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Shirley Temple Black (actress, born April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, California; died, February 10, 2014, Woodside, California) From the start, Shirley Temple had what the camera loves: bright eyes and a curly top, a magical presence and irrepressible charm -- and an amazing talent. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, proclaimed that "as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right." She was the star of more than forty motion pictures, most of them made during the 1930s before she had celebrated her 12th birthday. Shirley Temple became a unique symbol of American movies and a joyous tonic...

A Humboldt Park man was found guilty Friday of aggravated battery charges for stabbing a man who confronted him about his purported membership in a white nationalist group outside a concert at Northerly Island in 2017. Brushing aside claims of self-defense during a two-day bench trial, Judge William Hooks on Friday found that Thomas Christensen badly overreacted to a “sophomoric” confrontation with a 30-year-old fellow concertgoer who called him out as a member of the white nationalist Proud Boys, and got in a scuffle that left Christensen with cut on his lip and scalp. “The reaction of the defendant to...

Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case New IG Report Confirms Comey Crimes but DOJ Drops Ball JW Takes on Another Dangerous Sanctuary Policy in California Chris Farrell to Host “On Watch” on the One America News Network Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case We have won a significant victory in our pursuit of the truth about Hillary Clinton’s misuse of official email and the Deep State’s efforts to cover it up. A federal judge granted us seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s...

While prosecutors routinely recite their full knowledge of and compliance with their Brady obligations, in truth they often scoff at them and continue to play games to win convictions at all costs. Meanwhile, the defense does not know what the defense does not know. This problem was demonstrated dramatically in the prosecution of United States Senator Ted Stevens. In fact, it was the prosecutorial misconduct in that case that led this Court to adopt the Brady order it now routinely enters in every criminal case. Unfortunately, the government learned nothing from the rebukes in Stevens. It has engaged in even...

GOP Rep. John Shimkus announced Friday he will not seek reelection for Illinois’s 15th Congressional District next year. Shimkus, who has served in the House since 1997, said while his tenure in Congress has been “an honor of a lifetime” he is looking to spend more time with his family. “As Illinois candidates begin to circulate petitions next week, now is the time for me to announce that I will not be seeking re-election. … Serving in Congress has been a blessing, but it has also been a sacrifice for my wife Karen, and our boys,” he said in a...

Democrat Dan McCready has a narrow advantage over Republican Dan Bishop heading into the final days of the Sept. 10 redo election in North Carolina’s 9th District, according to a new bipartisan poll for Inside Elections. The survey, conducted Aug. 26-28 by Harper Polling and Clarity Campaign Labs, showed McCready with a 46-42 percent advantage over Bishop, and two third party candidates receiving a combined 3 percent. When leaners are included, McCready’s advantage extended to 49-44 percent. In Nov. 2018, McCready finished behind Republican Mark Harris 49.3-48.9 percent, but a winner was never certified or seated in Congress because of...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account on his own platform appeared to have been hacked Friday afternoon as his page began posting a stream of racist and vile messages. "We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened," an official Twitter corporate account tweeted. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond when asked for comment. Dorsey's account on Friday afternoon began posting racial slurs and other odd messages. He retweeted one user who wrote, "nazi germany did nothing wrong." "Follow @taytaylov3r or Twitter hq is blowing up," read another of the tweets posted on Friday. Dorsey has more than 4.2...

Victims Of The Charleston Church Mass Shooting Can Sue Over Background Check Failures That Let The Shooter Buy A Gun, A Court Ruled Survivors and family members of victims of the July 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, can sue the federal government over failures in the national background check system that allowed the shooter to buy a gun, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A lower court judge previously had dismissed the case, finding the government was immune from the claims raised by the Charleston survivors and victims' families. The US Court of...

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died of a deadly combination of alcohol and drugs, an autopsy conducted by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner shows. Skaggs, 27, was found dead July 1 in a Southlake hotel while the Angels were in town to play the Texas Rangers. The autopsy and toxicology report released Friday show Skaggs had a combination of fentanyl, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone in his system.

Madeleine Westerhout, President Donald Trump's personal assistant, who has been described as a gatekeeper to the president, resigned on Thursday after leaking to the press earlier this month. Several White House officials had long suspected her of disloyalty to the president. A former staffer for the Republican National Committee and Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, she had reportedly cried when it became clear Trump had won in 2016. "She was a spy from day one who sought to use her proximity to the president to curry favor with his detractors," a former White House official told CBS News. Westerhout's resignation came...

Mumps has swept through 57 immigration detention facilities in 19 states since September, according to the first US government report on the outbreaks in the overloaded immigration system. The virus sickened 898 adult migrants and 33 detention center staffers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its report Thursday. New cases continue as migrants are taken into custody or transferred between facilities, the report said. As of last week, outbreaks were happening in 15 facilities in seven states. In response to the report, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said medical professionals at detention facilities screen all...

A 16-year-old student at a Colorado high school was informed by the school district Wednesday that he was not allowed to return to classes until the school could conduct an investigation into an anonymous tip that he had posted "threatening" content online. Current Time 0:11 Duration 0:51 Trump Slams 'Totally Fake' Washington Post Report That He Floated Pardons For Border Wall Construction In a story that has gained national attention from conservative sites, including RedState, the parents of a junior at Loveland High School learned Wednesday that their son could not appear on campus until the Thompson Valley School District...

James Comey hatched plan to leak memos earlier than he claimedJames Comey was already plotting to share memos summarizing his conversations with President Trump with a pal who later leaked the info to the media before his supposed middle-of-the night epiphany about the president’s claim that he had “tapes” of their conversations. The discrepancies in his timeline, outlined in the Justice Department’s watchdog’s scathing, 83-page report on his behavior, create more uncertainty about Comey’s version of events. Comey told investigators that Trump’s tweet about supposed Oval Office “tapes” caused him to snap awake “in the middle of the night” and...

WATCH: ANTIFA Terrorist Attempts to Stab Marine Veteran During Last Weekend’s Portland Rampage ANTIFA has become America’s top domestic terror threat.

The Iowa Democratic Party announced Friday it will explore alternative formats for the state’s all-important 2020 caucus amid reports that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) intends to scrap plans to hold the nominating contest virtually. “Regardless of today’s news, we remain confident the 2020 Iowa Caucuses will be our best yet, and set the standard for years to come,” Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price said in a statement. “While only five months remain before the caucuses, we will explore what alternatives may exist to securely increase accessibility from previous years given the time allowed.” Iowa Democrats have been seeking...

President Trump maintained Friday that the Justice Department's decision not to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey over his mishandling of official memos showed fairness on the part of Attorney General William Barr. "The fact that James Comey was not prosecuted for the absolutely horrible things he did just shows how fair and reasonable Attorney General Bill Barr is," Trump tweeted. "So many people and experts that I have watched and read would have taken an entirely different course. Comey got Lucky!"

President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign website mocks 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by showing her as commander in chief when users reach an error page. The background of the campaign website’s 404 error page shows Clinton speaking into a microphone in front of the Capitol while standing at a lectern with the presidential seal. “Oops! This is awkward,” the page reads. “You’re looking for something that doesn’t exist…” It is unclear how long the error page has displayed that particular image and message. SNIP

Jane Fonda: Here’s what happened when I went door-knocking in Pennslyvania Jane Fonda is an actress and activist. I’m scared. I’m scared for our democracy, for our ability to live together in community across lines of race, class and religion. I’m scared for my grandchildren and for the planet. The country is contorted and polarized, with the flames of hate fanned by leaders at the highest level. But I saw a path forward recently in Scranton, Pa., where I spent a hot, humid evening knocking on doors with Working America. (By the way, when I do this, I only give...

The Trump administration has quietly altered its handling of visas granted to immigrants who cooperate with criminal investigations, allowing people to be deported even while they are waiting for their visas. The change to U visas will make immigrants far less likely to report serious crimes, say immigration attorneys, who argue it also reflects the Trump administration’s efforts to deport as many immigrants as they can from the United States. “This is going to have a chilling effect,” Eileen Blessinger, a Falls Church, Va.-based immigration attorney, told The Hill, because “by applying, you’re essentially reporting yourself to ICE but now...

-Hello. Is it VPCh 2? -Yes. -We have an intelligence on fire at your location. Do you confirm or not? -There is an explosion in the main building between reactor blocks #3 and #4. -Are there people inside? -Sure! -Call the stuff to duty! -I woke the boss! -Call every officer! Wake them up! -Hello, Leonid Alexeivish? -Yep... -Pripyat calling. The roofs of blocks #3 and #4 are burning as the result of the explosion. -Holy $€¥¢. Is it firmly confirmed? -No they didn't. A Pripyat emergency dispatcher phoned me. -Hello! -Fire department listening... -Hello, Ivanka? -Yes, yes... -Listen, you...