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The topic of discussion is unknown. The news conference was originally scheduled for Tuesday morning but was postponed due to the bridge collapse in Baltimore. A container ship rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore, causing it to snap and plunge into the river below.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the District of Columbia alleges that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security did not properly consider renewable energy in rebuilding Puerto Rico’s power grid, making the island further susceptible to future climate disasters. The complaint, filed by a coalition of 10 community and conservation groups, accuses the federal agencies of misappropriating billions in federal recovery funds by conducting an incomplete environmental analysis. **SNIP** FEMA, the lawsuit alleges, has not properly considered sources such as rooftop solar and storage in rebuilding the grid, which was knocked out last September by...

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy became the president of Ukraine in 2019, it made headlines around the world. That wasn’t because he was a political heavyweight deemed ready to resolve Ukraine’s deep-seated challenges —ranging from an economic crisis to corruption and an entrenched, powerful oligarchy — not to mention the conflict between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. It was just the opposite. Zelenskyy was a political novice whose closest brush with politics was playing the role of Ukrainian president in a well-known domestic TV series, before life imitated art and he decided to launch his own...

President Joe Biden on Monday admitted the federal government was failing Puerto Rico, speaking as he left the White House to visit two weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit the island. “I’m heading to Puerto Rico because they haven’t been taken very good care of,” Biden told reporters after exiting the White House. Both the president and First Lady Jill Biden are traveling to Puerto Rico to get updates on the island’s recovery and help pack bags of food and essential items for residents still struggling after the Category 1 storm. Over 120,000 residents are still without power, two weeks after...

Typical Arabic error by Arab-Nazi "Palestinians" in their swastika drawing. The Arab "Palestinian" "actvist" drew two swastikas. One on the red part if the flag and another on the white part. The latter has a typical Arabic error... Two thirds of Muslims in Puerto Rico are "Palestinian". (According to Ken Chitwood, University of Florida, on June 23, 2017, at The Conversation.) ______ StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) Tweeted: DISGUSTING - a sign in the heavily Jewish populated area of Candado, Puerto Rico was changed from "Israel #1" to "Free Palestine F*ck Israel" with a swastika inside the Palestinian flag. Feb 13, 2021....

WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday scolded a journalist who asked her about Americans “stranded” in Afghanistan — insisting it is “irresponsible” to use that term despite numerous reports of Americans being unable to board flights out. Biden administration officials say they don’t know how many US citizens remain in the country following last week’s Taliban takeover, but some are alerting news outlets that they cannot reach Kabul’s airport to be evacuated

Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) Tweeted:Infidel Israeli & rockstar reporter @kaisos1987 got a rare (English-language) interview with Taliban spokesman @suhailshaheen1, who is trying to sweet-talk the West into joining forces. Must watch. https://t.co/CT6zTVrDao Aug 17, 2021Taliban spokesman in exclusive interview Kann News: "We will not harm human life" Roi Kais, Kann News, Aug 17, 2021: Two days after the Taliban takeover, spokesman Suhail Shahin is trying to reassure Afghan citizens and Western countries: "People should not be afraid and flee... Interested in good relations with the world" • On the last Jew in Kabul said: "We do not harm minorities"

It probably doesn't get more comical than to learn that a group of former Hillary Clinton operatives have gotten together in a quest to make Kamala Harris more...likeable.According to Axios:Details: The host was Kiki McLean, a Democratic public affairs expert and former adviser to both Clintons.Her guests included Harris confidant Minyon Moore; two former DNC officials, Donna Brazile and Leah Daughtry; Biden adviser and leader of his outside group, Stephanie Cutter; former Hillary Clinton spokeswomen and Democratic strategists Adrienne Elrod and Karen Finney; and former Obama White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri.Nobody from the vice president's office was at the...

@Breaking911 NEW: House Democrats have introduced a bill to give Puerto Rico statehood (H.R. 1522), which would give Democrats two more Senate seats and multiple House seats -Politico

Top officials in Puerto Rico say they believe they can make progress toward statehood, after voters on the island approved a statehood referendum and now that Democrats control Congress and the White House. In interviews, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi (D) and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R) said they believed they can build bipartisan support for a statehood measure in the House this year, though both acknowledged the uphill fight such a bill would face in the Senate. “It will have a substantial majority of support with votes from both sides of the aisle. Primarily Democrats, but there will be a significant...

President-elect Joe Biden named Ron Klain, a lawyer and former President Barack Obama’s “Ebola czar,” to serve as his White House chief of staff. “Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014,” Biden said in a Wednesday statement distributed by his transition team. ... Klain has additionally been extremely critical of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. In March, he gave the federal...

White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro will sit down next week with Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, a Republican from Puerto Rico, to discuss legislation she crafted to bring companies back from China to distressed areas in the United States. The measure would offer tax incentives for businesses to move pharmaceutical drug or device manufacturing to "distressed zones" in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It would also provide tax breaks for goods and services purchased by a manufacturer from a provider located within one of these zones. Incentives would be greater for supply lines that move from overseas...

Recently, and not for the first time, the comedian’s public persona has appeared to be at odds with her private actionsEllen wants everyone to ‘be kind’ – maybe she should rethink what that means “Be kind” Ellen DeGeneres says at the end of every episode of her eponymous show. There’s a BE KIND Ellen hat. A BE KIND wine tote. A BE KIND subscription box. There are even BE KIND face masks – so you can try killing the coronavirus with kindness. Shockingly, it seems that DeGeneres might not always practice what she preaches: crew members on her talkshow are...

It’s not quite the same as finding out that the most recognizable face of your company has been arrested for pedophilia, but Dunkin’ Donuts has to be rethinking its marketing strategy after spokesman Snoop Dogg spent the last 48 hours threatening CBS news anchor Gayle King and calling for the release of convicted sex offender Bill Cosby. In January – one month after Dunkin’ Donuts’ CMO resigned to pursue “the next opportunity” – the coffee chain launched a national ad campaign featuring Snoop Dogg. Now, less than a month later, it has to make a decision about whether to suspend...

Democrats are in charge of the House of Representatives once again, and so they have placed a bill on the House floor that would admit the District of Columbia to the Union as a state. The political motivations are clear. The new state — for which they propose the unwieldy name “State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth” — would be reliably Democratic, adding two senators and one representative to the party’s totals.

Video on EWTN Prayers and support are needed for pro-lifers in Puerto Rico who are taking to the streets today to demand common sense, compassionate limits on abortion to protect unborn children and their mothers. The Luchemos por las Dos Vidas (“Lets Fight for Both Lives”) March is being organized today by the pro-life group Mujeres 950 and others.  National pro-life groups have endorsed the March and are supporting efforts to pass pro-life legislation in Puerto Rico. Abortion is currently legal in the U.S. territory up until the moment of birth – a radical status quo created by Roe v. Wade....

In a secret recording published by Los Angeles-based political activist Currie Dobson, “Resistance” hero Brian Krassenstein admits to being paid for his excessive anti-Trump tweets. The purpose of this is, he admits, is to spam the president’s feed and prevent positive commentary from being visible at the top when people scroll through the responses. When asked if being a member of the “Resistance” is a job for him, Krassenstein begins by stating that he has several businesses and that it’s just what he enjoys spending his time doing. He quickly goes on to admit that he also happens to be...

Hurricane Florence struck the Carolinas on Thursday, moving slowly inland. By Friday morning, it had brought a 10-foot storm surge and sever flooding to parts of North Carolina. Multiple people have needed to be rescued and power companies are reporting more than 150,000 outages due to strong winds topping 90 miles per hour. Yet for all of its destruction, it's just one of many terrible weather events that have caused humanitarian disasters in the United States over the past two years — most notably Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Florida's Republican governor says he supports making Puerto Rico the nation's 51st state. Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday said the United States should "respect the will of the people of Puerto Rico." The U.S. territory held a referendum last year where more than a half a million voters backed statehood.

<p>San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, speaks during a House Democratic Leaders news conference with Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Cruz on Wednesday questioned why Republicans abruptly postponed a House hearing where she was scheduled to testify about the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico. Cruz, who has tangled with President Donald Trump about the federal response, suggested the White House did not want to hear her criticism.</p>