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The Kenosha Police Department said in an official release Thursday morning that the night prior someone was "taken into custody" after they were suspected of "trying to photograph jurors." The investigation is ongoing, the KPD said, adding that the person was "issued several traffic related citations." According to the KPD, no pictures of any jurors were actually taken by the individual. Judge Bruce Schroeder said the person identified themselves as "James J. Morrison who claimed he was a producer for NBC News, employed by MSNBC." Morrison allegedly said he was told to follow the jury bus by his boss in...

George Clooney said he doesn’t know Alec Baldwin well, doesn’t believe he or anyone else on the set of “Rust” intended “to do anything wrong” and calls the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins “a terrible accident.”However, Clooney raised new questions about Baldwin’s actions on the set of the low-budget Western, both as the actor handling the gun that killed Hutchins on Oct. 21 and as one of the film’s producers.In an interview on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, the Oscar winner called Hutchins’ death “infuriating,” given strict gun safety protocols put in place on film and TV sets following the...

During a Thursday interview with ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Vice President Kamala Harris responded to concerns about her happiness with her role in the Biden administration. Host George Stephanopoulos pointed to a report that some of Harris’ allies have reportedly expressed frustration over how she has been utilized by President Joe Biden. He asked the vice president if she shared similar frustration.

Lost in the shuffle of all the potential revenue-raising proposals being put forward by Democrats to pay for legislation that could end up costing taxpayers more than $5 trillion is a provision that would drastically expand the federal government’s power to monitor Americans’ finances. In light of Uncle Sam’s failures to responsibly safeguard — and tendency to sometimes abuse — the powers he already has over your wallet, giving him even further authority to snoop is a recipe for disaster. The provision in question would require all types of financial institutions to report gross inflows and outflows from any account...

Vaccine passport deactivated. French residents over the age of 65 will have their vaccine passports deactivated if they do not take the booster shot when they are eligible. The vaccine passport is required to access most entertainment and leisure venues. The French government recently announced that booster shots are available. All people over 65 are eligible for the booster shots if it has been six months since their second dose of the vaccine. The government said seniors above the age of 65 who do not get their booster shot when they become eligible will have their vaccine passport deactivated and...

As tens of thousands of illegal migrants are surge into the United Kingdom over the English channel, the Border Force are considering legal action to stop plans for them to push migrant boats back in the English Channel, with the outgoing chief of the force having described borders as “a pain in the bloody arse.” Over 23,000 migrants have crossed into the UK using boats over the English Channel, with a record number of 1,185 making the crossing in a single day on Thursday. These numbers are an almost three-fold increase since National File filmed the groundbreaking documentary, “Destination Dover:...

The parents of 10 children who all started university before the age of 13 insist their children are 'not geniuses' but credit homeschooling for their family's academic success. High school sweethearts Monalisa Harding, 53, and her husband Kip, 53, from San Jose, California, homeschooled all their children from the same syllabus. They knew they were on the right track after getting their first three children through high school aged 11. Their oldest, Hannah, earned her bachelors in mathematics at the age of 17 from Auburn University, Montgomery in 2004 - making her the first child prodigy. Last year youngest child...

CVS Pharmacy announced on Thursday that it would close roughly 900 stores in the next three years. The company said in a statement it was "evaluating changes in population, consumer buying patterns and future health needs to ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations for consumers and for the business." "We remain focused on the competitive advantage provided by our presence in thousands of communities across the country, which complements our rapidly expanding digital presence," CEO Karen S. Lynch said in the statement.

An increasing number of attacks by the animals, including one that bit a police officer last week, triggered an operation Wednesday night in a district less than half an hour’s drive from Hong Kong’s financial center Previous attempts to relocate and sterilize the boars “could not effectively control the wild pig nuisance,” the department said. Last week, a wild boar knocked down an auxiliary police officer and bit his leg before plunging to its death from a residential car park. “There were about 30 cases of wild boars attacking humans, we can’t simply sit on our hands while things deteriorate,”

A leftist “dark money” group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an obsessive effort to place Democrats in political power. The notorious Sixteen Thirty Fund “doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020” for the purpose of “aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate,” according to Politico. Soros’s Open Society Foundations gave the Fund a sizable $33,523,483 between 2016 and 2020. This means that Soros’ four-year contributions compose roughly around eight percent of the total amount of money the Fund dumped to defeat Trump and...

We have told you from the beginning that the true numbers on everything from actual COVID deaths from the virus, to actual numbers of deaths and adverse reactions from the COVID vaccine have been fudged and fraudulent from the get-go. Now an FDA report bears witness to the fact that, over time, none of the vaccines provide any more protection than the unvaccinated have, and significantly increase your risk of strokes and blood clots. Just yesterday, a woman wrote to me asking for prayer for her neighbor who just had his leg amputated after developing blood clots after receiving the...

Remember when actor Alec Baldwin threatened to leave America if George W. Bush was elected president, and then welshed on his promise? Well, Alec is at it again at the quickly becoming blog site for the stars to rant non sequiturs with total impunity Huffington Post. This time, Baldwin set his sights on Vice President Dick Cheney – color me surprised. Baldwin began: “So, I suppose the question is...what kind of civil trial will we see, or not see, between Cheney and Whittington? Whittington is certainly no stranger to a court room and to civil litigation. Will Cheney pay him...

The suspect arrested in Tuesday’s Seavey Circle shooting in Sacramento that left a man and 7-year-old girl dead has a lengthy criminal history and had been released from custody in October while he was awaiting trial on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, court records say.

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is more than just a trial. It’s a Rorschach test with only two possible answers. The basic facts of the case are widely accepted by everyone, that Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people on the night of August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin amid a violent uprising that had been going on for days. Beyond that there’s pretty much nothing that’s agreed upon. America is of two minds. On one side are the people who believe that Rittenhouse is innocent and acted in self defense. On the other are people who think that Rittenhouse is guilty of...

Washington -- Are you familiar with the work of professor Simon Gottschalk? I have only become familiar with his work recently, but I commend it to you. He is a professor of sociology with the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He apparently watches a lot of television in the course of his work, and he even takes notes. He has come up with a brilliant, if alarming, insight. According to the professor, television assists in spreading the "infantilization of the West." For instance, if you have seen a grown man wearing shorts as winter approaches, pay attention. Probably, he...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told The Hill that he was "looking very favorably," but hadn't made a final decision, on supporting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he's renominated as chairman, after the two spoke on Wednesday. "Well we're looking very favorably towards that, because I needed that conversation with him. But I have not made up my mind yet. But I'm just saying that it helped an awful lot having him clear up a lot of the concerns I had," Manchin told The Hill. The two spoke by phone on Wednesday with Manchin telling reporters earlier this week that...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) spent the entire four years of the Trump Administration insisting that the Steele Dossier proved Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Now that the dossier has been conclusively debunked he was asked if he had any regrets or second thoughts. "No, not really," Schiff said. "There were so many signs indicating the dossier was genuine. First, we all knew what a devious rat Trump is. We felt confident that he had the motive and opportunity to commit such a crime. Second, the dossier was paid for by the Clinton for President campaign's law...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A man was killed after being hit in the head with a skateboard in an act of self-defense during a fight in a Santa Ana Starbucks. Around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, a fight broke out between two men in the 3300 block of South Bristol Street. Authorities received calls regarding an assault with a deadly weapon inside the Starbucks. After authorities arrived, a man in his 50s was transported to Orange County Global Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries. The other person involved, a man in his 20s, remained at the scene. He was...

@robbysoave Rand Paul is begging Democrats to join him in passing marijuana banking legalization before GOP retakes control: “If the Republicans get back in charge, which I think we will, the bills are never going to happen because our leadership doesn’t like them.”

One of the most interesting stories from the early days leading up to the American Revolution involves the events surrounding the Boston Massacre. On March 5th, 1770 the Stamp Act had just been repealed but British Soldiers were ever present in Boston as a show of force against the “rowdy” colonists. The British government, in order to save face, implemented the Townshend Acts instead as a means to continue taxing the colonies (without representation, of course). Anger was growing in the streets. The presence of the Red Coats in the city added to the public fury and protests were sparked....