“Sadly, dozens of bears are hit, and sometimes killed, on park roads each year. Vehicle strikes are now one of the leading causes of death for bears in Yosemite. The park has posted warning signs at hot spot collision areas, attempting to compel visitors to slow down for the wildlife,
And decades of park research and rigorous planning efforts demonstrate that there is substantial evidence that overcrowding in Yosemite has a profound impact on the park — and the bears and other wildlife that call it home.”
“As someone who has spent the past 30 years documenting and studying Yosemite’s remarkable wildlife, I was astounded by the claim of ‘zero evidence,’” Pratt wrote. “I have witnessed it firsthand.
McPadden recently claimed that there is “zero evidence” crowds adversely impact Yosemite’s ecosystem or landscape in “any consequential way” to explain removing the park’s reservation system.
Park superintendent, Ray McPadden, has imposed a new policy which makes it likely future incidents like that will occur much more often.
Recalling a 2021 incident in which a mother bear stayed by her dead cub for hours after it was hit by a car, conservation advocate Beth Pratt wrote for the San Francisco Gate that Trump’s new Yosemite
count of electronically transmitting material harmful to a minor. Circuit Judge Stephen Toner handed down the sentence in the Florida case.
Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, received the sentence Thursday after a Hernando County jury convicted him last month of two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child and one
Mullin came under fire after claiming during the same hearing that he paid himself only $50,000 when he ran a plumbing business. But his financial disclosures from 2012—the year he was first elected to Congress—told a different story: his self-reported salary was $92,000, almost double what he said.
fistfight during a heated hearing in 2023. Among their many differences, Mullin criticized O’Brein for his $200,000 annual salary—as compared to Mullin’s $174,000 congressional one.
The Senator, who previously served 10 years in the House of Representatives before starting his senate term in 2023, is best known for challenging Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a
"The FBI workforce is very intelligent and their job is to put together connected events," former FBI agent and MS NOW contributor Rob D'Amico said. "They have noticed. They see it for what it is, actions of a selfish and insecure person."
Meanwhile, FBI agents and staff have noticed Patel's petty routine and are worried that he is putting the agency's mission at risk in order to quash negative coverage, multiple FBI sources told the outlet.
There are four instances where Patel axed FBI agents and staff in the hours or days following reports that cast doubt about his fitness to lead the FBI, according to MS NOW.
MS NOW reports that amid the controversies, a pattern has emerged: Whenever bad press has hit, the FBI director appears to have self-soothed by firing sets of agents.
Patel, 46, has spent his first year as the nation's top law enforcement official careening from scandal to scandal for joyriding on agency jets, misusing taxpayer funds, and botching investigations. Much of the scrutiny Patel has faced is rooted in insider accusations.
Congressman Lieu wrote: “Dear @SecScottBessent: Conservative and mainstream outlets have confirmed that Russia is giving intelligence info to Iran that helps Iran target American forces. Reverse your decision to lift oil sanctions on Russia. It is traitorous conduct for you to help Russia.”
President Trump recently used tariff pressure to force India to curtail its Russian oil purchases, though the administration now sees the waiver as necessary to offset the oil supply problems caused by the war in Iran.]
OTE: Pro-Ukrainian U.S. lawmakers, including Bacon, have said for years that the sale of Russian oil to countries including India is funding Putin’s war against Ukraine. In agreement,
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) responded with a message to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced this week that the U.S. has granted India a 30-day waiver to buy Russian oil and may un-sanction other Russian oil soon.
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) responded to the report: “Putin has been ‘playing’ the White House all along. Most of us have seen it and called it out, but the Administration refuses to see reality.”
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