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A Minneapolis child care center has become the unlikely focus of social media speculation and regulatory scrutiny this week after digital sleuths discovered its public contact information led directly to the office of Governor Tim Walz.The facility, identified as Sweet Angel Child Care, went viral on Monday when users on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the phone number listed for the business on Google Maps connected callers to the governor's administration rather than the day care itself. The anomaly surfaced shortly after YouTuber Nick Shirley featured the location in a video investigation released Friday, which sought to verify the legitimacy...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered few details. Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Friday, and when questioned Monday by reporters about “an explosion in Venezuela,” he said the U.S. struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up.” “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said as he met...

I usually dont post video news from YouTube, but this was just too much for me to ignore. You have to watch to believe what this independent investigative journalist uncovered. Just unbelievable. This young man and an offical looking older man holding hard data on printouts go to building after building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Inside there are 4,5,6 daycare centers that advertise hundreds of children but the place is empty save for 2 or 3 Somalian women. Same thing for medical treatment centers. Its an obvious cover up. This video should be used as evidence in congressional committee hearings. Note...

CROSSLAKE, Minn. (KTTC) – In a letter penned by the mayor of Crosslake, and signed by 97 other mayors across the state of Minnesota, top city officials expressed their “deep concern and growing frustration” with the direction the state is heading in. Crosslake Mayor Jackson Purfeerst claimed that fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management at the state level is making it more difficult for cities and towns to plan responsibly and continue offering core services to local taxpayers. “Minnesotans watched an historic $18 billion in surplus disappear in a single biennium, only to now face an updated projected $2.9...

The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. More than 5 million student loan borrowers are currently in default, and that total could swell to roughly 10 million borrowers soon, the Education Department said earlier this year.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said he wishes someone could have told President Trump “how math works” before touting his administration’s successes 11 months into his second term at the White House. “Somebody must have showed him some, like, abysmal poll numbers and said, ‘You better get out there in front of the American people and explain to them why these poll numbers shouldn’t be in the toilet,'” Kelly said late Wednesday on “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC. “So, and then — and then I wish somebody would tell him how math works,” Kelly continued. “You...

A woman who berated a Target employee for wearing a Charlie Kirk t-shirt was investigated after sharing footage of the altercation online. In a since deleted viral video, Michelea Ponce confronted elderly Chico Target employee Jeanie Beeman over her choice of attire. Beeman was wearing a bright red T-shirt with a white American flag and the words 'Freedom' and 'Charlie Kirk' printed on the front. 'Why the f*** would you wear that? You're at work. At Target...You support a racist,' Ponce said in the footage, moving the camera so that Beeman's outfit could be seen from all angles. 'It's a...

In 2014, California passed a bill mandating that all gasoline storage tanks in the state of California be upgraded from single wall tanks to double wall tanks. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2026. As a result of this law, across the state 473 gas stations will close. The law was passed because the single wall tanks during an earthquake would crumble, and then the gasoline would seep into the groundwater or the soil contaminating it. While the law sounds reasonable, the average cost to upgrade a gas station from a single wall tank to a double...

TUKWILA, Wash. — A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for a dam break on the Green River near Tukwila, which is causing the potential for "life-threatening flash flooding." The National Weather Service (NWS) issued the alert at 11:51 a.m. Monday, saying that the Desimone Levee on the Green River, has failed. Kent, Renton and Tukwila all could experience flash flooding as a result of the dam break. Residents and businesses east of the Green River in the Orillia area in Tukwila, Renton, Kent are under a Level 3 (Go Now) evacuation notice. People in that area should go north...

Valero's $1.1 billion Benicia refinery exit by April 2026, driven by Newsom's regulations, threatens 8.6% of California's gasoline supply, job losses, and $1.21-per-gallon hikes. Economists warn of shortages and $8 spikes amid Phillips 66's parallel closure. California’s energy sector is reeling from Valero Energy Corp.’s decision to shutter its Benicia refinery by April 2026, a move that underscores the mounting toll of stringent state regulations on the industry’s viability. The Texas-based refiner announced it would absorb a staggering $1.1 billion write-down rather than navigate Governor Gavin Newsom’s escalating mandates, citing prohibitive costs and regulatory pressures. This closure eliminates 8.6% of...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Huntsville Police say the Madison County District Attorney’s Office determined no charges will be filed after an investigation into a shooting on Brahan Avenue on Tuesday night. Madison County Coroner Tyler Berryhill said one of the two people injured in the shooting on Brahan died at Huntsville Hospital. Berryhill identified the man who died as 34-year-old Demetrius Paige. HEMSI Spokesperson Don Webster said the call for the shooting came in at about 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday from the 2200 block of Brahan Ave SW. The department said one person was in custody on Tuesday night, but...

Key Takeaways: This visual timeline attempts to plot all of the world’s empires throughout history, based on geographic area and size. The rise and fall of familiar civilizations, like the Romans, Mongols, or Ottomans can be seen, as well as modern powerhouses like the U.S. or China. Attempting to plot this all on one timeline is bold, but also comes with its many challenges and some omissions.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Farley told host Monica Langley. “We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians, and tradesmen. It’s a very serious thing.” While President Donald Trump has centered his economic agenda on bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., there remains a gap between the number of factory jobs open and the number of people willing to fill them. There were more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs open as of August, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, despite...

Launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn-2 is today. Launch window opens at 2:45EST (about 15 minutes from now). New Glenn-2 first stage is almost 4 million lbs total thrust. Payload is the Escapade Mars probe. Escapade will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. Go Blue!!

Happened at the Bridge Street Towne Center Mall - Huntsville, Alabama. I had parked in the above ground parking garage. I was walking back towards my car (2020 Kia Optima) about 30 minutes after parking. Two young men standing outside of the garage. One was looking at his cell phone and then he addressed me: "Hi, Sir. Are you just getting off work?" I looked at him suspiciously and just said "no". When I got to my car, there was a junk car (missing on one cylinder) parked next to my drivers side and he started up his engine and...

I wanted to let everyone know that the State of California is using some legal means to take money from bank accounts with no notice whatsoever. This just happened to me through Wells Fargo and I will be dealing with the matter after the weekend when their offices are open. Does anyone have experience with this? I lived in California over 10 years ago but I have no idea what this can possible be for.

In the wake of James Comey’s indictment, Democrats like Richard Blumenthal and Eric Swalwell are issuing dark warnings with a straight face that “what goes around comes around” and that anyone who cooperates with Donald Trump’s “vengeance prosecutions” will face retribution when Dems are back in charge. But their threats fall on deaf ears because they started it. Democrats long ago weaponized the justice system against their political opponents. Let us count the ways. On Joe Biden’s watch, Trump faced four separate indictments with 88 criminal charges; more than 1,500 Trump supporters were arrested and over-prosecuted in the J6 investigation;...

Larisa Thomason has been listening to Huntsville public radio station WLRH for almost 50 years. Now, she’s threatening to change the dial. “My daughter calls WLRH the soundtrack for her childhood,” Thomason said. “It was always on.” Thomason started listening to WLRH in the 1970s to learn more about politics and she became a dues-paying member in the 1980s. She said she may start supporting a different public radio station after she heard that WLRH is dropping its National Public Radio (NPR) programming due to federal funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WLRH is a branch of Alabama...

And today is 9/11. Imagine that. Better that I stay home from work than to spread my disgust that may be contagious. I wonder how many other people feel the same way.

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The road to recovery after the Palisades Fire has been anything but smooth for a group of historical business owners on the eastern edge of Malibu. For years, the Reel Inn was a staple along Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The famous seafood shack fed surfers and tourists for nearly 40 years. Its sign is now in a pile of rubble, and because of a yearslong dispute over land use, the Reel Inn may never reopen. Other businesses are facing the same roadblocks when it comes to rebuilding -- The Topanga Ranch Motel, Wiley's...