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5 Marines died in ‘defective’ aircraft crash, families say. Boeing, others face lawsuit
“It is clear from the investigation that there was no error on the part of the pilots and aircrew and nothing they could have done to anticipate or prevent this mishap,” the U.S. Marine Corps said.
“The investigation also found there was no maintenance error on the part of the team whose job it was to prepare the aircraft to fly on the day of the flight,” the statement continued.
However, when the report on the crash was released, Col. Brian Taylor told The Associated Press that the “root cause of the clutch failure” is still unknown.
Taylor told the news outlet adjustments to the aircraft’s equipment has reduced the chance of the fatal systems failure from happening again “by 99%, but have not eliminated it.”
This still makes Amber Sax and the families of the other Marines who died with her husband fearful.
“A prevention rate can’t be guaranteed when the root cause hasn’t been found,” she said in her statement.
In September, the Justice Department announced Boeing agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle accusations that it failed to meet manufacturing standards in connection with the V-22 Osprey in violation of the False Claims Act.
The accusations were made by three Boeing whistleblowers who worked at the company’s facility in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, according to a Sept. 28 news release.
Memorial Day
The Birthplace of Memorial Day and Early Observances
The Civil War, which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.
By the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.
It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings.
And some records show that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day…..
Memorial Day Traditions and Rituals:
IDF prepares wide-scale Rafah attack; Israel vows to restore northern security TV7 Israel News 24.05
1) Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announces preparations to launch a wide-scale offensive into Rafah.
2) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledges to reassert security along Israel’s northern front.
3) Following a forty-hour counter-terror operation in Northern Samaria, IDF Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi asserts that there will be no safe-haven for terrorists.
Egypt agrees to resume aid to Gaza through Israel after U.S. pressure
Under U.S. pressure, the Egyptian government agreed to resume the flow of aid trucks to Gaza through Israel, after deliveries were halted two weeks ago in protest of Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing.
Why it matters: The Egyptian decision two weeks ago dramatically reduced the amount of aid entering Gaza and exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.
What they’re saying: President Biden spoke on Friday with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi and asked him to resume the delivery of the aid trucks, U.S. officials said.
- Sisi agreed “to permit the flow of UN-provided humanitarian assistance from Egypt through the Kerem Shalom crossing on a provisional basis for onward distribution throughout Gaza,” according to a U.S. readout.
- “This will help save lives,” the White House said.
- Egypt said the two sides agreed to transfer aid trucks and fuel through Kerem Shalom “temporarily” until an agreement to reopen the Rafah crossing is reached, according to a readout from the presidential office.
Lawrence Jones: Trump is first Republican candidate to go to Black community in 50 years
‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Lawrence Jones speaks with former President Donald Trump after his rally in South Bronx about his growing support among Black and Hispanic Americans.
Silicon Valley Investors Back Trump: ‘Impossible to Support Biden’
“It’s impossible to support Biden,” Keith Rabois, an early leader at PayPal, who also played key roles at LinkedIn, Square, and Slide, said. Rabois did clarify that while he is not a fan of Trump, he would be working to elect a Republican House and Senate.
Other prominent big tech moguls including David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Marc Andreessen, and Shaun Maguire have tired of Biden’s proposals, including a 25 percent “billionaire tax” and antitrust crackdowns enacted by the Democrat majority at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Ben Horowitz, the other founder of Andreessen Horowitz, said that his company would back any lawmaker who believed in an “optimistic technology-enabled future.”
Sacks, the former chief operating officer of PayPal, plans to host a fundraiser for Trump and will interview the 45th president on his podcast.
“I have bigger disagreements with Biden than with Trump,” Sacks said last week at a tech conference.
If Trump supporters are ‘clowns,’ Hochul is a ‘jacka**’: Mother of slain NYC veteran
Victims Rights Reform Council Chairwoman Madeline Brame discusses Trump’s rally in the Bronx, arguing he can effectively connect with ‘poor minorities.
Media Matters Lays Off Dozens of Employees Due to Elon Musk Lawsuit
Media Matters, a nonprofit organization that smears conservatives, announced Thursday it laid off dozens of employees, including management and journalists, and appeared to cite its legal battle with Elon Musk as cause for the dismissals.
Musk’s X social media platform sued Media Matters in November over its efforts to link ad placements on the platform to neo-Nazi content, Breitbart News reported, a strategy the radical organization used to initiate boycotts against the income streams of conservative media companies.
The suit triggered Attorneys General Ken Paxton of Texas (R) and Andrew Bailey of Missouri (R) to investigate the nonprofit for potential illegal activity by allegedly “manipulating data on the site formerly known as Twitter,” the New York Postreported.
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone announced the layoffs by suggesting the organization’s future is on shaky ground.
Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker’s daughter, son-in-law shot dead in Haiti after attack by ‘gangs’ while serving as missionaries
Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker’s daughter and son-in-law were shot and killed in a gang attack while serving as missionaries in Haiti, the politician said Friday.
“My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain,” the Republican lawmaker wrote on Facebook.
Baker’s 21-year-old daughter, Natalie, and her husband, Davy Lloyd, 23, died when they were “attacked by gangs” on Thursday evening, Baker said.
Natalie and Davy served in Port au Prince with Missions in Haiti Inc., which was founded by Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, in 2000.
They were leaving a youth church meeting when they “were ambushed by a gang of three trucks full of guys,” the mission said on Facebook.
Davy Lloyd was tied and beaten up before the gang allegedly looted the site and fled, only for another group to show up after them, the statement read.
“This gang went into full attack mode,” the missionary’s statement said.
The couple and a third individual took shelter in a house while the gang shot out all the windows, the post added.
The National Desk: Northwestern University Grapples with Funding Scrutiny in Congressional Hearing
Northwestern University was in the hot seat this week as President Michael Schill came before the U.S. House Committee on Education. These universities are not only heavily subsidized by taxpayers but also by foreign entities and governments.
Exclusive: Feds secretly knew for years Joe Biden met with son’s Chinese partners on official trip
Federal agents gathered evidence during the 2016 election that Hunter Biden had used access to his father on an official government trip to Beijing aboard Air Force Two to connect prospective Chinese business partners with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a massive cache of documents recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.
“They got to meet Dad. All very good. Talk later,” Hunter Biden wrote in a December 2013 email confirming how he connected his Chinese associates with his father in a Beijing hotel after the vice president had met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The younger Biden also bragged in his emails that his father was so enamored with China’s communist leader that “I think they are in love with each other,” the emails showed.
“They all most kissed on departure,” Hunter Biden wrote in one of the emails seized by federal agents.
The previously nonpublic communications were among 3.3 million pages of emails, bank records, and corporate memos that FBI, IRS, and Securities and Exchange Commission agents collected in 2015 and 2016 with subpoenas during a criminal investigation into a fraudulent bond scheme involving a Native-American tribe.
‘NO SECURITY’: Illegal migrant says there’s ‘not normal people’ crossing border
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., reacts to the Senate shutting down the border bill and the ‘clear erosion’ of bipartisan effort for solutions.
Boston council member calling for ‘revolution’ alarms liberal colleagues with wild tirades, threats
Fernandes Anderson was elected in November 2021, and is self-described as “the first formally undocumented African born immigrant & first Muslim elected in the city of Boston.”
Since being elected, she stated her goal was to create a “revolution” for “equity.”
“It will be about equity and I hope we don’t have too many disagreements in there,” she said in an interview in December 2021. “I think that systemic racism is long overdue for us to overthrow it in order for us to create a revolution that brings about change.”
Since then, Fernandes Anderson has become known for her public outbursts featuring “swearing, yelling and screaming” at public city council meetings, according to the source.
“The last thing someone wants is to be labeled as a racist in this city,” the source said.
Fernandes Anderson refers to her own tirades as giving “smoke.”
On another occasion, shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks, Fernandes Anderson broke down in tears as colleagues refused to support her resolution which had originally called Hamas’ brutal crimes, which included sexual assault, a “military operation.”
Tammy Bruce: We’re being gaslit
‘The Bottom Line’ panelists Monica Crowley and Tammy Bruce discuss voters’ concerns about the cost of everyday goods and the Biden administration’s student loan handouts.
The White House shifts its narrative as the Israelis prove Biden wrong on Rafah, says WSJ
“This Administration never supports anything we do until we do it,” a senior Israeli official told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Thursday. The WSJ editorial highlighted what it called “Israel’s successful evacuation” of 950,000 civilians from Rafah, Gaza, despite months of opposition from the Biden Administration.
The delay caused by the Biden Administration’s initial opposition has prolonged the conflict, primarily to Hamas’s detriment. A senior Israeli official criticized the US stance: “This Administration never supports anything we do until we do it.”
The WSJ editorial explained that Rafah’s strategic importance is crucial for post-conflict plans, as Israel aims to prevent Hamas from maintaining a military presence and controlling the Egyptian border. Israel has uncovered 50 tunnels used for smuggling between Rafah and Egypt. Securing this border is essential to weakening Hamas’s ability to sustain an insurgency.
Bodies of 3 more hostages are recovered from Gaza by Israeli army — including partner of Shani Louk
Israel announced Friday it recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attacks — including the boyfriend of fellow hostage Shani Louk, who became a symbol of the terror group’s aggression after her dead body was paraded around Gaza.
Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Oryon Hernandez Radoux, the 30-year-old boyfriend of Louk, were located in Gaza in an operation overnight Friday, nearly eight months after they were killed in Hamas’ unprovoked attack on southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Hernandez Radoux, a French-Mexican citizen, and Louk were both at the music festival when Hamas attacked. Yablonka, a 42-year-old father of two who loved music, was also at the event, his grieving family told the Associated Press.
Nisenbaum, 59, was a Brazilian-Israeli from the southern city of Sderot who was captured when he went to rescue his 4-year-old granddaughter.
About half of the hostages have since been freed, most in swaps for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a weeklong cease-fire in November.
Israel says about 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of about 30 more.
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