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Syria says at the United Nations that it considers taking back its Israel-occupied Golan Heights through all possible legal instruments to be a priority for the Arab country.
Bashar al-Ja’afari, Damascus’ envoy to the UN made the remarks to a UN Security Council session on Tuesday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. Continue reading “Taking back Israel-occupied land a priority, Syria tells UN Security Council”
A Utah couple that failed to stop at a police checkpoint in Mexico were ordered to get out of their car and were fatally shot execution-style in front of their 12-year-old son, according to reports.
Paul Nielsen, 52, and Janeth Vázquez, 43, and their son, Kevin, were traveling from Acapulco to a beach resort when they were killed as they drove through Petatlan last Thursday at 3.30 a.m, according to local news outlets. Continue reading “Utah couple visiting Mexico fatally shot execution-style after failing to stop at checkpoint”
Homeland defense officials are unlocking their fast-track “expedited removal” power to quickly deport illegal migrants nationwide who cannot show they have lived illegally in the United States for longer than two years.
Pro-migration progressives, lawyers, and activists are protesting the removal power, which was formerly restricted to new migrants who were caught within 100 miles of the border, often walking northwards in the brush or being smuggled by truck. Continue reading “ICE Unlocks Fast-Track Nationwide Deportation Powers”
For the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian jets flying through South Korean airspace provoked the South Korean military into a “midair confrontation” that involved firing hundreds of warning shots. All told, South Korean jets fired 360 machine-gun rounds and at least 20 flares, Bloomberg reports. Continue reading “South Korean Fighter Fires 360 Rounds Of Warning Shots At Russian Jet In “Mid-Air Confrontation””
CINCINNATI, Ohio (FOX19) – Chaos erupted in the courtroom as Judge Patrick Dinkelacker executed the jail sentence Monday for former Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter.
Hunter was sentenced to six months minus one day in the Hamilton County Justice Center. She was also given one year of community control. Continue reading “Chaos in the courtroom as former judge Tracie Hunter sentenced to 6 months in jail”
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) – The union that represents rank-and-file cops is fuming and the NYPD brass is outraged after videos surfaced showing police officers blatantly disrespected on the streets on New York.
The videos show at least two separate incidents in two different parts of the city showing restraint while doing their jobs but clearly insulted and frustrated by water and objects tossed at them. Continue reading “NYPD cops doused with water, declined to react”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had to use tear gas and pepper spray early Saturday to stop nearly 50 “undocumented individuals” from illegally entering the U.S. after they stormed a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, officials said.
The incident at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge took place at around 4 a.m. The bridge is closed between midnight at 6 a.m., but CBP has had to construct temporary barriers in the middle of the span due to the large influx of migrants using the bridge at night. Continue reading “Border agents use tear gas to stop nearly 50 undocumented migrants who stormed Rio Grande bridge”
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say two people, including a sheriff’s deputy, were killed Thursday in a shooting in rural northern Arkansas.
Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said Stone County Sheriff’s deputy Sergeant Mike Stephen, 56, was killed as he was responding to a call in Leslie when a suspect opened fire. Leslie is about 77 miles (124 kilometers) north of Little Rock. Continue reading “Sheriff’s deputy, 1 other killed in north Arkansas shooting”
High-profile Democrats are decrying a controversial resolution from Rep. Ilhan Omar affirming the right to boycott Israel, even as they rally behind her and three other first-term congresswomen attacked by President Trump.
Omar, D-Minn., proposed the resolution earlier this week in a bid to push back against U.S. laws banning the Israel boycotts. The text of the measure affirms the right of Americans to organize boycotts of foreign countries. Continue reading “Dems decry Omar resolution defending Israel boycott: ‘Dead on arrival’”
The San Diego City Council voted six to two Monday for an ordinance saying gun owners must lock up their firearms or disable them in the home.
Fox 5 reports that the council’s six Democrat members all voted for the gun control, which is designed to force firearms to be locked up or be disabled even if no minors are present in the home. Continue reading “San Diego City Council: Guns Must Be Locked or Disabled in Homes”
Federal authorities shut down one of the international ports of entry in the border city of Del Rio, Texas, over the threat of a group of migrants trying to rush the border and enter the country by force.
The incident took place at the Ciudad Acuna-Del Rio Port of Entry when over 50 officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection applied a series of security protocols to temporarily shut down vehicular traffic into Texas. According to the local radio station Rancherita Del Aire, CBP officers used heavy machinery to set up a series of concrete and metal barricades as well as barbed wire in an attempt to dissuade any migrants from rushing the border. Continue reading “Texas Port of Entry Shut Down Over Threatened Migrant Rush”
LOS ANGELES – Federal racketeering, murder and other charges were filed against 22 suspected MS-13 gang members who law enforcement officials believe are linked to a series of grisly killings involving baseball bats, machetes and other tools of “medieval-style” violence, authorities said Tuesday.
Nineteen of those indicted are considered illegal immigrants, and most of the group’s members arrived in the U.S. in the past four years from Central America. All but two are under the age of 24, Nicola Hanna, the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, announced at a news conference. Most, he added, participated in the “killing spree.” Continue reading “MS-13 gang members indicted after ‘medieval-style’ killing spree in Los Angeles”
Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person familiar with the case confirmed to CBS News on Tuesday. The decision not to bring charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo comes a day before the statute of limitations was set to expire, on the fifth anniversary of the encounter that led to Garner’s death.
Officers were attempting to arrest Garner on charges he sold loose, untaxed cigarettes outside a Staten Island convenience store. He refused to be handcuffed, and officers took him down. Continue reading “NYPD officer won’t be charged by feds in Eric Garner’s chokehold death”
PORTLAND, Ore. — A new law ensures the Holocaust will always be taught in Oregon schools.
Gov. Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 663 into law Monday morning.
The bill requires that the Holocaust and genocide be taught to age-appropriate students, starting at the beginning of the 2020 school year. Continue reading “Governor signs bill ensuring Holocaust taught in Oregon schools”
San Francisco Chronicle – by Bob Egelko
The judge in the first federal court trial of lawsuits by cancer victims who used Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide criticized the company’s apparent indifference to health and safety Monday but said he was legally required to reduce a jury’s damage award.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of San Francisco lowered the award from $80.2 million to $25.2 million for a Sonoma County man who sprayed the weed-killer on his property for more than 26 years before becoming ill. Continue reading “Judge lowers Monsanto damage award to Sonoma man by $55 million”
The Bureau of Land Management will relocate its headquarters to Grand Junction from Washington, D.C., U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner announced on Monday.
“This is a very big deal for Grand Junction,” the Colorado Republican told The Colorado Sun. “I think this is a signature accomplishment for Grand Junction. They have positioned themselves as a public lands community and economy.” Continue reading “Bureau of Land Management to move headquarters to Grand Junction, Cory Gardner says”
In what we suspect will be immediately greeted by an avalanche of “we’re a nation of (legal) immigrants” and calls of ‘racism’ and ‘hitler’, AP reports that the Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants.
According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border. Continue reading “Trump Ends Asylum Protections For Most Migrants At US-Mexico Border”
Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agreed to a 90-day trade truce to allow for further talks to address US concerns after China committed to buying a “very substantial” amount of American exports, the White House said in a statement late on Saturday.
Chinese officials said that the country would buy more US products in an effort to narrow the wide bilateral trade gap. Continue reading “US and China reach 90-day trade tariff ceasefire after China agrees to buy ‘very substantial’ amount of American goods”
Police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday after trying to attack a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
The Seattle Times reported that the unidentified man appeared outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma with a rifle and threw incendiary devices at both the facility and nearby propane tanks, at one point setting a vehicle on fire. Continue reading “Armed man shot, killed after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE detention center”
The Air Force has issued a stern warning to the over half of million people planning to storm a top-secret US military base in the Nevada desert who are on a hunt to “see them aliens.”
Over 600,000 people have signed up to an event called “Storm Area 51, they can’t stop all of us” which invites attendees to gather en masse before going into the air force base, which has long obsessed alien conspiracy theorists. Continue reading “Storm Area 51: US military ‘ready’ to confront 600,000 alien-hunters threatening to break into top-secret base”