AOC says if “Christ himself” walked through the doors of Congress, he would be maligned as a radical over his social positions…
February 28, 2020
Canada will stop paying for Harry and Meghan’s security soon…
February 28, 2020
According to the Canadian government's statement, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had been providing security to the Sussexes "intermittently since November 2019." The government said that this funding would stop "in the coming weeks, in keeping with their change in status."...
Dana White ‘Doesn’t Give a S**t’ If He Loses UFC Fans Over Trump Friendship…
February 28, 2020
Circuit Judge Holly Meyer is ordering Hunter Biden to come to Arkansas next month for a deposition, rejecting claims that he’s too busy to make the trip until April…
February 28, 2020
"He needs to make himself available and unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition," she told lawyers in the case during an afternoon telephone conference call.
US Consumer Sentiment Soars Near 16 Year Highs (Before Virus Fears Rose)…
February 28, 2020
While expectations dipped from the preliminary data, overall UMich sentiment jumped to almost its highest since 2004. The gauge of current conditions increased from the prior month to 114.8 and the expectations index rose to 92.1, data showed Friday... Notably, only 8% of all consumers in February mentioned the virus when describing the economic outlook, though the share rose to 20% in the final two days of the survey. Interviews were conducted Jan. 29 through Feb. 25.
Steve Bannon Hosts a Dinner of International Populist Leaders…
February 28, 2020
Steve Bannon... hosted the dinner Wednesday night for Nigel Farage, a key figure in the movement that led to Brexit; Jerome Riviere, a leader in France’s right-wing National Rally party and member of the European Parliament; Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro; and Eduardo Verastegui, an actor and staunch Roman Catholic who’s considering a run for president of Mexico... the purpose of the gathering was “to bring together the great economic nationalist voices from around the world, not just to celebrate the victories of recent years and honor Nigel Farage for the Brexit achievement, but also to look ahead for 2020 and beyond.”...
Terabytes Of Stolen Adult Content From clip site OnlyFans Have Leaked and being shared via the Mega cloud storage site…
February 28, 2020
OnlyFans is a British social media platform popular with influencers, porn actors, and sex workers. It allows users to host images and video content behind a paywall for subscribers... The leak is organized as a directory, with content listed by the date it was first uploaded to OnlyFans and the names performers use on the site. According to Mega links viewed by BuzzFeed News, the leaks include TikTok stars, Instagram models, and amateur porn stars, all of whom use OnlyFans to make money from producing adult content...
Mike Bloomberg Says He Might Not Spend to Help Sanders If He’s the Nominee, days after a Sanders adviser said they wouldn’t want the help….
February 28, 2020
“What do you mean, I’m going to send a check to somebody and they’re not going to cash the check? I think I wouldn’t bother to send the check,” Bloomberg told the Houston Chronicle on Thursday. That’s a different answer than he gave the night before in a CNN town hall, when he was asked specifically if he would give financial help to Sanders despite his adviser’s comments. He committed that he would keep campaign offices open in battleground states so whoever is the nominee can use them.
Turkish media says several hundred migrants walking towards Greek border after Turkey said it will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe…
Greek PM says no illegal entries into Greece will be tolerated...
February 28, 2020
Demiroren said there were around 300 migrants, including women and children, in the group which began heading towards the border in Turkey’s Edirne province around midnight. Syrians, Iranians and Iraqis were among those in the group, it said.
Ukraine court forces probe into Biden role in firing of prosecutor Viktor Shokin…
February 27, 2020
Vatican joins IBM, Microsoft to call for facial recognition regulation…
February 28, 2020
Pope Francis, who has raised concerns about the uncontrolled spread of AI technologies, gave his backing in a speech read on his behalf at a conference attended by Microsoft president Brad Smith (MSFT.O) and IBM (IBM.N) Vice President John Kelly. The pope is ill and could not deliver the address himself.
Pew Survey: The Democrat Party Has a Serious God Problem…
February 28, 2020
This most recent Pew report underscores the Democrats’ continuing “God problem,” a phenomenon that seems to be growing more acute with the years. Last fall, Pew revealed that more than twice as many Americans view the Democrat Party as “unfriendly” toward religion than the Republican Party, while fewer than one in five U.S. adults said the Democrats are “friendly” toward religion.
House seeks interviews with prosecutors who quit Stone case after Trump’s intervention…
February 28, 2020
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) requested the interviews in a Friday letter to Attorney General William Barr that also included broader demands for documents and testimony about allegations of political interference by Trump in the work of the Justice Department.
Mulvaney Warns Coronavirus Could Lead To School Closures; Blames Press For Peddling ‘False Narrative’ To Take Down Trump…
February 28, 2020
Mulvaney also slammed the media for painting a narrative that the Trump administration is "scrambling" to contain the virus, noting that he briefed Congress along with top health officials six weeks ago. He accused the media of ignoring coronavirus until now... "Why didn’t you hear about it?" Mulvaney asked the audience while sitting down with Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore. "The press was covering their hoax of the day because they thought it would bring down the president." "Is it real? It absolutely is real," Mulvaney said. "But you saw the president the other day — the flu is real."
Rasmussen: Trump’s Monthly Approval Up After Failed Impeachment Strategy…
February 28, 2020
The president earned a monthly job approval of 49% in February, up one point from January... Forty-nine percent (49%) disapproved of the president’s job performance in February, down two points from the month before.
DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Murder Investigation Active: The DOJ has obtained statements from witnesses claiming a CIA operative and a DEA official plotted to have Camarena kidnapped and killed by a Mexican drug cartel…
February 28, 2020
The inquiry inserts the Justice Department into a chapter of the 1980s drug war that the government had long dismissed as a myth – claims that the U.S. government entangled itself with drug traffickers as the Reagan administration illegally armed rebels fighting the socialist government in Nicaragua. Whether anything comes of the investigation remains uncertain. But the allegations were too alarming to ignore, officials said...
The next generation of batteries could be built by viruses. A scientist found a way to turn nature’s zombies into a tiny assembly line. Creating new power cells might be just the beginning. “We’ve been engineering biology to control nanomaterials that are not normally grown biologically,” she says…
February 28, 2020
FBI agents investigating Houston Independent School District’s administrative offices…
February 28, 2020
Authorities walked out of the building with three large boxes and an Apple Mac computer monitor and loaded the items into a car... SkyEye13 also spotted authorities outside of HISD's Chief Operating Officer Brian Busby's house on Thursday. Busby, a 21-year veteran with HISD, has served in his current post since December 2016. In his role, Busby oversees an annual operating budget of more than $260 million and leads a workforce of more than 7,000 employees from seven major departments, including construction, transportation, nutrition, police, facilities, support and strategic engagement and outreach.
Whistleblower alleges that some federal employees were sent to work at coronavirus quarantine locations in California without adequate safety protocols and then flew back home on commercial airplanes…
February 27, 2020
The U.S. repatriated Americans from China on planes chartered by the State Department in early February. They were subject to 14-day quarantines. Employees didn’t receive prior safety training relevant to the California assignment, the whistleblower alleges... The employees weren’t tested for the coronavirus before they left two California quarantine sites... There is no evidence that any of the workers contracted or spread the virus.
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guilty verdict stands despite pardon…
February 27, 2020
A panel of three judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision to not set aside Arpaio's guilty conviction.