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LACEY, Wash. — A commercial truck driver was arrested at the scene of a six-car pileup crash that involved a school bus in Lacey on Thursday morning. According to the Washington State Patrol, the driver of a semi-truck that was hauling cars slammed into the back of the school bus just after 7:00 a.m. on I-5 near Martin Road. Troopers said the driver of the semi did not have a commercial driver’s license, insurance, or a valid medical card. “In this situation, there is a lot of negligence involved,” said Trooper Kameron Watts. “We actually dispatched some commercial vehicle enforcement...

A Grammy-nominated musician was struck and killed by a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police said. Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014, according to local media reports. Macleod was walking his dogs when he was hit by a car on Saturday, the Hopkinton Police Department said in a news release. The alleged driver was identified by police as as...

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has just signed a $140 million deal to buy a FLEET of Boeing 737s to RAMP UP ICE’s deportation flights LFG! 🔥 ICE had previously been forced to rely on chartered flights, but now with dedicated planes, illegals can be shipped out MUCH quicker. No First Class seats on these planes!

President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited 'gold card' - offering legal status and a pathway to US citizenship for customers willing to pay the $1 million price tag. The visa is on offer for individuals who can stump up the full amount, while corporations will have to fork out up to twice the amount per foreign-born employee. A website accepting applications went live as Trump kicked off the program surrounded by business leaders in the White House on Wednesday... Trump's program will eventually include a separate 'platinum card,' also costing $5million, plus $15,000 in processing fees. The platinum edition...

The American Capitalist Party is beginning preparations for its first national convention. As part of general planning for 2026, the organization is also looking at establishing a state affiliate in Georgia. In its December newsletter, the party stated that it is looking to hold its national convention September 18–20 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, though details are still tentative. It would be the first national convention held by the organization since it announced its formation at LibertyCon earlier in 2025. The party plans to release additional information in the coming months. The email also outlined the agenda for the party’s December 20...

No matter how much I try to ignore the Democrats' latest "The Walls Are Closing In" spectacle, it has come to my attention that liberals are hopping mad about our military killing two Venezuelan drug traffickers. Cocaine has killed 100,000 Americans in the last 20 years. Venezuela is a major player in the supply chain that brings it here. But Democrats are concerned with the safety and well-being of the narco-terrorists. Of course, Democrats also root for cop-killers, serial rapists, wife-beaters, drug kingpins, cold-blooded killers and Ana Navarro. Liberals are OK with killing people unless it's good for America. They...

Why should it fall to an American radio and television personality to solve the problems of Canadian socialized medicine? One poor woman in our neighbor up north recently turned to Canada’s MAID program (medical assistance in dying, or assisted suicide) because she could not get a referral for a needed surgery, and the pain had become more than she could bear. Over the past two days, TV and radio star Glenn Beck has been reaching out to assist Jolene Van Alstine of Saskatchewan to assist her. She needs surgery to remove her parathyroid gland. However, there’s no one available to...

Democrats want us to believe they care about the little guy, the working class, the average American. Yet. somehow, their policies always seem to hurt the people they claim to help and enrich the elites who fund their campaigns. On the campaign trail last year, President Trump proposed his No Tax on Tips plan, and the left freaked out. Though they claimed it was bad policy, Kamala Harris went on to steal the plan just a couple of months after him. No Tax on Tips became the law of the land with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill,...

When we look back in time, 2020 will not be remembered for many good things. Most notably, a worldwide pandemic and the shutting down of society that came with it, and the worldwide protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. There will always be professional protesters, but in the case of Floyd's death, the rush to virtue signal made otherwise rational people do irrational things. Even law enforcement officers hurried to "take a knee" in supposed solidarity with protesters. But now, some of those law enforcement officers are crying foul and want to give the "real" explanation...

The US House of Representatives voted to pass a negotiated version of the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, sending the Pentagon spending bill to the Senate for final approval. This bill was negotiated with Democrats in the House and the Senate, resulting in a bipartisan vote that some MAGA firebrands opposed.Per Fox:An earlier procedural vote on the legislation just barely passed 215–211 at the 11th hour after four Republicans: Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla, Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., all changed their votes from no to yes. All Democrats voted no on the procedural...

JD Vance the favorite to win the 2028 presidential election, Donald Trump in 3rd 2028 U.S Presidential Election Odds Per @Kalshi 🔴 JD Vance: 30% 🔵 Newsom: 21% 🔴 Trump: 6% 🔵 AOC: 5% 🔴 Rubio: 5% 🔵 Harris: 4%

The United States would suffer a devasting defeat and lose its biggest aircraft carrier if it tried to stop China invading Taiwan, according to a top secret Pentagon report. War games showed the U.S. would be overwhelmed by China's arsenal of around 600 hypersonic weapons, along with missiles and nuclear submarines. The grim assessment, revealed by the New York Times, confirmed the conclusions of previous war games, but it also highlighted wider concerns about the future direction of the U.S. military and its continued reliance on outdated methods. *** Ships like the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford - the...

When the chairman of AI chip startup Rivos wanted Intel to bid for the company, he had no need to phone the chip giant. That’s because the chairman of Rivos was also Intel’s CEO: Lip-Bu Tan. Reuters was unable to determine how much the Intel CEO profited personally as a Rivos shareholder because the financials are not public. But in a blog post on its website, Tan’s venture-capital firm, Walden Catalyst, touted how he had delivered a “successful outcome” for its investors and congratulated the Rivos team for their “remarkable achievement.” The events show one of at least three instances...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ My Daddy Is Home!! In this courtesy photo, Steve Nielsen gives his daughter Kaylee Nielsen a ride upon his shoulders while celebrating his unit’s return to Nevada from Afghanistan. Nielsen was in the heart of a combat zone for more than one year while deployed as a Chinook helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Erick Studenicka) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Congratulations On A Job Well...

“The Venezuelan opposition leader was trying to get to Norway by Wednesday in time to receive the Nobel Peace Prize that she won for challenging Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. First she had to get from the Caracas suburb where she has been in hiding for a year to a coastal fishing village, where a skiff awaited her.”

Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the contours of a tenuous potential deal take shape and the US president continues to make clear he wants the conflict resolved quickly. Efforts to end the yearslong war have sharply accelerated in recent weeks. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested a solution could soon be “figured out,” telling reporters at the White House that “a lot of people say it’s closer than it’s ever been.” He said he “discussed...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The rapid study by World Weather Attribution focused on heavy rainfall from cyclones Senyar and Ditwah in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka starting late last month. The analysis found that warmer sea surface temperatures over the North Indian Ocean added energy to the cyclones. “When the atmosphere warms, it can hold more moisture. As a result, it rains more in a warmer atmosphere as compared to a...

Israel's Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter unleashed a pointed retort at NBC News anchor Kristen Welker on Meet the Press on Sunday, dismissing her citation of casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry as unreliable propaganda. Welker referenced the ministry's reported death toll while grilling Leiter on civilian casualties during Israel's operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Leiter fired back: "Kristen, you just quoted the Gaza Health Ministry. That’s like quoting MS-13 Social Welfare Ministry." The analogy, equating the ministry to the brutal Salvadoran gang MS-13, quickly went viral via the Washington Free Beacon's X post. Link to...

This is what the newspaper Berlingske writes the day before Denmark's military intelligence service releases its annual threat image report. According to Thomas Ahrenkiel, head of the intelligence service, smaller countries are now facing a world where there is more "law of the jungle than rules-based world order." We now see that the three major military powers, the US, Russia and China, in their different ways do not support that world order, he tells the newspaper. The report states that the US is now using "its economic and technological strength as a tool of power, even against allies and partners."...

According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the fire was reported at 9:20 a.m. on Foothill Boulevard, just below the 210 Freeway overpass. No children were aboard at the time, and the driver was transported to a local hospital for minor smoke inhalation injuries. Aerial footage showed a large plume of smoke emerging from below the underpass. The smoke led to the closure of the Osbourne Street offramp, according to Caltrans. Fire crews were at the scene but appeared to keep their distance from the flames. Experts say fires involving lithium-ion batteries, commonly used in electric vehicles, are typically controlled...