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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro caused a stir among Second Amendment supporters when she talked about a gun crackdown during a Fox News appearance. Referring to the city’s recent decline in homicides, Pirro said: “You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.” U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla.,…

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Rob Dillingham is leaving the Minnesota Timberwolves for the Chicago Bulls as part of the first deal of the NBA deadline day, according to reports. Guard Dillingham and forward Leonard Miller will join the Bulls in return for Ayo Dosunmu and Julian Phillips, ESPN has said (via NBA.com). The 10th-placed team in the Eastern Conference will receive four future second-round picks as part of the agreement, the outlet added. Everything Rob Dillingham does looks fancy 😮‍💨Give-and-go with Naz Reid ran to perfection! pic.twitter.com/BXOMmZWnAF— NBA (@NBA) February 14, 2025 Rob Dillingham trade: Leonard Miller deal Minnesota made Dillingham the eighth overall…

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Officers with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a technical rescue Wednesday morning after a fisherman fell through thin ice on a local lake. Aaron DeWaal an equipment technician with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety joins FOX Weather to discuss the rescue and provides a few tips for residents that plan on ice fishing. CAMDEN, NJ – A water rescue was performed when a person was pulled from the icy waters of the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey earlier on Thursday.Multiple fire department units were on the scene.According to the Philadelphia Fire Department, their Marine Unit…

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There are many reasons to be pessimistic about the upcoming U.S.-Iran talks in Oman. The negotiators will arrive with a combination of plentiful political baggage generated during five rounds of indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations last year—which concluded with U.S. and Israeli attacks—and expansive goals. The Trump administration may seek Iranian concessions beyond the nuclear program, including curtailment of Iran’s ballistic missile program, support for proxy groups, and domestic repression. Meanwhile, Iranian officials will likely aim to trade away a now-derelict nuclear program for extensive sanctions relief. The Trump administration’s moves to decisively lift sanctions on Syria demonstrate that when there is…

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This is the latest in our series of posts in our series on price theory problems with Professor Bryan Cutsinger. You can see all of Cutsinger’s problems and solutions by subscribing to his EconLog RSS feed. Share your proposed solutions in the comments. Professor Cutsinger will be present in the comments for the next couple of weeks, and we’ll post his proposed solution shortly thereafter. May the graphs be ever in your favor, and long live price theory! Question: The U.S. Federal Reserve differs from most government agencies in two important ways: The Federal Reserve determines its own operating budget…

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King’s Cup8:00 PMFebruary 4, 2026Quarter-finalsMendizorroza StadiumReferee: Alejandro Quintero Gonzalez, Spain Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Alaves World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Royal Society World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing232 (69%)Accurate passes307 (79%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 13 G Raul Fernandez 6.3 24 D Victor Parada 6.0 5 D Practices 6.5 14 D Nahuel Tenaglia 5.6 17 D Johnny Otto 7.3 21 M Abderrahman Rebbach 8′ 7.2 6 M Ander…

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The Golden State Warriors completed a trade sending Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, ending the long-running Kuminga saga, sources confirmed. The deal did not include draft picks and gives the Warriors a potential centerpiece for their 2026 offseason strategy. Porzingis, who has missed 35 of Atlanta’s 52 games […] The post Warriors pull trigger on Porzingis trade as Giannis pursuit stalls appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

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The south is seeing a warm up of temperatures this week, helping to melt ice from a major winter storm more than a week ago. Temperatures will climb into the 50s and 60s toward the latter part of the week, helping to restore power across Tennessee and Mississippi. A short winter warm-up is set to help thaw out the south this week, helping to dig out the record snowfall and ice that fell more than a week ago.The FOX Forecast Center said temperatures this week will reach the 50s and 60s in the Southeast, providing much-needed relief for Mississippi and…

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On Wednesday, the European Newsroom (enr) sat down with Kata Tüttő, President of the European Committee of the Regions, and Irene Tinagli, MEP and Chair of the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis of the European Parliament to talk about the EU’s plans for more affordable housing. Europe faces a crisis driven by rising house prices and increasing housing costs, affecting virtually all EU citizens and especially younger generations looking to move out of their parents’ home and live an independent life. In an interview with the European Newsroom and Agence Europe, Tüttő and Tinagli laid out the challenges and…

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From Townhall today: As of today, y/y CPI inflation is 0.93%! Source: Truflationaccessed 2/4/2026 3pm CT. For comparison, a month ago, the inflation rate was 1.95% y/y; hence we achieved a percentage point disinflation in a month! Two months ago, the Truflation rate was 2.48%, so that inflation has come down around a percentage point and a half over that time period. EJ Antoni (also Chief Economist of Heritage) explains the numerical difference between Truflation inflation and CPI measured inflation thusly: …CPI assigns housing about one-third of its weight, whereas Truflation is closer to one in four. That makes everything…

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