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A missing military helicopter was found in Southern California Wednesday morning, but a search and rescue operation continues for five missing Marines on board, 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 the San Diego area. 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 due to the atmospheric river storm...

A report to the UK Parliament by the Wildlife and Countryside Link claims that 'racist colonial legacies' influence the British countryside, creating barriers for ethnic minorities in accessing green spaces. The report advocates a 'rights-based approach' to accessing these spaces and links Britain's role in the colonial project to current environmental crises. The British countryside, often considered a serene escape and a symbol of national heritage, is under scrutiny. A recent report submitted to the UK Parliament by the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of wildlife charities, asserts that these verdant landscapes bear the marks of 'racist colonial legacies'....

WND reported just days ago on a video that showed empty stores in France, where a climate agenda threatened the production processes for farmers, and they more or less staged a strike.And just recently, in Germany, farmers blocked highways in protest over costly and unnecessary agriculture policies.Now, however, there's a new campaign against farmers, in which the United Nations works with banks to debank the food producers, closing their accounts and not allowing them to operate their businesses.The report is from NewsAddicts, which explained officials from 12 U.S. states have sounded an alarm after finding out the "unelected globalist United...

The Department of Defense invites media to cover a pre-sentencing hearing in the case of United States v. Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, scheduled for April 15-19. The defendant entered a guilty plea in June of 2022. The proceedings will be conducted at the Expeditionary Legal Complex located in Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) Cuba and will be transmitted to a closed-circuit television site at Ft. Meade, Md. For planning purposes, media desiring to travel to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) Cuba will depart from Joint Base Andrews, Md. on the date listed below with a round-trip flight cost of $800. Flights...

A San Francisco Bay-area elementary school was trained by an organization called “Woke Kindergarten,” whose leader wants to see America and Israel destroyed as countries, according to posts on social media. According to the website, the head of the organization is “Akiea ‘Ki’ Gross (they/them)” who “is an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.” “I believe the United States has no right to exist. I believe every settler colony who has committed genocide against native peoples, against Indigenous people, has no right to exist,” Gross...

A newly published research paper "COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign" in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science debunks virtually everything that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and World Health Organization (WHO) maintained concerning the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines. The authors wrote "evaluation of the Pfizer trial data showed that their vaccine induced significant increases in serious adverse events (SAEs) in the vaccine group compared to the placebo group. These SAEs including death, cancer, cardiac events, and various autoimmune,...

Healey and Wolohojian met when they both worked at Hale & Dorr, and had been together for eight years when Healey began her first term as attorney general in 2015, ... Healey used the Charlestown home they shared as her campaign’s headquarters early in her first run for attorney general, ... They later separated, and Healey moved to the South End before she launched her run for governor. She now lives in Arlington with her current partner, Joanna Lydgate, an attorney and her former deputy in the attorney general’s office. Healey and Lydgate told the Globe last year that their...

For GOP lawmakers who view public education as a quasi-socialist project, the gaping hole in state budgets left by subsidizing private school tuition is a feature, not a bug. Bait-and-switch is an old retail tactic. You lure customers in with promises of a deep discount, only to inform them that the deal has a catch. The real price tag, it turns out, is quite a bit more. Though it took supporters of school vouchers a while to catch on, they’ve learned quickly that the trick works just as well in education policy as it does in retail sales. Pick a...

The world is entering “an age of chaos” with an impotent and divided Security Council being ignored on a host of critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented Wednesday. As the conflict in Gaza entering its fifth month, AFP reports Guterres warned that if the Israeli armed forces keep fighting back against Hamas terrorists and press on into the southern city of Rafah, it will “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences.” “It is time for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages,” Guterres ordered during...

Antisemitic flyers showing a skunk emblazoned with the Israeli flag have been posted on the campus of Columbia University in New York, the New York Post reported. The flyers read: “Beware! Skunk on Campus. Brought to you in collaboration by Columbia University and the IDF." The Anti-Defamation League for New York and New Jersey wrote on X (formerly Twitter), "We are appalled to see a flier on@Columbia's campus comparing Israel and Israelis to skunks. This does nothing to further peace. It only villainizes Jewish and Israeli students on campus and fosters an increasingly hostile environment. The Columbia administration should call...

Concerns are mounting over Houthi threats to international internet traffic and the transmission of financial data, with Yemeni telecoms firms having sounded the alarm about the militant group’s plans to sabotage submarine cables in the Red Sea. Yemen’s General Telecommunications Company, which is linked to the UN-recognised government, yesterday (4 February) released a statement condemning the Houthis’ “threats to target international marine cables”. Approximately 17% of the world’s internet traffic is carried along fibre pipes in the Red Sea. On 24 December, a Houthi-linked Telegram channel posted a map showing the convergence of communications cables in the Red Sea, Mediterranean...

This really happened. Joe Biden decided to visit this Black kid’s home and eat Cookout with his family before election season officially starts to let Black people know he is still willing to use them for votes.

The owner of an Alabama radio station is stunned, and out a lot of money, after thieves made off with his 200-foot radio tower. The theft was discovered Friday when landscapers went to clean up the area. Brett Elmore, owner of WJLX in Jasper, then received an unexpected, and baffling, call. “He said, ‘Brett, we’re down here and the tower’s gone.’’

Republican strategist Karl Rove shut down speculation, often permeated on the far-right, that former first lady Michelle Obama will replace President Biden in the 2024 election, calling it “pure lunacy.” Rove was reacting to the idea that Michelle Obama, former President Obama’s wife and one of the most popular Democrats in the country, could replace Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2024. The theory has come up in previous elections cycles and was floated by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) last month. Rove in his remarks on Wednesday suggested it’s possible Biden will not end up being the Democratic nominee,...

Is it time for Nikki Haley to pack up her campaign baggage and get the heck home? Sure looks like it. Because out in Nevada, the primary results came out like this:Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassing loss in the Republican presidential primary in Nevada on Tuesday, receiving far fewer votes than the "none of these candidates" option, according to the Associated Press.With 86% of the votes counted, Haley received less than half (20,799, or 30.8%) of the 42,534 garnered by "none of these candidates."It was a contest that former President Donald Trump did not compete in and which the state...

A British academic projecting “trans theory” onto the past has claimed that the graves of Anglo-Saxon warriors indicate that some among their ranks were transgender. James Davison, a University of Liverpool PhD candidate and tutor of medieval history, has asserted that examining the graves of Anglo-Saxon warriors through the “lens of transness” suggests that there may have been trans warriors 1,500 years ago and that so-called transgender women may have been exalted in their society. “Using approaches from trans studies – which acknowledge the potential for genders beyond a male-female binary in historical cultures – allows researchers to approach these...

A rookie female corrections officer in Tennessee has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an inmate at the men’s jail. Akira Jones, 20, a corrections deputy with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in Memphis since May, was taken into custody Tuesday after a weeks-long internal investigation, officials said. Jones, who has been on leave since late December, faces a felony charge of sexual contact with prisoners. The deputy’s arrest stems from a complaint dated Dec. 20, which accused her of having sex with an inmate at the main county jail known colloquially as 201 Poplar. Although the sheriff’s office...

Tucker Carlson heaped praise on Moscow during an off-the cuff chat with a Russian journalist while he's in the city for his controversial interview with the country's President Vladimir Putin. On Wednesday morning, Russian state news agency TASS confirmed with the Kremlin that the interview has already taken place - it will be the first with an American journalist since 2021. Russian leader’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that it will be released as soon as it's 'prepared', while TASS said it will likely be uploaded to Carlson's website and X account.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The company behind this year’s 2024 HGTV Dream Home in Anastasia Island just got a wake up call from St. Augustine leaders. From video and pictures online, the home, located in the Pelican Reef community, looks move-in ready. But part of the property hasn’t even been approved. This afternoon, the St. Augustine planning and zoning board spent hours today talking about the seawall around the home that’s already built, but was never approved by the city. The board has now voted to hold off an approval or denial of the entire property. The seawall was built...

Aussies are vowing to boycott Bonds after the underwear company used a bearded, non-binary person to model a bikini. The iconic Australian underwear brand used two non-binary models with 'they/them' pronouns to advertise its $18.99 'Retro Rib™ Seamless Tonal Hi Bikini' as part of its Pride 2024 range. The collection is aligned with a Pride campaign showcasing transgender models, drag queens, as well as people who identify as gay, bisexual and pansexual. But one of the models, 'Mikey' - who is 1.99m tall and has a beard and a bulge under his bikini bottoms - has outraged some customers who...