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Despite the crisis on the border continuing to rage as a result of inaction from Congress, House lawmakers skipped town on Friday and headed home for a nearly month and-a-half long recess.  Official notice just went out: House now on a six-week recess. Senate recess scheduled to start after next week.— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 25, 2019 House Republicans sent a request to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday to cancel or delay August recess in order to address the issue with legislation. From The Hill: A group of House conservatives led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is calling on Speaker...

Armed men stole $40 million of gold and other precious metals on Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America’s busiest airport, taking two hostages, police said. Several of the suspects arrived at the Guarulhos airport in a black pickup truck with livery resembling Brazil’s federal police, according to security footage seen by Reuters. Four men left the vehicle with their faces covered, at least one of whom had a rifle, and confronted workers at the airport, who then proceeded to fill up the pickup truck with cargo. A police report said the thieves left with about 750...

In his fiery debut as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson took aim at the Labour Party's leader, blasting socialist Jeremy Corbyn as a "brainwashed Remainer."During his first clash as leader in the House of Commons, PM Johnson also accused Corbyn of being in hock to Iranian "Mullahs."BoJo appeared to channel President Donald Trump as he issued a warning to the European Union, threatening to "tear up" the Brexit backstop and vowing "make Britain great again."

A federal judge in Kentucky Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family over the paper's reporting of an incident between the young man and a Native American man this past January in Washington.

Judicial Watch Demands House Ethics Investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar Robert Mueller’s Latest Attempt to Smear President Trump Leftists in the State Department Sabotage Trump’s Guatemala Asylum Deal Judicial Watch Demands House Ethics Investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, is in the news often because of her racially inflammatory anti-Semitic views , including her support for a terrorist front group . But far-left views are not our concern at this moment – her alleged criminal behavior is. Earlier this week, we hand-delivered an ethics complaint to David Skaggs, chairman of the U.S. House...

FULL TITLE: She Verbally Consented To Sex But The School Determined He Committed Sexual Assault Because He ‘Cajoled’ Her With Flattery ============================================================= A new lawsuit filed against Pennsylvania State University includes several abnormalities, including the school’s decision to review the first hearing into a student’s alleged sexual misconduct and the decision to change the definition of consent in the middle of the disciplinary proceedings. John Doe, as he is referred to in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, was accused of sexually assaulting a student referred to as Jane Roe at the end of January 2018. The two had...

Sources told me a month ago that Ilhan Omar had essentially abandoned her family in Minneapolis and wanted her current legal husband — husband number 1, Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her children — to seek a divorce from her. I understood that Omar doesn’t want to be seen by the local Somali community as seeking a divorce, either under Islamic custom or American law. Getting into Omar’s personal life is not my thing, so I held off on reporting the story, but today the Daily Mail breaks it in Martin Gould’s report datelined Minneapolis: “EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar SPLITS with...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday that a decision on whether the House pursues the impeachment of President Donald Trump will be made in a “timely fashion” and denied the idea that she is trying to “run out the clock” on the issue. Her comments came shortly before House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said at a separate press conference that his panel has already "in effect" been conducting an impeachment inquiry of the president — and said in a court filing that “articles of impeachment are under consideration as part of the Committee’s investigation, although...

...talk of impeaching POTUS Trump(NationalSentinel) Calling someone a liar is a pretty powerful thing, but sometimes it’s justified. This is one of those times. On Friday, in an attempt to justify continued efforts at pretending to impeach President Donald Trump — because the reality is, it’s not going to happen at this juncture — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler claimed in an interview with friendly media that former special counsel Robert Mueller said something he didn’t on Wednesday regarding alleged ‘crimes’ by the president.“We are continuing an investigation of the president’s malfeasances,” Nadler said, indicating the charade would continue...

An Iranian cargo ship sank in the Caspian Sea near Azerbaijan's Lankaran port on Friday, according to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Guatemala signed a so-called safe third country immigration asylum agreement on Friday just days after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the Central American country if it did not agree to the deal. Speaking to reporters at the White House during a signing ceremony, Trump said the agreement would allow easier access to farmer workers for U.S. farms and ranches. Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales was due to sign a deal with Trump last week that would have made the country act as an asylum buffer zone to reduce immigration to...

Eva Tiamat Medusa, from Texas, worked in a 9 to 5 position as vice president of a bank but chose to quit the job so that she could go after her dream of becoming a dragon woman. This was a decision she made after she was diagnosed with HIV. Medusa said that this had been a wakeup call and made her realize she was not living the life she wanted to live.$60,000 and Many Procedures Later Medusa Is a Dragon Woman Eva spent the money undergoing several procedures. She has had her ears removed, her nose has been reshaped, eight...

This is one bone you don't want to pick with. Paleontologists have unearthed a 140-million-year-old dinosaur bone, 6.5 feet in length, weighing 1,100 pounds in France. The thigh bone was discovered in Charente, an area that dates back 140 million years and has been a treasure trove for archaeologists in the past. “This is a major discovery,” Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris said in an interview with Reuters. “I was especially amazed by the state of preservation of that femur.” “These are animals that probably weighed 40 to 50 tons," Allain added. More than...

Christian institution Baylor University has formed an unusual alliance to run a literacy program for children with a social justice organization that wants to strip away gun rights in America. According to a report by The College Fix, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has embraced a leftist activist group called the Children’s Defense Fund, which seeks, in part, a drastic restriction on gun rights in America. Baylor University and the Children’s Defense Fund have teamed up to create a summer literacy program for young children. The report claims that this camp utilizes materials from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center...

A California model claims convicted pedophile Jeffrey Esptein posed as a Victoria’s Secret scout and manhandled her more than a decade ago. “His weapons were his hands,” Alicia Arden told the New York Times about the alleged May 1997 incident inside Epstein’s Santa Monica hotel room. Arden, who was then 27 years old, claimed Epstein identified himself as a talent scout for Victoria’s Secret. He then lured her back to his hotel room under the premise of her auditioning for the brand’s catalog, she said. While inside the room, Epstein allegedly grabbed her, attempted to undress her and told her...

The decision, announced in a note issued on Wednesday by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cited last week's move by the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the Ebola outbreak in DRC's eastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces a public health emergency of international concern. Riyadh's move came despite the WHO saying at the time of its international emergency declaration that no country should close its borders or place any restrictions on travel or trade because of Ebola and urging governments elsewhere in Africa and around the world not to "panic" in response to the decision. The epidemic has...

Fox News is at it again. So different from what they used to be during the 2016 Primaries, & before - Proud Warriors! Now new Fox Polls, which have always been terrible to me (they had me losing BIG to Crooked Hillary), have me down to Sleepy Joe. Even considering.....

An Oregon sheriff’s office took to Facebook to share its “weirdest DUI arrest of the weekend,” in which law enforcement officials arrested a woman after she poured alcohol into a Taco Bell drive-thru employees mouth. According to Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the incident took place around 1 a.m. on Saturday at a Taco Bell branch in Beaverton, Ore. The suspect, 23-year-old Elianna Aguilar-Aguilar from Cornelius, Ore. had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent. The Oregon state limit is 0.08. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but wrote in its Facebook...

Last week Imam Tawhidi accused Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of organizing a media campaign to ruin his reputation. Imam Tawhidi claimed he had proof Ilhan Omar was behind the smear campaign.

UN, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, singles out Israel as world’s only violator of women’s rights JUL 26, 2019 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Ludicrous. Why is this desperately corrupt slave of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation occupying American soil? Why are American taxpayers still funding it? “UN Singles Out Israel as World’s Only Violator of Women’s Rights; Iran, Saudi Arabia & Yemen Among the Voters,” UN Watch, July 24, 2019: GENEVA, July 24, 2019 — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world...