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Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector have been busy clearing out the sole overflow facility in recent days ahead of a visit by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who will tour the area on Monday. Sources within Border Patrol told Townhall they have been seeing a lot of "movement" with regards to apprehended immigrants being moved to other Border Patrol locations, released into the United States, or being deported to Mexico, but some of the agents were not told why the overflow facility was being cleared so quickly.

Far from emerging from the COVID shock awash with fuel, as might be expected after an economic slowdown, the world is entering a new energy crisis the like of which hasn't been seen since the 1970s. European and Asian gas prices are at an all-time high, the oil price is at a three-year high, and the price of coal is soaring on the back of energy shortages across China, India and Germany. The surge in demand is being driven mostly by recovering economies and anticipated extreme weather across Europe and north-east Asia. China is stockpiling domestic coal and gas reserves,...

A large number of unaccompanied immigrant children is arriving in Marin, and local agencies say they are confronting challenges to meet their needs. “Marin’s numbers are very big, especially given that we are the only nonprofit in Marin offering legal services for these unaccompanied children,” said Joana Castro Simonini, managing attorney for San Rafael-based Canal Alliance, which provides legal assistance to the children. “We’re not going to have the capacity to help all of these kids with the current staff we have.” Between Oct. 1, 2020, and the end of August, 223 unaccompanied immigrant children were released to sponsors in...

Obama to campaign for McAuliffe in Virginia © Getty Images Former President Barack Obama will campaign with Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe later this month ahead of the state's off-year election. Obama will join McAuliffe on Oct. 23rd in Richmond.

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec ·1h Man 'shot dead 26-year-old cop on his first day on the job in REVENGE because the officer had just arrested his friend' dailymail.co.uk Police arrest alleged 'armed and dangerous' killer of Georgia officer

A new book says Sens. Cotton and McConnell plotted to undermine Trump's election fraud claims.Journalist David Drucker described how both privately maneuvered to ensure Trump didn't steal the election.Cotton brought forward a plan to announce that he opposed Trump's efforts to overturn the election, Drucker said.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell secretly plotted with Sen. Tom Cotton, to prevent other senators from working with former President Donald Trump to reverse Joe Biden's election victory, a new book has claimed. A book by journalist David Drucker, an excerpt of which was published by Vanity Fair, describes how Sen. Cotton and McConnell worked...

What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I'm going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up. In August, Oregon Governor Kate Brown privately signed a bill ending a requirement that high school students prove they are proficient in writing, reading, and math before graduating. The law lasts for three years. The pandemic was blamed for students falling behind, but the real motive was revealed by the governor's spokesman, Charles Boyle, who said existing standards failed students who don't test well and that new standards would aid the state's "Black,...

First Lady Jill Biden will stump for former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Friday as he pushes for a second term in a tightening race, the White House announced Monday. Biden will join McAuliffe in Henrico, near Richmond, to “mobilize Democrats during early voting,” according to a campaign release.

Far-left demonstrators flew to Boston Monday to confront Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) over her opposition to the massive social spending bill being pushed by President Biden and Democratic congressional leaders — announcing their intention to do so as she ran the Boston Marathon. Just one problem: Sinema didn’t run the race. “While Kyrsten qualified for and attended the race, she could not run because of her continued recovery from a broken foot,” the senator’s spokesman John LaBombard told The Post in an email Monday night.

Former President Trump reveals his Republican hit list as he rails against a number of his one-time close allies who he's since fallen out with in a forthcoming book. 'I don't think a lot of the groups have done a good job,' he added, according to 'In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP,' by political correspondent David Drucker. 'She's a psycho,' Trump said of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., calling her 'Not the brightest person in the world.' Trump said that retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., was 'driven out of office because of his stupid,...

Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students. What people did not know is that, weeks prior, Smith says, a boy wearing a skirt, entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter. Scott’s attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day...

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Brits suffering from miserable colds could actually be enduring breakthrough cases of Covid-19 without realising, potentially allowing the virus to continue to spread. Over the past few weeks hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by the fierce return of the common cold. Anecdotal evidence suggests the 'worst cold ever' has spread widely, possibly fuelled by a dip in immunity after a year and a half of social distancing and mask wearing limited its potential to infect. Rather than the usual inconveniencing runny nose and cough, the disease has been laying people out. "The worse cold I have...

Conservatives have partisan and policy issues with resident Biden’s ever changing $3.5 trillion budget plan he calls "Build Back Better." For Republicans to return to power in the 2022 congressional elections, a Democratic Party failure on their signature agenda item would be a plus. The Biden Plan has some serious policy problems because it will expand government at a time when the nation is approaching $30 trillion in collective national debt with no balance in sight. Opposing it out of hand is a no-brainer, but conservatives should recognize that reflexively opposing every element of this plan comes with some political...

The Los Angeles school district — confronted with widespread campus disruption and the firing of potentially thousands of unvaccinated teachers and other staff — has extended the looming deadline for all workers to be fully immunized for COVID-19. The prior deadline of Oct. 15 — this Friday — has been moved to Nov. 15, when employees must have received the second of two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, according to a brief district statement. The district did not clearly state a timetable for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Interim Supt. Megan Reilly said the move represents...

Workplace chat software like Slack is probably the single most effective tool for making companies go woke. Organizing workers was a difficult challenge in companies that did not have unions. But while companies closely monitored union organizing, they actively encouraged the use of workplace chat software that made it all too easy for leftists to network, identify opponents, get them fired, and use those incidents to radicalize the company.The second most effective tool is the identity politics affinity group.Affinity groups or ERGs have become a popular tool by HR departments to organize internal woke caucuses. Corporate affinity groups are a...

It’s like Every. Single. Day. is Groundhog Day around here. Same news every morning.60,0000 migrants headed to crash our borders and take over the country (nobody seems to know why, or how to to stop it).Maybe it’s because the person who’s ostensibly “in charge” of the border is busy making videos with kids instead of meeting with the heads of state whose countries these “migrants” are migrating through unchecked. Yesterday we discovered that Kamala’s video, “Get Curious with Vice President Harris” consisted exclusively of child actors carefully selected for their diverse ethnicity – and ability to look like a STEM...

Man’s Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing A flight was forced to make an emergency landing in NYC this weekend after a woman mistook a fellow passenger’s vintage camera for a bomb. The suspected terrorist was pinned to the tarmac before authorities figured out he was a camera enthusiast. The New York Times and NY Daily News report that American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis made an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport at about 3pm Saturday and that a passenger had been taken in to custody on suspicion of carrying a bomb onto the airplane. The incident reportedly...

ESTACADA, Ore. — In December of 2019 there were more than 8,000 substitute teachers in Oregon. Now that number is just under 5,000. In response, the state Teacher Standards and Practices Commission filed a temporary order to establish emergency substitute teacher licenses. Under this order, the only requirements are for candidates to be 18 years of age and older and undergo a background check. That's getting a mixed response from parents. Districts will be expected to pay for these emergency licenses, certify specific administrators to support these candidates, and supervise the performance of these substitutes. The communications director with the...

This is a follow up on a post I made a few days ago about this story. Alexandra and Joshua Price just wanted flu shots for themselves and their 4- and 5-year-old kids — but they say Walgreens pharmacy gave them adult doses of COVID-19 vaccine instead. (after the shot) Alarmed, the Prices said they took their 4-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter to a pediatric cardiologist. The doctor told them the girl was experiencing high blood pressure and the boy tachycardia, a rapid heartbeat.