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FAIRFIELD, California (KRON) – Two officers sustained serious injuries after a Tesla driver who was allegedly asleep behind the wheel crashed into a California Highway Patrol vehicle Tuesday in Fairfield, according to authorities. CHP said the incident happened Oct. 13 as the officers were investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 80 eastbound. The Tesla, driven by a 22-year-old Sacramento man, was traveling at freeway speeds when it entered the closed lanes and hit the patrol vehicle, which was occupied by the two officers, CHP said. Authorities confirmed that the crash occurred even though “the lanes were closed with flares and...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Update: Wichita police say they are responding to a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle at Stryker Sports Complex “There is no further ongoing threat at this time. We will provide further updates when we have additional information,” said police. Drivers are asked to stay away from the area of 29th and Greenwich while the investigation continues. Emergency crews are on the scene of a major incident at Stryker Sports Complex. We’re told that multiple people have been injured. At this time, the extent of those injuries are unknown. We are working to learn the conditions...

For years, one of the favourite pastimes of Britain's bien-pensant establishment has been to laud France, often at the expense of this country. In their telling, France is seen as progressive and smart, the apex of European culture and the master of infrastructure, while these islands are condemned as parochial. But the scenes from France in recent weeks have surely put paid to that fantasy. France's decline is obvious and largely of its own making. Socialist economics has led to stagnant growth, punishing taxes and a state that consumes well over half of national output. A profligate pensions system, with...

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke optimistically about Republicans’ chances in the November 3 midterm elections, declaring that the GOP nominee for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat was going to win. In a joint appearance with Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Cruz said a “hostile takeover” of the Democratic Party by communists and Islamists was underway. “Senator Cruz, I want to turn real quickly to Texas,” guest host Charlie Hurt said. “You know, we’ve seen a lot of these polls showing Talarico and Ken Paxton within the margin of error. In the past, you have...

We’re in the eighth month of an on-and-off war, as we all know, with Iran, and since 2022, we have been watching Ukraine and Russia fight, and we have been supplying Ukraine. And one of the problems with these multifront wars, and we have been conducting operations against Iran as well as helping Israel supply its forces against the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah. Part of the problem is that in Ukraine, in Iran, in the Middle East, we have now, because of the use, cut our inventories of Patriot missiles by about 25% or 30%. And remember, we export them all...

France is burning and the police are doing almost nothing to stop it. Will the military be called out? Doubtful unless LePen is elected.

A Skokie man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly holding a senior citizen’s head underwater in a pond at Westfield Old Orchard Mall on Tuesday. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office charged 35-year-old William Dobbs with one count of attempted murder, one count of aggravated battery to a senior citizen and one count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm, a news release from the Skokie Police Department said on Wednesday. Skokie police arrested Dobbs on Tuesday morning after he reportedly attempted to rob a woman at Westfield Old Orchard Mall and held her head underwater in a...

A billionaires’ tax pushed by radical leftists such as Sen. Bernie Sanders on California’s ballot next month — and with “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ready to take the idea national — a furious, freak alliance of enemies has formed to try to kill it. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is locking arms with furious Republicans, Hollywood elites, and Silicon Valley tech titans to crush the Golden State tax hike before it starts. Proposition 40 would slap a one-time 5% surtax on the wealth of California billionaires and send most of the money to healthcare, to be paid beginning in 2027 in...

French ​President Emmanuel Macron said ‌on Thursday that it was crucial to give Ukraine all the means it needs ​to defend and protect ​its civilian population and its ⁠infrastructure, after he met ​in Brussels with Ukrainian President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy, writing on Telegram, described his conversation with Macron as "very ​much to the point" ​and said Ukraine valued France for "helping as ‌much ⁠as possible to find responses to Russian escalation."

Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Comet 67P . The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle OSIRIS camera taken on July 25, 2015 from a distance of 184 kilometers. Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world's active surface near its closest approach to the Sun. The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck. Rosetta's mission to the comet ended in September 2016...

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Protesters have demanded that Vitali Klitschko resign as mayor of Kyiv after failing to prepare for the winter. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets with placards, chanting "Kyiv without Klitschko" before congregating outside the city council building. Discontent has been bubbling since Russia increased its attacks on the capital, leaving many citizens scared for what will be the fifth winter since Vladimir Putin's invasion. One placard read: "It's too late for Klitschko to get busy now, time to say goodbye." Others said "Where are the shelters?" and "Your task is to make Kyiv safe, green and historic, not deserted"....

Late in the second quarter Saturday at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, No. 7 Texas was up 14 points on a Florida team in free fall. The Gators, ranked as high as No. 8 earlier this month, were coming off back-to-back blowout losses, the second of which was handed to them by a South Carolina squad that was previously winless in SEC competition. To top it off, Florida arrived in Austin with its QB1 nursing a shoulder injury that he suffered in that disheartening setback to the Gamecocks.

By Dr. John BergsmaReligion and politics are a volatile mix, such that the old dictum was, these were the two topics one should not raise in polite conversation. The readings for this Sunday are concerned, in part, with the interaction of religion and politics, in the rule of God vs. the rule of men. The Scriptures affirm that despite appearances to the contrary, ultimate control of human history is in the hands of God. Human rulers have their place, but even they are ultimately instruments by which God guides human affairs. In the midst of the chaos that is human...

Things are getting increasingly wild in the ongoing, multifaceted investigation into Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05). When you bring DNA evidence into the fray, you'd be right to wonder if something beyond the initial reports is happening behind the scenes. Federal agents, according to multiple sources who spoke with NewsNation, searched discarded trash in hopes of obtaining DNA from Omar and her family before raiding her Washington, D.C. home this week. The sources state that any potential DNA evidence obtained "is critical to the investigation" into the Squad member. It's unclear how such evidence would factor into the case, but...

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his demands to see charges against former officials.The White House task force that President Donald Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn’t produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his administration is using to help build a public case against officials who investigated him.The president initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud. But more recently, the task force has been releasing law enforcement records from past investigations into Trump, including special counsel Robert S....

Pennsylvania congressional candidate and state Rep. Chris Rabb said this week that while he's against incarceration, he's in favor of locking up "lawless MAGA thugs." "I’m a decarceration person," Rabb said on left-wing podcaster Wajahat Ali's show. "I believe the country that represents 5% of the world population but 25% of the people put in cages is morally wrong. "It’s also bad policy, but I will make an exception for all of those f---ers who are lawless MAGA thugs, who have destroyed lives and communities. Lock all of those f---ers up. I know that seems a little hypocritical of me...

An international oil benchmark hit $110 per barrel on Friday, as the industry faces persistent shocks from the U.S.-Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars. The price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, hit $110 during Friday trading. That marked the first time it has reached that high since May 20, less than three months after the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran conflict. The commodity was trading at roughly $109.75 as of late Friday afternoon. Brent crude prices peaked in late April, when the benchmark topped $120 per barrel. Oil prices shot up during the early months of the conflict with...

Laura Loomer publicly pitched herself for the newly open White House press secretary role. Her joke about going blonde has added a twist to the search for Trump’s next spokesperson. After Katie Zacharia was dismissed as White House press secretary, far-right activist Laura Loomer publicly put herself forward for the job. Her jokes about changing her appearance coincided with the launch of new prediction markets on who will be the next spokesperson for Donald Trump’s administration.What Loomer proposedOn October 16, Laura Loomer wrote on X: “Hear me out: Press Secretary Laura Loomer” – suggesting that she be considered for the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop bans St. Michael prayer at the end of Masses The St. Michael the Archangel prayer ban at Masses comes a year after Bishop Mark Beckman limited the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Knoxville.Bishop Mark Beckman of Knoxville, Tennessee, banned the praying of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel at the end of masses in his diocese.In a statement to members of the Diocese of Knoxville published Friday, Beckman lamented that as he has traveled throughout his diocese, he “noticed that in some of our parishes additional prayers, including the Prayer to...