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How would Adam Schiff know? Robert Mueller may soon bring his special-counsel probe to a close, and it appears that the end will come without Donald Trump getting interrogated in person — either in a deposition or in a grand-jury proceeding. The House Intelligence Committee chair told Chuck Todd on yesterday’s Meet the Press that Mueller’s making a mistake in letting Trump off the hook with only written responses: CHUCK TODD:You know, it looks like, we don’t know this for sure. But it looks like Robert Mueller’s going to complete his investigation without subpoenaing the president before the grand...

A new mobile app described as the "Yelp for conservatives" is leaking user records and business reviews, according to a French security researcher. The app, named "63red Safe," features a motto of "keeping conservatives safe" and was launched over the weekend on the Apple and Google mobile app stores.

We’re still waiting for a definitive cause for the loss of two Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the past five months, including the latest one in Ethiopia. The problem is that such investigations tend to be extremely thorough, involving the retrieval and reconstruction of much of the plane. That can take a very long time, and it’s a job worth doing in the long-term interest of safety. But what should the various airlines around the world (including in the United States) do about it in the meantime? It’s a question that has industry experts and many passengers quite...

The mother of five young children left them alone in a filthy home for days while she went to a beach more than 1,200 miles away in South Carolina, Texas police say. Round Rock, Texas, police say Chrystal Walraven was in Myrtle Beach, where she “went to the beach and visited a male friend,” when police discovered her kids alone in a home that smelled like feces and garbage, KXAN reported. Court records show the 28-year-old said she went to South Carolina last summer in search of a job and “because she needed to get away with everything that was...

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Political figures who support the so-called Green New Deal and other proposals to restrict carbon dioxide emissions are up against some “inconvenient facts” that Americans may access immediately through a smartphone application, a geologist and author says. But there’s one big problem. The app, called Inconvenient Facts, is available only to Android users through the Google Play Store. Since March 4, users of Apple’s iPhone no longer can access the app through the tech giant’s App Store. Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist with more than three decades of experience, told The Daily Signal in an interview that he has his own...

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Many people have a difficult time changing their minds once they have formulated an opinion, especially once they have committed to the opinion on the record. I am happy to say fellow writer Wes Siler is of better material than that. In a June 2017 article, Wes was of the opinion that firearms, all firearms, were worthless as a defense against bears. He opined that statistically speaking, a person, when attacked by a bear, was as well off without a firearm as with one. He depended on research which had some problems with selection bias. Wes, quite generously,...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has slapped a super PAC that backed Jeb Bush for president with one of the biggest fines in the commission’s history for accepting a $1.3 million donation from a Chinese-owned company. The super PAC, Right to Rise USA, has been ordered to pay $390,000 for accepting the donation from the company American Pacific International Capital, which is owned by Chinese nationals, according to a letter dated March 8. The letter is directed to a representative of the Campaign Legal Center, an organization that filed a complaint to the FEC after a 2016 report by The...

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Monday that President Donald Trump could lose the 2020 presidential election if his “personality” is the central focus of his campaign. “The person who defines that race is going to win the race. If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it,” Ryan said during a lecture in Vero Beach, Florida, according to TCPalm.com. The former speaker said President Trump should focus on issues of substance, rather than not style, if he wants to beat his Democrat presidential rival next year. Potential Democrat presidential contenders include Sens....

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Sotoudeh has represented opposition activists and women who removed mandatory headscarf. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, was handed a new sentence on Monday which her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has represented opposition activists including women prosecuted for removing their mandatory headscarf, was arrested in June and charged with spying, spreading propaganda and insulting Iran's supreme leader, her lawyer said. She also was jailed in 2010 for spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security — charges she denied ... The news comes days after Iran appointed...

A 32-year-old man who threatened to harm his ex-girlfriend was shot in the groin by her while breaking into her Grants Pass home early Monday and later arrested, police say. Michael L. Fouch was taken to a hospital for treatment and then booked into the Josephine County Jail on suspicion of fourth-degree assault and menacing, according to the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety. The 31-year-old woman called 911 around 1 a.m. when Fouch arrived at her home and was still on the line when Fouch forced his way into her bedroom, where she retreated with her child, police said....

Prior to the 2018 midterm elections, a movement among blacks to “exit” the Democratic Party — nicknamed “Blexit” — began as more and more began to realize that the Donkey Party had not done anything for them except foment misery and poverty while perpetuating dependence on big government. “Blexit is a Renaissance,” movement champion Candace Owens said in an interview with Fox News in late October. “Blexit is the black exit from the Democratic Party. It’s the black exit from permanent victimhood, the black exit from the false idea that we are somehow separate from the rest of America.” The...

Justin Trudeau’s greatest accomplishment in life prior to politics was teaching drama on a part time basis. He has no real skills and is of limited intelligence. Trudeau is a textbook example of an empty suit After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party became involved in the scandal known as LavScam, much of the mainstream media turned on their one time golden boy who, until recently, could do no wrong. The featuring the PM in a negative light increased after former AG Jody Wilson-Raybould testified before the Justice Committee. It was difficult for even the most ardent Justin-lover...

Justin Trudeau’s greatest accomplishment in life prior to politics was teaching drama on a part time basis. He has no real skills and is of limited intelligence. Trudeau is a textbook example of an empty suit After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party became involved in the scandal known as LavScam, much of the mainstream media turned on their one time golden boy who, until recently, could do no wrong. The featuring the PM in a negative light increased after former AG Jody Wilson-Raybould testified before the Justice Committee. It was difficult for even the most ardent Justin-lover...

Building on ISIS territorial defeat in Iraq and the liberation of ISIS-controlled territory in Syria, DOD will continue to work with partner forces to ................retain territorial control............

According to a report and mugshot that surfaced, Florida rapper Baby Soulja was arrested in Palm Beach County for allegedly firing off a missile into an abandoned building. The rapper allegedly was showing friends a grenade launcher he just got and fired it off at an unoccupied building. As a result, he was arrested for various charges. According to his arrest report, he was charged with marijuana possession, aggravated battery, and a weapons offense for shooting a missile into a dwelling, vehicle, building, or aircraft. Take a look above.

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Kuala Lumpur-bound flight, which headed back to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when a frantic passenger told the crew that she had accidentally left her baby in the boarding area of the terminal, according to local publication Gulf News. A subsequent conversation between the Saudia Airlines pilot and air traffic control, which was uploaded to YouTube, has since gone viral.“May God be with us. Can we come back or what?” the pilot can be heard saying over the radio.“This flight is requesting to come back … a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing,” someone can be heard saying.

Meatless Mondays matter: In praise of New York City schools overhauling their menus once a week By Jessica Scott-Reid Mar 12, 2019 | 10:25 AM Building on a major expansion this past fall, Mayor de Blasio just announced that Meatless Mondays will be in public schools across the nation’s largest city starting next academic year. Not surprisingly, immediate online reactions ignited increasingly common debates over the consumption of animal products, from concerns about forcing vegetarianism on children, to calls to remove dairy as well. Ultimately though, eliminating meat from school meals one day a week is a positive and necessary...