'...'When I am president, Mexican cartels will cease to exist,' plays another clip of Scott during a campaign event. The ad is being launched less than a week after the first GOP primary debate that was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 'I will be the president that finishes the wall,' promises Scott in the ad. ...'
'...In a court hearing over the barrier near Eagle Pass, the U.S. Justice Department argued it was installed without federal authorization, while lawyers for the state said it notified the proper authorities....'
'At the time of his firing, Shokin was investigating oil company Burisma Holdings for corruption - when Hunter was serving on the firm's board. Joe Biden is alleged to have threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine if Shokin specifically was not fired for corruption. ...Years later, Biden actually bragged about his firing at a Council on Foreign Relations event in 2018. Biden said that he would withhold a billion dollars in U.S. aid if the Ukrainians did not agree to fire Shokin. 'I looked at them and said, 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money,' Biden said. 'Well, son of a b****. He got fired,' he continued. Republicans have said Hunter's Burisma entanglement and possible influence in Shokin's firing is evidence of the Biden family's influence peddling scheme.'
'An apple farmer who chose his Catholic faith over money has won a long-running legal battle against the city government that banned him from its farmers market for his biblical views on marriage. ...East Lansing punished Tennes by excluding Country Mills Farms from its popular invitation-only weekend farmers’ market. After submitting an application to be included, which was denied, Tennes sued the city in 2017. ...'
'Three days after The Post exposed 114 gates in the Arizona border wall have been welded wide open, allowing thousands to illegally enter the US, nothing has changed. New images taken Thursday show brazen human smugglers in a dark-colored van and a white SUV pull up and shamelessly drop migrants on the Mexican side of the border. They then escort them through the open gates...'
'“This isn’t that complicated, guys: Unlock American energy, drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear,” Ramaswamy slapped back, adding, “I’m not sure I exactly understood Mike Pence’s comment.”...DeSantis effectively blocked a question from co-moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum moments later when candidates were asked to raise their hands if they believed humans were contributing to climate change. “One of the reasons our country’s in decline is because of the way the corporate media treats Republicans versus Democrats,” the Florida governor said. “Biden was on the beach while those people [in Maui] were suffering. He was asked about it and he said ‘No comment.’ Are you kidding me?”...'
'...“So as president would I use force, would I treat them as foreign terrorist organizations?” DeSantis said. “You’re darn right I would.” DeSantis joins several other Republican presidential candidates, including former President Trump, a frontrunner in the race, who have backed the idea of military action to take out the cartels. ...'
'...Ramaswamy said that, if elected, he would deploy troops to the southern and potentially the northern borders. "I would use our own military to secure our own southern border. I think that is legally, ethically and constitutionally justified. That is how we seal the southern border. In fact, I think it's going to be an approach that we will eventually need to seal our own northern border as well," he said. ...'
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Source: www.foxnews.com'House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “On The Front Lines of the Border Crisis: A Hearing with Chief Patrol Agents.” Chairman Comer and Committee Republicans outlined how President Biden and his administration’s policies created the worst border crisis in American history. U.S. Border Patrol Chiefs testified about a crisis that has set records for the arrests of illegal border crossers, migrant deaths, narcotics seized, and suspected terrorists arrested trying to illegally cross the border. ...'
'...FEMA teams have checked in at three five-star hotels, Fairmont Kea Lani, Four Seasons, and the Grand Wailea Astoria, in Maui, as they carry out search and...'
'...MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender children, the second such appellate victory for gender-affirming care restrictions that have been adopted by a growing number of Republican-led states. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a judge’s temporary injunction against enforcing the law. ...Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called the ruling a “significant victory for our country, for children, and for common sense.”'
'Research has found that the sharp decline in domestic production from US shale wells is worse than the industry expected. This is forcing companies to bolster their workload to prevent output from slowing and develop new strategies to maximize already expensive drilling opportunities due to federal and state red tape. ...the government preventing more supply from coming to market through intense regulatory costs, consumers and businesses pay higher prices. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) has surged 12% over the last three months, trading above $80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the international benchmark for oil prices, has risen more than 11% since May to above $84 per barrel on London’s ICE Futures exchange. With oil accounting for about half of the cost of a gallon of gasoline, motorists are paying more at the pump this year. So far in 2023, the national average for a gallon of gas is up 20% and approaching $4. Perhaps the current regime in Washington will only be satisfied when the US outsources all of its energy needs overseas or depends on unreliable windmills that are killing whales....'
'The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is now at its highest level in over 20 years, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. ...High inflation has driven the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate 11 times since March 2022. Its fed funds rate has hit the highest level in 22 years. ...'
'...A group of House liberals is pushing to officially shorten the U.S. workweek to four days, saying that the time is right following the "nearly two-year-long pandemic," in a statement this week. ..."It is past time that we put people and communities over corporations and their profits'
'"It's nuts," Bill told Fox News. "Hawaii is part of the U.S. They should get a whole lot more assistance than they’ve been given."...On Aug. 13, while in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Biden faced criticism for initially responding "no comment" when asked about the disaster's high death toll and for offering relief payments of $700 per household for Hawaiians affected by the blazes. ...'
'...Comer said email evidence implicates Joe and Hunter Biden 'without a shadow of a doubt'>/b>...'
'Cops canvassed the neighborhood looking for two other suspects, who escaped on scooters, according to sources. A security guard who works at the former Lincoln Correctional Facility at 31 Central Park North said he saw the fight between migrants and what police called a “concerned citizen.” The guard, who declined to give his name because of his job, said he saw the man being chased by several male migrants down the block until he was backed into the glass door of a six-story apartment building....'
'...scandal is that often the coverup is worse than the crime. But that is not the case in the unraveling Bidengate scandal. The alleged crime here is so bad that it is probably the worst ever committed by an American president. ...Yet the coverup should be studied, too. It deserves superlatives for its longevity, inventiveness, and sheer audacity. The strategy has been simple: deny, deflect, destroy. Deny the facts. Deflect with distractions, and when all else fails, work tirelessly to destroy Trump, who was among the first to raise questions about the Biden family’s shady dealings. At Year 5, it may be the most successful coverup in modern history, especially since so many of the facts have been in plain sight for the entire time.'
'The White House confirms he is staying on the Nevada state side of the lake. The Nevada Globe is reporting he will be staying at the Incline Village Hyatt Regency, where secret service agents have been spotted. ...Another possible Biden home base is the gated community of Glenbrook, Nevada, which is home to some of Tahoe's richest residents. '
'Democrat Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has brought disgrace to the legal profession with her indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others...Willis, 52, was raised by her single father, John Clifford Floyd III, a onetime Black Panther with a criminal record...'
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'The Secret Service told President Joe Biden the name of the person who brought a packet of cocaine into the White House last month, according to three security sources with direct knowledge of the incident. All three sources independently told Soldier of Fortune the same name, which arose from an investigation into the incident. The sources currently work for a U.S. government agency, and are not authorized to speak to the media....'
'Huntsville, a city with a proud history of aerospace innovation, was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics. ...while the city worked to be even more central to the aerospace and military industry. It attracted legions of scientists, defense contractors and federal investment. And in the final days of the Trump administration, Huntsville was selected as the permanent home of the United States Space Command. But this week the Pentagon announced it had reversed that call...The Biden administration’s decision, said Representative Terri Sewell, the lone Democrat representing Alabama in Washington, “bows to the whims of politics over merit.”'
'As we look towards the fall, and with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, your agencies will be implementing increases in the amount of in-person work for your team. This is a priority of the President — and I am looking to each of you to aggressively execute this shift in September and October."'
'...Former President Donald Trump said Friday during a campaign stop in Alabama if he wins the presidential election in 2024, he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations made by House Republicans of criminal influence peddling schemes by Joe Biden and members of his family.
"From the first day in office, I will appoint a special prosecutor to study each and every of the many claims being brought forth by Congress concerning all of the crooked acts, including bribes from China and many other foreign countries that go into the coffers of the Biden crime family," Trump said during the Alabama Republican Party Summer Dinner in the state capital of Montgomery. "It is a crime family. He is a corrupt, corrupt person.
"The Biden crime family was taking in money from China, Ukraine, Russia, and so many more ...'
'...When the Fitch Ratings agency announced this week that it was downgrading its long-term credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+, Biden administration officials were ready — and angry. Administration officials had been lobbying Fitch against the downgrade...The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management,” they wrote.
