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Okay, but can we talk about how Adam Schiff looks like the lovechild of President Logan from “24” and Peter Pettigrew from "Harry Potter”?

Just hours after the White House released a summary of President Donald Trump's call with the president of Ukraine — in which Trump urged the Ukrainian leader to do him a "favor" — Texas Sen. John Cornyn stood on the floor of the Senate and tore into House Democrats for moving forward with an impeachment inquiry based in part on that call.

The first gas station in the U.S. that has been completely transitioned from a petroleum station to exclusively charging EVs opened Thursday in Takoma Park, Maryland. RS Automotives, the local gas station, has been around since 1958. Depeswar Doley, owner of the station since 1997, said he was already unhappy with the way oil and gasoline companies structure contracts — such as limiting the use of multiple suppliers, including clauses that extend contracts when a certain volume of sales is not met and limiting maintenance support. These business factors already were pushing him to consider other options. A nudge from...

She just had Kelyanne Conway on and everytime she'd asked KC a question regarding today's events regarding the hearing and Trump, she 's have this disgusting look on her face as if she was in disagreement with KC's answers. She, MM, appeared pissed off with every answer KC would gave her. She was acting like a See You Next Tuesday. Oh, and that hairdo MM was sporting, lose it now. She looked like a doofus.

PHOENIX - Unrest in a country thousands of miles away can cause fuel cost to spike overnight, wreaking havoc on companies trying to get their products to consumers. It's one of the most frustrating and costly aspects of running a business, which gets passed on to the consumer in the price they pay for products. The solution to that problem may be Nikola Motors, which is purportedly the first hydrogen-powered truckmaker in the world. The company recently moved its world headquarters to Arizona. "This machine is one of the largest in the whole world," said Nikola Motors CEO Trevor Milton....

I am so confused. I flip onto CNN and MSNBC and they are saying Trump is doomed. I go to Fox and they are talking about Syria. I look on Drudge and all the headlines are about the end of Trump. I go to FR and not much talk about any of this. So what is really going on. Business as usual or something dramatic? Thank you.

Delta Air Lines updates policy and continues pit bull ban following DOT guidance. Delta's Policy Update Atlanta, GA - On September 23, 2019 Delta responded to Department of Transportation (DOT) final guidance regarding service animals that was issued on August 8. "Effective immediately, Delta is discontinuing its 8-hour flight limit for emotional support animals (ESAs)," states Delta's announcement. Delta is continuing its ban on pit bulls as service and support animals that it began in July 2018 in order to "protect the airline’s employees, customers and trained service animals." Following a sharp increase in onboard animal incidents and attacks, Delta...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has shelved the consideration of a nominee for a key circuit judge position after an uprising of conservative opposition. The committee postponed its vote on Halil Suleyman “Sul” Ozerden to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals shortly after Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) informed Republicans he was opposed. Hawley joined Sen. Ted Cruz in opposition. Hawley began informing colleagues of his decision on Thursday morning, just hours before Ozerden was going to be considered before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to source familiar with the conversations. With Cruz (R-Texas) and Hawley in opposition, Ozerden now needs Democratic...

Thursday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” network chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin weighed in on House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) committee hearing that featured acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on President Donald Trump allegedly urging Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump released the transcript from his call, which appeared to not show any wrongdoing on the president’s part. Although Democrats have maintained Trump sought to create a quid pro quo with Ukraine, Toobin said Schiff’s fight to prove Trump was involved in impropriety “didn’t really have that much juice to it.”...

ABC News added a major correction to a would-be bombshell report Wednesday that said the Trump administration required Ukraine’s president to discuss Joe Biden as a precondition to meet with President Donald Trump. The story would have been a huge development in the saga involving a whistleblower who filed a complaint regarding a July 25 phone call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader. The whistleblower asserted in the complaint that Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son’s Ukrainian business dealings. A transcript of that phone call shows Trump brought up concerns about the Bidens, but Trump denied pressuring Zelensky on the matter. If...

45 is having a Rally 10/10/19 Target Center 7pm Be there my MN Freepers!!!!

Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney came under fire from one of his Republican colleagues Thursday as Romney continues to raise questions about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Romney previously called the conversation “troubling to the extreme,” and said he was eager for more information to be released. Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott made clear Thursday that Romney does not speak for the Republican Senate caucus. “Senator Romney has gone down the same path as the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi,” Scott said. “He thinks the worst of the president instead of the best, before he ever...

The long-awaited whistleblower report is declassified and released...but does it help Democrats in their impeachment efforts? Plus, Trump fires back.

.......Hundreds of pages of never-released memos and documents – many from inside the American team helping Burisma to stave off its legal troubles – conflict with Biden’s narrative. And they raise the troubling prospect that U.S. officials may have painted a false picture in Ukraine that helped ease Burisma’s legal troubles and stop prosecutors’ plans to interview Hunter Biden during the 2016 U.S. presidential election........

Google Capital, the two-year-old growth equity arm of search giant Google (GOOG), announced its first security investment on Monday morning. The fund has pumped $100 million into cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. It was joined by cloud computing company Rackspace (RAX), which is a customer, and the firm’s existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus. The new infusion represents a Series C round for the Irvine, Calif.-based company, bringing its total funding raised to date to $156 million

Empire star Terrence Howard says he is 'looking forward to just being Terry for a while' after the hit FOX show ends. Speaking in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, the 50-year-old star also called for actors to be given better access to mental healthcare and likened his job to that of a soldier. The Cleveland native also defended co-star Jussie Smollett – who was arrested for staging a fake hate attack on himself in January – and said the greatest moment of his life so far is a visit to Disneyland he made with his family on Monday. Howard was...

A Maine Maritime Academy alumnus could be facing criminal charges for accidentally shooting a referee with a cannon during a MMA football game.

Apple releases iOS 13.1 Tuesday, September 24, 2019 1:11 pm Apple today released iOS 13.1 which includes bug fixes and improvements, including AirDrop with Ultra Wideband technology on iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, suggested automations in the Shortcuts app, and the ability to share ETA in Maps. AirDrop Ability to select who you want to AirDrop to by pointing from one iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, or iPhone 11 Pro Max to another using the new U1 chip with Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness Shortcuts Suggested automations in the Gallery personalized to your daily...

Thunberg — think Lisa Simpson crossed with Bane — told the United Nations, “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Nah. On the contrary, Thunberg’s life has coincided with what are almost certainly the 16 best years in the entire history of humanity. If she wants to talk hard times, wait till she hears about my childhood, when grown-ups thought it was perfectly fine to move millions of machines around that spewed lead into their kids’ lungs. And mine of course, was the luckiest of all generations to that point. Thunberg sailed to the U.S....

Donald Trump is considering bringing his tenacious former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski back into the fold to lead the fight in his impeachment battle. 'I have [had] no discussion with anyone in the White House about a job,' Lewandowski told DailyMail.com on Thursday. He did not clarify whether he spoke to anyone about leading such an effort from outside of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He also took to Twitter to weigh in and called the report '#fakenews.' 'As I have done for the last five years, I will continue to serve the President in any capacity he thinks I can be...