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Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor has slammed the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP represents a greater threat to the country than U.S.-designated terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda. Taylor served as the chief of staff to the secretary of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump from February 2019 to September 2019 and worked for the Department of Homeland Security in the previous administration for more than two years. However, Taylor went on to publicly condemn Trump and work with conservative groups to campaign against the former president ahead of the 2020 election. During a Thursday evening interview...

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“Hollywood Ripper” Michael Gargiulo was sentenced to death in California Friday for the home-invasion murders of two women, including Ashton Kutcher’s then-gal pal. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler called 45-year-old Gargiulo’s crimes “vicious and frightening” as he handed down the sentence. “Everywhere that Mr. Gargiulo went, death and destruction followed him,” Fidler said.

“Federal prosecutors kept the investigation into Hunter Biden a secret during the 2020 presidential election. Delaware’s US Attorney David Weiss purposely held off on seeking warrants and issuing grand jury subpoenas last summer in in order to protect Joe Biden.”

Biz Markie, the rapper best known for his 1989 hit “Just a Friend” died Friday evening after a battle with diabetes complications. The 57-year-old artist died at a Baltimore hospital, and held his wife’s hand as he took his last breath, according to his manager. “It is with profound sadness that we announce, this evening, with his wife Tara by his side, Hip Hop pioneer Biz Markie peacefully passed away,” Jenni Izumi said in a statement to The Post.

(H/T Foldspace)Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’),...

CNN) Monsoon rains brought extreme flash flooding to the Southwest this week, creating scenes of vehicles bobbing down neighborhood roads like rafts on class three rapids. More flash flooding may occur this weekend. Experts say the historic Western drought is to blame.

Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ 2024 World Cruise sold out in under three hours after tickets went on sale earlier this week. Prices ranged from $73,499 per guest all the way up to $199,999 per guest for a master suite, Fox 10 reports. The World Cruise will set sail on Jan. 6, 2024, in Miami, Florida Over the span of five months, passengers will travel to Central American, the West Coast, Hawaii, South Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Bermuda.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · House progressives are standing up. If Senator Manchin and the rest of the Senate approve the 'reconciliation bill' then we will approve their bipartisan bill. But if they try to strip immigration reform, childcare, climate action, etc., then we’re at an impasse. It’s a no-go.

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like symptoms and swelling of the lymph nodes, progressing to a widespread rash on the face and body. Most infections last two to four weeks. Monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox but causes a milder infection. In this case, CDC laboratory testing showed the patient is infected with a strain of monkeypox most commonly seen in parts of West Africa, including Nigeria. Infections with this strain are fatal in about 1 in 100 people, according to a CDC statement. However, rates can be...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he will not use his department’s resources to enforce the county’s new mask mandate in a new statement released Friday.Sheriff Villanueva said the county’s decision to reimpose the indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status is “not backed by science and contradicts the CDC guidelines.”Read the Sheriff’s full statement:Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) has authority to enforce the order,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third. At the trial, Kutcher said that he was late to pick up Ellerin, who did not answer her door. He looked inside to see blood stains that he thought were spilled wine. Prosecutors used him in their closing arguments, suggesting Ellerin was killed by another man who was jealous of Kutcher. Ellerin was found with 47 stab...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is criticizing the county's decision to order masks to be worn indoors again, claiming the mandate is "not backed by science" and contradicts federal guidelines. Villanueva was responding Friday to an order announced the day before by the county Department of Public Health. Starting Saturday at 11:59 p.m., all county residents are supposed to wear masks indoors under rules similar to those in effect prior to California reopening on June 15. "Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and...

The Biden administration is telling immigration agents to prepare to process hundreds of thousands of migrant families and asylum claims as the White House moves to reverse Trump-era border and coronavirus policies, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Biden's Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has stated that authentic Cuban refugees fleeing the dungeons and torture chambers of communist totalitarian Cuba, are not welcome here.

Older individuals with many underlying medical conditions and immunosuppression are more likely to contract coronavirus and would develop a severe case of COVID-19 even after being fully vaccinated, according to a world-first study conducted in Israel.... .....some 35% of patients had no detectable antibodies – meaning they had failed to mount an immune response to the vaccine. The median time that elapsed from the second dose to hospitalization was 40 days...

The concerns come as the Bristol County Sheriff's Department says it has a new tool in the fight against COVID-19: specially trained K-9s that can sniff out traces of the coronavirus. Dogs have been used for years to look for drugs, chemicals and missing people. Using them as virus-hunters is relatively new. In fact -- no other police agency has tried it before. A 9-month-old dog named Duke enters a room at the Bristol County Sheriff's Department. Duke's handler leads him past a refrigerator where a fragment of a face mask worn by a COVID-19 patient has been hidden in...

At a situational assessment in Tel Aviv Friday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said protection afforded by COVID-19 vaccines was “weaker than we’d hoped” against the surging Delta variant. “Anyone who hoped that vaccines on their own would solve the problem — they won’t,” Bennett said at the meeting attended by ministers, health officials, national security council members, police and the military. “Delta is surging” all over the world, he said. “On the one hand the vaccines are effective against the virus, and so we are making sure we have the necessary stocks. But vaccines alone are not enough. He added:...

NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: ReportThe NFL reportedly plans to play the so-called Black national anthem before all its major events in the upcoming season.As part of a doubling down on its politicking from last season, America’s biggest professional sports league will play “Lift Every Voice And Sing” before all “tentpole events,” according to a report in Front Office Sports.The site reported, citing unnamed league sources, that those high-profile events will include the NFL Kickoff Game on Sept. 9, all playoff games including the Super Bowl, and the league’s college draft.“Lift Every Voice...

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Explanation: Venus, named for the Roman goddess of love, and Mars, the war god's namesake, come together by moonlight in this serene skyview, recorded on July 11 from Lualaba province, Democratic Republic of Congo, planet Earth. Taken in the western twilight sky shortly after sunset the exposure also records earthshine illuminating the otherwise dark surface of the young crescent Moon. Of course the Moon has moved on. Venus still shines in the west though as the evening star, third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the Sun and the Moon itself. Seen here above a brilliant Venus, Mars moved even...