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Nearly 600,000 migrants who crossed the U.S. border since March 2021 have been released into the U.S. without being charged or given a date to appear in court, according to data obtained by NBC News, and thousands have even been dropped from the program that was supposed to track them. The practice, born of necessity as border-crossing numbers soared past previous records, was a break from the protocol of prior administrations, which required migrants to be given charging documents with a court date by Customs and Border Protection shortly after they were apprehended. The lack of charging documents has left...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken indefinitely postponed what was to be an already tense trip to China on Friday, citing a Chinese reconnaissance balloon moving east across the United States that posed a threat to national security. Instead, he told China’s director of Central Foreign Affairs Office, Wang Yi, in a phone call Friday that the balloon was an “irresponsible act and a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law that undermined the purpose of the trip,” according to a readout of the discussion.

Morning Joe's parade of woke virtue-signaling marches on! Earlier this week, we caught Joe Scarborough apologizing for his white privilege. Speaking of the death of Tyre Nichols, Scarborough said that the police wouldn't have attacked him in similar circumstances because they'd know that "that hell would rain down from above." Scarborough conveniently ignored the fact that hell did rain down on the cops involved in the Nichols beating—all were promptly fired and charged with murder! Today, Morning Joe's virtue-signaling spotlight turned to the ouster, by a vote of Republicans, of far-left Representative Ilhan Omar from her seat on the House...

For shame, Speaker McCarthy, for shame! The following quote appeared in a recent posting at The Hill by Mychael Schnell (2/2/23): Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) broke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday when asked about the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol police during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, concluding she was not murdered, as Greene has said. “I think the police officer did his job,” McCarthy told reporters when asked if he agreed with Greene that Babbitt was murdered. --------------- Sadly, or rather, bizarrely, we are to infer from the Speaker's callous...

Bout time tor the hunters to get out in the woods and have a lovely time getting mistaken for deer. Some folks are not so much inter ested In bumper crops an In just plain bumpers. The White House may be besieged with office seekers, but. they should not expect to sleep in the front hall. The speeding motorists do not usu ally makeany complaint, if they run across police officers on their tours who fail to see all that is going on. There may be an overstock of some commodities, but the American people will consume about all the...

Police in Pleasanton, Calif., said a loose cow broke the windshield of a Tesla and left a mess on the hood before being rounded up with help from local ranchers. Photo courtesy of the Pleasanton Police Department/Facebook Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Police in California wrangled a loose bovine that managed to shatter a windshield and leave an unsavory mess in a "cow-llision" with a Tesla. The Pleasanton Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded late Wednesday night about a loose cow wandering into traffic along Bernal and Stanley. Officers arrived to find the brown cow running around...

Video shows moment California doctor run over, then stabbed by man ‘muttering about white privilege’ Horrifying surveillance footage captured the moment a bicycle-riding California doctor was mowed down by a car at a busy Dana Point intersection — followed by the driver exiting his vehicle and allegedly stabbing him to death. Ring camera footage from a nearby home shows Dr. Michael John Mammone, 58, flying over the hood of a white Lexus in the Crown Valley Parkway intersection on the Pacific Coast Highway around 3 p.m. Wednesday. Officials previously confirmed the suspect, Vanroy Evan Smith, 39, then got out of...

Republican politicians sharply criticized President Biden shortly after an apparent Chinese spy balloon appeared in the sky above Montana. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., tweeted Thursday afternoon that Biden "should shoot down" the balloon, which she said would never have been allowed to enter U.S. airspace when former President Donald Trump was president. "Biden should shoot down the Chinese spy balloon immediately. President Trump would never have tolerated this," Greene wrote in a tweet Thursday. "President Trump would never have tolerated many things happening to America." Citing the incident, the Biden administration postponed Secretary of State Antony Blinken's planned trip...

McCarthy said he understood the Democrats’ desire to remove the symbols considering their own party’s history. According to McCarthy, each statue was of a Democrat. The sculptures had been approved by state legislatures that had been majority Democrats, and came from states that had civil rights histories that were spotty at best. “I watched what the Democrats did, bringing Jim Crow laws to the South and going after black Americans,” McCarthy said. He pointed out that the Republican Party started with Abraham Lincoln, the president credited with freeing the slaves in America. McCarthy pointed out that slavery, defended by Southern...

Inflation has rocked the United States in the past year, with Miami being hit hardest as the Federal Reserve desperately struggles to corral the soaring cost of living. Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta and Philadelphia finished 2022 with the highest annual inflation rate increases. Higher energy, rising food prices and housing costs have been cited as the top drivers of inflation, including in Florida, which may be a victim of its own success, as the state is home to four of the top ten most moved to cities in 2022.

From streaming platform for half-baked reality dating shows to normalizing electric vehicles. When Netflix engages in shameless product placement, you can be sure it will at least be extra woke. The left-wing steamer has entered a deal to feature General Motors’ electric vehicles in its original movies and TV series, providing the company with a new revenue stream while also burnishing its questionable credentials as a corporate climate crusader. The campaign is also intended to serve as what one GM executive called a “blueprint” for Hollywood’s big push to normalize electric vehicles in the minds of consumers and to “accelerate...

Explanation: Stars trace concentric arcs around the North Celestial Pole in this three hour long night sky composite, recorded with a digital camera fixed to a tripod on January 31, near Àger, Lleida, Spain. On that date Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was near its northernmost declination in planet Earth's sky. That put the comet about 10 degrees from Earth's North Celestial Pole making the comet's position circumpolar, always above the horizon, from all locations on planet Earth at more than 10 degrees northern latitude. In the startrail image, the extension of Earth's axis of rotation into space is at the...

The U.S. Treasury is changing its definition of an “SUV” to make more electric vehicles from Tesla, General Motors and others eligible for up to $7,500 in federal tax credits at higher prices. The decision follows Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly criticizing the former standards as well as GM and Ford lobbying to change the guidelines. It’s unclear how the decision will affect up to 20% pricing cuts announced by Tesla last month that made the Model Y eligible for the credits. DETROIT – The U.S. Treasury said Friday it is changing its definition of an “SUV” to make more...

Horror surveillance footage has revealed the moment gang members butchered a family-of-six in an execution-style shooting in a California family home on January 16. Two gang members now have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting. The arrests were announced Friday by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, with the suspects named as 25-year-old Noah David Beard and 35-year-old Angel 'Nanu' Uriarte.

On February 3, 2023, I asked ChatGPT, “What mistakes did President Biden make?”This was the response:“As a language model AI, I don’t have personal opinions or make subjective judgments. However, it is widely acknowledged that all political leaders and their actions are subject to criticism and analysis. President Biden, like any other political figure, has faced criticism for various decisions and actions during his presidency. It is up to individual opinions to determine whether these are considered mistakes or not.”Then, immediately afterward, I asked, “What mistakes did President Trump make?”This was the response:“President Donald Trump’s presidency was characterized by many...

A stronger-than-expected jobs report has put the wind at President Biden’s back ahead of his State of the Union address next week, and it could provide additional momentum as he prepares a reelection announcement in the coming weeks. Biden on Friday hailed new data from the Labor Department that showed the economy added 517,000 jobs in January, far exceeding economists’ expectations. The president wasted little time connecting the positive development with next Tuesday’s address to the nation. “Next week, I’ll be reporting on the state of the union. But today, I’m happy to report that the state of the union...

Forty years ago, when children in Naples were playing in caves and tunnels under the hill of Posillipo in Italy, they didn't know their playground was actually a Roman aqueduct. When they shared their memories with archaeological authorities recently, it kicked off an exploration of one of the longest, most mysterious examples of ancient water infrastructure in the Roman world...Outside of Rome, subterranean aqueducts and their paths are much less understood. This knowledge gap included the newly investigated Aqua Augusta(opens in new tab), also called the Serino aqueduct, which was built between 30 B.C. and 20 B.C. to connect luxury...

American officials estimate that nearly 200,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Moscow’s nearly yearlong conflict with Ukraine, The New York Times reported. The rising number of casualties is driven in part by heavy fighting in Bakhmut and Soledar in eastern Ukraine, where Russia is increasingly sending poorly trained recruits and convicts to the front lines in an effort to deplete Ukrainian artillery, according to the Times. However, officials have warned that the casualty numbers — which are based on satellite imagery, intercepted communications, social media, on-the-ground reporting and official government numbers — are difficult to estimate and...

If you were a teenager during the 2000s, you may recall how, in the last few years of the decade, Prince Harry was considered by many right-wing Westerners to be what some would describe today as “based.” After all, he was a royal prince that was caught on camera using racial slurs. He was also deployed in Afghanistan, where he was killing “Taliban” by co-piloting an Apache helicopter, an experience which he compared to a video-game (in his memoir, released a few days ago, he also described his victims as “chess pieces“). Prince Harry was always going to be a...

DEAR ABBY: I’m very depressed and upset with myself. I cheated on my husband, “Hal,” and told him after I realized I had gotten an STI from the man I cheated with. Hal was very upset, and we didn’t talk for a day and a half, but he didn’t yell or call me names. I feel so guilty and confused. He’s being really nice, not cussing at me. It’s strange. Things are different between us now, and it’s my fault. It will take time and patience, I guess. But I miss the intimacy and affection Hal and I once shared....