A Dallas Police Department officer was shot and killed on Thursday night, and two others were wounded by a suspect who was later shot dead by law enforcement. Dallas police responded to an officer in distress at around 10:00 p.m. and found him “shot in a marked squad car,” Fox News reported. Police “exchanged gunfire with a suspect at the scene,” and two other officers were wounded, including one who is in critical condition. After shooting and killing the police officer, the suspect fled in a vehicle and drove around 30 miles away to Lewisville. Responding officers chased the suspect, and the pursuit ended with the suspect exiting his car with a long gun before he was shot and killed by police officers. The family of the slain Dallas officer identified him on Friday as 46-year-old Darron Burks, The Dallas Morning News reported. Burks was a former school teacher who had recently graduated from the police academy. The officers who were wounded in the shooting have not yet been named. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “We ask tonight and this morning for the thoughts and prayers of our city, for not only those who are recovering in the hospital but for our fallen, for their family, and for their loved ones, and for us as a department as well,” said Dallas Police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman. She added that “our department is hurting” and “we have officers who are injured who are in the hospital and we lost one of our own.” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia simply posted on X, “No words.” No words. @DallasPD pic.twitter.com/OvlRKJp2d4 — Eddie Garcia (@DPDChiefGarcia) August 30, 2024 The department said flags at its facilities will fly at half-staff for the fallen officer. On July 7, 2016, a sniper who sought to gun down white cops killed five officers in Dallas in retaliation for alleged racially biased policing. Since then, eight more Dallas PD officers have been killed in the line of duty. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI

Tim Walz claims that he was first inspired to seek public office after being denied entry to a rally for former president George W. Bush in 2004. But contemporaneous accounts of the story cast doubt on Walz’s version of the story. Walz claimed in an August 2020 thread on X, formerly Twitter, that he decided to run for office after he and his students “were denied entry because the students had previously volunteered for the democratic party.” “The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two fellow teachers’ children to the speech as an educational experience,” Walz wrote. “It was at this moment that I decided to run for office,” Walz states in his story. But testimonies from multiple people present at the rally suggest that the Democrat’s origin story could be missing valuable context, the Washington Examiner reported Friday. Chris Faulkner, who says he was the state director for the Republican National Committee’s ground game in Minnesota, claims that Walz had been protesting Bush the day prior. Faulkner says that he was the one who denied Walz entry to the event. “You were out here yesterday with a sign protesting President Bush’s visit,” Faulkner recalls telling Walz. “He knew we would ask him to leave. He literally was standing outside our HQ the day before protesting. He brought those students as ‘cover,” Faulkner says. He also says that Walz came back with a local television crew to put on an “impromptu press conference” after being denied entry. Replying to Faulkner on X, a man named Matt Klaber said that he and two other students were denied tickets, and arranged for a local TV crew to come to the event. According to Klaber, when they were eventually granted tickets, “our families decided to send us with Tim.” According to the Washington Examiner, Klaber was at the time an active member of a local College Democrats chapter, and never took a class with Walz. Klaber recounted the story in an interview with BBC News, but did not mention the fact that he and his friends arranged for a camera crew to come to the event. BBC reports that the students were not denied because they had “previously volunteered for the democratic party,” as Walz claims, but because “staffers observed a faded John Kerry sticker on [Klaber’s] wallet.” Hey, you’ve got your facts wrong. Me and two other students are who you denied tickets to, and who recruited the local TV station. We then subsequently were granted tickets and our families decided to send us with Tim. (Respect for making us wait 3hrs, tho.) — Matt Klaber (@maphu) August 6, 2024 A photograph posted on X by Michael Brodkorb, who says he worked for the Minnesota Republican Party, shows Walz and three others demonstrating, allegedly outside of the Bush rally. Faulkner confirmed in a comment to The Daily Wire that the protest was out front of a ticket pickup location the day before the rally, which allowed them to identify Walz and bar him from entering the event the following day. In ‘04, I worked for the MNGOP. President Bush visited Mankota on August 4, 2004, and I took pictures of protesters outside the event. Tim Walz (pictured on the far-right) protested Bush’s visit to Minnesota. The thread below from Walz about his role at Bush’s event is dishonest. https://t.co/rEpzoF0yE9 pic.twitter.com/ygLiIEG4p1 — Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) August 17, 2020 Walz is seen holding a sign that says “Enduring Freedom Veterans for Kerry.” Three other demonstrators can be seen in the image as well, each of whom are holding a protest sign, with one wearing a “College Democrats” shirt. Walz has come under fire since joining Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for misconstruing his military service. Walz, who was in the National Guard, has said that he carried “weapons in war,” though he never deployed to an active war zone. Neither the Harris campaign nor Klaber responded to requests for comment.

John Cena has opened up about his decision not to have kids.  The wrestling legend and actor discussed his choice during a recent appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast, hosted by former NFL star Shannon Sharpe. “I don’t want them. I have a certain curiosity about life, and I also know the investment that it takes,” Cena told Sharpe. “As somebody who’s driven, many times stubborn and selfish, I try to approach the world with kindness and curiosity but I don’t think I’m personally ready, nor will I ever be, to invest the time [needed] to be a great parent,” he said, per HuffPost. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “I want to live life for all it is,” Cena added. “I still have a lot to do.” Cena said he and his wife Shay Shariatzadeh are “on the same page” when it comes to becoming parents and have had “open conversations” about it.  “We both got to lean into these uncomfortable moments and address this stuff and now, we’ve actually built a foundation where, whenever one of us is feeling bothered, nothing’s off the table,” he said. “We have our disagreements, but we handle them right then and there. And nothing is too uncomfortable to be unapproachable. … Those conversations have helped me, at least, personally, and her forge a path together as a team.” Cena previously discussed his decision not to have kids during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” in 2022.  He responded to the talk show host saying he would be “the world’s greatest father.” “I think just because you might be good at something, for me, is not a strong enough reason to do that,” he said at the time. “You have to have a passion for it. You have to have a fuel for it.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI During his latest podcast appearance, Cena told the host that he had given his decision a lot of thought. “I can tell you this is not a knee-jerk reaction. I thought long and hard about this. My opinions only hit that gray area during emotionally difficult times,” he said. “And I’m very happy with where I stand. I have a lot of joy and fulfillment in my life. And that’s pretty much where I stand on it.”

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“Promising” antibiotic candidates were found by Finnish scientists in microbes under the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean. 70% of all currently licensed antibiotics have been derived from actinobacteria in the soil, but most environments on Earth have not yet been searched for them. Scientists say that focusing the search on actinobacteria in other habitats is […] The post Potential New Source for Drugs to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found Deep in Arctic Ocean appeared first on Good News Network.

This Labor Day weekend, the AAA expects tens of millions of drivers on the road—10% more than last year—most of them in safe, affordable cars and pickup trucks.   Consumers have choice, based on their own preferences and needs, not the dictates of government. Now you can travel in your choice of electric vehicle, hybrid, or gasoline-powered car. But in 10 years you will likely not have that choice, once the stealth regulations of the Biden-Harris administration force you into buying electric vehicles. That’s because President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have imposed regulations through the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation that mandate that 70% of all new passenger cars sold in America be battery-powered electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032, up from about 8% in 2023. By 2027, 32% of new vehicles have to be electric or plug-in hybrid; by 2029, the share is 47%. The stated objective of the mandate is to reduce global temperatures due to climate change. But even if all fossil fuels were eliminated from the United States immediately, this would make a difference of only two-tenths of one degree Celsius by 2100, according to government models. If automakers don’t sell the required share of electric vehicles under the mandate, the government levies fines and manufacturers must purchase credits from companies selling more electric vehicles. Currently, automakers buy Zero Emission Vehicle credits from Tesla, which sells two-thirds of all EVs in the United States. The financial penalties faced by auto companies for breaking the law already force them to reduce production and raise prices of popular cars, such as pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles, and increase their production of electric vehicles. As the required share of EV sales rises, more desirable brands will be priced higher—or disappear. Since Americans prefer pickup trucks to EVs, auto companies price EVs artificially lower than cost and raise prices of gasoline-powered cars to compensate. Raising car prices to unaffordable levels removes choice. Even with favored pricing, and with the $7,500 tax credit to purchase an electric vehicle, dealers are not selling enough EVs to meet the mandate. Over 4,000 car dealers wrote to Biden in November 2023, stating: “The reality, however, is that electric vehicle demand today is not keeping up with the large influx of [battery electric vehicles] arriving at our dealerships prompted by the current regulations. BEVs are stacking up on our lots.” In January 2024, over 5,000 car dealers wrote again to Biden, saying: “Electric vehicle sales are not remotely on trend to meet those [EPA] requirements. Indeed, the day supply of electric vehicles on dealer lots today is nearly twice the supply of conventional vehicles … We now ask that you hit the brakes.” For those who can afford electric vehicles, who can recharge them at home or at the office, and who don’t have to travel too far during the day, EVs are ideal. They are quiet and don’t require trips to the gas station. But for others, the Biden-Harris EV mandate doesn’t work, and these drivers should be allowed their choice of gasoline-powered cars. Electric vehicles cost tens of thousands more than their gasoline-powered equivalents. Some people can’t recharge at home or on the job, such as many who work in businesses that require travel, or who work in farming. Extreme hot and cold temperatures reduce battery life. And those who travel with children know that several delays along the road to recharge can ruin a family vacation. The mandate for electric vehicles increases America’s dependence on China, which produces 80% of EV batteries, as my recent Heritage Foundation report details. The mandate also specifies that 25% of all heavy trucks sold must be electric by 2032. As with EVs, electric trucks cost more than diesel trucks, raising transportation costs. A diesel truck costs about $120,000; an electric truck costs in the range of $450,000 to $500,000. America doesn’t even have the electrical grid capacity, the charging stations, or the technology to operate long-haul electric trucks—and won’t have them by 2032. Harris has said that she doesn’t want to take away Americans’ choice of vehicles. If so, the Biden-Harris administration indeed needs to hit the brakes on the EV mandate. The post Biden-Harris Admin’s EV Mandates Destroy Car Choice appeared first on The Daily Signal.