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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hunter Biden's new wife! Just weeks after splitting up with his brother Beau's widow, the vice president's son secretly marries world-traveling South African activist. Joe Biden's son Hunter, 49, married Melissa Cohen, from South Africa, in Los Angeles in mid-May. Hunter used an instant marriage company to marry Cohen, and the hasty vows hint that Joe and the rest of the Bidens were not in attendance for the big day. A friend of Cohen said she lived in Los Angeles and the newlyweds met in May, having a whirlwind romance and getting matching tattoos. On Sunday, Jill Biden...

Rush Limbaugh offered a piece of counterintuitive advice to Donald Trump on his radio program Tuesday: "Go to California, Mr. President." "I made a brilliant observation yesterday about the Democrats in California," said Limbaugh (transcript via RushLimbaugh.com). "Democrats in LA are appalled that homelessness in their city is rising and so much of it, and they’re mad that the Democrat candidates for president are not talking about it. And I told the people of LA (and I’ll do it again today), 'The Democrats are not gonna talk about your problems. They already own you! They don’t need to fix a...

After Plagiarism Scandal, Biden Rips Off Avenatti’s Campaign Slogan. Avenatti Responds. Fresh off his latest plagiarism scandal, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ripped off indicted lawyer Michael Avenatti's proposed campaign slogan on Tuesday, which spurred reaction online, including from Avenatti. During a campaign stop in Iowa, Biden said: "I think it's time, you know, [Trump] says, 'let's Make America Great Again,' let's make America America again." People immediately noticed that Biden's remarks were an exact match for the campaign slogan that Avenatti had proposed using for his campaign before he encountered legal problems and decided not to run for office....

FBI is now investigating SIX mysterious American deaths at two hotels in the Dominican Republic - all within the past year. Robert Bell Wallace, 67, (CA) April 14 after drinking alcohol ... minibar at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino resort in Punta Cana. Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, May 25 ... minibar at Bahia Principe ... Cynthia Day, 49, Nathaniel Holmes, 63, same resort in La Romana on May 30 ... Yvette Monique Sport, 51, Pennsylvania, ... minibar at that resort,... ... David Harrison (MD) Hard Rock Hotel & Casino resort in Punta Cana. ...The CDC joined other international agencies in conducting...

Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Monday that requires someone convicted of a sex offense against a child under the age of 13 to begin chemical castration a month before being released from custody. The law requires individuals convicted of such an offense to continue treatments until a court deems the treatment is no longer necessary. It says offenders must pay for the treatment, and they can’t be denied parole solely based on an inability to pay. “This bill is a step toward protecting children in Alabama,” Ivey said.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump says 'Joe Biden is a dummy!' and unleashes fury at Democratic front-runner he says is 'the weakest mentally' in the field as he leaves Washington for Iowa showdown. President Trump says Joe Biden has deteriorated mentally and is unfit for office. Trump slapped back Biden over his plan to claim the president is an 'existential threat' to democracy in an Iowa speech the campaign released early. 'When a man has to mention my name 76 times in a speech, he's in trouble,' Trump said. 'I have to tell you, he's a different guy. He looks different than...

Donald Trump may bring back Steve Bannon for 200 campaign, book claims: 'Nobody says anything better about me." (full title) President Donald Trump is toying with the idea of bringing former strategist Steve Bannon back into the fold to help fight his 2020 re-election bid, according to a new book to be published next week. In The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington, author Alexander Nazaryan suggests the president has not ruled out reinstating the right-wing idealogue credited with the success of Trump's insurgent 2016 run to the Oval Office.... the new publication relies heavily on interviews...

Man went into bank in southern Israeli city of Beersheba and demanded money. He held what he said was a grenade and threatened to throw it if staff refused. Robber went to another branch of the same bank five days later to repeat stunt. He walked away with $8,000 before police tracked him down and found the explosive was actually an avocado he painted black. The 47-year-old man, ... handed a cashier a misspelled note demanding money. When the Postal Bank worker hesitated, the man pulled out what he said was a grenade and threatened to throw it if she...

North Korea’s tyrant ordered his death after he was accused of planning a coup. Kim had a giant fish tank built inside Ryongsong Residence, .....The victim’s arms and torso were cut open with knives before he was thrown into the tank. it's unclear whether the general was killed by the fish, died from his wounds or drowned. The researchers are believed to have come up with several execution methods designed to scare potential plotters. It's believed they got the idea from the1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me,.... Kim’s aquarium is filled with several hundred piranhas imported from...

'I want to look my father's killers in the eye': Aid worker's daughter will go to court to face the ISIS Beatles gang terror suspects accused of killing him. (David Haines beheaded in 2014 after being taken hostage by gunmen in Syria.) International relief agency worker murdered in a 'Jihadi John' militant video. Two of remaining 'Beatles' terrorists to go on trial in US after citizenship stripped. Bethany Haines said she will face Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh in court. ~snip~ Kotey and Elsheikh are accused of belonging to a brutal four-man cell of Islamic State executioners in Syria,...

FBI's long-buried allegations of MLK misconduct met with skepticism. Andrew Young spent hundreds of nights with Martin Luther King Jr. traveling and living out of hotel rooms .... said, did he see, hear or witness the salacious accounts... of King's alleged sexual activities ~snip~ Garrow sifted through more than 19,000 documents in JFK assassination files unsealed 2018.... based on the FBI documents, King had sexual relations with at least 40 women....The most damning allegation was that [he] ... was present during the rape of a woman by a fellow minister in a Washington, D.C., hotel room on Jan. 5, 1964....

Mother-of-two, 29, dies of cervical cancer after doctors 'took 10 MONTHS to diagnose her despite being told about her constant bleeding' (Full Title) [This IS Health Care run by the Government Bureaucracy.] Josephine Suffolk, ...died on May 18 less than a year after diagnosis.... 'I feel like I have been so let down by my doctors'. The NHS lists abnormal bleeding as the top symptom but hers was dismissed. [She] died after doctors took 10 months to diagnose her cervical cancer after dismissing bleeding as a hormonal problem. ~snip~ She had been trying to raise awareness about cervical cancer after...

Wife of a convicted terrorist loses another legal battle over her refusal to get up for a judge in court - because she 'only stands for Allah' (full title) Moutia Elzahed became first woman to be guilty and sentenced for offence. The 51-year-old lost an appeal against her criminal convictions....refusing to stand was an example of 'political communication' An Islamic State terrorist's wife has lost yet another court battle after refusing to stand for a judge because she 'only stands for Allah'. Elzahed became the the first woman in New South Wales to be found guilty of the offence of...

Las Vegas grandmother sues TSA after they 'forced her to do a strip search and made her remove a common feminine hygiene product' (full title) Rhonda Mengert had been traveling from the Tulsa International Airport on Mother's Day when her hip implant caused the metal detector to sound off. Mengert - who has TSA Pre-check - informed agents that she had the implant but agreed to a pat down test. During the pat down, an agent found a 'common feminine hygiene product that Mengert was wearing underneath her clothing.' The agent then tested her gloves and found no explosive residue...

Christians face EXTINCTION in Iraq after ISIS forced 125,000 to flee their homes, Archbishop warns. Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Christian community has dwindled to just 125,000 Despite ISIS being expelled from Mosul in July 2017, many have not returned. Accused Christian leaders of being afraid of being accused of Islamophobia. Christians are facing extinction in Iraq after ISIS forced 125,000 people to flee their homes, the Archbishop of Irbil has warned. Rt Rev Bashar Warda said the Christian community had been reduced by 83% between the end of Saddam Hussein's regime and 2014. It then dwindled further when the...

'He used his badge to rape': Texas deputy is charged with raping two women while in UNIFORM as cops urge 'more of victims he exposed himself to and sexually assaulted' to come forward Prosecutors say Richard Cornejo, 37, targeted a woman sleeping in a vehicle outside Palacios Latino Night Club in July 2018 while he was on patrol duty. He found a small amount of marijuana in the woman's car, offered to follow her home then allegedly assaulted her. Cops received a complaint last July that Cornejo had sexually assaulted someone that May and it led to the discovery of...

Former Oklahoma state senator is found dead inside his house just one day after another former GOP senator was shot dead at her Arkansas home (full title). Senator Jonathan Nichols was found dead with a gunshot wound Wednesday. He was discovered inside his house and a police source reportedly said a gun was in the room where he was discovered at his home in Norman. Police would not confirm or deny the detail due to their ongoing investigation. A family member called 911 for the man who was married with two children. His body was found 500 miles from Linda...

Illinois Catholic bishop denies communion to two pro-choice Democrats after calling abortion an 'abominable crime' (full title) as the state looks to expand women's rights. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield targeted two Democratic leaders of the Illinois state legislature because of their stance on abortion. Speaker of the House Michael Madigan and John Cullerton, who leads the state Senate, are barred from 'the most sacred aspect of our Catholic faith'. The Illinois legislature this month passed a bill stripping away a number of restrictions on abortions in the state that have existed for decades. Illinois Governor JB...

ISIS defector says group plotted to send terrorists into the US through border with Mexico to attack the financial system. Academic researchers published interview with ISIS defector He said he met several American citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria Claimed he was recruited for plot to attack US through southern border Said plot was masterminded by operative in New Jersey with financial targets ISIS defector: the terror group plotted an attack on the U.S. by sending operatives from Syria through Mexico. The astonishing revelation was shared in a report by researchers for the International Center for the Study of Violent...

Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place. [The]documents reveal the full extent of the FBI’s surveillance of the civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King... They expose in graphic detail the FBI’s intense focus on King’s extensive extramarital sexual relationships with dozens of women, ..... The FBI’s tape recording of that criminal assault [King witnessed] exists today, resting under court seal in a National Archives vault. [ 2027]~snip~.... when they are made fully available a painful historical reckoning concerning King’s personal conduct seems inevitable. ...“King, who...