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Several frustrated House Republicans are breaking with congressional norms to boost the primary opponent of House Freedom Caucus chairman Bob Good. The Virginia Republican was one of eight lawmakers who voted to remove their party’s leader, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in October. McCarthy, who resigned in December, now plans to return the favor. McCarthy, and his friends on the Hill, including House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., have endorsed and fundraised for Good’s primary challenger, state Sen. John McGuire, CNN reported on Sunday. The delayed fallout from the removal of McCarthy forms...

'You Don't Have The Balls To Write The Truth': Eli Crane Straight-Up Insults Reporters In Angry Tear At a House Republican press briefing to promote a resolution declaring former President Trump did not engage in an insurrection yesterday, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) slammed attempts to remove the ex-President from the ballot and insulted reporters' for their coverage of January 6.

Congressman Eli Crane Calls on Voters to Let Mayorkas-Supporting Representatives Know How They Feel [VIDEO]

In third phase of CRANE program, Aurora Flight Sciences will build X-plane with no moving control surfaces. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to construct a groundbreaking full-scale X-plane. This aircraft, named the X-65, will serve as a technology demonstrator within the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. This initiative marks a significant shift in the realm of aircraft design, moving away from traditional flight control methods towards the innovative use of Active Flow Control (AFC) actuators. Since the Wright brothers' historic flight in 1903, aircraft have predominantly...

The man who was at the helm of the crane that caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards Wednesday once had his operating license suspended after a co-worker plummeted 48 stories to his death. The Department of Buildings identified Chris Van Duyne of Rockaway, New Jersey, as the man who was operating a construction crane that snapped and struck a neighboring building before smashing onto the street below. Despite verifying Van Duyne was the operator, the DOB said records didn’t list the 62-year-old man on the construction paperwork. The DOB couldn’t say whether the omission was unusual and said...

New York City authorities are warning the public to avoid an area of Manhattan Wednesday morning as users on social media are sharing videos and images of a construction crane on fire following a partial collapse

Eli Crane, backed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Democrat Rep. Tom O’Halleran in the race to represent Arizona’s second congressional district, according to an ABC News projection. Republican Eli Crane defeated Democrat Tom O’Halleran in the race for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, ABC and NBC said. pic.twitter.com/XxI9lZkvEg — Bloomberg Government (@BGOV) November 9, 2022

Bob Saget was confusingly left out of the “In Memoriam” segment at the 2022 Oscars on Sunday, sparking outrage from fans. Saget himself was an Oscar winner, scoring a student Academy Award in 1977 for his black-and-white documentary “Through Adam’s Eyes.” Twitter was quick to point out the Academy’s glaring omission in its special segment to honor those who were lost in the past year. “Rioting because Bob Saget wasn’t in the In Memoriam portion of the #Oscars,” one fan pointed out. “No but seriously, why wasn’t Bob Saget in the memoriam?” added another. “Cancel the #oscars for not mentioning...

The plush Florida hotel suite where 'America's dad' Bob Saget mysteriously banged his head and died is revealed for the first time today in haunting crime scene photos. Cops catalogued every surface and object inside room 962 at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes as they looked for anything that could have caused Full House legend Saget's fractured skull. The cache of images, released Tuesday by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, include a shot of the padded headboard above the comedian's bed as well as his walk-in shower, bathtub, desk and minibar. Investigators never determined exactly what killed Saget, 65, but...

A Florida judge on Monday agreed to an order that permanently blocks the release of photos, video and other records connected to the investigation of Bob Saget’s death. The permanent injunction, granted by Circuit Judge Vincent Chiu, had been requested by the comedian’s family.

Colorado officials are investigating how passwords to its voting machines ended up on the internet. Jenna Griswold The far-left Secretary of State Jenna Griswold is investigating. The information included passwords to Mesa County’s voting machine equipment. Matt Crane, whose wife works/worked for Dominion, weighed in on the situation. The Colorado Sun reported: Colorado state officials are investigating a county election office after passwords for its voting systems were posted online, the Secretary of State announced Monday. The breach included specific passwords from Mesa County’s voting equipment, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a statement. The passwords were posted...

What a piece of work. The critic of our article on the obvious questionable election results in Colorado neglected to disclose that his wife worked for Sequoia and Dominion Voting Machines for more than a decade. Today we’ve uncovered that he also failed to mention attending a party with top Democrat schemers and Dominion employees. We reported on February 12th the suspect and questionable results in Colorado in the 2020 election. ... Colorado’s 2020 Election Results Make No Sense – No Way Biden Received Half a Million More Votes than Obama, Hillary or Trump. No Way! Colorado’s 2020 election results...

Washington state on Thursday fined three companies for their roles in a crane collapse that killed four people in Seattle last April, with officials calling it “totally avoidable,” and Seattle Police confirmed that they have opened a criminal investigation. The Department of Labor and Industries released the results of its investigation Thursday. It found, as experts suspected, that the crane toppled in a wind gust because the workers who were disassembling it prematurely removed pins securing sections of the crane’s mast, contrary to the manufacturer’s instructions. ... Regulators issued the biggest fine, $70,000, to Salem, Oregon-based Morrow Equipment Co., which...

It doesn’t get much more Northern Virginia than this. Traffic woes and construction delays are daily gripes on the local Facebook group, “Western Prince William Chatter.” Then Steve came along -- and brought joy to the group's 20,000-plus members. "It seems he is the light at the end of the tunnel when you're STUCK in that horrible traffic! Thanks for entertaining us Steve and for those calling him Bob, just no," one Facebooker wrote. Before WPWC members gave him a name, Steve was simply known as a rubber tire crane. He came to the Manassas area to lift 10 concrete...

FULL TITLE: One woman dies and six others are injured after wind gusts cause crane to collapse on Dallas apartment building One woman has died and six others are injured after a crane collapsed in Dallas amid severe thunderstorms. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans told the Dallas Morning News that the crane fell into a downtown apartment building Sunday afternoon as strong winds, heavy rain and hail battered parts of North Texas. The people's names and conditions were not immediately available. Amateur video taken on cell phones shows a crane toppling over and onto the Elan City Lights apartment complex,...

A massive crane at a Florida construction site toppled Thursday, nearly crushing workers below. Surveillance footage provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department shows the moment the crane tips over, sending two workers below sprinting away. The crane narrowly missed one of at least eight workers running for their lives. St. Petersburg police tweeted that no one was injured and that the construction site, at the department’s new headquarters, didn’t suffer major damage, although the crane itself did. The Tampa Bay Times reports the crane was carrying a scissor lift weighing about 1,000 pounds. A worker told the Times that...

Officials were in pursuit of the vehicle earlier, but lost it on the freeway. Torrance police officials later picked it up, but called off the pursuit and the SUV was then chased by Long Beach police, Im said. After driving erratically through lanes at the port, the man got out of the SUV and began climbing a crane at the West Basin Container Terminal, sometimes backwards. The man then broke a window and climbed into a hole in the crane then continued walking around, in an effort to avoid police. At times the man was sat on the crane and...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The morning after President Donald Trump issued orders to delay environmental rules and restart pipeline projects, Greenpeace protesters climbed a 270-foot construction crane blocks from the White House and unfurled a massive orange and yellow banner with the word, "RESIST." A spokesman for the environmental group, Travis Nichols, said the protesters are encouraging resistance to Trump and his agenda. A Greenpeace statement said the demonstration is "calling for those who want to resist Trump's attacks on environmental, social, economic, and educational justice to contribute to a better America." Police closed three city blocks to traffic around the...

A Greenpeace spokesperson told Fox 5 the climbers are part of the non-governmental organization which strives to engage with the public on global environmental issues and that they intend to hang a banner from the crane that reads "Resist."

Georgia Runoff Third District 7/26/2016 Results Thread Mike Crane versus Drew Ferguson for the Boehner ally Lynn Westmoreland seat (Georgia 3rd). Anyone know a good place to get an up to date count?