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A small medical transport plane has crashed into several buildings in north-east Philadelphia, setting homes and vehicles ablaze and injuring people on the ground. The jet was on a medical transport mission on Friday evening and carrying four crew members, a child patient and the patient's escort, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, a medical aircraft company, said in a statement. "We know that there will be loss," Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro said during a news conference at the scene of the crash, calling it an "awful aviation disaster". Emergency crews rushed to the evening crash scene as residents crowded streets littered...

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Consent for two new Scottish oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully - an Edinburgh court has ruled - after a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), a physician-turned-politician from deep-red Louisiana, has emerged as a central figure in the confirmation fight over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Over the course of six hours in two hearings, Cassidy indicated he holds serious doubts about whether Kennedy is qualified to lead the agency, casting a cloud of uncertainty over Kennedy’s path to confirmation. “I have been struggling with your nomination,” Cassidy told Kennedy at the end of Thursday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing. He said the pivotal question is if Kennedy will...

It is absolutely despicable that liberals are pretending that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers. https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/attention-liberals/#DEI #Woke #PlaneCrash #Idiocracy #Politics #News #Flight5342 #AAFlight5342 #Liberals #Obama #BarackObama #Democrats #Racism

The Five Eyes is the most powerful spying alliance in history. Forged in the conflagration of World War II, the intelligence-sharing pact among the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand helped defeat Nazism and Communism, fend off al Qaeda and Islamic State and shield its members from the ever-growing risk of cyberattacks. Now former and serving members of the Five Eyes and outside experts say it is facing its biggest challenge ever: President Trump’s pledge to curb the “Deep State” by overhauling America’s vast intelligence apparatus. Trump left the Five Eyes alone during his first term and hasn’t named...

A Louisiana grand jury indicting a doctor in New York...abortion pills to a minor... US Treasury Department a career official resigning... The new US Department of Government Efficiency... The US Department of Justice firing federal prosecutors...January 6th cases... FBI agents who worked on the January 6th probe and...against President Donald Trump fired... Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China set to take effect tomorrow... The Dutch Data Protection Authority warning about the "DeepSeek"... A Lear Jet 55 Air Ambulance crashed in Philadelphia... In Belgium five political parties...new government... US Envoy Richard Grenell in Venezuela demanding cooperation on deportations and getting some...

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany...An analysis of the tiny lock with CT scans revealed the artifact's inner workings, showcasing its high level of Roman craftsmanship and hinting at trade between northern Germany and Rome in the third century...Measuring just under half an inch (1.2 centimeters) in diameter, the tiny lock was identified by metal detector in a field in Westphalia, a region of northwestern Germany, in 2023...Experts at LWL immediately recognized the gold lock as a miniature version of regular locks made in the Roman provinces...

Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDTQ !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).>Decide for yourself (be resistant to...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends patient data to a remote IP address and downloads and executes files on the device. Contec is a China-based company that specializes in healthcare technology, offering a range of medical devices including patient monitoring systems, diagnostic equipment, and laboratory instruments. CISA learned of the malicious behavior from an external researcher who disclosed the vulnerability to the agency. When CISA tested three Contec CMS8000 firmware packages, the researchers discovered anomalous network traffic to a...

Excellent. Now the other states need to purge them too.

Chinese tech company Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that it claims outperforms its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek. The announcement of the Qwen2.5-Max model yesterday (Jan. 29) is the second major AI announcement from China this week, after DeepSeek's R1 open-weight model took the world by storm following claims that it performs better and is more cost-effective than its American competitors. Now, Alibaba claims that Qwen 2.5-Max, which is also partly open-source, is even more impressive — surpassing a number of rival models in various tests run by the company. "In benchmark tests such as...

There's a new Sheriff in town. Trump is not Biden and everybody knows it. see link

After an internal Q&A with CEO Mark Zuckerberg made headlines over the tech tycoon’s pro-President Trump commentary, Meta threatened to fire staffers for leaking information to the media — in a memo that then also got leaked. Meta “will take appropriate action, including termination,” for any leakers, Meta’s chief information security officer, Guy Rosen, said in a memo obtained by the Verge. “When information is stolen or leaked, there are repercussions beyond the immediate security impact,” Rosen said. “Our teams become demoralized and we all waste time that is better spent working on our products and toward our goals and...

Donald Trump made a campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down" on his first day in office. Instead, egg prices have spiked. During her first White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed former President Joe Biden for hurting the egg supply and driving up costs. Egg prices are expected to continue rising due to a bird flu outbreak, which Biden's Department of Agriculture tried controlling early on by euthanizing infected chickens. Egg prices have risen in the short time since President Donald Trump took office — despite his campaign promise to "immediately bring prices down, starting on day one"...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down river channels toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley. Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning. The sudden increase occurred four days after President Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” Trump also vowed during a visit to Los Angeles last week to “open up the valves and pumps” in California...

President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are considerable differences between the two sets of pardons, with a two-tiered system of justice unfairly biased against Jan. 6 defendants. Last month, Biden pardoned his son, Hunter. And then, on his last day in office, Biden pardoned five family members. That same day, Trump pardoned 1,500 people who were convicted or facing trial for the Jan. 6 riot. The media’s coverage of these pardons has been dramatically different. Take the New York Times, which describes Biden’s preemptive pardons as a way to “guard” from a...

they CUT THIS PART OUT of the RFK hearing!

Frustrated travelers arriving at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport on Tuesday found it extremely difficult to rent a car. “I went to every counter upstairs, and nobody had cars. The last time I saw this before was during (COVID-19) when they sold off car fleets,” said car rental customer James Owen. At the car rental center, the aisles of many agencies were empty. At other counters, people stood in line, not knowing when or if they would get a car. “They just said they don’t have cars. I think what they said (is) there’s a truck coming to bring back cars....

MSNBC averaged only 63,000 demo viewers between the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET... MSNBC’s primetime lineup finished with its smallest January audience ever among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54. The news-heavy month featured an alleged terrorist ramming a truck through New Year's revelers in New Orleans, shocking video of a Tesla Cybertruck exploding in front of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, President Biden pardoning members of his family and political allies on his way out the door, President Trump’s inauguration, the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and other significant headlines as the Trump administration began with...