Caesar Duarte didn’t flinch as an Amazon truck barreled down the busy 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, missing his makeshift home by just a few feet.
The only thing that stood between Duarte’s outdoor kitchen and speeding vehicles was a three-foot retaining wall and metal fencing.
The 44-year-old mechanic and house painter said he has learned to deal with the danger and noise since he erected his homestead by the freeway about four years ago.
We are two years and spare change away from the American semiquincentennial which will celebrate 250 years since some brave men ratified the foundational document of our nation.
The Declaration of Independence’s bold assertion that the people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” is all the more relevant in the age of relativism where fewer people believe in a ‘Creator’ or in unalienable rights. That radical document is why America remains the only place on the planet where freedom of speech is absolute.
Amid the relentless assaults from multiple adversaries — Iran’s regime, Qatar, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis — Israel finds itself surrounded by Iran’s “ring of fire” on all fronts.
These coordinated attacks, originating from both neighboring states and non-state actors, pose, as clearly intended, a threat to Israel’s existence. In these dire circumstances, Israel looks to its longstanding ally, the United States, for crucial support and solidarity. However, the Biden administration’s approach has left Israel feeling isolated and abandoned at a time when it most needs unwavering backing.
The long-expected move effectively marks a new regional gain for Russia, which has ramped up its focus on Africa and backed military regimes in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso.
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell accepted the call to remove troops in a meeting in Washington with the prime minister of the junta, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, US officials told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Since 2018, a federal appeals court has prevented West Coast cities from arresting homeless people for camping on public land in the absence of available shelter beds — ruling that doing so is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
My theory: The “homeless crisis” is a form of blockbusting but done on a city-wide scale, or in Canada’s case on a nation wide scale.
Portlandia …
He then started screaming but after giving him a smoke he calmed down. I asked how often pedestrians walked past him. Hardly ever he said. Considering this is the only way to safely cross the street this is a lawsuit waiting to happen if a pedestrian instead pic.twitter.com/2KcBZQkAjl
— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) April 17, 2024
US aerospace firm Boeing is still hoping to weaponise the new MQ-25 Stingray drone it’s building for the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Sure, there’s a profit motive. But Boeing isn’t wrong. Adding missiles to the far-flying MQ-25 – the Navy’s first in service carrier-capable drone – is a really good idea.
Put simply, the MQ-25 is the only aircraft currently in development for the Navy’s carrier air wings that possesses the range to strike at Chinese forces without forcing the carrier itself to sail dangerously close to those same forces.
Soon the government might shut down your car.
President Joe Biden’s new infrastructure gives bureaucrats that power.
You probably didn’t hear about that because when media covered it, few mentioned the requirement that by 2026, every American car must “monitor” the driver, determine if he is impaired and, if so, “limit vehicle operation.”
A group of black residents tore into Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday over his plans to spend an additional $70 million to feed and house illegal aliens, and to drive their point home, they wore former President Donald Trump’s signature MAGA hats during a meeting at city hall.
In a remote corner on a relatively isolated WAWA parking lot not far from my Philly home, I spotted a platinum-haired guy about 25 years old kneeling face-to-the-ground on a prayer mat. This non-Middle Eastern, Caucasian prayer penitent could have been any one of the local Catholic boys you sometimes see playing street hockey. I had to look twice: what is his story? How had he converted to Islam – or had he? And what do his poor parents think about that?
Hollywood legend Jon Voight is in no doubt former President Donald Trump must be returned to the White House in 2024 to “overrule the barbaric animals destroying our country.”
He made his declaration by bookending it with the observation Israel is also in grave danger and both countries must safeguard their futures through backing Trump because the alternatives do not bear thinking about.
The U.S. has agreed to back an Israeli operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah in exchange for forgoing a major strike on Iran, according to Israeli media.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backtracked on a pre-approved military response to Iran’s massive drone and missile attack due to pressure by U.S. President Joe Biden, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Wednesday.
Biden reportedly told Netanyahu during a phone call on Saturday that Washington would not participate in nor support an Israeli retaliatory attack.
Dearborn Imam Usama Abdulghani: People Should Not Chant “Death to America” in Our Demonstrations; Allah Teaches Us Not to Say Words That Can Be Used by the Enemy to Hurt Our Cause pic.twitter.com/NV6ppOJ5vr
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 17, 2024
The man convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 is fighting to keep federal prosecutors from seizing the funds he has accumulated in his prison canteen account.
The Boston Herald reported an attorney for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, filed an appeal seeking to stop the feds in Boston from taking the $4,200-plus in Tsarnaev’s account, arguing the death row inmate “is neither hoarding funds nor spending profligately.”
More entitled bratshttps://t.co/ocU9tO4SDM
— Weston (Wes) Capowski (@Masi_is_back) April 17, 2024
Police will announce Wednesday morning that arrests have been made in connection with a massive $22-million gold heist at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The improbable caper happened exactly one year ago Wednesday — on April 17, 2023 — and involved the theft of a “high-value container” from a holding cargo facility after it was taken off an Air Canada plane.
