ABC News

Republican leadership has decided to pull their Obamacare replacement bill at the last minute at the request of President Donald Trump — capping a rocky series of weeks since the controversial measure was introduced and an order from the president for legislators to put their cards on the table today.

Sources tell ABC that Trump called Speaker of the House Speaker Paul Ryan at 3 p.m. to tell him to pull the bill. The next steps were not immediately clear.   Continue reading “Ryan pulls GOP health care bill following call from Trump”

CNBC

An Amtrak Acela derailed as it left New York’s Penn Station at a slow speed during Friday morning rush hour and all 248 passengers were safely evacuated, Amtrak said.

All NJ Transit rail service at the station was suspended after the accident.

The Acela Express train, which originated in Boston and was heading to Washington, derailed around 9 a.m.   Continue reading “Amtrak Acela derails at NY Penn Station, transit service suspended”

Breitbart – by Mona Salama

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared Tuesday that his deputies will block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from entering New York City public schools — even though agency officials say they are not pursuing illegal immigrants in schools.

“We will not allow ICE agents to threaten that protection, disrupt classes or take any action that would be detrimental to our students,” de Blasio said at a press conference held outside New York’s Tweed Courthouse Tuesday afternoon. “With these updated guidelines, we are reinforcing the fact that a school is a safe and protected location,” he said, adding that his promise would not apply if ICE got a court order.    Continue reading “Mayor de Blasio to Block ICE Officers from Entering City Schools”

AP – by Daniel Estrin

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in a case that stoked fears across the United States.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but said his motives were still unclear. Israeli media identified him as an American-Israeli dual citizen and said he had been found unfit for compulsory service in the Israeli military.   Continue reading “Israeli police arrest a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats in U.S.”

Yahoo News – by Shreesha Ghosh

Four people including a police officer were killed in a series of shootings Wednesday in Marathon County, northern Wisconsin that began after a domestic dispute at a bank, officials said. At a press conference in the evening, police confirmed that the suspect has been taken into custody and that there is no public threat anymore. The police have neither released the name of the suspect nor has it named the people, killed in the shootings.

Everest Metro Police Chief, Wally Sparks confirmed that the officer who was killed during the shootings was from his department, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “4 Killed Including A Police Officer In Wisconsin”

PJ Media – by Rick Moran

A 14-year-old girl in Maryland was dragged into a men’s room at her school by two older illegal alien classmates who proceeded to rape and sodomize her.

The two suspects were 17 and 18 years old. Despite that, they were in the same ninth grade class as their victim, leading to questions about the wisdom of placing nearly illiterate, non-English speaking illegal immigrants in classes attended by younger American children.   Continue reading “Maryland Girl, 14, Raped by Older Illegal Aliens at School”

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ABC News

There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower.

But it was not placed at the behest of Barack Obama, and the target was not the Trump campaign of 2016. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York.   Continue reading “Russian mafia boss still at large after FBI wiretap at Trump Tower”

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Tax Revolution Institute by Philip Schlosser

US House Republicans have proposed a tax reform plan as part of their Better Way Forward initiative called “The Blueprint,” which, for one, modifies the corporate income tax into what is called a “destination-based cash-flow tax,” or DBCFT. In a nutshell, this means both domestic and foreign firms alike will be subject to a tax on all sales made within the United States, while US exports are exempted.   Continue reading “The Border Adjustment Tax: Why This Trillion Dollar BAT Shouldn’t Fly”

The Hill

ANOTHER DELAY: The White House has delayed the release of an executive order on climate change, two sources told The Hill on Monday.

President Trump was expected to sign his long-awaited order on Monday, beginning the process of rolling back major Obama-era climate change policies and fulfilling key campaign promises.   Continue reading “White House delays climate order’s release”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has pulled legal analyst Andrew Napolitano from the air after disavowing his on-air claim that British intelligence officials had helped former President Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump.

A person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a personnel matter said Napolitano has been benched and won’t be appearing on the air in the near future. Fox had no immediate comment Monday.   Continue reading “Fox pulls Napolitano from air after Trump report”

Reuters – by Julia Edwards Ainsley

The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to two administration officials.

How many judges will be reassigned and when they will be sent is still under review, according to the officials, but the Justice Department has begun soliciting volunteers for deployment.   Continue reading “Immigration Judges Headed To 12 U.S. Cities To Speed Deportations”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating in Syria, in a rare such incident that spilled over into neighboring countries.

The Syrian army said it had shot down an Israeli jet during the operation. Israel denied this, saying that all its aircraft had returned unscathed.

“At no point was the safety of Israeli civilians or the IAF (Israeli Air Force) aircraft compromised,” an Israeli military spokesman said.   Continue reading “Israel intercepts missile fired at its air force in Syria”

Yahoo News

MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP) — A teenager has found a 7.44 carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas.

Officials at Crater of Diamonds State Park at Murfreesboro say the rock found Saturday by 14-year-old Kalel Langford is the seventh largest found since the park was established in 1972. The park hasn’t provided an estimate of the diamond’s value.   Continue reading “Teenager finds 7.44 carat diamond in Arkansas state park”

WUSA 9

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) — A resident is missing after a house explosion that rocked the Randolph Hills neighborhood of Rockville early Friday morning, leveling one home and damaging several others nearby.

Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said they received the first report of an explosion shortly before 1:00 a.m.  Crews were on the way to the scene when several additional calls came in reporting an explosion and house fire in the 11400 block of Ashley Drive at the intersection of Grayling Lane.  Continue reading “Resident unaccounted for after Rockville house explosion”

RT

One woman has been left completely blind and two others partially lost their sight after stem cells were injected into their eyeballs as part of a clinical trial. The experimental treatment was not approved by the Federal Drug Administration.

The women paid $5,000 each to correct their eyesight after beginning to experience vision loss, but the true cost of the procedure — age-related macular degeneration — was much more costly. After stem cells were injected into their eyes, the cells began to grow into their retinas and caused them to detach from the eyeball.   Continue reading “‘We decided not to go forward with additional patients’: Stem cell clinic blinds 3 women”

ABC News

An FDNY EMT and mother of five is dead after her ambulance was stolen and she was then hit by her own vehicle.

The incident occurred in the Bronx, New York, at just after 7 p.m. on Thursday, a police source told ABC News, and involved two EMTs, both female.

NYPD said Bronx resident Jose Gonzalez, 25, was charged with murder, grand larceny and operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs. He is expected to be in court on Friday.  Continue reading “EMT dead after being run over by own stolen ambulance in New York”

RT

The Syrian Army says Israeli military jets hit a “military target” near Palmyra in a raid overnight. In retaliation the jets were targeted by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles.

According to a Syrian Army statement, a total of four Israeli jets breached Syrian airspace on Friday morning, Reuters reports. Syria’s air defenses shot down one of the Israeli jets over “occupied ground” and damaged another.   Continue reading “Syria claims Israeli jet shot down after strike near Palmyra, IDF says all aircraft undamaged”

Fox News

RALEIGH, N.C. –  Firefighters battled a massive late-night fire that engulfed an apartment building under construction in North Carolina’s capital city, authorities said early Friday.

Preliminary information indicates there were no injuries, said Raleigh police spokeswoman Laura Hourigan. The fire began shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday in the building in downtown Raleigh, a city in the eastern part of the state.   Continue reading “Massive fire engulfs Raleigh apartment building under construction”