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Guatemalan police on Sunday transferred more than 200 gang members from a prison where they operated a call center for criminal purposes, raised chickens and looked out on a crocodile-filled lake. Some 400 police were involved in the operation to move 225 members of the Barrio 18 gang out of the prison nicknamed “El Infiernito” or Little Hell, where they enjoyed access to such luxuries as TV sets and fridges, even raising chickens, officials said. “The prison once again belongs to the country,” Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez announced on X. He vowed the facility would be stripped down and rebuilt...

Biden being weird at today's D-Day ceremony.

On May 19, 1944, two and a half weeks before the 'Operation Overlord' landings took place, Princess Elizabeth spent the day with her parents inspecting airborne troops in the North of England. The presence of the Heiress Presumptive with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth guaranteed blanket media coverage. The event included one of the biggest glider landings ever made in Britain. By the time the display had finished the aerodrome was crowded with hundreds of the small aircraft. Earlier in the day, the royal party watched as several hundred parachutists dropped from the sky in formation. What readers did...

As the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation commemorates the 20th anniversary of the former president's death, both the pressing challenges facing Americans in 2024 and the milestone 80th anniversary of D-Day are front of mind for foundation leaders. "It's valuable to reflect on the tremendous successes of the Reagan presidency and to draw lessons for today," foundation President David Trulio told Fox News Digital in an interview. "So, it's important to recall that President Reagan won the Cold War. He unleashed an enormous economic boom. He helped restore America's pride in itself, and he restored and earned the respect that other...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville tire shop had a Nazi flag flying outside a busy highway, Wednesday afternoon. The Nazi symbol was being displayed alongside the American and Palestinian flags at the 904 x 4 on Philips Hwy in Spring Park. Mixed signals over Nazi flag Drag to Resize Video LOCAL ‘It’s a symbol of true hatred:’ Jacksonville tire shop flies Nazi flag in Spring Park NOW PLAYING ABOVE Mixed signals over Nazi flag By Annette Gutierrez, Action News Jax June 05, 2024 at 9:58 pm EDT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville tire shop had a Nazi flag flying outside...

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case has been criticized by legal experts for her "baffling" rescheduling of a number of hearings in the already delayed trial. Judge Aileen Cannon announced on Wednesday that there will be a shuffle of the timeline as she intends to rule on a number of legal arguments connected to the case. Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, has already indefinitely postponed the start of the federal trial pending the outcome of several appeals and motions. From June 21, Cannon will hold hearings on Trump's arguments that Special Counsel...

Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said Thursday on CNN’s “New Central” that as the election nears, voters will have “more and more confidence in the jury result” of former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York business document trial. Hutchinson said, “I think as time goes on, America will have more and more confidence in the jury result, both in New York but also as you see it happening in the Hunter Biden trial in California, we have confidence that 12 our citizens are going to make a fair and just verdict. I hope that in the end,...

Judge orders Trump ally Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1 to serve 4-month sentence

The Jovian moon Io as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. The mission's camera caught a view of one of this moon's volcanos erupting. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located on Mount Graham in Arizona and run by the University of Arizona, is part of the next generation of extremely large telescopes (ELTs). With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than that of a 30-meter (98.4 ft) telescope. With their resolution, adaptive optics, and sophisticated instruments, these telescopes are expected to probe deeper...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., proposed slashing budgets regarding public safety, such as prisons and law enforcement, as the state simultaneously grapples with a crippling deficit and doubles down on climate goals relating to equity. The California Democrat's proposed budget, released in May, notes that "difficult decisions" are necessary to address the estimated $27.6 billion deficit, which is projected to continue for years to come. It includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice's Division of Law Enforcement and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Newsom spokesperson...

Base: Navy Base in Eilat situated at the extreme South of Israel on the Northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat (or Gulf of Aqaba to muslims). Base Mission: Defense against incoming drones, rockets, ballistic missiles, etc. Freedom of Navigation. Base Conditions: The Navy lives up to its reputation as the most organized service. Better food. Cleaner base (essentially no trash). More disciplined soldiery. Weather: Daytime highs of around 107. Evening showers for bathing are in “cold” water that is room temperature: 105 degrees at 6:00 p.m. Borders: From the beach on the Southwest shore of Eilat, you can see...

8 ways to "Find Pride" with Google

Fox News host Sean Hannity has sparked outrage among conservatives by attempting to get President Donald Trump to go easy on Biden’s Department of Justice. This comes despite Trump facing 94 politically motivated and baseless indictments. (snip) During the interview, Hannity asked Trump a direct question: “Will you pledge to restore equal justice, equal application of our laws, and this practice of weaponization? Is that a promise you’re going to make?”

Democrats in the California State legislature are getting pushback for a proposal that could benefit illegal aliens. The assembly bill could direct the University of California (UC) system to hire illegal immigrants for taxpayer-funded state jobs. Reform California Chairman Carl DeMaio is heaping heavy criticism on the lawmakers, Fox News reported Tuesday. According to the California Globe, California has 44,000 undocumented college students, and approximately 4,000 of them are enrolled in UC’s system, the outlet reported Wednesday.

Although Thomas Edison was awarded 2,332 worldwide patents as an inventor, one of his lasting contributions to modern society was not proprietary: the job interview. Edison was not just a prolific inventor — he was also a businessman in charge of an industrial empire. His corporation, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., employed more than 10,000 workers at dozens of companies. Edison wanted employees who could memorize large quantities of information and also make efficient business decisions. To find them, he devised an extensive questionnaire to assess job candidates’ knowledge and personality.Edison began using tests for candidate assessment in the late 19th...

MADISON, Wis. — The Baraboo School District acknowledged a parent disrupted graduation by pushing someone on stage out of way May 31. A video of the incident shows the man shoved was Baraboo Superintendent Rainey Briggs. The district released a statement Monday confirming the parent interrupted graduation and was escorted off stage and out of the venue by police. He was referred to the Sauk County District Attorney's Office for disorderly conduct. "Our primary focus remains on celebrating the achievements of our graduates," the district said in the statement. "We want to ensure that the significance of this milestone and...

The Biden administration must be panicking about the shift in black support for Donald Trump. With one of the original Black Panthers chiming in to endorse Trump—and to say that Trump is not now nor has he ever been a racist—it’s nice to imagine that the panic has just escalated dramatically. The Black Panthers, a violent, criminal, radical Marxist, race-based organization, was organized in 1966. Its members had grown up in the Jim Crow South or in other American regions that, while not having any official Jim Crow policies, still practiced actual systemic racism (unlike the imaginary systemic racism that...

Democrats' lawfare got a wet snap of the towel in the face when Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky questioned the very basis for the appointment of a special counsel to target President Trump in questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland at a congressional hearing. Yesterday in the Judiciary committee, I asked AG Garland if Jack Smith’s Special Counsel office is even legal, and submitted former AG Meese’s amicus brief on that topic for the record. A few hours later, Judge Cannon agreed to allow that question to be debated in the courtroom.pic.twitter.com/TedmtbkmMP — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 5, 2024 He gripped...

A court in Idaho Falls, Idaho, has determined that a case will move forward for a church employee accused of stealing over $330,000. In May, police arrested and charged Kaitlyn L. Fisher, 31, with three counts of felony grand theft while working for the Presbytery of Kendall—a church organization overseeing at least 12 eastern Idaho Presbyterian churches. According to court documents, Fisher was the Presbytery of Kendall’s secretary and bookkeeper. In October 2022, a Kendall Presbytery employee reported that Fisher had been embezzling from church funds. The employee told police the staff had paused meetings for the presbytery’s annual financial...

Russia will not be invited to events marking the 80th anniversary of the Second World War's D-Day landings next week given its war of aggression against Ukraine, the French presidency said on Thursday. Organisers had said in April that President Vladimir Putin would not be invited to the events in France, but that some Russian representatives would be welcome in recognition of the country's war-time sacrifice. Prior to France's announcement on Thursday two diplomatic sources told Reuters that the Ukraine war and unease among some allies about Moscow's presence had led Paris to reverse its initial thinking. The commemorations will...