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St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said two men were arrested for attempting to block FDOT crews who arrived to paint over the street mural on 9th Avenue South, west of 22nd Street South. The mural was a Black Lives Matter mural, which was installed in June 2020. Around 8 p.m. Friday, Andrew Oliver, 49, and Benedict Atherton-Zeman, 59, walked by police officers and sat down on the road attempting to block FDOT machinery, SPPD said. Police arrested both men after they refused to move. They were charged with Pedestrian obstructing or hindering traffic and obstruction, officials said.

Kristin Marino’s FDNY firefighter father Kenneth was killed on Sept. 11, when she was just 3 years old, but his nine brothers made sure they were at her wedding this week to stand in for him. Retired and new firemen from Kenneth’s Hell’s Kitchen’s Rescue Co. 1 patiently waited outside the Plaza Hotel Wednesday so they could see the beautiful bride off to her wedding. “It was truly surreal to walk out and see so many firefighters lined up in honor of my father. The sight brought me to tears and reminded me of the incredible brotherhood within the FDNY,”...

The president and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum offered a tone-deaf defense of the nonprofit’s extravagant executive salaries this week, as The Post’s Page 1 expose stirred outrage that officials are exploiting the city’s greatest disaster. “Our executive compensation lags well behind that of peer institutions,” Elizabeth Hillman said in an email sent to the foundation’s trustees on Monday, adding that “recent compensation studies have supported adjustments across the organization.” But in the email, obtained by The Post, Hillman did not name any other institutions or cite specific compensation studies. Neither she nor the September 11 National Memorial...

Shrewbury, Massachusetts father Kevin Doherty was shot and killed Thursday by Snehal Srivastava after he confronted the trans man who was spraying graffiti on a bridge – before 9 AM in the morning! Doherty had just dropped his six-year-old so off at school when he saw Snehal spray-painting graffiti on the bridge near Jordan Pond. The father of the young boy took pictures of the vandalism and an argument broke out. So, Doherty call 911 for assistance. The 911 operator was on the phone with the father when shots were fired. Snehal Srivastava shot the victim dead. Snehal, who was...

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called for the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to be used against President Donald Trump on Friday, suggesting he was unfit, during a discussion about his removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. "It is time to call for Article [Amendment] 25 of the Constitution of the United States of America to determine his unfitness, to determine that something’s wrong with this president. And I would suggest that we move very aggressively to talk about the danger to this country and to our democracy and not play around with this, because this...

Discover the untold story of how 371,683 German POWs experienced a psychological transformation that shattered N@zi ideology through witnessing America's overwhelming industrial might during World War II. When Afrika Korps veterans arrived in the United States in 1943, expecting to find a weak, divided nation, they instead encountered an industrial colossus producing a B-24 bomber every 63 minutes, farms larger than German provinces, and ordinary workers living better than German aristocracy. This meticulously researched documentary reveals how German prisoners of war, housed in over 500 camps across America from 1943-1946, went from hardened N@zi soldiers to advocates for democracy -...

Arch Manning’s long-awaited (and much-hyped) 2025 debut turned out to be a showcase instead for defending national champion Ohio State’s defense. Manning, the consensus Heisman favorite entering Week 1, struggled to solve new Buckeyes defensive coordinator Matt Patricia’s scheme. He finished 17-of-30 passing for 170 yards, a late touchdown and an interception — plus 38 yards rushing — in a 14-7 loss.

This week, I had two separate meetings with people I’d never met before. In both, after the polite small talk, each confessed that before sitting down with me they had quickly “studied up” by glancing at my Wikipedia page. (Note to readers: Please don’t do the same.) My Wikipedia entry is not a neutral profile — it’s a hit job. It’s a curated “greatest hits” collection of my worst moments, or more precisely my critics’ worst caricatures of me.

The average price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. reached its lowest late-summer price of the past four years this month — but not in Oregon, where gas prices rose over the same time period. So far this month, the U.S. average for a gallon of gas has been about $3.13, a 3-cent drop from August 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Meanwhile, the average this month for a gallon in Oregon has been about $3.98, a 20-cent increase from August 2021, according to figures provided by AAA. Adjusting for inflation, national gas prices are...

Ukraine expects to receive around 1.8 million artillery shells by the end of the year as part of the Czech ammunition initiative. The statement was made by Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha during a joint press conference in Kyiv with his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský, Ukrinform correspondent reported on August 12. “Czechia is making practical contributions to our shared security and defense. Thanks to the Czech ammunition initiative launched in 2024, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are to receive about 1.8 million artillery shells by the end of this year,” Sybiha stated.

Germany captain Dennis Schröder faced racial abuse during his team's 107-88 victory over Lithuania at EuroBasket on Saturday, and one fan was banned from attending the rest of the tournament by FIBA officials. The German Basketball Association said two people were identified as the alleged perpetrators of the abuse and were subsequently ejected from the arena in Tampere. Later, FIBA officials said one fan was identified by video and will not be permitted to attend the rest of the event. "Making monkey noises, that's something I don't respect," Schröder told reporters in German after the game. "No matter what status,...

As a young child, life was happy for Chris. He remembered good times with his parents and two siblings. Then when he was 11, his parents started arguing more. Some nights his father wouldn’t even come home. His father claimed he simply had to “work late.” But Chris felt there were bigger problems. Finally when he as 12 Chris’s parents told him that they were separating. They tried to explain how it would be better for the family because there would be less arguing, but Chris didn’t believe them. For him this was devastating news. Because so many of Chris’s...

Foreign aid agency’s closure has saved US taxpayers “tens of billions of dollars,” Secretary of State says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday he was handing USAID over to the Office of Management and Budget to “oversee the closeout”Shortly after returning to office in January, US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling the agency, which has long served as Washington’s primary funding channel for political projects abroad. He accused the organization – often criticized by conservatives as promoting liberal causes – of being run by “radical lunatics” and enabling corruption “at levels rarely seen...

Vice President JD Vance has told the people of Britain to “push back against the crazies” and keep putting up flags, as protests spread across the country The protests, dubbed “Operation Raise the Colours,” have grown with the backlash against the British government’s migration policies, and in particular its policy of housing migrants in hotels in local communities. Patriotic British citizens are putting up flags across the nation, but facing significant resistance from the government, local councils, the police, leftists and immigrants Vice President JD Vance has told the people of Britain to “push back against the crazies” and...

This week, the British people were told again, “It doesn’t matter:” their views on the government's immigration policies, and their desire to be safe in their own communities, are simply irrelevant It doesn’t matter.That was the message—those precise words, blunt, unequivocal, brooking no dissent—that Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered to the British people last summer in the aftermath of the brutal murder of three little girls at a dance class, in Southport. Six more were left in critical condition with stab wounds, as well as two teachers. Decades of anger at the effects of the multicultural experiment, an experiment conducted...

Centered in the rust belt, deaths of despair are a national scourge. Since 2000, working-class white Americans have defied demographic trends by experiencing declines in life expectancy. In the last decade, according to the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health, nearly 2 million Ohioans have died from “deaths of despair.” That makes the Buckeye state second only to West Virginia in this category. Tragically, the Ohio Valley leads the nation in the rise of deaths for those between 25 and 65. Individually, they are senseless. Families are left to ponder how their child died a drug-addled death in a...

Following the tragic shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching studies to examine whether psychiatric drugs, including SSRIs, may contribute to violent behavior. The shooting, carried out by 23-year-old Robin Westman, who had transitioned to living as a woman, left many questioning the role of mental health, drug treatments, and gender transition medications in acts of violence. In a manifesto released by Westman, the shooter described struggling with severe depression and suicidal thoughts for years, citing their belief that they had terminal...

This is truly ghoulish: Minnesota Democrats are fundraising off Robin Westman’s murderous spree: Note the suggestion that “Minnesota Republicans…may refuse to take action, even now.” As though it were self-evident that Westman’s murders require banning a particular type of firearm, one of several, I believe, that he used. Governor Tim Walz has said that he is considering calling a special session to enact more gun control legislation, including an “assault rifle” ban. Minnesota Democrats want to turn the 2026 election into a referendum on gun control, as they turned the 2022 election into a referendum on abortion. They thus seek...

A beloved Mississippi news anchor — who had only recently joined her television station — died suddenly at age 42, her devastated colleagues announced. Celeste Wilson, a weekend anchor for WAPT 16 in Jackson, tragically died of a heart attack. “Though Celeste had only been with us a short time, we were already touched by her professionalism, warmth, and dedication to the work of journalism,” her network, which also shared the tragic news on air, penned in its announcement Wednesday. “All of us here at 16 WAPT are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and our thoughts are with Celeste’s family...