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Conservative actor James Woods said on Thursday that he will no longer be using Twitter after the platform suspended him and then deleted a tweet that he refused to take down after the platform received widespread scorn from lawmakers for its continued censorship of conservatives. "Twitter demanded that I rescind my tweet paraphrasing Emerson," Woods said in a statement to The Daily Wire. "It now seems they have chosen to delete that tweet from my account without my permission. Until free speech is allowed on Twitter, I will not be permitted to participate in our democracy with my voice. As...

Joe Biden said at a California campaign event that the nation has an obligation to provide health care for people, including those who came into the country illegally. 'I think that anyone who is in a situation where they're in need of healthcare, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for," Biden said in Los Angeles, where he held a major fundraiser. He didn't specify what type of care he had in mind, or whether it would be the same care provided to citizens and legal immigrants. "That's why...

Trump’s success story in the Midwest will be hard for Democrats to top.Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination for president one year from now, the party’s deep pockets already are prepping the groundwork to make sure that history—or herstory, if you will—does not repeat itself in 2020. The Democratic presidential candidate’s path to the White House doesn’t run along the Acela Corridor or the Pacific Coast Highway, but rather across Interstate 94 in the upper midsection of the country. Democrats learned this the hard way in 2016. For all her excuses—Russian social media bots, former FBI Director James Comey,...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 2 Samuel 19 David Returns to Jerusalem 9 Throughout the tribes of Israel, all the people were arguing among themselves, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies; he is the one who rescued us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he has fled the country to escape from Absalom; 10 and Absalom, whom we anointed to rule over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?” 11 King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Ask the...

She kept the world guessing for weeks over what she and Prince Harry would call their first born, and stunned royal watchers when the pair eventually revealed the baby's name was Archie. Fans and experts alike praised the couple for shunning more 'traditional' monikers in favour of Archie, which means 'brave', and is often used as a shortened form of Archibold. Now friends of the Duchess of Sussex have claimed the former actress took inspiration for the little boy's first name from a beloved family pet. A former close friend of Meghan revealed that the ex-Suits actress and her mother...

Climate change is having an impact on frogs found in British ponds, research suggests. A deadly frog disease is spreading due to warmer temperatures and in the next 50 years could cause entire populations to vanish, according to a study. The virus could spell disaster for the common frog, which is a familiar sight in garden ponds and the countryside. Amphibians have been particularly hard hit by changes in the natural world. The study provides "strong evidence" of the impact of climate change on wildlife disease and how it might aid the spread of the virus across the UK, said...

LEBANON, Ohio — One five-year-old was quite the shining star at her preschool graduation. According to her grandmother, 5-year-old Lily loves to dance and she had no hesitations dancing her heart out Wednesday during her the ceremony. (Video at link)

Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams announced Thursday he is hosting iconic American rocker and Second Amendment die hard Ted Nugent this summer for a campaign fundraiser in Windsor. The event, titled “Fighting the Stranglehold on our Constitution: An American Celebration,” takes place June 21 at The Island at Pelican Lakes, 445 Baja Drive, in Windsor. The event kicks off at 5 p.m. with a barbecue buffet. A rally begins at 7 p.m. “The Nuge” will serve as the event’s keynote speaker. Reams also will speak during the event, as will other still to be determined county sheriffs. Tickets are limited...

The Department of Defense has a suicide problem. Thank Presidents Clinton and Obama. Prior to 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) used to screen recruits, officer candidates, and service academy entrants for mental, personality, and suicide behavior disorders. Now they don’t. The Department of Defense uses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as its source reference for psychiatric diagnoses and metal disorders.  Most Americans have little knowledge of, the DSM, its contents, and its implications.  The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and “offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of...

The United Nations secretary-general said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible. That’s because the alternative “would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world,” António Guterres told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview. That means, he said, the world has to change, not in small incremental ways but in big “transformative” ways, into a green economy with electric vehicles and “clean cities.” Guterres said he will ask leaders to stop subsidizing fossil fuels. Burning coal, oil and gas triggers warming by...

The man suspected of punching a woman on a downtown Santa Cruz street has been arrested by Santa Cruz police. He's been identified as 38-year-old Justin Schreiber.

This scene in season 3, episode 17, "Business School" of The Office (which happened to be directed by Joss Whedon) is incredibly heartwarming. Pam invited the whole office to come to her art show and no one shows except Oscar who criticizes her work, as she goes to start taking it down Michael Scott shows up and this beautiful exchange takes place. ♥ I'm sure many struggling new artists can relate to this...

"The risk of a complete breakdown in trade talks has certainly increased," said Michael Taylor of Moody's Investors Service in a report.WINING!!!!!!

Recently, I witnessed a young black male cut across my yard, duck between my neighbors’ two cars and try the doors of both, before “breaking” into the unlocked one. I opened my back door and yelled, “I see you getting into that car!” He took off running. I called the police and then posted to the (admittedly sometimes racially charged) Nextdoor app, in the hopes that my neighbors would check the locks on their cars and homes. Break-ins are fairly common in my neighborhood, and this isn’t the first time that I’ve witnessed what appeared to be a theft and...

A photographer from New Zealand Amos Chapple managed to get to the territory of a secret underground nuclear base located 185 kilometers away from Kiev. This place is considered the last nuclear base of Ukraine: it had been functioning until 1991 when the country, following the collapse of the USSR, was deprived of all nuclear weapons.Let’s visit the bunker from where the Soviet army was threatening to the west with intercontinental nuclear missiles.In the Soviet time they could launch nuclear missiles in the direction of America from here, but now this place is free from weapons. However the base is...

(snip) REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): You know, the remedies that we have are the same as the Judiciary Committee and the same as the Ways And Means Committee. They're violating the statute, we can enforce it in court but that takes time. That really doesn't necessarily change in an impeachment proceeding where they can fight us likewise but there is another remedy that I think we really need to consider that maybe even quicker than an impeachment proceeding or the court proceeding and that is reviving Congress' inherent power of contempt, something we utilize up until the 1930s where we...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia woman is accused of fatally shooting a man who tried to leave the scene of a crash near Highway 85. News outlets report 21-year-old Hannah Payne's lawyer argued in court Wednesday that the shooting was in self-defense. Payne's charged with murder without malice in the Tuesday death of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring.

TAPACHULA, Mexico – Last October, when the first major caravan of mostly Central American migrants rushed Mexico’s southern border and made its way to Tijuana, officials here said it was the beginning of what has become a constant flow of unprecedentedly large migrant groups bound for the U.S. Now, after six months of what Mexico’s Interior Secretary Olga Cordero calls a “phenomenon,” it appears the message of success in getting across and released quickly in America – has gone global. Here, at the main shelter in Tapachula, just 25 miles north of Mexico’s Guatemala border, there are migrants we identified...

TAPACHULA, Mexico -- In a week that has seen the latest migrant caravans largely stalled in southern Mexico, there are further signs that Mexico is honoring a commitment to crack down on those attempting to reach the U.S. border. On Thursday, Fox News captured video of Mexican officials deporting 93 Cuban migrants by plane. On Friday, buses carrying 77 Cuban migrants bound for the same trip home departed a government shelter here in Tapachula. According to the regional director of Mexico’s National Institute of Migration Yadira de Los Santos, there has been a major increase in Cuban migrants in recent...

‘We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it.” That was House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday. When reporters asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday if she agreed with Nadler’s assessment, her response was that she does, “because the administration has decided that they’re not going to honor their oath of office.” What neither Nadler nor Pelosi did say, however, is the “crisis” the country is now in has been engineered entirely by Nadler and his fellow Democrats. Consider: At this very moment, there is a virtually redaction-free version of the...