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HONG KONG — Assailed for days by China’s propaganda machine as violent thugs who must be stopped, protesters in Hong Kong paraded past the headquarters of China’s military garrison on Saturday, chanting support for a movement that Beijing views as subversive. The protest march, billed by organizers as a “family-friendly” event, drew several thousand people, including parents and children with balloons, and avoided incendiary slogans about “retaking Hong Kong” that…

Video Lara Trump: You should be able to support whatever political view you want in this country Senior Trump 2020 campaign adviser Lara Trump weighs in on anti-conservative bias from social media companies, new gun control legislation and more. Some of the issues around gun crime in the country could be tackled now because “Americans are demanding change,” 2020 Senior Campaign Advisor Lara Trump said Friday. Appearing on “America’s Newsroom”…

Video Court unseals 2,000 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein case The court warns that everything in the documents released are not necessarily true. A woman who has long claimed disgraced money man Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men named two prominent Democratic politicians – former Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico governor and Clinton cabinet official Bill Richardson – in documents unsealed Friday by federal prosecutors…

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“Team Mitch” is back on Twitter. The social media giant, which had locked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account Wednesday after it posted a video of a profanity-filled protest outside his home in Kentucky, made the announcement Friday. “Going forward, the video will be visible on the service with a sensitive media interstitial and only in cases where the Tweet content does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules,” the…

The Missouri man who walked into a Walmart wearing body armor and wielding a loaded “tactical rifle” — just days after the El Paso and Dayton shootings — told cops he was testing his constitutional right to bear arms. “I wanted to know if that Walmart honored the Second Amendment,” said Dmitriy Andreychenko, according to local authorities. “He stated his intentions were to buy grocery bags and did not intend…

Beth Reinhard Marc Fisher Tom Hamburger Carol D. Leonnig August 9 at 7:41 PM He demanded sex three times a day. A parade of powerful figures visited his private estates, which were adorned with pictures of naked girls and stocked with sex toys. And the schedules of teenagers on call to give him massages at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion were documented in phone messages from his assistants. Those and…

“Team Mitch” is back on Twitter. The social media giant, which had locked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account Wednesday after it posted a video of a profanity-filled protest outside his home in Kentucky, made the announcement Friday. “Going forward, the video will be visible on the service with a sensitive media interstitial and only in cases where the Tweet content does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules,” the…

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Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats disrupted a meeting his deputy, Sue Gordon, was holding on election security to urge her to resign from her post. The abrupt interruption on Thursday, reported by CNN, happened shortly before Gordon submitted her letter of resignation later that day. She was next in line to be acting spy chief when Coats first announced his intent to retire late last month, but reports…

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Democrats have figured out that if they make it as easy as possible for illegal immigrants, that is, potential future Democratic voters, to spread all over the country, it’s nearly impossible to get them out. And if anyone tries to get them out, they can count on the national media to hyperventilate about “the children.” A front-page story in the Washington Post on Friday about the ICE raids in Mississippi…

(NEW YORK) — Confronted about allegations that he orchestrated a sex trafficking ring that brought girls to him and his high-profile acquaintances, financier Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly refused to answer so as not to incriminate himself, according to court records released Friday. A partial transcript of a September 2016 deposition in a lawsuit was included in hundreds of pages of documents placed in a public file by a federal appeals court…

Walmart shoppers in Missouri are breathing a sigh of relief Friday morning after fearing another tragedy was about to happen. Missouri police arrested a man who entered the store carrying weapons and 100 rounds of ammunition. Police say a heavily armed man walked into the Walmart in Springfield but didn’t fire a single shot. An armed, off-duty firefighter grabbed ahold of the man and police took him into custody. Many…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellJulianne Moore calls for Senate to come back from recess to address gun violence ‘public health crisis’ Tim Ryan plans to be back on campaign trail on Friday after shooting The terrifying link between misogynists and mass shooters MORE (R-Ky.) and his allies are embracing a fight with the media and Twitter that has struck a nerve among Republicans.  Taking fierce criticism over…

An armed man who walked into a Walmart store in Missouri dressed in body armor and fatigues and was detained at gunpoint by an off-duty firefighter is “lucky he’s alive still” considering the situation he created, a police official said. No shots were fired in the incident that happened just after 4 p.m. Thursday in Springfield, a city of around 160,000 in the southwestern part of the state, officials said….

Video Trump signals he’s open to some gun control measures Mass shootings spark debate on confronting gun violence; reaction from former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker. President Trump on Friday said he is having “serious discussions” with Congress on gun reforms and improvements in the background check process while maintaining that the views of the National Rifle Association will be “fully respected and represented.” “Serious discussions are taking place between…