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President Trump on Monday defended the idea of raising corruption issues with foreign leaders as he faces mounting scrutiny over whether he pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate his political rival. Trump told reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York City that it was fair to ask about corruption when determining whether to provide aid to a foreign country, even as Democrats have raised concerns that the president threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if it didn't investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son. "We’re supporting a country. We want to make sure that country’s...

Remarks by President Trump After Coast Guard Briefing on Tropical Storm Imelda | Houston, TX    Issued on: September 22, 2019 Ellington AirportHouston, Texas11:10 A.M. CDTQ  Mr. President, what grade would you give the Coast Guard in Texas?THE PRESIDENT:  “A-plus.”  I give the Coast Guard an “A-plus,” and I have for a long time.  I don’t think there’s any brand — no matter where you go — that’s gone up more than the Coast Guard.  And that started with Harvey, as far as I’m concerned — the big hurricane from a year ago in Texas, which was, I guess, they...

A rare documentary by the people who did the Time Marches On newsreels from 1941. Note this was before the US entry into World War II. The film explores the history and working of the Vatican City during the reign of Pope Pius XII. (appx 18 minutes)

A 'train surfer' was burned alive after he was 'electrocuted' travelling on the roof of a 155 mile per hour high speed electric train in Russia. The Sapsan service was halted after passengers reported the smell of 'burning meat' in a carriage as the train was en route from St Petersburg to Moscow. The driver stopped the train and a fire was spotted on the roof of the third carriage as passengers ran out onto a platform in panic, according to reports. The cause of the blaze was found to be coming from 19-year-old Dmitry Mikhailenko whose body was trapped...

Every single assertion of this paragraph isn't just wrong, but the opposite of right. In each sentence, Trump is being blamed for things his political opponents have done. ABC News’ White House correspondent Karen Travers approvingly tweeted out a paragraph of a front-page Washington Post rant written by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, and Rachel Bade. The paragraph comes from their cri de coeur headlined “Trump’s Ukraine Call Reveals A President Convinced Of His Own Invincibility.”[snip] " Trump’s sense of himself as above the law has been reinforced throughout his time in office."

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has released a plan to eliminate $81 billion in past-due medical debt and use bankruptcy courts to process other existing and future medical debt. Four things to know: 1. The plan calls for the federal government to negotiate and pay off past-due medical bills in collections that have been reported to credit agencies. 2. The campaign chose $81 billion based on a 2018 Health Affairs study. Researchers found one in six Americans have past-due medical bills on their credit report totaling $81 billion. Fifty-three percent of those bills amount to less than $600 each....

The statement was given after an impromptu meeting with Liberman ahead of Rivlin-brokered talks with Netanyahu Blue & White leader Benny Gantz may be ready to concede his party's position against joining a government with incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he faces possible indictment in a number of corruption cases. "We'll see what happens," Gantz told i24NEWS when asked if he would form a unity government with incumbent Prime Minister Netanyahu ahead of their meeting with President Reuven Rivlin Tuesday night. The statement was given following an unannounced meeting between Gantz and Yisrael Beitenu's Avigdor Liberman in Jaffa. Meanwhile,...

President Trump briefly stopped by a daylong summit of world leaders meeting to discuss climate change at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York before leaving to address a meeting on the persecution of religious minorities and his administration's efforts to support religious freedom. Earlier Monday morning, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham raised the possibility that Mr. Trump might find time to appear at the climate change summit. "His schedule is ever changing, but it wouldn't surprise me if he popped by," she said in an appearance on Fox News. And Mr. Trump did end up dropping...

Greta becomes more frightening with every public appearance Greta Thunberg on Monday opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders. “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you.” “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”

Sid Haig -- best known as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses" trilogy -- has died. The horror icon's wife, Suzie, shared the news Monday on Sid's own social media account, writing ... "On Saturday, September 21, 2019, my light, my heart, my true love, my King, the other half of my soul, Sidney, passed from this realm on to the next."

ABC News’ White House correspondent Karen Travers approvingly tweeted out a paragraph of a front-page Washington Post rant written by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, and Rachel Bade. The paragraph comes from their cri de coeur headlined “Trump’s Ukraine Call Reveals A President Convinced Of His Own Invincibility.”While the article matches the headline in its extreme bias and shrill outpouring of opinion — seemingly written by the Democratic National Committee’s newest batch of enthusiastic interns — it is presented as if it’s news, a common problem with our current media culture. Here’s the paragraph: This paragraph from @PhilipRucker @costareports @rachaelmbade…...

During the opening segment of his radio show, Levin explained that there was nothing wrong or illegal with the reported contents of the call [cut] “Why is this a big story?” Levin remarked about the phone call on air. “Because the Democrats and the media — one and the same — want it to be a big story. “Why else?” the host continued. “They’re trying to inoculate Joe Biden, Joe Biden and his son Hunter from a massive scandal involving the Ukraine.” What’s there to look into? Levin pointed to a lengthy April report from John Solomon at The Hill...

Imagine, if you can, a world where the sight of improperly dressed men could spark riots.

“Well, ________________ is going to totally be the thing that lets us crucify Trump! Yeah, Russia flopped and his alleged Nazi-ness failed and that weasel ex-lawyer/convict of his struck out, but we promise – this time, ___________ is going to bring him down!” So saith CNN, the Times, the gang at LonelyNeckbeardedLeftistLoser.com and the rest of the cabinboy media, along with the carb-curious Fredocon dorks and the surviving furries, pseudo-Cherokees and other assorted Democrat weirdos currently wandering about in Iowa pestering farmers to join them for selfies. There’s always a new _____________, except the “bring him down” part just never...

On Wednesday night, Pastor David Platt of McLean Bible Church hosted a simulcast called Something Needs to Change, part of an ongoing initiative from The Gospel Coalition. In the simulcast, Platt, an author and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, shared an interview with a missionary named Yazim. “He lives and works in a part of the Middle East where, not only is it illegal to share the Gospel, it’s life-threatening to talk about how the Gospel is advancing,” Platt shared. In the simulcast Yazim, a Middle East church planter shared with Platt and the listeners...

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill) says he wants to give voters who, like himself, have given up on America a choice in the 2020 election. “The Republican Party has become unrecognizable to me since Donald Trump has become president,” Walsh complained. “He has turned the venerable party of convivial losers into bare-knuckle brawlers vying for control of the government against our estimable friends on the other side.” Walsh says he is “particularly disturbed by the interruption of the transformation set in motion by former President Obama. Trump has unleashed an uncomfortable acceleration in economic growth that threatens to scramble social...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who is challenging President Trump in the Republican primaries, proclaimed Monday that the president committed treason through his controversial phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- adding that the punishment for treason is death. The statement drew a swift rebuke from the Trump campaign. “The media’s affliction with Trump Derangement Syndrome has driven them into an actual discussion of the proposed execution of the President of the United States,” communications director Tim Murtaugh told Fox News. “In severe cases of TDS such as this, immediate consultation with a physician is recommended.” Weld was responding...

Happy Monday, folks. What better way to get the American people on your side than by causing their morning work commute to become an even bigger headache by forcing thousands of drivers to sit in stand still traffic. In an attempt to convince climate skeptics that climate change (formally known as global warming until a few predictions by Al Gore didn't pan out) is real, hundreds of leftist protesters are currently demonstrating in the streets of Washington, D.C. by hurling confetti, blocking traffic, and warning about carbon emissions...while at the same time causing motor vehicles to just sit there emitting...

Did Biden violate the emoluments clause by having ukraine drop investigations into his son? How about getting his son jobs in foreign countries?

President Trump on Monday morning demanded to know the identity of the Deep State whistleblower (spy) who penned a complaint against him over his phone calls to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump questioned the whistleblower’s loyalty to the US and asked, “Is he on our Country’s side. Where does he come from [?]”