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Correspondence of the New-York Times. FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, Friday, March 11, 1864. Your correspondent finds himself in this important point, after a pleasant journey from Kansas, in company with the troops escorting Gen. BLUNT and Staff to this point, where he expects to reassume command of the Army and District of the Frontier. We left Fort Scott on Friday the 3d inst., and reached here on Wednesday following, making the trip of 200 miles in five days and a half. No incident occurred on the entire march. The command was entirely undisturbed, no armed men being seen till we reached...

At 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday, a ship collided with a pylon of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, and within seconds, the entire bridge had collapsed. This will put the port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports in the United States, out of action for months and maybe even years, which will inevitably have a massive negative effect on the local and national economy. The official story is that this was an accident, and if we had honest and trustworthy governing officials, that would be the end of the matter. But we don’t. And so...

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia terror group, fired rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday, hitting a factory that employed people with special needs, and killing a 23-year-old Druze Arab named Zaher Bashara in the facility. The Times of Israel reported that Bashara, who worked as a driver at the Alon paper goods company, was set to be engaged and had been his family’s breadwinner since the death of his father, providing for his extended family.

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A jury found former Milwaukee election official Kimberly Zapata guilty on all four counts Wednesday after a three-day trial involving election fraud. She faced three misdemeanors for election fraud and a felony misconduct charge in public office. The 47-year-old woman admitted to illegally requesting absentee ballots for non-existent military voters in October of 2022 when she served as deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. During closing arguments on Wednesday morning, the state told the jury not to focus on Zapata's intentions, arguing that breaking the law is still a crime. Prosecutor Matthew Westphal said Zapata...

They haven't even finished recovery operations yet, but the AP is already moving on to declare the collapsed bridge in Maryland "racist."

Democrats are stepping up their criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he announced his pick of Nicole Shanahan for vice president Tuesday, arguing the duo will benefit former President Trump.

The ‘migrant influencer’ encouraging others to invade the US and squat the homes of citizens skipped out on authorities shortly after arriving in the country and is now on the run from immigration officials, The Post can reveal. Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno crossed the southern border illegally in April 2022 at Eagle Pass, Texas, and was enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program, which allows federal authorities to track migrants either using ankle monitors or other technology. However, Moreno didn’t follow the rules and is now listed as an “absconder” from the program, according to internal ICE documents seen by...

On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the "Palestinian resistance." Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack for showing "the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism." Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, lauded airplane hijackings as "one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in." While those speakers and other attendees were explicit in their support for terrorism against Jews, the event did not take place in Gaza, Doha, or Tehran. It took...

Baltimore, Maryland, city officials approved a program that would sell city-owned vacant homes for next to nothing at $1 for some applicable residents. According to the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Fixed Pricing Program was created to combat the more than 13,500 homes in Baltimore that are vacant. City officials said Tuesday that just over 200 homes are currently in the program. According to the DHCD, the homes would only be sold to individuals who are willing to invest their money in fixing the dilapidated homes. Applicants must provide proof that they have at least $90,000 to...

As my wonderful friend, mentor, and fellow comedian Stephen Kruiser can testify, the best comedians are those who can predict an audience's mood and energy. Whether it's 12 people at a crappy bar gig in Altoona, 700 in a theatre, or 330 million in a nation brimming with Marxism, it doesn't matter; we have a sixth sense when it comes to people vibes. My Spidey sense tells me your giggly "I don't watch the news" neighbor has finally gotten a whiff of reality. Albert Einstein once told his son, "There's something amazing about America's democracy, it's got a gyroscope and...

Welcome to the PRAYER REQUESTS thread. This daily thread is a listing of prayer requests that have been posted by Freepers to the main forum who wish to have continued prayer. Hopefully this thread will remind us to continually pray for our fellow Freepers’ cares and needs. GOD hears and answers our prayers.Please remember to continue to pray and encourage those who are on the prayer list.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer stated that the disagreement between the U.S. and Israel over a ground incursion into Rafah “is not the first time we’ve had a disagreement with the United States over our military operations.” And that “Even at the beginning of the war, there was a disagreement” between Israel and the Biden administration about “whether we should go in with a ground campaign.” Dermer said, [relevant remarks begin around 6:50] “Well, the United States, the president had asked the Prime Minister to send a delegation so that the...

Globalists know that nothing drives public policy so much as the fear of impending death. Nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles may have scared the snot out of anyone living through the Cold War, but they were (and still are) the gifts that keep on giving for the military-industrial complex and national security surveillance State. The more catastrophic the consequences of any perceived threat, the more likely that otherwise skeptical human beings will hand over their freedoms in exchange for the elusive promise of personal security. Political systems specialize in exploiting this “Save Me!” impulse for maximum leverage. “Looming apocalypse”...

During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that while clearing the debris from Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the harbor and then replacing the collapsed bridge will take time, “we can streamline it” compared to other projects and “cut through some red tape” that exists for other projects. Cardin said, “It’s going to take time, we don’t know how long. The rescue missions will be completed pretty quickly, we expect that. We then go in to assess what we can do to remove the debris. And it’s not stable, so we have...

Shares of Donald Trump's Trump Media & Technology Group surged nearly 50% on Tuesday in their Nasdaq debut, lifted by the former U.S. president's supporters and providing him a potential windfall as he grapples with the costs of several legal cases.

The topic of discussion is unknown. The news conference was originally scheduled for Tuesday morning but was postponed due to the bridge collapse in Baltimore. A container ship rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore, causing it to snap and plunge into the river below.

In the realm of artificial intelligence, a groundbreaking study by the Allen Institute for AI casts a stark light on a troubling issue: commercial AI chatbots, including the renowned GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 by OpenAI, harbor covert racial prejudices against speakers of African American English (AAE). At first glance, these AI models seem to espouse positive views towards African Americans. Yet, when interacting with text in AAE, they reveal a darker underbelly, associating AAE speakers with negative stereotypes such as being 'suspicious', 'aggressive', and 'ignorant'. This phenomenon isn't just a technical glitch; it's a mirror reflecting the deep-seated biases ingrained in...

'Watching everything that happens on X in real time is key to Dataminr’s pitch to the government...' While Elon Musk has talked a big game when it comes to privacy and free speech, he’s continued to sell Twitter/X user data to a controversial surveillance company that provides services to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, according to a new report in The Intercept. Citing emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, The Intercept reported Monday that Twitter is continuing to sell user data to Dataminr, which provides its customers with customized real-time “alerts” on desired topics, “giving clients like...

A retribution-focused movement to embed racial preferences in medical treatment has gained traction in the healthcare industry. The idea that past racism can be undone with more racism is ludicrous. Affirmative action, established in the 1960s, emphasized equality of opportunity. But it has transmogrified — through the politics of DEI, sexual orientation, and gender identity — into a new form of racism emphasizing equality of outcome. Unconstitutional quotas deny college admissions and government jobs to whites and non-black, non-Latino, non-Native groups. The worst is the recent invasion of healthcare by DEI-driven policies. Belonging to a DEI-privileged group outweighs need. White...