in the early days of his ascendance. She’s since flip-flopped in her stance on the former president,...

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — A man is in the hospital with serious injuries after he was hit by an Amtrak train in Clay County. According to the crash report, at around 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday, a 72-year-old man from Orange Park was driving his SUV southbound on the railroad tracks near Allen Avenue for an unknown reason. At the same time, an Amtrak Lead Engine Charger, accompanied by a second engine towing 9 cars, was traveling northbound toward the crossing at Allen Avenue. The SUV driver stopped his car on the tracks before the train struck the front of the...

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Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera died in a helicopter crash on Tuesday evening as he was traveling to southern Chile with three members of his family, who survived. Piñera, 74, was the first and so far only center-right president of Chile since its return to democracy at the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, having served two presidential terms from 2010 to 2014 and 2018 to 2022. The former Chilean president was reportedly piloting the crashed helicopter, having taken off from the home of Chilean businessman José Cox on Tuesday afternoon after sharing a meal. Piñera was accompanied by...

GOA and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), along with plaintiffs, Carl Higbie, Joseph Harris, and Michael Votruba, who live in border states and have a license to carry in those states, filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of New York challenging New York state’s prohibition on both granting concealed carry permits for non-residents and granting reciprocity for those permits from other states.

A New York City doorman is being hailed as a hero after he stepped up to help a young woman who was chased down by two robbers and pushed against a wall over the weekend in a brazen, broad daylight attack. A 24-year-old woman was robbed of her phone by two thieves outside an Upper East Side building at around 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. The victim was not harmed, and the brutes were unable to snatch her purse as well since the doorman of a building at 74th Street and Madison Avenue intervened, ABC7 reported. “I did what I...