The country's most notorious turncoat passed away.
The former FBI agent who worked as a foreign agent for the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation passed away at the age of 79.
Robert Hanssen, a former top level FBI agent was perhaps the country's most notorious spies. He spent over 20 years giving secrets to the Russians. His information set back U.S. intelligence for 15 years.
He died while serving 15 consecutive LIFES in Florence Federal Time Out, the United States Supermax. He took a plea deal to avoid the DEATH card.
Eventually, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange will be there. Foreign operative and Biden accuser Tara Reade will be eventually in Carswell, the high level federal time out for women.
In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to offer his services, beginning his first espionage cycle, lasting until 1981. He restarted his espionage activities in 1985 and continued until 1991, when he ended communications during the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing he would be exposed. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. Throughout his spying, he remained anonymous to the Russians.
Hanssen sold thousands of classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal. Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. After Ames' arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved. The FBI paid $7 million to a KGB agent to obtain a file on an anonymous mole, whom the FBI later identified as Hanssen through fingerprint and voice analysis.
Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park, near his home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Vienna, Virginia, after leaving a package of classified materials at a dead drop site. He was charged with selling U.S. intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over twenty-two years. After his arrest, he was initially detained at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center. To avoid the death penalty, Hanssen pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of espionage and one of conspiracy to commit espionage. He was sentenced to fifteen life terms without the possibility of parole, and was promptly transferred to ADX Florence, where he remained incarcerated until his death in 2023.
It's official, Michael Richard Pence is jumping into the 2024 Republican presidential primary race. He will face off against his old boss Washed Up 45. By the way, the former president confirms that Pence will not be his running mate if he gets the nomination.
Pence who was the 48th President of the United States, former Indiana governor, former House majority whip and talk radio host has filed his paperwork with the FEC on Monday.
Pence was in Iowa with former second lady Karen Pence. He took aim at the former president for his praise of North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un.
I am guessing his brother, Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN) will endorse his brother.
Pence was a far right talk radio host who operated out of Indianapolis, Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana.
Pence, the nation’s 48th vice president, will formally launch his bid for the Republican nomination with a video and kickoff event in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, which is his 64th birthday, according to people familiar with his plans. He made his candidacy official Monday with the Federal Election Commission.
While Washed Up 45 is currently leading the early fight for the nomination, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis polling consistently in second, Pence supporters see a lane for a reliable conservative who espouses many of the previous administration’s policies but without the constant tumult.
While he frequently lauds the accomplishments of the “Trump-Pence administration,” a Pence nomination in many ways would be a return to positions long associated with the Republican establishment but abandoned as the former president reshaped the party in his image. Pence has warned against the growing populist tide in the party, and advisers see him as the only traditional, Reagan-style conservative in the race.
A staunch opponent of abortion rights, Pence supports a national ban on the procedure and has campaigned against transgender-affirming policies in schools. He has argued that changes to Social Security and Medicare, like raising the age for qualification, should be on the table to keep the programs solvent — which both Washed Up 45 and DeSantis have opposed — and criticized DeSantis for his escalating feud with Disney. He also has said the U.S. should offer more support to Ukraine against Russian aggression, while admonishing “Putin apologists” in the party unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader.
Pence, who describes himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” has spent months laying the groundwork for an expected run, holding events in early voting states like Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, visiting churches, delivering policy speeches and courting donors.
Washed Up 45 and Pence won in 2016. The two served one term in office.
Pence’s team sees Iowa and its evangelical Christian voters as critical to his potential path to victory. Advisers say he plans to campaign aggressively in the state, hitting every one of its 99 counties before its first-in-the-nation caucuses next year.
The campaign is expected to lean heavily on town halls and retail stops aimed at reintroducing Pence to voters who only know him from his time as the former president’s second-in-command. Pence served for more than a decade in Congress and as Indiana’s governor before he was tapped as Washed Up 45’s running mate in 2016.
As vice president, Pence had been an exceeding loyal defender of the former president until the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when the former president falsely tried to convince Pence and his supporters that Pence had the power to unilaterally overturn the results of the 2020 election.
That day, a mob of Washed Up 45’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol building after being spurred on by the president’s lies that the 2020 election had been stolen. Many in the crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as Pence, his staff and his family ran for safety, hiding in a Senate loading dock.
Pence has called Washed Up 45’s actions dangerous and said the country is looking for a new brand of leadership in the 2024 election.
“I think we’ll have better choices,” he recently told The Associated Press. “The American people want us to return to the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, but I think they want to see leadership that reflects more of the character of the American people.”
Pence has spent the 2 1/2 years since then strategically distancing himself from the former president. But he faces skepticism from both anti-Washed Up 45 voters who see him as too close to the former president, as well as the former president's loyalists, many of whom still blame him for failing to heed Washed Up 45’s demands to overturn the pair’s election defeat, even though Pence’s role overseeing the counting of the Electoral College vote was purely ceremonial and he never had the power to impact the results.
Pence joins a crowded Republican field that includes the former president, DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen Tim Scott of South Carolina, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to launch his own campaign Tuesday evening in New Hampshire, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will announce his bid Wednesday in Fargo.
With Washed Up 45, a thrice-married reality star, facing skepticism among some Republicans during his 2016 run, his pick of Pence as a running mate assuaged concerns from evangelical Christians and others that he wasn’t sufficiently conservative. As vice president, Pence refused to ever criticize the former president publicly and often played the role of emissary, trying to translate the former president's unorthodox rhetoric and policy proclamations, particularly on the world stage.
Another vice president wants to be president. Six vice presidents were elected as president. Joe Biden is currently a president and former vice president.
After Washed Up 45’s legal efforts to stave off defeat of the 2020 election were quashed by courts and state officials, he and his team zeroed in on Jan. 6, the date that a joint session of Congress would meet to formally certify President Joe Biden’s victory. In the weeks leading up to the session, the former president engaged in an unprecedented pressure campaign to convince Pence he had the power to throw out the electoral votes from battleground states won by Biden, even though he did not.
As the riot was underway and after Pence and his family were rushed off the Senate floor and into hiding, the former president tweeted, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.” Video footage of the attack shows rioters reading Washed Up 45’s words aloud and crowds breaking into chants that Pence should be hanged. A makeshift gallows was photographed outside the Capitol.
Pence has said that Washed Up 45 “ endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day” and that history will hold him accountable.
Despite his harrowing experience, Pence opposed efforts to testify in investigations into Washed Up 45’s actions on and in the lead-up to Jan. 6. He refused to appear before the House committee investigating the attack and fought a subpoena issued by the special counsel overseeing numerous former president investigations, though he did eventually testify before a grand jury.
Only six former U.S. vice presidents have been elected to the White House, including Biden, who is running for a second term.
The former president praised North Korea's leader.
Think about it. If President Joe Biden did it.... the Republicans would go ape shit.
But anything Biden does the far right is going bonkers over it.
We expect this week that former vice president Mike Pence, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum to enter the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race.
All the candidates are competing against the frontrunner Washed Up 45 who has already a large lead despite the amount of candidates, the controversies and the relentless media coverage, he is in a comfortable position to avoid Iowa.
The Republican candidates pounced on his praise of Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea.
“Congratulations to Kim Jung [sic] Un!” Washed Up 45 wrote Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Washed Up 45 administration, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the former president’s post at Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst's “Roast and Ride” event Saturday in Iowa.
Washed Up 45 believex Kim Jong Un would listen to him.
“Kim Jong Un is a thug and a tyrant, and he has tested ballistic missiles against our allies,” Haley told NBC News. “He’s threatened us. There’s nothing to congratulate him about. I mean, he’s been terrible to his people. He’s been terrible to America, and we need to stop being nice to countries that hate America.”
DeSantis said he was “surprised” Washed Up 45 praised Kim, whom he called a “murderous dictator.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is expected to announce a presidential bid this week, criticized his former running mate for congratulating Kim.
“Whether it's my former running mate or anyone else, nobody should be praising the dictator in North Korea or praising the leader in Russia, who has launched an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine,” Pence said Saturday in an interview with Fox News. “This is a time when we ought to make it clear to the world that we stand for freedom and we stand with those who stand for freedom.”
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson also piled on the former president in a tweet Saturday: “Kim Jong-Un, the tyrant dictator in North Korea should not be praised by Donald Trump for a leadership role in the World Health Organization. We sanction leaders who oppress their people. We do not elevate them on the world stage.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has ruled out running for president but recently hosted a private donor retreat to raise money for GOP candidates, joined the fray as well. “Taking our country back from Joe Biden does not start with congratulating North Korea’s murderous dictator,” he tweeted.
Kemp drew the former president’s ire after he refused to push baseless claims of election fraud in Georgia.
Washed Up 45 campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung attacked DeSantis in a statement, arguing that the Iowa event, which the former president did not attend, would not affect his status as the front-runner.
He filed paperwork.
"President Trump achieved peace through strength and, as a result, no new wars were started under his presidency. On the other hand, Ron DeSantis is a puppet of the establishment war mongers and doesn’t have the strength, fortitude, or will to stand up against America’s adversaries," Cheung said. "In Iowa there were far better candidates than DeSantis who didn’t come across as an awkward and wooden swamp-like knock off of Jeb Bush."
He also touted the former president's record on the economy, energy, the southern border and foreign policy.
In 2019, the former president became the first sitting U.S. president to step onto North Korean soil since the 1953 armistice divided the peninsula, after having met with Kim twice before.
During his presidency, Washed Up 45 claimed that he had “developed a very, very good relationship” with Kim.
“We’ll see what that means,” the former president said in remarks to governors in February 2019. “But he’s never had a relationship with anybody from this country and hasn’t had lots of relationships anywhere.”
Kim also heaped praise on Washed Up 45 in a letter to the White House before a summit between them in Vietnam in 2019 while making it clear he wished to negotiate only with the former president and not his envoys, current and former U.S. officials said at the time.
After nine years of moderating Meet The Press, Chuck Todd announced he will step down and NBC News will appoint Kristen Welker as his replacement.
Todd has been hammered by media critics for not fact checking guests and putting more Republicans on than Democrats. He will remain on until transition.
“It’s been an amazing nearly decadelong run. I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade,” Todd said during the broadcast Sunday. “I’ve loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain Washington to America.”
He plans to remain at NBC in a new role as chief political analyst, where he will serve as a key voice both in the field and during coverage of major events. He will also focus on long-form journalism.
“When I took over ‘Meet the Press,’ it was a Sunday show that had a lot of people questioning whether it still could have a place in the modern media space,” Todd added. “Well, I think we’ve answered that question and then some.”
In a memo to staff members, NBC News’ president of editorial, Rebecca Blumenstein, and NBC News’ senior vice president of politics, Carrie Budoff Brown, hailed “Chuck’s thoughtful and passionate leadership.”
“‘Meet the Press’ has sustained its historic role as the indispensable news program on Sunday mornings,” Blumenstein and Budoff Brown said. “Through his penetrating interviews with many of the most important newsmakers, the show has played an essential role in politics and policy, routinely made front-page news, and framed the thinking in Washington and beyond.”
Welker joins the ranks of hosts that included Tim Russert, who presided over the show from 1991 until his death in 2008. She is the second woman — following its inaugural host, Martha Rountree — and the first Black journalist to moderate “Meet the Press.”
“Meet the Press” is the longest-running show on American television, celebrating its 75th anniversary last year. It has led its rival shows in total viewers for more than eight years and won its first Emmy during Todd’s tenure for a special report titled “Schools, America, and Race.”
Todd was at the helm of the show during some of the most seminal political events of the last decade — including the final years of President Barack Obama’s administration, the 2016 presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump, and the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
In one of the most memorable interviews of the early Trump era, Todd asked Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump’s top aides, why then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer used his first appearance in the briefing room to dispute reports about the crowd size at the inauguration. Conway replied that Spicer was providing “alternative facts” — a turn of phrase that quickly became synonymous with the Trump administration’s attitude toward facts and the news media.
In response, Todd said: “Look, alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods.”
Todd — the 12th moderator of “Meet the Press” and a five-time Emmy-winning journalist — saw himself as a custodian of the show. “I don’t own this, I’m just house sitting,” he said during a 75th anniversary celebration in Washington last year. “I want to leave it in better shape for the next person, and every person has done that.”
Kristen Welker will be new host in Fall.
Welker has regularly filled in for Todd on “Meet the Press.” In his remarks during Sunday’s broadcast, Todd said he was ready to step back in part because Welker has been “ready for this for a long time.”
“I’ve had the privilege of working with her from essentially her first day, and let me just say she’s the right person in the right moment,” he said.
Welker joined NBC News in 2010 and became a mainstay in the White House briefing room. She’s covered the last three presidential elections, traveled around the world with top political leaders, and moderated the final 2020 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. In 2020 she was named the co-host of “Weekend Today.”
“She has masterfully moderated primary and general election presidential debates and her sharp questioning of lawmakers is a masterclass in political interviews,” Blumenstein and Budoff Brown said in their memo to staff members. “She is a dogged reporter who relishes getting big scoops and is widely admired throughout the bureau and the network for her deeply collaborative nature.”
Welker will take over the show as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up and prepares to enter the primary season. The first GOP debate is scheduled for Aug. 23, the Republican National Committee announced last week.
Todd took over “Meet the Press” in September 2014, succeeding David Gregory, expanding the program’s broadcast and digital footprint to include a weekly podcast, a blog and an annual film festival. In addition to the Sunday program, he helped launch and hosted “MTP Daily,” a weekday version of the show that aired on MSNBC before moving to the streaming service NBC News Now last year.
He previously served as NBC News’ chief White House correspondent and host of the MSNBC series “The Daily Rundown.” Before arriving at NBC, Chuck was editor-in-chief of The Hotline, a political news and commentary website, where he developed a reputation as an incisive elections analyst with a quick command of data.
Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since but some still treat them as foreigners.
Two incidents involving Puerto Ricans being called foreigners.
Kroger has issued an apology after a man visiting Savannah, Georgia from Puerto Rico had his driver's license denied as a valid form of ID by a cashier.
Ricardo Florit went to the Kroger on Ogeechee Road back on May 21 to pick up some groceries.
"I bought basically $160 worth of groceries, just regular stuff. Between the items, though, there was one bottle of wine and one beer," Florit said.
When the cashier asked to see Florit's ID, he presented his Puerto Rico driver's license.
Florit said, "Here's the thing, as soon as I whip it out, he seems to recognize it. He says, 'I can't accept that, I need to see your passport.'"
Florit said he immediately tried to correct the situation by assuring the cashier he is a U.S. citizen who has actually served in the U.S. Military.
"I said, 'Listen. It's a valid driver's license legal in 50 states.' And he says, 'Oh, I know. We used to accept them, but we changed our policy. We no longer do.'"
Florit said he ended up calling over the manager.
"I made it a point to tell her I served this military for 18 years, I have been up and down the states left and right, north and bottom and I know it's just as valid an ID," he said.
After some back and forth, he said the manager did allow him to purchase the items, but Florit still left the store feeling frustrated.
He sent an email to Kroger representatives, as a result, to inform them of the incident. He said the response he got was very basic, but he could understand why.
"I know that, unfortunately, in the world we live in, people do try to do things to gain an edge for lawsuit or gain money and whatnot, so I am not offended it did not straight out give an apology," Florit said.
There was another incident in May at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana. A Puerto Rican man who attempted to rent a car at the New Orleans airport last week was denied because he did not have a passport.
Humberto Marchand told CBS News that he'd already paid for a rental car when he landed at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on May 9. But when he presented his Puerto Rican driver's license to an employee at the Hertz rental car counter, he said he was asked for a valid passport. The employee insinuated that Marchand is foreign and said he couldn't rent a vehicle without showing his passport, Marchand told CBS News.
Hertz said in a statement emailed to The Times-Picayune|New Orleans Advocate that Puerto Ricans are not required to show their passports when renting cars in the U.S.
"We sincerely regret that our policy was not followed and have apologized to Mr. Marchand and refunded his rental," Hertz said in the statement. "We are reinforcing our policies with employees to ensure that they are understood and followed consistently across our locations.”
Video recorded by Marchand shows a Hertz employee asking him to leave. When he refuses, she asks him if he wants her to call the police.
A Kenner Police Department officer responded to the reported disturbance at 11:37 p.m. and also asked Marchand to leave, according to Cpt. Michael Cunningham, a spokesperson for the department.
Marchand told CBS that as he was leaving, the officer said he would call "the border authorities" if necessary.
Cunningham denied that claim.
"We viewed body cam footage of the officer's encounter and nowhere in video does officer mention Border Patrol, ICE, Immigration or anything of that nature during his encounter," Cunningham said in an emailed statement.
Rep. Jenniffer Gonzales-Colon (R-PR) is the resident commissioner for Puerto Rico.
President Joe Biden is the current leader of the United States. He is also the head of state of the five occupied U.S. territories. Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) have advocated for U.S. voting rights expansion and those living in the territories to vote for president.
If you rent a vehicle, you must have a valid U.S. or Canadian identification.
If you win a jackpot at a casino in the United States, a valid U.S. identification is needed.
That includes passports, military IDs and state/territorial identification.
The five occupied U.S. territories, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa have a total population of 4.3 million.
The territories have a governor and a U.S. Representative who is a non voting delegate.
In Puerto Rico, their representative is a resident commissioner who serves a four year term.
Puerto Rican statehood has been a controversial topic. Republicans are racist. They do not want Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia statehood due to minority majority and the possible Democratic swing.
Those living in these places (except American Samoa) are U.S. Citizens. Those living in American Samoa are not U.S. citizens. They are U.S. nationals and are required to have a U.S. passport to enter the mainland. That is controversial due to traditionalist culture and the Organic Act of 1898.
Those living in the U.S. territories cannot vote in the U.S. presidential elections.
You do not need a passport to visit Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands. You need a passport to enter Guam (case by case basis) and American Samoa (since U.S. Customs and Border Protection is not available and America Samoa has their own customs).
Although a U.S. territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is self autonomous. The territory is debating over it should be a state or an independent country.
It has it's own Olympic organization and is recognized as a country in the Winter and Summer games. The Olympics also has athletes representing American Samoa and Guam.
Republicans oppose voting rights in the U.S. territories as well as statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
Puerto Rico has a population of 3.4 million people. The territory's main languages are Spanish and English. Spanish is spoken by 89% of the territory.
Cable news CEO Chris Licht has lost trust among CNN staff and Warner Bros. Discovery's controversial CEO David Zaslav. Licht best known for helping build The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Morning Joe.
Licht had led CNN further down the pit.
While hyperpartisan networks like Fox and MSNBC have generated ratings with endless banter about Washed Up 45, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, CNN struggled to generate a fair share of the banter.
CNN has allowed Washed Up 45 a platform to spread endless bullshit. The moderator Kaitlin Collins gets promoted after being called a "nasty woman." It riled up all the CNN staff. They thought it was totally incompetent to allow the former president go on lying without being fact-checked.
Licht fired Robin Meade, Jeffrey Toobin, John Harwood, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter. Demoted many of its notable contributors and told hosts to keep partisan coverage limited.
Tim Alberta of the The Atlantic wrote that Licht took a gamble a lost.
The story is called, "INSIDE THE MELTDOWN AT CNN: CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network's reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?"
Oliver Darcy, CNN Media Correspondent and Stelter's former protege was scolded by Licht when he discussed the frustration among CNN staff. They are angry that Zaslav wanting to make CNN as bombastic as Fox.
Fox managed to lose $787.5 million after reporting lies. CNN is losing ratings because they want to be stale and non partisan. They eliminated HLN, gave more airtime to misleading figures and hired Charles Barkley to be paired with Gayle King.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the far right once again prove to the world that they are idiots.
They ain't doctors or scientists. They are far right morons.
Jamie Foxx has yet disclosed the reasons why he spent weeks in the hospital. Even I thought he was in dire straits.
The entertainer has remained out of the spotlight since his incident but it has not stopped speculation and concerns that he may have a permanent issue.
Again, there is no proof that any of the coronavirus vaccines caused any dangerous side effects. It does cause mild pain and you may experience drowsiness.
During an appearance on Dr. Drew Pinsky's online show 'Ask Dr. Drew,' former New York Daily News gossip columnist A.J. Benza made allegations that Jamie Foxx experienced a stroke, leading to partial blindness and paralysis as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.
While Benza lacks medical credentials, Benza asserted that Foxx suffered from a blood clot in his brain due to the vaccine and implied that he was compelled to get vaccinated for his role in the Netflix film, Back in Action.
"Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after he got the shot. He did not want the shot, but in the movie he was in, he was pressured to get it. The blood clot in the brain caused him at that point to be partially paralyzed and blind," he was quoted as saying to the podcaster.
He stated that his information came from an anonymous source.
Foxx was hospitalized on April 11th following a medical complication, and in early May, he released a statement expressing appreciation for the support he had received.
Subsequently, his daughter confirmed that he was in the process of recovery and was engaging in activities like playing pickleball.
Further investigations and medical expertise are required to establish a conclusive link.
There is no evidence that the coronavirus vaccines has caused any dangerous side effects.
The most known is a mild pain and possible drowsiness.
An Orlando area mother faces a handful of charges after her children were injured in a car fire outside the shopping mall in the suburb of Oviedo. The Seminole County Sheriff's Department has announced that they arrested the mother for negligence and of course shoplifting.
While her car was on fire, the woman went into the Oviedo Mall to shoplift with an unknown male accomplice. The suspect would soon realize her escape vehicle was on fire.
The woman would drop her pilfered goods and try to rescue the children.
Alicia Moore, 24, had parked her car on May 26 near a Dillard’s store at the Oviedo Mall. When she parked the car, Moore left her two children inside and went into the store.
Security at the store saw Moore and an unidentified man shoplifting for about an hour before leaving, the news outlet reported.
When Moore and the man got outside, she saw her car in flames, dropped the stolen merchandise, and ran to her car, according to WFTV.
Florida mom loses her car, her children and possibly her freedom.
Shoppers at the mall saw the fire and ran to try to help the two children get out of the car, according to the arrest report obtained by CNN. Both children had multiple first-degree burns to their faces and ears. They were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Moore was arrested by police for outstanding warrants in other counties. She was also charged with neglect of a child with great bodily harm and first-degree arson, WFTV reported.
Being that the fire happened during a commission of a felony, which is why Moore is facing an arson charge, according to the news outlet.
Investigators have not been able to figure out the cause of the car fire but found that if Moore was not neglectful then the children would not have been injured, police said according to CNN.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The jobs report for month of May will show whether the damage caused by the Republican Party and its far right allies will impact the economy. They caused chaos during the debt ceiling debacle as well as their "pointless" boycotts against companies that are "woke."
For the month of May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 339,000 were added.
The unemployment rate has risen to 3.7%.
For the 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia, the jobs were spread across the country.
Biden can brag that despite the rumors of a recession, jobs are still coming.
The unfortunate side of a jobs report is the aftermath.
Being laid off or being fired from a job really sucks. Take it from me, I hate it. I am stable but I hate the two jobs I am working at. They don't pay enough and I based my whole life around them and nothing else. It has to come to an end soon.
The things observed:
There is a writer's strike. The Writers Guild of America and its union representatives have decided to strike over the networks not paying enough for its writers. Many of these top executives are making 9 figure salaries.
The controversies continue to pile up for Washed Up 45. He was caught on audio admitting that he violated the rules when it comes to dealing with sensitive material.
Companies are closing.
The special council overseeing this, Jack Smith is close to wrapping this up. He is also involved in the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020 elections.
The former president also alluded to deliberately hiding documents and ignoring the National Archives request. He appeared on Softball Hannity's right wing shitshow for a town hall.
President Joe Biden took a fall and the far right are obsessed with his health. They are not doctors but they're speculations are driving discussion about the age of current lawmakers and the president.
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) voted with Republicans to overturn the Biden Student Loan Debt Forgiveness program. The three face a tough reelection fight. Manchin and Sinema have not confirmed whether they are running for reelection.
71 Republicans and 46 Democrats in the House of Representatives prove to the country that they're incompetent. They voted against the debt ceiling increase due to their partisan extremism. No surprise there that those who voted against it have no legislative accomplishments. Some who are running for governor, Senate or trying to get into the White House are likely doomed to failure.
Anheuser Busch and Target seen slumps in sales due to far right backlash against "woke."
U.S. Department of Homeland Security warn that Pride Events are under threat of politically motivated violence. The LGBTQ community has faced unprecedented threats from the far right. Florida teacher Jenna Barbee becomes an activist after Florida's Board of Education forced her to resign after a Hernando County School Board Member reported her to them after she shown Disney's Strange World which featured a character who identified as a queer.
Manchin and Tester voted to reject student debt cancellation. Manchin also added pork to the budget and debt ceiling increase.
Mississippi authorities and the U.S. Justice Department are involved in the police shooting of 11-year old Black boy named Aderrien Murry. The boy survived his injuries but the question is, why?
The boy called 9-1-1 on a report of a domestic dispute involving his mother. Murry's mother gave the following account of the shooting: at 4 a.m., a man, who had fathered another child with her, came to her home in an "irate" mood, so she directed Murry to call the police; after which one officer that arrived at her home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside", but then this officer shot Murry when Murry came "from around the corner", entering the living room from a hallway. Murry's mother also said that the officer who shot Murry later helped her render aid to Murry, until medics came to the scene. The Murry family's lawyer said that Murry was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and also said that since Murry's height was "about 4 foot 10" inches (1.47 m), the officer "could not have been confused" between Murry and the man Murry contacted the police about, as the man is over 6 feet tall (over 1.82 m). Murry's family have called for police body camera footage to be released, and also called for the officer to be terminated from his position and charged with aggravated assault.
Within two weeks of the shooting, Murry and his mother initiated a lawsuit in federal court, against the officer who shot him, as well as the city of Indianola, its police chief, and five unnamed police officers; the lawsuit alleged "negligence and excessive force" and requested $5 million in compensation.
Bed Bath & Beyond, Tuesday Morning and Jenny Craig are gone. Target, Walmart, Kroger, JC Penney, Macy's, Big Lots, Best Buy, Foot Locker, Champs Sports and Gap are closing locations.
Wages are not meeting up to the demand.
Republicans already signal impeachment, national abortion bans, more guns on the streets, ending birthright citizenship, stopping the Biden pledge to cancel student debt, use taxpayer money to build a border wall, ban transgender people from playing gender based sports, start endless investigations into the president, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Big Tech, the FBI, the pull out in Afghanistan, repeal the Affordable Care Act, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, end COVID pandemic assistance and enforce voter ID laws on all Americans.
Payrolls in the public and private sector increased by 339,000 for the month, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and marking the 29th straight month of positive job growth.
Sinema requested more security after threats. She is facing backlash for betraying Democrats.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in May against the estimate for 3.5%, even though the labor force participation rate was unchanged. The jobless rate was the highest since October 2022, though still near the lowest since 1969.
May’s hiring jump was almost exactly in line with the 12-month average of 341,000 in a job market that has held up remarkably well in an economy that has been slowing.
Professional and business services led job creation for the month with a net 64,000 new hires. Government helped boost the numbers with an addition of 56,000 jobs, while health care contributed 52,000.
Other notable gainers included leisure and hospitality (48,000), construction (25,000), and transportation and warehousing (24,000).
Despite the big jobs gain, the unemployment rate increased due in large part to a sharp decline of 369,000 in self-employment. That was part of an overall drop of 310,000 counted as employed in the household survey, which is used to calculate the unemployment rate and generally is considered more volatile than the survey of establishments used for the headline payrolls number.
“The upshot is that the only genuine sign of weakness in the report was the decline in average weekly hours worked to 34.3, from 34.4, which left them at the lowest level since the Covid nadir in April 2020,” wrote Paul Ashworth, chief North America economist for Capital Economics.
An alternative measure of unemployment that encompasses discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged higher to 6.7%.
May’s jobs numbers come amid a challenging time for the economy, with many experts still expecting a recession later this year or early in 2024.
The Congress has less than most Americans. It is infuriating that the average worker works more hours than those 117 House members and 36 senators.
Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the president. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.
President Joe Biden's headaches:
The Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
Inflation.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. George Santos (R-NY), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO).
Republican governors Ron DeSantis, Kay Ivey, Greg Abbott, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Bill Lee, Glenn Youngkin, Kristie Noem, Kim Reynolds, Brian Kemp, Brad Little and Greg Gianforte
The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
Anti-Vaxxers.
Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. The idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
Fox, Breitbart, Libs of TikTok, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies. The endless attacks on the president's age, First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the conspiracies about the president's mental capacity and health.
The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless spending.
The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
Vladimir Putin.
Xi Jinping.
Kim Jong-Un.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Alexander Lukashenko
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations.
An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.
The Freedumb Caucasians with a Black conservative. The Republicans rejected their own budget deal.
You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.
Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.
Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!
DEAD
BORN
THE PANDEMIC
CLIMATE CHANGE
IN PRISON
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
IN HIGH SCHOOL
IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
VOLUNTEER
DISABLED
INFLATION
STAY AT HOME PARENT
RETIRED
QUIT ON THEIR OWN
TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT
NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
ACTIVE MILITARY
NATURAL DISASTERS
MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPT DAILY ROUTINE
BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS
Jobs are looking good despite fears of an economic slowdown.
Companies are still trying to hire employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.
Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.
Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market
We can't always assume that folks are lazy. People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus and folks are tired of the status quo of their jobs.
Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.
Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.
We are fighting for the Middle Class.
Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience.
Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments killed millions of Americans. Biden has a slim majority in Congress and things can't be done with obstruction from both parties.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that women deserve the right to safe medical procedures. Let them know that their failure to pass legislation to lower prices are the reasons why the economy is in a free fall.
People trip over things. It happens! No one is a God.
The extremes are talking about President Joe Biden falling after he delivered a commencement speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The president was not seriously injured. Embarrassed but fine.
The 80 year old is the oldest president currently serving. We get it. However, the arm chair doctors and Fox folks are going all in on speculating the health of the president.
He tripped over a sandbag. He was helped by members of the U.S. Secret Service. He got back up and went back to his seat without any help.
After Biden was helped up, he pointed behind him, seeming to indicate that he had tripped over a sandbag used to hold the teleprompter in place. He mingled with other officials afterward, smiling and giving a "thumbs up" sign.
Fox of course asked Washed Up 45 about it.
"He actually fell down? Well I hope he wasn’t hurt."
The former president added, "You gotta be careful about that," even if you have to "tip-toe down a ramp."
In June 2020, Washed Up 45's slow, careful descent of a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point had some observers questioning his agility. "The last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with," the former president had posted on Truth Social.
This February, doctors declared Biden healthy and fit for duty after a physical examination, noting the president does not drink alcohol or use tobacco and exercises "at least" five times a week.
Last June, Biden fell as he was dismounting his bicycle, after snaring a foot in a toe clip, but was uninjured.
Danny Masterson is found guilty in California of rape. He is best known for his role on That's 70s Show and being married to actress/singer Bijou Phillips. The former actor was handcuffed and led away to the Los Angeles County lockup.
Masterson will join Tory Lanez in a possible 30 years lockup. Lanez faces a similar fate and labeling due to his shooting conviction of then girlfriend Megan Thee Stallion
The former actor will be labeled a TIER III offender.
The seven-woman, five-man jury could not reach a verdict on a third count, which alleged the sexual predator raped a former girlfriend, after having deliberated for over a week, The Associated Press reported.
The predator, 47, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs while his wife wept. His family and friends sat in stunned silence.
The verdict came some six months after the predator’s first trial, at which he also faced charges of raping three women he met through the Church of Scientology, ended in a mistrial, with jurors leaning toward acquittal.
He was charged with raping the three women — identified at trial as Jane Doe #1, Jane Doe #2 and Jane Doe #3 — at his Hollywood Hills home from 2001 to 2003.
All three accusers are former members of the Church of Scientology, to which the predator still belongs.
“I am experiencing a complex array of emotions — relief, exhaustion, strength, sadness — knowing that my abuser, Danny Masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behavior," Jane Doe #2 said after the verdict was handed down. "I am disappointed that he was not convicted on all counts, but take great solace in the fact that he, the Church of Scientology, and others, will have to fully account for their abhorrent actions in civil court.”
Jane Doe #3, whose count the jury did not convict the predator on, said she was "devastated that he has dodged criminal accountability for his heinous conduct against me. "
"Despite my disappointment in this outcome, I remain determined to secure justice, including in civil court, where I, along with my co-plaintiffs, will shine a light on how Scientology and other conspirators enabled and sought to cover up Masterson’s monstrous behavior,” she said.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón thanked all of the women who came forward.
"Their courage and strength have been an inspiration to us all," Gascón said in a release after the verdict. “While we are disappointed that the jury did not convict on all counts, we respect their decision. The verdicts handed down by the jury in this case were undoubtedly a difficult one to reach and we thank the jurors for their service."
Just as in his first trial, the predator did not take the stand. And his defense attorneys declined to call any witnesses.
Bijou Phillips may have to divorce him. He won't see her and their child for years.
He has also denied assaulting a fourth woman, identified as Jane Doe #4, who told the court at his first trial he had raped her, too.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo initially denied the prosecution’s request to put Jane Doe #4 on the stand in the first trial, but she changed her mind after prosecutors argued that Masterson’s lawyer opened the door by suggesting that his three other accusers colluded against him. The predator was not charged with raping the fourth woman.
Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller put Jane Doe #4 on the stand again at Masterson’s retrial along with a fifth woman, who testified that Masterson raped her in 2000 after a cast party in Toronto, Deadline reported. The fifth woman did not testify in the first trial. Unlike the predator and the three Jane Does he was charged with raping, the additional witnesses are not Scientologists.
Both trials focused a lot of unwanted attention on the Church of Scientology, which the Jane Does have accused of trying to cover up the allegations.
At the retrial, Olmedo made it clear once again that Scientology was not a defendant. But she again allowed witnesses to testify that church officials pressured them not to talk to police about the rape allegations.
Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw has denied those allegations and insisted, repeatedly, that church doctrine requires members to “abide by all the laws of the land.”
Diana Dasrath reported from Los Angeles and Corky Siemaszko from New York City.
Until late 2024 when the U.S. election is over and whether President Joe Biden or president-elect is prepared for another showdown with Republicans.
The 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats who voted against the debt ceiling increase are the extremists within the Congress. They are the insufferable lawmakers who make Americans hate politics and the direction of the country.
The agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suspends the nation’s debt ceiling until January 1, 2025. It also contained several budget cuts, and was sealed with the help of centrist Democrats and Republicans, the AP reported.
But some Republicans said the deal didn’t cut spending enough, while McCarthy said it was only a “first step.” The 99-page bill restricts spending for two years and changes policies including new work requirements for older Americans who get food aid and allowing an Appalachian natural gas line. It gives more money to defense and veterans.
At first June 1 was believed to be the day that the country would run out of money to pay its debts. That date was then pushed to June 5 by the Treasury, the AP reported.
The Senate is expected to pass the debt ceiling limit increase with little resistance.
There is controversy with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). He managed to get that pork project inserted into the budget and debt ceiling deal to get him on board.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber was digging into the bill that Biden negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and would “keep working until the job is done.”
He warned of a crush of ideas from senators anxious to revise the bill’s budget cuts and environmental policy changes, but said, “There is no good reason, none, to bring this process down to the wire.”
Passage in the Senate will require cooperation between Democrats and Republicans, much the way the narrowly divided House was able to approve the compromise late Wednesday night. Fast action is vital if Washington is to meet next Monday’s deadline when Treasury has said the U.S. will start running short of cash to pay its bills, risking a devastating default.
Having remained largely on the sidelines during much of the Biden-McCarthy negotiations, several senators are insisting on debate over their ideas to reshape the package. But making any changes at this stage seemed unlikely, and even opponents of the final deal say they will not hold it up.
Like Schumer, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell signaled he wanted to waste no time.
Touting the House package with its budget cuts, McConnell said Thursday, “The Senate has a chance to make that important progress a reality.”
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