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Mexico City’s top cop said only part of the shipment had been destined for the capital, with the rest heading north across the US border to Los Angeles. The cocaine apparently was sent to Mexico from Colombia and landed at a port on the Pacific coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, the chief said. In an interview with the local radio station Radio Formula, Harfuch revealed that the drug bust followed an earlier investigation that gave the cops advance knowledge that the cocaine cargo was coming in the two tractor-trailers.

I’ve said it before. Joe Biden is a prick. Joe Biden has always been a prick. He’s also a juvenile prick. Biden is always bragging about what a tough guy he is in contrast to Donald Trump. You might remember that he once threated to beat up Trump: “They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'” Tough guy, that Biden. He continued his sad theme the other day. BIDEN: "When my predecessor got...

NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - A former White House education adviser under President Barack Obama was sentenced on Thursday to one year and one day in prison after pleading guilty to charges he stole more than $200,000 from a charter school network he founded. Seth Andrew, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Cronan in Manhattan. Andrew had previously paid $218,005 in restitution to the network Democracy Prep Public Schools, which teaches mostly lower-income people of color, and forfeited another $22,537. ***** Prosecutors alleged that in 2019, Andrew looted escrow accounts for Democracy Prep's schools so he and...

China’s property sales will likely drop by about 30% this year — nearly two times worse than their prior forecast, S&P Global Ratings said, citing a growing number of Chinese homebuyers suspending their mortgage payments. Such a drop would be worse than in 2008 when sales fell by roughly 20%, Esther Liu, director at S&P Global Ratings, said in a phone interview Wednesday. The latest developments have delayed a recovery in China’s real estate sector to next year from this year, she said. ... Most homes in China are sold before completion, generating an important source of cash flow for...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK)—A man has been arrested for making terroristic threats over Twitter against certain West Virginia officials. The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security (WVDHS) said that 35-year-old Michael Edward Herman threatened members of the state legislature and law enforcement officials that advocate for or enforce abortion bans. WVDHS says Herman also used intimidating language against Governor Jim Justice, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Vice President Kamala Harris. The Capitol Police, the WV Fusion Center and the Romney Detachment of the West Virginia State Police worked together on this case. WVDHS along with Governor Justice’s office say that they...

A Baltimore family is suing Sesame Place in Bucks County for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination, alleging multiple costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl during a meet-and-greet event last month. The lawsuit comes in the wake of a video, shared widely on social media, showing two other Black girls apparently being snubbed by a costumed employee during a parade at the park in Langhorne, outside Philadelphia. Sesame Place apologized in a statement and promised more training for its employees after the video went viral earlier this month. Read More: Black family sues Sesame Place for $25M, alleging...

A notorious Planned Parenthood abortionist who was exposed by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) in the baby parts trafficking scandal has been named the CEO and chief medical officer of a Colorado abortion business. Savita Ginde was one of many abortionists caught on camera haggling for prices on the body parts of aborted preborn children and, like Planned Parenthood itself, has faced practically no repercussions for it. Ginde’s new executive role was announced by the Boulder Daily Camera. She will be working at Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center, the first abortion facility to open in Colorado. “I’m proud,” she...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory’s TLM Restrictions Illustrate Why Traditionis Custodes Must Be ReversedAs infant baptisms and Mass attendance continue their precipitous decline across the Church, St. Francis de Sales in Washington, D.C., offers a striking contrast. Every Sunday you will find large families with gaggles of young children at Mass. One would think this would be a point of great optimism for the scandal-plagued Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. Imagine all of these children growing up in the Church and starting their own large, Catholic families who attend weekly Mass. It is enough to give one hope for the future of...

Most estimates have relied heavily on information gleaned from Icelandic sagas, but since these were only written down centuries after the fact and talk about things like glittery one-footed assassins, researchers have wisely taken them with a grain of salt.But the new study, published today in the journal Nature, has pinpointed the Viking presence in North America to an exact year: 1021

Two top Senate Republicans want answers on a controversial summer 2020 FBI briefing, as whistleblower disclosures claim the bureau improperly labeled evidence on Hunter Biden “disinformation” around the same time. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray this week asking for more details about an Aug. 2020 briefing on alleged Russian influence efforts that he says were pushed on him and then leaked to the press to hurt his investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden. Whistleblowers revealed to him recently that FBI officials were undercutting or burying facts about President...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Thursday that an embargo on Russian gas in the European Union (EU) is "impossible" due to EU countries' heavy dependence on Russian energy. Nehammer's comments came after a meeting with visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna. According to Austrian news agency APA, Nehammer said at a press conference that Germany and Austria's dependence on Russian gas makes an EU embargo "impossible," as the decline of the German economy would also impact Austria and lead to mass unemployment. On Tuesday, EU member states agreed on a 15-percent voluntary reduction of natural gas demand...

[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’),...

There was an odd essay in Christianity Today extolling John Brown as a model for evangelical engagement. According to the author, Brown was a “fervent believer who models a profoundly radical social ethic without ever wavering from his firm commitment to biblical authority.” The author enthusiastically declared: “I dream that John Brown’s soul might march again.” And the author explained: In our time, white evangelicals seem to be in dire need of good examples of people who were transformed by their faith to rise above pedestrian racism — because, not in spite of, their unshakable commitment to the authority of...

In our news wrap Wednesday, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on legislation for health care costs, climate change, deficit reduction and more. Also, President Biden left isolation after testing negative for COVID, the WHO urged precautions for monkeypox, and two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced in George Floyd's death.

A group of concerned parents disrupted a performance of Drag Queen Story Hour in Britain on Tuesday, accusing the touring troupe of trying to “groom” young children. The first instalment of a nation-wide Drag Queen Story Hour tour of nearly 70 performances across the UK was disrupted by a group of angered parent protesters at a library in Reading, England. The show was hosted by Sab Samuel [pictured above), an autistic 27-year-old man, who performs in heavy drag as ‘Aida H Dee’. According to its website, Drag Queen Story Hour UK says that it provides “fun and interactive kids shows...

The Army has admitted that it won’t meet its recruiting goals for the year. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin told the House Armed Services Committee that the service will be 28,000 soldiers short of projections. The Army raised its maximum enlistment bonus to $50,000 and offers recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic training in 30 days. It routinely offers moral waivers for criminal records and no longer even asks for a high school diploma. And even in the midst of this massive recruiting crisis, it’s purging the unvaccinated. According to the Army's latest numbers,...

Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials will announce on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system. The new party, called Forward, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.

The World Economic Forum is looking to reduce global reliance on critical metals as nations look to make the transition to renewable energy supplies, and one proposal is reducing ownership of private vehicles.

Since the early 19th century, astronomers have reported observations of peculiar flashes of light that periodically emanate from near the center... 1836... Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society where he told of seeing “a light, resembling that of a star of the 9th or 10th magnitude,” “appeared by glimpses, but at times was brilliant, and visible for several seconds together.” November 1965 edition of Understanding, the author noted observations of a single bright point of light, likened in appearance to a star, that seemed to originate from the center of the crater. Aristarchus crater is host to more than...

A 12-year-old gave a speech at the West Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday in opposition to new legislation outlawing abortion in the state. She spoke as the House passed a bill to ban abortion in the state, where it's currently legal up to 20 weeks, allowing for limited exemptions for medical emergencies and complications but not for rape or incest. 'I play for varsity volleyball and I run track. My education is very important to me, and I plan on doing great things in life,' Buffalo Middle School student Addison Gardner told lawmakers during a special session. 'If a...