President Donald Trump warned Americans that Congressional Democrats were preparing to shut down the government over amnesty for illegal immigrants.
“The Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
His comments followed a blowup of a potential DACA amnesty deal with Democrats, which he blamed on “Dicky Durbin” leaking details of a private meeting he had with senators.
Trump warned that a government shutdown would severely hurt the military “at a time we need it more than ever.”
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Wells Fargo to close 800 more Branches by 2020
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Wells Fargo bank near you may be closing soon.
CNN reports that the company announced plans Friday to shutter 800 of its branches by 2020. The company cited Americans relying more on mobile and online banking.
Some analysts believe the bank is trying to curb expenses from its fake account scandal and other high-profile troubles.
Wells Fargo paid $3.3 billion in legal expenses last quarter.
Wells Fargo did not specify how many employees would lose their jobs.
The bank will have about 5,000 branches in the U.S. after it completes the closures, which is still more than any other bank.
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CNN reports that the company announced plans Friday to shutter 800 of its branches by 2020. The company cited Americans relying more on mobile and online banking.
Some analysts believe the bank is trying to curb expenses from its fake account scandal and other high-profile troubles.
Wells Fargo paid $3.3 billion in legal expenses last quarter.
Wells Fargo did not specify how many employees would lose their jobs.
The bank will have about 5,000 branches in the U.S. after it completes the closures, which is still more than any other bank.
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Bullying victim is stabbed to death at Dunkin' Donuts
A bullied teenager has been stabbed to death at a Dunkin' Donuts after standing up to her tormentors by pepper spraying them.
Valaree Megan Schwab, 16, died in hospital after being attacked which occurred at 12.30pm in New Rochelle, New York, on January 10.
Z'Inah Brown, 16, has been arrested for her death. She allegedly used a steak knife to stab Valaree twice in the upper torso.
Students at the pair's high school told ABC News Schwab was being bullied by Brown and others at the Dunkin' Donuts.
There were five or six teenagers in the group that ganged up on Valaree which included both boys and girls, police said.
Schwab tried to fight them off with pepper spray after being harassed by them on the 10-minute walk down which ended at the Dunkin' Donuts.
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Valaree Megan Schwab, 16, died in hospital after being attacked which occurred at 12.30pm in New Rochelle, New York, on January 10.
Z'Inah Brown, 16, has been arrested for her death. She allegedly used a steak knife to stab Valaree twice in the upper torso.
Students at the pair's high school told ABC News Schwab was being bullied by Brown and others at the Dunkin' Donuts.
There were five or six teenagers in the group that ganged up on Valaree which included both boys and girls, police said.
Schwab tried to fight them off with pepper spray after being harassed by them on the 10-minute walk down which ended at the Dunkin' Donuts.
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Thousand of Restaurants may close after Min. Wage Hike
Restaurants are under increasing pressure from minimum wage hikes to pay workers more and pass off costs in higher prices for customers, Fox Business reports.
Eighteen states raised their minimum wage at the start of the year, forcing thousands of restaurants to adapt to rising labor costs. However, patrons will only absorb so much of the cost.
“When we increase in prices … we see guest count go down,” “Restaurant Stakeout” host and CEO of Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse Willie Degel told FOX Business. “The consumer is not willing to pay for the experience then.”
Degel predicted a dark future for the restaurant industry if labor costs keep increasing.
“I think you’re going to see thousands of restaurants close their doors,” Willie Degel told FOX Business. “Fine dining is going to go by the wayside.”
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Eighteen states raised their minimum wage at the start of the year, forcing thousands of restaurants to adapt to rising labor costs. However, patrons will only absorb so much of the cost.
“When we increase in prices … we see guest count go down,” “Restaurant Stakeout” host and CEO of Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse Willie Degel told FOX Business. “The consumer is not willing to pay for the experience then.”
Degel predicted a dark future for the restaurant industry if labor costs keep increasing.
“I think you’re going to see thousands of restaurants close their doors,” Willie Degel told FOX Business. “Fine dining is going to go by the wayside.”
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Palestinians Attempt to Bomb 1,000 Jewish Pilgrims Visiting Joseph’s Tomb
TEL AVIV – On Tuesday, Palestinians attempted to bomb Joseph’s Tomb, considered Judaism’s third holiest site, during a visit there earlier today by about 1,000 Jewish pilgrims.
The Times of Israel reports:
Army sappers detonated a cellphone-operated explosive device that was apparently planted by Palestinians at the entrance to the Joseph’s Tomb holy site in the city of Nablus early Tuesday morning, ahead of a visit by approximately 1,000 Jewish worshippers, the army said.
There were no injuries or significant damage caused by the controlled blast, and the pilgrimage to the shrine continued as planned, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.
The 1,000 or so worshippers were escorted to Joseph’s Tomb — believed to be the burial site of the biblical patriarch — by IDF soldiers, border guards and Israel Police officers, the army said. According to the military, as the group was leaving the area, local residents began to throw rocks at the troops and the buses, causing no injuries, but some light damage to the vehicles.
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The Times of Israel reports:
Army sappers detonated a cellphone-operated explosive device that was apparently planted by Palestinians at the entrance to the Joseph’s Tomb holy site in the city of Nablus early Tuesday morning, ahead of a visit by approximately 1,000 Jewish worshippers, the army said.
There were no injuries or significant damage caused by the controlled blast, and the pilgrimage to the shrine continued as planned, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.
The 1,000 or so worshippers were escorted to Joseph’s Tomb — believed to be the burial site of the biblical patriarch — by IDF soldiers, border guards and Israel Police officers, the army said. According to the military, as the group was leaving the area, local residents began to throw rocks at the troops and the buses, causing no injuries, but some light damage to the vehicles.
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Hudson Pushes Concealed Carry Reciprocity
WASHINGTON — Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson believes law-abiding Americans should be allowed to carry their concealed weapons in every state, and he’s hoping the White House will help him soon make that a reality.
“I can tell you, the president’s ready to sign this law,” Hudson told The Daily Caller Wednesday in an exclusive interview on the subject for TheDC’s “Newsmakers” series.
“President Trump actually campaigned on concealed carry reciprocity,” the North Carolina Republican recalled. “We’ve got a partner in the White House and we just got to get it to his desk.”
Hudson introduced the House version of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act on January 3, 2017, and the bill finally passed on December 6. Hudson says he spoke with the president at the time, and is set to meet with Trump’s staff this coming week.
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“I can tell you, the president’s ready to sign this law,” Hudson told The Daily Caller Wednesday in an exclusive interview on the subject for TheDC’s “Newsmakers” series.
“President Trump actually campaigned on concealed carry reciprocity,” the North Carolina Republican recalled. “We’ve got a partner in the White House and we just got to get it to his desk.”
Hudson introduced the House version of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act on January 3, 2017, and the bill finally passed on December 6. Hudson says he spoke with the president at the time, and is set to meet with Trump’s staff this coming week.
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Evaluating the Damage: Immigration’s Impact on Black Americans
For decades, researchers and immigration experts alike have warned lawmakers and administrations of the negative impact immigration, both legal and illegal, has on the African-American community.
Two studies from 2008 reviewed in great detail and length just how much black Americans have been kept down economically by a U.S. immigration system that admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants a year, with no end in sight.
Cornell University’s Vernon Briggs Jr. wrote in his testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights of how, in 2004, mass immigration to the U.S. had led to black Americans being replaced as the largest minority group in the country, being overtaken by Hispanic-Americans.
“Although black Americans were 13.5 percent of the nation’s native-born population, they were only 7.8 percent of the foreign-born population in 2000,” Briggs noted. “Hispanics, on the other hand, were only 8.5 percent of the native-born population while being 45.2 percent of the foreign-born population.”
In his 2008 testimony, Briggs stated that there was “little doubt that there is significant” impact on African-American workers who generally compete for the same U.S. jobs that illegal aliens and legal immigrants are often looking to get.
Briggs says that this immigration impact makes poor and working-class African-Americans the “major loser” in the workforce.
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Two studies from 2008 reviewed in great detail and length just how much black Americans have been kept down economically by a U.S. immigration system that admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants a year, with no end in sight.
Cornell University’s Vernon Briggs Jr. wrote in his testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights of how, in 2004, mass immigration to the U.S. had led to black Americans being replaced as the largest minority group in the country, being overtaken by Hispanic-Americans.
“Although black Americans were 13.5 percent of the nation’s native-born population, they were only 7.8 percent of the foreign-born population in 2000,” Briggs noted. “Hispanics, on the other hand, were only 8.5 percent of the native-born population while being 45.2 percent of the foreign-born population.”
In his 2008 testimony, Briggs stated that there was “little doubt that there is significant” impact on African-American workers who generally compete for the same U.S. jobs that illegal aliens and legal immigrants are often looking to get.
Briggs says that this immigration impact makes poor and working-class African-Americans the “major loser” in the workforce.
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Attorney General Frosh Urges PSC to Ensure Savings from Tax Cuts are Passed on to Utility Customers
BALTIMORE, MD – In a letter to the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC), Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh urged members of the PSC to ensure utility customers benefit from cost savings to utility companies resulting from recent tax cuts.
In his letter, Attorney General Frosh stated, “As the Commission is aware, legislation reduced the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. I write to urge the Public Service Commission to take immediate action to ensure that the cost savings associated with these major tax cuts are passed on to utility customers, where they belong.”
Read more in the full press release:http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2018/011218.pdf
In his letter, Attorney General Frosh stated, “As the Commission is aware, legislation reduced the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. I write to urge the Public Service Commission to take immediate action to ensure that the cost savings associated with these major tax cuts are passed on to utility customers, where they belong.”
Read more in the full press release:http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2018/011218.pdf
Sen. Fake: 'In No Way' Comparing Trump to Stalin
Outgoing Sen. Jeff Flake, ?-Ariz., said Monday he was "in no way" comparing President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin, despite a reference to the Soviet dictator in a speech he plans to give Wednesday criticizing Trump for his public comments on the news media.
"Joseph Stalin was a killer; our president is not," Sen. Flake told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday night. "It just puzzles me as to why [Trump] would use a phrase that is so loaded and that has some deeper meaning, the press being the enemy of the people. That is a big concern. What this president does – the most powerful man in the world – has lasting implications and it has implications for journalists worldwide and for our free press in this country.
"If the American president was like Stalin, people like me would be in Gitmo, or worse. It just puzzles me as to why any American president would use a phrase so associated with somebody like Joseph Stalin. It just doesn't comport, and it's not good for any of us."
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"Joseph Stalin was a killer; our president is not," Sen. Flake told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday night. "It just puzzles me as to why [Trump] would use a phrase that is so loaded and that has some deeper meaning, the press being the enemy of the people. That is a big concern. What this president does – the most powerful man in the world – has lasting implications and it has implications for journalists worldwide and for our free press in this country.
"If the American president was like Stalin, people like me would be in Gitmo, or worse. It just puzzles me as to why any American president would use a phrase so associated with somebody like Joseph Stalin. It just doesn't comport, and it's not good for any of us."
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Schumer reveals game plan: PROVE you're not a racist
On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’ “Late Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that President Trump can begin to prove he’s not racist or bigoted by supporting the bipartisan immigration compromise [amnesty]
Schumer said Trump’s comments “over and over and over again can be described as nothing but racist and obnoxious. He says he’s not a racist. Well, … I have a challenge for Donald Trump...
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Schumer said Trump’s comments “over and over and over again can be described as nothing but racist and obnoxious. He says he’s not a racist. Well, … I have a challenge for Donald Trump...
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Wells Just Reported The Worst Mortgage Number Since The Financial Crisis
When we reported Wells Fargo's Q3 earnings back in October, we drew readers' attention to one specific line of business, the one we dubbed the bank's "bread and butter", namely mortgage lending, and which as we then reported was "the biggest alarm" because "as a result of rising rates, Wells' residential mortgage applications and pipelines both tumbled, specifically in Q3 Wells' mortgage applications plunged by $10bn from the prior quarter to $73bn, while the mortgage origination pipeline plunged to just $29 billion", and just shy of the post-crisis lows recorded in late 2013.
Fast forward one quarter when what was already a grim situation for Warren Buffett's favorite bank, just got as bad as it has been since the financial crisis for America's largest mortgage lender, because buried deep in its presentation accompanying otherwise unremarkable Q1 results (EPS small beat, revenue small miss), Wells just reported that its 'bread and butter' is virtually gone, and in Q1 the amount in the all-important Wells Fargo Mortgage Application pipeline plunged by a whopping 23% to just $23 billion, and at the lowest level since the financial crisis.
And while Wells' mortgage applications, a less forward looking indicator, was not quite as dire, it too was just shy of fresh post crisis lows at only $63 billion, just barely above the post-crisis low hit one year ago.
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Fast forward one quarter when what was already a grim situation for Warren Buffett's favorite bank, just got as bad as it has been since the financial crisis for America's largest mortgage lender, because buried deep in its presentation accompanying otherwise unremarkable Q1 results (EPS small beat, revenue small miss), Wells just reported that its 'bread and butter' is virtually gone, and in Q1 the amount in the all-important Wells Fargo Mortgage Application pipeline plunged by a whopping 23% to just $23 billion, and at the lowest level since the financial crisis.
And while Wells' mortgage applications, a less forward looking indicator, was not quite as dire, it too was just shy of fresh post crisis lows at only $63 billion, just barely above the post-crisis low hit one year ago.
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DHS Secretary Nielsen Insists She Didn't Hear Any Vulgar Remarks
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is standing behind her comments that she did not hear President Donald Trump use the word "s***hole" during last week's contentious Oval Office meeting concerning a bipartisan proposal for a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
"I have no problem repeating what I've said," Nielsen, who was at the meeting, told "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson in an interview airing Tuesday.
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"I have no problem repeating what I've said," Nielsen, who was at the meeting, told "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson in an interview airing Tuesday.
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Tim Tebow on Confronting Abortion: Doctors Called Me a ‘Tumor’ Not a ‘Baby’
Minor League Baseball player and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow revealed that he was almost a victim of abortion when doctors told his mother that he was a “tumor” and not a “baby.”
Speaking at the college student conference, 2018 Passion, Tebow told Pastor Louie Giglio that his mother was urged to abort him in 1987, NewsBusters reported.
“I was born in the Philippines to missionary parents, and I have a special birth story,” Tebow told the audience. “The doctors said that I wasn’t even a baby; they said I was a tumor.”
Tebow added that his siblings always joked that he was “Timmy the Tumor” when he was young.
But Tebow added that it was his mother’s faith that saved him.
“There was a lot of craziness with my entire – with my mom’s pregnancy with me,” Tebow said. “She decided to trust God and not what the doctors were saying.”
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Speaking at the college student conference, 2018 Passion, Tebow told Pastor Louie Giglio that his mother was urged to abort him in 1987, NewsBusters reported.
“I was born in the Philippines to missionary parents, and I have a special birth story,” Tebow told the audience. “The doctors said that I wasn’t even a baby; they said I was a tumor.”
Tebow added that his siblings always joked that he was “Timmy the Tumor” when he was young.
But Tebow added that it was his mother’s faith that saved him.
“There was a lot of craziness with my entire – with my mom’s pregnancy with me,” Tebow said. “She decided to trust God and not what the doctors were saying.”
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Shelby Steele: Failed NFL Anthem Protests Show Black Protest Has Lost Its Power
Social commentator Shelby Steele recently wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal wondering if the protests by black NFL players during the playing of the national anthem, signals the end of any weight being placed on public protests by blacks in America today.
With so many whites turned off by the NFL protests, Steele wonders if white Americans have finally “found the courage” to “judge African-Americans fairly by universal standards.”
“The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness,” Steele wrote in his January 12 editorial. “They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally — an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement in American life.”
Steele went on to call the player protests “forced and unconvincing” and said they were more “dutiful” than passionate.
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[Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.]
With so many whites turned off by the NFL protests, Steele wonders if white Americans have finally “found the courage” to “judge African-Americans fairly by universal standards.”
“The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness,” Steele wrote in his January 12 editorial. “They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally — an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement in American life.”
Steele went on to call the player protests “forced and unconvincing” and said they were more “dutiful” than passionate.
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[Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.]
Jackie Mason: Celebs Thought Oprah Speech Was Better Than Gettysburg Address
In these trying times, Jackie Mason is the Voice of Reason.
In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie weighs in on Oprah Winfrey’s widely-discussed speech from Sunday night’s Golden Globes, which immediately prompted speculation she may run for president.
“This is one of the greatest speeches they ever heard. Not one of the greatest. The greatest,” Jackie says. “Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was nothing compared to her. The greatest speech in history. Nobody ever made a speech in the history of the world like Oprah Winfrey. You know why they say this? Because they finally got an enemy for Trump.”
Jackie says it all comes down to the left’s belief that Winfrey could actually beat Trump in 2020.
“Not only did she make the greatest speech in history, she’ll make the greatest president in history. Because you know what she stands for? "
"They don’t know either.”
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In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie weighs in on Oprah Winfrey’s widely-discussed speech from Sunday night’s Golden Globes, which immediately prompted speculation she may run for president.
“This is one of the greatest speeches they ever heard. Not one of the greatest. The greatest,” Jackie says. “Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was nothing compared to her. The greatest speech in history. Nobody ever made a speech in the history of the world like Oprah Winfrey. You know why they say this? Because they finally got an enemy for Trump.”
Jackie says it all comes down to the left’s belief that Winfrey could actually beat Trump in 2020.
“Not only did she make the greatest speech in history, she’ll make the greatest president in history. Because you know what she stands for? "
"They don’t know either.”
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The women who became Harvey Girls and pioneers of the West
They were the true pioneers of the American West – thousands of young women aged 18 to 30 who worked six days a week at ground-breaking rail station diners that created dozens of small towns scattered 100 miles apart from each other in the Southwest and West.
The majority of the brave women had traveled to these tiny and seemingly uninhabited areas leaving everything they knew behind, including their childhood homes and parents, just to have a chance to earn a decent wage and be independent, while unknowingly helping to change the landscape of the new U.S. territory gained after winning the pivotal Mexican-American War in 1848.
The acquired states, including Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah, were largely unpopulated by Americans until people began migrating from the East Coast, Midwest and South for a fresh start at life by traveling via the newly built railroad system connecting the entire country.
Many of those Americans were following the popular phrase, 'Go West, Young Man, Go West'.
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The majority of the brave women had traveled to these tiny and seemingly uninhabited areas leaving everything they knew behind, including their childhood homes and parents, just to have a chance to earn a decent wage and be independent, while unknowingly helping to change the landscape of the new U.S. territory gained after winning the pivotal Mexican-American War in 1848.
The acquired states, including Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah, were largely unpopulated by Americans until people began migrating from the East Coast, Midwest and South for a fresh start at life by traveling via the newly built railroad system connecting the entire country.
Many of those Americans were following the popular phrase, 'Go West, Young Man, Go West'.
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Navy SEAL Who Lost Eye in Afghanistan Now Battling for U.S. House Seat
Retired Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw was serving his third combat tour in June 2012 when he encountered an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's deadly Helmand province that took out his right eye and severely damaged his left.
Doctors said he'd never see again, but Crenshaw regained sight in his left eye after undergoing several surgeries and receiving specialized contact lenses. Four months later, fitted with a glass eye and his signature eye patch, Crenshaw was back on the shooting range in Mississippi, training to rejoin his teammates.
Crenshaw, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and held leadership posts in Bahrain and South Korea before medically retiring in 2016, is now battling for a seat in the U.S. House.
"What makes me get up in the morning is knowing I'm doing something for the country and I was not ready to quit that," Crenshaw said. "I think this is why I'm driven to Congress now, because it's another path I can take to make a positive impact on people's lives and serve in a way that is meaningful and push for values that I believe in."
Crenshaw is one of nine candidates competing in Texas's March 9 Republican primary to succeed retiring Rep. Ted Poe, who represents the state's 2nd congressional district.
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Doctors said he'd never see again, but Crenshaw regained sight in his left eye after undergoing several surgeries and receiving specialized contact lenses. Four months later, fitted with a glass eye and his signature eye patch, Crenshaw was back on the shooting range in Mississippi, training to rejoin his teammates.
Crenshaw, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and held leadership posts in Bahrain and South Korea before medically retiring in 2016, is now battling for a seat in the U.S. House.
"What makes me get up in the morning is knowing I'm doing something for the country and I was not ready to quit that," Crenshaw said. "I think this is why I'm driven to Congress now, because it's another path I can take to make a positive impact on people's lives and serve in a way that is meaningful and push for values that I believe in."
Crenshaw is one of nine candidates competing in Texas's March 9 Republican primary to succeed retiring Rep. Ted Poe, who represents the state's 2nd congressional district.
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Florida animal cruelty charges after TSA discover a cat
A Florida couple is facing charges of animal cruelty after airport security found a cat in their luggage moments before they were set to take off on a three-hour flight to Florida.
The TSA found the six-month old cat inside the checked luggage, saving the pet from serious injury or even death.
The pet, called Slim, was found was found hidden among clothes and other items in the pair's checked luggage as they prepared to fly from Erie, Pennsylvania to Tampa, Florida, on New Year's Day.
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The TSA found the six-month old cat inside the checked luggage, saving the pet from serious injury or even death.
The pet, called Slim, was found was found hidden among clothes and other items in the pair's checked luggage as they prepared to fly from Erie, Pennsylvania to Tampa, Florida, on New Year's Day.
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PLEA AGREEMENT REACHED IN FRIENDLY FOOD STORE FIRE
SALISBURY MARYLAND - Court proceedings have concluded in an arson which occurred at the Friendly Food Store located at 900 N. Salisbury Blvd in Salisbury. The fire investigation revealed the business at that address, Friendly Food Store, was intentionally set on fire. Investigators determined an ignitable liquid was used to start a fire in multiple locations. The investigation resulted in the arrest of three suspects which all have now been convicted in Wicomico County Circuit Court.
Mohammad Adeel (39), owner of the Friendly Food Store, plead guilty to 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Timothy E. DeMent (42), plead guilty to 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Mayank R. Kothari (37), plead guilty to Conspiracy to Commit 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Upon release all three will continue to serve 3 years of supervised probation.
The fire was originally dispatched on June 16, 2017 around 12:32 am after a passerby called 911. Upon arrival of the fire department, a small smoldering fire was discovered inside of the establishment. Approximately 17 firefighters from Salisbury Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire within 10 minutes. The fire caused approximately $600 in damages to the building, which is a multi-use business center. The owner of the building, and victim, was identified as Sajjad Shah.
Mohammad Adeel (39), owner of the Friendly Food Store, plead guilty to 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Timothy E. DeMent (42), plead guilty to 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Mayank R. Kothari (37), plead guilty to Conspiracy to Commit 2nd Degree Arson and received a 15 year sentence with all but 15 months suspended.
Upon release all three will continue to serve 3 years of supervised probation.
The fire was originally dispatched on June 16, 2017 around 12:32 am after a passerby called 911. Upon arrival of the fire department, a small smoldering fire was discovered inside of the establishment. Approximately 17 firefighters from Salisbury Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire within 10 minutes. The fire caused approximately $600 in damages to the building, which is a multi-use business center. The owner of the building, and victim, was identified as Sajjad Shah.
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