Rolling Stone

Fifty-four years after illegally crossing the U.S. border in a Pontiac hearse, Neil Young has become an American citizen.

“I’m happy to report I’m in!” the Canadian-born musician wrote on his website after months of struggle to obtain his dual citizenship. Young explained to fans that the process had been delayed because of the “good moral character” provision on the immigrant application — meaning he admitted to smoking weed.  Continue reading “54 Years After Moving to America, Neil Young Is Now a U.S. Citizen”

NBC DFW

A worker remains missing after a large explosion at an apparent industrial building in Houston early Friday scattered debris across the area, shattered windows and sent another person to the hospital.

At about 4:30 a.m., many people reported hearing a loud explosion and felt buildings shake in the Northwest Houston neighborhood. Police and fire crews responding to the scene went house-to-house to let about 300 residents know to shelter in place, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference.  Continue reading “Worker Unaccounted for, 1 Other Person Hurt After Large Explosion in Houston”

Fox News

More than a dozen homes in a Northern California neighborhood were evacuated Thursday after emergency responders found hundreds of military explosives inside the residence of a 70-year-old man who died of apparent natural causes.

Investigators in Stockton didn’t immediately know how the man came to possess the explosives, FOX 40 of Sacramento reported. Continue reading “California homes evacuated after ‘hundreds’ of military explosives found in residence where 70-year-old man died”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – Twenty U.S. states sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block what they called its latest effort to allow blueprints for making guns from 3-D printers to be released on the internet, threatening a proliferation of “ghost guns” that spread violence.

Led by Washington state and controlled primarily by Democrats, the states, along with the District of Columbia, said they sued in federal court in Seattle, after the government published final agency rules earlier in the day allowing the necessary files to be posted. Continue reading “U.S. states sue to block White House from allowing 3-D printed guns”

US Department of Justice

Mustafa al-Imam, a 47-year-old Libyan national, was sentenced today to 236 months in prison on federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya.  Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty died in the attack.  Continue reading “Mustafa Al-Imam Sentenced to More than 19 Years in Prison for September 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya”

Strategic Culture – by Wayne Madsen

The crowing by Donald Trump that he “terminated” the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, Major General Qaseem Soleimani, simply because Trump believed, mobster-style, that he had it coming, should remind the world that the United States government stands as the world’s record-holder in either directly carrying out or coordinating with other parties the assassination of political leaders, American and foreign.  Continue reading “The United States: a Record-Holder in Political Assassinations”

KBTX

(AP) – On Thursday, a Texas A&M student who had recently traveled to Wuhan, China was examined for a suspected case of coronavirus, The New York Times reported.

University officials said the immediate health risk to people on campus was low. The student is isolated at his home while additional testing is done to confirm the respiratory illness.  Continue reading “Suspected coronavirus case in Texas; China expands lockdowns to 25M people”

Breitbart – by Joshua Caplan

Left-wing billionaire George Soros on Thursday reportedly warned that the 2020 election will determine the “fate of the world” and lashed out at President Donald Trump during a private dinner event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Soros, the 89-year-old founder of the progressive advocacy organization Open Society Foundations, accused the president of being a “con man” and a “narcissist” who wants the world to “revolve around him,” according to CNBC.  Continue reading “George Soros in Davos: 2020 Election Will Determine ‘Fate of the World’”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

A biosafety level 4 laboratory that studies the “world’s most dangerous pathogens” is based in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, leading some to claim that the virus could have accidentally escaped the lab.

In a 2017 article, Nature reported on the Medical Research Institute at Wuhan University, which houses the biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab, which cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million) to set up.  Continue reading “Chinese Lab That Studies “World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” is Based in Wuhan”

Virginia 1-13

The citizens of Virginia stand in the face of an onslaught against their civil rights. We the people must be united against this tyranny and look for protection to the statutes and principles our dear state is founded upon. Virginia Constitution, Article 1, Section 13, makes clear the provision we have against this kind of attack. Continue reading “Stand Together To Protect The Rights Of The Citizens Of The Old Dominion”

Yahoo News

In November, Utah Governor Gary Herbert proposed a new rule to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors in the state. The ban went into effect Tuesday night, making Utah the 19th — and most conservative — state to ban the discredited practice.

The passing of the ban was reliant on support of the influential Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which opposes same-sex relationships but preaches kindness towards members of the LGBTQ community. The Mormon Church gave its support only after the ban was amended to include certain exceptions for clergy who offer religious counsel, though the church stressed that it opposes conversion therapy.  Continue reading “Utah bans LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors”

The Drive – by James Gilboy

The relationship between car enthusiasts and police is a tense one, and not without reason. Our kind doesn’t like the extra scrutiny we receive from law enforcement because of the bad apples in our community, while the other prefers not to hear of (let alone engage in) dangerous high-speed chases. Anything to bridge the gap between these two groups would be welcome, and one Texas police department has a solution that sounds right by us, because it’s adding a Ford Mustang to its fleet. Continue reading “Texas Police Department Buys 2020 Ford Mustang With Money From Speeding Tickets”

CBS News

Los Angeles — Nine migrant parents who were expelled from the U.S. after being separated from their children in 2017 and 2018 set foot on American soil once again early Thursday morning in a historic, court-mandated return. Advocates hope the reunions will be the first of several reliefs granted to some of the hundreds of fathers and mothers deported to Central America without their children.  Continue reading “Migrant parents deported without their children make historic return to the U.S.”

AP

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants crossed the river into Mexico from Guatemala Thursday after a dayslong standoff with security forces.

Carrying U.S. and Honduran flags at the head of the procession, they walked along a highway toward hundreds of national guardsmen along the highway with riot shields and body armor and vans from the National Immigration Institute. The migrants still appeared to have superior numbers by at least double.  Continue reading “Migrant caravan crosses into Mexico, walks along highway”