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Hold the mustard. A Florida man was arrested and charged with domestic battery after he reportedly poured ketchup over his sleeping girlfriend, who he believed was having an affair. Peter Wagman, 37 had been dating his 41-year-old girlfriend, who has not been named, for 11 years. According to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun, they often argued over infidelity and the most recent incident, which took place in the early hours of Sunday, was just one of their many spats. Investigators were called to the couple's Pinellas Park residence where they found Wagman's girlfriend covered in ketchup. According...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A priest is asking parishioners not to leave his church over a tweet by Rhode Island’s bishop urging Roman Catholics to not support or attend LGBTQ Pride Month events. The Rev. Edward L. Pieroni begged gay and lesbian parishioners not to leave the church during Sunday services at St. Raymond’s Roman Catholic Church in Providence, The Boston Globe reported. “A lot of people have hung in there, but it’s like, ‘One more slap and we are done.’ I am here to beg you — and I will get on my hands and knees and beg you...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the city of San Antonio Monday for documents relating to its decision to block Chick-fil-A from its airport. The lawsuit seeks emails and internal communications from city employees and city council members relating to the Chick-fil-A contract. City Council Member Roberto Trevino, who introduced the proposal blocking the chain as an airport vendor, cited its “legacy of anti-LGBTQ behavior,” promoting Texas Republicans to accuse the city of violating the company’s religious liberty. “The City of San Antonio claims that it can hide documents because it anticipates being sued,” Paxton said in a statement...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the candidate of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), is leading the race ahead of the Istanbul election rerun on June 23, according to three surveys the party conducted, secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper reported Friday.  The results of the surveys showed that İmamoğlu, who won an initial vote on March 31 in Turkey’s financial powerhouse by a narrow margin, is ahead of Binali Yıldırım, the mayoral candidate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by between 1.7 and 5 percentage points, Cumhuriyet said. Turkey’s election council annulled the Istanbul election on May 6 after an appeal by the...

Mexican police in Ciudad Juárez rescued a group of 115 migrants being held against their will by human smugglers earlier this week. Police were tipped off to the incident by an anonymous report. The police raid resulted in the arrest of three human smugglers — one, a Central American migrant from El Salvador.

Freepers will enjoy this take down of this RINO by a young female.

Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector encountered their second large group of African migrants illegally crossing the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Saturday. This group of 37 African migrant families, followed quickly behind a group of 116 African migrants who crossed on Friday. Eagle Pass Station agents patrolling the border on June 1 near Eagle Pass arrested a group of 37 illegal immigrants from the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group illegally crossed the border from Mexico by crossing the Rio Grande. According to information obtained from Del Rio Sector...

A little humour to lighten the day...

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents say they witnessed Mexican cartel-connected human smugglers toss two disabled migrants into the Rio Grande. Agents rescued the men shortly thereafter. A Del Rio Sector BORSTAR team observed a group of 12 migrants crossing the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas. The agents say the smugglers carried one of the migrants, a double amputee, to the riverbank and threw him into the water. The man immediately began having trouble staying afloat, according to Del Rio Sector officials.

The Welsh Government has officially shifted its position on Brexit. It will now primarily argue for the UK to stay in the EU, rather than for its previous proposals for leaving with a deal on the single market and customs union which it said would protect Welsh jobs, prosperity and security.Brexit minister Jeremy Miles told AMs that it was clear that there was no appetite in the Conservative party at Westminster for the kind of Brexit deal that the Welsh Government might have found acceptable We sought to reconcile the result of the 2016 referendum with the least damaging kind...

Gene editing should be banned, bioethicists say by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, June 04, 2019 WASHINGTON (BP) -- Evangelical bioethicists are calling for a ban -- not just a moratorium -- on gene editing even as it is being reported that fertility clinics desire to use the controversial technology. Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced in November the births of the first genetically edited children, twin girls named Lulu and Nana. He led an effort in which the girls' DNA was altered through the use of a tool known as CRISPR to guard them from the HIV virus their father has,...

A 40-year-old woman from Honduras died in the custody of the U.S. government, the second such death in a 36-hour period, officials said. The woman was apprehended by Border Patrol agents early Monday after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). She collapsed after arriving at the Eagle Pass South Station in Texas, and staff their began treating her. She was then taken to a hospital where she died. CBP is not identifying the woman until her family is notified. “On behalf of the men and women of CBP, we extend our deepest condolences to...

Facing increasing pressure from the Democratic base to impeach President Donald Trump, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday denied he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lack the "courage" to move forward and threatened a vote next week holding all Trump officials who have defied Congress in contempt. "I hear some people say, 'Well, you guys ought to have the courage to stand up.' What we ought to have the courage to do is pursue in a constitutional way holding accountable any and every person to the responsibilities and acting legally," Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters at the Capitol. "What you’ve...

At least this time he's not ripping off Neil Kinnock. Joe Biden has three basic problems. 1. Groping 2. Corruption 3. Plagirism It's the latter that is among the weirdest and most consistent elements in Biden's checkered past. During his failed 1988 run, Biden lifted portions of a speech by United Kingdom Labour MP and Margaret Thatcher challenger Neil Kinnock.

On 29 May 2019, H.B. 1177 was sent to Governor Abbott.  The bill will make Constitutional Carry legal in Texas, during evacuations when a “state of disaster” is declared and for 168 hours (one week) after the state of disaster declaration. The law is another incremental step moving toward Constitutional Carry in Texas. It makes perfect sense when taken in the context of the Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. In the basic understanding of the...

President Donald Trump met with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on Tuesday, the second day of his state visit to the United Kingdom. Farage, in a tweet, said that the two leaders had a "good meeting" at Winfield House — the U.S. ambassador's residence in London where the president is staying — and that Trump "really believes in Brexit."

White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that President Donald Trump is "deadly serious" about levying a 5% tariff on Mexican goods if the Mexican government doesn't step up enforcement of illegal immigration on the southern side of the border, and now it appears the Mexican government is serious about complying to avoid a trade war.

Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him....“I want you to take a message back” to the White House, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, told the attorneys, according to people familiar with the meeting. “You didn’t hear a single yes” from the Republican conference. He called the proposed tariffs a $30 billion tax hike on Texans.

University of New Mexico considers building border fence around campus to keep criminals out JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR •JUNE 3, 2019 The University of New Mexico is considering whether to build a large border wall around its perimeter to protect the campus community from criminal activity. The proposed “10-foot-tall, wrought-iron fence with sharp points at the top” would be used “as a security barrier between New Mexico’s largest public university and the rest of the city,” reports the Albuquerque Journal. The university has faced everything from homeless people on campus to drug users locking themselves in the bathroom stalls...

Researchers report in a new study that eating white meat poultry can raise cholesterol levels similarly to red meat. File Photo by RitaE/Pixabay ============================================================== June 4 (UPI) -- Eating a chicken could raise a person's "bad cholesterol" to similar levels as eating a steak, contradicting long-thought ideas about health differences between the meats, new research suggests. Researchers found eating white meat poultry may raise low-density lipoprotein levels in the same way as red meat, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition. That elevation in bad cholesterol after eating chicken can occur with or without consuming...