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SWAT teams moved in to disperse massive crowds of spring breakers who stayed out past an 8 p.m. curfew in Miami Beach on Saturday night, firing pepper balls and sparking a stampede as people fled.  Sirens and shouting filled the air as police sought to force party-goers to leave the area. On Ocean Drive in South Beach, police rolled in about a half hour after curfew to find one huge street party.  Different groups of young women had been dancing and twerking in front of giant bluetooth speaker boxes playing rap music. In front of the shuttered News Cafe on 9th and Ocean Drive, a very large crowd had gathered around four young Black men having a dance off, with the unmistakable odor of marijuana hanging in the air.  A cop over a loudspeaker barked, “Everyone needs to leave the area. The curfew started at 8 p.m. You need to disperse.” The crowds would respond to the interruption by simply moving to the next block before resuming partying. At one point, a man began making it...

The family of Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor says he died by suicide while experiencing “unbearable” symptoms related to COVID-19.  Texas Roadhouse  announced the death of Taylor, who founded the Kentucky-based restaurant chain in 1993, on Thursday. In a joint statement provided to McClatchy News, Texas Roadhouse and Taylor’s family said he killed himself after experiencing ongoing symptoms, including “severe tinnitus,” after he was infected with COVID-19. Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article250071849.html#storylink=cpy

Biden  was on his way to  Atlanta  on Friday to meet with Asian community leaders following the  massage parlor shootings earlier this week . He tripped a total of three times as he made his way up the stairs to board Air Force One. However, Biden quickly recovered and carried on up the stairs, giving a salute before entering the aircraft. The White House  Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden is "doing 100 percent fine" following the tumble. It also became a headline story on the Drudge Report immediately afterwards  Presidential Falls are nothing new, most presidents are caught on video hitting their heads, falling, or doing very human things. Heck Bush even choked on a pretzel .. But the media attention always becomes a little different when these events occur, as told in this Flashback to 1970s when Ford was lampooned and probably lost re election because of Chevy Chase’s impressions of him  https://time.com/4292...

From  CNN Drama in Alaska  A first face-to-face meeting between US and  Chinese officials  got off to a heated start in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's statement that the Biden administration would bring up "deep concerns" about some of China's actions around the world was met with immediate pushback from Chinese counterparts, sparking an unusually public exchange of diplomatic barbs. By evening, the Chinese had accused the US delegation of being "condescending" in its tone, while a US official said the representatives from Beijing seemed "intent on grandstanding." The meeting quickly veered away from the usual diplomatic throat clearing that takes place in front of the cameras before the real meetings get underway. As the two sides traded the unusually intense remarks, Blinken called the cameras back to counter the Chinese officials' comments -- particularly their slights about US democracy -- setting o...

This Reuters dispatch March 17 is now recorded for history: Brazil on Wednesday registered 90,303 new coronavirus cases, a new record, a day after the country reported a fresh record for deaths related to the virus. Infections now total 11,693,838. The dramatic surge in that nation is making a continent wary of what the future may hold.. Various states in the US of A are withdrawing restrictions..easing distancing.. ditching masks. Heck some locations are even happily burning them on state capitol steps.. But this BRAZIL problem.. This Europe problem. Is this their problem or could it become everyone's? X X X  This is how an AP dispatch reports the mood today: Optimism is spreading in the U.S. as COVID-19 deaths plummet and states ease restrictions and open vaccinations to younger adults. But across Europe, dread is setting in with another wave of infections that is closing schools and cafes and bringing new lockdowns. The pandemic’s diverging paths on the two continents can be lin...

 THE DRIVE is reporting some new mysterious information about Area 51  .. a new mysterious high-altitude flight path between the government base and the Pacific has been opened.. The restricted strip of airspace bridged the Nevada Test and Training Range with the Pacific Ocean during a few-hour window last Saturday evening... TYLER ROGOWAY AND JOSEPH TREVITHICK report: Late last week, a curious alert appeared in the Federal Aviation Administration's database of Notices to Airman, or NOTAMs, which, among other things, alerts aviators to chunks of airspace that are temporarily off-limits. The details strongly point to the comings or goings of a high-flying aircraft between either Area 51 , also known as Groom Lake, or the Tonopah Test Range Airport , two of the U.S. military's most closely-guarded flight test facilities, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest of San Francisco, California. The NOTAM, which was first pointed out by users of the Dreamlandresort.com message board,...

A single-engine plane crash left two dead and two others injured when it crashed into a car shortly after taking off Monday afternoon. The Beechcraft Bonanza took off shortly after 3 p.m. at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, Florida, located about 20 miles north of downtown Miami. The plane crashed in a residential neighborhood, police said. Video captured by a local resident’s doorbell camera showed the plane falling from the sky where it struck a car as it was driving down the street. The plane then skidded down the street before bursting into flames, which spread down the road. Two unidentified people who were on the plane died in the crash,  NBC Miami reported . An adult and child who were in the car were taken to a local hospital, according to NBC Miami. Their conditions were unknown.