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Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, several communities in Texas are under a “do not use water” advisory due to fears that a brain-eating amoeba could be in their tap water. According to the CDC, the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is most commonly found in warm freshwater systems such as lakes, rivers and hot springs in warmer parts of the U.S. People often get infected by swimming in these areas, but the CDC lists “contaminated tap water” and “inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water” as “very rare instances.” The amoeba infects people by entering the body through the nose...

Alex was having trouble in school. His teacher constantly yelling at him, "You're driving me crazy Alex! Can't you learn anything?". Alex's mama decided to meet with his teacher to discuss the situation. The teacher told her Alex was a disaster, getting the lowest marks of any of her students. She had never had such unmotivated and ignorant boy in her teaching career. Alex's mama, shocked at the feedback, withdrew her son and moved from Detroit to Cleveland. Twenty years later, the teacher was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her doctors advised surgery and recommended that she go to Cleveland...

Six people were killed Saturday, after they fell into a cesspool in the Hebron area, the Palestinian Authority’s security department reported. The remains of five people, all members of the same family, were pulled out of a cesspool in the village of Deir al-Asal, west of Hebron in the Judea area, PA police spokesperson Loai Irzeiqat said Saturday. A sixth person was pulled from the cesspool alive but in critical condition. The sixth victim was evacuated to an Israeli hospital, but was later declared dead. Palestinian Authority officials said that the immediate circumstances of the deaths were not clear, adding...

On September 30th, the No Sail order from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will expire. Will the CDC lift the ban or will another extension be added to a long six months period without cruises. Since the CDC No Sail Order came into effect in March, many companies have ended up in severe financial trouble. Another extension of the no sail order will surely put some of these companies over the edge of bankruptcy. Of course, the major Cruise Lines did not receive any stimulus packages as many are registered in ports of convenience. The Cruise Lines are preparing...

Facebook is censoring posts and videos that it has decided “support” (Kyle Rittenhouse) and has designated the accused Kenosha gunman a dangerous individual, before there has been a trial. Conservative YouTuber Mark Dice told numerous news outlets and his own social-media followers Wednesday that Facebook had Rittenhouse. “Facebook just removed a video I posted showing Kyle Rittenhouse offering help to a wounded protester in Kenosha and are threatening to delete my entire account,” he wrote on Twitter as he posted the (video) there.(Lawyers cast Kenosha shooter as 'brave patriot': 'Kyle Rittenhouse will go down in American history')

Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese said police are anticipating a crowd of 1,000 to 3,000 people at the Proud Boys demonstration. The Proud Boys their rally at Delta Park at noon, though Portland Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz denied their permit due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Videos: Link to the videoLink to the videoJoe Biggs, the organizer for the Proud Boys event in Portland gave an interview in which he said that if anything happens today it will be because of Antifa. Video below: Link to the videoA large law enforcement presence is expected as Oregon State Police and the...

Breaking Form, Pope "Decapitates" A Cardinal – With Becciu's Exile, A Monster Vatican Precedent n a 2016 interview with his hometown paper, Pope Francis told La Nación one key to his governing style: "I don't cut off heads," he said. "I've never liked doing that."Yet now, the pontiff has done just that, effectively stripping one of his inner circle of the red hat in stunning, dramatic fashion.At 8pm Thursday in Rome, the Holy See Press Office slipped out a very late, one-sentence addendum to the noontime Bollettino, stating that Francis had "accepted the resignation of the office of Prefect of the Congregation for...

On this inaugural National Day of Prayer and Return, the First Lady and I join millions of Christians here in the United States and around the world in prayer, as we turn our hearts to our Lord and Savior. Our great Nation was founded by men and women of deep and abiding faith—a faith that has stood the test of time. Four hundred years ago, early American settlers trusted their lives to His providence and braved a voyage to a New World. From the pilgrims who sought His protection aboard the Mayflower to the countless believers who today bow their...

The Senate is circulating the following confirmation hearing schedule in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Judge Amy Coney Barrett (yet to be officially announced). This schedule places the confirmation vote on or around the 29th of October, five days before the Election. With the first day of hearings on October 12th. SEE FULL SCHEDULE....

China should stay on alert for surprise attacks along its disputed Himalayan border with India, a retired Chinese general has warned, claiming that New Delhi has at least doubled its troops in the area. Retired Chinese lieutenant general Wang Hongguang issued the warning in an article published on Li Jian, a defence-related social media account, on Wednesday. "India only needs 50,000 soldiers to maintain the Line of Actual Control, but now, instead of withdrawing troops before the winter comes, India has added 100,000 more soldiers in Ladakh," Wang said, referring to the disputed China-India border. Get the latest insights and...

According to Republican lawmakers, the President is well within his rights to appoint a nominee to the Supreme Court. The GOP has urged the Senate to vote on his nominee before November's election. One America's John Hines spoke with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to get his take on the matter. Video..

The Justice Department has released a pair of documents casting fresh doubt on the judgment of senior law enforcement officials who investigated possible links between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, showing that one of the FBI case agents thought prosecutors were out to “get Trump” and that a key source of allegations against the president had been previously investigated as a possible Russian asset. The disclosures come as President Trump and his allies await the results of an investigation by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham into how U.S. intelligence agencies examined Russian election interference four years ago. Instead,...

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) acknowledged she does not have the power to stop a Supreme Court nomination at a hearing on Thursday. "Neither this committee nor the Senate should consider a nomination at this time," Feinstein said. "I recognize I don't have the power to carry that through, but I feel it very deeply. The next president, whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump, should make the decision on who to nominate."

The finance industry’s reputation has suffered a few black eyes over the last 20 years. On everything from taxpayer-funded bailouts to banks fleecing their customers with egregious fees, the banks are not the most celebrated institutions in the global marketplace. Despite banks’ critical contributions to society, the public routinely questions the sector’s ethics and honesty. A new leak has added fuel to the fire, triggering a massive selloff in the equities arena during the Sept. 21 trading session. One can only imagine what will be exposed in a few years concerning the Coronavirus pandemic. BuzzFeed News recently obtained files from...

One of the liberal law professors that Jerry Nadler tapped for a starring role in the Democrats' impeachment circus is already saying Judge Amy Coney Barrett deserves to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. In an OpEd for Bloomberg, Harvard Law professor and Democrat impeachment witness Noah Feldman writes that he is "devastated" by former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death and laments the fact that President Trump now gets to nominate a third Supreme Court justice during his first term in office. Despite his frustrations, Feldman admitted Judge Amy Coney Barrett is highly qualified to serve on the nation's highest...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden compared President Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels Saturday, accusing the president of lying about his record to the American people. Speaking to MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, Biden said Trump has tried to reenforce the false notion that he is a socialist to hurt his standing with moderate swing voters, particularly in the battleground state of Florida. He add that the GOP has struggled to effectively label him in the home stretch to Election Day. “I’m not sure anybody hasn’t already made up their mind they’re for Trump. But who knows. He’s sort of...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her family are on the move. Barrett, who is widely expected to be nominated by President Trump to a seat on the Supreme Court, was filmed leaving her home in South Bend, Ind. early Saturday afternoon. She was joined by husband Jesse Barrett and six of their seven children, all dressed for a special occasion.

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

A door-to-door COVID-19 testing survey has been halted due to multiple incidents in greater Minnesota of residents intimidating and shouting racial and ethnic slurs at state and federal public health survey teams. The CDC pulled its federal surveyors out of Minnesota this week following reports of verbal abuse and intimidation, including an incident in the Iowa border town of Eitzen, Minn., in which a survey team walking to a house was blocked by two cars and threatened by three men, according to state health officials. One man had his hand on a holstered gun. Frustration with the state's pandemic response...