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New Mexico police officer dies after suspect shoots him in face with sawed-off shotgun during chase
De La O was driving a vehicle around 2:20 a.m. Saturday without headlights or taillights when officers tried to pull him over, police said.
De La O allegedly refused to stop, and officers did not pursue him at the time.
De La O later crashed into a light pole and fled from responding officers before engaging in the shootout with Ferguson, police said.
Ferguson, an 11-year veteran of the department, is survived by his mother, father, four brothers, daughter and son.
WVSP trooper shot during traffic stop, suspect on the run
A West Virginia State Police Trooper was shot while conducting a traffic stop, according to WVSP Captain Maddy.
The traffic stop occurred at the Dollar General in Midway off of exit 42 of I-77 Monday morning.
At 9:22 a.m., Captain Maddy says the suspect produced a firearm and fired one round at the trooper, striking them in the elbow.
The suspect, believed to be Scott Arthur O’Brien, of Hamilton, Ohio, fled from the scene in an unknown direction in a white Jeep Grand Cherokee bearing West Virginia registration 68H949.
Anyone who locates the suspect vehicle or suspect is asked to call the West Virginia State Police Beckley Detachment at 304 256-6700.
Vanishing whale’s decline appears worse than previously thought, federal regulators say
Thirty-six of the 114 whales included in the estimate had died, NOAA documents state. The agency cautioned that only about a third of right whale deaths are documented, so the total number of dead or injured animals could be much higher.
Right whales are found off the Atlantic coast of the U.S. They are vulnerable to collisions with large ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear. The federal government has worked to craft stricter rules to protect the whales from both threats.
The new data illustrate how dire the situation is for the whales, said Sarah Sharp, an animal rescue veterinarian with International Fund for Animal Welfare. The number of injured animals is especially significant because injured whales are less likely to reproduce, Sharp said.
Full Measure: July 16, 2023 – January 6th
It’s been two years since the infamous January 6th rally for President Trump. The subsequent rioting at the U.S. Capitol has become one of the most-prosecuted events in U.S. history.
About 1,000 people have been charged with crimes. One side claims it was an “insurrection,” a bigger threat to America than the 9/11 Islamic extremist terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000.
Another side claims Trump supporters have been unfairly targeted. Today, we look at a little-reported facet of the fallout after J-6.
Chinese Migrant Crosses Border Illegally On Motorcycle
The arrest comes amid an influx of Chinese migrants crossing the U.S.- Mexico border illegally.
Border Patrol encountered more than 12,000 Chinese migrants crossing the southern border illegally between October 2022 and May, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.
Smugglers charge Chinese migrants between $15,000 and $30,000 to cross the southern border, a Border Patrol agent previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow and a member of its advisory board, believes that the southern border offers the Chinese government the potential opportunity for “sabotage,” he previously told the DCNF.
LA homeless crisis deepens, engulfs city in chaos as mayor empowers herself with emergency declaration
Overall, California has by far the most homeless people of any state.
The HUD data also showed the Golden State accounted for half of all unsheltered individuals in the country, or 115,491 people, which was more than nine times the number of unsheltered people in the state with the next highest number, Washington.
CalMatters noted in a recent report that while the Lone Star State has recorded a 28% drop in homelessness since 2012, California’s homeless population grew by 43% over the same period. Los Angeles has been the hub of this surge in homelessness.
LA has seen a growing number of homeless encampments popping up along the streets of the city, coinciding with rising crime rates and creating scenes of trash, needles, and even human feces and urine in public areas.
Flash Flooding Kills 5: Extreme Heat Still Not as Bad as the 1930s
A flash flood in Bucks County outside Philadelphia killed five people and a 9-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl are missing after their vehicle was swept away by four to five feet of water.
Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer told reporters, “Miraculously, dad and the son were able to get out safely. However, the grandmother, the mother, and the two children were swept away by the floodwaters.”
Life is about to get much more expensive for millions of families
Several pandemic-era safety net programs will be coming to an end at roughly the same time this fall, creating a major economic squeeze for millions of families.
Scores of Americans will soon start facing bigger bills for student loan payments, child care, health care and food, deepening the impact of years of inflation.
Student loan payments will come due again in October, for the first time in more than three years.
Onetime guest on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ donates nearly $700K to Biden campaign fund
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman dumped $699,600 into the Biden Victory Fund war chest, a joint fundraising committee authorized by the Biden campaign, in April, federal election records show.
The donation came one week before The Wall Street Journal reported Hoffman had visited the late serial sexual predator’s US Virgin Islands compound in 2014.
The close timing of the donation and the article was first reported by Fox News on Sunday.
World News:
Chinese Navy to build four aircraft carriers strike groups by 2030 | Latest Word News | WION Pulse
The Indo-Pacific area is once again in the focus as China gets ready to bolster its military prowess.
The Asian giant is anticipated to deploy two multi-role naval warships, which would give its new generation of aircraft carrier strike groups greater muscle.
6 men arrested for alleged gang rape of teen tourist at European vacation hotspot
The female victim, who was also on vacation, and a group of her friends visited Playa de Palma Boulevard on Wednesday evening, which is known for its bar and nightclub scene. She met one of the German suspects and drank with him before going back to his hotel room, The Associated Press reported.
She told police that she attempted to leave the hotel room, but the suspects prevented her from fleeing. Several of the suspects then allegedly raped the teenager. The incident occurred at about 3:40 am Thursday, according to the woman’s statement to police.
A British tourist was arrested in May at the Palma Airport in Mallorca on suspicion of raping his son’s female friend and allegedly trying to flee the country, according to the Daily Mail.
While another British tourist was arrested at the same airport last week on suspicion of raping his girlfriend in their hotel room on the island, The Scottish Sun reported.
Convoys of Wagner Troops Roll Into Belarus
Belaruski Hajun, an opposition group that monitors military movements in Belarus, said a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying Russian flags and Wagner insignia rolled into the country Monday and made for a field camp that local authorities had offered to the company.
The troops arrived in standard pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs, without armor or heavy weapons. It wasn’t clear how many Wagner soldiers have moved to Belarus.
On Sunday, Ukrainian and Polish officials said that Wagner troops were training Belarus forces southeast of the capital.
Bridge and Base in Occupied Crimea Go Boom
Ukraine’s strategy of taking the fight to the Russian rear may have been on display from July 15 to 17 in occupied Crimea, after reports of a strike on the Kerch Bridge early this morning and an attack that possibly used Ukraine’s fleet of naval drones on the port of Sevastopol the previous day that put the peninsula on a state of emergency.
At around 3 a.m. July 17, two successive explosions were recorded on the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea with the Krasnodar region of Russia. Local residents reported that lights went out on some sections of the bridge followed by rising smoke.
Later on Monday morning, Russia officials said the attack killed a civilian couple and wounded their child.
Russia Kills Black Sea Grain Deal, Key to Global Food Supplies
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia wouldn’t renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative until its demands were met. Moscow, under strong international sanctions, wants better market access for its own agricultural products, including fertilizer and grain.
“Unfortunately, the part relating to Russia of these Black Sea agreements have not been implemented so far,” Peskov said. “Therefore, its effect is terminated.”
“When the part of the Black Sea deal related to Russia is implemented, Russia will immediately return to the implementation of the deal.”
Iran’s morality police renew clampdowns on hijab rules
Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their custody sparked nationwide protests.
The morality police had largely pulled back following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, as authorities struggled to contain mass protests calling for the overthrow of the theocracy that has ruled Iran for over four decades.
The protests largely died down earlier this year following a heavy crackdown in which over 500 protesters were killed and nearly 20,000 detained. But many women continued to flout the official dress code, especially in the capital, Tehran, and other cities.
On Sunday, Gen. Saeed Montazerolmahdi, a police spokesman, said the morality police would resume notifying and then detaining women not wearing hijab in public. In Tehran, the men and women of the morality police could be seen patrolling the streets in marked vans.
Taliban bar women from taking key medical school exam
Women’s rights have been eroded heavily in Afghanistan since the Taliban re-established control over the country and its population of 40.1 million in late August of 2021.
Earlier in July, Taliban leaders ordered all beauty parlors in the country to close by the 25th of the month.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health previously blocked women from taking medical school exit examinations in February.
The de facto rulers of Afghanistan also banned women from attending university last December.
In April, the Taliban government implemented a ban, prohibiting all women in Afghanistan from working for non-governmental aid organizations, including the United Nations.
Egypt building collapse kills at least a dozen
At least fifteen people were killed and many others injured on Monday when a five-story apartment building collapsed in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, local media reported, citing officials. Rescue efforts are in progress to locate survivors trapped in the wreckage.
Emergency workers who rushed to the scene in the Hadayek el Kobba neighborhood, about three kilometers from Cairo’s center, have recovered bodies as well as four survivors, according to the Egypt Independent. The injured have been taken to a hospital for treatment.
The state-run MENA news agency reported that authorities also evacuated a neighboring building.
South Korean flood death toll rises
The death toll from devastating floods following South Korea’s heaviest rains in a decade has risen to 40, after four additional bodies were recovered from a highway underpass near the central city of Cheongju.
There were also at least nine people still missing as of Monday, and dozens more were injured by landslides and other effects of the flooding rains, according to the South Korean Interior Ministry.
President Yoon Suk-yeol, who returned to Seoul on Monday following a surprise visit to Ukraine, said the disaster was worsened by his government’s failure to follow disaster-response policies in the most vulnerable areas.
Politics:
FBI Director WRECKED Over Ray Epps and Jan. 6 Investigation
Biden invites Netanyahu to meeting in the US
US President Joe Biden has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the United States in a phone call between the two leaders.
US needs a much firmer response to China: Gordon Chang
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang discusses holding the Chinese ‘communist state’ accountable, Biden officials visiting Beijing and tariffs on China.
Top Republicans turn up heat on Hunter Biden investigation
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., on lawmakers demanding more from the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden
Former Israeli Prime Minister Says US Is ‘No Longer Our Closest Ally’
Lapid did not go into detail about what has caused the rift, but also accused current government leadership in Israel of creating a “crisis.”
“The Israeli government is leading us into this crisis, making the biggest and most dramatic changes to the regime in our history, without holding a single discussion — not even one — about the economic, security, social and political consequences of the move,” Lapid said, according to the Times.
In a July 7 interview, Biden called the current Israeli government the “most extreme” that he has seen in his lifetime, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.
In March, a report revealed that the Biden administration had funded the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) group, which describes itself as an “independent, non-partisan, grassroots, non-profit organization,” that has been working overtime to oust Netanyahu. The State Department gave the organization $38,000 in 2022 despite the group’s blatant anti-Netanyahu stance.
Death threats and pedophilia accusations. How child trafficking took over California’s Capitol
Progressive Democrats have been hesitant to support bills that would increase penalties, wanting to avoid a return to policies promoting mass incarceration.
This has created an opening for Republicans, who have spent much of the year attacking Democrats and Public Safety Committee Chair Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, for opposing measures that would add prison time for fentanyl dealers.
Jones-Sawyer had to back down this spring and hear the series of fentanyl bills he previously declined to bring before the panel. Members still killed the measures that would have strengthened penalties for dealers.
But when it came to SB 14, four Democrats reversed course and joined two Republicans to vote in favor of SB 14 at the emergency meeting on July 13.
Roger Stone’s Historic Remarks at Turning Point Action Convention 2023
Commentary:
4 times Tucker Carlson said what we were ALL THINKING at Blaze Media Summit
Glenn recently sat down with Tucker Carlson for their first one-on-one conversation since Fox News removed Tucker from the air.
The conversation, part of the 2023 FAMiLY Leadership Summit broadcasted by Blaze Media, spanned everything from Tucker’s review of the presidential candidates he interviewed — and the one Mike Pence comment that made him cringe — to his thoughts on the mainstream media and who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Glenn reviews some of the biggest moments from the BlazeTV subscriber exclusive interview, including why Tucker is unafraid to say “whatever” he wants.
Megyn Kelly on Her Private Conversations with Trump and Tucker
Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing her weekend at the Turning Point Action conference where she met privately with former President Trump and Tucker Carlson, and she announces the upcoming interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis happening next week.
Pediatrician on vax, censorship: ‘We’re all being silenced for daring to question the data’
A well-established pediatrician says she lost her job over her refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in December 2021. Now, her most recent employer let her go after she testified in Washington about her safety concerns with the vaccine, she said on Liz Collin Reports.
Dr. Renata Moon joined Collin on her podcast to discuss freedom of speech, censorship, and the COVID-19 vaccine.
Does Kamala Harris REALLY want to ‘REDUCE POPULATION?’ These 2 stories suggest so
At a recent event about the Inflation Reduction Act, Vice President Kamala Harris said that in order to fight climate change, we’ll have to “reduce population.”
The White House immediately said she meant to say “reduce pollution” … but Glenn believes this may have been a Freudian slip.
Glenn reviews two stories that are examples of what progressive elites really think about the population and climate.
TYT Audience Revolts Over Trans Statements—The Culture War Distraction | SYSTEM UPDATE
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Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 1: Faith as an Adventure
In episode one, Jordan and his roundtable explore the themes of freedom against tyranny, God’s allowance of evil, and faith as an adventure within the first three chapters of Exodus.
They seek to answer the question of whether one should take the easy path even if it is wrong or do what is right despite it being hard.
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