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[H/T Grey_Whiskers]California passed a law that allows non-U.S. citizens to serve as police officers.Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore says his department is taking the nationwide lead on a unique immigration challenge: allowing non-citizen DACA recipients who become sworn officers the ability to carry a firearm full-time. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said his department is working to allow non-citizen DACA recipients who are officers the ability to carry a firearm, full-time.California passed a law that allows non-U.S. citizens to serve as police officers."What's unique here is that the state is attempting, its agencies, are...

Here is what they had to say: “He is known for telling the truth.” “He is the bravest and most courageous American journalist today.” “I deeply admire his courage.” “His rationality, logic, and understanding of good and evil, are qualities worthy of respect.” “He provides a very good presentation of information with a good sense of humor.” “I am delighted that he came to Russia.”

King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace. It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate. The type of cancer has not been revealed, but according to a palace statement the King began "regular treatments" on Monday. Buckingham Palace says the King "remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible".

President Biden’s 2024 re-election team is worried that a Justice Department report on his retention of classified documents will unearth “embarrassing details,” according to a new report. Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped special counsel Robert Hur to investigate the matter on Jan. 12, 2023, following FBI searches of Biden’s post-vice presidency Washington, DC, office and Delaware mansion for the sensitive files. More than a year later, the Biden camp anticipates Hur’s team will release its final report on the classified documents inquiry as soon as this week, with information and photos that could complicate the president’s re-election effort, Axios reported....

President Donald Trump joined Maria Bartiromo for an interview this weekend that aired yesterday on Sunday Morning Futures. During the interview Trump suggested up to 60% tariffs on Chinese goods coming into America. Trump | China Gets Hit with Massive Tariffs – But I Want to "Get Along" Donald Trump will allegedly impose tariffs of 60%+ on Chinese products if he wins the 2024 election. The former president said Beijing is taking advantage of the US but he didn't want to ignite another… pic.twitter.com/dewVXsMtEz — RT_India (@RT_India_news) February 5, 2024 On Monday the China markets sunk to 5-year lows. That...

The Senate’s emergency appropriations bill released on Sunday won’t address the border crisis, and contrary to the accomplice media’s spin, the spending bill won’t “severely curtail asylum at the US southern border.”The bill could have had the Senate reclaim the reins of lawmaking from the executive and judicial branches and clarify that widespread criminality in another country is not a basis for asylum in America. Instead, the 370-page bill, the “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024,” includes funding for both Israel and Ukraine, plus decidedly insufficient provisions for addressing aliens and immigration.The backers of the Senate bill seek to...

Researchers at Germany’s TU Dortmund University report that they have developed an ultra-robust time crystal. Their study, published in Nature Physics, offers new insights into the potential applications and the physics governing time crystals, and offers a new method for keeping them stable. Time crystals represent a new phase of matter, first theorized in 2012 by Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. Unlike traditional crystals, which exhibit repeating patterns in space, time crystals display patterns that repeat in time. This means their atomic structures undergo periodic motion even without external energy, defying the traditional laws of thermodynamics that govern equilibrium in most...

A drone attack late Sunday evening that struck a military base in eastern Syria, where U.S. troops are stationed, left at least six allied Kurdish soldiers dead, officials said. The attack hit a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement Monday. According to the statement, the drone attack struck an area where the forces' commando units were being trained. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attack, they said. The strike was the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the...

There were at least 168 incidents of religious freedom violations against Christians in Western countries between January 2020 and December 2023, according to a new report from the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, which documented cases across 16 countries. The violations include arrests and fines for public preaching and praying, penalties for expressing biblically informed beliefs, and punitive measures against pastors not adhering to COVID-19 restrictions, which were often more severe for religious institutions than secular ones, says the study, titled “Free to Believe? The Intensifying Intolerance Toward Christians in the West.”

It's time to celebrate! Again! In June of 2023, we gathered the pro-life movement together on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to joyfully celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade…one of the biggest political victories of our lifetime. To be honest, it wasn’t all about celebrating though as we challenged the entire pro-life movement to courageously move forward to end abortion in our communities and states and demand that our federal elected officials recognize the Right to Life of every preborn child, which is clearly outlines in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. It was so well-received...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will face one of the toughest challenges of his career this week when he tries to muster Senate Republicans to vote for a Ukraine funding and border security package that former President Trump wants to kill. McConnell’s initial goal, according to Senate GOP colleagues, was to get a border security deal that would have the support of at least half of his conference, which numbers 49 members. It now appears the defense supplemental spending bill, which includes the border security provisions as well as funding for Ukraine, Israel and Indo-Pacific security, will get less...

Tucker Carlson has been in Russia for a few days, now, and the potential for an interview with the ‘official boogeyman of the west’, Russian President Vladimir Putin, is driving liberals, Rinos and Ukraine shills into a frenzy. TGP’s Jim Hoft reported on it in Tucker Carlson Spotted in Moscow, Russia Amid Speculation of Upcoming Vladimir Putin Interview. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/tucker-carlson-spotted-moscow-russia-amid-speculation-upcoming/ If the Tucker-Putin interview indeed happens, it will be a massive breach of the gate-keeping by western Globalist mass media that prevents its citizens from having access to information. images Not everyone is mad at it, of course, most level-headed people...

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What a score! Mayor Adams teamed up with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy early Monday to tout the huge economic boost expected from netting the next soccer World Cup Final for MetLife Stadium. “This is a big win for all New Yorkers,” Adams told Fox 5 New York Monday morning of the giant win. While the stadium is just across the Hudson in the Garden State, the 2026 tournament is projected to generate over $2 billion for the region. It is also expected to create at least 14,000 jobs as about a million people are expected to hit the region...

The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Colorado presidential ballot in 2024 is inconsistent with critical facts in the timeline of events that occurred on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The Court’s conclusion that Trump incited an insurrection is largely based on words that Trump spoke after the barricades at the Capitol were first breached.

Lawyers are being forced to defend their livelihoods before bar associations and ethics boards — not for obvious misconduct, but after opposing Democrats. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After the chaotic 2020 election, leftist organizations began filing ethics and even criminal complaints against lawyers who opposed Democrats in election litigation. Democrats have recently expanded these tactics to lawyers who cross Democrats on any policy area. “Their most sweeping goal is to discourage and chill lawyers from representing Republicans and conservatives, particularly in election law cases. They want to apply a much higher standard to them in order to punish them,” says attorney Jim Bopp...

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@catturd2 Mitch McConnell is an old demented POS who can barely talk. Instead of retiring in his 80s, he’s going to try to destroy our country until the bitter end.

Snap, the maker of the social media platform Snapchat, says it will lay off 10 percent of its global workforce, around 500 employees, to “promote in-person collaboration.” The social media company, which laid off 20 percent of its staff in 2022 and a small number of product employees in November, made its announcement on Monday, amid its shares falling around one percent in morning trading, according to a report by CNBC. “We are reorganizing our team to reduce hierarchy and promote in-person collaboration,” a Snap spokesperson told CNBC. “We are focused on supporting our departing team members.”