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In the Texas Panhandle, the Smokehouse Creek Fire that broke out earlier this week has since extended to nearly 1.1 million acres, firefighters said Thursday, quickly becoming the "largest and most destructive" in state history. The historic blaze has now merged with another wildfire to stretch across a huge swath of the Panhandle.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended its residential No-Burn alert, the agency announced Wednesday. The alert is now set to expire on Dec. 28 at 11:59 p.m. **SNIP** The alert also prohibits using manufactured fire logs, such as those made from wax or paper, from burning on No-Burn days. The notice doesn’t apply to communities above 3,000 feet in elevation, the Coachella Valley, High Desert, homes that rely on wood as the main source of heat, or low-income households without natural gas services. “Smoke from wood burning can cause health problems. Particles in wood smoke — also...

Chris Christie is stepping up his rhetoric attacking GOP presidential frontrunner and rival former President Trump, releasing a new ad declaring Trump will “burn America to the ground.” Christie, the former New Jersey governor who is angling for a strong showing in New Hampshire to propel his long-shot campaign, stares directly into the camera during the 30-second ad. “Some people say I should drop out of this race. Really? I’m the only one saying Donald Trump is a liar. He pits Americans against each other,” he says in the ad running in the Granite State.

A teacher at a Brooklyn school serving students from a large Palestinian community is under fire for posting social media comments such as “Let Gaza Burn’’ and “There are no innocents.’’ Pro-Palestinian activists are demanding the city Department of Education investigate The Fort Hamilton School instructor Robert Rossicone over his comments. The PS 104 elementary-middle school serves students from the largest Palestinian-American and Arabic communities in the state. “Look at these ANIMALS. And the people who support this, or call for a ceasefire, are dogs as well,” Rossicone said in one exchange in response to a Hamas video that the...

Saleh al-Arouri bragged of Hamas’ ability to capture Israeli military personnel in a Saturday interview with Al-Jazeera. “We managed to kill and capture many Israeli soldiers. The fighting is still on.” 4 dead IDF Soldiers https://twitter.com/Zagonel85/status/1710739882262319614 Woman and children carted into Gaza https://twitter.com/i/status/1710733300988313866 More horrid deeds at link...

A supercar convoy broke traffic regulations by 'jumping red lights' and 'failing to give way' during the luxury rally that led to a horror crash and killed two in Italy on Monday, according to local media. Graphic footage captured the horrific moment billionaire Vikas Oberoi's blue Lamborghini appeared to turn into the path of a red Ferrari that was about to overtake him. The impact sent both cars flying into a camper van that flipped over, while the Ferrari Portofino belonging to two Swiss tourists crashed off the road and burst into flames. Swiss tourists Markus Krautli, 67, and his...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued what he described as a “formal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,” on Tuesday, warning that the state was “openly hostile” to socialists and their enablers. “The state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,” Scott, who is also the state’s former governor, said in a press release. SENATE Rick Scott issues travel advisory for ‘socialists,’ warning Florida is ‘openly hostile’ to them BY SARAH FORTINSKY - 05/23/23 1:43 PM ET SHARE TWEET Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., walks outside a...

Sen. Tim Scott is about to launch a 2024 presidential bid, according to a new report from political insider Cockburn over at The Spectator. The South Carolina Republican has been flirting with the move for months, and an official announcement is now expected sometime in the next week.Scott will be joining a quickly growing field of lower-tier candidates, all having very little justification for running in the face of the two-man race going on at the top between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. Presidential campaigns aren’t just about winning, though, and Scott may have other reasons for what he’s doing.🚨...

Cultural Marxism is dystopia peddling utopia through grievance narratives and rank emotionalism, the hallmarks of transgenderism. ... In a surreal moment at the Country Music Awards last week, co-host Kelsea Ballerini joined with several drag performers to belt out a campy version of her single, “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too),” an anthem taking aim at Tennessee laws denying wrongly named “gender-affirming care” for children. The performance was steeped in queerness, both in the pretend “oppression” of performers literally center stage at a nationally-broadcast awards show and in the academic sense, where drag serves as a kind of...

Mary Trump predicted Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that if her uncle, former President Donald Trump, were not the leader of the Republican Party, he would “burn everything down.” Anchor Ali Velshi said, “What do you think happens here?” Donald Trump wants to be relevant in the face of an election that has done something for him he never wanted: it has proved that he is potentially less relevant, and he thinks he is. How do you square those things? You maintain that he maintains the dangerousness in the Republican Party, by extension, the most dangerous person in America.”

While European nations are struggling to prepare for a cold winter with natural gas supplies choked off by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, reports have begun to trickle in that Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas company, is burning off massive amounts of natural gas daily. The BBC has reported the natural gas plant of Portovaya, near the Finnish border with Russia, is burning off an estimated $10 million worth of gas each day. According to the report, experts say that gas previously would have been exported to Europe. Miguel Berger, Germany’s ambassador to the UK, told BBC News that the European Union’s efforts...

Riots have broken out in Shanghai as starving residents begin to revolt against the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian “Zero Covid” lockdown more than three weeks in. Disturbing videos emerging on social media show desperate scenes inside China’s largest city, which has been placed under increasingly harsh restrictions as Omicron cases continue to break daily records. Crowds of residents were seen looting food parcels in one video posted to Weibo, while other clips showed furious mobs clashing with PPE-clad Covid prevention workers as they tried to break through barriers erected across the city. One video captured the sounds of screaming from...

An Indiana man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in a riot in Portland, Oregon in 2020 during which he threw Molotov cocktails at police officers. Malik Muhammed pleaded guilty this week to 14 felony charges related to the Portland rioting and will have to pay $200,000 in restitution along with serving 10 years in prison, according to a statement from Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt. “On September 5, 2020, Muhammed constructed multiple Molotov cocktails. He then brought those explosive devices, along with baseball bats, to a planned protest event that evening at the East...

According to court documents, on May 28, 2020, Montez Terriel Lee, 26, along with others, broke into the Max It Pawn Shop on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Surveillance video footage showed Lee pouring a fire accelerant around the pawn shop and lighting the accelerant on fire. The fire destroyed the building. A second video showed Lee standing in front of the burning pawn shop and Lee could be heard saying, “[expletive] this place. We’re gonna burn this [expletive] down.”

DEVELOPING STORY: More than 500 homes and businesses have already burned as a massive wildfire sweeps through Boulder County, Colorado. Thousands of people have been ordered to immediately evacuate. Winds are blowing at more than 100 mph.

Political strategist Susan Del Percio said Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party has embraced “neo-fascism,” so now it needs to burn down and be built back up. Del Percio said, “You talked about fascism early on. Really, I’ve been looking for a new word for ‘Trumpism’ because I hate it because I think it goes deeper than just Donald Trump within the Republican Party. And I keep coming back to the same name. It’s neofascism. Forget Trumpism. It’s neo-fascism. That’s what the grassroots of the party looks like right now.”

DENVER: Antifa and far left activists blocking traffic outside the conservative summit have made contact w/ an alleged attendee of the conference Antifa pre-planned assaulting right wing attendees in a public @Facebook invite. FB took no action to remove it pic.twitter.com/PiwdFWfW3V— WBQ3 (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021 Heavy police police presence as Antifa surrounded the Western Conservative Summit last night. DENVER: Antifa are now blocking traffic outside the Western Conservative Summit. Altercations are erupting as this is being written pic.twitter.com/UASakqWfvY— WBQ3 (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021 ANTIFA chants that police are “Boebert’s bitch boys” pic.twitter.com/trXzZUzQ94— WBQ3 (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021 Antifa now...

A white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin opened fire on an unarmed Black man who was simply walking away from him -- shooting him point-blank seven times ... and it's all on video. You see the man walking away from a few officers ... who appear to be telling him to stop, with guns drawn. He makes his away around a car in a nonthreatening manner, he opens the door and attempts to get inside. One of the cops grabs hold of his shirt, and for some inexplicable reason, he unloads seven rounds at arm's length. The victim was flown...

Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome joined "The Story" Wednesday to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody and the subsequent demonstrations across the country, many of which have sparked destruction and violence. "You ... have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations," host Martha MacCallum told Newsome. "What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?" "Wow, it's interesting that you would pose that question like that," Newsome responded, "because this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution, what's our...

A group of North Carolina residents has started a "Burn Your Mask Challenge" to show their disapproval for Gov. Roy Cooper's plan to potentially make face mask mandatory. A Facebook group called Reopen NC is encouraging its members to burn their masks and take videos of it. The group's co-founder, Ashley Smith's video has gone viral among the local community. “Today I’m going to say loud and clear, ‘I will not comply. I do not consent,'” Smith said, per the local news outlet WWAY. “I can’t think a more poignant way to say we’re going to resist the muzzle than...