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Almost 20 years since Madeleine McCann went missing, police are scouring more than 20 plots of land in Portugal. Authorities are looking for her body or an indication she may have once been there.Around 30 German police officers, including forensic experts, will start searching today. According to reports, Portuguese police will also be on the ground. While the UK's Metropolitan Police is "aware of the searches" carried out by the BKA (German federal police), British officers will not be involved. "The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary," the force...

German police will undertake a new search in Portugal this week as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The search will reportedly take place in Praia da Luz, the town in the Algarve where she went missing nearly two decades ago. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from a holiday apartment complex on 3 May 2007. Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world. The Metropolitan Police said it was not involved in the new search, but was aware of the...

Security guard Matthew Dolloff fatally shot Lee Keltner in the October 2022 confrontation.. Colorado's second-highest court on Thursday concluded 9News can be held liable for the actions of a security guard who accompanied a producer during an October 2020 rally in downtown Denver and ended up fatally shooting a man after a brief confrontation. At the same time, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed 9News could not otherwise be liable for negligently hiring or supervising Matthew Dolloff because the evidence showed the organization did not employ or direct him, instead obtaining Dolloff's services through multiple layers of...

George Soros is the most dangerous man in America. The investor is intent on remaking the country to his liberal image, from our foreign policy priorities to undermining our criminal justice system. ... To see just how much law and order has eroded under George Soros-backed “progressive prosecutors,” consider Loudoun County, Virginia.. Buta Biberaj .... Soros dumped $659,000 into the Loudoun County commonwealth attorney race backing Biberaj for the position, which she won by a slim 49.5% to 47.5% margin despite the massive cash advantage. ... Biberaj is just one of 75 prosecutors nationwide who were backed by Soros for...

A new report by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund confirms that George Soros and his groups helped elect 75 prosecutors to support his far left progressive anti-police, social justice policies, and many of those are in cities where crime is surging. Not surprising, Colorado made the map. Jason Johnson, president of the group, told the Washington Examiner: “Soros is using that campaign money and the hundreds of millions more for supporting organizations to quietly transform the criminal justice system for the worse, promoting dangerous policies and anti-police narratives to advance his radical agenda,” said Johnson. He added, “Over the...

Christian Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005 A new arrest warrant has been issued by authorities in Germany in separate cases for a man who is also suspected in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The suspect, identified by media as Christian Brueckner, is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005. The term in prison is scheduled to end in September 2025. Prosecutors in Braunschweig announced last month that they had charged the 45-year-old in five...

Nearly two years after opposing political rallies in Denver’s Civic Center ended with a man shot and killed by a security guard for 9News, a bystander to the shooting has filed a lawsuit for ongoing physical and emotional distress against the company and two contracted security firms. The Denver Gazette is a content partner of 9News. Matthew Dolloff shot Lee Keltner, 49, on Oct. 10, 2020, in a confrontation as rallies — which called themselves a “Patriot Muster” and “BLM-Antifa Soup Drive — ended in Civic Center. Steven Wright, a friend of Keltner, was pictured trying to break up a...

Crime has surged in Denver, despite the city council increasing the budget to a record high of $265 million in 2022. The last weekend in July was a violent one in and around Denver, Colo. Early Saturday, a 31-year-old man was shot and killed in Northglenn, a northern suburb of the city, the first of at least six area shootings that sent at least four others to the hospital that weekend. Around 3 p.m., a man was stabbed to death on Denver’s north side. ... The weekend concluded with the late-Sunday killing of Kevin Piaskowski, who was driving home from...

The State Department (which Hillary Clinton used to run and where she still holds significant influence) has been very clear about one thing. There is no relationship between donations to the Clinton Foundation and actions taken by the Secretary of State during her tenure there. Period. Full stop. End of discussion. Perish the thought. You’re all just a bunch of Clinton haters who are trying to stop the ongoing charity work of these wonderful people. And yet for some strange reason we keep seeing stories like this. Hillary hadn’t even finished unpacking her things in her new office at...

Denver’s top prosecutor Beth McCann has survived numerous scandals since she was first elected in 2016. McCann is notorious for her refusal to prosecute the 9News security guard who shot and killed Lee Keltner during a 2020 conservative political rally. Then there was the time she blocked efforts by police to pursue prosecution of Denver School Board member Tay Anderson following the school board’s own investigation of harassment complaints. The Denver Police Department brought a sexual assault case against Anderson to the district attorney’s office, but after reviewing the facts, prosecutors decided Thursday they would be unable to prove the...

A sunglasses-wearing human skull that had been used for years to decorate a Tennessee fireplace mantel actually belonged to a man who had been missing since 2012, local authorities said. An unidentified person found the skull near the town of Gobey and put it on the mantel — where it sat for more than a year with sunglasses on, according to local District Attorney Russell Johnson. Someone eventually told the local sheriff’s office about the skull, and investigators pulled a DNA sample from it, Johnson said in a statement. The office matched DNA from the skull to family members of...

Four young violent leftists were sentenced last week on charges they created a road hazard as a stationary target. Then the young leftists hurled a chlorine bomb at the police officer when he stop to clear the road.

A 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago. Police believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen. Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: "All we have ever wanted is to find her." Police are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man. The day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name. Madeleine...

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann during a family holiday in Portugal are said to be getting closer to solving the mystery. Officers have now narrowed in on a ‘foreign man’ who was in the Algarve when she went missing aged three in 2007. British and Portuguese police are set to probe a ‘new clue and suspect’ according to local media reports. The Correio de Manha newspaper said detectives are now ‘nearer to knowing what happened to Madeleine.’ It comes after a mystery tip-off to detectives examining the 12-year-long case. Officers are said to be looking into an alleged...

President-elect Donald Trump has named Donald McGahn as White House counsel and assistant to the president.

n Oct 5, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Tony Podesta > wrote: Wanted to flag a dinner I'm doing at my house tomorrow for Hillary. Doing a fundraiser at my house with my brother John on October 6 at my house, John and I are cooking along with guest chefs James Alefantis of Comet Ping Pong Pizza and Buck's Camping and Fishing, Amy Brandwein of Centrolina and Massimo Fabbri of Ristorante Posto. Would love if you could go online and make your contribution here: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/donate/?raiser=49983. Hope you can make it. Look forward to an exciting year. Best, Tony

On Sunday evening, side-by-side images of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother Tony next to police sketches of potential suspects in a 2007 kidnapping of a three-year-old girl took over the internet. The resemblance is striking, and Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter rapidly took up the case. -snip- In 2013, five years after Portuguese police had closed the case, they reopened it and revealed two new police sketches. It was believed that they were supposed to be of the same man, but from two different witnesses. Reddit and others on social media are now asking, what if it...

A woman who was allegedly part of an internet hate campaign against the family of Madeleine McCann has been found dead in a hotel. Brenda Leyland, from Burton Overy, Leicestershire, was accused of being one of the so-called "trolls" directing abusive messages at the McCanns. Her body was found days after she was confronted outside her home by a Sky News reporter.

British police said Sunday the timeline and version of events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has "significantly changed," allowing them to build their most detailed reconstruction of the case yet.

Barack Obama's housing bailout plan is being compared to the proposal championed last year by John McCain. Democrats said McCain's $300 billion plan would have had the government basically eat the cost of reduced property values. "Taxpayers shouldn't be asked to pick up the tab for the very folks who helped create this crisis," Obama said on the campaign trail. "And that's the problem with Senator McCain's risky idea." At the time, Obama said McCain's plan showed "erratic leadership."