[Free Beacon] A wellness center connected to a church founded by Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush has received $650,000 in taxpayer-funded government grants in 2017, public records show and has pulled in more than $15 million in grants since 2008.
Rush, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, founded the Beloved Community Christian Church, a non-denominational church located in Chicago, in 2002.
"I founded a church in Englewood, one of Chicago's poorest and most fragile neighborhoods, and named it Beloved Community Christian Church," Rush wrote in a 2011 op-ed published in the Huffington Post. "The church, once the site of a Black Panther breakfast program for children, now stands in tribute to Dr. King's vision of the power of community. A social service center, a health center and an after school robotics program are also part of the church's mission to care for people."
The Democratic congressman has steered hundreds of thousands in campaign funds to the church.
Rush began making donations from his campaign to the Beloved Community Christian Church in 2006, just two years after it had opened. Since that time, nearly $200,000 was funneled to the church.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The owner of one of Canton’s most popular waterfront restaurants, The Boathouse, says more than 30 immigrant workers left in fear after a Department of Homeland Security worker hand-delivered a letter demanding documentation of their immigration status.
That stunned the eatery’s customers.
"It seems like terrorizing people who are trying to work at the restaurant," says customer Michelle Zhang. "It’s not only bad for for the business but it’s bad for the families."
"If that many left... are they not following the policy?" asks Ryan Horan, another customer. "Are they not doing it the way they should be doing it?"
Owner Gene Singleton insists his business was in compliance with immigration law.
I wonder how the letter was delivered. The article gives me the impression of squad of DHS gunmen storming the restaurant at 6 o'clock rush; the owner pleading his case as 30 workers escape through the olde coal loading dock as stunned eaters wonder if they are in the robbery scene in Pulp Fiction.
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Not really. One I worked at was supposed to have 2 dish, 3 prep in the back, 4-5 in the kitchen, bartender, greeter, and say 5 wait per shift. IIRC, at least twenty tables and a bar area with cocktail tables, small patio out front with three cocktail tables. Holidays and occasions would require more on a shift. Lot of part time, including me, on account of school. Then as OreganGuy says, take into account HC Mandate.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sudanese Ministry of Minerals announced on Sunday that they found fragments of a meteorite, which had struck earth on Wednesday in the southern White Nile state.
Head of the geological team Othman Abu Aqla said that the team received the fragments of the stone and tests found radioactive elements in the field in which the meteorite fragments fell.
He added that when they measured the radioactivity of the collected samples of the meteorites they turned out to be at normal levels.
Last Wednesday, the General Authority for Geological Research announced that “the unrecognized object fell in the White Nile and caused panic among the residents is most likely a meteorite.”
Eyewitnesses told local media that an object the size of a small car fell from the sky on Wednesday morning.
The witnesses said that the fall of the meteorite was accompanied by a loud sound and a bright light in the skies of several regions in the state.
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[FOXNEWS] An Ohio trooper was forced to conduct an unusual traffic stop when he spotted a runaway horse pulling an Amish buggy without anyone at the reins.
The horse was reported on the loose in Wooster Sunday morning.
Sgt. C.O. Smith, one of the responding officers, caught up to the panting horse on foot on State Road 250, the Wooster Daily Record reported.
He was able to bring the horse to a stop after running alongside the buggy, jumping in and grabbing the reins.
"I’m just glad it turned out okay," Smith told the paper. "That could have been a bigger incident with a 2,000-pound animal running in the wrong lane."
The paper reported that the horse had galloped about 10 miles and collapsed from exhaustion after being corralled.
Smith told the paper the horse wasn't hurt. The horse was examined by a veterinarian and given some water.
Police tracked down the owner who retrieved the horse.
"Every new day brings with it new challenges," the Wooster Police Department said in a Facebook post about that incident.
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Mixed feelings about Army Rangers. I was on training staff at Quantico after tour in VN. And looking at 2nd tour. Hated it because I knew the Leadership of the US was misguided. No Cause except supporting the Corps. Always though Rangers were too proud of themselves and liked themselves too much.
But went up to see Ranger Demonstrations at Ranger installation in Lumpkin County in North Georgia Mountains.
Good young men. Watched them train and admired them.
Came away with a better understanding. It was me that was too proud. Remember TA-14 at Quantico and Camp Barrett. You keep getting better the longer you are in, it takes years.
You never stop. God bless them all. Attitude.
[AA.TR] Ten more mass graves with an unspecified number of bodies inside have been discovered in Kasai region, Congolese authorities said Monday.
"The operational command has just discovered 10 mass graves in Tshikapa-Sumbula-Diboko localities located in the province of Kasai," Attorney General Flory Kabange Numbi said in a statement.
"A team under the leadership of a magistrate has already visited the place on instructions from the Auditor General of the Armed Forces of the DRC," he added.
The latest discovery brings the total number of mass graves found so far up to 50.
On April 19, the UN said in a statement that its Sherlocks had uncovered 17 additional mass graves bringing the total mass graves discovered in one month to 40.
On April 4, the UN mission in DRC, MONUSCO announced it had discovered 23 mass graves in the area.
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Chaos started in the region last August.....
Yes of course, minor correction however. That would be 'August' of 1956.
[Iran Press TV] British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing backlash from Scotland and Wales over her deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), aimed at securing her grip on power.
DUP leader Arlene Foster agreed to a confidence and supply arrangement on Monday in exchange for £1 billion as well as relaxed spending rules for another £500 million previously committed.
The agreement was described as a “straight bung to keep a weak prime minister and a faltering government in office” by the Labour first minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (pictured above) also voiced outrage over the “shameless deal.”
“In concluding this grubby, shameless deal the Tories have shown that they will stop at nothing to hold on to power – even sacrificing the very basic principles of devolution,” she said.
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[Iran Press TV] Russia says it has so far annihilated "99 percent of its chemical weapons" to meet the conditions specified in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which it began implementing some 20 years ago.
Major General Valery Kapashin, the head of Russia's Federal Administration for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, announced the news, in an interview with the Interfax, published on Monday
He added that the remaining one percent, some 400 tons of weaponized chemicals, is currently kept at "at the last facility in operation to store and destroy the chemical weapons, in the Kizner village in the Udmurt region."
In an attempt to meet the conditions of the CWC, Russia paved a long way since late 2002 and early 2003, when it managed to destroy the first batch of chemicals, one percent, followed by another 20 percent in 2007.
In 2009, Moscow announced that it was ahead of the planned schedule, having got rid of 45 percent of its chemical arsenal. By the end of 2014, Moscow announced that it had destroyed 84.7 percent of its air-delivered chemical munitions.
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The 'use by' date on this stuff is Serious. As in, you really don't want it around when the casings start leaking. And 'around' is a very elastic term in this context.
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[AA.TR] French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that La Belle France would not accept Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Speaking to news hounds after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Gay Paree, Macron said La Belle France was committed to Ukraine's illusory sovereignty with its recognized borders.
Macron said he conveyed to Poroshenko that La Belle France wanted the implementation of the February 2015 Minsk Agreement for ending the violence between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The implementation of the cease-fire agreement remains stalled after more than two years.
Poroshenko said he expected the next "Normandy format" talks between La Belle France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia to be held at the end of June or at the beginning of July, adding he was "more optimistic" about the issue following his meeting with Macron.
Ukraine has been wracked by conflict since March 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea after an illegal independence vote.
This followed violent anti-government protests which led to the overthrow of then-President Victor Yanukovich.
The UN General Assembly later voted to proclaim the Russian annexation illegal.
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Napoleon III thought invading the Crimean War was a good idea, too. Will the EU be willing to foot the bill for a repeat?
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That was the point, wasn't it? I mean, with the reports of an 'epidemic of suicide among middle aged white men', I figured that this was what they were aiming for.
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The graph doesn't include suicide, drug use, homicide, etc... just health issues
[Free Beacon] Three CNN journalists, including the executive editor in charge of the network's new investigative unit, resigned on Monday after CNN retracted a story last week.
"In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication," a CNN spokesman said Monday evening.
Thomas Frank, who wrote the retracted story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the investigative unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, all resigned their positions.
The retracted article was posted last Thursday and claimed that "longtime Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, who played a significant role on [Donald Trump's] White House transition team, had deep ties to a $10 billion Russian investment fund owned by a Kremlin-connected bank," according to the Washington Examiner.
Scaramucci responded on Thursday to a supporter of President Donald Trump on Twitter, who said that Scaramucci was being slandered on CNN.
[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... acting Emir Liaquat Baloch says the split in the Eid celebrations on sectarian grounds in this age of advance science has made the nation a laughing stock.
Speaking at an Iftar dinner in the city on Sunday, he stressed that the federal and provincial governments should resolve the issue of moon-sighting on a permanent basis with the consultation of religious scholars.
Mr Baloch said the government had made the month of Ramazan and its different forms of worship a joke and its attitude was almost criminal.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... he said, the poor and sincere people would be duly rewarded by Allah for their noble deeds during the sacred month.
One does hope he is not referring to the hard jihad of the sword...
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If only there was some sort of device you could use to tell what day it was.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The owner of one of Canton’s most popular waterfront restaurants, The Boathouse, says more than 30 immigrant workers left in fear after a Department of Homeland Security worker hand-delivered a letter demanding documentation of their immigration status.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sudanese Ministry of Minerals announced on Sunday that they found fragments of a meteorite, which had struck earth on Wednesday in the southern White Nile state.
[FOXNEWS] An Ohio trooper was forced to conduct an unusual traffic stop when he spotted a runaway horse pulling an Amish buggy without anyone at the reins.
[Iran Press TV] Russia says it has so far annihilated "99 percent of its chemical weapons" to meet the conditions specified in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which it began implementing some 20 years ago.
[AA.TR] French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that 
