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The Sacramento area is gearing up for an unusual amount of rainfall for this time of year. Downtown Sacramento through the Sacramento Valley could see up to two inches of rain between Saturday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Thunderstorms will likely be paired with rain showers, creating longer commute times and slick roads. “If you compare it to rain in February or January or the height of winter,” said meteorologist Cory Mueller with the National Weather Service “it would be pretty standard.” “But for September, it’s quite unusual to see that amount of rain.” The culprit: the...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – Deputies have arrested a second person in connection with a viral video showing two women driving around and recklessly shooting in a west Bexar County neighborhood, with some of the bullets even going through a child’s bedroom, according to the sheriff’s office. Fugitive Apprehension Unit deputies arrested 20-year-old Julia Castillo Gonzalez around 2 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of West Hollywood. BCSO officials said deputies were dispatched to Westcreek View Street at night on Aug. 24 after several witnesses reported hearing gunshots ring out. As investigators uncovered more evidence, they came across a viral video...

A Canadian Tesla owner claims that after the battery on his $140,000 car died, the automaker told him a replacement would cost $26,000 and locked him out of the vehicle until he pays for a new one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called Friday on members of a central Asian regional grouping, which includes Russia and Iran, to work together to prevent “external forces” from promoting what he called "color revolutions" — popular, pro-democracy uprisings in their countries. Xi made the comments in Uzbekistan on the second day of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security group led by China and Russia. In his speech, Xi said members should support efforts each country has made to safeguard its own security and development interests and work to prevent outsiders from instigating a color revolution. Xi...

Arkansas GOP Gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders revealed she had cancer and that it had been successfully removed in a statement today. Sanders’s statement reads: “During a check-up earlier this month, my doctor ordered a biopsy on an area of concern in my neck and the test revealed that I had thyroid cancer. Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free. I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love,...

Now residents demand immigrants be removed to somewhere else Amid the new war that has broken out just this week over Joe Biden's decision when he took office to trash all of President Trump's border security measures like Remain-in-Mexico and the border wall construction, an interesting detail has emerged. Martha's Vineyard, that expensive locale where houses cost upward of a million dollars and residents are wealthy enough to fund them, reacted with demands that 50 illegal aliens delivered to that location by a program set up by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to have other parts of the U.S. share the...

Trump to Zelensky, “investigate Crowdstrike”….

The 50 new arrivals on Martha’s Vineyard are being deported to the Joint Base Cape Cod located on mainland Massachusetts. Busses arrived in Edgartown, Mass., Friday morning to ship out the 50 illegal migrants who arrived at the New England destination at Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday night courtesy of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. According to the Vineyard Gazette, the mostly Venezuelan migrants will be bussed to a ferry that will take them to a military base on Cape Cod. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker announced the activation of up to 125 members of the state National Guard to coordinate relief efforts...

The good-hearted liberals of Martha’s Vineyard have experienced a tiny fraction of what’s been going on at the border for years and they’ve already had enough. Migrants who landed on the island about 48 hours ago, are reportedly being moved to Joint Base Cape Cod, a military base on the mainland. CBS News in Boston reports: Migrants on Martha’s Vineyard offered shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod About 50 migrants who arrived unexpectedly on Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday are now being offered shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod. Gov. Charlie Baker said moving to the temporary shelter on Cape Cod will...

California paid 45% less for the same COVID-19 tests that New York state bought from a company tied to $300,000 in campaign donations to Gov. Kathy Hochul — and watchdogs are calling for answers. “The more we know the worse it looks,” John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, said while renewing his call for an investigation into the $637 million in state business paid to the New Jersey-based Digital Gadgets. “This is a big deal. There is a lot of money and it looks really, really bad and there is a dark cloud of pay-to-play hanging over this –...

A slew of historical reenactments in New York have been canceled — because participants are concerned their muskets could run afoul of a new state gun law. The law, which took effect Sept. 1, prohibits carrying weapons in “sensitive locations” such as public parks, museums, and sports fields, leaving history buffs concerned their black-powder muskets could get them arrested, the Observer-Dispatch reported. “All it would take is a citizen complaint and the whole thing will become a mess,” said Terry Parker, who decided to cancel a Civil War reenactment event he planned for late September in Allegany County in the...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to help solve the Big Apple’s shelter crisis by relocating newly arrived migrants to upstate cities — which could use the population boost to qualify for pork-barrel federal funds as she seeks reelection, The Post has learned. Gillibrand (D-NY) has floated the idea to City Hall and discussed it with Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday during a closed-door meeting in Washington, a source familiar with the matter said. The senator has also contacted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office to seek her support, a second source told The Post. City Councilmember Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) confirmed Gillibrand recently pitched...

At a private dinner Wednesday at New York's swanky Le Pavillon, New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on tech executives to keep their companies in the city, even as industry leaders raise concerns to city officials of soaring rents and an increase in violent crime. Over entrees of steak, halibut or pasta and copious amounts of wine, Adams made an "impassioned plea for tech executives to stay and invest in New York," said one attendee. He told the more than two dozen tech leaders: "New York City needs and wants technology companies," another attendee said, adding that city officials...

The ultra-wealthy elites of Martha's Vineyard launched a GoFundMe fundraiser over the island's "humanitarian crisis" of (*finger-counts*) 50 migrants sent ashore by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). That's right. The trust fund babies and Old Money socialites on Martha's Vineyard, a well-known magnet for millionaires, CEOs, and celebrities, were soliciting online donations from middle-class Americans on the crowdfunding platform. As of Friday afternoon, the affluent community's "urgent plea" has raised over $42,000. The proceeds are benefiting the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation (MVCF) whose mission includes putting "charitable contributions to work for the people of Martha's Vineyard by making grants that address...

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states on Friday signed and released here the Samarkand Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO. The 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO also released a number of statements and documents on safeguarding global food security, international energy security, addressing climate change, and maintaining a secure, stable and diversified supply chain. The world today is undergoing global changes and has entered a new period of rapid development and major transformation, with the trend towards a multi-polar...

A stroll through the Civic Center or the Tenderloin or, well, any number of neighborhoods in San Francisco may tell a different story, but Mayor Gavin NewsomWednesday said his administration has moved 12,000 homeless people off the streets since he took office in 2004. He referred to his predecessor, Willie Brown, and his famous claim that homelessness in San Francisco could never be solved. "It can be solved for the people in the city," Newsom said. The 12,000 number includes those helped by programs including Care Not Cash to slash welfare checks in exchange for housing and Homeward Bound to...

President Biden's latest climate appointee studied at a Chinese Communist Party-controlled university that conducts research for the People's Liberation Army. Biden this week tapped Dr. Yue (Nina) Chen to serve as chief climate risk officer for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where she will develop "climate risk management frameworks for the federal banking system." Chen earned her chemical engineering degree from Tsinghua University, which one think tank deems a "very high risk" because of its involvement in a "high level of defense research and alleged involvement in cyberattacks" on behalf of the Chinese military. Tsinghua conducts research...

LAREDO, Texas–A glimpse into the reality of the thousands of illegal immigrants being released into the U.S. by the Obama Administration was captured on video in a Greyhound Bus station in Laredo, Texas this weekend. The illegal immigrants who cross as incomplete family units simply enter the U.S. illegally, turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, are processed, and then are released with a notice to appear at a future date for court proceedings. U.S. taxpayers then fund bus tickets for the illegal immigrants to go to the U.S. city of their choosing. Approximately 95 percent of the illegal...

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The Republican National Committee released a report this Friday showing that Republican-led states have led the way in creating new jobs and lowering unemployment since the COVID-19 outbreak. Using new Department of Labor data, the committee found that in August, 9 out of the 10 states leading the way in job recovery have a Republican governor. Republicans control the legislatures in all top 10 states. “Republican-led states on average have recovered more than 107 percent of their lost jobs compared to 94 percent for Democrat-run states,” the report states. Utah, which ranks first, has a Republican governor, Spencer Cox, and...