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With a listing, massively failing impeachment ship to navigate back home, and news focused on Iowa, you'd think House impeachment manager Adam Schiff would want to make his grand exit closing speech with some kind of dignity. No such luck. He went out like a nut instead, throwing out crazy talk and reminding voters that the whole thing was a cooked up plot by anti-Trump lunatics. According to Mairead McArdle at National Review, here's Schiff's final pitch to the Senate, seeking to persuade the very tired senators up there past midnight to do what he wants and vote to oust...

Although the Nepalese government resisted pressures to deport back to China the refugees who are already in Nepal, it will deport those of them who will enter Nepal in the future.In October, Bitter Winter reported how President Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal had failed to persuade the authorities of the Himalayan kingdom, under pressure from their own public opinion, to deport back to China under a proposed extradition treaty a good number of the some 20,000 Tibetan refugees living within Nepalese borders. It was an unexpected defeat for the Chinese leader, who reacted very angrily. The CCP, however, never stops...

...the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago. Their distinctive stone tools are dead ringers for those found thousands of kilometres away in eastern and central Europe. The intercontinental journey made by these intrepid Neanderthals is equivalent to walking from Sydney to Perth, or from New York to Los Angeles, and is a rare example of long-distance migration by Palaeolithic people... Neanderthals are now believed to have created 176,000 year-old enigmatic structures made from broken stalactites in a cave in France, and cave art in Spain that dates back more than 65,000 years. They...

Feb. 4, 2020 Riverside CountyNEWS RELEASEContact:Jose Arballo, Jr.(951) 712-3705jarballojr@ruhealth.org Minor taken to hospital, another traveler arrives at March Air Reserve BaseA minor, who is part of a group being housed at March Air Reserve Base, has developed a fever and been taken to Riverside University Health System-Medical Center for testing and observation. The minor was transported by ambulance Monday evening out of an abundance of caution and is accompanied by a parent. The two are part of a group of 195 passengers who were flown to March from China last week and placed under a 14-day federal quarantine.Testing samples will...

Just one day before his death, family and friends in Kansas helped grant their loved one’s last wish to see his beloved horse, saying it’s a reunion they will always remember. After a three-year battle with cancer, Kevin Adkins, a 55-year-old cowboy, died Tuesday. For nearly two decades prior, he spent every day with his 27-year-old horse, Vic. Jennifer Wadley’s family ranch, D&J Ranch, sold Vic to Adkins all those years ago. She says the two were inseparable."They’ve been partners for all these years,” Wadley said. “It could be pouring rain, it could be snowing, it could be hotter than...

Democratic Party officials said they plan to release a majority of Iowa's delayed presidential caucus results by late Tuesday, according to details shared with campaigns on a private conference call. The news did little to stem rising confusion and concern hours after voting ended without the release of a single result in the opening contest of the Democrats 2020 primary season. State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release at least 50% of all caucus results at 4pm CST / 5 pm EST, but he declined to answer pointed questions from frustrated campaign representatives about when the...

For whatever reason, Elizabeth Warren, who has lived life as a straight female, has decided that she'll win if she can just capture that elusive transgender vote — which, at its highest estimate, accounts for about 0.6% of the American population. According to the latest Project Veritas video, at least one of her campaign staffers thinks this obsession is harming, not helping, her campaign. Ever since she set her sights on the presidency, Warren has been cultivating the transgender vote.

Leaders of the Church of Planned Parenthood say their regular protests are not intended to disrupt the facility’s services. Councilwoman Lori Kinnear wants to make sure of it. Kinnear introduced a new law Monday that she said aims to respect free speech and the protesters’ right to their opinion, while ensuring their chorus of objection does not intrude on the services inside the health care facility’s walls. “It does not impact free speech. Protests are still allowed, that’s not the issue. It’s about noise,” Kinnear said. The South Hill councilwoman drafted a law that would set specific protections for health...

A Bronx bodega worker has gone viral on TikTok for testing his customers’ math skills. If the customer gets the math problem correct, they have five seconds to grab whatever they want and they can keep it free of charge. In one video, a customer goes for the bodega cat. “Not my cat,” Ahmed Alwan said to the customer. So, the customer goes for a hookah and a whole rack of snacks instead. Alwan told News 12 that he wants to show everyone that education is key. He hopes that when kids see the videos on TikTok that it will...

Clouded by doubts on a chaotic day-after, Democratic Party officials planned to release a majority of Iowa’s delayed presidential caucus results by late Tuesday, according to details shared with campaigns on a private conference call. The news did little to stem rising confusion and concern more than 12 hours after voting ended without the release of a single result in the opening contest of the Democrats 2020 primary season. State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release at least 50% of all caucus results at 5 p.m. EST, but he declined to answer pointed questions from frustrated...

On Tuesday, anchors, correspondents, and pundits on CBS This Morning all agreed that the real winner of the Democratic Iowa caucus was actually President Trump, given all the chaos that plagued the contest. The network broadcast labeled Monday’s inauspicious start to the 2020 Democratic primary season an “embarrassment” that only “helps the President.” “So this morning, the two chief political exports of Iowa are uncertainty and embarrassment,” correspondent Major Garrett proclaimed early in the show. Wrapping up the report, he sounded exasperated: “So the Iowa Democratic Party better get its act together, and soon, if it’s going to claim any...

Fantastic Video — Rand Paul Takes Revenge On Democrat Coup Plot This just unfolded on Senate floor in the past 30 minutes…

Last week Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts played politics and REFUSED TO READ SENATOR RAND PAUL’S QUESTION on the Anti-Trump whistleblower during the Senate impeachment trial! There is NO LAW that prevents this anti-Trump CIA leaker’s name from being revealed in the impeachment investigation! Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was playing politics and siding with Democrats!! Senator Rand Paul announced earlier that this afternoon at 1 PM ET he would insist on his question which reveals the name of the whistleblower.

* President Donald Trump’s economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Tuesday that the deadly Chinese coronavirus outbreak will dent a surge in exports that is expected to flow from the first “phase” of the U.S.-China trade deal signed last month. * “It is true the trade deal, the phase one trade deal, the export boom from that trade deal will take longer because of the Chinese virus. That is true,” Kudlow said in a Fox Business Network interview. * But Kudlow noted that the Trump administration, which imposed travel restrictions and quarantines in response to the coronavirus last week, still projects...

Everybody knows it, yet many people in the liberal media are not calling it out for what it is. For example, they call ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter protest groups. Really? These groups are more gang-like than anything else. The media provides them cover by calling their looting and throwing rocks and bottles while holding signs that say kill the police a demonstration, as if it’s akin to students on a college campus protesting increases in tuition fees for heaven’s sake. The liberal media also calls hiding your identity by wearing a mask and engaging in takeovers of public buildings,...

The U.S. Navy admiral responsible for the service's special operations forces will step down from his position, the Intercept first reported Monday evening.

If Steve Bannon is correct, Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office. Bloomberg is investing his fortune in a "leveraged buyout" of the party, installing himself as the oligarch who calls the shots, including the selection of the candidate to win the presidency. With the addled and corrupt Biden faltering, Bloomberg is fighting a holding action to prevent Bernie Sanders from capturing the nomination.

[Catholic Caucus] Crookston Priest Still at Treatment Center Over Vague Allegations Facility named in PA grand jury report CROOKSTON, Minn. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Minnesota priest placed on administrative leave for vague reasons — by a bishop under multiple investigations for clerical sex abuse cover-up — spent his 22nd day on Tuesday at a facility sometimes weaponized against priests. Fr. Bryan Kujawa Dated Jan. 10, the official statement of the Crookston diocese cites "non-criminal, non-sexual boundary violations" as its reasons for placing Fr. Bryan Kujawa on administrative leave.  Fr. Kujawa wrote a letter to his parishioners at St. Philip's Church in Bemidji, Minnesota, saying...

After Monday night's caucus difficulties left Democrats in Iowa and around the country confused and frustrated, candidate Pete Buttigieg expressed confidence that he was "victorious." He and several other 2020 Democrats left Iowa for New Hampshire overnight to begin campaigning for next week's primary after several of them also expressed optimism in their own results. Buttigieg's confident claim gave rise to the Twitter hashtag #MayorCheat after he gave a victory speech despite the chaos over the final results. When asked if he perhaps made the call prematurely, Buttigieg shrugged off criticism. "Looking at what happened last night, looking at all...

A teenager has sparked a national debate about blasphemy in France after an Instagram post calling Islam a "religion of hate". Mila, 16, posted her comments online after receiving homophobic abuse from a Muslim commenter. She received death threats and has not attended school since. But Mila has refused to back down, saying in her first television interview that she "wanted to blaspheme".