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Prosecutors say a City Colleges of Chicago basketball coach forged employment records so people on electronic monitoring (EM) for pending criminal cases could move around the city for jobs they didn’t really have. According to public records, the college system fired Edmond Pryor, 42, in 2019 following an unrelated internal investigation. However, that investigation uncovered “suspicious documents” on Pryor’s work computer, prompting a separate investigation by the Cook County sheriff’s police, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Jack Costello. Costello said the documents included phone and fax numbers that investigators linked to Pryor and to “several individuals” who were on the...

Just days before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to visit Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping had a request of President Biden: Find a way to keep Pelosi from visiting. Xi’s request in a July 28 call with Biden, described by a senior White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation, followed myriad warnings Chinese officials made to U.S. counterparts of what China might do in retaliation for Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island that Beijing considers part of its territory. But Biden told Xi he could not oblige, explaining that Congress was...

A whopping 4.9 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border since Biden has taken office, a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found. The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that ​​“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.” He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration...

We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in profound and unpredictable ways. Globally, last year’s total population growth was the smallest in a half-century, and by 2050, some 61 countries are expected to see population declines while the world’s population is due to peak sometime later this century. This kind of long-term global demographic stagnation has not been seen since the Middle Ages. World population has been growing for centuries, but the last century has dwarfed previous rises. About 75 percent of the world’s population growth has...

Google has “terminated” the Cook County court system’s YouTube account, which Chief Judge Timothy Evans’s office has used for over two years to provide live stream access to court proceedings. “The [office of the chief judge] is not aware of any particular instance that would have precipitated the action, but understands that court proceedings are sometimes graphic in nature and not suitable for all audiences,” Evans’ spokesperson said in a statement. The court filed an appeal with YouTube and had been told to expect a response within two business days, according to Evans’ office. ...

Notice the scenario in this IRS recruiting program is “taking down a landscape business owner who failed to properly report how he paid for his vehicles,” not “taking down a billionaire who uses the corporate jet for private trips.” (Posted as a VANITY because it's not a 'sourced story' yet. Posted here so reporters that visit the site will do a news story on it.) Federal agents get more money if they carry firearms - so they all want to be armed. However, why not let the IRS investigate and our existing trained law enforcement officers do the arresting? Could...

Inflation rates in Germany could hit double digits in the autumn months, according to estimates by the head of Germany's central bank, Joachim Nagel. As government measures to curb inflation like substantial cuts in the taxes imposed on petrol and diesel and a standard ticket price of €9 ($9.50) for most rail travel are running out, Germany's inflation rate is set to rise by a good percentage point, Nagel told the Rheinische Post newspaper's Saturday edition. However, the government is planning to lower value-added tax (VAT) on gas from 19% to 7% in order to aid consumers, to mitigate the...

On November 2, 2018, Oakland tactical filed a lawsuit against Howell Township, Michigan, for using zoning to prevent the ability to construct commercial ranges in the Township, particularly a thousand-yard range on property which was a former quarry. Oakland Tactical has an option to purchase the property to construct such a range. On July 11, 2019, an amended complaint was filed by Oakland Tactical. From the complaint by Oakland Tactical:3.Howell Township has prohibited the siting, construction, and operation of shooting ranges in the town through its zoning regulations by failing to provide or allow any designated areas within the town...

EAGLE PASS, Texas — For one Texas ranch manager, dealing with the daily trespasses of migrants through the property is becoming almost unbearable. Ben Binnion has managed ranches near the border area for a decade. He explained to Breitbart Texas how 2022 is far worse than normal. The ranch Binnion manages is 15 miles from the Rio Grande, but the distance is no barrier to the hundreds of migrants moving through on a weekly basis. Migrants traverse the property in hopes of avoiding a nearby Border Patrol highway checkpoint. He described to Breitbart Texas the impacts to the land and...

WILLIAMSBURGH, Va., Sunday, Aug. 17, 1862. The Army of the Potomac has to-day returned to view a second time the battle-fields of Williamsburgh. Over four months have passed away since this army, powerful in its numbers and confident in its leader, drove the rebels out of their intrenchments at this place with unexampled slaughter, and pursued them toward Richmond. During this time, it may be safely asserted, they have dug more miles of intrenchments, constructed more roads and bridges, and leveled more acres of forest than any other army has ever done since the world began. They have also beaten...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Center for Security Policy Explore About Press Contact Us Donate HOMESECURE FREEDOM MINUTEDID THE FBI ‘BUG’ MAR-A-LAGO? SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE Did the FBI ‘bug’ Mar-a-Lago? August 15, 2022 Frank Gaffney, Jr. Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Print Friendly, PDF & Email Question: Did the dozens of FBI agents who rummaged through former President Trump’s Florida home do something more there than remove large quantities of sensitive documents? White House official-turned talk show host Sebastian Gorka told Steve Bannon’s “War Room Pandemic” show last week that a recently retired twenty-three year veteran of the Bureau asserted: “Given the amount of equipment...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE DANIEL'S VISION OF FOUR BEASTS D A N I E L CHAPTER 7 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying on his bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream. Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea. Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea. 1 MATTHÄUS...

A proposal by a New York politician was to fine Landlords $1000 if they check a tenant’s credit history during the application process. The politician believes that credit checks aren’t fair to tenants, however it never occurs to her that it isn’t fair to landlords to not have the opportunity to put the best possible tenants in their property.

A golfer is poised to become the first transgender woman to earn a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour card after beating much of her competition in the first two qualifying rounds. Hailey Davidson, 29, had a strong finish in the first two rounds of the first stage of the LPGA and Epson Tour Qualifying School in Palm Springs this week.

El Salvador has arrested some 50,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele launched a 'war' in March on criminal groups terrorizing the country, the head of the country's police force announced Tuesday. The country plans to house 40,000 of the arrested alleged gang members in a new 'mega prison' that is currently being constructed. El Salvador declared a 30-day state of emergency in March following a spate of gang killings, giving officials special powers to clamp down on criminal groups who engage in extortion and drug trafficking, and wage turf wars against each other. On Tuesday, El Salvador's Congress...

A new study examines how Americans acquired food at various points during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how those activities changed over time as case numbers fluctuated and vaccines became available. "In addition to food acquisition and the restaurant and grocery industry, this also tells us how people behave in a time of crisis. It helps us prepare for the next crisis," said Melissa Ocepek, a professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose work looks at the intersection of information and culture with a strong emphasis on food. Ocepek worked with Brenna Ellison, a former Illinois professor...

The real estate investment platform backed by Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has continued ramping up its acquisitions of single-family rental homes in several U.S. markets. Arrived Homes acquires single-family homes to use as rental properties, then sells shares of these properties to investors through its online platform. The demand for rental property shares has grown exponentially so far in 2022, with more homes funded in July than the entire first quarter. The company has investment properties in 19 of the top 100 cities for population growth in the U.S. and estimates that it will expand to 40...

A kamikaze drone strike hit Russia's Navy headquarters in Crimea and sparked a huge explosion today, in another suspected Ukrainian raid. Smoke was seen billowing through the air this morning following the attack, which came despite frantic attempts from Putin's forces to shoot down the UAV, as seen in a video where repetitive gunfire is heard. The naval HQ suffered a direct hit, said reports while terrified Russian tourists fled the popular summer peninsula. Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev confirmed the attack, writing on Telegram: 'Unfortunately, [the drone] was not shot down, although they worked on the bay with small...

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871). Experimental findings reported in 1999 by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger bolstered Darwin's insight. They tested people on their knowledge of grammar and logic and found that many of the people who did badly on the tests rated their performance as being well above average. On the other hand, those who did well tended to underestimate how well they had done. The now eponymous Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people "wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a...