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September 19, 2021 at 10:49 pm
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez submitted an amendment last week to the annual United States defense spending bill which would block the sale of precision-guided munitions to Israel.
According to a statement released by her office Thursday, the suggested amendment would prevent the transfer of $735 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits to Israel. The kits turn unguided bombs into GPS guided missiles.
At the same time Ocasio-Cortez submitted amendments to prevent weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Colombia over alleged human rights abuses.
Ocasio-Cortez explained her move in a tweet, stating that her amendment referred to Israels’ “bombing of Palestinian civilians [and] media centers” in a reference to the recent Protective Edge...
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September 19, 2021 at 10:47 pm
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke is preparing to run for governor of Texas in 2022, with an announcement expected later this year, Texas political operatives tell Axios.
O’Rourke’s entry would give Democrats a high-profile candidate with a national fundraising network to challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott — and give O’Rourke, a former three-term congressman from El Paso and 2020 presidential candidate and voting rights activist, a path to a political comeback.
But he would be running in a complicated political environment. Immigration is surging at the southern border and Democrats at the national level are bracing for a brutal midterm election and potentially losing the House of Representatives in 2022.
A new poll for the Dallas Morning New...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:24 pm
The thousands of migrants that have converged under the bridge that connects Del Rio, Texas and Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat is proof of a continuing problem at the border that is just getting worse under the Biden administration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton insisted on Newsmax Saturday.
“Every day that we don’t get this resolved, that brings more drugs into the country, more COVID, more crime, and more people,” Paxton said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.”
“It’s out of control and the Biden administration is not just allowing it to happen. They’re inviting them.”
The Biden administration is reportedly working on plans to fly many of the thousands...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:19 pm
President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in what will be their first contact since a major diplomatic crisis erupted between France and the United States over a submarine deal with Australia, an official said Sunday.
The phone call is at the request of Biden, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said, adding that there was “shock” and “anger” at first. But now it’s time to try to move forward, he said.
What the French now call a “grave crisis” erupted over the sudden, surprise end to a 2016 contract worth at least $66 billion between France and Australia to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines. Instead, Australia signed on with the United States and Britain for eight nuclear powered submarines. Fr...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:16 pm
With the United States on the upswing from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve is expected to weigh in next week on whether the economy is healthy enough to begin withdrawing stimulus measures credited with aiding the revival.
But the two-day meeting of the central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) beginning Tuesday ultimately may be a static event, like many others in recent months.
Analysts do not expect the Fed to immediately begin the much-expected slowing of its massive bond purchases, and while the committee will release updated economic forecasts, few big changes are expected from previous estimates released three months ago.
The FOMC “likes to prepare markets for any major change,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US.
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September 19, 2021 at 9:15 pm
North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law Friday, agreeing with minority voters Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
Two of the three trial judges declared the December 2018 law is unconstitutional, even though it was designed to implement a photo voter ID mandate added to the North Carolina Constitution in a referendum just weeks earlier. They said the law was rushed and intentionally discriminates against Black voters, violating their equal protections.
The law “was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters,” Superior Court Judges Michael O’Foghludha and Vince Rozier wrote in their 102-page order.
“Other, less restrict...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:11 pm
The race for Virginia’s next governor is neck-and-neck between Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin, according to a Washington Post/Schar School poll.
McAuliffe is showing a slight lead of 50 percent support among likely voters, but Youngkin is right on his tail with 47 percent, reports Politico. For registered voters, McAuliffe is holding at 49 percent while Youngkin stands at 43 percent.
The candidates hit the campaign trail Friday after clashing in a Thursday night debate where they discussed topics ranging from abortion to COVID-19. McAuliffe, who served as governor from 2014 to 2018, hit the campaign trail Friday in Northern Virginia to muster early votes while Youngkin spent the day in Chesterfield, one of Virginia’s “r...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:09 pm
Milwaukee is in the grip of the worst violence in its modern history. There were 189 killings here last year, a 93% increase from 2019 and the most ever recorded.
The jump reflects a nationwide trend. In one study, researchers from the nonprofit Council on Criminal Justice looked at 34 cities and found that 29 had more homicides last year than in 2019. The overall rise was 30%, though in most places killings remained below their peaks in the 1990s.
Among the 19 cities with more than half a million people — including Los Angeles, New York and Chicago — none saw a bigger surge than Milwaukee. With 127 killings through the first half of September, the city is nearly on pace to match last year’s record. Hughes was the 78th person killed this year.
The uniformity of th...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:07 pm
A tycoon has had his fortune slashed by a whopping $27 billion as China cracks down on tech firms.
Chinese billionaire Colin Huang, the founder of the e-commerce platform Pinduoduo Inc saw his fortune dropping after the stocks of his company plunged.
It is the biggest drop in wealth recorded according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In comparison, Hui Ka Yan, Chairman of Evergrande, one of China’s largest real estate developers lost $16 billion.
The Chinese mogul who owns 28 per cent of PDD, founded the company in 2015 and quickly turned it into an e-commerce giant through community buying.
According to Bloomberg, the Shanghai-based company had about 788 million active users in 2020 and its market value reached $178 billion before falling to about $125 billion.
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September 19, 2021 at 9:04 pm
The designer of the “Tax the Rich” Met Gala dress worn by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is not practicing that preaching, relying on unpaid interns and reportedly taxing her employees’ income but not sending the money to the government.
The parent company of Aurora James’ Brother Vellies fashion brand, Cultural Brokerage Agency, has three open tax warrants in New York state, 15 total warrants since 2015, and six federal liens from the IRS in 2018-’19 totaling $103,220, citing “failure to remit employee payroll taxes,” the New York Post reported.
“Just because they take it out of your paycheck doesn’t mean they’re sending it to the government,” Baruch College taxation lecturer David Ce...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:03 pm
A new study suggests the data on COVID-19 hospitalizations is exaggerated by the fact almost half of those hospitalized have mild of asymptomatic cases, The Atlantic reported.
Hospitalization data has been significant during the pandemic because those numbers tend to predict death totals, but they now might be losing meaning because of the testing of individuals coming to the hospital for other reasons, only to find they have mild or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to boot.
Hospitals may test all admissions for any reason for COVID-19, regardless of whether the stay at the hospital was due to COVID-19, and any patient in the hospital with the virus is recorded as a COVID hospitalization.
“As we look to shift from cases to hospitalizations as a metric to drive policy and assess...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:02 pm
How bad is it going for President Joe Biden’s administration right now? Even NBC News host Chuck Todd, a former Democrat presidential campaign staffer, sees it.
“I think he’s got a pretty big credibility crisis on his hands,” NBC’s “Meet the Press” anchor Todd, who worked on former Sen. Tom Harkin’s 1992 presidential campaign, said Sunday.
It is not just the allegations of Republicans and critics, but Biden’s own words on Afghanistan, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the souther border crisis.
“All of these problems, in some ways, showed up after he said something, basically, the exact opposite,” Todd continued. “Afghanistan withdrawal: It wasn’t going to be messy. It was going to look like Saigon.
“The boost...
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September 19, 2021 at 9:00 pm
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced Sunday “groundbreaking” results in a trial of a new breast cancer drug which they say has been proven to reduce the risk of death or disease progression by 72 percent, compared to existing treatments.
The drug company said the results of its trial of Enhertu medication in treating the currently incurable HER-2-positive breast cancer showed “a strong trend towards improved overall survival.”
AstraZeneca said Enherthu, when coupled with chemotherapy, was shown to be twice as effective in controlling the disease as the similarly intravenous antibody drug TDM1, the current standard of care medication.
Three-quarters of the 500 trial patients from around the globe who had been administered Enherthu showed no progressi...
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September 19, 2021 at 8:59 pm
King Willem-Alexander officially unveiled a new memorial in the heart of Amsterdam’s historic Jewish Quarter on Sunday honoring more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, and the Dutch prime minister vowed that it would remind citizens today to be vigilant against antisemitism.
Designed by Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind, who is Jewish, the memorial is made up of walls shaped to form four Hebrew letters spelling lezecher, which translates as “In Memory Of.”
The walls are built using bricks, each of which is inscribed with the name, date of birth, and age at death, of one of the more than 102,000 Jews, Roma, and Sinti who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, or who died on their way to the camps.
Jacques Grishaver, chairm...
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September 19, 2021 at 8:55 pm
Last night we visited the arba'at haminim market in Kfar Chabad. With what did I leave besides a set of arba'at haminim for our family?I saw intensive activity in preparation for the holiday. Hundreds of people were shopping for Lulav, Hadas, Arava, and Etrog with great enthusiasm and joy as Sukkot approaches. Questions were being asked, careful inspection was going on, and hesitation about buying decisions was evident.I saw unity. Chasidim in Shabbat clothes next to a young guy in a T-shirt and flip flops choosing for themselves and their family a set of arba'at haminim.I saw many children with a sparkle in their eyes because, in the end, despite all of our gadgets, the etrog is the most exciting gadget of them all.I saw a mission. Tens of thousands of sets will be sh...
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September 19, 2021 at 6:59 pm
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Sunday said the United States “prepared for the wrong threat” ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Gottlieb said “we had this sort of illusion that we had prepared for a pandemic.”
“But they were ill-suited to the crisis we faced,” he said of those preparations. “And even the ones that were sort of appropriately measured to what we were facing weren’t ready…..I think we didn’t really have the foresight to understand that a virus could threaten us in this way. We had planned for a pandemic flu.”
“We prepared for the wrong threat,” he asserted. “But even if we ...
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September 19, 2021 at 6:58 pm
MOOSEY, Wyo. – FIRST ON FOX: Authorities say the body found in Grand Teton National Park was likely that of Gabby Petito, saying the body matched the description of the missing woman.
Authorities said the investigation is still ongoing, noting that the body has yet to be 100% positively identified.
Authorities on Sunday discovered a body at Grand Teton Nation...
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September 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm
A special ceremony was held Sunday to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Officials and bereaved families gathered at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl to remember the victims of one of the nation's deadliest wars.
"Something within us changed 48 years ago," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in his address. "The Yom Kippur War proved how dangerous complacency and arrogance can be. It taught us a lesson in humility, but also the importance of being prepared and organized.
"The heavy toll of the war was unbearable … But what many perceived as a failure, I see as a victory, for the difficult challenge of losing one's lofty status, but gaining victory nevertheless, both on the Syrian and Egyptian fronts, is remarkable."
Bennett also referred to the cap...
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September 19, 2021 at 4:35 pm
A military plane crashed in a Texas residential neighborhood on Sunday morning, resulting in at least one person being taken to a hospital in critical condition and multiple homes being damaged.
The cause of the crash during a training exercise is unknown, according to a statement from the Pentagon. The pilots self-ejected and are receiving treatment.
Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian said during a press conference on Sunday that authorities there responded to a call about the downed plane around 10:53 a.m. One of the pilots of the plane was tangled up in power lines after he was ejected from the plane.
Manoushagian said multiple military officials were at the scene of the crash.
In a statement to The Hill, the Pentagon said, "The two oc...
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September 19, 2021 at 4:34 pm
Sukkot in the Midbar? Did B'nai Yisroel sit in a Sukkah during the 40 years in the Midbar? Were they mekayem the mitzvah of Daled Minim? A unique shiur by Horav Michoel Sorotzkin shlit"a
