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Donna Brazile, the former acting chair of the Democratic National Committee, has joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor, the network announced Monday. Brazile, a longtime Democrat operative, will provide political commentary on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network and makes her debut appearance on The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino this week. “I’m delighted to be joining Fox News. I know I’m going to get criticized from my friends in the progressive movement for being on Fox News. My response is that, if we’ve learned anything from the 2016 election, it is that we can’t have...

An analysis of the reaction to the NZ mosque shooter and his motivation by the mainstream media.

In his first month in office, Attorney General William Barr has sent a reassuring message to the beleaguered Justice Department -- he wants a return to basics after years of disruptive firings, tweet storms and scandals. In briefings, Barr has asked detailed questions about cases, suspects and legal arguments. He has wandered his fifth-floor hallway to converse about the law. Advisers and associates said the approach reflects Barr's low-key persona, and his top goals of steering the Justice Department out of the line of political fire, boosting public confidence in it, and improving the morale of its 110,000 employees. "Everything...

A Boston woman was sentenced last week in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to embezzle more than $2.7 million from Bank of America using fraudulent donations to nonprofit organizations. Brianna Alexis Forde, 36, was sentenced to four months in prison and two years of supervised release, including six months of home detention. She was also ordered to pay $778,000 in restitution.

A few weeks ago, we were shocked to hear that a man survived for five days by eating nothing but Taco Bell hot sauce packets (resulting in his getting Taco Bell free for a year). This started us on the path to thinking that Taco Bell hot sauce was magical. And now, in light of another hot-sauce life-saving measure, we think we may be on to something. In—happy Monday, everyone—Florida, a man was sitting down at a Taco Bell in Winter Haven when he decided to get up from his seat to procure more hot sauce. Mere seconds later, an...

SPARTANBURG CO., S.C. (CBS Local) — A woman who allegedly attacked another woman with a stun gun in front of a home was arrested Tuesday, authorities in South Carolina said. Deputies found two bloody women on the ground fighting when they were called to a home in Spartanburg County shortly before noon for a reported disturbance, according to investigators. Savanna Grace White, 21, allegedly drove to the home and attacked the girlfriend of her child’s father. White began shoving and grabbed the victim before pulling out a stun gun and stunning her, CBS affiliate WSPA reported. The victim was reportedly...

Democrats are eagerly awaiting the release of the Mueller report, but it could actually turn out to be an early campaign gift to President Trump — one that helps him get re-elected. The results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report are unlikely to contain an undisputed bombshell that blows up Trump’s presidency, and that may turn out to be a boon to Trump’s 2020 chances. Don’t forget: the investigation was initially designed to probe whether Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, and that’s a high bar to reach. Mueller can prosecute as many...

Facebook abruptly censored the account of President Trump’s chief social media guru, blocking him for simply responding to a question from a reader. Dan Scavino Jr. said on Facebook that his page was blocked without notice. “AMAZING. WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ME from replying to comments followers have left me - on my own Facebook Page!!?? People have the right to know. Why are you silencing me??? Please LMK! Thanks,” he wrote today. Scavino is responsible for several of the president's and White House's social media accounts. He has been with the president for years. His accounts have a tremendous...

RUSH: Pittsburgh Tribune Review: “Trump’s Pennsylvania Popularity Is No Accident — There’s a reason why President Trump is becoming more popular in important Midwestern battleground states like Pennsylvania: Voters don’t want to lose the ongoing economic renaissance that is transforming their lives. “According to a recent opinion survey from The Wall Street Journal, the president ‘cumulatively leads a generic Democratic opponent, 46 percent to 40 percent,’ in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.” Even now, Trump beats a generic Democrat 46 to 40. This wasn’t supposed happen. Trump was supposed to barely be above 30 now. “The survey’s findings are...

Nebraska and Iowa have been hit hard by flooding over the past several days. Towns have been evacuated, crops and livestock have been destroyed and people have died. The full extent, captured at the ground level by World-Herald photographers in the field, can intimately drive that home. But a view from above — way above — can show the catastrophic, almost unimaginable extent of the devastation. In the before-and-after visuals below, using imagery from the EU's Sentinel-2 satellite, you can see whole Nebraska towns fall victim to the floods. Waters rise, trapping communities, and the previously identifiable river banks disappear...

Archaeologists and citizen scientists have unearthed what may be the monastery of Princess Aebbe, who was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the northeastern British coast during the seventh century. Once the pagan-turned-Christian princess (615-668) became an abbess, she established the monastery at Coldingham, a village in the southeast of Scotland. But the monastery was short-lived; Viking raiders destroyed it it in 870. Archaeologists have been looking for the remains of this monastery for decades. Excavators have now located a narrow, circular ditch, which is likely the "vallum," or the boundary that surrounded Aebbe's religious settlement, DigVentures, a...

More than 15 journalists, several U.S. government officials and multiple lawmakers were shown or given the Steele dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign or shortly after. Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele disseminated the dossier far and wide in an apparent attempt to insert the document’s salacious allegations into the media. Newly unsealed court filings show how widespread this effort was. Court documents released last week in a lawsuit involving the Steele dossier revealed new details about the campaign to disseminate the infamous anti-Trump report to the press and within the U.S. government. Much was already known about Fusion GPS and...

The Holy Father spent the sixth anniversary of his election as the 265th successor of St. Peter on a weeklong Lenten retreat.VATICAN CITY — On the sixth anniversary of Pope Francis’ election Wednesday, the Vatican's chief spokesman said Francis will continue to lead the Church as a synodal “field hospital” in the year ahead. Pope Francis “has a vision of an ‘outgoing’ Church and a ‘field hospital’ Church,” Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Holy See Press Office, told Vatican Media March 13. “The outgoing Church presupposes that you walk … and ‘synodal’ means walking together,” he continued. Gisotti connected...

A short film for American patriots. From a poem by Thelen Paulk. Directed by Stan Arthur.

Though cremation was legalized in Greece nearly 13 years ago, the traditionally-Orthodox nation has yet to see its first crematorium, as the movement has faced considerable opposition from the influential Orthodox Church which forbids cremation. However, another significant step in the process towards cremation was taken recently as Greece’s Environment and Energy Minister Giorgios Stathakis signed a decision to allow the construction of the nation’s first crematorium in Athens, reports Keep Talking Greece. Athens Mayor Giorgios Kaminis, who has been committed to building a crematorium in his city since 2014, tweeted that now the state will be able to fulfill...

Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) is calling for lowering the federal voting age to 16. In a press conference on Thursday, she told reporters that: “I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16…I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school, when they’re interested in all of this, when they’re learning about government, to be able to vote.” Democratic strategist Jason Nichols, told Fox and Friends that lowering the voting age is not an attempt at increasing Democratic voter rolls, but a way of “expanding our democracy.” “Young people, as we know, are usually...

Gabby Helsinger disciplined for Christian response to homosexualityIn a move reflecting increasing intolerance of traditional Christian values by public employees, an Ohio high school suspended a young woman for posting Bible verses in response to posters and flags at school celebrating homosexuality. Gabby Helsinger, a student at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, Ohio, was told March 8, the day after she affixed the Bible quotes to her locker and elsewhere, that she would be punished with an in-school suspension. The disciplinary measure prompted the student to record a video in which she recollects the events. The video was originally posted...

YC food and beverage bigwig Gregory Abbott and his wife, Marcia, allegedly paid $125,000 to boost their daughter’s SAT and ACT scores — as part of the college admissions scandal. Perhaps next they could shell out dough to inflate the streaming numbers for their rapper son, Malcolm. Or even better, maybe they could pay some folks back for going through the torture of actually listening to Billa, which is Malcolm’s rap handle. That’s certainly the only way we could imagine his 2018 EP racking up any decent amount of spins. When The Post caught up with blunt-puffing Billa outside the...

    ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Utah Test and Training Range, UtahThe Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) is a military testing and training area located in Utah's West Desert, approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah. UTTR is currently the largest contiguous block of over-land supersonic-authorized restricted airspace in the contiguous United States. The range, which has a footprint of 2,675 square miles of ground space and over 19,000 square miles of air space, is divided into North and South ranges. Interstate 80 divides the two sections of the range. The site is administered...

Judicial Watch announced that United States District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper for the District of Columbia agreed with Judicial Watch that the FBI did not adequately search for records related to the removal and reassignment of Peter Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team. In granting Judicial Watch’s request, Judge Cooper ordered the FBI to further search their records. (The original, deficient search had only returned 14 pages.)