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Following his public support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Antonio Sabato Jr. says Hollywood ousted him. “I had to sell everything,” Sabato, 48, told Variety -- in an interview published on Tuesday -- about leaving Tinseltown not too long after Trump won the presidential bid. "I had to pay all my debts," he continued. "I was blacklisted. All my representatives left me, from agents to managers to commercial agents. I literally had to move, find a new job to survive and take care of my kids.

After temporarily blocking and unblocking the "Remain in Mexico" policy, a federal appeals court said it will in its own jurisdiction halt the immigration policy next week to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for their court hearings in the U.S. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Wednesday that it would block the "Remain in Mexico" policy in Arizona and California, the two border states where its authority extends. The judges said the policy will no longer be in effect on Mexico’s border with California and Arizona as of March 12. The three-judge panel did not extend...

FBI officials involved in the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page have been blocked, at least temporarily, from appearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in regard to other cases, in rebuke that exceeded the remedial recommendations made by the monitor recently appointed by the court. The decision by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the secretive court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes as Congress faces a March 15 deadline on whether to renew three FBI national-security surveillance and investigative tools that were enacted after 9/11. "FBI personnel under disciplinary review in relation...

George Conway, the husband of Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, revealed on Tuesday that he donated $2,800 to former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign, the maximum contribution allowed by law from an individual to a candidate committee. New York magazine's Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi tweeted that Conway told her that he tried giving $5,600 but the "website wouldn't take it. They need to change that." Nuzzi also tweeted that Conway explained his donation by saying, "the nation can’t afford four more years with a megalomaniacal moron in the White House.”

There are plenty of differences between Gorbachev’s Soviet Union and Xi’s China. But there are enough similarities that Xi should be worried.“The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl” – wrote former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster – “even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the main cause of the Soviet Union’s collapse five years later.” He went on to write that “the Chernobyl catastrophe was a historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.” While the outcome from...

New Mexico schools are getting ready for a coronavirus outbreak. The Public Education Department sent a letter to superintendents that states: “No cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in NM to date, but this will likely change." The letter also talks about how to plan for closure and preventing the spread of the disease. According to Dr. Veronica Garcia, the superintendent at Santa Fe Public Schools, a big problem is that a lot of schools don’t have nurses. She said they are fortunate. All of Santa Fe’s public schools have either a licensed nurse or a health assistant, but other...

A hyena bit off the finger of a zookeeper at the Albuquerque Biopark in a November incident after the worker violated zoo protocol, an internal investigation found. Surveillance video of the Nov. 7 incident was obtained by the 4 Investigates team. The video shows the worker enter the hyena enclosure and repeatedly poke her fingers through the chain link fence, appearing to pet the animals. The surveillance video shows the situation escalate almost instantly as the hyena bites down on the zookeeper’s hand and refuses to let go. Security records obtained by the 4 Investigates team reveal the zookeeper lost...

Carmen McClelland and her 100-year-old grandmother, whose name is also Carmen, have spent the past year bonding in an unusual way—bar hopping. “We've been doing this for a little over a year,” Carmen said. The tradition started as a way for Carmen, the younger one, to make grandma-duty a little more fun. “At first I felt very guilty because I thought it was just me trying to have a life while I was on grandma duty and now it's our thing,” she said. As for Grandma Carmen, bar hopping with her granddaughter has become a way for her to stay...

Yeah, no, sorry. Not gonna do "My Corona." 2:27 PM · Mar 3, 2020·Twitter Web App

An 18-year-old Wisconsin high school student was arrested Thursday for fourth-degree sexual assault, child enticement, and exposing his genitals to a child in the school’s gender-neutral bathroom. According to WSAW-TV, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said Austin Sauer of Rhinelander High School in Wisconsin was arrested, but has not been charged. The sex of the child was not reported.

LONDON (AP) — The struggling British airline Flybe has collapsed, leaving passengers stranded and told to find their own way home. UK Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement Thursday that financially troubled Flybe had entered administration. It said, “All Flybe flights are cancelled. Please do not go to the airport as your Flybe flight will not be operating.”

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill that bans the participation of transgender athletes from girl’s sports on Tuesday. HB 2706 was passed on a party line by the Republican-controlled state house, 31-29. It will face approval from the Arizona State Senate before heading to Governor Doug Ducey’s desk.

President Trump on Wednesday accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., of being "selfish" for remaining in the Democratic primary race and taking away votes from the progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., while the more establishment wing of the party consolidates its support for former Vice President Joe Biden. Warren failed to win any states on Super Tuesday but did garner enough support that if voters had chosen Sanders instead, the democratic socialist may have had better results. Trump implied that Warren's refusal to drop out before the polls open -- as other, more moderate candidates did -- was a betrayal. "So...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Santa Clara County climbed to 14 Wednesday as the county health department announced three new cases. All three cases are men, according to the health department. One is currently in the hospital. His exposure to the virus is under investigation. The two other men are close contacts to an existing case. They are isolated at home. Earlier Wednesday, Placer County Public Health confirmed that a resident died of COVID-19, marking the first coronavirus death reported in California. Confirmed Cases of Coronavirus Among Bay Area Residents Health officials say the Bay Area is home...

[Surge Summary: A Second Circuit Court decision has upheld the Trump Administration’s Sanctuary City policy. The current idea of Sanctuary Cities is actually a perversion of the original, biblical practice which upheld the rule of law, whereas the present incarnation fosters lawlessness.] Even though regressives borrowed the concept from the Bible, today's sanctuary cities are NOT anything like God's sanctuary cities. In fact, they are the EXACT OPPOSITE. God's "sanctuary cities" were designed to ENFORCE the law. Democrats' "sanctuary cities" are designed to EVADE the law. The biblical versions of sanctuary cities were called "cities of refuge." They consisted of...

WASHINGTON, NOV. 20, 2021: When Bernie Sanders won the presidential election in a squeaker last year, progressive Jews enthused that a glorious new era in American Judaism had dawned. Synagogues in Park Slope and on the Upper West Side took turns hosting thought leaders such as Peter Beinart (author of “The Crisis of Zionism”) and Max Blumenthal (“Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”) to explain how American Jews were heading into a “post-Israel” era — and why that was a good thing. Lefty rabbis published lengthy Facebook posts about how mainstream and center-right Jewish organizations are all actually racist...

NEW YORK (AP) — In just over 100 days, Mike Bloomberg spent over $500 million of his own fortune in a quixotic bid for the presidency that collapsed in stunning fashion on Super Tuesday, when he won just one U.S. territory, American Samoa. By Wednesday morning, he quit the race and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, saying his continued presence in the rapidly shrinking field would make it harder for the party to defeat President Donald Trump in November, his ultimate priority. The businessman, worth an estimated $61 billion, pledged to keep spending to defeat Trump.

The Northshore School District says all schools will be closed for up to two weeks beginning Thursday, March 5 due to ongoing coronavirus concerns. Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid made the announcement in a letter to Northshore families, citing the "rapidly changing situation" with COVID-19. Reid said earlier Wednesday that a parent volunteer at the district's Woodmoor Elementary tested "presumptive positive" for coronavirus.

The Federal Government has expanded its coronavirus travel ban to include South Korea, and added additional precautions for travellers from Italy, amid fears about the spread of the disease. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also confirmed that the existing ban on foreign nationals travelling from China and Iran to Australia has been extended for another week. The revised bans will be in place until Saturday, March 14 but the Government will review the situation within a week to determine if the travel restrictions need to be extended further. Foreign nationals who have been in mainland China, Iran and South Korea...

A Hong Kong dog has been confirmed as the first case of human-to-animal transmission of the coronavirus COVID-19. The Pomeranian has a "low-level" infection of the disease, which has been spreading across the world and may soon reach pandemic levels. The little dog is now under quarantine at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department for further testing. The department has said there is no evidence that pets could transmit the virus to humans. Pet owners need not be particularly concerned and should not abandon their animals, a spokesperson said. The dog was initially placed into quarantine after its owner developed...