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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced Friday that President Donald Trump raised $12 million at two separate fundraisers in the Hamptons.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and a delegation of Democrat lawmakers met with a number of left-wing activists and socialist politicians during their visit to Guatemala, some of which have links to billionaire George Soros. Pelosi and the Democrats made the trip to Guatemala just a few days before the country’s second round of elections, a move that was met with backlash from nationalists and conservatives who demanded the visit be cancelled. During her visit, Pelosi met with open borders activists such as Helen Mack, who has ties to a multitude of liberal NGOs and who runs the Myrna Mack...

An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwillingness to boost defence spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland. The comments by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, signal Trump's impatience with Merkel's failure to raise defence spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO military alliance. "It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans get to spend their (budget) surplus on domestic programmes," Grenell...

A New York City woman is facing charges after she allegedly sold abortion drugs illegally over the internet, including to a man accused of trying to force his girlfriend to take them. The Daily Register reports Ursula Wing, 41, of New York City, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court. She is charged with misbranding a prescription drug and conspiracy to defraud. Authorities said Wing sold the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol using an online jewelry business as a front. U.S. law requires that the dangerous drugs be prescribed and distributed by a licensed physician. According to the report, some...

It appears the Trump administration is drafting an executive order that has the potential to radically change how the content posted on social networks are governed, stripping crucial protections from tech companies and inserting much more government oversight. This is being done under the guise of a popular political talking point claiming that social media networks are censoring conservatives. The drafted order, of which CNN obtained a summary, is called Protecting Americans from Online Censorship, though in its current state it appears to more powerfully instill the fear of god in social networks with millions of active users than grant...

Francis: “I don’t separate Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants” Pope Francis is happy that the former German war minister, Ursula von der Leyen, a pro-gay ideologist, is the new President of the European Commission, the EU’s main executive body."Women unite," Pope Francis told the Italian daily La Stampa (August 9). For him the main challenge for the EU is "dialogue," although he himself kills any form of dialogue in his own Church.Those who are critical of mass-immigration resemble according to Francis to "Hitler in 1934."Francis uses the pro-life expression "right to life" to propagate mass-immigration claiming [falsely] that illegal mass-immigrants into...

Twitter’s initial decision to suspend the official campaign account of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) caused a massive boycott of the site’s advertising platform from the GOP. After the senator told a radio station that the GOP was “in a major war with [Twitter],” the company backed down and restored Team Mitch’s account. Team Mitch tweeted out “Victory!” at noon on August 9 with a funny GIF of McConnell’s head on the body of the character who escaped prison in Shawshank Redemption.

A San Antonio man was wrongly outed on Twitter as a donor to President Trump by Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro and said the incident forced him to review emergency plans with his wife and three children. Harper Huddleston said his name appeared on Castro's list instead of that of his retired father, who contributed to the Trump campaign. Huddleston said he supports Trump and has contributed in the past to the mayoral campaign of Castro's brother, Julian, who is now running for president, saying he was glad to have received the negative attention instead of his father, but explained that...

Democratic hopeful Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., faced shouted questions over why he wouldn't plainly call President Trump a "white supremacist" as some of his fellow 2020 contenders have. The questions came as Delaney was surrounded by cameras and apparent members of the press after his speech at the Iowa State Fair on Friday. "Why do you stop short of calling him a white supremacist," Delaney was asked. The apparent reporter went on to ask what the difference was for Delaney between saying Trump supported white supremacists and using that label to describe him. "I think it's a distinction without a...

FULL TITLE: TOTTING UP I had an abortion in my 30s so I can afford to buy my first son all the toys he wants and take him on holiday every year ABORTIONS have long been associated with teenage girls - but the reality is very different, with more women having abortions later in life simply because they can’t afford to have a baby. There were 200,608 abortions in England and Wales in 2017 – and according to a Department of Health study, there were a record number in the over-30s age group. Many were in relationships and over half...

A new independent audit found multiple errors and flaws in the rollout of California’s automated “motor voter” system California’s ambitious effort to automate voter registration at Department of Motor Vehicle offices produced almost 84,000 duplicate records and more than twice that number with political party mistakes, according to an audit released Friday by state officials. The analysis covered just the first five months of the new “motor voter” program, which was launched in April 2018. It found a wide array of problems with the rollout of the DMV system, including a limited amount of testing as well as inconsistent and...

On Wednesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was called out by MSNBC host Willie Geist for doxxing Trump supporters in his district following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that left 22 dead and injured dozens more. Castro, who is the brother of former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and the campaign chairman of his brother's 2020 presidential campaign, shifted blame for the doxxing, weakly telling Geist he "didn't make the graphic" that exposed the names and employers of 44 individual San Antonio Trump donors. The donor list that Castro doxxed included retirees and homemakers....

NEW YORK — In separate articles on the same day, the New York Times and Washington Post each seemingly parroted the same talking points 11 times in respective articles in their zest to baselessly connect President Trump’s rhetoric and policies to an unhinged manifesto attributed to the 21-year-old accused of murdering 22 people in cold blood and injuring dozens when he opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso. The manifesto is clearly the work of a demented mind and expressed views that are all over the map, yet both newspapers selectively cited the document to divine the El Paso...

What China did this week is the strongest counteraction it has taken so far in its ongoing trade war. It might have achieved the desired effect of causing market panic, but it will end up hurting China the most. By Helen Raleigh President Donald Trump announced last week that the United States will impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports beginning Sept. 1. At the beginning of this week, China retaliated by ordering state enterprises not to purchase U.S. agricultural goods and letting the Chinese yuan fall below the psychologically important rate of 7 yuan against $1.The...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has re-elected their first female presiding bishop, the Reverend Elizabeth A. Eaton, by a large margin. At a vote taken on Tuesday at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the Rev. Eaton won re-election on the first ballot, receiving 725 votes out of the 897 votes cast, or 81.19 percent. “We're church, church first,” stated Eaton in her address to the Churchwide Assembly following the election results. “Our lives are not only supported but our lives are surrounded, and our lives have their basis and meaning in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.” “And especially...

Over two thousand court previously sealed court documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein child sex abuse case were released this week and are now available. Cernovich.com reported on the highlights earlier today. According to one document Bill Clinton held a private party on Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile island. According to Mike Cernovich:

Advertisements have been pulled from an upcoming satirical horror film in which elites hunt and kill "deplorables," amid intensifying political hostility and following a string of mass shootings that have traumatized the nation. The plot of the Universal Studios movie "The Hunt," which is slated for a September release, follows wealthy thrill-seekers who travel to a five-star resort where their mission is to hunt and kill designated humans. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Studios is now reconsidering its strategy after the recent mass shootings at the Gilroy Garlic festival in California, El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The studio's...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is making an unusual promise to voters if he's elected. Appearing on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, Sanders promised to go back on the show after he was president to announce the existence of space aliens -- if they exist. Rogan: “If you got into the office and you found out something about aliens, if you found out something about UFOs, would you let us know?”Sanders: “Well I tell you, my wife would demand I let you know.”Rogan: “Is your wife a UFO nut?”Sanders: “No, she’s not a UFO nut. She goes, 'Bernie, What is...

In the wake of the El Paso shootings, Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas created a stir with a tweet listing the names and employers of 44 residents of the San Antonio area who contributed up to the legal limit to the Trump campaign. Twitter exploded, accusing Mr. Castro of “doxxing” donors. But sharing data as basic as a name and affiliation, unaccompanied by any suggestion, much less threat, of action against those individuals is not harassment. And the future of open political discourse will require us to address the serious scourge of online harassment without misusing the charge in an...

Firmly entrenched at the top of the polling for the race to become the party of youth and diversity's presidential nominee are three white people who are a combined 223 years-old. There is, however, some movement among the lower-tier candidates that at least gives political junkies something to watch.Entrepreneur Andrew Yang and his gimmicky "guaranteed $1000 a month income" campaign pitch are picking up a little steam.Politico: Yang crossed the second of two required debate thresholds on Thursday, when he polled at 2 percent in a  Monmouth University poll in Iowa. He had previously received at least 2 percent...