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"I do not want to particpate in a political instrumentalization" Marine Rally Leader Marine Le Pen Explains Her Non-Participation In A March Against Anti Semitism A coincidence or just what passes for regular normal activity in modern day France, but multiple Anti-Semitic incidents reported in France in the days leading up to today's rally against Anti Semitism from the desecration of 80 graves in a Jewish cemetery to shots fired at a synagogue to insults hurled at a Jewish academic on the sidelines of a Yellow Vests march in Paris last Saturday. He was called among other things: "big Zionist...

Will liberal outlets like Politifact fact check the geography-challenged Bernie Sanders? Socialists like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aren't big on math. It just gets in the way of setting utopian, unachievable goals. Take Sanders today. At the very beginning of his formal announcement video, Sanders set this goal: "an unprecedented, grassroots campaign of one million active volunteers in every state in our country."Um, just a little problem there, Bernie. The population of your own state of Vermont is only 627,000. How can you possibly not know that? And there are five other states with populations under one million. So, yeah,...

"The people of Venezuela are standing for freedom and democracy and the United States of America is standing right by their side" President Donald J. Trump Speaks In Miami 2/18/2019 Speaking in Miami Monday afternoon President Donald Trump urged the Venezuelan military to stop its support for Nicolas Maduro and come out in support of Interim President Juan Guaido. Trump noted that Guaido has offered amnesty and also warned that the US knows where the military has any ill gotten gains given to them by Maduro stashed in financial institutions. The President laid out a vision of democracy for Venezuela...

(WARNING: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN LEAD STORY) Protests all weekend in France on the third anniversary of the Yellow Vests. Protesters around the Eiffel Tower, on the Champs-Elysees and at the Place of the Republic in Paris on Sunday. On Saturday nationwide protests from the center of Paris to traffic circles in towns and at toll booths on the many highways being operated by private companies in the country. The Yellow Vests own estimate of their numbers Sunday is 101-thousand while the government says only 41,500. Much attention from government officials and the media paid to profane insults directed at a...

The Champ de Mars in the area of the Eiffel Tower was filled with Yellow Vests this afternoon on the three month anniversary of the protests that began November 17th. They moved on to other locations like the Champs-Elysees and the Place of the Republic where protesters were already gathered for static demonstrations that began early in the afternoon. The police say that 1500 were protesting this afternoon in Paris. Also today a Yellow Vests protest was underway in the south of France at La Ciotat on the coast just east of Marseille. This extra day of protest followed yesterday's...

Full Interview From This Morning — Short Highlight Clips Are Below Graham will hold hearing on McCabe’s ‘beyond stunning’ 25th Amendment comments Warning to Rod Rosenstein – I Will Subpoena You Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowed Sunday to investigate alleged discussions at the Department of Justice about invoking the 25th Amendment as a way to oust President Trump from office and threatened to subpoena former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe if he refused to testify on the matter before the Senate. “We’re going to find out what happened here and the only way I know to find out is to...

The first day of a weekend of protests by the Yellow Vests in France today with 5000 on the streets of Paris according to the authorities. Tear gas used against some on the Champs-Elysees late in the afternoon. More will rally and march in Paris tomorrow with four events listed to mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests. The Yellow Vests decided to estimate their total number protesting today amid controversy over official government estimates. They estimate some 101,379 protesting today. The government says 41,500 protested. Thousands on the streets in Bordeaux with police making a handful...

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This weekend marks the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France and nationwide protests are planned today with a special protest in Paris tomorrow...... "California will see you in court" is the response from Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom to President Trump's emergency declaration to erect a barrier on the US-Mexico border..... Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld wants to challenge President Trump in 2020. Weld forming an exploratory committee for a candidacy that would oppose the President for the GOP nomination.... Five are dead in a workplace shooting incident in Aurora, Illinois..... General Joseph Votel, commander of US...

(2AM SATURDAY EASTERN US TIME, 8AM IN FRANCE) Tomorrow February 17th will mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France, a response to the economic-tax policies of President Emmanuel Macron. And a special protest is planned in Paris in connection with the anniversary tomorrow afternoon. But for today a nationwide protest schedule including multiple locations in Paris. Bordeaux, Marseille and other locations also involved today....

Brooks calls on the President to Invoke Title 10 sec. 248 of the U.S. code https://youtu.be/LryeNnUmegA House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks urged President Trump to use National Emergencies Act of 1976, Title 10 U.S. Code Section 284, and every other possible federal statute to build the wall in a fiery speech earlier today.

President Trump will take executive action invoking emergency powers to help secure the nation's southern border and sign the bill coming out of Congress that only provides limited funding for a border barrier. A figure of eight billion dollars in spending on a barrier...... From Syria a local media report that Russian military police in the area of the Kurdish city of Manbij are operating joint patrols with the Turkish military..... It was called a conference on "peace and security in the Middle East". Some 60 nations represented at the conference in Warsaw this but only two nations with high...

Jerome Rordigues, media figure in the Yellow Vests movement, says he's permanently lost use of one eye after being shot by a police "flash bang" round January 26th during a Yellow Vests protest in Paris. Rodrigues was making a video of the protest and trying to keep the peace when he was suddenly hit by a police round.....

President Trump praising the work of Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, in reaching a deal for funding a barrier on the nation's southern border..... He was arrested in Mexico just over two years ago, escaped from prison there twice, then extradited to the United States last year and now Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman found guilty of ten federal charges in New York Tuesday..... The leader of the "New Right" Party in Israel, Naftali Bennett, says that religious Israelis are used by Benjamin Netanyahu at election time, but then he abandons them afterwards..... The messaging and the message from Prime...

Don't get Joe Scarborough wrong: he detests Donald Trump as much as ever, and will surely do whatever he can to help defeat him in 2020. But in a triumph of realism over desire, on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough warned Democrats that beating Trump won't be easy. As evidence of the daunting task facing Dems hoping to take Trump down, Scarborough urged Dems to listen to the "strong" closing segment of President Trump's speech in El Paso last night. JOE SCARBOROUGH: There was a closing argument, and whoever wrote it, wrote a strong closing argument. And any Democrat that thinks...

Chinese government media has produced a video purported to be that of a Muslim Uighur musician reported to have died in a Chinese detention facility. The video dated Sunday shows Abdurehim Heyit saying he is in good health..... The ISIS holdouts are under assault from the US backed Kurdish forces in eastern Syria in what is reported to be the final assault to take the Islamic State out..... Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat Senator from Minnesota, announced her candidacy for President Sunday..... Politics in Israel and Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, ordered a probe into...

<p>It was a cold and rainy day in much of France today but protests continued in Paris and nationwide.</p> <p>The Ministry of the Interior released a national estimate of 51,400 protesters just after 7 pm in the evening. In some local communities no estimates from the police there. They say figures are "centralized" in Paris.</p>

Here are (what I like to call) “snapshots” of the Chinese New Year celebrations in February 2019. The Chinese use a lunar calendar, and the New Year started on 5FEB19, and started the week-long celebration. This celebration is profoundly different than anything experienced in the West. It is a time of family and friends. It is a time of crazed dancing, and orgy of food, and prolonged heavy drinking. It is also a time when you will see friendships renew, relationships expand, and families strengthen. The cultural aspects of this event are (in large part) unknown in the West, but...

The senior FBI lawyer who signed off on the FISA warrant to spy on Donald Trump's campaign advisor, Carter Page, has admitted during a congressional testimony that she didn't read the document before signing it.

At the top of the Newsdump this morning. President Trump is refusing to report to Congress on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October..... Later this month the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman on his visit to five Arab countries to lay out financial plans... But media attention will be on another meeting at that time, this one in Hanoi, Vietam between the President and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un..... A second rape allegation against Virginia's Lt. Governor, Democrat Justin Fairfax.... The private investigator...