Middle East Monitor

Israeli forces detained Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami of the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, according to an official statement, reports Anadolu Agency.

In a statement, the Jerusalem Affairs Ministry said Israeli forces raided the minister’s home and searched it before taking him into custody.  Continue reading “Israel arrests Palestine’s Jerusalem minister”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Henry County, GA — A family is devastated and asking for answers after their 24-year-old son was tasered to death by police after leaving a Georgia music festival over the weekend. Fernando Rodriquez had harmed no one and was simply walking down the street when police approached him. Moments later, after three officers simultaneously tasered him, he would be dead.  Continue reading “24yo Man Leaving a Music Festival Killed by 3 Cops Who All Tasered Him at the Same Time”

Department of Homeland Security

WASHINGTON – During a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations today in Washington, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan announced the combined impact of DHS initiatives that will effectively end  “catch and release” for Central American families arriving at the border. The policy, which will be instituted by DHS starting next week, is part of the Trump Administration’s strategy to mitigate the loopholes that act as a “pull factor” for family units seeking to cross illegally at the Southwest border.  Continue reading “Acting Secretary McAleenan Announces End to Widespread Catch and Release”

Breitbart – by Thomas D Williams, PH.D.

More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

Just as 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York accusing world leaders of robbing her of her future, scientists were begging the United Nations to keep hysteria from obscuring facts.  Continue reading “500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’”

ABC News

The White House released the highly anticipated transcript from President Donald Trump‘s controversial July call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The memo released by the White House Wednesday includes this cautionary language: “CAUTION: A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. The text in this document records the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty Officers and NSC policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place.”  Continue reading “Read the transcript of Trump’s call with the Ukraine president”

Unz Reveiw – by James Kirkpatrick

Michelle Malkin’s new book Open Borders Inc(reviewed herefollows the money” and shows who is promoting and benefiting from mass immigration–including those within Conservatism Inc. She exposes Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, respectively the head of the American Conservative Union and President Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications, both of whom have opposed immigration restriction. Continue reading “Michelle Malkin’s OPEN BORDERS INC.—Exposing Conservative Inc. As Controlled Opposition”

Yahoo News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) FBI agents carried materials in bankers’ boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday, and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linked to a Democratic state senator.

FBI spokesman John Althen said the agents were in the building for “law enforcement activity” but declined to elaborate.  Continue reading “FBI agents raid Illinois state senator’s home, offices”

Press TV

A US House panel unveiled bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would authorize $1 billion for small and rural wireless providers to replace network equipment from companies including Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp that lawmakers say pose a national security risk.

The legislation is similar to a bill approved in July by the US Senate Commerce Committee that would authorize about $700 million in grants to remove Huawei equipment, in a bid to boost the security of the US telecommunication network’s supply chain.  Continue reading “US lawmakers unveil proposed $1 billion fund to replace Huawei equipment”

Press TV

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has blasted the United States for sponsoring the terrorists who have been wreaking havoc across the Middle East, saying terrorism has only expanded in every country Washington has set foot.

In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Tuesday, Rouhani expressed surprise at US President Donald Trump’s highly hostile accusations during his UN speech, in which he called Iran “the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.”  Continue reading “Iran’s Rouhani: Wherever US goes, terrorism expands”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to suggest Democrats have dropped the pursuit of gun control, infrastructure funding, and prescription drug relief in order to try to hurt Republicans.

Trump noted that the Democrats are focused on “hurting” him too: Continue reading “President Trump: Democrats Gave Up Gun Control for Chance to Hurt GOP”

New York Post – by Lorena Mongelli and Aaron Feis

A distraught Bronx dad said the final words “With God, with God, with God, here comes the train” before jumping in front of a subway car while holding his 5-year-old daughter, who miraculously survived, his wife revealed Tuesday.

Fernando Balbuena, 45, spoke those chilling last words in Spanish — “Con dios, con dios, con dios que alli viene el tren” — to wife Niurka Caraballo in a phone conversation that sent her running out of the couple’s Grand Concourse home to the nearby Kingsbridge Road station Monday morning, only to find it was too late.  Continue reading “Chilling last words of dad who jumped in front of train with daughter in arms”

NBC

Relatives of people killed in the 2012 shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a Batman movie sent a letter to Warner Bros. expressing unease about “Joker,” an upcoming film that has divided critics with its lurid, violent take on the comic book villain.

“When we learned that Warner Bros. was releasing a movie … that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause,” the five family members say in the letter, according to a copy shared with NBC News on Tuesday by the group Guns Down America.  Continue reading “‘Joker’ backlash: Aurora shooting victims’ families express concerns to Warner Bros.”

Dallas Morning News

Officers scrambled up stairs and down hallways, breathing hard as they rushed toward Botham Jean, who lay dying last September on the floor of his Dallas apartment. First responders frantically took turns performing CPR as Jean lay unconscious with only a faint pulse.

On Tuesday, jurors in Amber Guyger’s murder trial watched body-camera footage from Sept. 6, 2018, the night that Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer, fatally shot Jean in his apartment.  Continue reading “Jurors in Amber Guyger’s murder trial watch officers’ frantic efforts to revive Botham Jean”

NBC News

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who for months resisted efforts to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, announced a formal inquiry on Tuesday, saying that the president’s growing Ukraine scandal marked a “breach of his Constitutional responsibilities.”

“This week the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically,” Pelosi said.  Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump”

The Advocate

A veterinarian prescribed antibiotics Monday for a camel that lives behind an Iberville Parish truck stop after a Florida woman told law officers she bit the 600-pound animal’s genitalia after it sat on her when she and her husband entered its enclosure to retrieve their deaf dog.  Continue reading “After woman bites Tiger Truck Stop camel, animal given precautionary antibiotics”

The Eagle

The floodwaters were raging again in Houston and Jim McIngvale knew it was time to dispatch the furniture trucks.

The salesman is known here as Mattress Mack. From his Gallery Furniture showroom on Houston’s north side, McIngvale, 68, could see Tropical Storm Imelda wreaking familiar havoc on Thursday. There were vehicles trapped on freeways that turned into rivers. First responders were rescuing people from their own homes.  Continue reading “‘I can’t let my people drown’: Houston mattress salesman turns his showroom into refuge — again”

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CBC News

A southern Alberta farmer who faced criminal charges for defending his property from suspected thieves is now being sued by one of the intruders.

Edouard Maurice was accused of shooting a trespasser in February 2018 after he fired off warning shots when he encountered two people rummaging through his vehicles at his property near Okotoks, south of Calgary.  Continue reading “Injured trespasser suing rural Alberta landowner who fired warning shots”