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Senate Cloakroom @SenateCloakroom 3h Vote Update: We expect a series of stacked votes starting at approximately 3:00pm. Vote order will be announced shortly. Confirmed by Voice Vote: Executive Calendar #48 Karin J. Immergut to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon Confirmed by Voice Vote: Executive Calendar #55 John Milton Younge to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Confirmed by Voice Vote: Executive Calendar #351 Mary M. Rowland to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois Voting NOW: the Senate will proceed to 7 votes: 1. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #205...

Top 3 Gun Safety Rules and What These Mean for Beginners Gun safety – this is a topic that is widely debated nowadays. And this comes off as no surprise, considering that there are so many accidents linked with guns. The truth is that you might be surprised to realize that many of these incidents occur because the shooter didn’t factor in the main safety rules that are applicable in most scenarios. As a beginner, you might be tempted to think that such a thing as a set of rules targeted for beginners is a no brainer. But, bear in...

FBI agents went to James Comey's residence and retrieved a secret, previously unreported memo he drafted the night before the agents arrived, well after he was fired as FBI Director, according to bureau documents released Wednesday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the transparency group Judicial Watch. Additionally, Comey told agents "spontaneously" that, to "the best of his recollection, two [memos] were missing," according to the documents. A source familiar with the probe has confirmed to Fox News that the DOJ Inspector General's office is reviewing whether Comey's memos improperly contained classified information, among other matters.

When I first heard that President Trump had gone after the Rev. Al Sharpton — and that Mr. Sharpton had responded in kind — I must admit that I laughed. Are there two New York City hustlers who deserve one another more? But 48 hours later, I feel differently. That’s thanks to the leading Democratic candidates for president, who have rushed to Mr. Sharpton’s defense, extolling his supposed virtues as a civil-rights paragon while denouncing Mr. Trump’s attack as racist. In doing so, they have, yet again, taken Mr. Trump’s bait, handing him another easy victory while yoking themselves to...

A Cook County judge Wednesday dismissed motions filed by Jussie Smollett's attorneys. Attorney Tina Glandian appeared in front of Judge Michael Toomin on behalf of Smollett to overturn the judge's own decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how the actor's case was handled, but it didn't work. That special prosecutor who hasn't been selected by the judge yet could recharge Smollett. Wednesday's hearing to overturn that decision was crucial to his case and Smollett's attorneys lost. The judge dismissed the motion for a new judge and also denied a motion by Smollett's attorneys to intervene in the case....

President Donald Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) were the focal points of a social media duel, where the president trashed the Maryland Democrat for presiding over a city that’s totally in a state of disrepair. Cummings’ district encompasses a portion of the city, which Trump described as rat-infested, crime-ridden, and not hospitable. Of course, whatever Trump says has to be attacked—even when it’s true. The racism allegation was lobbed again. It fell flat with those with cognitive function…again. Normal people don’t care—and those who are curious will find out that the city is a mess. The residents agreed with Trump’s...

One of my rules of thumb is that liberals want conservatives to shut up, and conservatives want liberals to keep talking. The more libs babble and the more of their worldview they reveal to the world, the more Americans they alienate on Election Day. And when it comes to driving away prospective voters, nobody's better than the new face of the Democratic Party: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here's AOC's latest delicious bon mot, courtesy of Rachel Frazin at The Hill: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said this week during an appearance on Ebro in the Morning that marginalized communities have "no choice but...

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib received a $2,500 campaign contribution from a prominent Michigan businessman who died more than 10 years ago, Federal Election Commission filings show. George S. Farah, Sr., a real estate developer and community leader in Flint, Michigan, made the large donation on June 22. However, Michigan Live reported he died of heart failure at the age of 73 on Feb. 1, 2009. ... Farah made no such contributions to political candidates while he was alive. It is illegal for individuals to make campaign donations under someone else's name, according to campaign finance law.

A black moon is basically the second new moon of the month, something that rarely occurs. It works similarly to a Leap Year. A lunar cycle typically takes about 29 days to complete, but our months are slightly longer. So sometimes, about every 32 months, we happen to get two full moons or two new moons. The second full moon in a month is called a blue moon, and the second new moon is called a black moon. But a black moon also refers to a month where there are no new moons — which is only possible in February...

An Israeli civil rights NGO filed a motion with the Jerusalem District Court to ban Democrat US congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Israel, according to reports. Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Centre called on the Interior Minister Aryeh Deri to forbid Omar entering Israel due to her support for the BDS movement, Ynet news reported. According to its website, Shurat HaDin is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies to help fight terrorism and safeguard Jewish rights through legal actions.

DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge is trying to address those needs. It’s a multi-phase competition aimed at promoting robotics technologies that can traverse, navigate, map and search underground environments. It will feature three different circuits — tunnel, urban underground and cave — before culminating in the grand finale that combines elements of each. For the competition, DARPA is interested in four technical areas: mobility, perception, autonomy and networking. For the networking component, the agency is hoping to identify breakthroughs that will improve the way information is sent from where it originates to the operators who need it. DARPA has been communicating with...

In an interview with the Associated Press, comedian and liberal activist Kathy Griffin said that after 2017 photoshoot in which she held a fake, blood-soaked Donald Trump head, she became “unemployable and uninsurable. “I kept saying, ‘I think this is an important, historic story,’” Griffin said. “The President and the Department of Justice shouldn’t make you unemployable and uninsurable.” According to the AP: The result is a feature film, “Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story” that’s part documentary, part comedy special. She financed it herself and carried a poster from interview to interview on a recent press day. “Look,...

The black community destroys Trumps "racism" in one video

The president’s reelection campaign hopes to use some of the Democratic presidential candidates’ most liberal stances to draw new working-class and independent voters to Trump. When the Democrats running for president all agreed at their first debate — via a raised hand — that public health insurance should cover undocumented immigrants, the Trump campaign saw an opening. The campaign war room immediately clipped the video and shared it on social media. President Donald Trump tweeted about it. It was a tactic, people assumed, to rile up Trump’s steadfast but limited base ahead of 2020. Inside the Trump campaign, though, officials...

Full Title: Tyrants: Democrats, led by Schumer, want to amend 1st Amendment to block political speech they don’t like In 2010, in the infamous Citizens United case, the high court ruled that corporate speech — and speech by companies, businesses, labor unions, and other organizations — most certainly is speech that is protected by the First Amendment, the same as speech by an individual. What’s more, monetary donations made by some of these same entities to political parties and candidates also amounts to ‘political speech,’ and, thus, is summarily protected under the Constitution. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his hack...

. @jsolomonReports just said on @hannity radio show that he does NOT expect DOJ to prosecute Comey for his crimes. John Solomon did not state the reason. Hannity said that he heard the same thing

Newsom compared civilian rifles to nuclear weapons.California Governor Gavin Newsom described commonly owned civilian semiautomatic rifles in sharp terms Monday, after one was used in a mass shooting in Gilroy, California.Governor Newsom said that the semi-auto rifle was a “G** damn weapon of mass destruction.”Santino Legan, 19, used a WASR10 semiautomatic rifle to kill 4 and wound 12 at a garlic food festival in northern California. The WASR10 is a “sporterized” AK-47 style rifle, a rough equivalent to the AK of an AR-15 to the military M16 rifle. Like the AR, it only has semi-auto fire capability, separating it from...

The timing is perfect, isn’t it? Here come the most searing, sweaty, sun-blasted days of the year, when the temperature and utility bills rise in unison. And right on cue, everyone’s favorite public agency in Los Angeles has stormed back into the news. The L.A. Department of Water and Power, infamous for a 2013 billing scandal and other shenanigans, got raided Monday by FBI agents who marched in and carted away records in a corruption probe that also brought raids at other city offices. At the DWP building, nine agents went to one floor alone, and at the end of...

What the Market wanted to hear from Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve was that this was the beginning of a lengthy and aggressive rate-cutting cycle which would keep pace with China, The European Union and other countries around the world ... As usual, Powell let us down, but at least he is ending quantitative tightening, which shouldn’t have started in the first place - no inflation. We are winning anyway, but I am certainly not getting much help from the Federal Reserve!

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.