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News2Share has obtained previously unreleased footage of a July 7, 2020 incident in which ATF Agent James Burk attempted to make contact with a member of the Columbus, Ohio community, who then called 911. When Columbus PD officers Joseph Fihe and Kevin Winchell arrived, Agent Burk did not comply with their commands, even at gunpoint. The officers tased Agent Burk in the process of subduing him. Agent Burk - who in 2015 was charged with shoplifting wine from a Kroger grocery story - is now suing the officers for excessive force. 15 min video: ATF Agent tased, arrested at gunpoint...

What is our recourse when our own government criminalizes our most basic rights while it allows Black Lives Matter and Antifa to rampage through our streets with impunity? Is there no Plan B when the federal or state governments treat all conservatives like terrorists, business owners like pariahs, and those who yearn to breathe unmasked air like murderers? Well, one Missouri county is demonstrating the importance of sheriffs and county officials returning to self-government and interposing between the governmental usurpers and the most sacred rights of the people.

Two senior Boeing executives have warned the White House that requiring COVID-19 tests before traveling on U.S. domestic passenger airline flights could pose significant economic harm. “Imposing such a burden on the already financially beleaguered airline industry has the potential for severe unintended consequences that will ripple across the entire economy,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Stan Deal and Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Michael Delaney wrote in a letter. The letter, seen by Reuters, was sent Friday and had not previously been reported. Boeing and the White House declined to comment on the letter. The federal government has been mulling...

Days before former President Trump's impeachment trial begins, newly filed federal charges against anti-government activists offer fresh, compelling evidence that the accused perpetrators of the Capitol riots pre-planned their attack days and weeks in advance and in plain sight of an FBI that vowed to be vigilant to extremist threats. A dozen FBI affidavits supporting charges against the more than 200 defendants show rioters engaged in advance planning on social media sites. The planning included training, casing sites, identifying commanders on scene, and requests for donations of cash, as well as combat and communication gear. More than a half dozen...

CHICAGO Foxx Washout Joins Chicago's Kangaroo Court February 8, 2021MARTIN PREIB Yet another sign Mayor Lightfoot's divided house is crumbling. In some cities, it might turn heads when a mayor like Lori Lightfoot appoints the former chief ethics officer for Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx to a seat on a board responsible for oversight of Chicago police officers. Kimberly Foxx, after all, is quickly proving herself to be one of the most corrupt prosecutors in the history of the state. Along with Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner and San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, Foxx has been at the tip of a movement...

President Joe Biden will invite the Super Bowl-winning Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the National Basketball Association champs, the Los Angeles Lakers, to the White House at a future date. 'We look forward to inviting the Buccaneers as well as the 2020 NBA champions the Lakers to the White House when it is COVID safe, but I don't know when that will take place yet,' press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Monday in the briefing room. That means Biden will continue a White House tradition that produced a number of headlines during President Donald Trump's four years in office, with both players...

China’s ambassador to the United States has renewed the Beijing regime’s conspiracy theory that the CCP virus may have originated in the United States. Cui Tiankai, in an interview with CNN that aired on Feb. 7, was asked if World Health Organization (WHO) experts who are currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan investigating the origin of the virus, would be granted “full access to China.” “They are already in Wuhan. They have been in Wuhan for quite a few days,” Cui said. “My question is, will they be allowed to come here [to the United States] to do...

A bill introduced in the South Dakota state legislature would grant the state’s attorney general the authority to determine whether President Joe Biden’s executive orders are constitutional and potentially nullify them at the state level. The proposed legislation, which describes itself as an act to “authorize the review of certain executive orders issued by the President of the United States,” was sponsored by a group of 15 Republican lawmakers, including 2 state senators. If passed as written, the bill would allow the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council to review any executive order, which by nature requires no approval...

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Facebook announced on Feb. 8 that it will take down posts with claims about vaccines that health organizations or its fact-checkers deem false. “Today, we are expanding our efforts to remove false claims on Facebook and Instagram about COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines in general during the pandemic,” said a post from the social media giant. “Since December, we’ve removed false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts.” “Today, following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional...

SOMIS, Calif. — Thirty miles northwest of Los Angeles, the Lemon Hill grove — a square mile of rolling slopes covered with healthy young trees, laden with fragrant yellow fruit — evokes the Arcadian vistas of classic citrus crate labels. Everything looks familiar, but inside the lemons there’s a crucial difference: There are no seeds. [snip] Adam Cooper, senior vice president of marketing for the Wonderful Company, estimates that the company’s seedless lemons will command a 50% premium over seeded fruit, boosted by a “robust marketing plan” including prominent displays in stores. [snip] Rabe said that in a few years...

The Senate will kick off the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump this week, with Democrats pushing forward despite little to no GOP support for the effort. The trial is expected to last no more than a week, as is preferred by both Democrats and Republicans in the body. On Tuesday, House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), will debate Trump’s attorneys, David Schoen and Bruce Castor, on the constitutionality of the trial itself. The trial marks the first time a former president has faced an impeachment trial, though Trump was still in office when the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he reached a deal with Senate Republicans on Monday on the framework for the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. “All parties have agreed to a structure that will ensure a fair and honest Senate impeachment trial of the former president,” Schumer said on Monday.

China’s capital city will hand out about $1.5 million in a limited trial of the central bank’s digital currency, the municipal government announced over the weekend. That marks the third major test of the digital currency under development by the People’s Bank of China. The cities of Shenzhen and Suzhou held similar experiments in the last few months. In this trial, Beijing said it will select 50,000 from a pool of applicants to receive 200 yuan, or about $30 each, in the digital currency. Recipients can spend the money at designated offline locations or on parts of e-commerce site JD.com...

Pope Francis congratulated UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Guterres for “all the efforts he has made for peace." Guterres has used the COVID-19 crisis as a means to promote access to abortion worldwide.VATICAN CITY, February 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Delivering a completely irreligious address, Pope Francis has taken part in a video with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar to mark the first International Day of Human Fraternity commemorating the Abu Dhabi document, which has been described as seeming to “overturn the doctrine of the Gospel.” The Pope then jointly bestowed an award for peace and fraternity on the pro-abortion and...

Washington D.C., Feb 8, 2021 / 02:30 pm MT (CNA).- Enrollment at Catholic schools this academic year has seen its largest drop in nearly half a century, according to a new report. A data brief of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) showed that enrollment at Catholic schools was down 6.4% for the 2020-2021 school year—the biggest percentage drop in enrollment since 1973. The overall number of students at Catholic schools declined by more than 110,000 for the present academic year, and more than 200 schools closed after the previous school year; these figures were included in the NCEA’s report...

PORTLAND, Maine — Three families demanding that the state pay tuition for religious schools are taking their appeal to a U.S. Supreme Court that looks much different than when the lawsuit was filed more than two years ago. The conservative shift of the U.S. Supreme Court and a ruling in a Montana case make attorneys for the Maine families more optimistic that they’ll prevail in changing the state’s stance, which dates to 1980. The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear the appeal, filed Thursday. “The court should grant this case and resolve this issue once and for all,” said...

Why can’t we have full audit. We deserve to know our vote was fair and accurate

America's polarized society is like a married couple on the brink of divorce, Dr. Ben Carson believes. "It's like a marriage, you know, people, they love each other," Carson said in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "They can't stand to be away from each other. But what about before they get divorced? They stopped talking, and next thing you know, their spouse is the devil incarnate ... and that's what's happened to us as a society, and we got to start talking to each other. " The former Trump administration HUD secretary hasn't abandoned hope for national...

[Catholic Caucus] French Bishops Wage War on Latin MassDisplay 'contempt' for 'narrow-minded' traditionalistsFrench bishops have submitted to the Holy See a devastatingly "contemptuous" appraisal of the Latin Mass, warning the Vatican "not to extend the celebration" of the Extraordinary Form (EF).French president Emmanuel Macron addressing the CEF Responding to a 2020 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) questionnaire sent to bishops worldwide, the French Episcopal Conference (CEF) has condemned as scandalous the members of the Church who participate exclusively in the Latin Mass.Such Catholics remain frozen in an "idiosyncratic conception of the Church" that rejects Vatican II, criticizes...