Washington Times,
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Homeland Security reported another 192,001 encounters with illegal immigrants on the southwestern border in September, topping off one of the worst fiscal years on record. The monthly total marked a slight decline from July and August, which Customs and Border Protection touted as a needed improvement. But the numbers were still startlingly bad for an administration that insists it has things under control along the boundary with Mexico. Fiscal year 2021 ended with 1.7 million encounters with illegal immigrants. Nearly all of those came on the watch of President Biden, and security experts attribute the number to policy changes and a lack of enforcement since his inauguration.
Daily Mail (UK),
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki argued that President Joe Biden did take a border trip—pointing to a 2008 campaign drive-by-while also saying the president doesn't need a 'photo-op' to understand the migrant crisis during Friday's briefing, as new September figures revealed 1.7 million migrants have been apprehended so far this year.(Snip)The White House press secretary was being prodded about a claim Biden made at Thursday night's CNN town hall—that he had 'been there before' and that he knew it 'well.' 'Well, Peter, as you may have seen, there's been reporting that he did drive through the border when he was
Daily Mail (UK) & Agence France-Presse,
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Morgan Phillips
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The White House has walked back a number of remarks President Biden made in a CNN town hall Thursday night. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday Biden is 'not actively pursuing' bringing in the National Guard to deal with product shortages. 'Any president has the ability to use the National Guard from the federal level. Requesting the use of the National Guard at the state level, which is often how its done, is under the preview of governors and we're not actively asking them to do that and we're not actively pursuing the use of the National Guard on a federal level,' she said.
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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Nearly 200 Americans left behind in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan following the August U.S. military withdrawal may still be trying to get out, the State Department said Friday, doubling its previous public count. Spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. airlifted out several dozen people in the past couple days, but even more people have come forward in recent weeks saying they also want to leave, which has sent the number soaring. He listed the current total still left behind and interested in getting out as somewhere between 100 and 200, and cautioned that the numbers are just “a momentary snapshot in time.” The higher tallies, which were reported to Congress
New York Post,
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Callie Patteson
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Build that wall! The southern border with Mexico is seeing the highest levels of illegal border crossings in 35 years, but the Department of Homeland Security has found one access point it can shore up—doling out $455,000 to a Delaware construction company for a fence around President Biden’s “Summer White House.” In September, the department awarded a contract of $456,548 to Turnstone Holdings LLC for “PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF SECURITY FENCING AT 32 FARVIEW, REHOBOTH DELAWARE,” according to USAspending.gov, an online database tracking federal government spending. The contract started Sept. 21 and is expected to end Dec. 31. Construction of the fence is expected to end by that date.
New York Post,
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Will Feuer
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Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones announced Friday that he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, just one day after attending a star-studded gala in New York City hosted by the Robin Hood Foundation, the nonprofit he founded. “I had a negative PCR test for COVID on Monday, but I took another PCR test on Thursday after a co-worker at my home tested positive,” the hedge fund big wig said Friday in a statement. “Every person at the dinner was vaccinated and we are sharing information as we have it. I feel fine, have no temperature and am following COVID protocols. If I have inadvertently exposed anyone,
Washington Times,
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Jeff Mordock
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Target is closing its iconic downtown San Francisco store amid a flurry of shoplifting thefts that are estimated to cost the retailer $25,000 a day, according to reports. It’s not clear if the shoplifting sprees are the chief reason Target is shuttering its store on Mission Street between Third and Fourth streets. But a San Francisco Police Department source told the California Globe that the store loses $25,000 a day because of shoplifting.(Snip)In July, the retailer cited an “alarming rise” in thefts at its San Francisco stores and reduced hours at the locations. The Mission St. store had been open from 8 am to 10 pm, but
Washington Times,
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Victor Morton
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No free college meant personal trouble for President Biden.
In a joking moment during Thursday night’s town-hall meeting on CNN, Mr. Biden was asked about the reaction from first lady Jill Biden to the news that the proposal for two free years of community college had been dropped from his $3.5 trillion spending bill. Mrs. Biden is a college teacher. “The White House has a lot of bedrooms,” Mr. Biden replied with a smile. “She went like this,” he told host Anderson Cooper before making a pointing gesture. “Down the hall,” the first lady then said, according to Mr. Biden.
New York Post,
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Samuel Chamberlain
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As one might expect from a Democrat, President Biden isn’t afraid to work blue. Politico reported Thursday that Biden—once caught on a hot mic calling the passage of ObamaCare a “big [expletive] deal”—regularly uses profanity in meetings with West Wing aides, displaying a particular fondness for “[expletive].” Variations on the theme, according to the outlet’s West Wing Playbook email newsletter, include the phrases “[expletive] them,” “What the [expletive] are we doing?” and “Why the [expletive] isn’t this happening?”(Snip)That may be news to Vice President Kamala Harris, who told NowThis News in 2019 that her favorite curse word “starts with an ‘m’ and it ends with ‘ah.’
WTOP-TV [Washington, DC],
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Kristi King
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Proof of vaccination against seasonal influenza will be required to work or attend classes at Johns Hopkins University on any of its Baltimore or D.C. area campuses. The institution’s website states the policy was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the interest of ensuring the safety of the school community and surrounding communities. “Having as many students, faculty, and staff as possible vaccinated for both COVID-19 and the flu, in conjunction with other health and hygiene policies, is vital to the safety of our community,” the university website states.(Snip)This year, other schools, such as the University of Miami are joining Johns Hopkins in following suit.
New York Post,
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Samuel Chamberlain
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President Biden admitted during a CNN town hall Thursday night that he has no immediate solution to the problem of spiking gas prices and suggested that Americans would not start seeing relief at the pump until next year. “My guess is, you’ll start to see gas prices come down as we get by and going into the winter–I mean, excuse me, into next year, 2022,” the president told moderator Anderson Cooper at the Baltimore event. “I don’t see anything that’s going to happen in the meantime that’s going to significantly reduce gas prices.
“I must tell you, I don’t have a near-term answer,” Biden added before musing
Daily Mail (UK),
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Rob Crilly
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President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency workers who refuse COVID-19 vaccination should stay home or be fired, as he answered questions during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening.
'Yes and yes,' he said to a thunderous round of applause.(Snip)Hours before the town hall, Republican senators wrote to the White House demanding that Biden back down. But Biden delivered a furious riposte, ridiculing those who argued the mandates were an infringement of their freedom and condemning misinformation.
'Two things that concern me: One, are those who just try to make this a political issue—freedom. "I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID."
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Afghani refugees imported by the junta? The Muslim Community will say they were not Real Muslims because they were drinking alcohol, the way many Muslims do the moment they find themselves outside of an Islamic nation that bans consumption of alcohol.