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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a ruling that allows House Democrats to view secret grand jury information from Robert Mueller’s Russia probe that had been redacted from his report. The court’s 2-1 decision agreed with a lower court that the House Judiciary Committee can obtain the information for impeachment investigations of President Trump under an exception for “judicial proceedings,” per the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. ~snip~ The DOJ, opposing the House Democrats, argued that because Trump had already been impeached and acquitted by the time the court was to rule, there was no longer a...

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Congress can have access to grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling, sided with the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, which sought access to material that was redacted from the 448-page special counsel report. as well as some of the exhibits and transcripts referenced in the report. ... TO READ THE FULL STORY

Whether you’re just a little hungry or starving, McDonald’s will soon offer a Big Mac to match. The fast-food chain will release two new versions of the iconic burger Wednesday: the Little Mac and the Double Big Mac. The Little Mac has just one beef patty, while the Double Big Mac has four. They’ll both still be topped with cheese, lettuce, pickles, onions and Special Sauce. The Double Big Mac comes in at 720 calories; the Little Mac is 320 calories — the same as a medium fry. Though the burgers’ prices will vary regionally, McDonald’s is recommending a price...

77-year-old Joe Biden got confused again while speaking to a crowd in Michigan on Monday. “Together, I think we can win back the House,” Biden said before quickly correcting himself — “We’re gonna keep the House, increase it, and flip the Senate.” Nice catch, Joe. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1237108571919265792

The big problem is that HR 1 appears to omit any reform that would adversely effect the Democrat Party.

Biden is emblematic of the Democrat party’s crack-up. They are self-destructing. Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated and profanity-laced argument with an autoworker Tuesday while touring a factory in Detroit, after the individual accused the Democratic presidential candidate of trying to take away his Second Amendment rights. “You’re full of sh– … I support the Second Amendment,” Biden shot back, stressing he’s not going to take guns away. Natasha Korecki ✔@natashakorecki The worker then told Biden, “You’re working for me, man,” and told Biden that he saw an online video supporting his claim that Biden is hostile...

In the past, confidence was not my strong suit. Somewhere along the line I lost my mojo. But everyone wants their mojo, so we look for ways to at least feel that we’ve retrieved it. That’s what I did. In my late twenties I read a book you may have heard of called The Art of the Deal, written by a guy you may have heard of 😉 Note: This is not about politics, I’m simply recounting a story that can help anyone—whatever your beliefs. I have never before or since felt such a surge of confidence from reading a...

Boris Johnson narrowly avoided his first Commons defeat over Huawei this afternoon, as senior Conservatives said they had put the Government "on warning". Despite dodging defeat by 306 votes to 282, rebel MPs made it clear that they would not back down over the Chinese company's role in the UK's 5G network. Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said: "I think the Government should be on warning... that this House believes that we need to wean ourselves off Huawei."

ALBANY, N.Y. – What do you do when fear over the new coronavirus leads to a shortage of hand sanitizer? If you're the state of New York, you make it yourself. Or you have prisoners do it. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday the state had begun producing its own line of hand sanitizer, known as NYS Clean. The state will distribute the products to schools, local governments, prisons and other public entities free of charge. The low price of making the sanitizer in house – $6.10 a gallon – will allow the state and local governments to save big, particularly...

The bad news: His favorable rating among Republicans today is a point lower than it was among Democrats on the eve of the 2012 election. Think of that. Righties are entirely correct when they point how fickle the left has been in its esteem for Romney but even the left never disliked him as much as his own party currently does because of his impeachment vote. And the overall shift in opinion of him among Republicans since 2012 is about twice as large as it is among Democrats. The good news: If he can’t get reelected in Utah, he could...

Covid-19 death toll jumps 36% in Italy The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped by 168 to 631, an increase of 36%, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, the largest rise in absolute numbers since the contagion came to light on 21 February, Reuters reports. The total number of cases in Italy, the European country hardest hit by the virus in Europe, rose to 10,149 from a previous 9,172, an increase of 10.7%. The head of the agency said that, of those originally infected, 1,004 had fully recovered compared to 724 the day before....

WUHAN, March 10 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping on Tuesday inspected the COVID-19 outbreak epicenter in central China, pledging a continuous fight toward victory as prevention and control efforts have "turned the tide." The inspection to Wuhan, Hubei Province, took the president to a hospital treating severely ill COVID-19 patients and a residential community. He visited patients, medics, community residents and workers, police officers, military personnel, officials and volunteers who have been fighting the novel coronavirus. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for firm, solid...

In this morning’s Campaign Update, I detailed the Biden Campaign’s new “Hide the Geezer” strategy, a tactic in which they plan to minimize their impaired candidate’s exposure to the press and the public. Well, it ain’t working. The strategy, which was implemented over the weekend, went completely off the rails this morning at a Biden event at a Michigan auto factory. In the clip below, Quid Pro Joe can be seen cursing at and ridiculing Democrat voters and staffers, and haranguing them with abject falsehoods regarding the 2nd amendment and his history of [non] support for it. The clip contains...

PITTSBURGH — A Family Dollar store in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood says so many people are stealing from them, it may put them out of business. Neighbors said they rely on the store for their essentials, which is within walking distance of many homes and schools. The manager of the store said a regional team is looking into inventory and what could be done, if anything, to help the business stay afloat. A neighboring business said extra cameras and a policy of no backpacks and no more than two kids in the store at a time have helped cracked down on...

IS it normal for your mum to hit you with a belt? Is it normal to bleed?" These are just two of the heartbreaking questions Gabriel Fernandez asked his teacher in the months before he was beaten to death by his own mother and her partner. The eight-year-old boy was brutally tortured over eight months by Pearl Fernandez and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre - but despite making several brave pleas for help, he was left to die in the evil pair's home. New Netflix series The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez has now shed light on the harrowing case, with the...

The Department of Justice announced today that the Western Union Remission Fund began its first distribution of approximately $153 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government from the Western Union Company (Western Union) to over 109,000 victims located in the United States and abroad. These victims, many of whom were elderly victims of consumer fraud and abuse, will be recovering the full amount of their losses.“The $153 million distribution announced today brings some measure of justice for the elderly and other victims who were financially harmed by the fraudulent schemes in this case,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian...

In Mexico City, one protester was caught on video throwing a firebomb at a small group of men conducting a counter-protest against abortion, Yahoo News reports. At least 65 people were injured during the violence in Mexico City, including a female journalist who sustained second-degree burns, Reuters reports. Journalist Alejandro Bermudez shared a video of the firebomb incident on Twitter: Other parts of the country saw violent pro-abortion protests as well. The protests took place on International Women’s Day, which focuses on a variety of issues, but legalizing the killing of unborn babies in abortions was at the center of...

With the Capitol consumed by anxiety over the coronavirus, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) rose in a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday and told his Democratic colleagues they should leave Washington and return home to their districts, where they would be safer. Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately quashed the idea, according to multiple sources in the room. “We are the captains of the ship. We are the last to leave,” she told her caucus, borrowing a line uttered moments earlier by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a Navy veteran. The California Democrat and her leadership team have been feeling pressure from Nadler and...

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria... The impact is also believed to have contributed to the extinction of many large animals, including mammoths as well as North American horses and camels. Experts believe the explosion helped bring about the demise of the North American Clovis culture and usher in an episode of climatic cooling. The Abu Hureyra site is located on the edge of a vast region known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which incorporates around 30 sites across Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East. The strewnfield...

Lefty billionaires expect us to lap up their every word. So now we have Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs, preaching to us about the badness of accumulated wealth. According to TheBlaze: "It's not right for individuals to accumulate a massive amount of wealth that's equivalent to millions and millions of other people combined," Jobs told the Times. "There's nothing fair about that. We saw that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the Rockefellers and Carnegies and Mellons and Fords of the world. That kind of accumulation of wealth is dangerous for a society. It...