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On a night when tough-on-crime questions were on ballots, two of the biggest decisions for more policing came in the New York City mayoral race and in a Minneapolis referendum, with most other, similarly pro-police candidates in other cities also doing well. The Minneapolis referendum to replace the city’s police department and its required minimum … Read more

Joaquin Romero, 34, was working at La Jolla Zip Zoom Zipline in the Pauma Valley in California on Saturday  A woman he was harnessing to a zipline slide out and when Romero tried to grab her, he got pulled out  He feared the extra weight would cause them both to fall, according to a friend, … Read more

Update: Strong geomagnetic storm confirmed. pic.twitter.com/U6wAUJSLvy — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) November 4, 2021 A surprising geomagnetic sudden pulse struck Earth today and forecasters with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) is warning a moderate geomagnetic storm event could unfold over the next 24 to 36 hours. https://weatherboy.com/surprising-geomagnetic-sudden-pulse-strikes-earth-geomagnetic-storm-watch-in-effect-g2-moderate/

Three years after employee backlash forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon program involving artificial intelligence, the Big Tech giant is pursuing another contract to provide its technology to the military. The company’s plan to secure the contract, known as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, could raise concerns among its employees and test the … Read more

The border crisis Joe Biden and his administration created is about to hit a new low, as the “mother of all caravans” moves towards the U.S. Throughout their nearly ten months in office, Biden administration officials have repeatedly denied that the situation at the border is a crisis. Some optimists may even take heart in … Read more

Democrats asked reporters to do a better job selling President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, lamenting that press coverage has focused too heavily on the negotiation process instead of the “substance” of the plan. During a news conference Tuesday, members of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee were asked whether the party needed to change … Read more

Experts are concerned that President Joe Biden’s new global minimum tax rate of 15 percent on large multinational corporations will harm the small businesses that support them. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen confirmed on Oct. 30 that leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G-20) have endorsed the “historic agreement” on new international tax rules, including a global minimum … Read more

  CHINA reportedly plans to build 1,000 nuclear weapons in the next decade after worrying the United States would start a war before the 2020 election. According to the US Defense Department’s annual China military power report, the communist nation’s nuclear acceleration may enable them to have “up to 700 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2027.” The report … Read more

Beginning in August, the U.S. Department of Defense quietly began taking down more than 130,000 photos and videos taken during the 20-year military mission in Afghanistan. During a Monday press briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby confirmed the removal of the images and said the DoD chose to take what he called a temporary measure … Read more

"THIS SHOULD BE A WAKEUP CALL TO POLITICIANS" Minnesota Police & Peace Officers Association, representing 10,000+ law enforcement professionals weigh in on tonight's results on public safety question #2 in #Mpls. @FOX9 pic.twitter.com/SsvzbdBtsp — Paul Blume (@PaulBlume_FOX9) November 3, 2021 Minneapolis voters struck down a proposed charter amendment that would have eliminated the city’s police … Read more

Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Well, despite the Biden administration’s rhetorical spin, there’s also no such thing as a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan that costs “zero dollars.” Indeed, Biden’s plans include a vast suite of tax hikes to “pay for” the proposed spending—hikes that would leave the US … Read more

Hearing Pelosi is telling people she is not running for re-election tonight. Doesn't want to be tied to 2022. — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 3, 2021 During an interview on CNN, Pelosi refused to say she would run for re-election. From Epoch Times: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D‑Calif.) did not issue a definitive answer about whether … Read more