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The Butte County Sheriff's Office has released body cam footage from a deputy in Paradise the morning the Camp Fire broke out. Deputy Aaron Parmley was driving on Pentz Road in Paradise, attempting to locate four nurses from the Feather River Hospital who needed help evacuating. His car became disabled, forcing him to get out and continue on foot. He activated his body-worn camera in hopes of capturing what he thought were going to be the last moments of his life. Direct link to video. Here is a still from the video...

Video at link. Fox contributor calls migrants 'benign, suffering civilian crowd'Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera has an alternative to tear-gas agents used along the southern border to stop rock-throwing migrants: “the facts of life.” ~snip~ “These are innocent people seeking a better life,” Mr. Rivera said of thousands of migrants encamped in Baja, California. “What you don’t do is send 6,000 GIs with fixed bayonets at the border. Here’s what you do. You send Spanish-speaking ambassadors to the crowd. You explain to them that they are not going to be able to rush the border. You explain to them the...

I've spent much of the last year promoting, debating and -- let's just be honest -- hawking my latest book, "Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy." An interesting pattern has developed. Of the terms in the subtitle, everyone from my friends in right-wing talk radio to invariably polite liberal NPR hosts -- and the audiences that listen to each of them -- agrees that "tribalism" is bad. I think it's because no party or faction has adopted the term, so each side thinks only their opponents are guilty...

Sarah Palin ‏Verified account @SarahPalinUSA 🙏🏼 for Alaska. Our family is intact - house is not... I imagine that’s the case for many, many others. So thankful to be safe; praying for our state following the earthquake.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Anchorage, Alaska on Friday morning at 8.29am The center of the earthquake took place about seven miles from Anchorage, the largest city in the state A tsunami warning was initially placed for coastal areas including Alaska's Cook Inlet and southern Kenai Peninsula but it was later cancelled At least eight aftershocks rippled through the city, the largest one measuring 5.8 magnitude in Anchorage Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, which is more large quakes than the other 49 states combined White House said President Trump, who is in Argentina for the G20 Summit, has been...

Want a glimpse of celebrity living? Young Thug is reportedly selling his Atlanta mansion for $3 million. The Buckhead mansion, located at 3511 Roxboro Road NE, spans 11,000 square feet and includes seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, according to Zillow.com. The rapper, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, bought the home in 2016. According to curbed.com, the home had a selling price of $2.75 million at the time. Built in 2000, the home has an indoor pool, a bar area, a theater room, walkout patios and balconies. The gated estate also includes a four-car garage, marble tile throughout and a surveillance...

The West does not realise what it’s like to be a neighbour of Russia...” Meanwhile, in Central Europe, “we know exactly what price one pays for being a neighbour of both Russia and Germany..."

This one easy trick can save your liberal friends hundreds of dollars on winter heating bills this winter!

"Suddenly America is like the biggest oil producer, the biggest gas producer,” said Barack Obama in an impromptu remark at Rice University on Tuesday. “That was me, people." After a minute of additional economic boasts, Obama instructed the audience, “Say ‘thank you.’” Here was the essential Obama on display: smug, verbally maladroit, and shockingly dishonest. If America increased its energy production while Obama was in the White House, it was despite of his policies, not because of them. In a June 2010 speech after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama reminded America that “part of the...

This is what happened on the 6th floor of the Nesbett Courthouse during the Anchorage #earthquake. Both attorneys jumped under their desks. Evacuated the building after the shaking stopped.

Christmas came early for layaway customers at the Walmart store in Uniondale.  An anonymous "secret Santa" walked into the store and paid off every single item on layaway, delighting dozens of customers. Shopper Vanessa Rodriguez, a mother of four, ages 8, 10, 12 and 14, said she was "patiently waiting in a long line" at the store's layaway department on Tuesday when she overheard a nearby woman crying.  At first she was concerned, but it turned out she was crying tears of joy because an anonymous donor had paid off her account, Rodriguez said. "A few minutes later the cashier told everyone in line that...

The Clinton Charity Fraud Complex Expanded Starting in 2001, Even as Mueller, Comey, and Rosenstein May Have been “Investigating” Why are So Many Republicans and Democrats So Afraid To Prosecute RAMPANT FRAUDS? .

C’mon now. If you can’t bribe Vladimir Putin, who can you bribe? “If true, this story further underscores the need to finish the Committee’s counterintelligence investigation to determine what, if any, financial leverage the Russians may hold over President Trump and the Trump Organization, and what Trump may have hoped to gain by any financial offer to Putin,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement to BuzzFeed News Thursday evening…[Dem Rep. Joaquin] Castro also said he believed the plan could have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “If this was an attempt to...

FULL TITLE: Mark Penn: The Mueller investigation has come up empty on Russia -- You won’t believe what's coming next The pattern and purpose of Mueller’s investigation and the endgame is becoming clear, and yes, it’s clearly get the president at all costs. The team Mueller hired really foretold the story — Andrew Weissmann as the stop-at-nothing pit bull and a group of Democratic-leaning lawyers, including some who have represented the Clintons, had the obstruction of justice charge ready to go on day one. Trump’s first team of lawyers with their “don’t worry and cooperate” strategy set the president back,...

Following a high-speed Thursday afternoon, a pickup truck suspected of carrying illegal immigrants rolled over, killing three people and injuring 8 more. The accident happened near the town of Boulevard, California which is about 60 miles east of San Diego and just a few miles north of the Mexican border. CBS8 reports the incident began when Border Patrol agents attempted to stop a Chevy Silverado and the driver decided to flee: The driver of the Chevrolet did not yield to the Border Patrol’s marked vehicle – leading agents onto I-8 westbound at a high rate of speed.After Border Patrol...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio, the municipal police chief, and other officials for alleged violations of the sanctuary city law commonly known as “SB4.” The lawsuit stems from a December 2017 incident where the San Antonio police chief released a group of illegal immigrants found in the back of a tractor-trailer before proper officials could screen them

(CNN)A police officer who claimed she killed a Dallas man in his own apartment in the mistaken belief that he was in her home has been indicted on a murder charge, according to a clerk with the Dallas County court. The court records Friday showed both a manslaughter and murder charge entered in her file, but the clerk confirmed that the murder charge is the one prosecutors are moving forward on. The indictment of Amber Guyger comes more than two months after she was arrested in the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean at the Dallas apartment complex where both...

The office of TurkeyÂ’s President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Wednesday demanded that the countryÂ’s parliament strip immunity from the leaders of the main and Kurdish opposition parties and 19 other lawmakers to pave the way for potential prosecution, Kurdistan 24 reported. The move comes only a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the pretrial detention former leader of the Kurdish PeoplesÂ’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ had gone on longer than could be justified. It is also the latest in a far-reaching crackdown on the opposition, the Kurdish movement and civil society that has over...

FULL TITLE: Flamin' thirsty! Woman turns can of hairspray into a makeshift BLOWTORCH to burn items in a store - because the owner refused to give her free BEER Police are searching for a woman who made a can of hairspray into a makeshift blowtorch and used it to damage items in a Philadelphia store after the owner refused to give her beer for free. The incident happened at 10.30 a.m. in the Wyncote Beer Deli, West 65th Avenue, Philadelphia on November 20 when the unidentified woman wanted beer, but couldn't buy it because she had no money. Store Owner...

Following Michael Cohen’s guilty plea for lying to Congress, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly pivoted to investigating President Trump’s children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., for their role in trying to secure a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen testified that talks pertaining to a real estate deal in Moscow had “ended in January 2016,” but in reality continued into June of that year. Yahoo News reports that multiple sources confirm both Trump Jr., and First Daughter Ivanka, a top White House adviser, “were also working to make Trump Tower Moscow a reality” years earlier in separate projects, in 2013. Mueller’s...