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Harris County Commissioners approved a restructuring of how county toll road revenue can be used, which is concerning some people in northwest Harris County about how road projects will be funded. The measure approved creates a corporation to oversee duties performed by the Harris County Toll Road Authority. According to HCTRA, this measure would also change the grip the state has on where toll revenue can be spent by the county. A memo from Peter Key, HCTRA’s interim executive director, said HCTRA currently can only provide the issuance of revenue bonds for tolled infrastructure, and not non-toll transportation infrastructure challenges....

William Hartmann felt like he was stuck in a “Mission Impossible” movie when he left a Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting in Detroit in November. Law enforcement advised him not to return home and instead escorted him, with just the clothes on his back, to a friend’s house for safety. “I was scared,” Hartmann told The Epoch Times. “[The police] actually had people stationed outside in different locations, watching, in case anything happened. They were there for three or four days.” Hartmann said he didn’t venture outside for a week. “I was afraid that somebody might recognize me when...

The soldier was seen in a video walking backward instead of responding to a Molotov cocktail attack. The IDF on Monday removed a soldier from his combat position following an incident in which he responded passively to an attack against him. The Golani soldier failed to act when a firebomb was hurled at him near the settlement of Kedumim on Saturday night. The incident became public after a video taken by the security camera circulated online. It shows the perpetrator get out of a car, approach the soldier and hurl a firebomb at him. In response, the soldier walks backward...

BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court sentenced a Syrian man to life imprisonment Thursday for terrorism and crimes against humanity including the beheading of an imam in Syria in 2015. ... “His task was to make a ‘death list’ of ‘enemies of Islam’,” the court statement said. “He was personally involved in the execution of several people, including the beheading of a tribal leader.” ... the defendant commanded a small Daesh unit in Homs province in 2015 tasked with terrorizing and executing civilians and religious leaders who refused to side with the group. Prosecutors said he personally took part in the beheading...

Can you feel it? Fatigue. While many patriots are still gun-ho, many are plumb bone weary. After the surge of enthusiastic patriotism on Election Day followed by the gut punch of massive fraud on 11/4 and the stiff-upper-lip rallying-yet-afraid-to-hope-too-much during the month of November, many patriots are exhausted from the emotional roller-coaster. Exhausted and impatient. "C'mon! Let's do this already," is a tweet I often see. "Isn't the storm upon us yet!?! I'm sick of stashing away canned goods and bottled water." Don't get me wrong: We all still support President Trump 150% but headlines come, headlines go. Tweets come,...

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller travelled to Afghanistan on Tuesday, December 22. Due to security concerns surrounding this trip, it was not announced in advance. While in Afghanistan, the Acting Secretary met with the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul to discuss the ongoing U.S. military support to the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces amidst a historic opportunity to achieve peace in the country.

Police arrested four people, two of them illegal immigrants, in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on suspicion of assaulting a Jewish family which was celebrating Hanukkah. The incident took place in the commune of Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, on Thursday at around 8:40 pm when the Jewish family was in their vehicle listening to Hebrew music and “messages of peace”. According to a report by broadcaster France Bleu, a group of people yelling antisemitic slurs approached the family, proceeding to shake the car and throw glass bottles at the vehicle. Two fo the four suspects are said to be illegal adult...

<p>Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has admitted that the country has repatriated Islamic State members from a prison camp in Syria with the assistance of Germany.</p><p>Finland facilitated the return of two Islamic State women and six children from the al-Hol prison camp in Northern Syria where Kurdish forces have kept members of the terrorist organisation in custody.</p>

President @realDonaldTrump calls on Congress to increase stimulus relief payment to $2k per person and throw out the rest of the Bill

Trump Sued For ‘Racism’ In Trying To Overturn ElectionThe NAACP is accusing President Trump and the Republican Party of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act with their efforts to overturn election results in key battleground states. In an amended lawsuit filed Monday night, the civil rights organization added the Reconstruction-era law to their case against the president’s campaign that was filed last month. “Defendants’ efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters — targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia — repeat the worst abuses in our nation’s history, where Black...

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) had recommended placing India also on the CPC Pakistan is marketing Hindu and Christian women as "concubines" and "forced brides" to China, according to the top US diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback. One of the sources of "forced brides" for Chinese men are "religious minorities, Christian and Hindu women, being marketed as concubines and as forced as brides into China", Brownback told reporters on Tuesday. That was happening "because there's not effective support and there's discrimination against religious minorities that make them more vulnerable," he said. He mentioned this as one...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.Trump also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, 36, the Dutch son-in-law of Russian billionaire German Khan. Van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000 for lying to U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with an official in Trump’s 2016 campaign.Their names were included in a wave of pre-Christmas pardons announced by the White House. Trump granted full pardons to...

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Sudan who have burned down a church’s worship structure five times threatened to kill them if they put up another tent and continue worshipping, sources said. Police this month arrested nine of the 14 radical Muslims who burned down the temporary worship structures of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in the Dar El-Salam area of Omdurman, across the Nile River from Khartoum, said the attorney representing the Christians, Shanbago Awad Mugadam. Saying they didn’t want a Christian presence in the area, the extremists have burned down the structures on Jan....

After 27 years as a global pariah, Sudan has been officially removed from the American State Sponsor of Terrorism list. The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum made the announcement in a Facebook post, saying that the statutory 45 days had lapsed since President Trump gave Congress notice of the administration's intent to delist Sudan, so the declaration could now come into effect. udan was first added to the list in 1993 after the United States said it had provided assistance to terrorist groups. The country gave safe haven to Osama Bin Laden and it was implicated in the twin bombings of...

Just wow! Sneaky little devils. Sounds like they're afraid of this.

Thousands of people have signed up for a New Year’s Day protest in Philadelphia. With the yearly Mummers parade canceled, some 2,600 people plan to go to the Mummers protest march. “Mayor Jim Kenney has tried for years (like every Philly Mayor in the past) to cancel the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, a tradition preceding the birth of our nation. What he can NOT do is cancel our First Amendment right to peacefully protest his erroneous taxes and restrictions on our freedoms and liberties. It should go without saying that everyone will be on 2nd Street New Years Day, strutting their...

Three men who were kicked out of a packed California strip club for refusing to wear face coverings returned with an AK-47 and wounded three people in a drive-by shooting, authorities said. Edgar Nava-Ayala, 34, Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, 22, and Juan Jose Acosta-Soto, 20, were tossed out of the Sahara Theater in Anaheim on Halloween after breaking the jiggle joint’s mask mandate, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

“There’s more of a sense of freedom down there,” Paul Teutul Sr. said on a Zoom call from the current Orange County Chopper headquarters in New York state as ice pounded the roof above him. WKRG.com’s Biker Dad Blog broke the news last week that the reality show stars are moving their operations down south. Monday we got a chance to speak with Sr. and Jane Kay of Orange County Choppers about the big move.

Congress swiftly passed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill on Monday that was stuffed with cash for foreign countries and policy pet projects for powerful legislators. Although the bill authorizes $600 stimulus checks for most Americans, a $300 weekly unemployment supplement and $284 billion in small business loans, it also contains other, more obscure provisions. The bill adds two National Mall museums, bans the US Postal Service from delivering e-cigarettes and makes online streaming of copyrighted material punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Warren County Jailer Stephen Harmon, eight deputy jailers and 101 inmates are COVID-19 positive. There are 92 inmate tests pending and six staff tests pending. “Thanks to the steadfast jail management and sanitation efforts, Warren County Regional Jail has been among the only few county jails with no COVID positive inmates, until now... The majority of COVID positive inmates are asymptomatic. None of the inmates are hospitalized or experiencing severe symptoms.