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A young mother who was shot by a school resource officer in Long Beach, California and was declared brain dead is expected to be removed from life support on Thursday against her family’s wishes. 18-year-old Mona Rodriguez was shot in the head by a Long Beach Unified School District safety resource officer on Monday while inside a car that was attempting to flee the scene of an earlier altercation near Millikan High School. According to the school district, the school resource officer was responding to an alleged fight between the woman and a 15-year-old girl. When Rodriguez, a man and...

(CNN)The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it made 810 arrests and seized more than 1.8 million fake pills during a two-month sweep to stem the flow of counterfeit medications containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The lethal tablets are fueling a surge in US drug-overdose deaths in recent years, and largely are trafficked from Mexico, where drug cartels produce the tablets from precursor chemicals imported from China,... ...DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said the agency is working to shut wide distribution networks selling tablets that look like name-brand prescription medications such as Xanax and Percocet. "DEA laboratory testing reveals that today, four...

Kristi Dobbs, a 40-year-old dental hygienist from Missouri, said she can no longer work after being injured by Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. She has spent the past nine months pleading with U.S. health agencies to research the neurological injuries she and others are experiencing in hopes of finding a treatment.Since getting the vaccine, Dobbs has seen 16 different medical providers. She’s been on 22 different medications to address more than 20 different symptoms — none of which she had prior to getting the vaccine.Dobbs said she and others who developed neurological injuries after getting a COVID vaccine shared their experiences with...

<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A partial recount of ballots cast during the last presidential election has validated the accuracy of the results, Idaho officials say, despite manipulation claims by Trump ally and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.</p><p>The Idaho secretary of state’s office said Wednesday that a hand inspection of ballots in Camas and Butte counties found margins of error of less than 1%. That’s far below what Lindell had claimed in saying votes for former President Donald Trump went to President Joe Biden.</p>

America should fear China's growing military might, a senior Chinese air force official boasted, ominously inviting his U.S. counterparts to a meeting "in the sky."The grim warning from People’s Liberation Army Deputy Air Force Commander Wang Wei was in apparent response to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s pledge last month to develop weapons that “scare China.” Wang said China, which is becoming increasingly belligerent in the Indo-Pacific region, is rolling out fearsome weapons of its own.“I can only say, if they are not scared, let us meet in the sky,” Wang said at a recent air show.Wang's boast extended...

Special counsel John Durham has handed down another round of subpoenas — including one targeting a law firm tied to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign — in his investigation into the origins of the FBI probe into claims former President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian officials, according to a new report. CNN reported Thursday that some of the subpoenas, which were issued earlier this month, demand documents from powerful Democratic law firm Perkins Coie — which had close ties to Clinton’s presidential bid. On Sept. 16, a federal grand jury indicted Perkins Coie cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann on a...

If you love news, you'll love our homepage!Click here to view the full articleThe level they go to stage and fake something is astonishing. For Christ sakes they live in the White House; why stage this? The entire presidency is a fake, everything they do is faked. What else was faked on this set? Was the vax faked too? We as Americans clearly cannot trust anything they do or say.The Biden Presidency is such a joke.Why would someone set up a fake White House backdrop when they live and work in the actual White House?Nothing they do makes sense.https://t.co/g5oCLMWDjp— Amy...

Health experts have been left baffled by a big rise in a common and potentially fatal type of heart attack in the west of Scotland. During the summer there was a 25 per cent rise in the number of people rushed to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank with partially blocked arteries cutting blood supply to the heart. Typically the centre, which is the largest of its kind in the UK and treats people from five health board areas, receives 240 patients a month suffering with this form of heart attack, but this rose to more than 300 over...

A state known as The Last Frontier, partly due to its robust wildlife, is facing an unexpected menace. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently released a warning to Anchorage residents to stay alert around local lakes and rivers after incidents of group otter attacks. According to the department, on Sept. 1, a group of four river otters bit a child near Lake Otis. A few weeks later, officials received reports about a group of river otters chasing after a pet dog and biting the canine's owner near University Lake. On the same day at the same lake, an...

Whitehouse lit up red tonight.One of the raw news feed channels I get on my satellite system usually shows a live view of the Whitehouse, when they aren't doing an actual news feed.Most nights after about 10PM ET the whole place is dark, or maybe just the 'porch light' on, ever since Biden was inaugurated.

That “Pew! Pew! Pew!” sound you heard was gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson giving a final disgusted “salute” to the ingrates running what once was the cradle of American freedom, Massachusetts.The iconic gunmaker has been headquartered in Springfield for more than 170 years, but the company announced it would pull up stakes on its headquarters and move to a new home just outside Knoxville, Tenn., because of anti-gun legislation and proposed bans that would, obviously, put it out business.The constant attacks on gun manufacturers and ever-present legislation by anti-freedom Leftists—gunning for the company—left it little choice but to move.The Boston...

As school boards across the country have faced increasing backlash from parents over the past year, they have asked President Joe Biden to step in, suggesting that those parents who oppose their curriculum and Covid-safety mandates are like domestic terrorists who are guilty of hate speech. Education Week reports that the National School Boards Association sent a letter to Biden suggesting that the Patriot Act be enforced against these unruly parents who keep showing up to meetings across the country demanding answers and accountability from the very school boards that control their children's education. "America's public schools and its education...

BEIJING—China is in the grip of a power crunch as coal supply shortages combined with strong power demand from manufacturers, industry, and households push coal prices to record highs and trigger widespread curbs on usage.China’s heavily controlled power pricing system prevents its generators from passing on their soaring coal costs to consumers, leaving them with no choice but to suffer losses or reduce output.How Long Has There Been a Power Supply Problem in China?China has often struggled to balance supply and demand, with central planners often underestimating demand growth, leaving many provinces at risk of power cuts during the summer...

Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals< Our Nation is in deep peril. We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.During the 2020 election an “Open Letter from Senior Military Leaders” was signed by 317 retired Generals and Admirals and, it said the 2020 election could be the most important election since our country was founded. “With the Democrat Party welcoming Socialists and Marxists, our historic way of life is at...

New police body camera footage of the August 12 traffic stop of Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito shows a sobbing Petito telling an officer her boyfriend hit her “but I hit him first.” At least two witnesses called 911 that day, reporting that they’d seen what might be a domestic violence situation between Laundrie and Petito in Moab, Utah. When police later located their van and pulled them over, Petito told officers she was anxious and Laundrie was frustrated with her. “Did he hit you though?” the officer asks in the new footage. “We want to know the truth, if...

Since August, the price of container freight from China to the United States has soared ten times, setting a record high. Due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, containers shipped from China cannot return immediately after unloading at their destinations, causing congestion due to empty cargo rotation and limited shipping capacity.Global shipping prices continue to rise as containers become difficult to find. Since January, the cost of container shipping has grown four times. As of Sept. 17, the China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI) has increased by 90.34 percent from the beginning of 2021.According to data from previous years,...

America should fear China's growing military might, a senior Chinese air force official boasted, ominously inviting his U.S. counterparts to a meeting "in the sky." The grim warning from People’s Liberation Army Deputy Air Force Commander Wang Wei was in apparent response to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s pledge last month to develop weapons that “scare China.” Wang said China, which is becoming increasingly belligerent in the Indo-Pacific region, is rolling out fearsome weapons of its own... ...“Often, you’re going to get quicker with bilateral, trilateral relationships than you are necessarily trying to maneuver very large alliances into place,”...

Xi Jinping has seized control of China’s US$359 billion (AU$496 billion) entertainment industry, seeking to align all cultural influences in China with Communist Party dogma through an “eight-point plan” that directs broadcasters on acceptable role models in entertainment.The plan released by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) tolerates no opposition to government doctrine or even alternative sources of societal influence. It also proscribes any celebrity with “incorrect politics,” doesn’t reflect “correct beauty standards,” “flaunts wealth,” “acts in a vulgar manner,” or “speaks or behaves against public order and morals.”“Xi Jinping is forcing China to look...

I reported on September 16 that the Durham investigation into the Russia probe finally came in with a second indictment and this one touched someone of substance – Michael Sussman, a partner in Perkins Coie, the law firm for both the DNC and Hillary Clinton. Sussman later resigned from the firm after the indictment came down.The charge was that he made a false statement to the FBI, telling the FBI that he wasn’t representing the Clinton 2016 campaign when he was spreading the false stories about the Trump Organization and a Russian bank when actually he was working the Clinton...

Gladys Berejiklian has resigned as premier of New South Wales after it was revealed she is under investigation from ICAC.She will also step down as the member for Willoughby, which will trigger a by-election.“I have made it clear on numerous occasions that if any of my ministers were the subject of allegations being investigated by an integrity agency or law enforcement, then he or she should stand aside during the course of the investigation until their name was cleared,” Ms Berejiklian said.“The reason for my stance was not to have made any presumptions, as to their conduct, but rather to...