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McLean [VA] Police District – Detectives from our Criminal Investigation Division have arrested two out-of-state retail theft crew members known for targeting high-end boutique retailers across multiple states. On July 19 at 5:36 p.m., detectives were alerted to a vehicle near the Tysons area that was known to be driven by an organized retail theft crew. A short time later, detectives located two suspects who arrived in the vehicle. Javier Velasco Puebla, 24, and Kevin Brian Espinoza, 19, both of California, were taken into custody. Javier Velasco Puebla was charged with three counts of Grand Larceny, three counts of Conspiring...

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Donald Trump’s lawyers officially ask Juan Merchan to vacate Sept 18 sentencing date based on pending presidential immunity questions in the case.

Former President Trump is narrowly leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the critical swing state of Michigan, according to an AARP survey released Thursday. Trump leads Harris with 45 percent support to her 43 percent among likely voters in the battleground state, while 8 percent said they would support a third-party candidate. However, in a head-to-head match-up, the findings show Trump and Harris tied at 48 percent. The poll was commissioned by the AARP and was jointly conducted by the Republican polling firm Fabrizio Ward and the Democratic polling firm Impact Research.

Consumer prices have soared 20.2 percent since Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden took office 42 months ago, according to the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). Americans continue to feel the strain of runaway inflation. That is the worst inflation record for any president since Jimmy Carter. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have spent the last three and a half years promoting the same ideas and touting the same economic programs. That’s now seen as a burden for Harris as she tries to distance herself from Biden’s unpopular programs and economy.

I never thought I’d be writing this much defending Barack Obama: some things are true about the man despite his abysmal stances on public policy. Obama was a great orator; his communications skills were an asset in winning two national elections. You can still believe this while thinking his domestic agenda, especially on health care, wrecked the country. I say this because now we have some clowns saying that Kamala Harris’ skills in this same area are like that of the former president. I’m no kidding. Molly Jong-Fast decided to test this talking point on MSNBC over the weekend, the...

A father of two was fatally shot by a neighbor after his young daughter reportedly “touched mulch” in the neighbor’s front yard during a family walk, sparking a disastrous argument. Just before noon on Saturday, Fox 2 Detroit reported that Nathan Morris, 35, was on a walk with his wife and daughters, ages 2 and 5, when he got into a fight with his neighbor, Deveraux Christopher Johnson, 47. Johnson was extremely upset that Morris’s daughter “touched the mulch” on his property, prompting him to lose his temper. “The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,” a...

Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump in Betting Odds

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an uplifting, inspiring address to the American people, Vice-President Kamala Harris offered a valuable bit of advice to American citizens struggling to put food on the table: just try sleeping with your boss. While Kamala refused to elaborate on her pearl of wisdom for the everyday American, she did go on record by saying that it "worked for me every time." "So if we examine the passage of time in making ends meet, we can see that the easiest solution is to just try sleeping around with your boss," Kamala explained, cackling at every pause for...

Hostage negotiations in Doha won’t end on Thursday and will likely continue into Friday, US National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters in a virtual meeting. “Given the complexity of the agreement, I do not anticipate coming out of these talks today with a deal,” Kirby said. “In fact, I'd expect the talks to continue into tomorrow. This is vital work. The remaining obstacles can be overcome, and we must bring this process to a close,” he said.

The Secret Service has made another concerning security mishap while protecting former President Donald Trump. During the former president's campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday afternoon, a female Secret Service agent allegedly left her position without telling the site agent - the individual in charge of security. The agent departed her post just minutes before Trump's motorcade arrived at the venue to breastfeed her child in a side room meant for agency work, RealClearPolitics first reported. When the site agent conducted a last-minute walkthrough of the route Trump would take, they noticed the agent's absence and later discovered...

Two people were arrested and around 276,000 fentanyl pills seized during an I-5 traffic stop in Jackson County on Monday, Oregon State Police said. Daniel Pena Gragoso, 42, and Josue Itzel Gomez, 28, both of Mexico, were taken into custody and booked into Jackson County Jail, police said. Gragoso and Gomez were no longer listed in Jackson County jail records on Wednesday. Gomez — listed under the last name Gomez Parra in court records — was approved Tuesday to travel back to his residence of Sonora, Mexico, with his “co-defendant,” according to Jackson County Circuit Court records. Gomez’s next court...

THIS is the moment Vladimir Putin's $40 million nuclear-capable Tu-22 bomber jet crashed in Siberia today in a humiliating blow to the despot. The valuable Russian aircraft came down in a fiery blaze after takeoff, marking another embarrassment for Vlad as Ukraine continues its successful invasion of Russia. Witnesses said the Tu-22M3 nuclear bomber - planes used by Putin as a key part of his nuclear arsenal - broke apart in the sky before crashing amid fierce explosions. Dramatic footage showed the moment an enormous fireball filled the sky as the aircraft came down. The crew of four ejected safely...

Oh woe is us! Hackers have found vulnerabilities in voting machines and, gee whiz, there is just no way to fix them before the November election. At least that is what the Politico cybersecurity reporter Maggie Miller would like you to believe.However, there is a certain word very conveniently missing from her story on Monday and that missing word is "paper," as in "paper ballots," which you will find nowhere in "The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them."

https://www.tiktok.com/@realdonaldtrump?lang=en I'm not using TikTok. But it's interesting to know.

The RFK/JFK dems were allies of Main Street, cops, firefighters, and working people. VP Harris’s is the Party of Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street. My dad and uncle’s party was the champion of voting rights and fair elections. VP Harris’s is the party of lawfare, disenfranchisement, and the coronation of its candidates by corporate donors and party elites. I’ve used our nation’s courts to prosecute corporations who hurt Black Americans. VP Harris used our nation’s courts to mercilessly prosecute Black Americans and exploit them for their labor.

Daily Readings from the USCCB“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his Name.” Luke 1:46–49Today we celebrate one of seventeen different memorials, feasts and solemnities in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary that are found on the Roman Liturgical Calendar. Today’s celebration is one of the four great Solemnities by which our Blessed Mother is honored. Obviously, no other person other than...

Former President Donald Trump laid out his economic policies and vision for the country at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, promising to keep intact the Affordable Care Act, Social Security and Medicare. In front of a crowd of thousands that began forming a day earlier, Trump maintained a positive attitude about the November election, which is in 83 days. “We are going to defeat Kamala Harris, we are going to win back the White House in a historic landslide, and we are going to take back our country,” Trump said. He added that his political movement is the...

Donald Trump’s campaign is expanding its ranks as he seeks to regain his footing in the presidential campaign, bringing on a handful of top allies — including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski, who has remained an informal Trump adviser since his first campaign, is being brought on to advise the campaign’s senior leadership team, according to a person familiar with the move and granted anonymity to speak freely. He joins several other former Trump aides who will play similar roles. Tim Murtaugh, who was the communications director on Trump’s 2020 campaign, will also be joining. So, too,...

Multiple people have been arrested, including a doctor, in connection with “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s overdose death last fall, according to reports. The bombshell arrests were made early Thursday, ABC News reported. Charges are expected to be announced at a news conference later in the day with the US attorney for Los Angeles and a representative from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the outlet added. https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/entertainment/multiple-arrests-made-in-matthew-perrys-ketamine-death-amid-investigation/#:~:text=News%20of%20the%20possible%20arrests%20was%C2%A0first%20reported%20by%20TMZ%2C%20which%20suggested%20that%20the%20suspects%20included%20at%20least%20one%20physician%20and%20%E2%80%9Cseveral%E2%80%9D%20drug%20dealers.

Former president Donald Trump and Tesla founder and X CEO Elon Musk had a wide-ranging conversation in a record-breaking X Space on Monday night. The pair spoke for about two hours with millions of listeners tuning in; the Space received hundreds of thousands of comments. The opportunity to hear from an unscripted presidential candidate for one of the two major political parties on pretty much every major issue facing our country is a gift to journalists. The amount of access Trump gives to the press in general — even adversarial reporters — is also a gift. Ideas directly from the...