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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was enacting steel and aluminum tariffs Thursday, capping off a week’s worth of controversy over his plans to impose the new trade penalties.

“Today I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel,” the president said in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, flanked by steel and aluminum workers. “…Steel is steel. You don’t have steel, you don’t have a country.”   Continue reading “Trump orders new tariffs, with exemptions for Mexico and Canada”

Daily Mail

An architecture firm has designed a minimalist, self-sufficient tiny house that aims to help rejuvenate its occupant’s mind and creativity – and it even disappears into the landscape, giving you the ultimate hideaway.

‘Disappear retreat’ is an 83-square-foot (eight-square-metre), glass-covered abode designed by architect Carly Coulson.

The £32,000 ($45,000) getaway camouflages into its surroundings using mirrored-glass walls and leaves a minimal environmental footprint through its zero energy, zero waste and zero water philosophy.   Continue reading “‘Invisible’ self-sustaining house that disappears into its surroundings using mirrored walls will go on sale next year for £32,000”

Free Beacon – by Natalie Johnson

The CIA has issued a classified report detailing China’s far-reaching foreign influence operations campaign in the United States, which imparts financial incentives as leverage to permeate American institutions.

In an unclassified page of the report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the CIA cautions against efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to stipulate funding to universities and policy institutes in exchange for academic censorship.   Continue reading “CIA Warns of Extensive Chinese Operation to Infiltrate American Institutions”

Daily Mail

Immigrants working at a Kansas cattle ranch have described the horrific working conditions which they say are ‘like slavery’.

Workers at Fullmer Cattle Co., which raises calves for dairies in four states, claim they were forced to work for as little as a dollar an hour until they paid off their ‘debt’ after the company arranged for them to be illegally smuggled into the country.   Continue reading “Illegal immigrants say working at Kansas ranch was ‘like slavery’”

Fox News

Despite a request from federal immigration officials, the Denver Sheriff Department this week refused to detain an undocumented immigrant who was arrested Sunday in connection with a fatal hit and run.

The crash between a semi-truck and a pickup truck on Interstate 70 killed the driver of the semi and caused a fire that closed the roadway in both directions for several hours.   Continue reading “Illegal immigrant linked to fatal hit-run not detained in Denver despite ICE request”

Middle East Monitor

Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s meeting last Thursday with a Syrian religious delegation led by Religious Endowments Minister Mohammad Abdul Sattar Al-Sayyed unfolded at a critical juncture in the Syrian conflict. With the anti-Assad rebellion all but defeated, and various foreign powers, including Turkey and the United States, carving out spheres of influence in different corners of Syria, the fulcrum of the conflict is shifting rapidly towards deadly foes Iran and Israel.   Continue reading “Iran prepares to go on the offensive against Israel”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A teenage refugee from Lithuania has come forward with a White House petition and a damning testimony showing what happened after his family tried to expose a little girl’s abusers. When his four-year-old cousin accused two high-level government officials—describing it in heartbreaking detail—Korolis Venckienė learned the hard way how the government protects its vilest members, up to and including using hundreds of militarized police and even murder.

As Venckienė explains in his petition on WhiteHouse.gov, this nightmare started when their family attempted to seek justice for the sick men who allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin.   Continue reading “Father Murdered, Family’s Home Raided by 240 Cops for Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophiles”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a shocking news story that’s rattled the federal law enforcement community, an FBI agent living in suburban Maryland stabbed and killed his estranged wife before shooting, and killing, himself in what police are investigating as a grisly murder-suicide.

According to Anne Arundel County police, the two were expected back in divorce court on the day of the murder, per the Capital Gazette.
Continue reading “FBI Agent Kills Wife, Self In “Murder-Suicide””

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration was almost finished with the legal paperwork designed to block the use of bump stocks, devices that turn firearms into machine guns.

The Republican president said last month he had signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to draw up regulations banning the devices.   Continue reading “Trump says legal papers on bump stocks almost done”

MassPrivateI

For six plus years, the LaSalle County State’s Attorney Brian Towne, formed an illegal police task force called the State’s Attorney Felony Enforcement, or SAFE, unit.(Click here to see Brian Towne’s State Attorney video.)

Calling an illegal group of law enforcement officers SAFE, is the most disturbing disregard for our civil rights I have ever seen.

During those years, SAFE officers illegally stopped and arrested 77 motorists and stole more than $1.7 million from them.   Continue reading “Court: Public should know when police create illegal task forces”

RT

Schools are shut and thousands are without power as the northeast of the United States suffers through its second winter storm in a week. States of emergency have been declared in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Up to 60cm (2ft) of snow has accumulated in inland parts of the two states along with neighboring New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Schools throughout New England, including Boston Public Schools, were shut in advance of the latest blizzard as the National Weather Service forecast white-out conditions.   Continue reading “Snow storm pounds US northeast for second time in 1 week”

RT

A sudden turn made by a US destroyer lead to a collision with a commercial vessel that killed 10 American sailors, an investigation by Singaporean authorities has concluded.

The incident on August 21 was one of several such collisions last year, which tarnished the reputation of the US Navy. The guided-missile destroyer USS ‘John S McCain’ (DDG-56) collided with a Liberian-flagged merchant ship in the Singapore Strait.   Continue reading “Collision that killed 10 US sailors caused by warship’s mistaken maneuver – official probe”

Mail.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham closed one of its largest schools for a thorough safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom where one 17-year-old was fatally shot and another wounded in an apparent accident.

Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said investigators are reviewing surveillance video for clues and interviewing students and staff to figure out exactly what led to Wednesday afternoon’s shooting at dismissal time at Huffman High School.  Continue reading “1 student dead, another hurt by gun in Alabama high school”

Mail.com

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — All eyes are now on Republican Gov. Rick Scott to see if he’ll sign the Florida legislature’s narrowly approved response to last month’s high school massacre of 17 people, a measure that isn’t what he called for, falls short of what survivors demanded and challenges National Rifle Association orthodoxy.

“I’m going to take the time and I’m going to read the bill and I’m going to talk to families,” said Scott, who wouldn’t say whether he’ll sign it. The measure would raise the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 to 21 and create a waiting period on sales of the weapons. It also would create a so-called guardian program, enabling school employees and many teachers to carry handguns if they go through law enforcement training and their school district agrees to participate.   Continue reading “Will Gov. Rick Scott sign legislature’s compromise on guns?”