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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services. The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not...

A Washington, D.C., man was sentenced today to over 17 years in prison for advertising videos and images of children being sexually abused.Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin of the District of Columbia and Special Agent in Charge James A. Dawson of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement.Simon Walker, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Walker pleaded guilty on Oct. 8, 2019, to one count of advertising child pornography. In...

An Iowa woman pleaded guilty today for unlawfully using a former Department of Justice contractor’s government computer to access government records and to obtain sensitive, non-public law enforcement information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.According to admissions made in connection with her guilty plea, Rachel Manna, 33, of West Des Moines, was acquainted with Danielle Taff, who was employed as a contractor paralegal by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa. Taff was assigned to the office’s Civil Division, where she worked exclusively on matters related to civil forfeiture...

Many commercial baby foods "are tainted with significant levels of toxic heavy metals," a report released Thursday by a House subcommittee said, raising concerns over the safety of the products industry wide. According to the staff report by the House subcommittee on economic and consumer policy, leading brands of U.S. baby foods contain dangerous levels of inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, heavy metals that even at low levels pose particular risk to babies and children, both the U.S. Federal Drug Administration and the World Health Organization have said. The report was based on internal documents and test results voluntarily...

Of all Democratic politicians, none has been as consistently dismissed by Republicans as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 31-year-old New York darling of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Since her surprise upset election in 2018, the Congresswoman has consistently come in for the harshest criticism from the right, and Wednesday night was the latest installment. In response to an emotional Instagram video on Monday night, in which AOC gave a chilling account of what happened to her during the Capitol riot in early January, the hashtag #AOClied began trending on Twitter, along with #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett, a nod to Jussie Smollett,...

HMS Challenger spent three-and-a-half years peering into some of the remotest parts of our world’s oceans. Its groundbreaking voyage still has an impact today. It was once a private house, but now the imposing stone structure on Boswall Road, on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in Edinburgh, is part of a palliative care hospice. The building shares its name with the one of the deepest parts of the ocean and two Nasa spacecraft. One was the command module for the Apollo 17 Moon mission while the other was part of the Space Shuttle fleet, and the first...

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa helped fund the recall effort against then-California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, but the California congressman told Fox News that the push to recall current Gov. Gavin Newsom is "more important" than that effort. The campaign to force a recall vote against Newsom has garnered signatures from more than 1.4 million Californians. The proponents of the recall effort hope to hit 2 million signatures by March 17, but only 1.5 million are needed to trigger a mid-year election.

SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong starring Gao Han Yu as Chief Bai Yutong and Ji Xiao Bing as Dr Zhan Yao, the chief psychologist of the Special Crimes Investigation unit. Friends since they were infants together, they compete while supporting one another. Chief Bai Yutong, usually wearing white, is skilled in martial arts and the skills needed for a policeman. Dr Zhan Yao is a bust at taking care of himself, but is brilliant at hypnosis. The issue in the show concerns the moral limits of hypnosis, something that Dr Zhan struggles with.

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough slammed evangelicals for their focus on abortion. No fewer than four times, Scarborough called evangelicals' concern about abortion "bizarre." Scarborough boasted of having always voted pro-life. But his message to evangelicals was clear: don't make such a big deal about abortion. Come on over to the liberal side. Even if in doing so you will be supporting abortion not just until birth, but in some cases beyond. Take Barack Obama, who opposed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act back when he was in the Illinois Senate.So who's "bizarre" now? Scarborough's comments were made in the...

Sharks found living in active volcano is one of the world's enduring ocean mysteries As the camera dropped into the roiling orange waters of one of the world's most active submarine volcanoes, scientists were expecting to see plenty of activity; what they weren't expecting to find was hordes of sharks thriving in the explosive crater.\ Reef sharks, hammerheads and scalloped hammerheads all swam up to the lens, unbothered by the fact an eruption had taken place shortly before. The discovery was made in 2015 at Kavachi volcano in the Solomon Islands by National Geographic grantee Dr Brennan Phillips. "I thought...

President Biden on Friday made the case for Congress to quickly pass his nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package even if it means abandoning Republican support, warning of an economy that's still in the grips of the pandemic.

Cornell law professor creates online database of 220 universities teaching critical race theory to help parents choose colleges that don't make the 'racist ideology' mandatory - Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson has launched a database listing 220 universities and their approach to critical race theory - He claims the database will help parents choose a school for their children - Jacobson told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that the site is for parents who don't want their kids to be ‘indoctrinated’ by an ‘anti-racism ideology’ - He claims that critical race theory teaches student that the ‘most important thing in...

Think twice next time you stumble across a pile of garbage at the beach — you could have found a bizarre sea creature. While out on patrol, a park guide in Texas stumbled across what looked like a pile of noted rope and yellow cord on a barrier island off the Texan coast. The "rope ball" is actually a form of coral. National Park Service (NPS) employee Rebekah Claussen made the discovery on the Padre Island National Seashore near the Gulf of Mexico. She uploaded her photo to Facebook on February 1 and explained the knotted mass was actually "sea...

This is a video by Mike Lindell with some guests involved in investigations of the steal. There is a lot of evidence.

Microsoft has announced that it will suspend all donations for the upcoming 2022 election cycle for any members of Congress, state officials, and organizations that voted to object to the certification of electors in the 2020 election or supported attempting to overturn the election.

President Biden’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admitted during his confirmation hearing that the United States is at a distinct disadvantage in the clean energy market because most of the parts necessary for solar energy and green vehicles are made in China.During his confirmation hearing last Wednesday, Michael Regan, Mr. Biden’s nominee to head the EPA, was questioned by Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), about China’s complete disregard for the goals of green activists on the issue of climate change.Regan referred to his time at the head of the State of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, admitting...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee were caught on a hot mic mocking Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after he requested to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during a hearing. A leaked recording appears to show Judiciary Democrats making fun of Gaetz’s request to have the committee recite the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of Thursday's hearings.

You could see this coming like you can see a thunderhead out on the Great Plains.The order came from a meeting Austin held today with @thejointstaff @USNavy @usairforce @USArmy @USMC – "This is a leadership issue," said Pentagon spox @johnfkirby63— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) February 3, 2021The allegation, provided without a shred of empirical evidence that the US military is overrun by hate groups and extremists, has been made for weeks. Here’s a sampling from just the past month:Politico. The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn’t know how bad it’s gotten. WBUR (Boston NPR). Extremism In The Military...

On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast, Sam Jacobs invites Robby Starbuck onto the show. Robby Starbuck is a director and producer running for the House of Representatives in Greater Nashville. We had him on to talk about how the average person can join in the fight to save the American way of life, the canary in the coal mine of freedom and the criminal attack on retail investors. Listen the link to listen to Robby Starbuck, director, producer and congressional candidate for Greater Nashville on the Resistance Library Podcast.

An investigation from NBC Bay Area found that a big-time real estate developer with properties throughout the Bay Area has sent at least 150 eviction notices to renters despite a moratorium on evictions.Tenants living in buildings owned by Madison Park Financial Corporation — which has properties in Oakland, Emeryville and Lafayette — have reported being bombarded with notices at locations including Lampwork Lofts, Town29 and Telegraph Lofts.Madison Park is owned by John Protopappas, a former chairman for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's mayoral campaign.The notices, per NBC Bay Area, read that tenants are required to pay rent or "quit and deliver...