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ELK GROVE — An Elk Grove man suspected of driving under the influence reportedly spat at police officers when he was being taken into custody Monday evening, according to the Elk Grove Police Department. Investigators say they found 54-year-old John Chandler off Elk Grove Boulevard near Black Swan Drive behind the wheel with the engine running. Chandler showed signs of impairment, police said. As officers took Chandler into custody, officials say he resisted and even tried to spit on officers. Chandler’s booking photo shows him bloodied and wide-eyed with his tongue sticking out. FOX40 later learned Chandler is a teacher...

The television series “The Enemy Within” begins by informing the viewer that there are 100,000 foreign spies in the United States working to undermine and destabilize America. China has sent hundreds of thousands of students to America to gain maximum access to the West’s advanced knowledge and technology, some through education alone, some through espionage. While the foreign threat is real and serious, it pales beside the internal threat represented by the North American education complex. There are 756,900 teachers and professors in Canada, and 5.2 million in the U.S. Almost all of these professors and teachers are daily resolutely...

Memphis police arrested a woman after they said she vandalized a police car. According to police, Shelby Anthony, 23, was screaming and yelling in a crowd of around 200 people on Beale Street Saturday night. "Yeah! I'm from Chicago," Anthony said. The group of people then dared her to jump on the hood of a police car. According to court records, she did. The police report said afterward, the crowd became 'irate' and Memphis police horses had to be deployed to disperse them. Anthony was arrested and is charged with Vandalism and Disorderly Conduct. While police were trying to get...

A state delegate from Baltimore County is drawing criticism for a Facebook comment aimed at county school officials — with a fellow delegate saying it evoked lynchings and the interim school superintendent calling it “hateful.” Del. Robin Grammer, a Republican, made the comment in a Facebook group called BCPS Parents & Teachers for Equitable Facilities & Portable AC, responding to a post there Friday by Michael Darenberg, a member of the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission. Darenberg suggested that remaining members of disgraced Baltimore County Schools CEO Dallas Dance’s leadership team should resign, saying: “If you do, we stop...

Residents near New York City are bracing for the impact of a possible tornado that could bring strong winds and possible flash floods to the area. The National Weather service issued tornado warnings for several counties surrounding Manhattan on Tuesday evening, urging residents in the path of the "dangerous storm" to stay inside. The service said the storms could produce hail the size of quarters. "Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely," NWS said in a statement. "This...

Harrington, who is probably best known for his role as Jon Snow, reportedly checked into the luxury facility in Connecticut called Privé-Swiss several weeks ago ahead of the show’s finale on May 19...The actor broke down in tears when he learned his character on the show would in the end kill his love Daenerys Targaryen.

The Obama White House used the most sensitive intrusive surveillance systems of the NSA to spy on Americans. A ruling by FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer finds that 85% of NSA database requests under FISA section 702 authority at the DOJ were illegal or noncompliant. Surveillance systems, including PRISM, spying on hundreds if not thousands of Americans. Including Donald Trump and those around him. (United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review Amicus Brief) Moreover, Collyer finds, that the Department of Justice showed an appalling “lack of institutional candor”. FISA Judge Collyer rules illegal spying occurred In April 2016...

In Washington, D.C., he's been labeled "loser," accused of being a secret Democrat, and ostracized from the legislative caucus he co-founded, but on Monday night Rep. Justin Amash (R–Mich.) found himself in friendlier territory—and embraced the opportunity. At a town hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Amash's constituents gave him applause and praise—but also fired pointed questions from left, right, and center political perspectives—during a nearly two-hour meeting marking the congressman's first public appearance since tweeting that he believed President Donald Trump had engaged in "impeachable conduct." It was the sort of spectacle that's all too rare in politics today; a...

EXCLUSIVE: Abp Viganò says Pope is lying in latest denial about McCarrick ROME, May 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — For what appears to be the first time, Pope Francis has openly denied that he knew anything of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s immoral activities, directly contradicting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s account of their conversation on the subject.  “I didn’t know anything ... nothing, nothing,” Pope Francis said in a new interview on Vatican News. In response, the former apostolic nuncio to the United States has directly accused Pope Francis of lying. In comments to LifeSite following the release of the interview, Archbishop Viganò said: “What the Pope said...

Another creepy moment for Joe Biden Former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden struck again Tuesday afternoon, grabbing a ten-year-old girl by the shoulders and putting his face inches from hers, just moments after telling the child she was “good looking.” “I’ll bet you’re as smart as you are good looking,” Biden told the 10-year-old girl at an American Federation of Teachers town hall in Houston. The girl was chosen to ask him a question, which he answered. Then, he got personal with her, complimenting her on her looks. When she said her favorite school subject was journalism,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a Paducah Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky Tuesday that he would confirm a Trump Supreme Court nominee if a seat on the bench opened up next year during the presidential election. The galling hypocrisy of the very man who once reinvented the Constitution to prevent President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland from ascending to the Supreme Court, would be even more enraging if it weren’t so utterly predictable. It was, of course, just over three years ago, in March 2016 that Obama nominated Garland to replace Antonin Scalia following his death. The Republican-controlled Senate,...

Police have arrested one woman and are looking for a second after an alleged assault on a Miami Burger King manager over french fries in April. Natasha Ethel Bagley, 42, faces charges of armed burglary with assault or battery, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief, court records show. Bagley and her girlfriend, 27-year-old Genesis Peguero, went to the fast food at restaurant April 2 and asked for free fries at the drive thru, according to an arrest report obtained by WTVJ. When an employee refused, the two women allegedly parked and walked into the restaurant.

Thomas Aquinas College welcomes statue with open armsA little over two years ago, Pepperdine University made the decision to take down a statue of Christopher Columbus after student outcry, with its president at the time calling the monument a “painful reminder” of the past. The private, Malibu-based university said it would relocate the statue to its campus in Florence, Italy. But somewhat quietly last fall, Pepperdine officials gave the statue to its Catholic neighbor up the road. The 25-year-old monument now calls Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, home. The Catholic campus is about 50 miles north of Pepperdine,...

When two women couldn’t get free fries from a Burger King drive-thru, they went inside and beat up the manager, cops say. Natasha Bagley, 42, was arrested Monday over the April 2 Burger King incident, according to a Miami-Dade police report. Her charges included armed robbery with assault or battery, criminal mischief and attempted robbery with a deadly weapon. Her accomplice, 27-year-old Genesis Peguero, is still at large. About 5 p.m. on April 2, Bagley and Peguero drove into the drive-thru lane at a Burger King at 18240 S. Dixie Hwy, asking for free fries, police say. A BK employee...

'I knew nothing, obviously, of McCarrick. Nothing, nothing'Nearly a year later, Pope Francis denied claims made by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States who accused him and other church officials of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick. “I knew nothing, obviously, of McCarrick. Nothing, nothing. I said several times that I didn’t know, that I had no idea,” the Pope said in an interview with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki published by Vatican News May 28. “You know that I didn’t know anything about McCarrick; otherwise, I would...

The circular was read out in many churches in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, a Church source said.Kochi: A crisis loomed large over the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with priests of an Archdiocese reading out a circular during Sunday mass in churches under its jurisdiction blaming Church head Cardinal George Alencherry over a criminal case filed against a section of priests. The "unprecedented" move by the priests comes days after they came out openly against the arrest of a 24-year-old man for allegedly forging bank documents against Cardinal Alencherry. The clarification circular issued by vicar-general of the Ernakulam - Angamaly archdiocese Fr Varghese...

President Donald Trump’s orders to declassify secret documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation into his campaign in 2016, came after weeks of battles between Attorney General William Barr and senior officials within the bureau, CIA and other agencies, sources with knowledge told SaraACarter.com. Despite the president’s order giving Barr authority over the declassification of the documents related to the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, it won’t be met without a fight. And there’s a reason why. This isn’t just about Trump. It’s about nearly a decade of abuse inside the intelligence community and bureau regarding foreign-intelligence-collection authority....

The 'affaire Vincent Lambert' is a test of the nation's commitment to the disabledLast week, in a case which has divided France as Terri Schiavo’s did in the US, a Frenchman who has been in a vegetative state for more than 10 years had a last-minute reprieve from dying after doctors turned off his life support. It was turned back on pending further deliberations in the courts. Vincent Lambert, now 42, became a quadriplegic and was badly brain damaged in a car accident in 2008. His wife, who is his legal guardian, and some of his siblings asked doctors remove...

CNN’s Jim Acosta writes in his memoir that “neutrality for the sake of neutrality” was ineffective in the era of President Trump, according to excerpts published by The Guardian. The CNN White House correspondent writes in his book, called “Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America," his confrontations with Trump or other White House officials have “bothered some people” and that he has been guilty of “grandstanding” and “showboating." Acosta also acknowledges accusations of bias against the Trump administration, writing “Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn’t really serve us in the age of...

UFOs are not the same thing as extraterrestrial life. But we should start thinking about that possibility. Footage from 2004 shows an encounter between a U.S. fighter jet and "anomalous aerial vehicles," which is military jargon for UFOs. Former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo arranged the release of the video before leaving the Department of Defense in Sept. 2017