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New York will offer payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants affected by the pandemic, in a sweeping move which could benefit nearly 300,000 people in the state.
The state dedicated a total of $2.1bn to an Excluded Worker Fund, which will make one-time payments to undocumented people who lost work during the coronavirus outbreak, which shut down New York City last spring. Continue reading “New York to give up to $15,600 to undocumented migrants hit by Covid”
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life
In 2020, there were over 21 million background checks for the sale of firearms.
It’s estimated that 40% of those, or about 8.4 million are first-time gun buyers.
This means there are about 8.4 million people who not only bought a firearm, but needed to buy ammunition as well. Continue reading “The sinister people fueling this ammo shortage”
To protect and serve — while supplies last?
Police departments across Michigan are struggling to find ammunition during a national shortage, forcing some officials to cut back on training and shell out nearly triple the previous price for handgun and rifle rounds. Continue reading “Low on ammo: Michigan police departments scramble to find rounds”
The U.S. Capitol complex was placed on lockdown Friday after a vehicle rammed into two U.S. Capitol Police officers, according to law enforcement.
Several law enforcement sources told NBC News the suspect is now dead. Continue reading “Suspect dead after ramming car into two Capitol Hill police officers”
With the Biden Administration continuing to talk down the May 1 deadline date for leaving Afghanistan, Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has met with Taliban leaders to discuss possible dates later in 2021.
Reports are that Khalilzad raised possibilities of putting the withdrawal date off for another three or six months after May 1. The Taliban has not publicly responded, but was previously said to want to hold the US to the date agreed to. Continue reading “US Envoy Meets Taliban, Seeks Longer Troop Presence”
What if your next-door neighbor suddenly went dangerously insane and started holding people hostage in his house? Would you consider that threatening? Would you even notice? These aren’t theoretical questions. Something very much like that just happened in our neighborhood.
Canada — the land mass directly to our north and our single largest trading partner, with whom we share the longest international border in the world — took a dramatic move toward legitimately dangerous authoritarianism. Yes, Canada.
Continue reading “Tucker Carlson: COVID internment camps, coming soon to a country near you”
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is rewarding border crossers with one-year permits to live in the United States, a new report confirms.
In a press conference this week, Former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Mark Morgan said the Biden administration has released a total of 45,000 border crossers and migrants into the U.S. interior. Continue reading “Biden’s DHS Rewarding Border Crossers with One-Year Permits to Live in U.S.”
A suspect shot by police and one of the suspect’s victims were both in critical condition early Thursday in Southern California after a shooting at a business complex that killed four people, investigators said.
A child was among the dead in the shooting, which unfolded in Orange, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, police said. Continue reading “Orange, California, shooting leaves 4 dead, 2 wounded at business complex; suspect in custody: report”
San Diego teachers have been given the option to replace work shifts at their schools with shifts teaching migrant children in-person at the San Diego Convention Center, Fox News has learned.
More than 700 unaccompanied migrant children are being housed at the center, where some teachers are volunteering to give in-person instruction, despite high COVID rates among the migrant children. Continue reading “San Diego teachers given option to teach migrant kids in-person instead of Americans”
In an unusual turn of events in Syria, militants once backed by the US have seized a shipment of US-made missiles that was heading to fighters currently backed by the US.
The missiles, US-made TOWs, were seized on March 28 by the Syrian Task Force, a joint force of the Turkish Police, Counterterrorism Unit and the National Syrian Army (SNA), near the Turkish-occupied town of Azaz in the northern Aleppo countryside. Continue reading “Great Success! US-Backed Fighters Seize US-Made Missiles Heading To Other US-Backed Fighters In Syria”
Yahoo News – by David Harsanyi, National Review
In another case of poll-driven confirmation bias, Democrats have overestimated the popularity of their gun-control efforts as another House bill is reportedly “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
Alas, the bill didn’t stall because of the infamous filibuster — though demanding a 60-vote threshold for legislation predominately aimed at red states shut out of the lawmaking process would be entirely legitimate — but because moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin and Jon Tester would likely have a difficult time supporting the House efforts. Manchin, who wrote a more modest “universal background check bill” a few years ago, represents a state where an estimated 54 percent of households have guns. In Montana, the number is over 52 percent. Continue reading “Rahm Emanuel: Hey, Let’s Strip Gun Owners of Due-Process Rights”
A quick end to traffic disruption in Egypt‘s Suez Canal was unlikely Thursday, with efforts to pull a stranded, massive ship yielding little progress and the head of a newly hired rescue team saying it can take “days to weeks” to re-float the vessel.
Ever Given, a 224,000-ton ship registered in Panama that is 400 meters long and 59 meters wide, has been stranded since Tuesday morning after running aground due to a “dust storm” and bad weather conditions, according to Egyptian officials. Continue reading “Moving stranded cargo ship in Suez Canal could ‘take weeks,’ salvage company says”
Two days after 10 people were murdered at a grocery store in Colorado, a man was arrested at an Atlanta supermarket with a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and four handguns. The man also was wearing body armor and had a cache of ammunition, according to police.
Atlanta police identified the suspect as Rico Marley, 22, and said he’d been charged with reckless conduct. Continue reading “Atlanta man arrested with 6 guns, body armor at Publix grocery store”
(Reuters) – Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed suits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration to challenge his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters.
The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, come a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. Continue reading “Fourteen U.S. states sue Biden administration over oil and gas leasing pause”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden urged Congress to swiftly pass gun control laws and may take action on his own to stop mass violence, the White House said on Tuesday, a day after the second deadly mass shooting in a week.
The Democrat called on the Senate to approve two bills passed by the House of Representatives on March 11 that would broaden background checks on gun buyers. He also called for a ban on assault-style weapons. Continue reading “Biden considers executive actions on guns, calls on Congress to pass weapons ban”
US President Joe Biden responded to the Boulder, Colorado grocery store massacre by calling for the urgent reinstatement of the Clinton-era ban on “assault weapons” and other stricter gun control measures
“I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour” to take “common sense” gun control measures, Biden said on Tuesday, even as he admitted not knowing much about the identity of the shooter, his motivation, or the weapons he actually used. Continue reading “Biden urges ban on ‘assault weapons and high-capacity magazines’ after Boulder attack”
The City Council in Evanston, Ill., voted 8-1 late Monday to approve a plan to make reparations available to Black residents over past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.
The plan, which could be the first of its kind in the U.S., is to distribute $400,000 to eligible Black households. The Associated Press reported that qualifying households in the city of 73,000 would be eligible to receive $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property. Continue reading “Evanston, Illinois first in US to pay reparations to Black residents”
A Colorado police officer and multiple people died when a gunman opened fire inside a grocery store Monday afternoon, sending shoppers running for their lives and igniting an hours-long standoff,” authorities said.
Boulder Police Cmdr. Kerry Yamaguchi said a person of interest was being treated for injuries and was in police custody. He said he could not confirm the number of deaths, saying it was too early in the investigation. Continue reading “Boulder grocery massacre leaves multiple dead including cop, suspect in custody”
For nearly a week, tens of thousands of people have flocked to Spring Break in Miami as many overlook the Mayor’s COVID warnings.
On Saturday night, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber declared a state of emergency and enforced a new curfew as spring break crowds overwhelmed local law enforcement. Continue reading “Miami Beach Declares State Of Emergency Due To ‘Overwhelming’ Spring Break Crowds”
Last March, the Trump administration implemented regulations to make it easier for U.S. companies to export firearms. Since the new rules took effect, overseas sales of U.S. semiautomatic pistols more than doubled, with potentially devastating consequences. The Biden administration should restore the previous restrictions and take additional measures to prevent U.S.-supplied guns from ending up in the hands of criminal gangs, human rights abusers and terrorists.