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Whether or not the government is required under the 5th Amendment to pay such victims will remain an open question.The Supreme Court last month declined to hear a case from an elderly woman whose house was destroyed by a SWAT team, leaving open the question of whether or not innocent people are constitutionally entitled to compensation when law enforcement lays waste to their property in pursuit of public safety. In July 2020, while chasing a fugitive, police arrived at Vicki Baker's home in McKinney, Texas. They threw dozens of tear gas grenades inside, used explosives to break the front...

Everyone has a go-to Christmas movie! You know, that one festive film that sets you up for a cozy day curled up on the couch with cookies and milk. If you're searching for a starting point, A Charlie Brown Christmas is always a great pick. It's the perfect family-friendly Christmas movie to play at any holiday party, and that makes it a Christmas classic for a reason.

It’s the group’s first song to hit the milestone.Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” has reached a new kind of success, joining the Spotify Billions Club 55 years after its original release. Songs enter the club when they tally more than one billion streams on the platform. Written by founding member John Fogerty, “Bad Moon Rising” was released as the lead single off Creedence Clearwater Revival’s third album Green River. The track peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of 1969, and reached number one in the U.K. in September of the same year. The...

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack album for ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ has become a seasonal classic, full of magical pieces that stand on their own.The choice of Vince Guaraldi to create the soundtrack for the first A Charlie Brown Christmas Special, which aired on CBS on December 9, 1965, came about by chance – and ended up proving to be an inspirational decision. American television producer Lee Mendelson, the man who produced the show, was looking for someone to do a jazzy soundtrack. He initially tried for Dave Brubeck. “The first call I made was to Dave Brubeck, who was an...

Explanation: What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a Christmas tree? Answer: they all occur in the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). Considered as a star forming region and cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. The featured image spans an angle larger than a full moon, covering over 50 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264. Its cast of cosmic characters includes the...

The trendy Texas city of Forth Worth has bumped Austin from its rank as the fourth-largest city in the Lone Star State. The state capital was knocked down a place, making it the fifth-largest city by population in the state, according to the Texas Demographic Center's 2023 population estimates report. The report showed population figures for Texas counties and communities for July 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024. Austin was ranked below Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth. The capital had a population estimation of 986,928, compared to 989,878 for Fort Worth, which saw a 7.7 percent increase from...

A new lawsuit is raising alarms for health-conscious consumers who thought they were purchasing a safe, natural product. Coca-Cola and its Simply Tropical fruit juice brand are facing allegations of misleading marketing, as the juice reportedly contains toxic PFAS chemicals at levels "hundreds of times" above federal guidelines for drinking water. This revelation challenges the brand's claims of being "all-natural" and has stirred significant concern.

Steve Bannon's fiery criticism of conservatives who "don't have the balls" to take action and fight is evident throughout his interview with GB News America's Steven Edginton. Bannon warns of the dangers of a third world war with the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, and urges conservatives to "take action" and defeat the woke Left. The former advisor to President Trump also urges Nigel Farage not to stand in the upcoming UK election and accuses Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak of betraying their conservative voters. Bannon says the assassination of JFK was one of the most important events of the...

Trump made an economic argument along with his geopolitical one: “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else,” he told the audience as he denounced the increased fees billed to American shippers by the canal’s operators. ... The first treaty obliged Panama to operate the canal neutrally, with nondiscriminatory pricing, and allowed the United States to defend it from any threat that might interfere with its neutrality. The second treaty transferred full control to Panama effective on Dec. 31, 1999, without superseding the first treaty’s broad provision allowing for US defense of this...

1. Modern Encryption Methods Will Be Rendered UselessFinancial technologies are completely dependent on modern encryption methods. Any password or key can be cracked by brute-force attack, but currently, computing power does not allow attackers to succeed in a reasonable time. With the release of quantum computing into the public sector, all encryption becomes useless, and currently, the industry has no answer on how to deal with it. - Pavlo Sidelov, SDK.finance2. Web Interactions Will Be At RiskThe breakdown of prevalent cryptographic technology is an infrastructural risk. Most security technology is based on our current inability to quickly find the prime...

The Deep State is scrambling. As President Trump prepares to take back the White House, their one goal is simple: survival. And part of that “survival plan” is to protect the key players who trampled the law, shredded the Constitution, and turned America into a pseudo-North Korea hellhole—all to destroy Trump and his powerful political movement. One way they’re looking to pull this off is through a series of blanket pardons for the bad guys—people like J6 scam artist Liz Cheney and COVID mastermind Anthony Fauci. Joe Biden kicked off this scheme by pardoning his crooked, crackhead son. And when...

A University of Oregon staffer who told Trump voters to kill themselves has kissed his job goodbye. Leonard Serrato is 'no longer an employee,' the university said in a statement to DailyMail.com, after he was placed on leave after making the dark remarks in a video posted right after Trump was declared winner of November's election. The school cited the reason for his dismissal as 'personal' and did not elaborate on why he no longer holds the position.

Every year, various movie versions of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol air on our televisions, reminding us of the importance of putting others first and how Christmas is a time of reconciliation instead of division. Unfortunately, in modern-day America, we have forgotten that message. After Donald Trump’s recent election victory, leftist Yale fellow Amanda Calhoun commented on why family members who voted for Kamala Harris should refuse to celebrate the holidays with their friends and family members: “So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have...

Run Dialog box is something that is one of the favorite utilities for an avid Windows user. Its been around since Windows 95 and became an important part of Windows User Experience over the years. While its only duty is to quickly open apps and other tools, many power users like us at TechCult, love the handy nature of the Run dialog box. Since it can access any tool, setting, or app as long as you know the command for it, we decided to give you the cheat sheet to help you breeze through Windows like a pro...pressing Windows +...

History of the grooming gangs, Risky Business fighting to reveal it, the Counsel's and police coverup, and how it all got blown open. Transcript linked below video.

The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a "double digit billion amount" in krone, or at least $1.5bn (£1.2bn). He described the timing of the announcement as an "irony of fate". On Monday Trump said ownership and control of the huge island was an "absolute necessity" for the US. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is home to a large US space facility and is strategically important for the US, lying...

The latest Dennis Prager health update comes from his brother Dr. Kenneth Prager on PragerU.

Someone or a group decided to commute 37 out of 40 death sentences in the federal penal system, but we really don’t know who. And too many in the White House press corps don't care."He’s an addled, demented old man," Senator Tom Cotton declared about President Joe Biden on my program Monday, Christmas Eve eve.The senator is right. It is not harsh or cruel to make such a statement, especially because its predicate was the announcement Monday morning that President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 killers on death row in federal prison. Biden’s handlers were apparently...

Ryan Routh previously requested delaying the trial until at least December of 2025.Florida Judge Aileen Cannon has delayed trial for Ryan Routh, the man suspected of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, from February to September of 2025.In an order issued on Dec. 23, Cannon cited “substantial discovery” or the amount of evidence to review before trial.Her order sets up a series of pre-trial deadlines, leading to a two-week trial period beginning on Sept. 8.Routh, 58, has been charged with attempted assassination, along with other counts such as assaulting a Secret Service agent. He faced potential life imprisonment, the Department...

House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to work the phones over the holidays in a bid to avoid losing the gavel in January after some hard-right lawmakers denounced his handling of recent spending negotiations. Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, is in hot water with at least a handful of Republicans who could block his reelection to speaker on Jan. 3 by voting for another candidate. The move could leave the speaker’s chair empty for days or more as House Republicans search for a replacement who can win nearly every vote in a razor-thin GOP majority. It would prevent the House from...