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Joy Reid has been panned for saying she is skeptical of statistics showing a surge in crime because she hasn't heard 'anecdotes from friends' about violent incidents in big cities. The MSNBC host made the statement on Twitter Friday in response to a new ABC News/ Washington Post poll which found a large number of Americans disapprove of President Biden's handling of the crime wave. 'I've seen more TV stories about crime than the actual anecdotes from friends in NYC or other big cities bear out,' Reid stated. 'I mean summer is when crime always goes up and Shark Week...

Former state Rep. Charles Booker is jumping into the 2022 Senate race in Kentucky. Booker, a progressive who came within striking distance of the Democratic Senate nomination in 2020, announced his latest campaign in a video posted online Thursday. His decision was first reported by HuffPost. “As we go into this day where we celebrate our independence, let’s commit to making it mean something,” Booker says in his announcement video. “And I’m not just asking that of you. I’m going to lead by example. And it’s with that understanding that we have to lead ourselves that I’m going to run...

State police have arrested 11 “heavily armed” men from a group “that does not recognize our laws” who caused highway shutdowns and shelter-in place orders in Wakefield after they fled into the woods after an encounter with cops, authorities said. State Police Col. Christopher Mason told reporters earlier in the morning that one of his troopers saw some vehicles in the breakdown lane at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, and pulled over to see what was going on. The trooper saw that the group of “eight to 10” people, dressed to the nines in “military-style” tactical gear and armed to the teeth...

....And yet the case brought by the Manhattan district attorney is stunningly narrow. To bring criminal charges over the tax treatment of fringe benefits underscores how more serious allegations were investigated and discarded. At the top of the list: Donald Trump was not personally charged (and remember, the prosecutors have his tax returns). The company was not charged with inflating its assets to get bank loans, or minimizing its assets to dodge taxes—the kind of fraud that can devastate a business. The company was not charged for funneling hush money through Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels in an effort to...

<p>Have you ever noticed that the Congressional Democrats never treat one of their own members as the guest of honor in a prison shower stall? Eric Swalwell was banging an actual Chinese intelligence operative. He’s on the House Intelligence Committee. Adam Schiff is bug-eating batsh** crazy and routinely lies in hearings and interviews. Dianne Feinstein employed a Chinese agent as her personal driver. On our side, though, we have a feckless, juvenile clique who routinely ignore misconduct by Democrats and go after Republicans with hammer and tongs. The problem is that the same people the oh-so-polite right attacks, like Devin Nunes, for instance, are usually the only people moving the ball forward for us.</p>

An elderly woman broke down in tears as she was reunited with the man who rescued her from the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. Esther Gorfinkel and Alfredo Lopez shared a tearful hug during an interview after he saved her by carrying on his shoulders as she struggled to make it down the stairs. They could have been victims of last Thursday's collapse of Champlain Towers South, which has left at least 24 dead and 124 missing. Esther Gorfinkel, an 88-year-old grandmother, was in her bed in Unit 509 when she heard a 'boom,' as she described it. 'My bed...

The Ford Mustang Mach-E just keeps gaining steam as the year goes on.We all knew it was coming—the day Ford would sell more of an electric car than it would its iconic Mustang. That day is here, and it's all the more painful for those who are V8 diehards. The reason why, exactly, is because the EV in question is the one that inherited the Mustang's name: the Mach-E. First confirmed in Ford's June sales report Friday morning, then observed by Automotive News' Michael Martinez on Twitter, the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E outsold its pony car namesake last month, moving...

Joe Biden has been reported to have the most expensive White House payroll in U.S. history. In its annual Staff Report to Congress on Thursday, the White House detailed salaries for all of its more than 500 employees. Biden’s staff will cost taxpayers nearly $50 million a year, which is approximately $10 million per year more than the Trump administration. Press Secretary Jen Psaki and 21 other aides topped the list by taking in the maximum salary of $180,000 dollars per year. Biden acted fast in comparison to his predecessors when staffing the White House with a noticeable influx in...

A big announcement Thursday--one that city and state officials can rightly point to and say our local governments are taking a leadership role in the fight against climate change. The setting for the announcement was a northwest Reno fire station, but, in fact, it could have been at any local government location. The fire station, like city hall, other government buildings, city and county equipment and vehicles all collectively consume a lot of energy. In the face of climate change, there’s added reason these days to try to make sure we consume less and use what we have efficiently. and...

A scientist who credits himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, and has warned that they carry risks downplayed in the COVID-19 pandemic, said this week that LinkedIn "shut down" his personal account without explanation. "The historic record of what I have done, stated, figured out (and when) etc. over time is a key part of establishing my credibility and track record as a professional," Robert Malone tweeted Wednesday. "And that has been erased completely and arbitrarily without warning or explanation." He pays for the premium version of LinkedIn for the biotech and government consulting business he runs with his...

“It was a really creepy feeling,” says data protection activist Leena Simon, describing the moment when she last visited the citizens’ service center at her local town hall and they wanted to take her fingerprints. She was instructed to press the index fingers of both hands on the glass surface of a scanner. The idea was that the resulting fingerprints would be included in her new passport. However, she used a trick that she’s not willing to share to spoil the scan. Leena is a member of a German organization called Digitalcourage, which is committed to privacy and digital rights....

We were much more together as a nation back in 1991... What the hell happen? Clintons, Obamas and the Deep State happened

An Italian police officer has been placed under investigation after shooting a knife-wielding Ghanian migrant in the legs who was threatening passersby.The police officer is being investigated for “negligent excess in the legitimate use of weapons” after shooting the 44-year-old Ghanian at Rome’s Termini train station on Friday.-snip- “The officer, with a salary of €1,500 (£1,280/$1,790) per month, will have to appoint his own defence, an expert and lawyer: they will cost thousands of euros that we at Coisp have offered to support, especially since the migrant, for his defence, will have free legal aid and, of course, at taxpayers’...

Nine in ‘heavily armed’ fringe group arrested after standoff in Massachusetts Nine people in a “heavily armed” group which “does not recognize our laws” were arrested early Saturday after a standoff with state police in Massachusetts which shut down I-95, according to reports. “We have several armed persons accounted for at this scene on Rt 95. They are refusing to comply with orders to provide their information and put down their weapons,” the Massachusetts State Police said on Twitter.

Dr. Jill is the de facto leader of America now.As it turns out, it’s not that unusual in the annals of history. There are quite a few examples of the wives of political leaders being the real power, while the husband retains the trappings of the office. Unfortunately many of these situations have ended disastrously. These worst case scenarios seem to feature a similar outline: a younger, attractive, second or third wife, with no political background of her own becomes enamored with the power of the supreme leader’s office and uses her husband’s position to attempt to reorder society. Frequently...

...But that opened the door to other reporters questioning why she was doing “anonymous briefings” about policy announcements anyway? What would necessitate those being anonymous? Some pointed out this was really an abuse of the point of being anonymous, which is supposed to only be to protect a source from danger. But what they are saying here, under it all, is that she’s abusing the process to not go on record while feeding them things that she ultimately doesn’t want to have to be held responsible for, and that’s wrong.... Of course, neither the Democrats or most of the media...

Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday backed a decision to rename a Ukrainian town to New York in a bid to distance itself from its Soviet past. The town of Novgorodske in the eastern Donetsk region campaigned for years to get its old name back. […] German settlers and members of the Mennonite Church, who came to Russia under Catherine the Great, founded the town in 1892. The settlement was named after the Big Apple because the wife of one of the founders was of American origin. In 1951, Soviet authorities changed its name for ideological reasons. …

LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. — Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley announced through a Facebook video Thursday that Sergeant Mike Davis, the officer involved in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain, was fired due to policy violations.Staley said that the deputy's bodycam was not turned on during last week's traffic stop that resulted in the shooting death of Brittain. Because the deputy failed to activate his bodycam, he has been terminated," Staley said in his statement. Davis was with the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office since 2013. According to the sheriff, there's no recorded video of the incident itself, but rather recordings...

Gov. Cuomo’s youngest daughter isn’t just out and proud, she’s getting specific about her sexual orientation — sort of. Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, 23, who came out in an Instagram post last month as “queer,” declared herself “demisexual” this week during an appearance on Instagram. “Demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond,” according to WebMD. “When I was in elementary school, I feared that I was lesbian. When I was in middle school, I came out to my family and close friends as bisexual. When I was in high school, I discovered pansexuality and thought,...

The city that never sleeps is home to three centers of evil, two of which are still active. Alex takes you on a historical tour of Jeffrey Epstein's black mail sex dungeon townhouse, the headquarters of the CFR and the UN building. Video...