CNN

An Arizona county assessor is accused of human smuggling as part of a scheme that involved more than 40 pregnant women from the Marshall Islands brought to the United States to give up their babies for adoption, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Paul D. Petersen, an adoption lawyer licensed in Utah and Arizona and elected Maricopa County assessor, was arrested Tuesday night in Arizona, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes told reporters. He faces 11 felony counts in Utah, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud. He also faces fraud, conspiracy, theft and forgery charges in Arizona.  Continue reading “Arizona official accused of human smuggling via a Marshall Islands adoption scheme”

Fox News

A planned Turkish military operation in northern Syria has now begun, the country’s president announced Wednesday, as Kurdish fighters say warplanes are already bombing civilian areas in the region.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted that the maneuvers being carried out against Syrian Kurdish forces –which Ankara considers terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey – are part of Operation Peace Spring.  Continue reading “Turkey launches military assault in Syria as Kurdish fighters say warplanes are bombing region”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering

A Senior White House official clarified Monday that President Donald Trump was not immediately withdrawing troops from Syria, after Trump’s phone call with the Turkish president.

“This does not constitute a withdrawal from Syria. We’re talking about a small number of troops that will move to other bases within Syria,” the official noted, citing 50-100 troops in the region.  Continue reading “White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not Out of the Country”

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

Nearly 1 million people arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico and were encountered by law enforcement over the past 12 months, marking a major spike from any year in the past decade, the country’s top border official announced Tuesday.

Just under 980,000 people were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2019, which ran from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which handles all border and trade affairs. A total 521,090 people were encountered along the southern border in fiscal 2018.  Continue reading “Nearly 1 million people encountered at Mexican border over past 12 months”

KTLA

Contract talks aimed at ending a 21-day strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors have taken a turn for the worse, hitting a big snag over product commitments for U.S. factories, a union official wrote in an email to members.

The letter from UAW Vice President Terry Dittes casts doubt on whether there will be a quick settlement in the contract dispute, which sent 49,000 workers to the picket lines on Sept. 16, crippling GM’s factories.  Continue reading “GM Workers Strike Continues as Negotiations Hit Snag Over Commitments to U.S. Factories”

New York Post – by Yaron Steinbuch

US troops on Monday began pulling out of positions along the border in northeast Syria ahead of an expected invasion by Turkey, according to US-allied Kurdish forces.

The Kurdish militia in Syria said a Turkish attack could reverse gains made against Islamic State.  Continue reading “US troops begin withdrawal from Turkey’s border in Syria”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update 2: Just as we anticipated, the woman who confronted AOC at her town hall in Corona was, in fact, a plant sent by a pro-Trump group.

According to Gizmodo, the ‘let’s eat the babies’ woman has ties to LaRouche PAC, a right-wing group that supports President Trump. The group was founded by former Communist Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, who died earlier this year at the age of 96, was one of the original American political provocateurs.  Continue reading “LaRouche PAC Exposed As Ocasio-Cortez Troller Behind “We Must Eat The Babies” Viral Video”

WDAM 7

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – Nearly two dozen soldiers were injured during a nighttime airborne training exercise Wednesday at Camp Shelby.

Camp Shelby commander Col. Bobby Ginn said the troops were from the 4th Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

Continue reading “22 soldiers injured in training accident at Camp Shelby”

Fox 2

COMMERCE TWP., Mich. (FOX 2) – A town hall on gun control featuring Congresswoman Haley Stevens ended early as tempers flared and the arguing turned to shouting Tuesday.

It was held at the Multi Lakes Conservation Association and organizers were not transparent as to what the town hall would be about when it was booked at the club. Many of the members did not find out until recently that it would be about guns and gun control.  Continue reading “Gun control town hall at firing range erupts as tempers flare”

Press Herald

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dramatically expanding its power to deport undocumented immigrants who have illegally entered the United States in the past two years by using a fast-track deportation process that bypasses immigration judges.

In a 126-page ruling, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction shortly before midnight Friday, halting enforcement of the administration’s July 23 policy widening application of the “expedited removal” program to undocumented immigrants located anywhere in the country who entered over the past two years.  Continue reading “Federal judge blocks Trump’s fast-track deportation policy”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

With Syrian-based ISIS virtually non-existent, US officials are looking for a new enemy to justify the continued military presence there. The focus seems to be falling on al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, which officials are claiming poses a threat of launching attacks in the West.

The US policy on Syrian al-Qaeda has been very complicated over the years, with US support for rebels often boiling down to US arming of al-Qaeda forces. The US has also tended to be deeply critical of Russian and Syrian government attacks on al-Qaeda in northern Syria, even as they now argue the group poses a threat. Continue reading “US Officials Say Syrian al-Qaeda Poses a Growing Threat to the West”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Mount Pleasant, WI — In the land of the free, police can and will detain and extort you for improper bicycle lighting. If you try to escape this extortion, you can be mowed down by a police cruiser, mauled by a police K9, or, as the following incident illustrates, you can be shot in the head and killed. What’s more, the officer who does attempt to maim or kill you will almost never be held accountable as they are just doing their job.  Continue reading “Cop Chases Down Teen, Shoots Him Twice in the Head Over Stop for a Bicycle Light—NO Charges”

CNN

Police say the fatal shooting of a New York Police Department officer was the result of friendly fire.

“This is a tragic case of friendly fire, but make no mistake, we lost a life of a courageous public servant solely due to a violent criminal who put the lives of the police and all the people we serve in jeopardy,” New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill said Monday.

Continue reading “NYPD officer killed in the Bronx died by friendly fire, police say”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

An illegal march in Hong Kong held on Tuesday to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China had mostly petered out by the late afternoon, as the bulk of protesters left the starting point near Sogo, the SCMP reports.

Still, as has become a pattern in recent weeks, a small but dedicated group of protesters clashed with police, hurling Molotov cocktails and coming to physical blows.   Continue reading “Hong Kong Protester Shot In Chest During National Day Demonstrations”

The Hill

Business groups are continuing to push Congress to pass President Trump’s trade deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), despite Democrats’ attention turning toward impeachment.

“The American people expect their elected officials to walk and chew gum at the same time,” Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told The Hill in a statement.  Continue reading “Business groups press Congress on new NAFTA”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Austin, TX — In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of horrifying rights violations all stemming from a police officer claiming to smell a plant. We have seen both women and men sodomized and raped — often times in public — as cops search for this smell. We have seen entire families held hostage, women and children beaten up, rampant sexual assault, and all of it stemming from a plant smell. The following incident is one of those cases and the taxpayers are about to pay dearly for it.  Continue reading “Cop Smells Weed, Walks Up to Innocent Man, Beats, Falsely Arrests Him”

ABC News

The recent arrests of two 6-year-old students in Orlando, which prompted outrage and the firing of the officer who restrained one child’s hands with flex cuffs, mirrors a persistent problem confronting law enforcement and schools with thousands of children arrested annually and treated like “mini-adults,” experts said.

Stunning annual crime statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that between 2013 and 2017 (the most recent year for which complete data is available), at least 26,966 children under the age of 10 were arrested in the United States. And the numbers skyrocket for children between the ages of 10 to 12 with 228,017 arrested during the same five-year time span, according to the data. Continue reading “Nearly 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI”

Time – by Arica L. Coleman, July 29, 2016

On May 20, 2000, the legendary actor and president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston stood before the podium at the organization’s 129th annual convention with a banner raised behind him featuring the America flag and the words “Vote Freedom.” As he concluded his address, Heston picked up a replica of a flintlock rifle, raised it over his head and declared, in his own dramatic fashion, that anyone who wanted to take his gun would have to pry it “from my cold, dead hands.”  Continue reading “When the NRA Supported Gun Control”

Washington Examiner – by Mike Brest

A former Tulsa police officer admitted during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that she would “not comply” with an assault-style weapons ban if Congress were to pass one.

Dianna Muller, a 22-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department and the founder of gun advocacy group The DC Project, was one of many to testify in front of the committee during their Protecting America from Assault Weapon hearing Wednesday.  Continue reading “‘I will not comply’: Ex-cop tells House Judiciary Committee she will not obey assault-style weapon ban”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Los Angeles, CA — As TFTP reported in June, panic erupted inside a Corona, California Costco as multiple people were injured and one man was killed during a shooting. Dozens of  shoppers immediately dropped to the ground as fears of the next mass shooting filled their thoughts. However, it turns out the “mass shooter” was an LAPD cop and his unarmed victims were a mentally disabled non-verbal man and his parents. After months of slow playing and refusing to release the surveillance footage, the Riverside County District Attorney announced that they will not be charging the cop. Continue reading “No Charges for Cop Who Gunned Down Unarmed Mentally Ill Man and His Parents in Costco”