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The EU’s new foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, will meet with Iranian leaders on Monday, as the EU seeks to salvage the tattered 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The meeting comes amid a policy split between European signatories to the nuclear deal and the US. The US dropped out of the accord, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and reimposed sanctions on Iran in August 2019. Tehran has responded by rolling back its commitments to the deal’s core elements, which include capping uranium enrichment. On January 6, Iran said that it would no longer adhere to its...

Are Battle Lines Being Drawn? What started in whispers is now appearing in print…American Thinker, Market Watch, Huffington Post, Washington Times, National Review, Daily Wire, Breitbart, Real Clear Politics, and The New Yorker, among others. They are writing about the possibility of a second civil war in this country, a redo of Democrats’ nullification of federal law, the insistent opposition and rejection of the lawful election of a president, the movement of many of our citizens to a more agreeable state, and acts of violence. These elements of civil war are now with us once again…nullification, separation, rejection, and violence....

And as for Impeachment, borrowing from Schumer’s sidekick Nancy Pelosi, it will “NEVER” happen because distrusting the Democrats is now “FOREVER” Yo, Chuck Schumer, it’s not just Democrat colleague Kamala Harris giggling as you spoke at Friday’s press conference that should have got your goat, it’s that Harris, ‘Self-Crowned Queen of the Dance and Giggle Squad’ is typical of what the Democrats have to offer as presidential material. All Democrat presidential hopefuls and their Dem cheerleaders are giggling and dancing time away, leaving all sworn duty and nation business behind as they continue their Impeachment obsession—-carried LIVE over all cable...

This week, President Trump formed a team of health experts to address the coronavirus outbreak. The problem, according to CNN, is that this team is not "diversified." CNN analyst Brandon Tensley lamented the lack of any minorities on the task force. "All we heard from Trump was that he was choosing the best experts in the world for this job," Tensley said. "President Obama would not have been so single minded. When he had the opportunity to appoint a task force to deal with the 2014 Ebola outbreak he carefully balanced expertise with the need to provide opportunities for minorities...

While Trump will "win " by not being removed from office, the public still needs to be advised of just how false and damaging the Democrat impeachment scam really was As the impeachment show unfolds, the real issue is getting overlooked: Democrats would guarantee a Democrat wins the Presidency in November 2020 if the U.S. Senate were to convict and remove President Donald Trump from office on impeachment. The deadlines for a Republican candidate to seek the Republican Party nomination for President in the 2020 election have already expired in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, California, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky,...

Colin Kaepernick’s Glaring Absence at the Super Bowl The last 49ers quarterback to take the team on a run to the big game has been largely absent in the run-up to Super Bowl LIV; ‘They’re trying to erase him’    By  Andrew Beaton Updated Feb. 1, 2020 1:50 pm ET   MIAMI—During the 49ers’ run to this Super Bowl, there has been one glaring absence: Colin Kaepernick. Seven years ago, Kaepernick took the 49ers to the Super Bowl. It was the last time San Francisco made it here. But Kaepernick has been missing from the week-long hoopla ahead of...

BEIJING: China imposed a lockdown on Sunday (Feb 2) on a major city far from the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll from the disease soared to 304 and the first fatality outside the country was reported in the Philippines. The events added to deepening concern about the potential for the virus to spread, as governments around the world closed their borders to people from China. Struggling to contain the virus, authorities took action in eastern city of Wenzhou on Sunday - some 800 kilometres from Wuhan, the metropolis at the heart of the health emergency -...

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Perspectives on the Presentation—A Homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord The liturgical focus of the Feast of the Presentation, which we celebrate today, is light. Christ is our light, and the people who walked in darkness have seen a great light! In the Gospel, Simeon holds the infant Jesus and calls Him “a light for revelation to the Gentiles.” Thus, this feast has long featured the carrying of candles by the faithful in procession and the blessing of candles. For this reason, the feast was often...

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! President Trump should take the win in the Senate trial without dragging it out, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails, then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting spending and cutting taxes!! Continue negotiating...

It appears that the long-running farce of an impeachment process may finally be coming to a well deserved end. On Wednesday, February 5, the impeachment without a crime will see the Senate voting yea or nay on the two articles. That vote will bring to a conclusion a three-year ordeal of continual lies, shredding of the Constitution, and malicious and unsubstantiated attacks. It will expose a long list of people who should be charged and prosecuted for various felony crimes including perjury, lying to federal investigators, fraud, and presenting false evidence to a federal court. Betting parlors are not ruling...

At one point she appears to express shock at the officer's refusal to let her off: 'My whole life has been an official. I'm a minister's daughter and an elected official. Like, everything in my life has been an official, but OK.' 'You don't understand, I'm elected. I'm a senator. People will be, like, 'The senator got arrested',' Warren is heard telling the officers while sitting handcuffed in the back of the police car. 'That'll be, like, [expletive bleeped]. This is going to be the most famous arrest you've ever made.

Two people were injured after a stabbing attack in London on Sunday by a man who was shot and killed by police in what has been declared a "terrorist-related" incident. London's Metropolitan Police Service said two people were stabbed in Streatham, located in south London. A man was then subsequently shot by armed officers.

ATLANTA, GA—Everyone was really happy that the Allied forces stopped Hitler. Everyone, that is, except CNN, who published a retrospective on the war this week, zeroing in on the real issue of Operation Overlord: no gay female trans POCs in any of the units. While most people were really grateful that Hitler was defeated, despite the U.S. military's wider segregation issues at the time, most people are not as woke as CNN, who condemned the entire operation as racist and xenophobic. "Ugh, look at all these cisgendered males," the CNN opinion piece read. "At some point, you have to ask...

The Des Moines Register and CNN announced Saturday night that they would not release their crucial Iowa poll, citing an error in which one candidate’s name was left out of polling questions. Jonathan Martin of the New York Times tweeted that the candidate who was left out was former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg:

It was the saddest of times, it was the happiest of times; it was the time of funerary apparel and commiserations, it was the time of festive attire and congratulations; it was, in Washington D.C.'s grand theater of the absurd, the time for impeachment. The final act of this Faustian tragedy began a week before Christmas in 2019, when, draped in black and nervous as a mortician trying to look sad at a fifty-thousand-dollar funeral, Nancy Pelosi announced that the president had been impeached. In spite of the melancholy atmosphere that covered the proceedings like a shroud, the proclamation elicited...

**SNIP** “The good news is that I have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate,” she said. “The bad news is that we need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. These problems, this corruption, started long before Donald Trump became president." "Some of the things we can do quietly. But that anti-corruption plan, there’s no way to do that quietly. We can’t keep doing this as a country. The one good thing about Donald Trump is that he’s got everybody off the sidelines. We run against that corruption. We run against the most corrupt administration in the history of this country....

Victim Angela Valle and "Grim Creepa."Facebook   The last words Angela Valle says she heard before her boyfriend drove an ax into her skull were a chilling omen she can’t forget.  “You all are not getting out of this,” Jerry Brown said, clutching the 3-foot hatchet as he stood over Valle and her childhood best friend Savannah Rivera, while they sat on the sofa in Valle’s Bushwick apartment. “It’s me, it’s me, what is wrong with you?” Valle tried to reason.  “Shut the f–k up. Just shut the f–k up. Sit on the floor,” Brown ordered, Valle recalled in her...

Author’s Note: On RedState back in September, I wrote, “A Quick and Compelling Bible Study for Those Who Don’t Read the Bible.”  After receiving positive comments from readers and many more via email, what appears below could be considered the second installment of an occasional series — but only when the Holy Spirit moves me to write about His Word. That said…The topic of three passages we are studying today — found in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke — chronicle the same miraculous event: Immediately upon Jesus’s death on the cross, “The curtain of the temple was torn in two.” Now,...

Not even this brutal, caught-on-video mugging — in which a struggling 83-year-old woman was dragged to the ground, and her purse wrenched away — is enough to get a suspect locked up these days under the state’s new bail reform law. Exclusive video obtained by The Post allegedly shows 56-year-old Dana White, of Jamaica, Queens, walking up behind the victim in front of a building on Eldridge St. on the Lower East Side at about 5:45 a.m. Monday. The victim is so petite compared to her attacker, that she stands only as high as his chest as he grabs at...