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Trump was indicted in December in the House of Representatives on two allegations of abuse of power and dismissal against Congress but was finally acquitted on Wednesday after a two-week trial in the Senate. Gallup's poll results after the impeachment showed that Trump's popularity has not only diminished but also reached its peak after year two. According to Gallup's statistics, Trump's overall popularity has jumped to 49 percent and 97% of the republicans approve him. CNN, which opposes Trump, in an analysis by Douglas High, said it was a big mistake to impeach Trump. Impeachment leaders from the Democratic Party...

World-renowned evangelist Luis Palau revealed his cancer is now at bay, though doctors had given him months to live when he was diagnosed two years ago. And now he’s ready to fully pass the mantle of ministry to his sons. At the top of 2018, the beloved minister made the unexpected announcement that he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Months later, in a Thanksgiving Day update, Palau testified that he was defying the odds and doing much better than doctors had anticipated. Now, two years after the diagnosis, Palau says his cancer is under control because of their...

Former Vice President Joe Biden — after his pair of devastating losses — tried to reassure supporters on an evening call Wednesday that “things haven’t changed” and that there’s been “no dropoff in our endorsers.” Arguing that the primary is “still wide open,” Biden said he was "confident we can win South Carolina. I think we'll win Nevada, but it is a caucus which is a little bit different,” according to a recording of the roughly 13-minute call obtained by POLITICO. Biden has long said he would perform better than his rivals once the primary reached more diverse states, particularly...

There have been several clashes between Syrian and Turkish military forces in the last two weeks, as Syria attempts to retake Idlib province from rebel forces. Turkey has carved out a demilitarized zone in Idlib, which is supposed to be a safe zone for Syrian civilians. Their goal is to prevent a flood of refugees from crossing the Syrian border.But Syria is ignoring the Moscow-negotiated cease-fire and driving hundreds of thousands of refugees toward Turkey, most of them in desperate straits. The UN is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe as 700,000 Syrians are on the move with nowhere to...

President Trump will be in California next week. He will be attending fund raising events—and possibly a public event in the Central Valley. This will show his interest in reviving the Republican Party in California. While the venue and event are not known at this time, this is good news for activists in the Central Valley. More details as we get them.

Survey Shows Leftists Are More Likely To Have Mental Illnesses, Far Left Being The WORST

The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of writer as unwitting prophet? In The Eyes of Darkness, a grieving mother, Christina Evans, sets out to discover whether her son Danny died on a camping trip or if – as suspicious messages suggest – he is still alive. She eventually tracks him down to a military facility where...

Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's snowflake side came out last Tuesday, when she was forced to flee the president's State of the Union address at the sound of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's name. Fortunately, Tlaib managed to find a safe space in front of MSNBC cameras, where she explained her walkout to Rachel Maddow : Even the mention of Brett Kavanaugh for me is a trigger[.] ... Just as a woman in America, the fact that he rightfully was accused and having an incredibly strong woman come for the public and the world and tell her story of sexual assault by this...

WASHINGTON — National security adviser Robert O’Brien said Tuesday evening there had been “absolutely” no retaliation involved in Friday’s departure of Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council, even as President Trump seemed to indicate that the military would “look into” whether to take disciplinary action against the Army officer. Vindman, who had been the NSC’s director of European affairs, testified in November during the impeachment proceedings against the president, saying he considered Trump’s efforts to have Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter “inappropriate.” With his twin brother, Yevgeny, also an Army...

During the final months of World War II, from February 13 to 15, 1945, Allied forces bombed the ancient, cathedral city of Dresden, in eastern Germany. The bombing was controversial because Dresden's contribution to the war effort was minimal compared with other German cities — though it was a key transport junction and used by German forces to defend the country against Soviet forces approaching from the east. Before the huge air raid, it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, however, it was a smouldering ruin — 2,400 tons of high explosives and 1,500 tons of...

Watch: Sheila Jackson Lee Rails Against Trump Budget as Racist, Claims It Invokes Slavery Democrats seem to term everything racist, especially when it has anything to do with Republicans or President Donald Trump, whether it makes sense or not. Some of the things they’ve termed racist over the years are just downright silly. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) demonstrated exactly that during a Congressional hearing on the proposed Trump budget for next year. Russell Vought was answering questions for the Office of Management and Budget to Congress. Lee attacked the budget talking about the “racist roots of work” and then...

Astros owner Jim Crane spoke Thursday morning as the franchise trotted out several players and execs to try to apologize for the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the baseball world for the last few months. But when directly asked if his team’s cheating cost the Yankees a shot at winning a World Series title in 2017, Crane said "Our opinion is this didn’t impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series and we’ll leave it at that.”

Alyssa Milano wants everyone to know she’s been “SCREAMING” for election reform, lest President Donald Trump capture the White House again in 2020. “I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT THIS SINCE 2016. AND YOU SHOULD BE SCREAMING TOO,” the liberal activist and Hollywood actress tweeted on Tuesday. “Look, if we don’t have secure elections, we’re done,” Milano told the entertainment outlet. “Because the country is so divided, it is essential that voters can trust the results of the election.” “They’ve done it before, there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t do it again,” Milano said of Russian intervention in U.S. elections....

Hope Hicks is returning to the Trump White House as a senior adviser.https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/hope-hicks-returning-trump-white-house-senior-adviser/story?id=68961123&id=68961123&__twitter_impression=true

In January 2012, Pete Buttigieg stepped into the South Bend, Ind., mayor’s office... South Bend had three African Americans in visible high level and public leadership positions: Mayor’s Assistant Lynn Coleman; Fire Chief Howard Buchanon and Police Chief Darryl Boykins. Within three months, all would be gone. In 2011, after the city’s police telephone recording system crashed, SBPD Communications Director Karen DePaepe discovered recordings of white officers allegedly using racist rhetoric and concocting a way to get rid of Boykins with the help of top donors to Buttigieg’s then-ongoing mayoral campaign.. One officer allegedly said: “It will be a fun...

Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Tells Buttigieg: ‘Stop Playing War Hero’ February 13, 2020 By Tristan Justice The former Navy SEAL responsible for killing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden offered some harsh advice for Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who often touts his five months in Afghanistan on the presidential campaign trail. “My advice for Pete Buttigieg… Stop playing war hero. You’re gonna get called out,” wrote Robert O’Neill on Twitter.

Key Points China said it confirmed 15,152 new cases and 254 additional deaths and that those figures include the ones reported earlier by Hubei province. China’s Hubei province reported an additional 242 deaths and 14,840 new cases as of Feb. 12. The province said it is starting to include “clinically diagnosed” cases in its figures and that 13,332 of the new cases fall under that classification. =================================================================== All times below are in Beijing time. 6:03 pm: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi warns of first-quarter smartphone hit The chief executive of smartphone maker Xiaomi said the the disruption caused by the coronavirus...

Hundreds of F-35s could have the wrong fasteners in “critical areas,” according to the Defense Contract Management Agency. But F-35 builder Lockheed Martin says the problem may not need to be fixed. “All aircraft produced prior to discovery of this [problem] have titanium fasteners incorrectly installed in locations where the design calls for Inconel,” the F-35 Joint Program Office said in an email in response to a query from Air Force Magazine. “Because of this, the engineering safety analysis of the issue has assumed that each critical F-35 joint was assembled with the incorrect fasteners.” Inconel is an alloy of...

President Trump has already branded rival Michael Bloomberg as “Mini Mike." Now he’s dipping even deeper into his bag of put-downs. The insulter-in-chief reprised his most effective jibe from the 2016 primary campaign when he dissed the billionaire ex-mayor on Thursday “as a tiny version of Jeb “Low Energy” Bush. .

The annual César Awards, more commonly known as the “French Oscars,” are coming up in a couple of weeks and, as usual, it appears that the panel of judges still haven’t caught on to the whole #MeToo thing that’s been going on. When the big show takes place, the majority of the nominations have been given to convicted rapist and child predator Roman Polanski. He apparently released yet another film named “An Officer and a Spy” (or “J’accuse”) and the French critics can’t get enough of it.Thankfully, there are at least some folks across the pond who understand what...