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Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, the veteran prosecutor overseeing a criminal investigation into the former US president, Donald Trump, announced on Friday that he intends to retire instead of seeking re-election, opting against a primary fight with progressive candidates who say he is a relic and not a reformer. Vance made the announcement in a memo to staffers, ending months of speculation about his future and signaling it is likely to be a brand-new DA who sees the Trump case through, although Vance could still make a decision about charges before his term expires at the end of the...

A vigil for Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old murdered after she disappeared while walking home in south London 10 days ago, descended into chaos last night with police arresting women and dispersing the crowd. The home secretary, Priti Patel, demanded a full report from the Metropolitan Police, while the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, called on Cressida Dick, the Met chief, to resign. Officers had removed women as they stood on the bandstand on Clapham Common, south London, surrounded by flowers. One held a sign saying, “We aren’t safe in our homes, how can we reclaim the streets?” Hundreds of...

“They were the martyrs of their daily bread,” the al-Laham family said in a statement on their official Facebook page on Sunday. The three had died, the family said, after “a local mortar struck their boat.” [...] Observers had suspected that a mortar or rocket launched by Hamas had unintentionally struck the fishermen’s boat, killing them instantly. Hamas regularly fires experimental rockets toward the sea, both to test their military capacities and as a show of force.

Someone on the FreeRepublic Facebook forum just posted that the payor line of the stimulus check bears Donald Trump's signature The Biden administration excuse... "I just wanted to get the checks out..." {HOW could a check issued THIS LONG after Jan. 20, 2021 bearing Mr. Trump's signature be valid? - Maybe he signed the bill into law as well, while they're still teaching slo-jo how to write in cursive????} IF it actually true, can anyone provide photographic proof of this MAJOR potential cock-up??? (AFAIK, this is NOT a goofy parody)

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s premature gray always made him look the part of a grandfather — now he has the grandchild to go with it. Pence and wife Karen announced the birth of Avery Grace Pence, their first granddaughter, Saturday with a tweet showcasing photos ...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit the early presidential proving ground of Iowa later this month on the heels of his February speech to a major gathering of conservatives in Florida. The former Kansas congressman will speak to a March 26 breakfast gathering of the Westside Conservative Club, which meets in the Des Moines suburbs. Future presidential candidates often begin cultivating the support of Iowa voters years in advance of the state’s first-in-the-nation caucus. Former President Donald Trump maintains a high degree of influence within the party and hasn’t ruled out running again. That has created potentially awkward...

Trans-gender activist and serial human rights complainer Jessica Yaniv is being accused of harassing Langley firefighters – calling them dozens of times to help lift her out of the bath. The fire department sent Yaniv – who sometimes goes by the name Simpson – a letter telling her she will face charges if she continues to ask for help getting out of the bath. “Since January 21, the Fire Department has received and responded to over 30 such calls for assistance, none of which constituted a medical emergency,” the letter to Yaniv states. “Further, we understand that during the Fire...

In the White House Rose Garden, where for four years Donald Trump raucously celebrated political wins with his allies, it was now the turn of Democrats to take a victory lap – masked and physically distanced, of course. Kamala Harris, the vice-president, heaped praise on Joe Biden for signing a $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill, the biggest expansion of the American welfare state in decades. “Your empathy has become a trademark of your presidency and can be found on each and every page of the American Rescue Plan,” Harris said. Democrats this week passed the plan into law; now they have...

Washington (CNN)When the Biden administration announced a ban on dozens of Saudis from traveling to the US in response to intelligence that the kingdom's powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had approved the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it was rolling out a plan that had been spiked by the Trump administration and brought back to life once President Joe Biden took office. Dubbed the "Khashoggi Ban" by the State Department, the measure issued visa restrictions on 76 Saudis and their families. The plan had initially been drafted by the Trump administration, which shelved it over fears of alienating the...

Joe Biden and the first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, flew to their home in Delaware Friday aboard Marine One after receiving criticism from the White House press corps about previous trips there on Air Force One. Reporters told Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki that the trips on the presidential jet during the coronavirus pandemic set a bad example, Mediaite reported. The change to Marine One, the president's helicopter, comes after two different briefing room exchanges ...

Last year, the Iranian people continued to witness the most violations of their rights by the Iranian regime. In his report to the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Mr. Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, expressed concern and called on the Human Rights Council to pay special attention to human rights violations in Iran. Mr. Rehman based his report on news, and information available to him because the regime has not yet accepted his requests for a trip to Iran. Mr. Rehman cited the high number of executions in Iran last year....

Experimental Covid drug cures 30 out of 30 moderate to severe cases in Phase I clinical trial at Israeli hospital. Second new drug also shows promise.Even with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid patients are in desperate need across the world. Two such drugs developed in Israel show great promise in clinical trials: EXO-CD24 and Allocetra. EXO-CD24, an experimental inhaled medication developed at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, cured all 30 moderate-to-severe cases in a Phase I clinical trial. Developed over the past six months at the hospital, EXOCD24 stops the “cytokine storm” – where the...

Good objective discussion in this online interview with former defense attorney Edward Woodson regarding the case against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing a 2nd Degree Murder charge. Worth a listen...unless you're in the camp which still believes that Floyd died due to Chauvin's 'choke hold'...and you won't be happy.

Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal explores the history and modern versions of eugenics, the attempt to manipulate our genetic inheritance, to change human evolution and to breed a "better" human. The series will reveal the roots of eugenics in the liberal, progressive world of Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London which held great sway in Britain and America and shaped the way our societies were structured and organised to this day.

Total BS

“The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly” (Proverbs 14:24).

<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas District Court judge refused to grant the State of Texas an emergency, temporary injunction on Friday, meaning the mask mandate from Austin and Travis County will stay in place for at least two more weeks.</p>

Reports from the border indicate a crisis is looming. Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security asked for volunteers from senior staff to support border agents, warning they expect high numbers of border crossings to continue for months. ICE has asked officers to deploy as soon as this weekend. A record number of unaccompanied minors have also arrived. Internal memos show 3,500 children were waiting in border control stations in addition to the 8,500 already housed in HHS shelters awaiting placement. Yes, this means the Biden administration has children in the “cages” the Obama administration built. While these flows at the...

This week Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, signed an agreement with the Chinese National Space Administration, to create an International Scientific Lunar Station "with open access to all interested nations and international partners." It was the most dramatic sign yet that Moscow sees its space future with China and not the United States, further underscoring its growing strategic alignment with Beijing. ...This week's agreement also marked an apparent rebuke of NASA's invitation for Russia to join the Artemis project, named for Apollo's twin sister, that aims to put the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. With...

WASHINGTON — A quarter-century ago, a Democratic president celebrated “the end of welfare as we know it,” challenging the poor to exercise “independence” and espousing balanced budgets and smaller government. The Democratic Party capped a march in the opposite direction this week.... ...The new Democratic stance is “a long cry from the days of ‘big government is over,’” said Margaret Weir, a political scientist at Brown University.... ...Republicans’ increasing efforts to define themselves as a party of the working class, has scrambled the politics of economic policy across the ideological spectrum....