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[ad_1] Former Florida police officer Zachary Krug has been charged after investigators say he drove 104 mph in a 50 mph zone and crashed into an SUV, killing a 6-year-old girl. Prosecutors say Krug was late for work with the Temple Terrace Police. He activated the emergency lights on his unmarked car to get through a red light, then accelerated to more than twice the speed limit before crashing into an SUV containing Samantha Sakowski and her three children. Sakowski received broken ribs and two black eyes, one child sustained a concussion, and another had a broken spine and pelvis…
[ad_1] Milton H. Greene, Marilyn Monroe ‘Ballerina’ sitting, 1954. Photo: Courtesy National Portrait Gallery. Marilyn and Joe D. If any, it was baseball that was Marilyn Monroe’s game. In 1954, she married the recently retired, New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio. She attended games with Joe and was once photographed standing at home plate with a baseball bat on her shoulder. In truth, she knew little about the game and didn’t care about sports – “I’ll leave those things to the men,” she said. Maybe she chose DiMaggio for his grace – he didn’t run so much run as glide…
[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The mainstream media argues that increased spending on defense in peacetime is predicated on military necessity and military objectives. In actual fact, the major increases in defense spending that I have studied relate to political and economic requirements, having very little to do with military requirements. I was on the faculty of the National War College in 1998, when key congressional Republicans and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hugh Shelton, invited President Bill Clinton to the college for a “closed-door briefing” on new requirements for military procurement and military pay. …
[ad_1] In what is the monetary equivalent of tearing down statues, the British have decided they must replace iconic images on their currency. Out of an apparent fear of offending the stampede of human beings who have chosen to abandon their own homelands to live in Great Britain, the historic images on British currency of people instrumental in making that nation what it is, have been forced to yield to images of animals. Foxes, badgers, and hedgehogs are in the ascendency. Our problem in the United States is somewhat different. It appears that the iconography of our currency will be…
[ad_1] Montana, still worth fighting for. Photo by Joshua Frank. If you have a flair for the ostentatious, the Yellowstone Club, the ultra-elite billionaires’ colony in Big Sky, Montana, may be for you. You’ll get to rub shoulders with titans of tech and capital like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Ackman. Perhaps you’ll swap insider trading tips while knee-deep in powder on the slopes of a private 2,900-acre ski hill, on the back nine of an award-winning golf course, or as you swirl a vintage Bordeaux in the cellar at one of the club’s exclusive, gourmet restaurants. The entrance fees aren’t…
[ad_1] The unprecedented preparation is essential, the Senate minority leader said: If every time Trump did one of these things we just froze, he’d win. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Analysis of Democrats’ challenges and Republicans’ advantages leading to 2026-2028 elections. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] U.S. and NATO leaders have waged a multi-year propaganda campaign to convince Western publics that Ukraine is a splendid democracy and that President Volodymyr Zelensky is an extremely popular elected leader who epitomizes those values. Multiple aspects of that carefully crafted image are untrue. Ukraine is a corrupt, autocratic state that maintains strict censorship and brutally represses political opponents. When Zelensky’s term ended in 2024, he and his obedient followers in parliament simply postponed elections indefinitely. Even absent adverse election result, though, there are ample signs that NATO’s much-lauded hero has alienated Ukraine’s public. The systematic campaign to present…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivered a speech last week expressing concern about foreign powers interfering in U.S. elections, specifically in the 2020 presidential election. He singled out China in particular. Time and study will determine the validity of the president’s claims. What we do know for certain is that the most expensive House primary election in U.S. history just happened in May and supporters of a foreign power spent record amounts essentially to buy a seat in the U.S. Congress. Trump’s latest claims led Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who lost that primary election, to ask, “When’s the speech about Israeli…
[ad_1] The most powerful moments of the World Cup did not happen only inside stadiums. They happened in restaurants, city streets, neighborhood bars, national parks, and conversations between strangers who realized the person standing across from them was not a stereotype. They were a human being. Millions of people came to North America expecting to find a country they had seen through television screens, political debates, and international headlines. Instead, they discovered something far more complicated and far more meaningful: actual people. They found families cheering in stadiums. Volunteers helping visitors navigate unfamiliar cities. Small business owners welcoming new customers.…