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10/06/2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's key rival, Benny Gantz, announced Sunday that he is quitting the war Cabinet after a postwar plan for the Palestinian enclave failed to materialize.

Gantz' resignation comes amid global condemnation of the Palestinian civilian death toll in the war on Gaza that has piled domestic and international pressure on Netanyahu.

Gantz announced his resignation in a televised event on Sunday, stating that Netanyahu stood in Israel's way to "a real victory."

"That is why we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy heart, but with a whole heart,” Gantz said.

08/06/2024

A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating earthquakes.

For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. When the fault — or even a portion of it — next snaps, it will reshape life in Oregon, Washington and Northern California.

Of particular concern are signals of massive earthquakes in the region’s geologic history. Many researchers have chased clues of the last “big one”: an 8.7-magnitude earthquake in 1700. They’ve pieced together the event’s history using centuries-old records of tsunamis, Native American oral histories, physical evidence in ghost forests drowned by saltwater and limited maps of the fault.

08/06/2024

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden’s eldest daughter, Naomi, took the stand in her father’s defense on Friday, telling the court how her father appeared to have taken control of his drug use in the months before prosecutors say he lied on a government background check form.

“He seemed like the clearest that I had seen him since my uncle died, and he just seemed really great,” she said of visiting him during a stint in rehab in Los Angeles with her then-boyfriend Peter Neal.

21/05/2024

Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Donald Trump to obstruct the government's investigation of his handling of classified documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday.

The opinion was released as an exhibit in filings responding to Trump's efforts to have the case dismissed, ahead of two hearings Wednesday related to Trump aide Walt Nauta's efforts to dismiss the related charges against him.

Trump pleaded not guilty last June to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities, and took steps to thwart the government's efforts to get the documents back. Nauta also pleaded not guilty to related charges.

18/05/2024

May 18, 2024, 2:04 AM GMT+1
By Phil Helsel
Seven people have died in Houston, Texas, and the surrounding county after severe weather that ripped down power lines and trees and toppled brick walls, officials said Friday.

Three of the deaths occurred in unincorporated Harris County, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said, and four were in Houston according to officials there.

17/05/2024

NEWS from GHANA

Stakeholders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector who converged at the 3rd Executive Breakfast Conversation held in Accra have charged government to, as a matter of urgency, establish a National Sanitation Authority (NSA) to help coordinate sanitation activities as well as implement policies and programs put together by the Sanitation and Water Resources Ministry.

According to them, even though the sanitation ministry has been created to formulate policies and programs geared towards addressing the country’s sanitation challenges, it is just hanging in the air without legs to function properly.

17/05/2024

May 17, 2024, 9:31 PM GMT+1
By Deon J. Hampton
The mother of a man killed during a Black Lives Matter protest said Friday she was robbed of "long overdue peace" when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned the Army sergeant convicted of murdering her son.

Sheila Foster said she had been upset ever since Abbott declared he would pardon Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder last year in the death of 28-year-old Air Force veteran Garrett Foster.

11/11/2022

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Sean Patrick Maloney had some harsh words for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for her apparent lack of participation in what he called a "historic defense" of their New York majority.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/house-democrat-campaign-chief-blasts-aoc-new-york-losses-didnt-see-one-minute-helping

15/10/2022

Rep. Ro Khanna is paying a cadre of political consultants in the early presidential nominating states, which some say is a possible sign he's exploring a presidential run as early as 2024.

Khanna, a three-term California Democrat, has on his campaign payroll political consultants and strategists throughout the Northeast as well as in Iowa, Nevada and Colorado. The relationships were first disclosed on Friday in filings Khanna's re-election campaign made with the Federal Election Commission.

"He's clearly exploring the possibility of running for president at some point," said Brad Bannon, a Democratic political strategist who has worked on multiple high-profile campaigns. "It might not be in 2024, but he's young and has time to prepare and meet people. Plus, we live in a very volatile political climate. You never know what can happen."

Khanna, who recently published a book on "dignity" in the age of Big Tech, has become a staple of Democratic fundraising dinners in the early nominating states. This year alone, the California congressman has traveled extensively to New Hampshire and Nevada to address local Democratic groups.

20/08/2022

NEW YORK – Americans gave Fox News split answers on whether they support New York City’s plan to provide migrants with hotel rooms.

"I think if they're available … why let them go vacant when someone needs a room?" Jerry, from Florida, told Fox News outside the Row NYC, an upscale hotel the city plans to use. "Right now there's a desperate situation for certain people that has to be taken into consideration and maybe given priority until they can be placed in some other facility."

But Frank, a longtime New Yorker, said the idea was "absolutely ludicrous."

"I think that I understand New York trying to provide for all these different people, but … teach them how to work or something," he said. "Don't let somebody get a free ride on the taxpayer."

07/01/2022

𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐀𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝

The United States government has adjusted its COVID-19 entry strategy and has stopped limiting international arrivals from certain countries to 15 airports and is funneling them through enhanced screening and advising them about COVID-19 risks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Until recently, the COVID-19 entry strategy included enhanced entry health screening reserved for those arriving from, or who have recently visited China (excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau), Iran, the Schengen region of Europe, the United Kingdom (excluding overseas territories outside of Europe), Ireland, and Brazil.

In an effort to innovate and adopt a new approach to keep international air passengers healthy, the U.S. government will adopt a new, more effective strategy that focuses on the individual traveler and will facilitate their ongoing journey to include pre-departure and post-arrival education, efforts to develop a potential testing framework with international partners, and illness response. The U.S. government feels that by refocusing its mitigation efforts on individual passenger risk throughout their air travel journey, they can most effectively protect the health of the American people.

Further, the CDC said that screening for symptoms doesn’t really help much because so many people do not have symptoms. “Transmission of the virus may occur from passengers who have no symptoms or who have not yet developed symptoms of infection. Therefore, CDC is shifting its strategy and prioritizing other public health measures to reduce the risk of travel-related disease transmission,” the agency further added.

The U.S. government will now focus its resources on more stringent mitigation efforts that concentrate on the individual passenger. The aforementioned measures include “pre-departure, in-flight, and post-arrival health education for passengers; robust illness response at airports; voluntary collection of contact information from passengers using electronic means,” the CDC said, adding that these measures should help reduce crowding and long lines at airports.

Testing remains an option, in addition to reminding travelers to watch for COVID-19 symptoms and to prepare to quarantine themselves for 14 days.

07/11/2021

𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬

New Orleans-based court says Covid-19 vaccination and testing rules raise grave legal issues

A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new rules that require many employers to ensure that their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly for Covid-19.

Source: wsj.com

28/10/2021

𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 '𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞': 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞
By 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐓𝐙 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot.

It had been three days since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes until the 46-year-old Black man lost consciousness, showing no signs of life. A video taken by a bystander had been viewed millions of times online. Protests had taken over Minnesota’s largest city and would soon spread throughout cities across America.

29/09/2021

𝐏𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 $𝟑.𝟓 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 '𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the latest prominent Democrat on Wednesday to declare the $3.5-trillion spending plan pushed by the Biden White House would cost "zero" dollars.

29/08/2021

𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫': 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝟒 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

John Bacon
Andrew J. Yawn
USA TODAY
A tornado watch was issued for parts of Louisiana, including New Orleans.
Storm preparations were complicated by the pandemic.
The storm made landfall 16 years to the day Katrina delivered its devastating blow.
Editor's note: Having trouble connecting? Read USA TODAY's text-only storm updates.

NEW ORLEANS – Powerful Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday on the southeastern Louisiana coast, a Category 4 storm driving winds of 150 mph and fears of life-threatening storm surge, potentially catastrophic wind damage and flooding rainfall.

The storm crashed ashore near Port Fourchon, less than 100 miles south of New Orleans. A few hours later, power was out to almost ,000 homes and businesses in the region, according to the tracking website poweroutage.us.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/29/hurricane-ida-takes-aim-louisiana-coast/5641741001/

25/08/2021

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚

Later this year, the court will hear arguments about a Mississippi law that if allowed to take effect would ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. If the court’s conservative majority permits the law to stand, it could deal a major blow to abortion rights.

24/08/2021

𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐂
Intolerance: be like the ocean…” Many may not know that those words — a call for the acceptance of diversity — by the 13th century poet and Muslim scholar, Rumi, may actually be those of one of Afghanistan’s legendary figures. Rumi has been claimed by Turkey, Iran and even parts of the Arab world, but he is believed to have been born in 1207 in Balkh, located in the north of what is present-day Afghanistan. It will be interesting to see what the Taliban make of Rumi and other totemic representatives of the cultures that once blossomed in the land now called Afghanistan. And if their consideration is less than positive, what can be done to protect the country’s historical patrimony.

For now, the signs don’t augur well. Soon after swooping down on Kabul, the Taliban announced they were a changed group that now wanted peace. They declared an “amnesty” for all who previously worked against them, and said they were willing to work, even, with “our sisters.” Shortly after that, they blew up a statue.

Did they destroy it because they believed statues promote idolatry, because it depicted a man who was their enemy, because that man was a Shia, or all of the above? It is impossible to say for certain. But it is possible that the statue of Abdul Ali Mazari, a champion of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara minority who was executed by the Taliban in 1995, ticked more than one box.
https://syndicationbureau.com/en/drug-protect-afghanistan-culture/

How to protect Afghanistan's culture from being destroyed by the Taliban? A hint of that may be in how the Taliban treated the drug trade.

23/08/2021

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚
Unless you’re an armed member of the Taliban in Afghanistan, your life is likely in danger right now. In particular, Joe Biden’s disastrous retreat put more than 10,000 American citizens at risk, as well as tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted the U.S. over the years. But there’s another group of endangered people that’s often overlooked in Muslim-majority countries: Christians.

In a nation of approximately 38 million, estimates put the number of Christians as at most 12,000. Afghan law forbids conversion to Christianity. In fact, it’s dangerous for anyone even with generational roots to identify as Christian, but that’s especially true for converts from Islam. Enforcement is even more brutal under sharia law, which will be reinstated under the Taliban. Given that reality, there could be many more Christians in Afghanistan than anyone knows. Reports are that “the Taliban are going door to door” and asking for Christians, and it’s not to welcome them to the new Afghanistan.

“There’s a real concern amongst Afghan Christians that targeted killings will start happening because of their status as Christians,” says Will Stark, South Asia regional manager for International Christian Concern. The slaughter of Christians at the hands of Muslim extremists is still playing out in Nigeria. We know the danger is real and imminent.

Some Afghan Christians have appealed to the pope for help fleeing. American media personality Glenn Beck has raised millions of dollars to help. Other organization likewise will do what’s possible, but the situation isn’t conducive to orderly help.

As one Christian who fled Afghanistan after the murder of his parents in the 1990s put it, “I don’t understand why the West left Afghanistan this way after 20 years of sacrifices, of democracy.” In some ways neither do we, but we’re also well acquainted with the unfortunate answer.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/82158-the-pligh

There are just a few thousand, but their lives are in grave danger.

21/08/2021

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𝐔.𝐒. 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬.

OTTAWA, Ont. — The U.S. is extending its border restrictions on Canadians for at least another month. And now Justin Trudeau is being asked if he might re-shutter Canada's frontier to Americans.
A Delta-driven surge in Covid-19 on both sides of the boundary is challenging each country's approach to the flow of travelers.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/08/20/us-extends-border-restrictions-506362

"It is beyond disappointing; it is hurtful both at a human and economic level," Rep. Brian Higgins said of the news.

19/08/2021

𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 '𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝' 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧, 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 '𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥' 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐥
President Biden in an interview with ABC that aired Thursday said "no one's being killed" in Afghanistan despite reports of at least seven deaths amid the chaos at Kabul's airport and of Taliban beating people on their way to the airport, as he defended his handling of the American withdrawal from the country.

Biden further told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that intelligence did not indicate the Afghan government would quickly collapse – despite reports that's exactly what the intelligence said.

And the president said his advisers did not tell him to delay the troop withdrawal, despite reports that's exactly what his advisers did.

"Oh, there is," Biden said when asked about "pandemonium" near the airport by Stephanopoulos. "But, look – but no one's being killed right now, God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-no-one-being-killed-in-afghanistan-advisers-withdrawal

While there have been reports of deaths in Kabul, President Biden said Tuesday that "no one's being killed."

17/08/2021

𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 '𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬'

President Biden appeared to go back on his campaign promise to "take responsibility" as commander-in-chief and not "blame others" during his speech on the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that has seen the Taliban swiftly retake control of the country – and outcome Biden previously claimed was "highly unlikely."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-afghanistan-points-fingers-blame-others

During his speech today, Biden said he had “inherited” the deal former President Trump struck with the Taliban which required him to either follow through on the agreement or risk “escalating the conflict and sending thousands of American troops back into Afghanistan.”

16/08/2021

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲: 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒.

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U.S. forces at Kabul International Airport fired into the air on Monday in an attempt to gain control of the crowd that is desperate to leave the country after the Taliban takeover, a report said.

A video is widely circulating on social media Monday morning purportedly showing Afghans clinging onto the side of an American C-17 aircraft leaving Kabul airport in a desperate attempt to flee the Taliban.

The Department of Defense is preparing to immediately house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, Fox News confirmed late Sunday.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/live-updates-taliban-gain-more-ground-in-afghanistan-as-they-close-in-on-kabul

15/08/2021

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭-𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 '𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞' 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥

Hours after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover, Al Jazeera published what it described as "exclusive" videos and photos of the Taliban entering the presidential palace, raising questions about the news outlet's connections with terrorist organizations like the Taliban.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-jazeera-gets-exclusive-photos-of-taliban-taking-the-presidential-palace-in-kabul

Al Jazeera received exclusive access to the Taliban's takeover of the Afghanistan presidential palace, raising concerns about the network's links to terrorist organizations.

14/08/2021

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃.𝐂. 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫

The lawyer for a D.C. police officer who fatally shot himself nine days after he was injured confronting rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 says a group of cybersleuths has identified one of his attackers.

A blow to Officer Jeffrey Smith’s head captured on video shows the 12-year veteran being knocked to the ground, apparently unconscious, according to a lawsuit Smith’s family filed Friday against the alleged attacker. The lawsuit includes a report from a doctor who evaluated the case for Smith’s estate saying a traumatic brain injury led the officer to take his own life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-officer-su***de-lawsuit-capitol-riot/2021/08/13/5601aedc-fc5b-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html

Officer Jeffrey Smith killed himself nine days after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

13/08/2021

𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭, 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐩'𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: '𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐝

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot botched fallen officer Ella French’s name just days after Chicago police superintendent David Brown did the same.

"The horrible tragedy of Ella Frank’s murder," Lightfoot said during the 2022 budget engagement forum held at Truman College on Thursday.

The flub was criticized by the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which tweeted on Friday, that "This is one of those times when words really matter."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lightfoot-botches-chicago-officer-ella-french-name

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot botched fallen officer Ella French’s name just days after Chicago police superintendent David Brown did the same.

13/08/2021

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥: 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said U.S. air support was still an option to fight Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan but that Afghan forces would be the determining factor as the Taliban sweeps across the country and the U.S. draws down its military presence.

“It’s indigenous forces that can make the difference on the ground,” he said in a Friday afternoon news briefing.

But later in the news conference, he added: “We have noted with great concern the speed with which they have been moving and the lack of resistance that they have faced.”
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/live-updates-taliban-gain-more-ground-in-afghanistan-as-they-close-in-on-kabul

13/08/2021

𝗣𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗼: 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out the Biden administration for what he described as poor planning and poor ex*****on of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which may lead to the nation's capital of Kabul to fall to Taliban insurgents within the next three months.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pompeo-biden-failing-to-execute-afghan-withdrawal-trump-warned-taliban-of-consequences

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out the Biden administration for what he described as poor planning and poor ex*****on of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which may lead to the nation's capital of Kabul to fall to Taliban insurgents within the next 3 months.

12/08/2021

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

The Taliban has claimed several quick victories in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, including the release of prisoners inside the key cities of Kandahar and Heret, according to reports.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-control-prisons-afghanistan-cities

12/08/2021

𝐀𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 '𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲'
Catsimatidis slams Biden's energy agenda: 'America loses to China, OPEC'
United Refining Company Chairman and CEO John Catsimatidis tells 'Fox & Friends' that the president's green executive orders are concerning for the entire U.S. oil industry and economy.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ripped the White House on Wednesday, saying Texas can help reduce the price of gasoline by producing more oil if the Biden administration will "just stay out of the way."

Abbott posted a short open letter to the White House on Twitter Wednesday, touting that Texas could help bring down the price of gas by producing oil domestically.

"Texas can do this," Abbott wrote. "Our producers can easily produce that oil if your Administration will just stay out of the way."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/greg-abbott-biden-white-house-texas-oil

Abbott posted a short open letter to the White House on Twitter Wednesday, touting that Texas could help bring down the price of gas by producing oil domestically.

12/08/2021

𝐏𝐟𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟒𝟐% 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬
Early findings posted ahead of rigorous peer review suggested the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine declined to 42% effectiveness against infection amid sweeping spread of the delta variant, with the Moderna vaccine declining to 76%.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Cambridge-based biotech company nference posted the retrospective study in medrxiv this week, drawing from tens of thousands PCR tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic and affiliated hospitals across nearly half a dozen states.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-42-infection-delta-preprint

Early findings posted ahead of rigorous peer review suggested the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine declined to 42% effectiveness against infection amid sweeping spread of the delta variant, with the Moderna vaccine declining to 76%.