From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News on Monday that his administration is thinking “very seriously” about labeling violent Mexican drug cartels, or factions of these cartels, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

Asked by Deputy Political Editor Amanda House during a wide-ranging, exclusive Oval Office interview with Breitbart News whether his administration is considering designating factions of cartels, or cartels as a whole, as terrorist groups, Trump replied that he is.   Continue reading “President Donald Trump: We’re Thinking ‘Very Seriously’ About Designating Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations”

BBC News

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated.

The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination.

Parents risk being fined up to €500 (£425; $560) if they send their unvaccinated children to school. Children under six can be turned away.  Continue reading “Italy bans unvaccinated children from school”

NBC News – by Steve Benen

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Donald Trump declared in 2015. “Every other Republican’s going to cut, and even if they wouldn’t, they don’t know what to do because they don’t know where the money is. I do. I do.”

It became a staple of his entire national candidacy: no matter what, Americans could count on him to champion these social-insurance programs.  Continue reading “It’s not just Medicare: Trump budget eyes Social Security cuts, too”

Middle East Monitor

Israel’s rabbinate “has been performing genetic testing on Israelis from the former Soviet Union, to check if they are ‘genetically Jewish’ as a condition for marriage registration”, according to Ynet.

The new site reported that “at least 20 couples have come forward after having been asked to undergo the procedure in the past year.”  Continue reading “Israelis ‘undergo Jewish DNA test before being allowed to marry’”

Jerusalem Post

“If I ran in the Israeli elections, I would win 98% of the vote,” President Donald Trump said at a closed conference with Republican donors in Florida on Friday.

President Trump also attacked the Democratic party, saying that they “hate Jews, I don’t at all understand how Jews support them.”  Continue reading “Trump: ‘I would win 98% of the vote if I ran in the Israeli elections’”

Middle East Monitor

US Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday pledged to push Washington to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights, the New York Times reported.

During a tour near the Syrian area, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, Graham said he would work hard to change the Golan’s status from an occupied territory to be part of Israel.  Continue reading “US senator vows to push US to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights”

Gateway Pundit – by Christina Laila

Bill de Blasio, the Communist Mayor of New York took a page out of Kim Jong Un’s playbook and announced “Meatless Mondays” will be implemented in public schools across NYC beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.

Bill de Blasio, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Communists in the Democrat party are now trying to control how much meat Americans eat.  Continue reading “More Hot Air: Commie New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces “Meatless Mondays” to “Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions””

RT

US diplomats are undermining Venezuelan peace and stability, the nation’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said, setting a deadline for them to vacate the embassy in Caracas. Washington vowed to hurry the evacuation of its mission.

American diplomats must “abandon Venezuelan territory in the next 72 hours,” with the countdown starting at the “zero hour” on Tuesday, Arreaza wrote on Twitter.  Continue reading “Final countdown: US diplomats given 72 hours to pull out of Venezuela”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

House Democrats upped their ante on illegal immigration Tuesday, announcing new legislation that would not only grant legal status to potentially millions of illegal immigrant “Dreamers,” but adds hundreds of thousands of more migrants to the mix.

Dreamers would be eligible for in-state college tuition and taxpayer-backed financial aid, would get new protections against swift deportation, and would have a “direct” pathway to citizenship.  Continue reading “Democrats announce expanded Dream Act for illegals”

Fox News

Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among more than four dozen people charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scandal that involved paying up to $6 million to place their children into elite universities, according to court records revealed Tuesday.

The alleged scam — which involved placing students in top colleges such as Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, University of Southern California, UCLA and the University of Texas — was run by a man in California, William Rick Singer, who helped parents get their children into the schools through bribes, court documents unsealed in Boston showed. Continue reading “Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among 50 snared in elite college cheating scam, authorities say”

The Eagle – by Antonia Noori Farzan

The blue 1967 Buick Skylark would have been perfect for an all-American road trip.

But Damien Roy, 22, and Bailey Roy, 21, never got that far. Before the two brothers could even cross the Canadian border, drones, helicopters, police dogs and a SWAT team surrounded their car. From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2018, the checkpoint between Houlton, Maine, and Woodstock, New Brunswick, remained closed amid a bizarre standoff, frustrating thousands of travelers.  Continue reading “Two brothers set off for an epic road trip. Their ‘stupid’ stunt led to mayhem at the border.”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises, saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only still happening, but has gone into “overdrive.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers say they’re being roped into such mundane tasks as opening the doors on vans to release immigrants already caught by Border Patrol agents. That’s dragging the officers from their usual duties of nabbing fugitives, or scouring local prisons and jails for immigrant criminals who lived illegally in the U.S. ready to be deported.  Continue reading “Support for Trump dwindles among ICE officers”

ABC News

A former Customs and Border Protection agent was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for helping smugglers get drugs across the southern border, according to a case unsealed Friday.

For 10 years while still an agent, Robert Hall “facilitated the trafficking of illegal drugs, including marijuana, into the United States from Mexico on behalf of a drug trafficking organization,” the Department of Justice said.  Continue reading “CBP agent gave drug trafficking organization keys to fences along the southern border, DOJ says”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Well gosh, golly gee… Say it isn’t so! Ol’ Obama started this whole thing and now the “conservative” Trump implements it. Where is the Republican outrage?…

My point to you the reader has never been about Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative. Continue reading “The U.S. Government Will Use Facial Recognition In Top Airports”

World Events and the Bible