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Desiree Andrade, whose son Julien was murdered in California in 2018, told "Fox & Friends" on Monday that she thinks Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is "in the wrong office" and "should be a public defender." "He’d be a great public defender," Andrade told host Ainsley Earhardt. "The district attorney’s office is about protecting us victims. I feel like… nobody has our back and it’s sad." "It’s very sad where you have criminals over victims," she continued. "I don’t understand the world we’re living in right now."

Ashley earned her gun! California criminal defense firm Tully & Weiss has a tradition to celebrate an associate’s first jury trial victory. The firm awarded associate attorney Ashely Bargenquast the gun of her choice for winning a major case. The tradition rewards a great job, as well as encourages their attorneys to practice and celebrate the Constitutional rights they defend. Associate Attorney Ashley Bargenquast won her first jury trial in Shasta County. The case was related to cannabis cultivation, manufacture, firearms, conspiracy, and resisting arrest after a raid at their property which included a very public and substantial medical grow....

The political left has proven itself to be amazingly incompetent when it comes to governing. Examples abound of nations, states, and cities—even those with tremendous wealth, resources, and other advantages—reduced to nightmare zones of poverty, violence, and corruption. Think of Venezuela, Cuba, California, Detroit, and Baltimore. Yet, there is one area in which the left excels to a remarkable degree: the attainment of power and advancement of its political aims. Every year, every month, and every day, somewhere in the nation the left is implementing or proposing some action that will further its agenda. Consider the breakneck speed at which...

But maybe so. David Goldman foresees China vastly outstripping America because it is a merciless meritocracy whereas America increasingly is at war with that very idea (the NFL and other sports leagues excepted). America will no longer offer, as an alternative to China, “a democratic meritocracy that rewards achievement while honoring the rights of the individual.” And since “meritocracy will win, because it always does, and all the more so in a high-tech, winner-take-all world,” the Chinese version of it — “a merciless meritocracy that treats the losers like so much detritus” — will prevail in the absence of a...

JD Vance may be running for the United States Senate in Ohio. The venture capitalist and author of the autobiographical bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, now has a very well-funded Super PAC backing his potential candidacy. According to Cinncinnati.com, “Thiel, a German-American billionaire and early investor in Facebook, gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to support Vance’s possible bid, said Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the super PAC.

Race Neutrality is the New RacismHow Wokeism Turned Against Liberalism and Dr. SuessThis week’s controversy over Dr. Seuss may seem like merely the latest in a series of bizarre cancel culture maneuvers from the radical left. Indeed, it comes after a cancelation extravaganza that has included attempts by Princeton faculty to cancel the literature of Greece and Rome, attempts by Amazon to cancel the book When Harry Became Sally, and even an attempt by our President to cancel women. But in the case of the sudden withdrawal from print of six books from Dr. Suess’s corpus, something deeper is at...

We knew this was coming. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has been extremely clear about what she thinks of Black Lives Matter. “Those protests were dreadful,” she said last month. She’s also been clear about what she thinks of Extinction Rebellion. At a police conference last year she branded its activists “eco-crusaders turned criminals”. Now we see what she plans to do about it. On Tuesday, the Home Office published the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill. It covers a wide range of areas, from sentencing to digital information. But it has a specific section on the policing of protests....

MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - The large influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas now involves Midland. On Sunday, Governor Greg Abbott announced that the federal government planned to move some children from the border to a holding facility in Midland. The migrants arrived in buses overnight. The holding facility is located in the area of FM 1788 and County Road 150 in Midland County. Midland Mayor Patrick Payton confirmed the news to CBS7 on Sunday, saying that city and county officials were scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the issue. Midland County Sheriff David Criner says that...

Defense lawyers for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have requested a delay and a change of venue after news broke that the city paid George Floyd’s family a record breaking $27 million settlement. The legal team put in the request on Monday out of concern that there is no way Chauvin will face a fair trial in the city .The trial was in the middle of jury selection when news of the settlement hit the media. Seven jurors had already been chosen. “I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday related to the civil settlement,” Eric...

A state lawmaker in Georgia has resigned from his role as county attorney after being pressured to quit over his support for an election integrity bill. State Rep. Barry Fleming, a Republican, sponsored House Bill 531, which passed the House along party lines last week. The bill, which awaits Senate action, curbs the use of drop boxes, changes early voting hours, limits no-excuse absentee voting, and requires ID for absentee voting. “House Bill 531 is designed to begin to bring back the confidence of our voters back into our election system. A main component of that effort is by enacting...

In February Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a stand-down order for the next 60 days to allow each branch of the military time to discuss white supremacy and the threat of extremism throughout the US Military. According to NBC, Director Austin’s announcement was a direct result of the protests on January 6th on the US Capitol where some current and former members of the military stormed the Capitol. Of course, the protests and storming of the US Capitol had nothing to do with race. But we are talking about NBC and the fake news media so there you go. This...

While Washington acknowledges its allies and partners are willing to back a “free and open” Indo-Pacific policy, the keys to American success in confronting Chinese bullying is having smaller nations see a “consistent and reliable” presence from the U.S., according to a former senior diplomat.Speaking at a Heritage Foundation online webinar, David Stilwell, who from 2019 to early 2021 served as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said “we should design our policy for speed, not perfection.”The retired Air Force brigadier general said, the “policy has to be steady” to deter “gray-zone” harassment and military...

SOCIAL MEDIA has been awash with calls for action to keep women safe following the disappearance of Sarah Everard. But will the UK implement a 6pm curfew for men?Women have been expressing their fears and need for change following the disappearance of 33-year-old Sarah Everard as she walked home in south London last week. A Metropolitan Police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder, and human remains - which have yet to be identified - have been found in woodland in Ashford, Kent. Following the news of Sarah’s disappearance, women across the UK have taken to social media to...

Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG), representative of Georgia’s 14th District, recently submitted the Protect America First Act, a potentially groundbreaking immigration bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The White House on Monday confirmed President Joe Biden would continue working with Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) despite a series of sexual harassment accusations and covering up the number of deaths in nursing homes. “We don’t want the people of New York or any state to be impacted negatively,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “We will continue to work with a range of governors, including Gov. Cuomo, who I would expect will join the call tomorrow.”

In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe.China’s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain...

Unnamed alleged officials in the administration of President Joe Biden confessed to Reuters this weekend that attempts to communicate with the communist regime of North Korea since Biden took office have been met with silence. Reuters, citing the officials, claimed the Biden administration used several traditional “behind-the-scenes” avenues to reach out to dictator Kim Jong-un in an attempt to rekindle diplomatic talks, but Pyongyang did not respond to any of them. Since Biden’s inauguration, North Korean state media — often the only metric for gauging regime sentiment in the highly secretive country — has largely ceased referring to the United...

If it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, it would result in new background check requirements for all gun transfers conducted by private parties. As it currently stands, unlicensed or “private sellers” are not required to conduct a background check for transfers on firearms, and this includes sales made at gun shows – which has resulted in opponents of such transactions calling this the “gun show loophole,” and additionally have argued this is how many criminals obtain their firearms. All licensed dealers, including those who sell at gun shows, are in fact required to conduct...

Twelve states have asked a Federal Court to keep federal agencies from using the so-called Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to calculate the benefits of emission reduction regulations. The new cost estimates, ordered by President Biden on day one, claim enormous distant future damages from today’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Preventing these supposed damages could justify massive new regulations, but the States say this is illegal because Congress never authorized it. The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) has been around for some time. Obama introduced it as a policy measure, which Trump then canceled. Now Biden...

Britain is only "at the beginning" of the coronavirus pandemic and measures such as social distancing and masks are "likely" to continue long term one of the country's most senior advisors to the government has said.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Azra Ghani, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London whose modelling work with Professor Neil...