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Residents of Watts, a predominantly Latino and black neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles, are being discouraged from attending large gatherings for the rest of 2023 due to the recent surge of drive-by and mass shootings in the area. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday: Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023. … The impassioned calls for “unity within the community” arrived on the heels of two shootings that killed two and injured nine near the Imperial Courts and Jordan Downs public housing projects, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Emada...

(Last Updated On: August 1, 2023) National IPA Day – First Thursday in August National IPA Day on the first Thursday in August celebrates the beer known as India Pale Ale Beer. #NationalIPADay While the IPA is one of the most popular types of craft beers, it’s also making a resurgence with local microbreweries. Many are experiencing success as their brew finds its way into local restaurants and pubs. The IPA seems to have developed out of an idea from the 1700s. When shipping ale to India, adding hops to the beer increased the longevity of the brew. Brewers thought...

'If we continue to see this wall of silence ... we reserve the right to actually defund positions.' If America’s top defense officials aren’t more forthcoming about extraterrestrial activity on Earth, they may see their paychecks shrink or their jobs disappear altogether, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says. The freshman Republican lawmaker from St. Petersburg has vowed to get to the bottom of recent, credible claims that the U.S. government has secretly run a covert recovery-and-research program on alien technology and biological remains. Any government official still standing in the way of that goal, she said, would risk a sizable...

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer told lawmakers this week that Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings brought the political scion onto its board so that “people would be intimidated to mess with them … legally.” According to a transcript of a four-hour deposition released Thursday by the House Oversight Committee, Archer also revealed that then-Vice President Joe Biden met twice with his son’s shady post-Soviet business partners at DC’s Café Milano, not once as previously reported. These and other revelations blow new holes in President Biden’s claim that he never discussed business with his...

Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced Tuesday night that he has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice following its “failure to substantively respond” to his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking communications between Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith. During an interview on Fox News’s “Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night, Ramaswamy explained that he was trying to “get to the bottom” of what Biden and Garland told Smith regarding the indictment in the classified documents case. The entrepreneur told host Laura Ingraham that he doesn’t think Smith’s investigation is as independent as...

Pence has repeatedly maintained he lacked the constitutional authority to send the elections results back to the contested states for review and insisted he saw no evidence of voter fraud swaying the outcome of the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith's most recent indictment of former President Donald Trump repeatedly referenced former Vice President Mike Pence objecting to Trump's efforts to overturn the election and insisting that the vice president had no authority to halt the electoral certification process. Pence has repeatedly maintained he lacked the constitutional authority to send the elections results back to the contested states for review...

The terror group Hamas has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it expelled or killed hundreds of members of its rival, Fatah. It has ruled with an iron fist, arresting, imprisoning, and even, on occasion, murdering those Gazans who have dared to oppose its rule. Now many Gazans are at the end of their tether, fed up with Hamas’ corruption and mismanagement, and exhibiting the courage that be prompted by despair, they are planning to hold an anti-Hamas rally on July 30. More on this planned rally – if it comes off, it will be the largest of its...

An Arab “expert” on Israeli-Turkish relations recently published her analysis of Israel-Turkish relations, claiming that a powerful Jewish lobby, which has its origins in the followers of Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who only pretended to convert to Islam but remained “secret Jews,” still exists today and, it is implied, Muslims must be made aware of their power. More on this claim of a “Jewish lobby” in Turkey can be found here: “Ever hear about the secret powerful Jewish lobby in Turkey?,” Elder of Ziyon, July 24, 2023:Iraqi news site Buraitha News, which is a Shi’ite site, has an “analysis” of Israel-Turkish...

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]The Biden campaign hid the names of its 2020 big money fundraisers until right before Election Day. The list of bundlers who managed to raise at least $100,000 for Biden included Jamal Abdi: the executive director of NIAC Action. NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and celebrated by tweeting, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”.NIAC is often referred to as the Iran Lobby and was founded by Trita Parsi (pictured...

The Left wants to 'save' democracy by fundamentally transforming it. Last month, House Democrats reintroduced the “Freedom to Vote Act,” signaling the Left’s latest assault on American elections with activist support. Far from restoring their integrity, the bill – like the “For the People Act” and “John Lewis Voting Rights Act” before it – is a cynical measure designed to federalize elections and cement Democrat power for generations. It’s raw, naked tyranny – and Republicans must defeat it. Restoration News is the first conservative outlet to report on the 600-page legislation, which we’ve detailed below. This is the Left’s blueprint...

If you’ve seen Matt Walsh’s invaluable documentary What Is a Woman?, you know that it was, in large part, a circus parade of credentialed freaks – out-and-out train wrecks who, incredibly enough, are certified as psychiatrists or psychologists and are therefore actually permitted to “treat” children and young people who’ve been convinced that they’re trans. The only responsible-minded mental-health professional in the whole film (unless I’m forgetting somebody) was a child psychiatrist named Miriam Grossman. The moment her segment began, you knew she was going to be the truth-teller in the bunch: whereas you could discern the madness in her...

School districts across California are on a recruitment spree, doing what they can to enroll the state’s 4-year-olds into their year-old pre-K or “transitional kindergarten” (TK) program. Districts are trying to sell parents on TK by using school banners, bus bench ads, billboards, and texting and robocall campaigns. The $2.7 billion plan aims to have 400,000 4-year-olds enrolled by 2025, but it has been off to a sluggish start. Estimates from the Legislative Analyst’s Office put average daily attendance for the 2022-2023 school year at about 91,000, well short of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s estimates.The idea of having the government in...

Directed by Arthur Ripley. Based on Cornell Woolrich 's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear.It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott,a veteran who suffers from hallucinations.

It was always a lie, and it needs to be untold. The first impeachment of Donald Trump hinged on one and only one premise: the President of the United States had no legitimate reason to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the gas company Burisma, and did so only for personal political gain. After Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer’s bombshell testimony this week, this allegation has not just been debunked, it has been utterly obliterated. So what did we learn? First, Archer confirms Hunter was only scoring $80,000 a month from Burisma because he was selling “the illusion” of...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr warned Republicans to “be careful” of getting caught in former President Trump’s “carnage,” after the property manager of his Mar-a-Lago resort was added to the classified documents case last week. Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira was charged in Thursday’s superseding indictment, alongside Trump aide and co-defendant Walt Nauta, for allegedly helping the former president attempt to delete surveillance footage at the resort. “Loyalty is a one-way street for [Trump],” Barr told CNN Wednesday night. “And in many ways, these two people down in Mar-a-Lago represent many Republicans who feel that they have to man...

Two 7-Eleven workers in California took matters into their own hands and used a stick to wallop a man who tried to steal a trash can full of cigarettes. Shocking video of the attempted robbery shows one employee holding the thief down on the ground while his colleague relentlessly whacks him roughly 25 times. “Okay, okay!” the thief screamed at this attacker while pleading for mercy. Before he was taken down by the retail workers, the robber had casually sauntered behind the California convenience store’s register with a 20-gallon trash can in tow. He nonchalantly grabs fistfuls of tobacco products...

The US Fiscal position is very bad and the US is beginning to look like a third world economy. And with Biden and Democrat AGs filing indictments against Biden primary Presidential oppoonent, that country is Venezeula! Like skyrocketing interest on the Federal debt to pay for green energy hustlers and the Ukraine war. The US Federal Deficit continues to grow as seen in the charts below. A $2.25 Trillion dollar run rate deficit is significantly worse than the $1.3 Trillion that was recorded in Fiscal 2022. This level of deficit is unprecedented in an economy with low unemployment and theoretically...

3 August 2023 Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time The parish of Ramle, dedicated to St Joseph Arimathea and St Nicodemus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 40:16-21,34-38 ©The tabernacle is set upMoses did exactly as the Lord had directed him. The tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. Moses erected the tabernacle. He fixed the sockets for it, put up its frames, put its crossbars in position, set up its posts. He spread the tent over the tabernacle and on top of this the covering for...

Portland doctor said a homeless man knocked her unconscious while walking in the city, and then she waited more than 20 minutes without a police response. "I do not hold the police accountable for this at all — I hold our city accountable for defunding the police," Mary Costantino, a radiologist, told Fox News. "We don't have enough police force to protect our citizens, and we did this to ourselves."

TULSA, Okla. — The U.S. Supreme Court extended a stay on Hooper v. Tulsa the first stay expired at 5 p.m. Aug. 2. An order by Justice Gorsuch now extends the stay to 5 p.m. on Friday. 2 News previously reported the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling from Tulsa's district court in favor of Hooper in June. The City of Tulsa appealed the 10th Circuit Courts decision taking the case to the Supreme Court in July. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum previously stated, "Today I have authorized our attorneys to request that the United States Supreme Court hear...