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CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man was arrested on a federal firearm charge after law enforcement this week seized machine guns and more than 100 “switch” devices from his home. Each device is capable of converting a semi-automatic pistol into a machine gun.LEONARD D. JOHNSON, also known as “Scrap,” 32, of Robbins, is charged with one count of illegal possession of a machine gun. Johnson was arrested Monday after agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives executed a search warrant at his home. The agents seized five firearms, including three machine guns, and approximately 117 “switch”...

December 9, 2020Through its global work, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) provides expert assistance and case-based mentoring to foreign counterparts to address corruption issues that not only impact their countries but also foster transnational criminal activities. Corruption indeed is a global issue and OPDAT is proud to join in the recognition of International Anti-Corruption Day.OPDAT’s Senior Counsel on Global Anticorruption provides specialized technical advice, training, and consultation to foreign prosecutors, judges, and investigators around the world. OPDAT’s anticorruption program assists counterparts from other jurisdictions in analyzing, investigating, and prosecuting corruption pursuant...

South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building5:16 P.M. ESTTHE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all very much. Paul, thank you for those kind words and for your tireless work at Health and Human Services. To Secretary Azar — really, our host for the day — we thank you for your extraordinary leadership and your — I think he deserves a round of applause. Secretary Alex Azar. (Applause.) We’ve been shoulder to shoulder for 10 months in all of this, and the President and I couldn’t be more grateful for the entire team at HHS and all of the people that you’ve...

Dolly Parton was just 13 years old when she first performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Appropriately enough, the future country legend was introduced by none other than Johnny Cash. Reflecting back on that, Dolly Parton shares that Johnny Cash made quite the impression on a girl coming of age. In an interview with GQ, the Jolene singer openly discussed things that a few things fans might not know about her storied life. Doll Parton spills tea about her very special relationship with Cash, declining performing at the Super Bowl, and her 54 year marriage to husband Carl Dean.

VIDEOChina's honeypot spy, Christine Fang aka Fang Fang, besides milking the Eric Swalwell sap who sits on the House Intelligence Committee for information has also been reported as having Fang-Fanged two midwest mayors. We already know that one of those mayors was in Ohio which narrows down the list of Fang-Fanged suspects. In this video, I analyze the possible suspects.Keep in mind that Fang Fang was probably not alone in China's honeypot spy operation. I am sure there were many more politicians who were Ching-Chinged or Chong-Chonged.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who sits on the sensitive House Intelligence Committee, said in response to an explosive story about ties to a suspected Chinese spy that “congressional leaders knew about” the matter and implied that they apparently did not think that it was a big enough issue to keep him off the Intelligence Committee. The alleged spy, Chinese national Christine Fang, “targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage” through “campaign fundraising, extensive networking, personal charisma, and romantic or sexual relationships,” Axios reported....

Eight months into this pandemic, one thing is increasingly clear: Students learn best when they are in school. Their continued absence from the classroom has led to less learning, more mental health problems, and greater inequality as children from lower income households fall further behind.Poor Academic OutcomesThis past spring, teachers were able to get 2-3 months of face time with their students before everyone was sent home. We knew that was disruptive, so a lot of grace was extended from teachers and administrators towards students. But now that we’re wrapping up our first fully digital semester, the real data is...

House intelligence committee Republicans were surprised to learn this week that a member of their committee, Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy who slept with US politicians as a tactic to elicit information. Swalwell, who represents a California district south of Oakland, received an FBI “defensive briefing” in 2015 on operative Fang Fang, but most if not all Republicans on the elite committee weren’t told that a colleague had been targeted by China. Fang, also known as Christine Fang, returned to China in mid-2015 as US officials heightened their scrutiny of her string of honey-trap...

Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney’s Ann Sather restaurant is facing up to $10,500 in possible fines from the city after the Chicago aldermen acknowledged letting people eat inside the establishment in violation of city and state rules designed to help stop the spread of coronavirus. ...snip... The city also cited an unlicensed event at 1257 N. Milwaukee Ave in Wicker Park. Officials responded to a call early on Dec. 5 and found “a bouncer outside of an event billed as the ‘Wicker Loft,’ ” Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said in a statement. There were 142 people in the building who either...

A college student with a desire to alleviate his father's suffering has invented an app that helps people with PTSD stop having night terrors.Tyler Skluzacek's father, Patrick, a US Army Commander with PTSD, was suffering from debilitating night terrors.Patrick served in Iraq in 2007 and at night his dreams took him back to Fallujah. He could only fall asleep with the help of alcohol and pills -- and his life slowly fell apart."[I] pretty much lost everything," he told NPR, fighting back tears. "My house, everything, my job, everything went."Tyler was a senior at Macalester College when he entered a...

Senators Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report today showing millions in sketchy payments to the son of former Vice-President Joe Biden that showcase compromise and blackmail material. Included in the release are details of payments made by the wife of the former Mayor of Moscow and what appear to be eastern European prostitutes provided to Hunter Biden. The Senate report reveals millions of dollars were funneled to Hunter Biden during a series of questionable financial transactions between Biden, his associates and foreign...

Smell loss (anosmia) is a common symptom of COVID-19...44% to 77% of people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell. But many are unaware they have lost their sense of smell until they actively try to smell something that should have an odor, like scented candles. This is why we are encouraging people to actively try to smell something each day. Sudden unexplained anosmia is a specific symptom of COVID-19. It can be used as a daily DIY screening tool by individuals, providing another tool in the fight to contain COVID-19. Unexplained anosmia is normally quite rare with other viral...

CNN's Don Lemon dismissed the rising popularity of Newsmax, saying the network will never have the staying power of rival Fox News. “Newsmax will be Newsmax, but it won’t be as powerful as Fox News,” Lemon said on air Tuesday. “It will never be as powerful as Fox News.” Lemon predicted that Newsmax and other smaller networks will fade into obscurity "by March" and Fox News's editorial tone will shift more toward the center in the post-Trump era.

I think that conservatives need to boycott the leftist companies that are supporting (if not openly bowing to) the Marxist Black Lives Matter terrorists that are destroying America... So, to help those of you that do want to help fight the culture war by boycotting radical leftist corporations do so, I decided that today would be a good day to write about “what companies have donated to Black Lives Matter?” so that you know what companies to boycott. This list is as holistic as I can make it. I did my best to scour the web and find out what...

Letter: Coffee Co. cannot certify results from second statewide recountDOUGLAS, Ga. (WALB) - Georgia Secretary of State has recertified the election results, but Coffee County Board of Elections officials sent out a letter last week saying they could not certify its results following a second recount. In the letter, election officials said they could not certify the electronic recount numbers given its “inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results.” “Any system, financial, voting, or otherwise, that is not repeatable nor dependable should not be used,” officials wrote in the letter. “To demand certification of patently inaccurate results neither serves the...

YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud. The video streaming giant made the announcement in a Wednesday blog post titled “Supporting the 2020 US election.”........."

Artist's impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri. (Mark Myers/OzGrav We already had a bit of an inkling that our nearest stellar neighbour might be an inhospitable place. In 2017, red dwarf Proxima Centauri was caught belching out a colossal flare 10 times more powerful than the largest eruptions from the Sun, dampening hopes for habitable conditions on the rocky world orbiting it, Proxima Centauri b. The outlook for life as we know it just got even more grim. A new discovery has given us evidence that Proxima Centauri may be releasing Sun-like coronal mass ejections, in which vast quantities...

Source: Screenshot/Facebook via Hammond Institute for Free EnterpriseSometimes, the legacy of great men is that the world doesn't realize how great they were until they are gone. This might be the case with Dr. Walter E. Williams. Dr. Williams passed away last week. He was the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University, where, for six years, he served as chairman of the economics department. He was a prolific author and columnist (writing for Creators, which also syndicates my column). And he was a dear friend. An African American who grew up poor in Philadelphia, he...

The purchase is considered a donation to Ilhan Omar for Congress “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is selling T-shirts with a vulgar slogan that appears to be an anti-President Trump message. Omar’s website features T-shirts with the slogan “F**k around and find out” in both royal blue and gold, which are going for $30 apiece. Omar, who was among the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, is a strong opponent of Trump, his rhetoric and his policies. The president has taken aim at the congresswoman and her roots as an immigrant from Somalia. During his campaign for the...

Network legal analyst Sunny Hostin said on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” that it was “shameful” the Republican Party has not denounced the “racial hatred” President Donald Trump that she accused him of inciting. The panel was discussing Michigan State Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D) receiving racist voicemails after challenging the election fraud claims of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani.