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U.S.—The 347 Democratic presidential candidates currently running announced Monday their new plan to attract voters to their platforms: simply to dangle stacks of cash over their heads on a fishing line. At every rally and campaign event, Democrats running for president will dangle bags or bundles of cash above undecided voters, hoping to lure them to the polls to vote. "Rather than compete on ideas, we will resort to blatant bribery," said Bernie Sanders after proposing giving $1.6 trillion to college graduates. Sanders then pulled out a fishing pole and began teasing his audience. "Whooa, gotta be quicker than...

Stephanie Grisham, who has served as first lady Melania Trump’s fiercely loyal communications director, will succeed Sarah Sanders as White House press secretary, the White House said Tuesday. The move was first announced by Trump in a tweet and later confirmed by White House officials. In addition to succeeding Sanders, Grisham will also take on the duties of White House communications director, a job that has been vacant since March. “She has been with us since 2015 - @potus & I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country,” the first lady said in her...

VIDEO Live Streaming outside the first of the Democrat candidate presidential debates at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida. I hope to live stream for about 4 hours and to interview fellow vloggers and perhaps members of the press. Perhaps even some of the candidates will come outside to speak to us. At the very least it will make for an interesting historical archive of the event. I plan to do a repeat on June 27 for the second Democrat debate.

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) -- A incident of road rage on the Eastern Shore was caught on camera. A witness tells FOX10 News that one man pulled a gun on another man in the middle of Greeno Road on Monday afternoon. Fairhope Police said it started shortly before 2 p.m. when the passenger of a vehicle, identified as 23-year-old Maurice King Mayo of Mobile, exited a vehicle and confronted the driver of a red hatchback. Another man then got out of his vehicle and jumped on the hood of a car, breaking the windshield with his foot. Police said Mayo...

Japan has unveiled what is very likely the design for its next-generation attack submarine. The 29SS submarines would replace the existing Sōryū class submarines starting in the early 2030s. The futuristic undersea warship will ensure that Tokyo retains its reputation for the quietest, most modern non-nuclear submarines in the world.

Chants of “build the wall” broke out at Tuesday’s rollout of the Donald J. Trump for President Latino Coalition event in Miami, Florida. Vice President Mike Pence was headlining the launch of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign event when chanting broke out among what was described by New York Times Miami Bureau Chief Patricia Mazzei as a largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American crowd, “Build the wall.” “We need four more years for President Donald Trump,” Pence said sparking the crowd to begin chanting those same words. “Chants of ‘Build that wall’ erupt at Pence’s ‘Latinos for Trump’ event. VP says “in the...

Sunday’s Peter’s Pence collection supports illegal immigration, lay group urges boycott June 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A lay Catholic website is calling for a boycott of an annual collection to be held this weekend in most U.S. parishes benefitting the pope’s designated charities. Complicit Clergy is urging the boycott of the Peter’s Pence collection, which is set for June 29-30 weekend Masses, stemming from Pope Francis’ controversial use earlier this year of half a million dollars from the collection to benefit Central American migrants in Mexico who are trying to enter the U.S. illegally. “The Vatican wires half a million...

June 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A sex therapist claims she cannot imagine “a safer place for families to bring children” than an LGBTQ “pride” celebration. According to HuffPost Canada, Pega Ren brought her grandchildren to a homosexual “pride” parade in British Columbia. When asked about the appropriateness of children participating in the LGBTQ event, she said, “I can’t imagine a safer place for families to bring children.” Pride parades in Canada and around the world feature not only public nudity and sex acts, but also various other forms of perversion and deviance on display. While even within LGBTQ circles there...

David Bellavia Medal of Honor Ceremony President Donald J. Trump will award the Medal of Honor to David G. Bellavia for conspicuous gallantry while serving as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. Staff Sergeant David G. Bellavia will receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 10, 2004, while serving as a squad leader in support of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq. White House Ceremony.

President Trump criticized one of the co-captains of the US Women’s World Cup soccer team for protesting during the national anthem at the team’s games during the tournament in France. Trump, who has been outspoken about protests by NFL players during the anthem, made the comments about 33-year-old Megan Rapinoe to The Hill during an interview Monday. “No. I don’t think so,” he said when asked if he thought she should be protesting. Rapinoe has refused to sing the “Star Spangled Banner”before each of the matches during the tournament as protest of injustice in the United States. In the past,...

Actress Alyssa Milano has settled a legal battle with her former accountant as the case was on the verge of going to trial. Milano and her husband, agent David Bugliari, filed suit in 2017, alleging that accountant Kenneth Hellie had forged her signature on checks, failed to pay overdue bills and taxes and allowed costs to balloon on their home remodeling project. Hellie filed a countersuit, accusing Milano and Bugliari of ignoring repeated warnings to rein in the remodeling project and stop spending. The case was set to go to trial on Aug. 19 in the Van Nuys Superior Court....

A Shasta County couple is accused of conspiring to bring a Guatemalan family to the U.S., harboring them after their visas expired and forcing them to work for minimal to no pay. An indictment outlining the allegations against Nery Martinez, 50, and Maura Martinez, 50, of Shasta Lake, was unsealed Monday by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California. The indictment alleges the couple went to extended lengths to pressure a Guatemalan mother and her two daughters into working long hours at a restaurant and cleaning service for little to no compensation. According to the indictment, the couple...

Council Member Martha Castex-Tatum (District K) offered the amendment, with the full support of Mayor Sylvester Turner, and it would have created an exploratory committee to research the new fee. “This is just an opportunity for us to look for another way to source some additional revenue,” she said as she rolled out the amendment. The amendment died because of a tie vote of 7-7 (two council members were out of chambers and couldn’t vote), but there wasn’t much of a discussion as to what exactly is a congestion fee and what commuters should expect.

SEATTLE - A 43-year-old Seattle man was charged in King County Superior Court with first-degree assault in connection with a stabbing.(snip) In charging documents, prosecutors said Erin Holland Morgan stabbed a neighbor five times during a mediation meeting. Police said Morgan had made noise complaints over the victim's music and was arrested on June 9 for damaging the neighbor’s door with a baseball bat over the issue. Morgan was released in connection with damaging the door on June 10 and a no contact order was issued barring him from contacting the neighbor. Morgan requested a mediation meeting, and prosecutors said...

When the owner of a trucking company decided to terminate a driver, the fired man’s fianceé wouldn’t stand for it. She pulled a gun and began shooting at the boss, the boss’ own fiancé and the victim couple’s 1-year-old son. Slidell police reported the retaliatory shooting Saturday (June 22). They said they booked Natalie Williams, 32, of Mandeville, with attempted murder. The confrontation played out Friday afternoon just off Interstate 10 at Travelcenters of America, a truck stop at 1683 Gause Blvd. Police said the trucking company owner found Williams and her fiancé outside of an 18-wheeler in the...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY (KDKA) — Religious leaders in Westmoreland County are expressing concerns over fundraisers in the community. The one catching their attention: drag queen bingos at volunteer fire departments. A group of seven Christian churches in the Mount Pleasant Township area called “Christians Uniting” issued a letter to about 14 volunteer fire departments in their congregation area on March 20. It calls into question the use of drag queen bingos as fundraisers. “These pictures depicted individuals in a very unpleasant way,” said Pastor Mark Werner. “Not in the way that God created us to live.” The letter says: “This event...

Ted Cruz grilling a relatively clueless Google rep about Monday's video exposing a Google executive explaining how Google games the search algorithm to prevent another "Trump Situation." Link to video:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that a New York-based advice columnist who has accused him of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s is not his “type.” “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” Trump told The Hill in an interview at the White House.

Received a very strange letter from Chase Slate credit cards. "Important changes to account concerning Binding Arbitration". The letter was physically something else. 10 1/2 inches wide and 36 inches long on VERY heavy paper. At the top they did list the last 4 numbers of some account. Hmmmmm, I don't have a Chase card and to the best of my memory have never had one. So rather than just ignore it I called. I got switched 4 times winding up in the fraud department. They were VERY vague. All they would say over and over was to ignore the...

Debate watchers who are feeling lucky can bet on a whole host of aspects of the Democratic White House hopefuls' first face-off this week, including if former Vice President Biden will hug someone onstage, and how many times President Trump might tweet. The gambling site SportsBetting.ag unveiled a host of wagers this week ahead of Wednesday and Thursday nights’ Democratic primary debates. The site puts it at 16/5 odds that one of the candidates will "say a curse word or be bleeped" during the debates in Miami. Bettors can also wager on the first topic that moderators will ask about...