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This week, Universal Pictures released a behind-the-scenes look at "1917," a story about two young soldiers — played by George MacKay ("Captain Fantastic") and Dean-Charles Chapman ("Game of Thrones") — who embark in a race against time through the apocalyptic hellscapes of the Western Front to deliver a message that could save 1,600 lives. To make the Great War as immersive and viewer-relatable as possible, Mendes and the Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins opted to shoot the entire film as a continuous shot that never departs from the two main characters. "From the very beginning I felt this movie should be...

But Hunt said he was obligated to introduce the bill despite those challenges. In Massachusetts, unlike other states, citizens have what’s known as a “right of free petition” allowing them to file proposed bills directly through their legislators. That’s exactly what happened in this case, Hunt said: A woman in his district came to him this year requesting legislation, and he, in turn, filed it on her behalf. He didn’t think he’d get such a harsh reaction, he said. “It’s funny and ironic that the constitutional provision that allows this constituent a conduit to free speech and proposing her idea...

Watching ABC local news . A fire is burning in Canyon Country. Moving fast. Approx. 850 acres so far.

This month, Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast of all time when she earned five gold world medals at the World Championship on October 13. Biles’ birth mother struggled with addiction and when Biles was just three years old, she and her siblings were taken from their mother and placed in foster homes. For three years, they bounced from home to home, never feeling as though anyone saw them. Then her grandfather and his wife stepped up to adopt Biles and her sister. “Although I was young when my foster care ordeal began, I remember how it felt to...

Hmmm. Interesting! Steve Forbes being interviewed on CNBC recently was asked about the possibility of President Trump being impeached. He said removal of Trump is “Not going to happen.” But after that he said something very interesting: "The thing to watch for is what Attorney General Barr is gonna be releasing in the next few weeks in terms of his investigations of what was happening with the CIA, the FBI, and certain White House officials leading up to the 2016 election and afterwards. A LOT OF BAD THINGS WERE DONE. . . . "

Pennsylvania’s Republican legislature introduced a ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill that would regulate abortions in line with fetal heartbeats; the Commonwealth was the 19th state to introduce such legislation. Governor Tom Wolf affirmed that he will veto any such bill. The proposed bills, similar to that of other states, would ban abortions have a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The opposition’s argument is that such legislation is a burden to women because a heartbeat can be detected early, even before a woman may know she is pregnant. The proposed heartbeat bill would allow a woman to seek an abortion if her health...

Fairview Heights If the city of Fairview Heights wanted to send the owners of property at 317 Salem Place a copy of the building permit while work was going on the past year, the Land Use and Development Department would have had to send it to a mailbox inside a UPS Store in Dallas. The permit for the work at what would become a state-of-the-art Planned Parenthood Health Center in Fairview Heights would have gone to Raider Ventures LLC, the company name Planned Parenthood used to keep its identity secret. When Planned Parenthood announced it would open a new clinic...

“This legislation simply allows law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” said the bill’s sponsor. “Protecting yourself should not be a criminal activity.” (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)A Michigan bill that would drop the need to get a special license or permit to legally carry a concealed firearm passed a key committee vote this week. State House Bill 4770 passed out of the House Military, Veterans and Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. The measure makes a host of changes to Michigan’s weapon laws, the most polarizing of which is to repeal the requirement to have a license to carry a concealed...

I reckon I should apologize in advance for letting my frustration show so much in my vent and rant. I reckon I really need to get my Sledge on and bang out some live rock and roll before liberals make me as crazy as they are, and too many wishy washy republicans that make me wanna just say, "Why bother?"

The National Archives and Records Administration has launched an investigation into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ use of private email for official business, according to a letter made public this week. The inquiry was triggered by an unflattering profile of Ross last month in The Washington Post, which cited government-related emails the watchdog group Democracy Forward received from Ross’ private account. The group obtained the messages through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Story Continued Below “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become aware of a potential unauthorized disposition of U.S. Department of Commerce records,” Archives official Laurence Brewer...

Dallas, TX – Emergency 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue show that the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center abortion facility in Dallas, Texas, requested an ambulance for a 24-year old woman who was experiencing heavy bleeding. The abortion facility caller, who identified herself as “Rachel,” also asked that the ambulance run without lights and sirens, which delays emergency response times. Heavy bleeding during or after an abortion can be a life-threatening complication. “If the woman was stable and the bleeding was controlled, there would be no reason to call for an ambulance,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “It’s just...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 24, 2019 Columbus Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Exporting Goods to Iran Defendant Used Dublin Shell Company to Export Oil Industry Parts A Central Ohio man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for exporting gas and oil pipeline parts to Iran for more than a decade in deliberate violation of a U.S. embargo and trade sanctions.Behrooz Behroozian, 64, of Columbus, was sentenced to 20 months in prison.“For years, this defendant deliberately sought to defeat and evade the Iranian sanctions for personal gain while supplying critical...

She was on tv ranting about Trump and Pence this morning. Democrats have had them in power since 1992. Will she run?

Over the past month, impeachment has been the word of the day in the media and the progressive socialists. The so-called impeachment inquiry that has not allowed the House of Representatives to vote for its implementation has degraded to a soviet Beria type of search for a crime. Adam Schiff is a fraud. It is an investigation in search of a crime. It has become a tyrannical show trial by Adam Schiff, a highly contemptible legislator with his own ties to Ukrainian oligarchs. Schiff has ignored the rule of law and has shown his ignorance in disavowing the provisions traditionally...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A revelatory cache of fossils dug up in central Colorado details as never before the rise of mammals from the post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid smacked Earth 66 million years ago and annihilated three-quarters of all species including the dinosaurs. The fossils, described by scientists on Thursday, date from the first million years after the calamity and show that the surviving terrestrial mammalian and plant lineages rebounded with aplomb. Mammals, after 150 million years of subservience, attained dominance. Plant life diversified impressively. With dinosaurs no longer eating them, mammals made quick evolutionary strides, assuming new forms and...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., didn't mince words at a news conference on Thursday as he touted his resolution formally condemning House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, saying the proceedings defy historical precedent and deny fundamental "due process" to the White House. "If we were doing this, you'd be beating the sh-- out of us," Graham bluntly told a reporter at one point, accusing Democrats of selectively leaking testimony from their closed-door hearings, without affording Republicans the opportunity to subpoena or publicly cross-examine witnesses. "And, I think it says a lot about people in your business, with all due respect."...

I am leaving FR after the owner instructed me to not post on a Trump thread. I posted a list of the people Trump and his AG have failed to indict and imprison even for sedition. Some of you have seen me post this before. I never was warned or suspended. Every word I posted was true. I even post options Trump had, when he entered office, but he chose to give the criminals a pass by appointing a weak AG. I came to FR at a time I was leaving the Libertarian Party for its unacceptable Abortion, Immigration, and...

In what officials are calling a bizarre incident, an Arkansas hunter was killed by a deer that he thought he had shot dead...Thomas Alexander, age 66, who lived in the area and was an experienced hunter, was sitting in an elevated deer stand during the state's muzzleloader season..."It appears he shot the deer and he had put his rifle down near the deer stand and walked down to check and make sure it was dead..."

If the title of this article doesn’t make any sense to you, you probably never watched Saturday Night Live in the seventies. When Chevy Chase used to be the “anchor” for their Weekend Update segment, he would frequently invoke the breaking news that Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco was “still dead.” Today, Spain is scheduled to confirm this news when the brutal dictator’s remains are removed from the mausoleum at the Valley of the Fallen in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Descendants of Franco will transfer the coffin to a private cemetery. (Associated Press) The body of dictator Gen....

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation. Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of...