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The 33-year-old man who police say went on a stabbing spree that left four dead and two wounded was identified Thursday, August 8 as a documented gang member with an extensive criminal history prior to Wednesday’s deadly rampage that spread from Garden Grove to Santa Ana. Investigators were still trying to determine what motivated Zachary Castaneda to attack the victims, who police say were random targets, Garden Grove police said. Castaneda was made eligible for release under the AB109 inmate-realignment legislation, police said. “This person should have been in prison and not allowed to be in our community,” Garden Grove...

Here is my quandary. And this is proposed for anyone on either side of the red-flag debate. But I will give you a real-world look at how these ridiculous laws work. This is a TRUE STORY. This is actually happening, I don't know what to do. I work Uber for side cash. I am also developing a new system to help rideshare drivers better manage their time and make more money. At our airports are "Queues". When you arrive to the airport and are waiting for a ride, you are geo-fenced into a parking lot and placed into a "First...

In a table-top pandemicexerciseat Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people.A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbonU.S. panelenvisioned Nipah being dispersed by terrorists and claiming over 6,000 American lives. Scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) have also said the highly lethal bug is a potential bio-weapon. But this March that same lab shipped samples of the henipavirus family and of Ebola to China, which has long beensuspected of running a secretive biological warfare(BW) program. China strongly denies it makes germ weapons, and...

Why would Catholics want to favor the abortion industry with every sip of café latte?  Well, they don’t.  That’s why a growing number of students at Saint Leo University are urging campus officials to scrap plans to welcome Starbucks at their Catholic institution. “I reject Starbucks on campus because they support Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider,” said Matalin Shaver, a pro-life senior at Saint Leo.  “I would love to see a coffee provider that is local or another supplier that does not support Planned Parenthood or go against our Catholic values.”Sign this peaceful protest. Starbucks attacks moral values in multiple...

BY ADELE PETERS Los Angeles county, where the minimum wage is currently $14.25 an hour, studies suggest that Uber and Lyft drivers often make far less. In El Monte, an industrial city east of Los Angeles, the city council just unanimously voted to change that, telling city officials to begin drafting a law that would guarantee drivers a minimum of $30 an hour. While other cities have set minimum wages for ride-hail drivers, this would be the highest in the country, and it comes after pressure from the Mobile Workers Alliance, a project from the Service Employees International Union, Local...

WASHINGTON — Under intense pressure to take action on gun safety in the wake of two weekend massacres, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, expressed a new willingness Thursday to consider a measure expanding background checks for all gun purchasers, saying it will be “front and center” in a coming Senate debate on how to respond to gun violence. “There is a lot of support for that,” he said.

Orlando and Tampa's mayors are among the more than 200 city leaders calling for the Senate to return to the Capitol and act on gun safety legislation in the wake of two mass shootings in one weekend. 214 mayors call for bipartisan legislation to end gun violenceOrlando, St. Pete, Tampa mayors among city leaders on letterMany mayors are from cities in which mass shootings happened The letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, from the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Thursday. Spectrum News confirmed that Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is one of...

NRA officials contend that Ackerman McQueen suggested the real estate purchase and that it was ultimately rejected by top NRA leaders...Most did not respond to requests for comment via email or phone. Those who did rallied to the LaPierre’s defense, accusing Ackerman McQueen — which is locked in a legal battle with the NRA — of distorting details about the real estate discussions. “This story is a big lie,” said Howard Walter, a retired Navy fighter pilot who lives in North Carolina and has served on the board for 21 years.

RUSH: It is upon us. I’ll tell you what. I’m gonna continue the theme that I began yesterday at this very moment, 24 hours ago, essentially saying that — because I’ve got backup now — the support for Donald Trump is actually growing out there, and much of it because of this insanity and lunacy that has taken over. I actually believe… When I see Joe Biden say what he’s saying about Trump doesn’t denounce the KKK when Trump has denounced the KKK, I think… When I see Tim Ryan marching at the Turtle’s house… Get this. These violent protesters...

Margo Rosen, former District Director for Democrat Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), has violent public meltdown at Trump supporters. Physically attacks person filming her when they tried to obtain her license plate number.

TALLAHASSEE — Have gun, will vote? Florida Republicans working to reelect President Donald Trump will send volunteers to a gun show this weekend as part of a broader effort to sign up new voters in the battleground state. An internal “Trump Victory Team” email circulated Thursday, days after a pair of mass shootings stunned the nation, said the upcoming gun show in South Florida was “a great opportunity to make sure people are up to date on their voter registration and know more about the efforts of the Trump administration to address public safety and second amendments rights.” Democrats quickly...

Next month Hollywood will release a new movie called "The Hunt."  it's about liberal elites hunting down and killing Trump supporters. Matt Margolis: In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film."Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the...

My apologies for being a few hours late today. Had to make a small emergency trip. Thanks for your understanding.Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Laura Loomer. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Laura Loomer is a successful conservative journalist. Banned from most social media platforms, Laura has announced that she will be running for Congress in 2020. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to...

A group of anti-Trump protesters surrounded a MAGA hat-wearing woman at a memorial for the tragic shooting that killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, branding her a "terrorist."The protesters were opposing President Donald Trump's visit to El Paso following the shooting.As a CBS reporter noted:“Tensions get heated at the site of the memorial in El Paso when a woman wearing a #MAGA hat is surrounded by those who oppose Donald Trump and his visit to El Paso."

A move by Twitter to freeze the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) campaign has prompted a backlash by President Trump’s campaign and national Republican groups, who have vowed to stop buying ads on the social media platform until the account is unfrozen.  On Wednesday, Twitter locked McConnell’s campaign account from further activity as punishment for its sharing of a video of protesters screaming obscenities outside the Kentucky Republican’s home. The social media company said it will not unlock @Team_Mitch unless it agrees to remove the video.  Officials for the Trump campaign, the National Republican Committee, and the...

The researchers combined magnetic readings and radioisotope dating of samples from seven lava flow sequences to recreate the magnetic field over a span of about 70,000 years centered on the latest geomagnetic reversal. They accurately dated the lava flows by measuring the argon produced from radioactive decay of potassium in the rocks. They found that the final reversal was quick by geological standards, less than 4,000 years. But it was preceded by an extended period of instability that included two excursions — temporary, partial reversals — stretching back another 18,000 years. The lava flow data was corroborated by magnetic readings...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday asked President Trump to call the Senate back into session for a vote on gun control measures that have already passed the House in the wake of two mass shootings last weekend. “It is with deep sadness and great urgency that I write following the horrific loss of life that occurred in Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton and Chicago, after which you said, ‘I think background checks are important. I don't want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable or people with rage or hate, sick people. I'm all in favor of...

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is suing the Justice Department and FBI over his termination from the agency last year, arguing that his firing was a politically motivated move stemming from President Trump

Author James Baldwin wrote that Americans need to conduct an “unflinching assessment of the record” in reckoning with the nation’s racial past. But when a professor used Baldwin’s writing to do just that, her university launched a racial discrimination investigation against her. Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education calls on The New School to stand by its laudable but broken “legacy of academic freedom, tolerance, and free intellectual exchange” by immediately dropping its investigation of professor Laurie Sheck. Sheck, a poet and novelist who is white, teaches a graduate course on “radical questioning” in writing. The course includes...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection... has awarded a contract to construct approximately 11 miles of new levee wall system in three non-contiguous segments located within U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector in Hidalgo County, Texas (South of McAllen). The project area begins at the intersection of Conway Road and the... levee in Mission, Texas and extends eastward to approximately one quarter mile west of Stewart Road and the IBWC levee south of San Juan, Texas. The contract for this project was awarded on August 7, 2019 to Southwest Valley Constructors Co. for the base contract amount of...