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The FBI's recent letters to passengers on the January Alaska Airlines flight indicate that the DOJ's investigation into Boeing is ramping up. The FBI is investigating the Alaska Airlines flight in January that saw a door plug blow off the plane midflight — and has told passengers they may be “a possible victim of a crime.” 🚨 What just happened? The incident took place on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane, which allegedly had missing bolts that contributed to the door plug blowout. The panel flew off while the aircraft was at an altitude of about 16,000 feet. Days after...

JAMES TISSOT "Scourged"

LIMA - Peru's port authority said it hopes to fix an "administrative error" that gave China's Cosco Shipping exclusivity over operations at the new Chancay megaport. The National Port Authority (APN) said in a statement late on Friday that it has requested the annulment of its own decision in February 2021 that granted Cosco exclusivity, through a judicial process. The authority said the legal process would not affect the port's construction in northern Peru and it still plans to begin operations at the end of the year. "The construction process and the future operation of the Chancay Port Terminal will...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko conveyed his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the recent terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed. In a phone conversation with Putin, Lukashenko expressed Minsk's commitment to collaborating in combating terrorism, with Peskov highlighting the mutual readiness of Belarus and Russia to work together in addressing such threats.

Elon Musk recently posted what is — or should be — a devastating video ad (“infomercial?”) by Western Lensman exposing the Democrats plan to utilize The Great Replacement to solidify their power for the foreseeable future. Please watch the video. It is well worth one minute and thirty-nine seconds of your time. The video illuminates the Democrats’ Seven-Step Program for winning elections and obtaining a permanent majority, effectively making the United States a one-party state. (Some possible synonyms for one-party state are: authoritarian regime, autocracy, oligarchy, Marxist-Leninist regime, fascist regime, police state, people’s republic, dictatorship, and banana republic, among others.)....

In the spring of 2021, volunteer investigators from Ohio acquired publicly available voter data for all 88 counties and started their analysis. Over the next year the researchers found hundreds of thousands of records in their state’s voter rolls with irregular data for which they couldn’t identify consistent explanations, no matter who they asked. In late summer of 2022, they reached out to Marly Hornik, co-leader of New York Citizens Audit, whose team had identified similar inaccuracies in the New York State data. [SNIP] The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires election rolls to be accurate. The Ohio team...

For months, if not years, panic-inducing headlines have lamented the existential crisis facing the U.S. office market as a “wall of maturities” looms: $2.2 trillion of commercial real estate debt coming due between now and the end of 2027, according to Trepp estimates. Rather than sell at significant losses or refinance into interest rates that currently stand at 23-year highs, many office owners are clinging to backward-looking valuations calculated during cushier times by asking lenders for extensions—often granted only in the short-term—on loans that would otherwise mature.

But the FDA is not conceding that ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for Covid. To do so would invalidate the emergency use authorization for the mRNA drug..

The Ukraine “special military operation” is a “de facto” war, Russia admitted for the first time, while blaming the West for the escalation and accusing Ukraine of occupying Russian territory. Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman Dmitry Peskov is the first senior Russian figure to acknowledge the country is at war, saying the conflict changed in nature after Western states began to arm Ukraine. Responding to internal comments about his comments on Friday, Peskov later clarified his position, saying that while the government acknowledged it is “de facto” at war, that did not change the state’s legal position that the invasion of...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while food prices have gone up significantly under President Joe Biden, 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Trump is doing better among younger voters because he lies and “when you don’t know anything, you can’t compare it to what’s said.” And “we were just kind of lucky for 20 years, and there wasn’t much inflation. So, maybe you’ve never lived in a time when there was inflation. So, you think, oh, Trump, no inflation, Biden, inflation, me vote Trump.”

Let’s say you’re talking to somebody you don’t know very well, or somebody you know so well that you’ve run out of things to say. Where does the discussion usually go? That’s right: the weather! It’s a safe topic because everybody experiences it, it’s different from one day to the next, and it’s pretty easy to agree on it. “Nice day, huh?” “Yep.” “Hot enough for ya?” “You can say that again!” “Weatherman said rain tomorrow.” “Well, you know how often he gets it right.” Etc. But did you know that talking about the weather can actually help save the...

Peter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge: After growing up in Harlem, Thomas Sowell served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War, then received an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a master’s degree from Columbia, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. After teaching at universities that included Cornell, Brandeis, and UCLA, Dr. Sowell became a fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1977. Thomas Sowell is the author of some forty books, including his newest volume, Social Justice Fallacies. And this past spring, he turned ninety-three. Tom, welcome back. Thomas Sowell: Oh, good being here. Robinson: Dr. Martin Luther King...

Office of Public Affairs The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

During portions of an interview with Fox News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram on Friday that were aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Fox News @ Night,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) stated that the push by Republicans to have votes on amendments to the government funding bill on the Laken Riley Act and banning charter flights for illegal immigrants “is all politics,” and “a waste of time, it’s a waste of money, and I think it’s really irresponsible.” Pergram said the amendments involve “the Laken Riley Act and the plan to bar charter flights for illegal immigrants, but Democrats said no....

Stock have notched a string of record highs this year, driven by a tech frenzy and high federal spending that have blotted out all else, Bill Gross wrote in his latest investment outlook.It's these factors that have spurred the S&P 500 up over 20% since mid-2022, even as interest rates tightened aggressively in the same timeframe, sending Treasury yields higher.And the trend isn't going away anytime soon, he asserted: "Buckle up for excessive exuberance."Typically, bond yields will decline ahead of stock euphoria. For instance, the Nasdaq 100 increased twelvefold after the 10-year real rate fell from 2% to negative 1%...

I heard a new song last weekend called “Soul Of The Machine.” It’s a simple, old-timey number in E minor with a standard blues chord progression (musicians in the know would call it a 1-4-5 progression). In it, a voice sings about being a trapped soul with a heart that once beat but is now cold and weak. “Soul Of The Machine” is not a real song at all. Or is it? It’s getting harder to say. Whatever it is, it’s the creation of Suno, an AI tool from a startup of the same name focused on music generation. Rolling...

Russia has announced the arrest of eleven individuals, including four who are suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at a concert hall near Moscow, marking the most lethal incident of its kind in the country in two decades. -snip- The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has reported the apprehension of the “four terrorists” as they were allegedly attempting to cross into Ukraine, repeatedly mentioning that the suspects had connections within Ukraine. They are currently being transported to Moscow for further investigation. Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, expressed on Telegram that the suspects had intended...

Says a ‘window’ was prepared for them to cross the northern border of Ukraine

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 22. The prospect of a speedy return of the people of Arkansas to loyalty and submission daily brightens. Through recent intelligence received here, it is known that two Judges of State Courts under the Confederate rule have voluntarily come forward and taken the oath of allegiance, and a third was on his way to do likewise. ALBERT PIKE writes a pertinent epistle to his wife, hinting in quite strong terms his desire to return to ABRAHAM's bosom, but expresses his doubts if he can do so under the Amnesty Proclamation. Gen. STEELE has informed Mrs. PIKE that...

“Reserved for a King” (Mark 11:1-10) Our story today starts out with “a colt tied.” As our text says, “You will find a colt tied.” But no, I’m not talking about finding Peyton Manning tied with Brett Favre at 186 regular-season wins. This is not about an Indianapolis Colt. This is about a different colt, in a different town, tied in a different way. The colt I’m talking about is the one that Jesus uses to ride into Jerusalem on. Jesus sends two of his disciples ahead to get it: “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately...