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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) said in a tweet Friday that Democrats will work hard and win over Texas in 2020. The freshman lawmaker responded to a tweet from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, which read, “Time for the GOP to start fully freaking out about Texas.” Ocasio-Cortez took Hayes’s sentiments a step further in a tweet completely in Spanish, telling supporters to get ready because they are “going to work hard and win in Texas” Hayes’s tweet followed Rep. Will Hurd’s (R-TX) decision not to seek reelection, leaving the 23rd Congressional District of Texas wide open.

BALTIMORE, MD — When a man broke into the building in the middle of the night where U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife live, the couple did not call 911 right away. After the intruder got in, they took action. Hours later, the congressman's wife, Maya Rockeymoore, contacted authorities. Two exterior doors lead to the residential part of the apartment building where the couple lives on the first and second floor in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue, according to the police report. Around 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, they were alerted by a cell phone application connected...

FBI Documents Detail That Comey Had Trump FBI Docs At His Home! Judicial Watch Goes To Court on FBI Stonewall and Cover-Up U.S. Wastes $907 Million Tax Dollars on Useless “Nutrition Education” FBI Documents Detail That Comey Had Trump FBI Docs At His Home! As the Justice Department reportedly takes a step to give James Comey a pass for illegal activity, Judicial Watch is uncovering the details of these crimes. We received six pages of records from the FBI showing that in June 2017, a month after Comey was fired by President Donald Trump, FBI agents visited his home...

RUSH: We’re gonna be having a little bit more exploration today on Tulsi Gabbard versus Kamala Harris. But just a little teaser here. The state of California has begun to hide the official record of Kamala Harris as attorney general so people cannot go look it up and find out that Tulsi Gabbard is right. Now, folks, these are people that have been turning over every stone and rock looking for mythical information that Trump cheated with Russia. Now the same people demanding all of this transparency are hiding and covering up the official record of Kamala Harris because, despite...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office. “Saikat has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal,” Trent told the Intercept Friday. “We are extraordinarily grateful for his service to advance a bold agenda and improve the lives of the people in NY-14. From his co-founding of Justice Democrats to his work on the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and in the official office, Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help the...

FULL TITLE: Pro-choice billboards erected outside Texas town that declared itself 'sanctuary city for the unborn' Two pro-choice billboards outside a small town in Texas were put up this month after the all-male city council passed an ordinance declaring it a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” The billboards, funded by abortion rights activists from Austin, read “Abortion is freedom” and include a website that has information on abortion services in Texas and nearby, according to the Washington Post. The billboards follow the all-male city council of Waskom, Texas, voting unanimously last month to pass the ordinance. Waskom does not currently...

Bob Grant is the referee of this heated discussion between Donald Trump and former Republican New Jersey Speaker of the House Chuck Haytaian.

RUSH: Frank Luntz was on Fox after my appearance on Hannity last night. Grab audio sound bite number nine. This is what Frank Luntz had to say. He was on with Laura Ingraham. You know, Frank is a consultant. You may not know this, but a lot of CEOs hire Frank Luntz to come out and tell ’em about marketing strategy and advertising strategy and stuff. Frank goes. He puts his tennis on and goes out there and talks to ’em, and he was reporting to Laura Ingraham’s question on what he’s been telling these CEOs about what he’s been...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A woman was forced to have emergency surgery and a hysterectomy after suffering complications after having an abortion at a clinic in Baton Rouge. The procedure took place in early 2019 at the Delta Clinic on Colonial Drive. However, details did not come to light until the anti-abortion group, Louisiana Right to Life, discovered the incident during a recent search of public records. The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) ultimately ordered the clinic to agree to a long list of corrective actions before it could continue operating. According to the incident report compiled by LDH,...

It is 2:25 in the afternoon as EMTs struggle to help the writhing man, facedown in the dirt on the sidewalk. They strap him onto a stretcher. His head lolls, his T-shirt rides up exposing his belly and white foam crusts around his mouth. It is hardly a rare occurrence, according to one bystander. 'This is high drugs run,' he explains, gesturing up and down W North Avenue, 'They OD and fall out all the time.' Within the next three hours and as many blocks there will be three shootings in this pocket of West Baltimore alone. It is home...

<p>Before President Trump came to the stage at his rally in Cincinnati on Thursday, several other speakers warmed up the crowd.</p> <p>One was Brandon Straka, founder of the “Walk Away” movement. Straka was a liberal, until, as he told the crowd, he learned that the media falsely reported that Trump had mocked a disabled reporter during the 2016 campaign. (Trump did do that.) Straka is a minority within Trump’s coalition, a gay Democrat-turned-Trump-supporter, and he presented himself to the audience as a validator for Trump’s relationship with non-majority groups.</p>

Special counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month long investigation cost approximately $32 million, according to new figures released Friday from the Department of Justice. Between October 2018 and the end of May 2019, Mueller's investigative team spent roughly $6.5 million during the last six months of his investigation. It has previously spent $25 million through September of last year. The Justice Department said some of the costs would have been incurred even without Mueller's investigation. Mueller testified before Congress last week in what is likely to be his only Capitol Hill appearance about his investigation.

It’s very interesting indeed that Ocasio-Cortez’s right-hand man, Saikat Chakrabarti, is on his way out just a week after her first meeting in months with Nancy Pelosi. And that the news is breaking late-ish on Friday afternoon, traditionally the hours when politicians dump inconvenient developments which they’d rather the public not pay any attention to. The most hated man in the Democratic caucus is headed for the exit, just half a year into his boss’s first term. I wonder if Pelosi demanded his head on a plate or if AOC offered it as a gesture of goodwill.

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I got a note last night. I was not watching the rally. When Fox comes in here to set up, it’s impossible — I mean, the TVs are off, stuff’s in the way of the TVs. I had to say, “Can we put one of the TVs back on?” And so we got it finally back on up there, but it was after most of the coverage of Trump’s rally was over. But that’s okay. No big deal. I got a note while this is going on from a very dear friend who said, “This...

CINCINNATI—Donald Trump’s supporters would like to be clear: They are tired of being called racists. Leave it to the president’s eldest son to set the tone. Last night at the 17,500-person-capacity U.S. Bank Arena downtown here, Donald Trump Jr. strode onto the stage two hours before the president was scheduled to speak. The venue was already brimming. It had been a rough week for his father. On July 28, President Trump was once again deemed racist after lashing out at House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district includes part of Baltimore. Trump referred to the city 40 miles north of...

Hollywood has been pushing on-screen abortion at record levels, in an attempt to normalise it. According to Gretchen Sisson, a scholar who tracks how abortion is portrayed on-screen, popular shows such as Scandal, Dear White People, Veep and Shrill have been ‘unapologetically’ depicting on-screen abortion in ways which would have been ‘unthinkable a decade ago.’ Speaking to The New York Times, Sisson said: “You’re definitely seeing more of the matter-of-fact ‘I am pregnant, I don’t want to be, I’m going to have an abortion’, and it’s gone way up in 2019.” Sisson’s research focussed on tracking how abortions are depicted...

Hot dogs covered in mustard? Perfect summer snack. Ice cream? Yes, nothing better. But together? As in, one thing? Dear lord, absolutely not. That's a nightmare. That's the surest sign of a chef playing god. Well, meet our new dark lord, Oscar Meyer, because he (it) has done it. He's opened the world to something truly awful and there can be no closing this Pandora's box. This is hell on earth: Yeah, for those keeping score, that's candied hot dog bits, hot dog sweet cream, spicy dijon gelato, and a cookie bun.

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Editor’s note. This is an updated version of a story that ran previously in NRL News Today. I hope you enjoy it. There are many faults line along with pro-life and “pro-choice” people divide. In a sense, perhaps the most fundamental is that we refuse to accept either [the mother] or [the baby]. We believe in win-win solutions that are both/and. I think of that truism (for us) every time I read a study documenting the interdependence, the mutuality of mother and child. Even more so when I read about truths that are widely known in the scientific community but...

“The water is meant to represent gender and sexual fluidity,” Mr. Singh said, seated beneath a 1988 Herb Ritts portrait of Cindy Crawford. The women who would pose in that water — their limbs wrapped around one another in a balletlike pose — were not simply models but activists. One uses performance art and digital media to share stories about the H.I.V. epidemic. Another is an underwater dancer who promotes ocean conservation. The third, a Belgian artist, recently filmed herself walking naked through a Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn during a sacred holiday.