Category Archives: National News
10 Major Trends In IRS Audits
What feeling do you have when you hear IRS? Is there a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach or do you just roll your eyes knowing that April 15th will be here all too quickly? Throw in the word audit and emotions and blood pressure can reach levels you never dreamed of. The IRS audit data reveals 10 trends from the past decade that have become the new realities for current state of IRS audits.
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Virginia 2A Rally Remains Peaceful, Participants Even Pick Up Their Trash
Thousands of pro-gun rights activists converged around the Virginia Capitol on Monday to voice opposition to gun control legislation
Read moreVirginia State Senator Gives Dire Warning For Pro-Second Amendment Rally: “We’re Being Set Up”
A Virginia State Senator shared a dire warning Friday on her Facebook Page to 2nd Amendment Advocates planning to attend the upcoming gun rally in Richmond on Monday: “…we are being set up.”
Read morePhase 1 Trade Deal “Stops Bleeding,” Does Not Resolve Trade War, Says US Chamber Of Commerce
President Trump is expected to sign a Phase 1 trade agreement with China this week that “stops the bleeding” but is no resolution to the trade war, a senior U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said on Monday, quoted by Reuters.
Read more’60 Minutes’ Shreds Epstein Suicide Theory [VIDEO]
’60 Minutes’ has revealed several new data points in the death of wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein which raise more questions than they answer, and suggest that the financier did not kill himself.
Read moreUS Conducts Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria, Targeting Iran-Backed Militia After US Contractor Killed
The U.S. military conducted air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the five facilities controlled by the Kataib Hezbollah militia group in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, US Central Command said on Sunday.
Read moreDoJ Blocks Construction Of ‘Private’ Texas Border Wall
The Justice Department has shut down an effort to build three miles of private border wall just north of the Rio Grande after the US Attorney’s Office for Texas’s southern district warned that the project could impact the border river and potentially violate a treaty with Mexico.
Read moreSix Saudis Arrested And Questioned After Pensacola Shooting – Three Were Filming Attack
Six Saudi nationals were taken into custody for questioning near the Florida naval base where an Air Force trainee – also from Saudi Arabia – opened fire Friday morning, killing three before a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him. According to the New York Times, three of the Saudis were filming the attack. It is unknown whether they were students at the base, or whether they are connected to the gunman.
Read moreUS-S.Korea Talks Abruptly Halted Over Trump’s $4.7BN Price Tag For Basing Troops
The Trump administration’s new $4.7 billion price tag suggested to South Korea two weeks ago to cover its share of the costs of housing American troops, which have been stationed on the peninsula as a deterrent against the north via US Indo-Pacific Command forces since 1957, has angered Seoul to the point that negotiations were abruptly cut off Tuesday.
Read moreFBI Investigating “Criminal Enterprise” In Connection With Arrested Epstein Guards
“With a case this high profile, there has got to be either a major malfunction of the system or criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen. So are you looking at both, is the FBI looking at both?” the South Carolina Republican senator asked. “The FBI is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes,”
Read moreEpstein Guards Arrested For Failing To Check On Him
Two federal correctional officers who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein died were arrested early Tuesday on federal charges related to their failure to check on him the night he died in his cell, according to the New York Times.
Read moreWhite House Formally Begins Process Of Leaving Paris Climate Accord
More than two years after President Trump infuriated the European Union (and particularly Germany and France) by declaring his intentions to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday officially began the yearlong process, according to a statement released by his office.
Read more“Jeffrey Epstein Was Strangulated”, Famous Forensic Expert Says [VIDEO]
Dr. Michael Baden, stated that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, and the injuries were “…more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging…”
Read moreNYC Secretly Shipping Homeless People To Over 350 Cities Including Honolulu, Houston
New York City officials have been quietly dumping homeless people to more than 370 cities across 32 states, including Honolulu and Houston.
Read moreCalifornia Fires Spark Massive Mandatory Evacuations; Wineries Burn As Winds Hit 93 MPH [VIDEO]
California’s annual wildfires are back despite a series of planned power outages aimed at preventing them – the latest of which is expected to affect as many as 3 million people across huge swaths of the state. The most intense fires raged through Sonoma County, with some 180,000 residents ordered to evacuate. At least two wineries have burned in the blaze; the Soda Rock Winery and the Healdsburg winery.
Read moreChina Secretly Ordered NBA Commissioner To Fire Rockets’ GM Over Hong Kong Tweet [VIDEO]
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed on Thursday that the Chinese government insisted the league fire Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over a now-deleted October 4 tweet supporting the protesters in Hong Kong, according to Time.
Read moreBeijing Confirms Arrest Of Two Americans As Trade Tensions Rise
In a report that probably sent a chill down the spine of all Americans working or living in mainland China, two Americans who run an English-teaching business in China have been arrested and detained on “bogus” charges, according to a statement published on their company’s Facebook page. Jacob Harlan, a father of five, and Alyssa Petersen, were arrested in Jiangsu province last month, according to Hong Kong Free Press.
Read moreUp To 3 Million Californians To Lose Power As PG&E Begins “Unprecedented” Blackouts
PG&E Corp., California’s largest utility, began shutting off power Wednesday to an unprecedented 3 million people in Northern California in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires.
Read moreAbortion Rates Fall To Lowest Level Since Procedure Was Legalized In 1973
A new study released on Wednesday shows that abortion rates have fallen to their lowest level since the procedure was legalized in 1973.
Read moreUS Surpassed Saudi Arabia, Russia To Become World’s Top Oil Exporter
The US has once again surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to reclaim the No. 1 spot as the world’s largest oil exporter, according to data from the International Energy Agency.
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