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The Senate voted again on Wednesday to end President Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern U.S. border. In a 54-41 vote, the Senate agreed to terminate the declaration via Senate Joint Resolution 54, garnering five fewer votes than their previous attempt in February. GOP voting in favor: Alexander Blunt Collins Lee Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Romney Toomey Wicker

The Senate voted again on Wednesday to end President Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern U.S. border. In a 54-41 vote, the Senate agreed to terminate the declaration via Senate Joint Resolution 54, garnering five fewer votes than their previous attempt in February. GOP voting in favor: Alexander Blunt Collins Lee Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Romney Toomey Wicker

The Government of Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its Qods Force, supports terrorists and directly engages in terrorism. Iran arbitrarily detains United States citizens. The Iranian regime contributes to humanitarian crises, threatens its neighbors, threatens international shipping, and conducts destructive cyberattacks. Given that this behavior threatens peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond, I have determined that it is in the interest of the United States to take action to restrict and suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of senior government officials of Iran,...

On Wednesday markets brought another reality check to Washington’s chronic impeachment enthusiasm. In a recurring drama of the Trump era, the Speaker of the House and other Democrats are talking gravely and vaguely about a President allegedly betraying his country and trashing its laws. Meanwhile the massive bipartisan global coalition of equity investors who actually have to put money behind their opinions aren’t buying the Pelosi thesis of American crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has formally called for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The market reaction was a giant shrug. This is a political moment for the country, not...

A transcript of the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows the two leaders did talk during their brief conversation about an investigation involving Joe Biden and his son. Neither man, however, mentioned military aid to Ukraine that might hang in the balance. The White House released the complete official transcript less than a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced an official impeachment inquiry, based largely on the suspicion that Trump had threatened to withhold military assistance from Ukraine unless it looked into the dropping of an investigation of the then-vice...

Posted on by sundance The completely over-the-top response by a Deep State embed whistleblower and his/her political allies withing the administrative state now makes sense; it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. President Trump asked President Zelenskyy about “Crowdstrike.” To understand how important this is, we must remember the foundation for the entire Russian election interference narrative, ‘Muh Russia – writ large, is built on the claim Russians hacked the servers of the Democrat National Committee (DNC), and subsequently released damaging emails that showed the DNC worked to help Hillary Clinton and eliminate Bernie Sanders.

No biggie, just the last link in a fence that might end up mooting much of the asylum debate in Congress. While most of the attention today has focused on Ukraine, the White House announced a new agreement with Honduras to take any refugees seeking asylum first rather than the US. That makes three nations with safe-third-country agreements in Central America that effectively blocks the land route for asylum seekers from south of Mexico:

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin, who has long pushed for President Trump's impeachment, predicted on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would effectively unify the country by holding official proceedings. "I think the impeachment hearings will unify the country," Hostin said, prompting agreement from co-host Joy Behar.

House Republicans blast Pelosi and the Dems.

"It was clear that [President Donald] Trump will only have communications if they will discuss the Biden case," said Serhiy Leshchenko, an anti-corruption advocate and former member of Ukraine's Parliament, who now acts as an adviser to Zelenskiy. "This issue was raised many times. I know that Ukrainian officials understood."

Guess what? President Trump today told Ukraine's President said that a Miss Ukraine had won the Miss Universe Pageant when he owned the organization, but -- GASP! -- a Ukrainian has never won the prestigious pageant. Miss Ukraine, however, was First Runner-Up in 2011. OH THE HUGE MANATEE!! Will the Democrats take this piece of information to use against Trump during the Impeachment process? Will "Pageant Collusion" be the new 'gotcha' terminology? If Trump drowns kittens -- is that an impeachable offense? (all of the above are /SARC) ARTICLE: New York – President Donald Trump’s got jokes. Facing a Democratic...

Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Threaten Venezuela’s Democratic Institutions Issued on: September 25, 2019 There remains a political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela due to the continued failure of Nicolas Maduro, Maduro regime officials, and others to support the rule of law. Given the importance to the United States of fostering the functioning of constitutional government and democratic institutions in Venezuela, I have determined that it is in the interest of the United States to take action to restrict and suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of...

FULL TITLE: 'Like a brash baby giraffe leaving a club!' Male model's BIZARRE catwalk stomp leaves Twitter in a fit of giggles - and even gets a smile out of the usually stony-faced Anna Wintour A model's dramatic runway walk has taken the internet by storm - with his moody stomp being compared to everything from a stroppy teenager to a drunken club goer stumbling around at 7am in the morning. German model Leon Dame was given the honor of closing the Maison Margiela Spring 2020 show at Paris Fashion Week; a runway outing that brings together the most important...

In the aftermath of the attacks on Saudi oil, the U.S. average retail gasoline price jumped by more than 10 cents per gallon between September 16 and September 23—the largest weekly increase in gas prices since early September 2017, when in the wake of Hurricane Harvey gas prices jumped by 28 cents/gallon in one week, the EIA said on Wednesday.

MSNBC cut from President Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, claiming the president was repeating lies about his political rival Joe Biden as a “deflection” from the impeachment inquiry. “We hate to do this really but the president isn’t telling the truth,” MSNBC host Nicole Wallace said as the network cut from Trump’s speech. “These allegations against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden he’s repeating had been investigated by the Ukrainians...the Wall Street Journal included in their report on Friday that the Ukrainians view this issue as having been investigated and adjudicated,” Wallace said. SNIP “What’s amazing is that what Trump appears...

Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Signing of Joint Trade Agreement | New York, NY FOREIGN POLICY Issued on: September 25, 2019 SHARE: menuALL NEWS InterContinental New York Barclay New York, New York 12:04 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much everybody for being here. I’m honored to be alongside my great friend, Prime Minister Abe of Japan, to formally announce our first stage of a phenomenal new trade agreement with our close ally. They’ve been a great friend, and the Prime Minister has been my great friend. I want to thank Ambassador Lighthizer...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – As soon as an 87-year-old Bradenton woman is released from a medical center, she will be handcuffed and charged with murder. Police say she killed her disabled grandson. On Sunday, Bradenton police were called to the apartment of 87-year-old Lillian Parks. Inside they found her 30-year-old grandson, Joel Parks, dead. Joel was disabled, and Lillian confessed she gave him a drug overdose to kill him, because she feared after she died, no one would be able to care for him. “This is a process where it was thought out, planned and she took a human...

Issued on: September 25, 2019"We’re going to have a really great relationship, better than ever before on trade. I think it’s going to be better for Japan and better for the United States." President Donald J. Trump  AGREEING TO NEW DEALS: President Donald J. Trump has reached agreements to modernize and strengthen our trade relationship with Japan. Today, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan reached two agreements to rebalance trade between our two great nations. These agreements achieve concrete outcomes from negotiations, which were launched at last year’s meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Under a market...

Google has announced it has released a data set containing 3,000 deepfake videos it has created. Google hopes the release of the videos will allow researchers to develop ways to combat malicious deepfakes, giving them, news organizations, and the public ways to identify “synthetic” videos—that is videos manipulated by or entirely created using computers. Deepfakes at first came onto the scene in 2017 and were mainly used in crude, falsified porn videos. The technology originally allowed for people with limited computer skills to easily paste the face of, for example, an actress onto a porn star’s body. But since then...

There’s a lot said about Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage, most of it insulting and cruel. People who hate the president can’t believe anyone could love him. At best, they regard his wife with pity, as the prisoner of a loveless marriage. “Inside the Trump marriage: Melanie’s burden,” “The Sad Truth,” “Dark Secrets” are typical headlines. “#SaveMelania” memes trended online as Vanity Fair fantasized she would divorce her husband and become a feminist icon. Yet those who attended the state dinner for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday tell a very different story. They say the affection between the...