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Nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels sailed out Wednesday to harass a collection of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels conducting operations in international waters, the US 5th Fleet said in a statement accompanied by a collection of photos. At the time of the incident, the Navy expeditionary mobile base vessel USS Lewis B. Puller, the destroyer USS Paul Hamilton, and patrol ships USS Firebolt and USS Sirocco, together with the Coast Guard cutters USCGC Wrangell and USCGC Maui, were carrying out joint operations with Army AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in the Persian Gulf. Trump decided...

The first strange thing I noticed that morning as I came down the stairs from my apartment was that the "bowab" -- as they call doormen in Cairo -- was not at the door. He was a conscientious man, and his absence was unprecedented. The next thing I noticed -- as I walked out that unmanned door -- was how extraordinarily quiet it was in Cairo's usually cacophonous streets. Then I heard the shouting. "Hunak al-harb! Hunak al-harb!" I turned to my right and saw the bowab running down the street straight toward me -- frantically waving his arms and...

EVERETT, Wash. -- Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney has become the latest sheriff in Washington to voice his displeasure at the state's current "Stay at Home" orders amid the COVID-19 outbreak and reiterated his vow not to enforce it. Fortney took to Facebook late Monday night in a several-paragraph statement questioning Gov. Jay Inslee's plans amid what Fortney called were "drastic measures as the suspension of constitutional rights." While acknowledging that the COVID-19 outbreak is "a very serious issue and the appropriate precautions need to be taken to protect our most vulnerable populations," Fortney stated he's concerned about small businesses...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room5:46 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much everyone.  We had a very big day today.  I want to start by saying that our love and prayers of every American continue to be with our fellow citizens who have lost a cherished friend or a family member to the virus.Amidst our grief, we’re making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy.  Thanks to our aggressive campaign against the virus and the extraordinary talent of our medical professionals, our mortality rate remains roughly half of that of many other countries and one of the lowest...

VIDEO The only thing funnier than the REAL tears shed by liberals when Donald Trump won the 2016 election is the FAKE mourning by North Koreans whenever one of their Dear (or Great or Whatever) Leaders kicks the bucket. And from current reports that is something that is about to happen or has already happened to Kim Jong Un. Since North Koreans might be a bit out of practice shedding fake tears, the DUmmie FUnnies is presenting scenes from 2011 when Little Rocket's Man's father died. Hopefully, for those North Koreans rusty in pretending to be sad over the...

Friends, today in the Gospel Jesus delineates the nature of his mission: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." In his passion to set right a disjointed universe, God broke open his own heart in love. The Father sent not simply a representative but his own Son into the dysfunction of the world, so that he might gather that world into the bliss of the divine life. God’s center—the love between the Father and the Son—is now offered as our...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first at-home test for the coronavirus. It's made by LabCorp, that said due to limited quantities, it will first be made available to healthcare workers and first responders... The FDA approval is not a "general authorization for at-home collection of patient samples" and only applies to the LabCorp testing kit. Right now, the kits are available in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple recently published the 13th article in a series on the partisan liberal media promoting the Hillary Clinton-funded dossier ex-British spy Christopher Steele assembled with information from his Russian contacts. Newly declassified notes from the report by Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz suggests that Steele's "findings" -- promoted all over D.C. by the Democrat-funded research firm Fusion GPS -- were part of a Russian disinformation campaign. "It's ironic that the Russian collusion narrative was fatally flawed because of Russian disinformation," quipped Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson, who requested the declassified footnotes. Wemple, as...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Pramila Jayapal. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. For the second day in a row, another Democrat tweet is highlighted demonstrating the true agenda of the communist Left. Congress critter JayaPal (CP-Washington) has articulated another point that the Democrat Party had kept under wraps until Donald Trump happened. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the...

https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/latest-q-related-news-april-21-2020_qmN4hpD1plBIoP5.html Published on 05 Apr 2018 / In Film and Animation Utah Gun Exchange is excited to announce the launch of our latest freedom enhancing platform called UGETube! UGETube is a robust, YouTube equivalent video delivery platform that offers users a safe harbor and a guaranteed censorship-free-forever experience!!! When visiting UGETube, users will be able to enjoy a familiar and easy navigation experience. Just like Google, users will be able to use their login information across all of our platforms. So fear not, if you are already a member of UtahGunExchange.com, you will not need to create a new account....

Exxon Mobil Corp kicked off construction on Wednesday of its $10 billion petrochemical complex in south Chinese city Huizhou, state news agency Xinhua reported. The complex, which consists of a 1.6 million tonnes per year ethylene facility, is one of the few mega petrochemical projects in China wholly owned by a foreign investor.

What started as a dry run to ensure instruments on NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft worked properly later turned into a 10-year saga that resulted in a chance discovery unrelated to the mission's target planet, Mercury. It's about Venus and its atmosphere. The team reports April 20 in Nature Astronomy that data fortuitously collected by MESSENGER reveals a sudden rise in nitrogen concentrations at about 30 miles above Venus' surface, demonstrating the planet's atmosphere isn't uniformly mixed, as expected. That finding upends an understanding about Venus' atmosphere that has prevailed for decades. The story started...

As federal lawmakers continue to discuss stimulus packages to help the country cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has urged President Donald Trump to include emergency aid for cities — warning that a failure to do so could force municipal governments to cut vital services and lay off scores of employees. In a letter sent to the White House on Friday, Kenney said that cities were incurring “extraordinary expenditures” to respond to the health crisis while also experiencing a sharp decline in tax revenues, with most businesses closed and consumers slowing their spending

The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was a short-lived victory for the Democrat party. He turned out to be a huge red flag. He infuriated the conservative base and destroyed the Democrat’s advantages in the Senate, the House, and across a wide expanse of state level offices. During his time in the White House Barack Obama enjoyed approval ratings that were solid even as he preached the gospel of accepting America’s decline as a world power. Nevertheless, in the absence of a way to measure his true popularity we can only look back at his endorsements to gauge how...

Michael Moore is out with a new film the media will hype but most Americans will never see. This speaks well of the latter and poorly of the former.In a Reuters story promoting Moore's latest, he admits: Moore said that he, like many people, thought electric cars were a good idea, “but I didn’t really think about where is the electricity coming from?” That's awesome. Moore has been going around for decades promoting politicians and policies that would basically wreck the economy. He wanted a coronavirus-level economic tsunami before we'd ever heard of Wuhan and its bats.But he had no...

Guttenberg told the audience at a virtual town hall Monday that Trump was killing Americans by allowing gun stores to remain open, pointing to federal guidelines that labeled gun businesses "essential." . . . "You have crowds showing up around these gun stores not only spreading coronavirus, but they're buying weapons, or they're buying ammunition," he said. "And many of them are prohibited purchasers of weapons, or they already have the weapon, and now they're running out and buying the ammunition to use it."

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As Congress mulls a fourth phase of coronavirus stimulus, it is time for them to include relief aimed at safeguarding the family — both through the duration of this crisis and into the future. Specifically, Congress should pass the bipartisan paid family leave bill introduced late last year by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) that would allow every family the ability to receive a $5,000 “baby bonus” advance on their Child Tax Credit upon the birth or adoption of a child. This pandemic has imposed serious financial obstacles on millions of families across the country. Many...

Harvard University rejected calls from President Trump on Tuesday to return coronavirus relief money to the federal government, maintaining that the funds from a higher education program under the CARES Act are being used to provide direct assistance to students facing financial turmoil due to the pandemic.

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