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Adam Schiff said he was “not backing down”, after a Republican from Florida filed a motion to expel the California representative from Congress. Referring to the failure the same day of a motion to expel George Santos, the New York fabulist indicted on multiple criminal counts, Schiff said: “When Democrats do something for the right reason, [Republicans] use the precedent to do something for the wrong reason.” Ana Paulina Luna moved against Schiff after the release of the Durham report, which Republicans claim shows the investigation of Russian election interference and links between Donald Trump and Moscow was a conspiracy...

Mayor Eric Adams has signed an executive order that temporarily suspends rules around the city’s review process for locating and building new homeless shelters — a sign of the growing urgency around the arrivals of hundreds of new asylum-seekers each day. The executive order comes as the city’s shelter system is at or near capacity, according to aid workers and city officials. Adams announced Tuesday that the city is looking at 20 school gyms as possible shelter sites. The order was signed Monday but published on the city’s website Tuesday morning. The city previously suspended its lengthy land use review...

Police in North Texas say a domestic dispute turned violent when a teacher decided to turn on his son and stepdaughter while they were in their rooms. The Mansfield Police Department arrested Thomas Boykin, 52, on Tuesday night, May 16, in connection with assaulting his wife and shooting his 13-year-old son while he was asleep and then his 21-year-old stepdaughter while she was in bed, according to NBCDFW. Police say the incident began as a domestic dispute until Boykin turned physically violent before getting his gun to shoot his kids at their Mansfield home. Mansfield is a suburban area between...

A sofa was spotted flying from the balcony of a 35-story high-rise building in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday (5/17). A resident captured the moment and said the couch fell into a garden after crashing into nearby buildings. No one was hurt. The mayor of Ankara issued a warning about strong winds and flash floods on his social media page.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained the financial records of Americans' from Bank of America "without any legal process" following the January 6, 2021 riot, according to an interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report containing allegations from FBI whistleblowers is the subject of a select committee hearing on Thursday. "Just like FBI whistleblowers [Garret] O’Boyle and [Stephen] Friend, retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill provided the Committee with detailed allegations of FBI civil liberties abuses," read the report, which was released ahead of Thursday's hearing....

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that President Joe Biden should use the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling if Republicans are not reasonable. Markey said, “I would ask when you put up that poll that you also put up the identical poll on tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and trillions of dollars that have been given to them over the last five years.”

A Ring doorbell camera caught two FBI agents speaking with a pro-life activist’s mother in recently released video. The Daily Signal first reported Wednesday on the footage showing the agents, identified as Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown, visiting the childhood home of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) member Elise Ketch on April 18 at approximately 2:45 P.M. Though Ketch no longer resides in the Woodbridge, Virginia, house, her mother, Tracy Ketch, spoke with the agents who were looking for her daughter. "We just need to speak with her regarding some information that was sent to us," Roberts said. She continued, "She’s...

"Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving." "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." Revelation, Chapter 6 1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2 And I saw,...

Portland, OR was one of the leading voices in the “Defund the Police” movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Politicians gave into the demands of like-minded rioters and activists and began cutting the budget of the city’s Bureau of Police. On its face, this should have been seen as a bad decision since the very people making the demands were rioting and damaging private and public property. So, at a time when a greater police presence was needed, city government cut back on police. The politicians gave into the demands of criminals and expected them to… what? Go...

The FBI had at least four criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were ultimately shut down months before the presidential election in 2016, a new Justice Department report reveals – and Republicans want to reopen those probes. A long-awaited report by Special Counsel John Durham released on Monday shows the FBI began investigating claims in late 2014 from a 'well-placed' confidential source that two foreign governments were trying to make illegal donations to buy influence with Hillary during her presidential campaign. Investigators were even offered documents of one alleged $2,700 illegal contribution that led to a 'substantial' further...

An IT worker sued her boss for sexual harassment after believing his use of "xx", "yy", and "????" in an email asking for more information was a coded way of asking for sexual relations. Karina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file with his initials 'ajg' it was an abbreviation of "A Jumbo Genital". The employment tribunal at London Central Court said Ms Gasparova's perception of events was "skewed". Her claims were rejected. Ms Gasparova was a project manager at the London office of essDOCS, a company that provides "paperless trade solutions". She took the firm...

Explanation: Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view about the size of the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen gas. Embedded in the region's interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the complex, glowing arcs are sections of bubbles or shells of material swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, brightest star near the center of the frame. Distance estimates put WR 134 about 6,000 light-years away, making the frame over...

A ballot initiative proposal in Colorado seeks to scale back the state's oil and gas industries by phasing out new permits by 2030. A coalition of climate and environmental groups called Safe and Healthy Colorado submitted the draft ballot initiative to the Colorado Legislative Council in late April, and the state's Title Board set a title for it May 3. "Colorado can continue to be a leader in a clean energy economy, and we can clean up our air and water, but we can't do that while continuing to commit ourselves to the polluting industries of the last century," Safe...

When it comes to welcoming pets into your family, every animal needs to be cared for and loved. However, when you're a busy person, it's just not possible to spend every waking moment looking after a rambunctious dog or cuddly cat. That doesn't mean you don't deserve to bring an animal into your home—you just have to find the right one. Some pets need less grooming and attention, while many are simply cheaper to own. So whether you're looking for something that makes sense for your kids, for your busy lifestyle, or for the limitations of your apartment, experts say...

We guess Ford didn’t have the budget to hire Dylan Mulvaney to step out of the driver’s seat of its rainbow-flag Raptor. See, you have two trucks so covered in mud you can’t tell the difference … until the mud washes off and one is revealed to be a Pride-themed truck. In case you didn’t get it, Ford lights up the word “tough” in rainbow lights. Ford doesn’t have any Clydesdales handy to whip out a new ad as Anheuser-Busch did.

WW III Video conference, this is a must see conference and especially Steve Coughlin!

The Supreme Court is set to issue its final decisions on a number of cases over the next month, including Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and affirmative action policies within colleges and universities, notably UNC and Harvard. The decision on affirmative action will be based on two parallel cases the court heard together, one regarding public university UNC and the other for private universities, namely Harvard, on whether a student’s race and be considered in admission decisions, according to the Wall Street Journal. Both cases, one against the University of North Carolina, and one against the President and Fellows of...

Pet owners have been urged to look out for a virus that is spiking in some parts of the US and is lethal in dogs. Parvovirus, often referred to as parvo — a highly-contagious disease that kills up to 90 percent of pooches — is above average levels in at least three parts of the country, New York state, DC and Missouri. The most common symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea and loss of appetite. The virus is not tracked, so the total number of dogs to have died is not known. Veterinarian Dr Hannah Lau told WNBC: 'Any breed of dog...

Says Cornyn: "I don’t think President Trump understands that when you run in a general election, you have to appeal to voters beyond your base." WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday that Republicans need to find an alternative to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election, saying the party needs "a candidate who can actually win." ~snip~ Cornyn, a former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senate majority whip, did not endorse any other declared candidate or potential contender, though he praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and U.S....

WASHINGTON — President Biden failed to list free vacations at the homes of businesspeople on his annual financial disclosure form this week — drawing a rebuke from ethicists and Republicans amid an ongoing political firestorm over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ similar non-reporting of free trips from a businessman. Biden enjoyed three beach getaways at the homes of the wealthy and politically connected owners during the past-year reporting period. In two instances, Biden is known not to have paid the owner and in the third case it’s suspected the president did not pay. Ethics experts Walter Shaub, who led the...