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Justice Clarence Thomas says abortion leak has changed Supreme Court – NBC News

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First on CNN: Trump’s impeachment defense team leaves less than two weeks before trial – CNN

By Gloria Borger, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Ashley Semler, CNN

Updated 12:42 AM ET, Sun January 31, 2021

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/butch-bowers-deborah-barbier-trump-impeachment-team/index.html

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Michael Barone: A shutdown stalemate as Trump goes factual, Democrats illogical – Washington Examiner

The televised presidential address from the Oval Office, a staple of communication between the chief executive and the people in the second half of twentieth century, has recently been in desuetude. Former President Barack Obama delivered only three such addresses in his eight years in office. President Trump this week delivered his first, just days short of completing half a term.

It was a sober address, short but touching some emotive chords. It was also carefully based on actual facts and proposals — contrary to the Democrats’ meme that it would be based on fears, not facts.

Post-speech fact-checking was particularly farcical. The Washington Post said Trump’s claims of “266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records” in two years was “accurate but misleading,” because it included all crimes. Huh?

Another complaint was that Trump’s claim that one in three women in caravans were sexually assaulted; the complainer pointed to a study that said it was actually 60 to 80 percent of them. Trump had understated the case. Obviously nobody knows the actual numbers; a good guess might be “a lot.”

But it is pretty obvious what’s been happening on the southern border. Attempted border crossings were way down in 2017, presumably for fear of tough Trump enforcement. They rose in 2018, as many Central Americans started arriving with children, hoping to gain entry into the United States by exploiting court-created loopholes in American asylum law. Few had legitimate claims of political persecution or on other traditional grounds for asylum; many complained of high local crime rates for which, so far as I know, no nation has ever granted asylum.

It may be objected that the number of illegal southern border crossings was much higher 15 and 20 years ago. That’s why Congress, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in 2006 voted for more border protection.

And it’s possible to argue that in the current hot labor market illegals have little depressing effect on wages, and that the numbers of violent crimes by illegal immigrants, though regrettable, are bearable in a nation of 327 million.

Democrats understandably tend to shun these valid but hard-hearted arguments. Instead they insist vehemently that a wall, which many supported a dozen years ago, will inevitably be ineffective and must be regarded as “immoral.”

This first argument flies in the face of evidence. As American Enterprise institute’s Michael Rubin pointed out in 2017, Israel’s wall with the West Bank, Morocco’s wall with Algeria, India’s with Bangladesh, Hungary’s with Serbia and others have reduced illegal crossings to near zero. To the point that this year, Rubin reports France, Iraq, Lithuania, Estonia and Norway are putting up walls. “It is simply counterfactual to suggest that walls won’t work,” he writes, “willful subordination of facts to the politics of the day.”

And why are walls immoral? Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., recognizes the “Berlin Wall was to keep people in” argument, but insists a wall to keep people out is “medieval” and “a symbol of ‘us and not us.’” Well, yes—U.S. citizens and not U.S. citizens.

Likewise, House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., says Trump’s call for the wall is rooted in “xenophobia and racism.” To say that it is impermissible or racist to distinguish between American citizens and others is to make a case for open borders. Even in the days of Ellis Island, health restrictions blocked some would-be immigrants and deterred perhaps millions of others.

Trump made the argument more gracefully, pointing out that wealthy politicians build walls, fences and gates around their property not “because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside.” A backyard fence is not prison wall.

In his speech, Trump was careful to stress that he was seeking better technology, more personal, humanitarian assistance, and asylum law changes, as well as “a physical barrier—at the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall.”

In her response, Nancy Pelosi conceded that “we need to secure our borders,” and Chuck Schumer said, “Democrats and the president both want stronger border security.” You might see these words as pointing toward a deal. I don’t.

Pelosi and Schumer insisted, without citing evidence, that a wall is “ineffective” and “unnecessary.” Their party seems emotionally fixated on blocking a wall and impervious to argument, even as Trump, perhaps surprisingly, made a dignified and factual case that it’s needed to “protect our country.”

Government shutdowns, formerly headline news, seem less painful these days (three-quarters of government is funded). Looks like stalemate.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/michael-barone-a-shutdown-stalemate-as-trump-goes-factual-democrats-illogical

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Idaho university murders – live: Students warned of ‘knife threat’ before killings as video emerges of victims – The Independent

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Tomi Lahren: Women of Democratic party want to take Bernie Sanders down – Fox News

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Tomi Lahren: Women of Democratic party want to take Bernie Sanders down

Fox Nation’s Tomi Lahren said that one thing is perfectly clear after former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unleashed on Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., in an interview on Wednesday: “The women of the Democratic Party have their sights set on Grandpa Socialist and they are hungry to take him down.”

“We still have roughly 10 months til the 2020 election and the Democrats are already eating each other alive,” said Lahren on Fox Nation’s “Final Thoughts.” “They’ve now weaponized identity politics and social justice warfare against one another.”

First, Lahren pointed to exchange between Sen.s Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at the conclusion of January’s Democratic presidential primary debate.

Warren confronted Sanders as the candidates left the stage and accused him of calling her a ‘liar.” During the debate, Sanders stood by his denial of a CNN report of a leaked private conversation where he allegedly told Warren that a woman can’t win the 2020 presidential race. Warren said it happened.

“Well, one of them is lying,” said Lahren. “And based on past lies, I’m going to go with the fake Native American on this one — just saying.”

And now Hilary Clinton is getting back into the act of bashing Sanders, according to Lahren. “The woman who essentially screwed him out of any chance of becoming the 2016 Democratic nominee has resurfaced yet again to blame someone yet again of sexism.”

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In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter about “Hillary,” the new Hulu documentary series on her life, Clinton unleashed on her former primary opponent.

“He was in Congress for years,” Clinton says in an excerpt from the documentary. “He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”

“Let’s talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Hillary,” laughed Lahren.

SANDERS ACCUSED OF TARGETING YOUNG PEOPLE ON TWITTER WITH MOST “RACIAL” PROPOSALS

“She also accuses Sanders of having a culture around him of sexism,” Lahren added. “But in typical Hillary fashion, she not only went after Bernie, but his supporters.”

“It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women,” said Clinton. “And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it.”

“Now, I’m not saying that Bernie Bros aren’t vicious because they’re known for that. But come on, Hillary, get off it already. Not everyone who criticized you … is a sexist, doing it to demean women,” Lahren concluded. “When will you Democrats figure it out? Not everything is about color, gender, religion or identity politics. Get a clue. It’s annoying.”

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Governor Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration For Texas Wildfires – Office of the Texas Governor

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US ‘concerned’ Russia preparing for an invasion in Ukraine – live – The Guardian

An Indiana group whose anti-abortion campaign was endorsed in a signed advertisement by Amy Coney Barrett before she became a supreme court justice, keeps a published list of abortion providers and their place of work on its website, in what some experts say is an invitation to harass and intimidate the doctors and their staff.

In one case, court records show, a doctor whose name was published by the group, which is called Right to Life Michiana, was warned by the FBI of a kidnapping threat that had been made online against her daughter.

The threat prompted the doctor to temporarily stop providing abortion services at the Whole Woman’s Health Care clinic in South Bend, which is also named on the Michiana group’s website. The doctor said in the court document that the clinic regularly attracts large gatherings of protesters, who she feared could identify her.

Barrett signed a two-page advertisement in 2006, while she was working as a professor at Notre Dame, that stated that those who signed “oppose abortion on demand and defend the right to life from fertilization to natural death”. The second page of the ad called Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion, “barbaric”.

The advertisement, which was published in the South Bend Tribune and signed by hundreds of people, was sponsored by a group called St Joseph County Right to Life, which merged with another anti-abortion group in 2020 and is now called Right to Life Michiana.

The supreme court is expected to rule this year on challenges to Roe v Wade that many court experts expect will gut the rights of women in the US to obtain legal abortions. In arguments before the court, Barrett – who has said her personal views do not affect her legal judgment – argued that passage of safe haven laws, which allow parents to relinquish their newborns at hospitals or other designated centers without the threat of legal consequences, had in effect given women options outside of abortion for those who did not want to become parents.

During her 2020 confirmation hearing, Barrett said she had signed the advertisement as a private citizen, while she was making her way out of church, and had not recalled signing it until it became public following a report in the Guardian.

“It was consistent with the views of my church,” she said, in response to senators’ questions about the statement. She later added: “I do see as distinct my personal, moral, religious views and my task of applying the law as a judge.”

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/jan/14/biden-infrastructure-law-voting-rights-defeat-us-politics-latest

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‘Someone may have to pay a price’: Judge lashes Postal Service for defying ballot order – POLITICO

But Sullivan said he would’ve gladly considered alternative options if he had been informed that his order was too onerous. He told a Justice Department attorney, arguing on behalf of USPS, that he believes the leadership of the Postal Service is to blame.

“It’s your clients. Each and every one of them, starting at the top of the food chain,” he said. “I don’t want you to keep falling on the sword.”

The Postal Service has come under scrutiny for slipping delivery times since DeJoy, a prominent Republican donor, was installed to lead the agency earlier this year. Democrats worried that the changes he implemented were intended to influence mail-in balloting, which states turned to in order to facilitate voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Sullivan, who is overseeing a civil rights suit related to the Postal Service, demanded testimony from senior officials at the Postal Service later Wednesday afternoon, and DOJ offered Kevin Bray, the Postal Service’s lead official responsible for mail processing. Sullivan, though, indicated he thought DeJoy may ultimately be required to deliver testimony.

“The postmaster’s going to have to be deposed or appear before me,” Sullivan said, adding, “I’m not going to forget it.”

Sullivan had ordered the Postal Service to conduct sweeps in a slew of facilities across the country to identify and expedite undelivered ballots. In response to the order late Tuesday, the Postal Service acknowledged it didn’t comply with Sullivan’s order.

“As discussed above, the Inspection Service was not able to conduct specific sweeps at specific times of the day, as this was not operationally possible to implement in the limited time available,” he said. “Our understanding at the hearing was that the Court did not intend for the Postal Service to make operational changes on Election Day, but rather to confirm that the existing processes were functioning as anticipated.”

At the heart of the court fight is USPS data suggesting that thousands of ballots received by the Postal Service were not scanned to indicate they had been delivered by Election Day.

A Postal Service spokesman, though, said this data does not suggest those ballots remained undelivered in USPS facilities.

“The assumption that there are unaccounted ballots within the Postal Service network is inaccurate,” said the spokesman, David Partenheimer. “These ballots were delivered in advance of the election deadlines. We employed extraordinary measures to deliver ballots directly to local boards of elections. When this occurs, by design, these ballots bypass certain processing operations and do not receive a final scan. Instead, they are expedited directly to the boards of elections.”

USPS indicated that sweeps were conducted of the facilities and identified only “a handful of ballots” that hadn’t been delivered.

Plaintiffs in the case, including the NAACP, urged Sullivan to issue an order to ensure that USPS follow through on the court-ordered sweeps to ensure that ballots in states with extended deadlines — like Texas and Pennsylvania — are delivered on time.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/judge-postal-service-mail-in-ballots-434051

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Noticias Telemundo’s IMMIGRATION, TRUMP AND THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY Ranks # 1 IN Spanish-Language TV … – Broadway World

Noticias Telemundo’s “Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” (Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community) Town Hall broadcast on Sunday, February 12 at 7PM/6 C, ranked # 1 in Spanish-language TV in primetime across all key demographics, averaging 1.57 million total viewers, 708,000 adults 18 to 49 and 325,000 adults 18 to 34, according to Nielsen. The news special moderated by Noticias Telemundo News Anchor José Díaz-Balart also positioned Telemundo as the #1 Spanish-language network during the entire primetime on Sunday, across all key demos.

“Noticias Telemundo is empowering millions of Latinos with reliable and TRANSPARENT information at a time of change,” said José Díaz-Balart. “Viewers trust us because they know our only commitment is to present the facts the way they are, with professionalism and a total commitment to our community.”

“Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community” also reached 1.6 million viewers on Facebook, generating 23,000 global actions on the social network.

The Town Hall answered viewers’ questions about the impact of President Trump’s immigration policy on the Hispanic community. The news special featured a panel of experts, including immigration lawyer and Telemundo contributor Alma Rosa Nieto; Telemundo conservative political analyst Ana Navarro; the Deputy Vice President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Clarissa Martínez, and CHIRLA’s Executive Director, Angélica Salas. In addition, “El Poder en Ti”, Telemundo’s robust community initiative, launched an Internet site for Hispanics looking for information, tools and resources on immigration in parallel to the Town Hall.

“Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” is part of a series of Noticias Telemundo specials, including “Trump en la Casa Blanca,” produced the day after the elections, and “Trump y los Latinos,” which aired on Inauguration Day. All of these programs share an emphasis on allowing audiences to express their views and empower them by giving them access to trustworthy, rigorous and relevant information presented under Noticias Telemundo’s banner “Telling It Like It Is” (“Las Cosas Como Son” in Spanish).

Noticias Telemundo is the information unit of Telemundo Network and a leader provider in news serving the US Hispanics across all broadcast and digital platforms. Its award-winning television news broadcasts include the daily newscast “Noticias Telemundo,” the Sunday current affairs show “Enfoque con José Díaz-Balart” and the daily news and entertainment magazine “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste.” The rapidly-growing “Noticias Telemundo Digital Team” provides continuous content to US Hispanics wherever they are, whenever they want it. Noticias Telemundo also produces award winning news specials, documentaries and news event such as political debates, forums and town halls.

Source: Nielsen L+SD IMP, 2/12/17. TEL #1 SLTV (vs UNI, UMA, AZA, ETV). Shareablee, 2/6/17-2/12/17.

Image courtesy of Telemundo.

Source Article from http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Noticias-Telemundos-IMMIGRATION-TRUMP-AND-THE-HISPANIC-COMMUNITY-Ranks-1-IN-Spanish-Language-TV-Sunday-212-20170214

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Raging Northern California Wildfire Prompts Evacuations, State of Emergency – The Wall Street Journal

A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California has scorched over 50,000 acres as of Sunday due to extreme heat and erratic winds, officials said.

The National Weather Service issued so-called red flag warnings Sunday as the McKinney Fire continued to rage near the California-Oregon border. Triple-digit heat and extreme low humidity, along with strong winds, has created an extreme wildfire threat, officials said, prompting the warnings.

Source Article from https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinney-fire-northern-california-wildfire-evacuations-11659289983

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Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections – The New York Times

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Trump blasts report that Conway or Mnuchin might replace Mulvaney: ‘Fake News!’ – Fox News

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Should Mick Mulvaney remain Trump’s chief of staff amid impeachment probe?

Former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo and Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on concerns about Mulvaney’s future.

President Trump fired off a late-night Twitter message Tuesday, slamming as “Fake News!” a story that said top aides Kellyanne Conway and Steve Mnuchin were under consideration to replace acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

“Wrong, never even discussed this with Kellyane Conway or Steve Mnuchin,” the president wrote. “Just more Fake News!”

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The president was referring to a story posted earlier in the day by Bloomberg that said Trump “for weeks” has been “privately testing” the idea of dismissing Mulvaney – and that counselor Conway and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin were both seen as possible replacements.

“You have such great ideas, why don’t you be my chief?” Trump supposedly said to Mnuchin during a gathering of White House staffers about a month ago, according to the report.

Other sources told Bloomberg the president was seeking opinions from top advisers on whether Conway could handle the job.

Mulvaney has come under fire recently for his remarks at a news conference at which he tried to explain the Trump administration’s interactions with Ukraine.

Mulvaney seemed to contradict President Trump’s claim that there was no “quid pro quo” during his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, by telling reporters at the White House Thursday that the release of military aid to Ukraine was tied to the administration’s demands that Kiev investigate purported corruption by the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

When questioned by reporters about the administration’s decision to withhold $400 million in aid from Ukraine, Mulvaney said Trump told him at the time: “This is a corrupt place. Everyone knows this is a corrupt place. … Plus, I’m not sure that the other European countries are helping them out either.”

Mulvaney added: “Did [Trump] also mention to me, in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money. … They look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate.”

Both Conway and Mnuchin have been staunch defenders of the president.

Last month Conway appeared on Fox News’ “The Story” and took aim at the still-unidentified “whistleblower” who raised concerns about trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president.

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“The whistleblower is someone who does not have firsthand knowledge of what happened,” Conway said at the time, calling the individual “more blowhard than whistleblower.”

During an August appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Mnuchin described the president as “determined as ever” in working out a trade agreement with China.

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“Free, fair and reciprocal trade with China is a major goal of the president,” Mnuchin said, “and … he will do whatever he needs to in order to achieve this. That includes planned sanctions, and a willingness to deal with any Chinese retaliation accordingly.”

Mulvaney, 52, became acting White House chief of staff in January, replacing retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly. The former congressman from South Carolina also remains director of the Office of Management and Budget, the office he assumed in February 2017.

Fox News’ Joshua Nelson, Charles Creitz and Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-report-that-conway-or-mnuchin-might-replace-mulvaney

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Trump on Pence’s 2024 presidential race exit: ‘He should endorse me’ – The Hill

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Homeowners hit by Hurricane Helene face the grim task of rebuilding without flood insurance – The Associated Press

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‘Mom, This Is Not A Drill, I Love You’: Parents Share Texts From Kids During Timberview High School Shooting – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – The moment that gunshots were heard inside Timberview high school on Wednesday, Oct. 6 students began sending urgent text messages to their families.

“I was like ‘there’s a school shooting!’ said Asawer Jorad, while reading her correspondence with family aloud. “Come pick us up!”

While parents on the receiving end, said they were words they never thought would be sent to them.

“She texted me when I was at work and she said ‘Mom, this is not a drill and I love you.’ That was a little hard for me this morning,” said parent Kimberly Middleton.

Students hid in classrooms, hallways and closets after a lockdown command came over the intercom.

Many students said their first reaction was that it was a drill, but quickly learned it was all too real.

“When police started coming, I was like ‘No, this is real. This is really happening,’” Jorad said.

One student who was in the classroom next door to the fight that ended in gunfire said the gunshots were followed by cries for help.

“The guy that got grazed, or shot, he was raising his hand and telling the teacher, our teacher, that he got hit, got shot, and that he was bleeding out right now,” said student Sergio Caballero.

Many parents rushed to Timberview High, but were directed to a reunification center at the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts.

It’s where students were taken after boarding busses out of the school when the all-clear was given.

And after hours of passing ID’s and filling out paperwork there were hugs and tears from families.

“Today could have ended so much differently than what it did,” said parent Stephanie Wade while fighting back tears. “When you wake up in the morning, you think it’s going to be one way and it ends up being a completely different way. You never know when it’s going to be your last day. So I am very thankful to have my daughter with me.”

Stephanie Wade and her daughter Keeley, 14, talk to reporters as they are reunited after a shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington, on October 6, 2021 in Mansfield, Texas. (Photo by Stewart F. House/Getty Images)

While students say, it’s an experience they need time to heal from.

“I am so worried, and I have to deal with this for a bit,” said Caballero.

The school’s principal Derrell Douglas described Wednesday as traumatic and says there won’t be school Thursday at Timberview High School.

They also say all after-school activities including athletic events and games will be cancelled Thursday and the parent-teacher conferences on October 8 will be rescheduled.

The school also has counseling services available to students, staff and families starting on October 7.

They include in person and virtual opportunities.

Word of Truth Church
8201 Webb Ferrell Rd, Arlington, TX 76002
Thursday, Oct. 7 starting at 7:25 a.m.

Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts
1110 W. Debbie Lane, Mansfield, TX 76063
Thursday, Oct. 7 starting at 7:25 a.m.

Virtual Counseling
Thursday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to noon

Source Article from https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/10/06/parents-share-communication-kids-timberview-high-school-shooting/

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5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee – The Weather Channel

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The world is in the midst of its worst Covid crisis so far. It didn’t have to be this way – CNN

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Los niños y las armas, una combinación demasiado riesgosa – Univisión

Mujer militar rompe una tradición en Perú que duraba más de un siglo, recibe la espada …

Source Article from http://noticias.univision.com/article/2072170/2014-08-27/estados-unidos/noticias/los-ninos-y-las-armas-una-combinacion-demasiado-riesgosa

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Travelers share memories of their visits to Notre Dame Cathedral – CNN

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Russia-Ukraine war news: Bakhmut fighting rages as Kyiv restores power supply – The Washington Post

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Back Boris and boost Britain – Washington Examiner

We do not envy Boris Johnson.

The new prime minister of the United Kingdom has a challenge ahead of him greater than any newly elected leader in the West has faced since the Cold War. Johnson must deliver his country from the clutches of Brussels and deliver his party from the depths of dysfunction.

Somehow, by Oct. 31, Johnson’s Conservative Party must negotiate a Brexit deal with a European Union that wants Brexit to fail while expecting no help from an opposition that wants his party to fail and amid quiet resistance from mates in a party on which he has basically just executed a hostile takeover.

Johnson’s cause, saving Brexit, is noble. It is the fight for self-determination and democracy. For that reason, it is up to the United States, the beacon of self-determination and democracy, to help him lift his heavy burden.

President Trump should do all he can to support the prime minister in his effort to renegotiate a commensurate Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union.

The former mayor of London is somewhat eccentric and has made some questionable decisions in his personal life. But Johnson’s buoyant personality and unashamed support for free markets are just what Britain needs.

We also note with gratitude that Britain finally has a pro-Brexit leader in charge. A Brexit party governing a Brexit nation deserves a Brexit leader. Finally, three years after Britons voted to leave the European Union, this is true.

Theresa May’s premiership was afflicted by the sense in European Union headquarters that her heart wasn’t really in Brexit. The European Union believed that if they exerted enough pressure, the British people would somehow change their minds.

Brussels, sadly, was right. In the absence of decisive leadership from No. 10 Downing Street, Brexit was delayed from March to Oct. 31. Until Johnson moved into Downing Street, it was not clear whether the Oct. 31 deadline would even hold and even whether Brexit might occur at all.

No longer. Johnson’s opening statement as prime minister made clear that he will see Britain break free from the EU on Oct. 31. If no new agreement can be reached with the European Union, Johnson says Britain will leave on Oct. 31 regardless.

The willingness to execute a hard Brexit is necessary and is not foolhardy.

Its minions won’t admit it, but the European Union has a vested interest in ensuring that any Brexit is carried out in an orderly manner. A hard Brexit would risk serious economic damage not simply to Britain but to European economies. After all, the European Union is a net exporter to Britain.

Johnson knows this, and his credible threat allows him to bring leverage to upcoming renegotiations. President Trump should do all he can to support Johnson here, if necessary by threatening tariffs on European nations that fail to support good faith negotiations with America’s closest ally.

To adapt a phrase from his predecessor, Trump ought to convey that if Europe won’t deal in good faith with Britain, Europe should be put at the back of the queue.

But Johnson’s premiership deserves our support for another reason: the prime minister’s unabashed free-market conservatism. Notably, the alternative to Johnson at this point is far-left Jeremy Corbyn.

Johnson’s spending pledges seem excessive, and we hope he will moderate them. But Britain will benefit from a leader who believes in business and in reducing the state’s influence over the economy. These sentiments fit with Johnson’s broader Atlanticist sympathies. Born in New York City, Johnson is an enduring pro-American in words and action. Escaping the European Union’s leashes, we expect the special relationship to grow closer under his watch.

That’s why we’re backing Boris. We believe he will boost Britain at home and abroad.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/back-boris-and-boost-britain

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