"Both admitted to having "willfully and knowingly" falsified records to make it seem they were monitoring Epstein properly.
Their deferred prosecution agreements required that they each perform 100 hours of community service and cooperate with a federal probe arising from Epstein's death."
A member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's staff described the nation of Israel as "a racist European ethnostate," according to Fox News.
The outlet reported that Hussain Altamimi, who is a legislative assistant for the Democratic lawmaker, posted the comment on Instagram last week.
"Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from it's indigenous population!" Altamimi wrote in an Instagram story, according to a screenshot of the post that Fox News Digital obtained.
Altamimi made the comment while sharing a post from from "letstalkpalestine" — the post he shared from that account reads in part, "Israel is an exclusive ethnostate, established to serve one ethnic group at the expense of another."
Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive lawmaker from New York who has servedin the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019, has accused Israel of being guilty of human rights abuses.
Earlier this year she voted present when the House passed a measure to provide funds for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The lawmaker had initially voted against the measure but then changed her vote to "present."
"Yesterday, the House called to the floor a rushed, $1 billion supplemental military funding bill for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. I want to be clear with our community that I am opposed to this bill, but ultimately cast a PRESENT vote," Cortez noted back in September."I also believe that, for far too long, the U.S. has handed unconditional aid to the Israeli government while doing nothing to address or raise the persistent human rights abuses against the Palestinian people, and that this imbalance of power must be centered in any honest conversation about Israel and Palestine," Cortez said in the statement.
A man fatally shot one Illinois cop and critically injured another when the police officers were called to a hotel on a routine noise complaint, officials said.The two officers were called to the hotel over a report of dogs barking in an unattended car in the parking lot. Once there, they went into the hotel to find the car’s owner,Bradley Police Department said in a news release.
A manhunt is on for alleged shooter Darius D. Sullivan for the shooting of the officers, officials said.AP
“The senseless harm and killing of two more Illinois police officersBut when they started a conversation with the apparent owner inside a hotel room, the suspects attacked the officers. Both were shot. They were then taken to the hospital, with the sergeant pronounced dead early Thursday and Bailey still in critical condition as of Thursday.The gunman killed Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, 49, and wounded Officer Tyler Bailey, 27, at the Comfort Inn around 9:41 p.m. on Wednesday, according to police.
A manhunt is on for alleged shooter Darius D. Sullivan, 25, and Xandria Harris, 26, who is a “person of interest” in the shooting, officials said.
An Arlington parent called out a teachers union for mailing out a letter full of obvious grammatical errors on Twitter.Twitter/@ellenfgallery
Reading, writing and ratios.
An error-laden letter from a Virginia teachers union calling for more protections against the coronavirus has gone viral on Twitter.
Startled by a slew of linguistic gaffes, an Arlington parent took a correction pen to the piece and posted the aftermath online.
“Hey @VEA4Kids, are you going to send out more of these grammar worksheets over break?” the poster quipped derisively. “My kids and I had a great time spotting errors! Did we find them all?”
Despite the letter only consisting of five paragraphs, the Twitter teacher spotted roughly 20 blunders and highlighted them in green pen.
Addressed to Arlington Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Duran, the union letter highlights the recent spread of the coronavirus and argues for a delayed resumption of classes in January to address the issue.
The document also asserts that continuing with indoor lunch in the midst of the surge creates “super-spreader” events inside schools and that teachers are having to make the “ultimate sacrifice” as Omicron cases multiply.
The Arlington parent shredded the teachers union letter with approximately 20 sloppy errors.Twitter/@ellenfgallery
The online editor completely reworked the letter’s opening sentence.
“On behalf of the members of the Arlington Education Association, this dire expression lends great concerns for Arlington Public Schools return plans for January 3rd, 2022,” the original version read.
In another sentence, the letter uses the word “are” when it should have said “our.”
The Arlington Education Association demanded a superintendent to delay the opening of classes after the holidays in response to rising COVID-19 Omicron variant cases.Twitter/@ellenfgallery
“The fire departments in are region are exemplifying domino outbreaks as well,” the missive states.
“Apparently ‘learning loss is not limited to students!” one Twitter user wrote in response to the post, which had drawn hundreds of likes and retweets by Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Ron Elfenbein called the pause in some antibody treatments the 'height of bureaucratic arrogance'
A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocationof those two antibody treatments last Thursday amid the rise of omicron, which the CDC had said days earlier was responsible for 73.2% of all new cases.
But the CDC backtracked on that alarming estimate this week, revising it down to just 22.5% for the week ending Dec. 18, more than a 50-point drop.
The delta variant, which Regeneron and Eli Lilly's treatments are effective against, was actually responsible for 77% of all new cases when the federal government stopped distributing those antibody drugs.
Now, one doctor says the government's massive miscalculation cost lives.
"I am as angry as I possibly can be about this," Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the medical director and CEO of FirstCall Medical Center in Gambrills, Maryland, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
"The fact that these people are so adamant that they're right when they're using faulty data and they're using faulty logic and frankly statistical modeling that has never been correct, ever, throughout this entire pandemic, to look at this, is just beyond the pale…. People are definitely going to die because of this or need hospitalization because [health officials] misread the statistics."
The FDA has authorized three different monoclonal antibody treatments, which are lab-made substitutes for antibodies that can help fight off viruses.
The two treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly are ineffective against omicron, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but a third treatment created by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has shown promise at beating back the new variant. When the federal government stopped the allocation of Regeneron and Eli Lilly's drugs last week, the Maryland Department of Health sent a letter to doctors throughout the state that said "sites… have been directed to stop administering these therapeutics."
"Maryland is experiencing a sharp rise in COVID-19 Omicron variant cases. It is now the most dominant variant in the state," Maryland's top health officials wrote to doctors in a Dec. 23 letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital. Now that the CDC has significantly lowered its estimate for how prevalent omicron was at the time, Dr. Elfenbein said the pause in treatments was clearly unnecessary and is "absolutely hurting people."
"I don't know how many people throughout the country are dead, dying, in the hospital, or about to be hospitalized because of the mistakes that they just made," Dr. Elfenbein, who runs two monoclonal antibody clinics, said on Wednesday.
"It's just the height of bureaucratic arrogance, and it's just, it's horrible. I had to turn friends away, family, people call me, ‘Oh, my uncle has cancer. Can he get an infusion?’ I'm like, 'I cannot give you an infusion because I will lose my medical license.'"The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response said in an update on Wednesday afternoon that they will still pause allocations of Regeneron and Eli Lilly's drugs for states that have greater than 80% prevalence of omicron, but will restart allocations for states below that 80% threshold. If treatment sites are able to distinguish between variants using testing, then they can still use Regeneron and Eli Lilly's drugs, even in states that are above 80% omicron prevalence, the federal government added.
Omicron is responsible for 57.7% of new cases in Maryland's region, which includes Delaware, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and West Virginia, according to the latest CDC estimate.
Nationwide, omicron was responsible for 58.6% of all new cases in the week that ended Dec. 25, narrowly edging out the delta variant. GlaxoSmithKline's antibody treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against COVID-19, but states nationwide are experiencing shortages of the lifesaving drug.
"Physicians are strongly encouraged to prioritize the use of sotrovimab for individuals who are 65 years old and older and individuals who are moderately to severely immunocompromised," the Maryland Department of Health told doctors last week.
Paul Best is a reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Follow him on twitter at @KincaidBest.
Metro Police has arrested a man suspected of shooting a restaurant worker in Chinatown last week.
Rashawn Gaston-Anderson, 23, was taken into custody Monday without incident near East Desert Inn Road and South Maryland Parkway.
A citizen who recognized Gaston-Anderson alerted police to his whereabouts.
Gaston-Anderson is believed to have entered through the back door of the ShangHai Eats restaurant in the 4200 block of Spring Mountain Road just before 3 a.m. Dec. 20, police said. He fired multiple rounds at an employee.
The victim, whom police have not identified, was transported to University Medical Center and was in stable condition as of Thursday, police said.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to call investigators at 702-828-2639; or contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555, or go online at www.crimestoppersofnv.com.
In court, Bonaventure said Gaston-Anderson was arrested in early November on charges of pandering and carrying a concealed weapon.
“I did see fit to have an order he be released with conditions, including an order to remain out of the resort corridor,” he said.
Within 48 hours, Bonaventure said Gaston-Anderson was arrested again on burglary and grand larceny charges. Bonaventure said he initially ordered Gaston-Anderson detained in that case, but that a $3,000 cash bail was set at a later date in a different courtroom.
“He then posted a cash bail amount and was out of custody on those two cases,” Bonaventure said. “He has now picked up a third felony case. … He is ordered detained without bail.”
Court records indicate Gaston-Anderson, described by police as a transient, previously pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in 2018 and was sentenced to 18 months of probation.
While Uncle Sam demands a portion of law-abiding Americans' hard-earned money in taxes each year, even criminals are supposed to report their earnings to the U.S. government, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
The government agency literally spells it out, saying that drug dealers must report their ill-gotten gains and thieves must report the value of purloined items, unless those items are returned during the same year they were taken.
"If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless you return it to its rightful owner in the same year," according to the government agency.
Seattle radio host Jason Rantz discusses the new proposal on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
Washington state lawmakers introduced a bill this month that would reduce penalties for drive-by shootings with the aim of "promoting racial equity."
The bill, introduced by Democratic Representatives Tarra Simmons and David Hackney ahead of the state's 2022 legislative session, would eliminate drive-by shootings as the basis for elevating a first-degree murder charge to aggravated murder in the first degree, which carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
Drive-by shootings were added to the list of aggravating factors for murder charges in 1995. Other aggravating factors include the murder of law enforcement officers, murders committed by inmates while they are behind bars, and murder-for-hire schemes.
Note that Ms. Simmons is a convicted felon. She served 30 months for theft and drug charges yet she still got the state bar to legitimate her. Democrats love their pet criminals.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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