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Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said gay people should be able to serve in the US military, in an apparent shift from his previous stance on the issue. When asked by reporters Thursday if gays should serve in the military, the former Fox News host and National Guard captain replied, “Yes,” Politico reported.Hegseth, who served tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as an infantry officer, previously called policies allowing openly gay people to serve part of a “Marxist,” social justice agenda. In his 2024 book “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth wrote that the “don’t...

Shoot Straight, Florida's largest independent gun-shop chain, has stopped renting guns to prevent its eight Florida ranges from becoming suicide parlors. Khaled Akkawi, founder of the Apopka-based chain, made the decision last month after the latest suicides at one his gun ranges. "We've had enough," Akkawi said Friday. "They've been increasing real fast and the one common denominator — everyone is done with a rental gun."

Two young Israeli men survived a violent carjacking early on Friday morning. The two were driving in Samaria (Shomron) when they found themselves surrounded by ten Arab men. One of the two managed to run away, and made his way to the Israeli community of Eish Kodesh to report the attack. The second young man remained missing, and was feared injured or kidnapped. A search began, but was soon called off when the second man, too, made his way to Eish Kodesh alive and well. The stolen car was found in the nearby Arab village of Duma. The vehicle had...

The Morgan & Morgan law firm and an Orlando attorney who previously worked there are being sued for legal malpractice in their handling of a suit that was filed in a 2009 murder-suicide at a Casselberry gun range. Marvin Moore, representing the estate of his son, Mitchell Lee Moore, is seeking more than $15,000 in damages from the Morgan & Morgan law firm and attorney Carolyn M. Salzmann, who left the firm last year and owns The Salzmann Firm in downtown Orlando. Mitchell Lee Moore of Altamonte Springs was killed in April 2009 after he and his mother, 44-year-old Marie...