More than 600 children 'recycled' by
migrant smugglers at border: ICE
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/14/2019 1:49:14 AM
More than 600 children were “recycled” through the border over the last year, including some who were carried across eight times, by a different person each time, looking to exploit lax policies to gain a foothold in the U.S., a top ICE official told Congress on Wednesday. And those are only cases that were detected, officials said.(Snip) The result was massive levels of fraud, with adults renting or outright buying unrelated children in order to portray as a family, authorities said. In some cases it was a one-off, but in other instances children were “recycled” across the border multiple times,
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At this library, it’s the patrons that get browsed. The sleek new library at Cornell University has a design flaw that allows people to see up the skirts of anyone browsing for books, students and reports say. The state-of-the-art building—which took more than $21 million to build over five years—features elevated platforms with see-through grated floors that put visitors on full view as people pass below, the students say. “I wore a dress and felt bad about it, discriminated against, like the space wasn’t meant for me,” student Nicole Nomura, 28, told The Post.
Family and strangers alike struggle
to understand fatal assault that
started on Metro Transit bus 0 replies
to understand fatal assault that
started on Metro Transit bus 0 replies
The 75-year-old meant no harm when he turned to a group of young men sitting near him on a Metro Transit bus one afternoon last week and asked them to quiet down. Instead, the seemingly inconsequential encounter led to violence, costing Shirwa Hassan Jibril his life and leaving his family grieving at his grave site on a cold and gray November day.(Snip) Davis-Miles and several other men followed Jibril off the bus. Based on witness accounts, Davis-Miles punched Jibril, who fell and hit his head. The young man shook hands “in a congratulatory manner” with one of his friends
Immigration officials on Friday tied a third murder arrest in two months to sanctuary city policies in the Seattle area, saying an illegal immigrant who was twice shielded from deportation by King County slew a man “as he lay asleep in his own home.” The man Julio Cruz-Velazquez is accused of killing, Sam Nang Lam, a legal immigrant, according to authorities. Cruz-Velazquez has an extensive rap sheet that includes charges of second-degree rape last year—but it was pleaded down to second-degree assault. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked to be notified upon his release from jail
The man who told police the “devil came over him” the night he allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death in Trenton will remain in jail as his case moves through the courts, a judge ruled Thursday. Pablo Choc-Caal, 20, appeared before Judge Robert W. Bingham II in Superior Court of Mercer County for his detention hearing on a charge that he murdered Irma Patrona Ic-Maaz, 18, by choking her with an extension cord. Assistant Mercer County Prosecutor Kathleen Petrucci moved to hold Choc-Caal at the Mercer County Correctional Center through future court proceedings. Petrucci said holding Choc-Caal in jail
Skeptics chuckle as climate
activist Greta Thunberg sets
sail for Europe on 'plastic yacht' 26 replies
activist Greta Thunberg sets
sail for Europe on 'plastic yacht' 26 replies
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg eschews jet travel based on her opposition to greenhouse-gas emissions, but her return trip to Europe isn’t entirely carbon-neutral. Twelve weeks after sailing into New York City, Greta hitched a ride back to Europe Wednesday with celebrity sailers Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum on La Vagabonde, a luxury catamaran made of petroleum products like fiberglass.(Snip) Greta’s father Svante Thunberg and British yachtswoman Nikki Henderson joined the La Vagabonde crew, raising questions about whether they flew across the pond only to sail back. In addition to solar and hydro power, the craft is equipped with two diesel
A teenager who threw an egg at a Brooklyn synagogue and chucked another one at a woman in Borough Park has been arrested on a number of hate crime charges, police said. Mohib Hoque, 18, was arrested Thursday for the Nov. 9 attacks in the predominately orthodox neighborhood, cops said. He was hit with three counts of hate crime assault, three counts of hate crime aggravated harassment, three counts of hate crime harassment and hate crime reckless endangerment, the NYPD said. Hoque allegedly chucked an egg at a 38-year-old woman who was walking on 38th Street near 14th Avenue
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar appears to be signaling support for a conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges—earning a rebuke from scandal-plagued Katie Hill, who recently resigned from Congress. The Republican congressman sent 23 tweets Wednesday about the first public impeachment hearing examining President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine. The first letter of each tweet spelled out 'Epstein didn't kill himself.'(Snip) The Associated Press asked Gosar spokesman Ben Goldey whether the congressman sent the tweets himself. Goldey's emailed response used the first letter of each sentence to spell 'Area 51.'
Facebook’s latest iOS update out Wednesday addresses a bug that has been inadvertently activating the cameras of some users of the social network’s popular Apple iPhone app. A version of Facebook’s iOS app released Friday contains a software flaw that abruptly opens the app’s camera feature, according to the social networking company. Facebook acknowledged the glitch after social media users began sharing videos over the weekend showing their smartphone cameras suddenly becoming operational while using the app’s other features. “Triggering this bug activated the camera preview, and once triggered, the preview remained active until you tapped elsewhere in the app,” explained
More than 600 children were “recycled” through the border over the last year, including some who were carried across eight times, by a different person each time, looking to exploit lax policies to gain a foothold in the U.S., a top ICE official told Congress on Wednesday. And those are only cases that were detected, officials said.(Snip) The result was massive levels of fraud, with adults renting or outright buying unrelated children in order to portray as a family, authorities said. In some cases it was a one-off, but in other instances children were “recycled” across the border multiple times,
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He has long been known as a model railway enthusiast—even if at times he didn’t want to talk about it. But now Sir Rod Stewart’s legendary layout—26 years in the making—can be seen for the first time in all its finished glory. The rocker’s astonishingly detailed 124ft long x 23ft wide model depicting an American city and its industrial hinterland in the 1940s contains hundreds of buildings, from trackside switchman shanties to vast factories and skyscrapers. Called Grand Street And Three Rivers City, it also features a railway station crossed by numerous bridges at rush hour. There are period cars
A Bergen County country club has sued its own employee after a patron filed a lawsuit last month against the club and employee seeking $30,000 for the value of her handbag, which she claims was damaged in a red wine spill, court records show. Maryana Beyder filed the lawsuit against the Alpine Country Club in Demarest alleging an unnamed waiter spilled the drink on her expensive Hermes handbag in September 2018 and that the club is at fault for its hiring practices. The club filed a cross-claim last week against the employee involved in the incident.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan sent President Trump a very ominous warning on Friday in the middle of Schiff’s impeachment show trial. Disgruntled fired US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified on Friday on day two of the Adam Schiff show trial.Yovanovitch, an Obama holdover, was fired in May of this year and she perjured herself in last month’s closed-door testimony. President Trump torched the corrupt fired Ambassador on Friday in real time in a pair of tweets.“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.
All eyes on the NFL:
Browns’ Myles Garrett
could have killed a man
on Thursday Night Football 36 replies
Browns’ Myles Garrett
could have killed a man
on Thursday Night Football 36 replies
On Thursday night, the underdog Cleveland Browns met the Pittsburgh Steelers. And the Browns showed up, beating the Steelers 21-7 in a pretty decisive victory.
That wouldn’t be big news, normally. But at the end of the game, Browns defensive end Myles Garrett got into an altercation unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my decades of watching football. (snip) Where this became far different and more dangerous than your typical football scuffle is that, during the entanglement, Myles Garrett actually reared back and attempted to windmill-tomahawk slam the helmet he was holding on top of Mason Rudolph’s exposed skull with furious gusto.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch compared herself to the diplomats and contractors killed in Benghazi in her opening statement in the second public impeachment inquiry on Friday. “We make a difference everyday,” she said in a defense of herself and diplomats serving around the world. She continued: We are people who repeatedly uproot our lives, who risk and sometimes give our lives for this country. We are the 52 Americans, who, 40 years ago this month, began 444 days of deprivation, torture, and captivity in Tehran. We are the dozens of Americans stationed at our embassies in Cuba
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said that if he is elected, he would give a “very, very important role” in White House to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Sanders, a senator from Vermont, said this in a joint interview with Ocasio-Cortez last week to ABC News, adding that the Bronx-Queens freshman congresswoman has ideas that “are resonating all over this country,” and: “If I am in the White House, she will play a very, very important role. No question.”
“I don’t want you to hear this, because your head will explode,” Sanders said in jest to Ocasio-Cortez, before adding, “I don’t know of any person … who has had
In the wake of Cleveland’s Myles Garrett ripping the helmet off of Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph and hitting him in the head with it, the 23-year-old defensive end was hit with a historic suspension by the NFL and may face additional discipline off the field.
That’s assault, Myles Garrett should not play another game this season. pic.twitter.com/rH4ko6lAdV
— Maximiliano Bretos (@MaxBretosSports) November 15, 2019
With 10 games already in the books for the 4-6 Browns, Garrett, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 draft, has six games left to play this season.
During a visit to Britain this week, Hillary Clinton explained why she and daughter Chelsea chose not to include Margaret Thatcher in their new book featuring “gutsy women” – and why the teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg did make the cut. In Clinton’s view Britain’s first prime minister did not do enough to knock down “barriers for others.” The former Democratic presidential nominee did give a nod to Thatcher’s willingness to change the way she dressed, spoke and wore her hair, alluding to one of the most dramatic makeovers in 20th century politics.
GLAAD, an organization that seeks to accelerate “acceptance of the LGBT community” in American culture, released its 2019 report, Where We Are on TV, and applauded the TV and cable entertainment industries for adding more LGBT characters to their programs.
“Of the 879 regular characters scheduled to appear on broadcast scripted primetime television this season, 90 (10.2 percent) are LGBTQ,” states the report. (Emphasis added.)
There are also some 30 recurring LGBTQ characters, making a total of 120. That’s up from last year’s 113 regular and recurring LGBTQ roles.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to defend his right as commander in chief to appoint ambassadors — even as former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified in the Democratic Party’s dog and pony impeachment show trial.It was all enough to prompt a reaction from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who accused Trump of “witness intimidation.”Schiff may have been perusing social media during a hearing that could have doubled as a therapy session for the former ambassador, it was clear Yovanovitch was not — thus how could she be intimidated? At least, not until Schiff brought it to her attention.
New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is deciding whether to launch a Democratic presidential bid, is pouring $100 million into an online advertising campaign attacking President Trump. The campaign, which targets voters in four general election battleground states - Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - begins running on Friday, according to Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter. The former New York City mayor has already filed paperwork in at least two states to appear on presidential primary ballots.
A familiar sight during the holiday season is the iconic red kettle used by The Salvation Army for donations. Volunteers stand next to the kettle and ring a bell as passersby walk into grocery stores or retail stores. Who would protest when a British singer announced her agreement to partner with the international charity? The perpetually outraged Twitter mob, of course. Singer Ellie Goulding set off a firestorm on social media among LGBTQ activists when she posted the announcement of her collaboration with the Christian charity. She agreed to sing as the halftime act for the Dallas Cowboys – Buffalo Bills Thanksgiving Day game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
LGBT activists have weaponized two scientific societies to cut off a major Mormon university from their international community of scientists. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C., and the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Colorado pulled job ads from Brigham Young University (BYU) after facing complaints over BYU's Honor Code, which prohibits homosexual conduct among students and staff. This is unlikely to stop with the AGU and GSA and is likely to lead to blacklisting far more schools than just BYU.
LGBT activists complained that the geological societies had listed a job posting from BYU on their job boards.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is appearing before Congress on Friday to cap off the first week of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It follows the testimony earlier this week from U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine Bill Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe George Kent.
Democrats have been moving quickly with their impeachment probe. Sparked by a whistleblower complaint, the investigation has centered on whether the president improperly used his office to pressure Ukranian President Voldomyr Zelensky into ordering investigations -- including into the family of 2020 contender Joe Biden -- that could have been politically beneficial to his reelection campaign
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Renting and recycling children is more socially conscious than eating them.