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A man was in police custody Tuesday in connection with the death of a 9-year-old girl in Detroit who was mauled by three dogs despite efforts by neighbors and her own "heartbroken" father, who lamented that "she was gone when I reached her."

House Democrats are looking to speed up their lawsuit against the Treasury Department and IRS over their refusal to turn over President Trump's tax returns. The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday filed a motion in federal court in Washington, D.C., for summary judgment, asking Judge Trevor McFadden to direct Treasury and the IRS to comply with the committee's requests and subpoenas for six years of the president's federal tax returns. The committee also asked McFadden, a Trump appointee, to consider the case on an expedited basis, proposing a schedule under which briefs on relevant issues would be...

The House Judiciary Committee announced a Sept. 4 vote on a group of measures aimed at reducing gun violence. “For far too long, politicians in Washington have only offered thoughts and prayers in the wake of gun violence tragedies,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said. “Thoughts and prayers have never been enough. To keep our communities safe, we must act." * * * House Democrats are nonetheless ready to advance additional gun control measures. Nadler said he’ll take up a measure that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines, which were used in a string of deadly mass shootings this summer.

President Trump said Tuesday that the United States already has “very strong background checks” for gun purchasers and that officials need to be wary of the prospect of a “slippery slope” where “everything gets taken away.” Trump’s comments to reporters in the Oval Office provided more evidence that he is backtracking after initially expressing support for enhanced background checks following a pair of mass shootings that killed 31 earlier this month. His comments foretelling a “slippery slope” also closely mirrored the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) long-held argument that even modest gun control regulations would inevitably lead to more stringent ones....

RUSH: Do you know how Daylight Savings Time is killing us? How do you think? If you just had to wild guess, it’s obviously a Drive-By Media concern. Daylight Savings Time is killing us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, yes, but it’s effective sleep pattern. The one hour of sleep that we are losing every spring when we turn the clocks forward is causing people months of distress, months of sleeplessness, and it’s causing some people to die prematurely, and the story is what should we do to fix it? Should we eliminate it? Should we go...

Whole Bishops' Conference Goes Pagan The Columbian Bishops’ Conference published on Flickr.com photos of a Church event featuring Indio shamans invoking demons in presence of enthusiastic priests, sisters and bishops. The shamans appeared dressed in ponchos with feathers on their heads. They released smoke over bananas, ananas, Indian corn and other vegetables and fruits that were arranged on a towel. Further they sprinkled their audience with some demonic substance. The event was presented by the bishops as “Church with an Amazonian Face.” #newsSgxlvckkux

If you were on Twitter over the weekend, you probably saw a lot of talk about President Trump talking to his advisors about the possibility of buying Greenland. Richochet’s Jon Gabriel imagined a Greenland purchased by Trump: Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019 Gabriel didn’t get credit, but his photo was retweeted by President Trump Monday, who promised not to build a huge gold Trump Tower in Greenland. I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019 https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1163604571165511681 It would be the #1 destination in Greenland, that’s for...

Every quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York releases data on how much household debt Americans are accumulating. Here’s everything you need to know about American debt in Q2 2019.TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DEBT, Q2 2019 – Total household debt level at $13.86 trillion, up 1.4% ($192 billion) from Q1– 20th consecutive quarter with increase in debt– Mortgage household debt rose by $162 billion in the second quarter to $9.4 trillion– Total mortgage debt the highest it’s been since Q3 2008– Mortgages and refis increased by $130 billion to $474 billion, the highest since Q3 2017– $17 billion increase in auto...

Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) trails her Democratic opponent for the first time, according to a new survey, as President Trump's approval rating falls in the key swing state. Retired astronaut Mark Kelly leads McSally, the retired fighter pilot-turned-politician, by a 46 percent to 41 percent margin, according to the poll conducted by OH Predictive Insights, a Phoenix-based pollster, and released first to The Hill.

Who knew the Walt Disney Company would be pulled into the protests in Hong Kong? The controversy involves a member of the Disney Princesses franchise, or at least an actress set to play a live-action version of Disney’s beloved character Mulan. Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei is in hot water over a show of support for the Hong Kong police.Since March, millions have taken to the streets in Hong Kong in pro-democracy demonstrations. Sunday it was reported that 1.7 million marched in heavy rain as the threats from China’s military continue. What began as protests against legislation which would have...

Facebook has reportedly pulled an ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign after it violated the platform’s advertising policies. Popular Info reported Monday that Facebook pulled the Trump ad because it violated a policy that prohibits ads targeting "personal attributes." The ad in question featured a crowd of women with the caption, “The Women for Trump Coalition needs the support of strong women like you!” Facebook’s ad policy prohibits “content that asserts or implies personal attributes,” including, among other things, "direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s ... gender identity." Facebook reportedly pulled the ad following an inquiry from...

Before we get started, I wanted to bring up a curious item. We recently received feedback from a reader who was visiting China and reported that Hot Air appears to be blocked in that country. (We are available in Hong Kong, it seems.) If anyone is viewing the site from China without any issues, could you please drop a note to [email protected]? Thanks.On to the main story. As we’ve been covering the protests in Hong Kong (which may have led to us being blocked), one recurring question has involved the relatively small number of protesters who have engaged in violence...

You’ve heard of buyer’s remorse, but now Democrats appear to have developed a case of Bernie remorse. After rushing to out-socialist Bernie Sanders by unquestioningly embracing Medicare for All, the Washington Post reports that presidential candidates have begun singing a different tune. Kamala Harris might be carrying the melody, but she’s getting a lot of harmony from the rest of the choir: The Democratic senator from California is hardly alone. The idea of Medicare-for-all — a unified government health program that would take over the basic function of private insurance — became a liberal litmus test at the outset...

A Republican strategist and former 2016 presidential campaign spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) laid out three things that the GOP must do to ensure President Donald Trump is reelected next year, including some surprises — such as, he believes California a sign of things to come for the GOP without a plan to address it. In an op-ed for The Hill, Ron Nehring writes that while “California has become a running joke” for his party, it’s really “the canary in the coal mine, not an outlier.” That is, the state is a massive warning sign for the Republican Party....

As a result, new stadiums are shrinking. In a piece for USA Today, sports writer Gabe Lacques noted the falling attendance of several MLB teams.

Most of us knew of the traps Jeffrey Epstein set for young innocent children. We do not have proof at this time of how young. We can refer to the age of 14, as the FBI just removed nude photographs of children as young as 14. One thing we did not know, or I did not, Epstein was Mossad and very involved in politics. He was involved in working with Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger. He was involved in the movement of nuclear missiles, and I am trusting a source who is always correct. He has been around for years...

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A former Walt Disney Co. accountant says she has filed a series of whistleblower tips with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the company has materially overstated revenue for years. Sandra Kuba, formerly a senior financial analyst in Disney’s DIS, +0.29% revenue-operations department who worked for the company for 18 years, alleges that employees working in the parks-and-resorts business segment systematically overstated revenue by billions of dollars by exploiting weaknesses in the company’s accounting software. Kuba said she has met with officials from the SEC on several occasions to discuss the allegations. A spokeswoman for the SEC declined to comment....

WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) isn’t happy that some of his party’s presidential candidates are pushing for Medicare for All and decriminalizing border crossings, two hot-button issues in the Democratic primary. In a half-hour phone conversation with VICE News, Reid was blunt when asked if he thought supporting Medicare for All would be problematic in the 2020 general election.

What American Jews Don’t Understand About BDS Boycotting BDS is the best way to beat it. August 20, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 40 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. There’s no place on earth that boycotters of Israel like visiting more than… Israel.Omar Barghouti, the Qatari founder of the BDS movement, has been living in Israel for 25 years. And the activist who helped introduce the boycott of Israel to the world has spent many of those years arguing that he should be...