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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a significant break that reflected his quick decision to cooperate and help agents build cases against others. Ty Garbin admitted his role in the alleged scheme weeks after his arrest last fall. He is among six men charged in federal court but the only one to plead guilty so far. It was a key victory for prosecutors as they try to prove an astonishing plot against the rest. Garbin apologized...

In new advice, the FCDO told anyone in the area to "move away to a safe location and await further advice". US President Joe Biden has warned of a group linked to Islamic State that is seeking to target the airport. It comes amid a race to evacuate thousands from Kabul ahead of the 31 August deadline. In the update, the FCDO warned Britons there is "an ongoing and high threat of terrorist attack", and that travelling by road was "extremely dangerous", with people alleged to have been "mistreated" on their way to the airport.

PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 15, 2021) U.S. joint forces conduct coordinated multi-domain, multi-platform, long-range maritime strikes on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate Ingraham in the Hawaiian Islands Operating Area as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 21. During the sinking exercise, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) launched F/A-18E/F Super Hornets to test the Joint Standoff Weapon; F-35C Joint Strike Fighters employed laser-guided weapons; P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft tested the Harpoon weapon system, and the fast-attack submarine USS Chicago (SSN 721) fired a UGM-84 anti-ship Harpoon missile and a MK 48 Advanced Capability torpedo. The U.S. Marine Corps launched Naval...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued a new executive order on Wednesday blocking any governmental entity in the state from mandating COVID-19 vaccines, whether or not they are fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The governor said he was also adding the issue to the agenda for the ongoing second special session of the Texas Legislature because "vaccine requirements and exemptions have historically been determined by the legislature" and to "avoid a patchwork of vaccine mandates across Texas."

Anti-white liberal General and Mark Milley played football with transgender Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine in high school, Greg Kelly of Newsmax revealed. In what many have described as one of the strangest connections in American government, General Mark Milley, who “wants to understand white rage,” played football in high school with the transgender Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, Newsmax host Greg Kelly revealed on his show Greg Kelly Reports. The two both went to Belmont Hill school in Massachusetts. Milley graduated in the class of 1976, where as Levine – formerly named Richard, graduated in the class of 1975....

All US service members must get their Covid-19 vaccine as soon as possible now that the Pfizer-BioNTech jab is fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). More than 800,000 service members out of around 1.4 million still need to get their shots, according to Pentagon data. Those who haven't gotten a shot face a wide range of punishments if they don't, from sitting down with a doctor to have the 'risks' of refusing explained all the way up to a court martial. Military law experts say it is possible that a service member who refuses could be dishonorably...

Pelosi And Administration Angry- Reps Discovered The TruthTwo Congressmen, a Democrat Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Republican Peter Meijer (R-MI) took a secret trip to the Kabul Airport to get an idea of what is really happening with the evacuation of Americans and the Afghans who helped us in the war effort. Their report was not positive. Each of the congressmen is a military veteran, and a member of the House Armed Services Committee kept their trip a secret didn’t tell the Congressional leadership, the administration, or the State Dept. people on the ground. The military on the ground didn’t find...

BRUSSELS, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The European Union expects Novavax (NVAX.O) to submit data needed for the possible approval of its COVID-19 vaccine around October, an EU official told Reuters on Friday, in what could be another delay for the U.S. biotech firm. Novavax signed a deal with the EU this month to supply up to 200 million doses and said it would complete the submission of data to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the vaccine's approval in Europe as early as the end of September. read more "We expect data around October, but we are not sure about...

The light was fading on what had been a breezy 101-degree afternoon by the time the two women with clipboards approached Ashley Reyes, who sat watching her son and his cousins play in her gated driveway. Had she heard, the women wondered, about the election coming up on Sept. 14? “No,” Reyes replied, a look of puzzled curiosity crossing her face. What election? I saw this scene and many similar ones play out this month when I tagged along with Karen Diaz, 27, and Tanairy Guzman Reyes, 22, as they knocked on doors in Palmdale, a city north of Los...

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to campaign for fellow Democrat and California Governor Gavin Newsom, who faces a recall election on Sept. 14, the White House said on Wednesday.

Reporters tried to ask President Joe Biden about Afghanistan during his cybersecurity meeting.NBC News’s Peter Alexander wanted to know what Biden will do if Americans are still in Afghanistan after the August 31 deadline.Biden smirked.But then he answered, but the White House cut off the audio feed!RNC Research @RNCResearch REPORTER: “If Americans are still in Afghanistan after the deadline what will you do?”BIDEN: *smirks**White House cuts audio feed*

It appears the world is about to learn the identity of the police officer responsible for the death of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt.NBC News has announced that Lester Holt will conduct an interview with the police officer, which will air Thursday on NBC Nightly News, according to a press release sent to Mediaite.This will be the first unveiling of the officer’s identity to the public, and NBC says the interview will allow the officer to “share his perspective on the events of that day, including the aftermath of the deadly insurrection and the threats he has received. He will also...

As a wise man once said, you should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But when it comes to current events in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is spewing out plenty of both.Biden gave yet another “press conference” Tuesday, although none of them have been actual press conferences. He just reads off a teleprompter for a few minutes, and then turns around and walks right out as the press yells at him.We’re getting used to this image by now:Literally turning his back on Americans in trouble is becoming a daily ritual for Biden. If he knew...

Vaccine tyranny is not Catholic: Analyzing arguments of vaccine moralityTo decide imperiously that the conscience conflicted by the cooperation in ethically compromised vaccines is necessarily in error and opposed to authoritative teaching – in other words, to suppress the faculty of reason in others and replace it with own’s own – is the worst form of clericalism. It is spiritual abuse. (LifeSiteNews) — As vaccine mandates loom and even go into effect across our nation and world, the moral question of the liceity of COVID vaccines currently on the market becomes ever more pressing. More and more frequently, apologists for...

“‘Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on’” (Matthew 6:25). God gives you life and sustains your life. If you were living in Palestine during the time of Jesus, you might have been concerned about having the basics of life. That’s because there were times when the snows didn’t come to the mountains, and as a result the streams didn’t run. When the streams dried up, there was no water. Crops didn’t always produce either. They were subject to...

Dylann Roof, the white gunman who killed nine black people in the 2015 Charleston church massacre, is one step closer to execution after a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled he’s eligible to receive the death penalty. “His crimes qualify him for the harshest penalty that a just society can impose,” a three-judge panel for the Richmond-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, according to The State newspaper. Roof was convicted in 2017 of slaughtering nine parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston after planning the attack for months in an effort to start a race war in the...

Iran this week restarted fuel exports to Afghanistan that had been disrupted by fighting between the Taliban and forces under the now deposed Afghan government, traders in Tehran and former U.S. officials say, with the Taliban now providing critical dollars to the sanctions-crushed Iranian economy from its lucrative narcotics operations. The burgeoning trade relationship between Tehran and the Taliban threatens to undermine key U.S. pressure campaigns against both. Iran has been cut off from the global market for the greenback by U.S. sanctions, and the Taliban’s willingness to trade with their neighbor gives Iran rare access to U.S. dollars it...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations strong yesterday - Cases and Hospitalizations high, but may be peaking - Deaths hit a new high (1,138) for the Delta wave - still watching for a peak) Administered: 364,842,701 (14,195,895 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 202,500,853 Fully Vaccinated: 171,773,370

Snip Superseding the previous criminal charges compliant, the former porn star has now been indicted on 33 rape and sexual assault counts based on new judicial action by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s office. Snip

Sakhidad Afghan was 19 when he started working as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, in 2009. His father was sick and he wanted to help support their extended family of 18. In his first year, he saw combat with the Marines in the Battle of Marjah, but he remained an interpreter until the fall of 2014, when American troops drew down and his job disappeared. By then he’d received an anonymous death threat over the phone, so he’d applied for a special visa to live in the United States. He’d been in the application pipeline for three...