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RUSH: Trump is getting standing ovations down in Miami. He has announced he’s reversing much of the Obama legacy vis-a-vis Cuba. He is going to double down on the Cuban embargo. He’s going to reinstitute the travel ban. He just said that any change in American policy is gonna be dependent on the Cuban government, not the United States. So another aspect of the Obama legacy is being unraveled here today to wild applause down in Miami. I don’t know what this means for Cuban cigars, which have become legal in a way. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So Trump has made...

Minnesota cop Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty of manslaughter on Friday He had been charged with manslaughter after shooting dead a black motorist Philando Castile was shot seven times by a cop during traffic stop on July 6, 2016 Speaking with reporters after the decision, his mother Valerie Castile said she hopes the police officer dies tonight The 12-person jury consisted of 10 white people and two black people WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Full Title..........................'I hope he dies tonight!' Mother's fury after jury containing 10 white people find cop NOT GUILTY of manslaughter after he shot dead her son Philando...

Trump is crazy. (Like a fox!) There are very few crime/mystery novels that approach this true story for compelling drama, intrigue and brinkmanship (with the nation in the balance). Don’t believe the fake-media story that Trump made a mistake or huge gaffe by firing Comey. Don’t believe the media narrative from the left that it was an attempt to silence Comey from some investigation into Trump. Don’t believe the RINO narrative that Comey is a good guy just trying to do his job in terrible circumstances and the timing was bad. Don’t believe the lie that Comey was admired and...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the name of raising up lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ, another U.S. Latin-rite diocese has decided to restore confirmation to its traditional place before first Holy Communion. Bishop Peter Libasci of Manchester, New Hampshire, has begun the process of restoring the reception of the sacraments of initiation in the diocese to their theological sequential order of baptism, then confirmation and first Eucharist. Most U.S. dioceses, for more than 100 years, have followed a sequence of baptism, first Communion and then confirmation, ever since Pope St. Pius X made the age of reason (typically around age...

Investigation: How Russia Acquired US Uranium – Endangering The National Security Of The United States. PLUS THE SKOLKOVO PROJECT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT! President Trump Vindicated! In this investigation, I first want to start with Hillary Clinton’s interview published on Dec 25, 2014 with Vladimir Pozner of Russia. She speaks about the successful reset she has made between Russia and United States. I am having trouble with YouTube today, so I hope you will be able to view this video. There is quite a bit of talk right now about Russia being able to acquire United States uranium, as Russia...

...The NSC memo obtained by The Hill stated that reverting back to the pre-2014 policy on Cuba would have shown “a strong commitment to human rights and democracy” and pleased anti-Castro “interest groups,” but would have also come with a number of risks.  “Global adversaries, such as Iran, Russia and China, would likely develop an even stronger footing in Cuba” if ties with the island were severed, the NSC document says.   The memo warned that cutting off relations would have eliminated economic and political leverage over Cuba to extract reforms, damaged U.S. objectives in Latin America, hurt U.S. businesses...

James T. Hodgkinson, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of Republican congressmen and staffers at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, had a list of Republican names in his pocket that was recovered by the FBI, The Daily Caller has learned. The news that the shooter had a list of names suggests the shooting was not a random outburst, but instead appears to be a premeditated political assassination. The list was written out on notepad paper and found in the shooter’s pocket, according to multiple sources with intimate knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of...

RUSH: Ken Starr. Remember him? The sex fiend. Ken Starr, the sex pervert. Ken Starr, independent counsel who secretly worked for the tobacco companies and was trying to get your kids hooked on Joe Camel dolls so that your kids would go out there and start buying cigarettes and start getting cancer at age 16 or whatever. How do we know this? Well, we know this because the Clinton administration attacked Ken Starr multiple times a day. The Clinton administration took aim at Ken Starr. The only way they could defend Clinton was to destroy the investigator. Yet here’s David...

London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed by members of the capital’s Jewish community over his refusal to ban Sunday’s anti-Israel al-Quds Day march and its traditional display of flags supporting the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Raphi Bloom, chairman of North West Friends of Israel group, told Breitbart News that despite repeated lobbying of Mr. Khan and a petition supported by almost 20,000 signatures calling for the event to be cancelled, the city’s leader has remained steadfast in his refusal to intervene. “Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation. It makes NO distinction between its armed and political wing, yet its supporters...

The wife of a gunman who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others says her husband went to Washington, D.C. because he wanted to work on tax policy. Sue Hodgkinson spoke to reporters Thursday outside her Illinois home. She says she didn't know a lot about what her husband, 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, did between January and March because she was busy with her job at a tax firm. But he sold items from his businesses and told her he was going to Washington. She learned about the shootings while at work Wednesday during a telephone call from...

Budget delivers huge tax breaks to CEOs and wealthy on backs of federal workers, retirees WASHINGTON –A new video from the American Federation of Government Employees illustrates how President Trump’s proposed budget would cut wages for current federal workers and slash federal retirement benefits for current and future retirees.“It takes money out of your paycheck right now and cuts the benefits you were promised for retirement,” the narrator intones. “Most employees will be forced to pay nearly eight times more out of every paycheck for a worse pension benefit than you receive today.”Specifically, the budget would: Increase current workers’ out-of-pocket...

Since Bill O’Reilly’s April departure from Fox News, a seemingly endless discussion about his next career move continues to rage. Mediaite reported today that a now-former producer of a Fox News program cites plans to join O’Reilly “in a new online video project that is soon to launch” as a reason for departure from the network. The producer also revealed that “there are broadcast plans to follow shortly” but did not reveal anything more specific. O’Reilly told Mediaite when they reached out for comment: “We are assembling a team of journalists and are considering a number of options as BillOReilly.com...

WALL -- Wall Township High School will print corrected yearbooks for every student after a photo was intentionally manipulated to cover up a junior's Donald Trump T-shirt, according to the district.  Superintendent Cheryl Dyer announced the decision in a letter to parents on Thursday, a week after the district was first alerted to the altered photo. The new yearbook should arrive within two weeks, she wrote.  "I cannot allow the intentional change that was not based on dress code to be ignored," Dyer wrote. "I am the Chief School Administrator in this district, and I take responsibility for the actions of...

A Minnesota police officer who was charged with manslaughter after he shot a black motorist five times during a traffic stop last year was found not guilty by a jury on Friday, according to multiple reports. Defense attorneys said Jeronimo Yanez, the 29-year-old Latino police officer, was scared for his life when he shot Philando Castile, 32, seconds after Castile informed the officer he was armed. Prosecutors insisted Yanez never saw the gun and had plenty of options other than shooting Castile, who was an elementary school cafeteria worker. The officer was also acquitted of two counts of firing a...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is warning that he will block a Department of Justice nominee until the department responds to his oversight requests. Grassley said during a Judiciary Committee business meeting on Thursday that the panel would not vote on Stephen Boyd's nomination to be assistant attorney general for legislative affairs because the Justice Department hasn't responded to more than a dozen letters. "The department needs to improve its communications with the committee members and staff. It needs to be more serious about answering the mail and questions from Congress," Grassley said, explaining why the committee wasn't going to vote...

The Pentagon is pushing back against reports that Defense Secretary James Mattis has recommended sending in thousands more U.S. forces into Afghanistan. “Secretary Mattis has made no decisions on a troop increase for Afghanistan, Pentagon press secretary Dana White said in a statementFriday, adding the yet to be released Afghan war plan would reach the White House in the next few weeks. Her statement came a day after recent reports claimed that Mr. Mattis had recommended President Trump send 4,000 more U.S. forces into the country. Currently 8,400 American troops are in Afghanistan, training and advising local security forces.

“I feel a lot more confident and a lot more optimistic than I did two, three days ago,” Dr. Sava said at a press conference. “When he arrived he was in critical condition with an imminent risk of death.” ....But Mr. Scalise is expected to recover. “I think we fully expect him to be able to walk, and hopefully run,” said the trauma surgeon.

Ann Coulter was a big supporter of then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, but so far she's been underwhelmed by the Trump presidency. On Friday, Coulter unleashed a series of tweets, ripping Trump for his lack of progress on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, addressing illegal immigration and halting the flow of Middle Eastern refugees into our country....

Two escaped Georgia inmates sought in the killing of two corrections officers were apprehended Thursday following a car chase in Tennessee. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles said that Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, were captured in Christiana, Tenn., a rural community approximately 50 miles southeast of Nashville.

According to the Swedish security service, the number of radicalized Muslims in Sweden has grown from hundreds to thousands since the beginning of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Furthermore, the number of intelligence pieces that the service looks into every month has tripled, from 2,000 to 6,000. According to the agency’s head, Anders Thornberg, Swedes “have never seen anything like it,” and the proliferation of Islamic extremism represents a “historic challenge” for Sweden... A report from the NEE (us) estimates that migrants will cost Sweden 19% of its national government budget in 2017. Most of this money is spent on lavish...