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The pilot of a small private jet that crash landed in southern California last month and killed everyone on board, including a famous drummer, clipped a power line during landing while flying too low a preliminary report has revealed. The Cessna 550 Citation plummeted into San Diego's Murphy Canyon neighborhood in the early hours of May 22 as it made its final approach for Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. Daniel Williams, a former drummer for metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, and famed music producer Dave Shapiro - who is believed to have been the pilot - were among the six people...

1. Saudi Arabia seeks regime change in Iran. 2. US/Israel, EU, Arab neighbors seek (not always admmitedly in public) disarmed nuclear-Iran, especially Israel which has been threatened with annihilation by Islamic fascist Republic. 3. Phony-anti-war pro-war Tucker Carlson prefers nuclear Iran, emboldening head of terror snake. 4. All of the above does not mean there is a need (now) for '[boots] on the ground,' in today's drone age. 5. The vast contrast of Islamic Republic (just like Arab "Palestinian" regimes) targeting civilians VS Israeli warning for civilians to evacuate while operating against hostile targets, is as clear as ever. 6....

SNIPSpeaking to the Connecticut Forum in Hartford, the former president called for institutions, law firms, universities, members of both parties and even Justice Department figures to make “uncomfortable” sacrifices to defend a democracy he argued is increasingly under fire in President Donald Trump’s second term. He suggested, without ever using Trump’s name, that the US was “dangerously close” to a more autocratic government.“What’s happening is that we now have a situation in which all of us are going to be tested in some way, and we are going to have to then decide what our commitments are,” Obama said, according...

Not a big deal, but just a bit surprised at how little we see Ambassador Huckabee on TV during this Iran mess. I mean I see the Israeli Ambassador to the US, many Israeli leaders (military and civilian), and even Trey Yingst….lol…all the time. Just wondered about why our Ambassador is keeping such a low profile.

One of the most powerful figures at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted she refused the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine while pregnant, even as her agency promoted it as “safe and effective” for all pregnant women. Dr. Sara Brenner’s explosive disclosure, made on May 15 at the MAHA Institute Round Table in Washington, D.C., is as revealing as it is troubling. Brenner, a preventive medicine physician, has worked at the FDA since 2019. As the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner — and briefly its acting commissioner — Brenner was at the center of decision-making. Prior to that, she was...

Iran is suffering blow after blow, and Russia, its most powerful supporter, is apparently not prepared to do much of anything about it. Not long ago, backing the West’s least-favorite power in the Middle East had its uses. In prosecuting his war of attrition in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has made confrontation with the West the organizing principle of his foreign policy. In that context, edging closer to Iran and its partners in the “Axis of Resistance” made sense. ........... A defenseless Iran will not respond well to Russian sticks, and in any case, Moscow is unlikely to take a punitive...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a House resolution Tuesday looking to block U.S. involvement in the Middle East conflict between Iran and Israel. Massie's resolution features numerous Democrat co-sponsors, including progressive legislators like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. If passed, the resolution would block President Donald Trump from engaging in "unauthorized hostilities" with Iran.

A Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors can stand, the US supreme court has ruled, a devastating loss for trans rights supporters in a case that could set a precedent for dozens of other lawsuits involving the rights of transgender children. The case, United States v Skrmetti, was filed last year by three families of trans children and a provider of gender-affirming care. In oral arguments, the plaintiffs – as well as the US government, then helmed by Joe Biden – argued that Tennessee’s law constituted sex-based discrimination and thus violated the equal protection clause of the 14th...

As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel’s campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction. At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” — and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.” Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according...

The Texas Legislature cancelled the state’s program to build its own border wall as the legislative session came to a close, having spent more than $3 billion to build only about 65 miles of scattered segments. In December 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced the program at a press conference along the border, the first of its kind in the country, banging a mallet on one of the wall’s metal beams as he “declared the barrier to be impenetrable,” reported The Texas Tribune, but that bold declaration soon ran into challenges: “It’s heavy and it’s wide,” he said assuredly....

him preparing by putting his glasses away was like a scene from a movie

An Afghan national was detained on the fourth floor of the San Diego Immigration Court Thursday after attending a routine hearing. “I came here to make a better life,” said the man during his arrest, captured on video. “I didn’t know that this would happen … I worked with the U.S. military. I worked in a very dangerous part of Afghanistan with the U.S. military.” He was at the courthouse for a master calendar hearing — the first stage of a removal proceeding in immigration court. Not attending a master calendar hearing is grounds for deportation. The federal government made...

June 17 (UPI) -- A New York zoo is asking for the public's help to locate a wallaby that escaped from the property. Grace and Glory Animals, an animal education zoo in Oswego, said the wallaby, named Mac, escaped just prior to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Former Arkansas Governor and current Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sent a supportive text message to President Trump amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Huckabee praised the POTUS, saying he wouldn’t want anyone else in the Oval Office at this historic moment.

The anti-war Jewish left has begun congregating in a new, rather unexpected clubhouse: The Tucker Carlson Show. In his newest incarnation, Carlson has gone full populist, venting at globalist elitists and bludgeoning U.S. foreign policy as overly interventionist. Ordinarily, this second criticism is a left-wing argument. But we're living through a time of profound political transformation, and since October 7 and U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection, the populist right has also been finding its voice on Israel – and it sounds like what one might find reverberating in

Let's take a little detour from January 6 and gas prices and remember a couple of people who turn 79 this weekend. First, we remember Newt Gingrich, who came out of Georgia to lead the 1994 GOP revolution. He has become one of the real statesmen of our time. I no longer think of Newt as a politician, but rather as one who has his eye on the big picture.

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Despite plans to demolish the complex, the city will repurpose the building for asylum housing. The German city of Bargteheide has scrapped plans to demolish a senior citizens’ residential complex on Nelkenweg after vacating all residents, opting instead to house asylum seekers in the building. Former residents had been told the building was uninhabitable and were forced to relocate. However, following an inspection, just five units will undergo renovation, while the remainder will be used as-is by the new arrivals.As reported by Abendblatt, Mayor Gabriele Hettwer defended the decision, saying all cost-related issues had been resolved and that a full...

“I’m just so scared. I’m 74 years old. I worry about everything… I don’t understand why people voted for this person.”

Israeli strikes on the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster, IRIB, in Tehran on Monday were captured during a live broadcast as shocking footage showed the anchor fleeing the studio while debris fell from the ceiling. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had issued an evacuation warning to citizens ahead of the strike, targeting what Israeli officials described as a hub of Iranian propaganda. Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote in a statement: “The Iranian propaganda and incitement mouthpiece is on its way to disappear.” Tehran has yet to release a full statement on casualties or damage, but images circulating online show heavy...