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The Mead Theatre in D.C. opened its creative arms for Phelim McAleer’s latest project.Those arms abruptly closed today.The play, “FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers,” casts Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson as FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The production’s dialogue comes straight from the pair’s texts, which revealed both their romantic affair as well as plans to battle Donald Trump’s rise to the Oval Office.The team behind the project just announced the theater will no longer be renting space for the performance. The theater cited “threats of violence” for why it reversed course, according to “FBI Lovebirds” email. HiT reached out to The Studio Theatre,...

Bernie Sanders’ Foreign-policy Adviser Meets With PLO Official Banned by US By JNS May 29, 2019 , 10:43 am “A ruler who listens to lies, All his ministers will be wicked.” Proverbs 29:12 (The Israel Bible™) Hanan Ashrawi, the longtime aide to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, met on Monday with Matthew Duss, the foreign-policy adviser for the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), according to a statement released by the Department of Public Diplomacy and Policy of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “The two parties discussed the Trump administration’s hostile approach in the region and its destructive policies...

Ben Padgett's mugshot. ============================================================== The story, headlined “Drunk, shirtless Florida man arrested after shoveling spaghetti in his mouth at Olive Garden,” hit the website of southwest Florida’s NBC-Channel 2 at 11:13am on April 8 this year. The mugshot revealed a scraped and bruised 32-year-old man named Ben Padgett. His long brown hair, beard, and penetrating eyes caused some readers to compare him to Jesus Christ. He was, in reality, just another name, another face, another Florida Man in what has become one of journalism’s darkest and most lucrative cottage industries. Florida Man was formalized as a news genre by a...

The Moshav: A Community (and Its Pets) in Crisis By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 30, 2019 , 1:57 pm “Our own livestock, too, shall go along with us—not a hoof shall remain behind: for we must select from it for the worship of Hashem our God; and we shall not know with what we are to worship Hashem until we arrive there.” Exodus 10:26 (The Israel Bible™) Last week, the entire community of Mevo Modi’im fled their homes as fires raged at the gates. They returned to find their homes in ruin. As they try to rebuild, it becomes clear...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - Raleigh police said a 10-month-old baby choked on a pinecone and died at a Raleigh day care on Wednesday. According to police, the baby found the pinecone in the yard outside A Hug A Day, which is located at 2705 Adcox Place. Officials said it happened during the day at the southeast Raleigh day care. Neighbors were shocked to hear the news. "I see people coming early in the morning, dropping kids off, picking kids up. I see kids play outside," said Mikea Nash. "I want to say my condolences to the family."

A study, led by UK Brunel University London psychologist Dr. Michael Price, found that physically weaker men are more in favor of socialism (“social and economic equality”) than stronger men.The study by Michael Price, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (London School of Economics), psychologist James Sidnaius (Harvard U.), and psychologist Nicholas Pound (Brunel U. London), “Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?,” is published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, 38:5 (September 2017), pp. 626-634.Citing prior research showing several aspects of male face shape and appearance, such as height-to-width ratio, to be linked to ability to compete for resources in...

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will serve as a keynote speaker at the Cyber Defense Summit 2019, the cybersecurity company FireEye announced on Thursday.

Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has doubled down on his claim that ethical concerns about his wife’s businesses are “baseless.” As IJR previously reported, Cummings has faced ethical questions since his wife, Maya Rockeymoore, was hit with an IRS complaint after the National Legal and Policy Center — a conservative watchdog group — alleged that her non-profit and her for-profit consulting firm had overlapping operations. Rockeymoore’s consulting firm was offered a million dollar federal contract to oversee a project which she housed under her non-profit — a “self-dealing” that may be illegal under IRS regulations. Cummings chairs the House Oversight Committee...

<p>Actress Meryl Streep criticized the use of the term “toxic masculinity,” arguing that toxicity is a trait that afflicts both sexes as women can be “pretty fucking toxic too.” Appearing on a cast panel ahead of the season two premiere of Big Little Lies, Streep made the comments in response to a male audience member who said he enjoyed the primarily female-targeted show.</p>

Robert Mueller's 11 A.M. statement to the media today stuck to what was in his report (which he said "speaks for itself") but selectively highlighted and sequenced points intended to damage President Trump, providing obvious bait for impeachment proceedings. Here is one example (transcript): [I]f we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.

The filmmaker behind The Amazing Spider-Man films is casting his web on a Disney classic. Marc Webb is in talks to direct a live-action remake of Snow White, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The project started taking shape in 2016, when The Girl on the Train screenwriter Erin Cressida was tapped to write the script. La La Land songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are writing new songs for the project, and Marc Platt is producing. Webb rose to prominence with 2009's 500 Days of Summer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, and went on to helm The Amazing Spider-Man...

  CNN spent hours on Thursday morning with a screen graphic reading "TRUMP UNLEASHES FLURRY OF LIES AFTER MUELLER STATEMENT." At the top of the 11 am hour, standing in front of large letters that said "TRUMP ERUPTS," anchor Kate Boludan proclaimed "The president spoke and said a lot. And in doing so, he denied reality. and I don't say this flippantly. He lied. He also confirmed a report that depicts him as so insecure he can't even stand to see the name of someone that he doesn't like."CNN makes is sound like Trump erupted like a volcano of lies, not just a flurry. Bolduan declared "It is still...

During a commencement speech in New York City, failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton referred to herself as “Madame President” in what seemed to be a “joke.”“It has been one of the most inspiring, heart-felt commencements that I’ve ever experienced. I’m thrilled to be a part of it today. Madam President? That has a nice ring to it. Thank you so much,” Hillary said. Of course the bitter loser then attacked President Trump saying him and his administration are an “assault on the rule of law.”“There may not be tanks in our streets, but make no mistake we are witnessing an assault...

Listening to Hannity a while ago he said Mueller and the DOJ released a statement after Muellers speech yesterday which retracted/clarified some of his talking points. I did a quick search on FR going back to before Mueller's statement and found nothing. Has anyone seen this?

<p>MANHEIM, Pa. (CBS/AP) — Police say a man was found in the trunk of a car that arrived for sale at a Pennsylvania auto auction. Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Chief David Steffen said the man is being treated at a hospital and is expected to be released.</p>

Consumer complaints have prompted the state of Florida to open an investigation into the nonprofit group that raised more than $20 million to build a private border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The investigation into the Florida-based group, We Build The Wall, was launched in mid-May, a spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture said in a statement Thursday. ....snip Kolfage and his team insisted they had to remain silent in the lead-up to breaking ground in order to avoid lawsuits from groups like the ACLU. “Remember powerful people want to stop our progress, so to not tip anyone off we...

Six F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, simulating aggressor air training accidentally created contrails that resembled a penis, base officials told Military.com "We've seen the photos that have been circulating online from Tuesday afternoon," said spokeswoman Maj. Rebecca Heyse in an email. "The 56th Fighter Wing senior leadership reviewed the training tapes from the flight and confirmed that F-35s conducting standard fighter training maneuvers Tuesday afternoon in the Gladden and Bagdad military operating airspace resulted in the creation of the contrails. "There was no nefarious or inappropriate behavior during the training...

Sweet Cakes by Melissa refused service to a lesbian couple Avakian lost his bid to Oregon Secretary of State to a Republican (CNN) — Could it be the year of the underdog? The presidential election wasn't the only contest to see an upset. Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, who came to national attention for heftily fining a local bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, lost. Avakian, a champion of the LGBTQ community, was running for Secretary of State. As labor commissioner since 2008, Avakian often made news for his tough calls against businesses discriminating...

How is that a tweetwreck @DRUDGE? Your liberal buddies have been saying that for 3 years. Your site has gone to crap. pic.twitter.com/Cphr6sz5ri— 🇺🇸 David Lee MAGA 🇺🇸 (@DavidLeeMAGA) May 30, 2019

New York University has canceled a "Reporting on the Far Right" elective undergraduate class after just two students signed up to take the course. NYU attracted headlines earlier this year after its decision to hire former New Yorker fact-checker Talia Lavin to teach the class. In June 2018, Lavin resigned from the magazine after making a false accusation against ICE agent Justin Gaertner for sporting what she believed was a Nazi tattoo, which turned out to be a 'Titan 2' symbol for former Marine veteran's platoon while serving in Afghanistan. “Canceling the class had nothing to do with Talia’s writings,...