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Afghan soldier opens fire on his US “allies,” murdering two and injuring six FEB 10, 2020 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “An Afghan defense ministry official, who was not identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the shooter was an Afghan soldier who had argued with the U.S. forces before opening fire. He was not a Taliban infiltrator, the official said.” One of the chief elements of the rap sheet on me from the Southern Poverty Law Center and its ally the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations is that I have said that there is...

Democratic governors worried about drawn-out 2020 fight BY REID WILSON - 02/10/20 04:32 PM EST Democratic governors worried about drawn-out 2020 fight Democratic governors are worried that years of heated political rhetoric have left their voters exhausted ahead of this year’s presidential contest, and that a drawn-out nominating fight risks exacerbating divides within a party that has to be united as it takes on President Trump. In interviews on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the National Governors Association this weekend in Washington, Democrats said they were keeping close tabs on the race for the White House. Their anxiety...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday signed an executive directive aimed at boosting the city’s Green New Deal initiative to fight climate change. In signing the executive directive – Garcetti’s 25th since taking office – the 49-year-old mayor insisted the “stakes could not be higher.” “We must act this decade to save the planet and create a more equitable prosperous and healthy future for our children and grandchildren,” he said, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

Hundreds of New York City police officers packed the hallways of the Bronx Criminal court as the man accused of opening fire and injuring two cops in back-to-back incidents over the weekend was arraigned on 27 counts of attempted murder in the first and second degree, as well as several other charges. "Be aware. ... You're in danger," Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch warned officers at a press conference on Monday. "You need to be careful, but more importantly, we need to back each other up." The suspected gunman, Robert Williams, allegedly ambushed two uniformed police officers who were...

MANCHESTER, NH – New Hampshire’s presidential primary kicked off at midnight – as voters in three tiny townships in the state’s North Country and White Mountains cast the first ballots in the first primary in the White House race. Dixville Notch – which has held the midnight voting tradition for 60 years – as well as nearby Millsfield and Hart’s Location – grab the national spotlight every four years as they report the first results in New Hampshire. On the final day before the before primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasized to supporters that “what happens here in New Hampshire is...

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pay respects to two U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan when a soldier dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire with a machine gun. National security adviser Robert O’Brien told reporters traveling with Trump on Air Force One that the president wrapped up a reelection campaign rally in New Hampshire a bit early so he could visit with the families of the soldiers. He described such moments as “probably the toughest thing he does as president,” along with visiting wounded...

Joe Biden's campaign national press secretary Symone Sanders told Fox News Monday the former vice president can still survive and even thrive in the race for the Democratic nomination, even if he does not top the field in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Sanders said Biden has been spending a lot of time campaigning in the Granite State and said reports that the campaign has low expectations in the state are largely unfounded. "Biden has been campaigning vigorously ... in New Hampshire and we think that the voters of New Hampshire -- they have not gone to the polls yet and...

The website for an election app used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party made it possible to view full names, addresses, identity card numbers and more. A software flaw exposed the personal data of every eligible voter in Israel — including full names, addresses and identity card numbers for 6.5 million people — raising concerns about identity theft and electoral manipulation, three weeks before the country’s national election.The security lapse was tied to a mobile app used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party to communicate with voters, offering news and information about the March 2 election. Until...

Supergiant star Betelgeuse has been getting dimmer at an unprecedented pace over the past few months, leading some astronomers to wonder if it might be in the process of the collapse that precedes a supernova explosion. But there are other possible explanations, and we should have a better idea of what's happening to the massive star by the end of the month. Betelgeuse has no more than about 100,000 years left to burn and could start its death throes just about anytime between now and then. When it does go supernova, it's expected to result in a dramatic light show...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face

World Health Organization officials are concerned about new coronavirus cases confirmed in France and the U.K. that were transmitted without any travel history to China. Five British citizens contracted the virus in the French Alpine town of Contamines-Montjoie, health authorities said Sunday. On Monday, the U.K. said it confirmed new cases linked to a British man who went a conference in Singapore. “The detection of this small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire, but for now it’s only a spark,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Monday at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva....

DONALD Trump mocked "mumbling" Nancy Pelosi at his New Hampshire rally, saying Democrats are "losing their minds" ahead of tomorrow's primary. During the Manchester rally, the president derided "radical socialist Democrats" and impersonated Pelosi's response to his State of the Union speech last week.

While writing in the New York Times last week, Univision host Jorge Ramos spoke out on President Trump's border wall, admitting that the President had gotten his wish. The article, which was titled “Trump Got His Wish. Mexico Is Now the Wall,” went into detail about President Trump's border policy. Mexico has effectively turned into an extension of Mr. Trump’s immigration police beyond American territory. And this is the case on multiple fronts: On the southern border with Guatemala, they prevent Central American migrants from coming into Mexico; on the northern one, they block those seeking entry to the United...

A school resource officer in Florida threatened to shoot a student as he was trying to make it to an orthodontist appointment. Nedra Miller, whose 17-year-old son, William, was the high schooler in question, shared bodycam footage from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office on her Facebook page, where it went viral. People called it "shameful" and "outrageous," accusing the adults involved of "grotesque power trips." The incident occurred in December and the video shows William driving a pickup truck and attempting to leave the parking lot of River Ridge High School in New Port Richey. An officer with the sheriff's...

New York filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday, calling a Department of Homeland Security move to ban New Yorkers from enrolling in Global Entry and other Trusted Traveler Programs "unlawful," "unlawful" and "discriminatory." Driving the news: Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News last Thursday that the department was blocking New Yorkers from the programs in response to the state passing the "Green Light Law," preventing federal immigration officials from accessing vehicle records without a court order. The lawsuit calls the ban "political retribution" for New York's law allowing people without legal immigration status to obtain...

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has been slipping in the polls and struggling to gain much momentum so far in the primaries. During a quick visit to a local New Hampshire diner, things could not have gone any worse for Warren in her cringeworthy attempt to woo voters. Warren was seen walking around tables while people were eating, waving, and trying to strike up conversations. But it appears that literally everyone ignored Warren and just wanted to eat their food. Several Twitter users torched Warren for the awkward exchange, with a majority using adjectives like “embarrassing,” “cringe,” or “awkward” to...

The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party on Monday was briefly interrupted during his remarks on the muddled results of the Iowa caucuses when a sign for his organization fell off the podium mid-press conference. The moment occurred as Troy Price spoke to reporters about the results tabulated by party officials and the recanvassing efforts requested by two campaigns.

Diocese pressures parish to cancel talk by man who threw Pachamama in Tiber The concern was that Alexander Tschugguel's planned talk could 'unsettle the faithful, defame the pope, and contribute to a division within the Church.' HERZOGENRATH, Germany, February 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The German diocese of Aachen has pressured a parish not to host a talk by Alexander Tschugguel, who in October 2019 threw the Pachamama statues displayed in a church into the Tiber River. According to a press release put out by parish priest Father Guido Rodheudt, the diocese feared that the talk, including a discussion immediately...

One player noticeably absent during the XFL's kick-off weekend Saturday and Sunday was controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Given Kaepernick's fallout with the NFL, one might expect that he would jump at opportunities to showcase his talents on a different stage in order to lure offers. With that not being the case for Kapernick, many have speculated as to why. Is Kaepernick being blackballed by the XFL? Not quite. Actually, according to recent comments from XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck, the reverse may be closer to the truth. What is the XFL saying? Speaking with NPR on Saturday, Luck shed...

Come friendly bombs and fall on Hollywood, it isn’t fit for doing good. Another year, another dreadful Oscars, another round of moral lectures from the beautiful people. It’s all so tiresome. The only reason most people pay attention to these irritating award ceremonies is precisely so that they can be irritated. So there was a vegan theme at this year’s Academy Awards. So the show had no host. So Brad Pitt is angry about impeachment. So someone said ‘workers of the world unite’. So Joaquin Phoenix is mad (in all senses) about what mankind is doing to the animal kingdom....