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Americans of good faith will simply hope Biden gets the elder care he so badly needs, and his remaining days are filled with warm beaches and long, comforting naps.

America really dodged a bullet when Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were defeated.

Back when I attended West Catholic High, religion was my last class of the day in sophomore year. The teacher, Sister Eileen, had us go around the room on Fridays and give a short talk on something related to religion. Then there was a Q&A, but there were never any Qs, because no one really put a lot of thought into it. Finally, one day it was my turn.

Faced with limited quantities of FPV drones, Ukraine has come up with an ingenious low-cost solution that actually seems to work. Using "Winchester" quadcopters, they've rigged them up for single shots with shrapnel charges with the minimum negative impact of recoil. The drones are designed for multiple-use rather than single-use FPV drones. Source: Forbes Ukraine’s shotgun-wielding drones are hunting Russian infantry now. A video montage that a Ukrainian drone group posted online on Saturday depicts one of the group’s “Winchester” quadcopters performing its usual mission: hunting down and blasting Russian quadcopters before they strike Ukrainian troops. But seemingly taking advantage of a fleeting opportunity, one operator also took aim at a solitary Russian soldier—or North Korean, if the engagement took place in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast—marching along a dirt road under the Winchester’s flight path. The drone swooped past the initially unwitting soldier and opened fire with both of its shotgun barrels.

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a court filing Saturday, saying he had resigned one day earlier.

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect J. D. Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot “obviously” should not be pardoned, as President-elect Donald Trump is promising to use his clemency power on behalf of many of those who tried on Jan. 6, 2021, to overturn the results of the election that Trump lost. Vance insisted in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that the pardon question is “very simple,” saying those who “protested peacefully” should be pardoned and “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” He later said there was a “bit of a gray area” in some cases. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump said he would issue pardons to rioters on “Day 1” of his presidency, which begins Jan.