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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said. The cars were taken from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant in southern Kentucky, the home of the Chevrolet Corvette since the early 1980s. The eight cars were valued at $1.2 million, police said. Police said the thieves cut a fence at the plant to get the cars out. A man later arrested and charged with the theft of three cars said while being booked into...

Afederal judge excoriated officials who were unable to account for $2.4 billion in taxpayer funds meant to go toward solving homelessness in Los Angeles.U.S. District Court Judge David Carter threatened to appoint a court-ordered receiver if officials didn't improve their efforts to account for the money spent, according to an LAist report. (snip) The judge gave them until May to fulfill their responsibilities or have a receiver take over the spending. While he acknowledged that they had inherited a "mess" from former officials, Carter demanded that they take accountibility.“I am your worst nightmare,” Carter told them. “I can make your...

A Food and Drug Administration official involved in development of Covid-19 vaccines resigning... In Ukraine tonight a deadly... The message from Russian media...Ukraine is using women... Late tonight in Spain's Catalonia region the top court overturning a rape conviction involving Brazilian soccer player... Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox allowing a law regulating flags in public schools and... In Israel members of the medical corps refusing to return to combat duty... A federal appeals court ruling in favor of the dismantling of "USAID"... Elon Musk's xAI taking over his X social media platform... ...getting more details...operation to lift a sunken US...

Top aides to former President Joe Biden warned donors that replacing him atop the ticket with his handpicked vice president would be a big “mistake,” according to excerpts of a forthcoming book previewed Thursday by The Guardian. Excerpts published from the book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” show Biden aides and allies “aggressively” advised top Democrat donors to not jettison the then-president in favor of then-Vice President Kamala Harris as Biden fought for his political survival in the summer of 2024. The book, written by NBC News’ Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes, catalogues behind-the-scenes...

A research team is testing a new combination drug therapy that could both treat and prevent melanoma metastasis to the brain. Holmen first examined what causes melanoma cells to spread to the brain and identified focal adhesion kinase (FAK) as a potential target for new therapies. FAK is an enzyme that regulates cell growth, and, they found, is a major contributor to melanoma metastasis. "The window of time to treat a patient with brain metastasis is shortened because the average survival from time of diagnosis of brain metastasis is only about a year—even while using these other therapies." Holmen and...

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The wooly devil (Ovicula biradiata) was discovered by a volunteer at Big Bend National Park. (Image credit: James Bailey © California Academy of Sciences) While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as researchers have named it, is in the sunflower family and also represents a new genus. This is the first time in nearly 50 years that a new plant genus has been described in a U.S. national park, since the discovery of the July gold shrub...

US President Donald Trump tells NBC News that he will not fire his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, after the senior aide added a journalist to a sensitive chat on a messaging app in which information on US military operations was shared. “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” says Trump. The president also blames one of Waltz’s staffers for adding The Atlantic chief editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat about US plan for strikes on the Houthis in Yemen. The group, on the Signal messaging app, included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of...

Palm Bay [FLORIDA, of course!] Police Department (PBPD) officers arrested a man dressed as Ronald McDonald for allegedly trespassing. A video shared Thursday by the PBPD showed officers approaching a man dressed up as Ronald McDonald. Christopher Marlowe, the suspect in the video, was banned from the plaza prior to the recent arrest, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Police said he was cautioned that he would be arrested if he returned. The suspect was allegedly loitering and was “aggressive” toward officers. Police said he was warned prior to the arrest. Police said Marlowe was...

[Catholic Caucus] A sick Pope and a paralysed Vatican: who is actually running the Catholic Church?A greatly enfeebled Pope Francis is now living in enforced isolation in a suite at his Santa Marta residence that has been converted into hospital accommodation. He won’t be resuming public duties for two months, we are told – and even his senior advisors have limited access to him. As a result, it’s really not clear who is in charge of the Catholic Church. And, as Damian Thompson reports in this episode of Holy Smoke, it’s by no means clear when this paralysis will end;...

ST. AMANT — A woman was arrested Friday after allegedly burning down a St. Amant camper while its occupant was still inside. Nicole R. Mellon, 43, is accused of arson and attempted murder, State Fire Marshal investigators said. Mellon and the camper’s occupant allegedly argued hours before the camper went up in flames. A neighbor woke the occupant after the fire was set on Monday, and the occupant escaped the camper safely. The St. Amant Fire Department was called, however, neighbors extinguished the fire with a hose before firefighters arrived.

@WallStreetApes WOAH 🚨 Former Director of the CIA John Brennan “issued the Visas to 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers” AGAIN: 15 out of the 19 Visas issued to the 9/11 hijackers were issued by the man who would become Director of the CIA - John Brennan was the CIA daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton - In 1996, he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - John Brennan issued passports (visas -ed) to 9/11 hijackers - John Brennan becomes Director of the CIA What are the odds???

How Donald Trump @POTUS continues to be undermined & put at risk due to a lack of vetting in his administration. Want to see another vetting failure at the NSC which further exposes the way people with close proximity to Trump haters have been elevated to national security and intel roles in the Trump admin, despite a documented history of unethical behavior and associations? Meet Ivan Kanapathy. 2 months ago, Ivan was selected to work under NSC Director @MikeWaltz47 as the NSC Director for Asia, where he is responsible for crafting the Trump administration’s approach to China and Taiwan. This...

Patricia Fahy, a Democrat state senator in New York is introducing legislation that would effectively ban Tesla dealerships in the state. This is the same party that has tried to force Americans to buy electric cars. Now this Democrat is trying to make it impossible for people to buy one. Have all Democrats gone completely insane? This woman is trying to use the power of the government to single out and punish an American company because she is mad at the creator of the company simply because he is working with Trump. Sounds a little fascistic, doesn’t it?

Two air traffic controllers traded punches when a shocking fight erupted inside the tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The facility is already under massive scrutiny following January’s deadly midair collision between an American Airlines flight on final approach and an Army helicopter. And trouble flared again Thursday when a pair of on-duty tower controllers got into a blazing argument before one threw a punch at the other, a source tells us. By the time the brawling colleagues were separated, there was blood spattered over a control console, according to our insider. The tower would likely...

LINK: Elon Musk And DOGE Team Interview With FNC's Bret BaierI watched this interview and was impressed enough to start a thread, something I don't often do, never mind twice in a day.At the close of the interview, when DOGE members were asked if they thought it was a duty, I swelled with admiration for them.You could read it in their body language, the animation of their eyes, and the instant change in demeanor in all of them at the same time, and the bobbing of their heads. They are doing it for just that purpose, including Musk. They all...

A North Carolina man decided to take a more creative approach to tackling a persistent bear problem in his backyard by putting on a cartoony bear costume and, somehow, successfully scaring the unwelcome ursid away. Video footage captured a man in Asheville, bravely approaching a ferocious-looking black bear in his own brown bear costume that more closely resembled a college mascot. The man emerges from the side, attempting a mock prowl while slowly approaching the wild animal. With caution thrown into the wind, the costumed man kept inching forward bit by bit, even growling at the black bear.

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You’ve probably noticed more than a little criticism around these parts for the administration discussing the plans to attack the Houthis and inadvertently looping in Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. You can agree with us or disagree with us, but at least none of us has committed the sin (or crime?) that is alleged to have occurred here, leaking classified information. And a few among us have U.S. government national security clearances, or have had them in the past. The op-ed page of the New York Times could have gotten anyone in the world to criticize Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,...

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public... Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Dr. Marks on Friday that he could either resign or be fired...