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A kidnapping of a young boy and girl leads to a confusion of identities of just who was the boy kidnapped with Secretary Kim. But it is a fact that whenever the CEO closes his eyes to kiss her, he sees violent images that don't help a romance to progress.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty on Monday to corruption charges at the resumption of his trial, six weeks before voters again head to the polls to pass judgment on his leadership. ... Wearing a coronavirus mask, Netanyahu, the first serving Israeli leader to be charged with a crime, seemed intent on projecting an air of business as usual, thanking the court and leaving without explanation some 20 minutes into the session. ... Before that (the previous to this) session got under way, Netanyahu delivered a speech from a podium in the corridor, condemning his prosecution as a...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Tennessee House Majority Leader William Lamberth has proposed a law that would create life-long orders of protection. The idea is to prevent victims from being revictimized, like Nikki Goeser. Goeser had been married for just over 16 months when her husband Ben Goeser was murdered in Brentwood in 2009. The killer was Hank Wise. Attorneys said he was obsessed with Nikki Goeser. “Ben was shot seven times in the middle of a busy restaurant in front of 50 witnesses and security cameras,” Nikki Goeser told News4 in 2020.

Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin and plans to start accepting the cryptocurrency as payment “in the near future,” the electric automaker said Monday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The move is a major sign of support for bitcoin and could encourage other major companies to follow suit in accepting the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin jumped after the Tesla announcement, hitting a new high before retreating to $43,176. It is up more than 46 percent since the start of the year, according to Coindesk. Dan Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, called Tesla’s...

When politicians can face impeachment for inciting violence despite asking people to show their support "peacefully," you would think politicians would weigh their words more carefully. Yet last Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that unnamed members of Congress "threatened violence on other members of Congress." "We will probably need a supplemental [appropriation] for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that the members are concerned about, in addition to what is happening outside," the California Democrat warned. Democrats are using the Jan. 6 riot to justify almost any security action, necessary...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to issue new guidelines to agents this week that could sharply curb arrests and deportations, as the Biden administration attempts to assert more control over an agency afforded wide latitude under President Donald Trump, according to internal memos and emails obtained by The Washington Post. While ICE’s new operational plans are not yet final, interim instructions sent to senior officials point to a major shift in enforcement. “Generally, these convictions would not include drug based crimes (less serious offenses), simple assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, or charges without...

"A new and rapidly growing journalistic 'beat' has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers...so settle on this penny-ante, trivial bulls*** — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing.' Greenwald announced his resignation from The Intercept, the site he co-founded, in October claiming editors censored an article he wrote criticizing Joe Biden. He added, "These examples of journalism being abused to demand censorship of spaces they cannot control are...

Free speech social media platform Gab received 272 million visits during the month of January, outperforming legacy media competition such as NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, and TMZ by a wide margin. Gab’s success is particularly remarkable, considering the fact that the website has been “deplatformed” from mobile app stores, PayPal, and email marketing services. The official Gab Twitter account revealed that the website had far outperformed legacy media on Monday, posting “Gab: ~272 million in Jan” next to a screenshot of traffic numbers from various corporate legacy media outlets. A total of 272 million visits would put...

At a time countless students face obstacles that could permanently stunt their learning growth, school choice provides one obvious solution to help mitigate a ‘lost generation.’At a time countless students face obstacles that could permanently stunt their learning growth, school choice provides one obvious solution to help mitigate a ‘lost generation.’ Impact on Suicide RatesThe study, released in December and conducted by a Cato Institute scholar and Western Carolina University economist, used two different methods to examine the impact of school choice on mental health. First, the researchers used examined variations in teenage (i.e., 15-19) suicide rates based on states’...

No one in the Mahomes household is taking the Chiefs’ loss well. Randi Martin, mother of 25-year-old Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, called out the Super Bowl 2021 officiating crew and Gisele Bündchen, supermodel and wife of seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, over social media following the Buccaneers’ 31-9 blowout victory over the Chiefs. “If you have to have the ref on your team is that really winning!!! @giseleofficial lol 😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪,” Randi Mahomes wrote on Twitter. Her beef seemed to be more with the officiating than Bündchen, the mother of two of Brady’s children — Vivian and Benjamin.

If Trump were to create a new party, would you join? I keep hearing how bad it would be and how it would 'split the vote' and hand the victory to the Democrats. I disagree, because I think a majority of people would go with Trump. There is currently about 25% of the country registered as GOP. That's about 80 million people. If Trump formed a new party I would think nearly everyone who voted for him (over 70 million) would join. Plus some disillusioned Democrats AND some independents. That would make the new party bigger than the old GOP....

There is an important detail regarding the Capitol riots that is buried in the eighth paragraph of a CNN article with the headline: "Investigators struggle to build murder case in death of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick." The article states that U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died during the storming of the U.S. Capitol building, was not killed by blunt force trauma. This is a contradiction of previous reporting by various media outlets that said the Capitol Police officer was killed by being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher. From the CNN article: According to...

Last year saw the largest year-to-year increase in homicides ever recorded in US history. The homicide rate in 34 cities was 30 percent higher in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a Jan. 31 report by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. Victims of these homicides are disproportionately African American. At least 8,600 black lives were lost to homicide in 2020, an increase of more than 1,000 compared to 2019 (7,484). Violent crime is concentrated in primarily low-income, marginalized black communities where the police are underresourced and Democratic leadership has abysmally failed. In Chicago, 80 percent...

An elderly man collapsed and died in Manhattan on Sunday morning shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination at the Javits Center, a health official said. The man, in his 70s, fell as he was leaving the building about 25 minutes after his vaccination, according to a statement from New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. “Initial indications are that the man did not have any allergic reaction to the vaccine,” Zucker said in his statement. During a required 15-minute observation period following the vaccination, the man exhibited no adverse effects from the jab, Zucker said. First responders rendered aid...

On what Black History Month and the racial reckoning mean at the New York Times … Over the past week, the Times’ crossword puzzles have included many clues having to do with black culture and issues, and in fact have been by black constructors. A fine gesture for Black History Month. But then the other night we learned that longtime reporter Donald McNeil, who has done groundbreaking work on the pandemic, has been fired, at 67. His sin was that on an NYT-sponsored educational trip with teenagers, he used the N-word in referring to it (as opposed to actually using...

Millions of pregnant women and their babies have been treated as guinea pigs for long-term mask use, without health officials even having the decency to be honest about this grand experiment.Once upon a time, way back in 2019, it was considered virtuous for pregnant women to obsessively Google or ask their doctors about every behavior that might conceivably affect their baby. Is it okay to go swimming? To eat lunch meat? To use hairspray? Over the course of mere months, however, one behavior has become taboo to question as “safe” for pregnancy: mask-wearing. The TV screen in my OB-GYN’s waiting...

Joe Biden wants Congress to finance the practices of Planned Parenthood that Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr., justifiably calls "black genocide"? Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as ... "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or...

... Then late at night, a string of suspicious events changed the momentum for the Trump Team. GOP observers later testified that at 3:30 AM in the morning vehicles drove into the TCF Center and delivered fraudulent ballots for Joe Biden. ...

All around the country, conservatives have invited friends and family over to enjoy food, funny commercials, football, and being insulted by every major corporation in America. "I love football," said local Christian conservative Brad Longaberger, "but I also love the humbling experience of sitting through hours of sermons from powerful corporations reminding me how rotten and terrible I am for not supporting progressive causes!"

If the Capitol Hill "Insurrection" was truly an attempted coup, as the Democrats insist it was, then there should have been a significant and authoritative response that caused it to fail. There ought to have been a military response, or a major political leader ought to have come forward to condemn the coup and rally the country to his side. In fact, President Trump did tell the rioters to behave peacefully, and could be given credit for his steady and pacific leadership during a moment of crisis—though the opposite narrative has been promulgated. But there was otherwise no real response...