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The remains of a Second World War-era Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft have been pulled from the Black Sea. The plane was hauled from the water in the Kalamita Bay, near the village of Novofyodorovka, Crimea, as part of a joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Defence Ministry. The aircraft had entered service with the Black Sea Fleet in 1943 but was forced to make a water landing just one year later due to a technical malfunction during a training flight.

As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, state Rep. Attica Scott (D) took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March. In August, Scott proposed Breonna’s Law, a bill that would end no-knock warrants statewide. And when a grand jury decided not to indict the officers in Taylor’s death, Scott joined hundreds of protesters in the streets of Louisville. On Thursday night, Louisville police arrested Scott along with a handful of other protesters near First Unitarian Church and the Louisville Free Public Library, which had allegedly been...

A new video has emerged purportedly showing the tense moments after Louisville Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was struck by gunfire while responding to Breonna Taylor’s apartment on the night she was killed. In the bodycam footage – which attorney Todd McMurtry tells Fox News he received from Mattingly – an officer is heard repeatedly yelling “put him on the trunk” while colleagues purportedly escorted Mattingly away from the scene of the shooting for medical attention. Mattingly reportedly said a bullet struck his femoral artery and he later had to undergo surgery. “They called him a ‘murderer,’ when all he did...

Only 5% of Democrats and less than half of Republicans believe the “decline in religious faith and church attendance” is a top-three issue facing families in the United States, a new survey has found. The 2020 American Family Survey was released Tuesday, a poll of 3,000 Americans conducted by YouGov and sponsored by Deseret News and Brigham Young University in Utah, institutions associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sixth annual survey was done between July 3 and July 14 and has an error margin of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. Among the many questions...

Support for Black Lives Matter protests is falling across the country after months of unrest that has seen people killed, shops burned, and frequent clashes between activists and police. A new poll shows that just 39 per cent of Americans now approve of the protests, down from 54 per cent in June, while 44 per cent of now disapprove of them. University of Michigan political scientist Christian Davenport put the change down to 'compassion fatigue', as outrage over videos such as the one of George Floyd has faded, with people now wanting a return to their everyday lives.

Agents who worked on Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation joked about wiping their cell phones, according to an FBI agent who worked for the special counsel. FBI Agent William Barnett told government investigators last week that he heard other FBI agents at the special counsel’s office (SCO) “comically talk about wiping cellular telephones,” according to a summary of the interview released as part of the court proceedings in the case involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn. “Barnett had a cellular telephone issued by the SCO which he did not ‘wipe.’ Barnett did hear other agents ‘comically’ talk about wiping cellular...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologized for the death of a South Korean government worker who was shot dead by North Korean troops after crossing a maritime border between the two countries. In a letter sent to South Korea's Blue House Friday morning, North Korea said units responded to a call that an unidentified male was found floating on an object in the sea. The letter claims about 10 rounds were fired at the man after he did not comply with a soldier's demand to identify himself and subsequent warning shots. North Korea says only a pool of...

Following up on the July 9, 2020 CD Media breaking story: Ukrainian MEP Releases Further Biden Tapes…JOE CONSPIRED WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AGAINST TRUMP it’s clear, then Vice President Joe Biden conspired with Ukraine’s President Petr Poroshenko, the DNC, and Alexandra Chalupa’s Diaspora to overthrow the 2016 Presidential election. Andriy Derkach, a member of Kyiv’s parliament, released audio recordings clearly showing the former Vice President’s participation. According to Derkach’s taped phone call between the two leaders: Poroshenko: it was a bad idea to take Yanukovych’s advisor Manfort to Trump’s team: “And one more thing, just as a joke. We have...

We’re less than 40 days out from the election and all of a sudden Democrats are urging people to vote in person as opposed to mailing in their ballots. The far-left Axios reports “Democrats are exponentially more likely to vote by mail than Republicans this year — and if enough mail-in ballots are lost, rejected on a technicality or undercounted, it could change the outcome of the presidential election or other key races.” This is just my opinion, but I don’t think that’s it at all. Oh, I don’t doubt Democrats are worried over all the news stories about the...

I am a man of color, a (legal) immigrant, and the son of a mentally ill socialist (yes, I know that is redundant). I earned three college degrees before the dark cloud of racial preferences descended on college campuses, and I paid off those college loans early, without help or complaint. I once had a negative net worth, which I rectified by becoming a serial entrepreneur, and thus retired young, healthy, and financially secure. This was doable only in America, the least racist country in history. Want more proof? America elected an unqualified and incompetent black man as president. Twice....

They support Donald Trump. And they’re targeted. "Federal authorities are helping investigate a suspicious fire at a home in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota that had a large “Trump 2020” sign. Police and firefighters were called to the home on the 6900 block of Morgan Avenue North shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday on a report of an explosion, according to the Brooklyn Center Police Department. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, but a detached three-car garage and three vehicles were destroyed as well as a large “Trump 2020” sign. Luckily, no one was injured. Security footage shows the moments homeowners Dennis and Deana...

A contingent of activist Spotify staffers are now considering a walkout or full-blown strike if their demands for direct editorial oversight of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast aren’t met. Late last week, we first reported that Spotify employees were demanding direct editorial oversight over the recently-acquired Joe Rogan Experience podcast. That would include the ability to directly edit or remove sections of upcoming interviews, or block the uploading of episodes deemed problematic. The employees also demanded the ability to add trigger warnings, corrections, and references to fact-checked articles on topics discussed by Rogan in the course of his multi-hour discussions....

Schools in Logan, Oh., were forced into a lockdown Thursday due to protests, confirmed the Marietta Times. These protests were spurred by an incident that occurred Wednesday, in which a woman watching a middle school football game got tasered by a school resource officer for not wearing a mask. These protests were in support of the officer’s actions. The woman, Alecia Kitts, was watching her son’s game in the bleachers with her mother, who was also not wearing a mask, says The Marietta Times. The two were approached by the school’s assistant principal, Adam Twiss, to comply with the mandatory...

Nothing better symbolizes the peacemaking achievements of President Donald Trump than the reported agreement of Serbia and Kosovo to name a disputed lake on their border after the man who brought them together, overcoming centuries of conflict between a Christian majority and Muslim majority nation. First reported in the English Language version of Gazeta Express, a Kosovo-based publication, the naming emerged out the successful discussions mediated by Ric Grenell to normalize economic relations between the two nations. That agreement, which also resulted in Kosovo’s agreement to normalize relations with Israel and Serbia’s agreement to move its embassy to Jerusalem, resulted...

Demonstrators had gathered at 7 p.m. at Hollywood Forever Cemetery before marching through the streets of Hollywood. They were decrying the announcement Wednesday that just one of three Louisville, Ky., police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death in a bungled raid of her apartment, had been charged with a crime. The one indicted officer, Brett Hankison, was charged not in connection with Taylor’s death but for allegedly firing blindly into her apartment building. The charging decision, anticipated for months, has infuriated people throughout the country and spurred large protests, including one Wednesday night...

The Department of Justice directed the Pennsylvania county where discarded ballots were found to change its practices before the upcoming election. U.S. Attorney David Freed said in a letter to Shelby Watchilla, director of elections for Luzerne County, that the nine discarded ballots all originated with members of the military. Two of the ballots had been recovered by elections staff, reinserted into what appeared to be their appropriate envelopes, and resealed. One was linked to an envelope that was recovered, potentially tying it to a specific voter. The six others were simply removed and discarded, and can’t be attributed to...

So, who is the word offender? The Los Angeles Times: The audit report referred to one “particularly problematic” case involving an unnamed UC regent. The California State Auditor’s office has identified that person to The Times as Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and a Berkeley alumnus who has given his alma mater millions of dollars over the years. Blum, who has served as a regent since 2002, declined to comment. Feinstein had no comment, spokesman Tom Mentzer said. (snip) UC Berkeley was the worst offender, the audit said, with 55 cases of inappropriate admissions. Among them, 14...

This past Wednesday morning, Donny Deutsch, a frequent guest on MSNBC and a former program host, claimed that there was “‘no difference’ between President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and what ‘Adolf Hitler preached’ in Germany in the 1930s.” He added, “And we’re here and what is the difference between Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump? I’m not saying there is a Holocaust but when you look at the tactics, that is where we are right now.” This is as outrageous as it is ignorant, and Deutsch needs to be called on the carpet for his ugly and inflammatory comments. As stated by...

Mainstream media is garbage. Let’s get that out of the way from the start. They call domestic terrorists “peaceful protesters” while skipping over the tarnished pasts of the Black Lives Matter idols whose deaths caused all the turmoil. If they’re not covering for Antifa or pretending like people like George Floyd and Jacob Blake are saints, they’re incessantly attacking President Trump and Republicans. Don’t get me wrong. By no means am I suggesting that Floyd or Breonna Taylor deserved to die based on their associations with criminal activities. Their deaths were tragic and avoidable. But people are murdered every day...

So now we know who rented that Uhaul truck for Black Lives Matter and AntiFA in Louisville yesterday. The Uhaul truck was loaded with shields, bottles of water and pre-made anti-police signs. Holly Zoller a left wing zealot with “The Bail Project” is the one who rented the vehicle. The Bail Project is like Freedom Fund Minnesota that gets criminals out of jail. Facebook quickly scrubbed Holly Zoller’s page once word got out she was the Uhaul truck renter. Gee, I wonder why.