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Once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, convicted attorney Michael Avenatti has been discussing possibly testifying on behalf of the former president in his hush money trial after he unleashed a tirade of criticism against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In X posts from his Los Angeles federal prison cell and in news media interviews, Avenatti has questioned the legitimacy of Bragg’s prosecution against Trump, even suggesting it was an interference in the 2024 election. “There’s no question it is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he (Trump) may be re-elected,” Avenatti told The New York Post in an interview...

U.S. Army soldier Austin Arledge was supposed to return from Afghanistan in August but decided to arrive early and keep it a surprise from his mom. Austin snuck around from a neighbor's house and ducked on the side of the house waiting to for his mom to come outside. Someone ran into the house and asked her to come outside and she was shocked beyond belief to see her son standing there and immediately began crying and screaming.

Dec 11, 2004 Air Force Base Re-Enacts Rocket Sled Test 50 Years Ago That Propelled Earth's Fastest Human The Associated Press HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) - A rocket-propelled sled blasted down a track to re-enact a test 50 years earlier that helped prove humans could survive the gravitational stresses of spaceflight. On Friday, a mannequin was strapped into the sled instead of Air Force Col. John P. Stapp, who became the fastest man on Earth through the Dec. 10, 1954, test at Holloman Air Force Base. Stapp, who died in 1999, had volunteered to be strapped onto Sonic...

(This is a letter from the brother-in-law of a friend of mine. I took out the LtCol's name as well as his wife's name since I didn't get permission to reveal them. Enjoy...)To my Family and Friends: Thank you very much for your support, As you know I am living in Baghdad...in the Green Zone and within the Embassy Palace Grounds. A little embarrassing that I am not in Fallujah with the boys fighting it out...but I am getting a little gray in the muzzle at 51 plus...so I can live with it. Plus (wife's name) wouldn't have let me...