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A northwestern Texas town is mourning the loss of two firefighters killed in a car crash while returning to the station from a call.In a Facebook post, the Dalhart Volunteer Fire Department said firefighter Brendan Torres, 19, and Chief Curtis Brown, 51, died during a collision with a semi-trailer truck Tuesday night.Both Torres and Brown were pronounced dead at the scene.”It is with hearts full of sadness and grief, that we inform you, last night DVFD lost 2 of our own in a vehicle accident,” the department wrote. “Please give the families, Firefighters, and their families space and time as…

In news shared first with Fox News Digital, Rev. Franklin Graham, the CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, said that he is personally traveling down to Florida on Thursday, Oct. 6, to help and encourage the victims of Hurricane Ian — many of whom have lost everything.Samaritan’s Purse deployed immediately once the hurricane hit, mobilizing an army of 550 volunteers, the organization said — and it has 2,500 more people on the way to help out those impacted as well.The North Carolina-based international Christian relief and evangelism organization said it has received more than 1,200 requests for help from struggling homeowners in…

President Biden said in an address to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Thursday night that the country under his leadership is as close to “Armageddon” as it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s.Speaking at a fundraiser in New York, Biden spoke addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening to use a nuclear weapon. PUTIN ALLY RECOMMENDS RUSSIA USE LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN UKRAINE”[Putin was] not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons,” Biden said. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban…

Credit Suisse (CS) said it will buy back up to $3 billion in its own bonds to save money on debt servicing costs while taking advantage of low prices. The announcement on Friday comes after investors displayed concerns about the financial position of the troubled Swiss bank before it announces its restructuring plan later this month. Shares plunged to a record low earlier this week but have since recovered. They rallied sharply on Friday, jumping 6% in morning trading in Zurich. They’re still down almost 50% year-to-date. The bond announcement sends a message to investors that Credit Suisse is not…

Sky News host Rita Panahi says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is a “hater and a hypocrite”. “The Victorian Premier must be supremely confident of a thumping victory in the coming state election,” she said. “Why else would he opt to enter a divisive debate, stoke religious intolerance and insult more than a million Victorian Catholics, not to mention Jews and Muslims who share similar views on abortion and LGBTQIA issues?” Source: Sky News

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is going to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the award’s judges said Friday.Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the judges wanted to honor “three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbor countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.””Through their consistent efforts in favor of human values and anti-militarism and principles of law, this year’s laureates have revitalized and honored Alfred Nobel’s vision of peace and fraternity between nations, a vision most needed in the world today,”…

Daniel Vitale is a giant New England Patriots fan. So much so, he let the team borrow an American flag autographed by legendary quarterback Tom Brady.Vitale filed a lawsuit against the Patriots Hall of Fame after he claims they damaged the rare piece of memorabilia when they displayed it using “improper techniques.”Tom Brady’s signature began to fade, which possibly reduced the value of the item by as much as $1 million, according to the suit filed Wednesday in Boston. According to Yahoo Sports, the American flag flew over Foxboro Stadium in 2001, which also marked Brady’s first year as the starting…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was caught on a hot mic Thursday telling President Biden that Democrats ought to try to score partisan points with the bipartisan $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. “This allows us to push back at the Republican narrative that we’re tax and spend and not pro-business,” Hochul told Biden after he spoke at an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie — linking the visit to the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Hochul’s remark came after Biden said “we have to get our heads together.” Although the bill does give generous support to technology companies working on semiconductors and…

You know who is about to have a miserable month? Aaron Boone. Unless he acquired ESP from his days working at ESPN, Boone simply cannot be right on every personnel choice he faces for the playoffs. And the Yankees manager faces a remarkable number of questions about who plays where and when considering he is in charge of a 99-win division champ. He will stick with his mantra that these are good problems to have because the choices involve talented players. Let’s see if he is still saying that in a week when every 20/20 hindsight champion with anger and…

CNN  —  Investigators in the kidnapping and deaths of four California family members, including their baby, revealed new details Thursday about the man suspected of abducting them at gunpoint from their business and then allegedly killing them. Jesus Manuel Salgado, 48, was arrested late Thursday on four counts of murder and four counts of kidnapping, Merced County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Alexandra Britton told CNN Thursday evening. Salgado, who was a former employee at the family’s business, was detained as a suspect in the case after his family told law enforcement he admitted to being involved in the kidnapping, according to…