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The band Gin Blossoms formed in 1987 and has released six studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and fifteen singles. Their major label debut New Miserable Experience was released in August 1992 and went quadruple platinum, selling over four million copies. The band broke up in 1997, reunited in 2001, and continues to tour extensively. The band achieved significant chart success with multiple Top 25 hits including “Hey Jealousy” which reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold. Their follow-up album Congratulations I’m Sorry was released in 1996, went platinum, and featured the number 9 hit The post Complete List Of Gin Blossoms Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.

Amid ongoing U.S. military operations in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump called his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, “an illegal drug leader” on Truth Social. He said Petro is “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large-scale payments and subsidies from the U.S. … AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA.” Petro countered, referring to the president as a “king.” “You really do think that Donald Trump came to power and retained power without a free election?” replies Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” He continued: “And you, right across the border, you have somebody who canceled our election by all consensus, lost the last Venezuelan election. Why don’t you direct your animus toward him if you’re worried about kings?” We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: Jean-Pierre’s Lies and the Colombia President’s ‘King’ Confusion appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Thursday, Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse filled in viewers on several car crash deaths caused by illegal aliens who were allowed into the country under the Biden administration. Setting up the report on America's Newsroom, co-host Dana Perino began: And horrible scenes on a California freeway Tuesday. We warn you, of course, this video could be very upsetting. Three people were killed  when a semi truck driven by an illegal immigrant plowed into traffic just east of Los Angeles. It's the most recent of several incidents across the country that we've been reporting on for you here. La Jeunesse recalled: Well, Dana, sources say the driver is a 21-year-old illegal immigrant caught and released at the California border by the Biden administration in March of 2022. Yet the state of California gave Jashanpreet Singh -- an Indian national living near San Francisco -- a commercial driver's license. CHP charged him with DUI and multiple counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He's expected in court today. The Fox reporter added: "So the crash happened on Tuesday on the 10 Freeway outside L.A. Singh in an 18-wheeler made no attempt to slow down, slamming into the back of an SUV before plowing into multiple other vehicles in the same lane." He then reminded viewers of several other examples of illegal aliens from earlier this year who caused deadly trucking crashes in Florida, Texas and Indiana who entered the country illegally during the Biden administration. He noted that California has issued many commercial driver's licenses to illegals, and some have caused crashes in other states: According to a federal audit, California issued 62,000 commercial driver's licenses to those who are not citizens or permanent residents. Now, California also gave a CDL to a semi driver here accused in this crash that killed a motorist in Texas. The trucker only spoke Mandarin. A few weeks ago, Fox also informed viewers of efforts by ICE and Oklahoma law enforcement which found that 20 percent of truck drivers stopped at checkpoints were illegal aliens. On the October 1, America Reports, La Jeunesse recounted: Last Friday, (Transportation Secretary Sean) Duffy ordered states to stop issuing CDLs to any non-U.S. citizen or lawful resident. He estimates 190,000 non-domicile truck drivers should lose their license. An audit found California issued 25 percent of its CDLs illegally to immigrants. Now, in Oklahoma, a highway checkpoint found 20 percent of truck drivers were illegal immigrants. Some licenses had no first or middle name. Co-host John Roberts then spoke with Governor Kevin Stitt (R-OK) about the operation his state undertook with ICE to check truck drivers. Governor Stitt discussed the bizarre case of a New York driver's license they discovered that was issued without a full name: The one person we posted on from New York had literally been detained at the southern border crossing illegally in 2023, and then was just released. It was a catch-and-release type deal. And they showed up in New York and got their CDL license. And you saw that -- it said, "No given name," and I'm not trying to call anybody out. I'm just -- I think the American people need to understand this is a problem, and we have to be a law and order state and a law and order country. Transcripts follow: Fox's America's Newsroom October 23, 2025 9:33 a.m. Eastern DANA PERINO: And horrible scenes on a California freeway Tuesday. We warn you, of course, this video could be very upsetting. Three people were killed when a semi truck driven by an illegal immigrant plowed into traffic just east of Los Angeles. It's the most recent of several incidents across the country that we've been reporting on for you here. And William La Jeunesse is in L.A. with more. Hi, William. WILLIAM LA JEUNESSE: Well, Dana, sources say the driver is a 21-year-old illegal immigrant caught and released at the California border by the Biden administration in March of 2022. Yet the state of California gave Jashanpreet Singh -- an Indian national living near San Francisco -- a commercial driver's license. CHP charged him with DUI and multiple counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. He's expected in court today. So the crash happened on Tuesday on the 10 Freeway outside L.A. Singh in an 18-wheeler made no attempt to slow down, slamming into the back of an SUV before plowing into multiple other vehicles in the same lane. He then crashed into two more trucks on the shoulder. ... So illegal immigrants and foreign nationals who can't speak English or read road signs getting into deadly crashes all too common. A few months ago, you'll remember this Indian national killed three in Florida making an illegal U-turn. Florida is suing California for giving him a CDL. According to a federal audit, California issued 62,000 commercial driver's licenses to those who are not citizens or permanent residents. Now, California also gave a CDL to a semi driver here accused in this crash that killed a motorist in Texas. The trucker only spoke Mandarin. On Tuesday, ICE put a detainer on this illegal immigrant from Serbia who ran his truck into oncoming traffic and killed an Indiana man. And then check out -- check out this post last week from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy of a foreign driver headed into oncoming traffic. (shows video of one truck driver telling another truck driver he has been driving the wrong way on a freeway) So DOT calls this a national emergency. Recently, they imposed a ban on giving out new CDLs to non-U.S. residents and singled out California for having loose verification and documentation and skills test. Dana? PERINO: All right, William. Thank you. BILL HEMMER: I want to bring in Bill Essayli, U.S. attorney for the central district of California. ... I want to get more on this DUI arrest. He had to be traveling at a fast rate of speed. What happened here? BILL ESSAYLI, U.S. ATTORNEY: Yeah, I spoke to the D.A. My understanding is he was traveling at a fast rate of speed, and he did not apply his brakes at all. They do suspect he was under the influence of some type of stimulant. They are waiting for that toxicology report. I do suspect he will be charged with vehicular homicide. However, we're also looking at charges. We are opening an investigation to understand how he obtained a commercial driver's license from the state of California as an illegal immigrant, and we want to understand whether anyone in the DMV was complicit in issuing that driver's license to him. (...) Fox's America Reports October 1, 2025 2:16 p.m. Eastern SANDRA SMITH: A shocking discovery in Oklahoma where a major immigration bust caught dozens of illegal drivers, and some of them with questionable licenses. Oklahoma's governor is standing by for us, but first, senior national correspondent William La Jeunesse is reporting live in Los Angeles on that. What are we learning, William? WILLIAM LA JEUNESSE: Well, that's just a spotlight, Sandra. U.S. roads are inundated with hundreds of thousands of commercial drivers who don't speak English, can't read road signs, don't sleep, and undercut U.S. driver wages by some 70 percent. That conclusion by the feds came after this crash in August prompted a deep dive into actually who's driving America's 18-wheelers. According to Secretary Sean Duffy, sanctuary states like California and New York, and some red states, are giving Biden-era asylum seekers commercial licenses. SEAN DUFFY, TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely 100 percent broken. It has become a threat to public safety, and it is a national emergency. LA JEUNESSE: Duffy highlighted crashes across the country like this 17-car pileup in Texas in March -- five dead, including an infant. The driver -- an asylum seeker from Eritrea who spoke Ethiopian -- now indicted for manslaughter. And, in New Mexico, this big rig makes no attempt to stop, killing one, injuring another. The driver, according to court records, only spoke Mandarin. SHANNON EVERETT, AMERICAN TRUCKERS UNITED: Our highways are full of what we believe to be hundreds of thousands of improperly licensed commercial truck drivers, a lot of them being illegal immigrants. LA JEUNESSE: Last Friday, Duffy ordered states to stop issuing CDLs to any non-U.S. citizen or lawful resident. He estimates 190,000 non-domicile truck drivers should lose their license. An audit found California issued 25 percent of its CDLs illegally to immigrants. Now, in Oklahoma, a highway checkpoint found 20 percent of truck drivers were illegal immigrants. Some licenses had no first or middle name. TIM TIPTON, OKLAHOMA DPS COMMISSIONER: The vast majority of those people had crossed the southern border into the United States between 2020 and 2024, and all of them had crossed on the southern border.  LA JEUNESSE: So states began issuing non-domicile CDLs in 2021 when President Biden addressed a dispute over driver shortages. Duffy says any state that continues to issue those CDLs to foreigners will lose their highway money. Sandra? SMITH: All right, William La Jeunesse on that. Thank you. John? JOHN ROBERTS: All right, let's dig deeper on this by bringing in the governor of the great state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt. Governor, thanks so much for being with us. ... So you -- at least the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and ICE conducted a joint operation in recent days where you arrested more than 125 illegal aliens, and you came up with a number of commercial drivers who seemed to have licenses that were issued improperly or illegally to them in sanctuary states. You found that, I think, 20 percent of commercial driver's licenses that you examined were awarded to illegal aliens. And I've been reading what you've been saying about this. You're pretty hot about this whole thing. GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT (R-OK): Yeah, you know, when my head of highway patrol called me and was -- we were talking about this operation -- and to us it's pretty simple. We're just going to enforce the law. And to drive on roads in Oklahoma, you've got to be able to read and understand English, especially the people driving 18-wheelers. So when he told me that when he pulled over 520 vehicles at one of our checkpoints as an operation, and over close to 25 percent of these drivers were illegally driving, they were from China, Russia, Venezuela -- it is unbelievable. And these aren't people that are here legally with a legal CDL. They had overstayed their visa -- they had illegally obtained this CDL -- and they're just violating the intent of the law and the absolute law. The one person we posted on from New York had literally been detained at the southern border crossing illegally in 2023, and then was just released. It was a catch-and-release type deal. And they showed up in New York and got their CDL license. And you saw that -- it said, "No given name," and I'm not trying to call anybody out. I'm just -- I think the American people need to understand this is a problem, and we have to be a law and order state and a law and order country.

A Florida man has been arrested and charged with felony battery after surveillance video captured him sucker punching a man from behind, leaving him in a coma.The incident unfolded at the entrance of an Aldi grocery store in Lauderdale Lakes on Oct. 11, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.'I've seen the video of this case, and it is just as brutal as described in the report.' The video shows a man walking up to the victim, who has a service dog on a leash, and brutally punching him from behind, according to police. He falls to the ground and severely injures himself.The victim was left hospitalized in a coma.His family appealed to the public through the media to help the investigation identify a suspect.Police arrested 45-year-old Dandrea Johnson 11 days later, after receiving tips from the public. He was charged with felony battery with great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement.Other video from the store shows that Johnson and the man had some kind of interaction prior to the attack. Johnson then waits by the entrance before the victims approaches prior to the attack."I've seen the video of this case, and it is just as brutal as described in the report," the prosecutor said in court. "There is nothing to indicate this was an act of self-defense, your Honor. Mr. Johnson left the Aldi's first. He stayed there at the entrance. When the victim left, the victim didn't approach him. Mr. Johnson sucker punched him, and now he's in a coma."Johnson's defense attorney said in court that there was more to the story."The other man had a pit bull, and the pit bull attacked Mr. Johnson," he claimed.RELATED: Man found dead outside Dollar Tree was beaten with a rock by another man riding a tricycle, police say The prosecutor denied the claims from the defense. "From what I saw, there was nothing that that dog was a threat to anyone. No one else was concerned," he said. “There is nothing to indicate this was an act of self-defense, your Honor."Johnson was held on a $100,000 bond at the Broward County Jail.Police said the investigation was ongoing, and they have not released the identity of the victim.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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