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Navy veteran says he was beaten 'like a punching bag' in Portland
Via: FLYNAVY1 • News & Politics • 582 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
“"I wanted to ask them 'Why are you guys not following the Constitution?' But we never got there,"”
PORTLAND (Reuters) - As a U.S. Navy veteran, Chris David said he thought he would be able to talk plainly with federal agents in Portland and ask them why they were using unmarked cars to snatch people off the street during recent protests in the Oregon city. When he tried to speak with them...
The Bahamas Closes Its Borders to US Travelers
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“...due to the amount of new COVID-19 cases The Bahamas has made the call to close its airports and seaports to passengers coming from the United...”
The Bahamas reopened tourism to all on July 1, however, due to the amount of new COVID-19 cases The Bahamas has made the call to close its airports and seaports to passengers coming from the United States. The change will go into effect starting at midnight on Wednesday, July 22. In a...
School hearing dismissed after angry parents pack room without masks
Via: FLYNAVY1 • News & Politics • 56 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
“"Since when do we have a constitutional right to put other lives in danger? We can't smoke in public places, because it puts other people's lives...”
Tensions flared at a public hearing in Utah over the state's mask mandate for schoolchildren after several parents defied orders by packing the room without face coverings. The parents, some of whom carried signs condemning face masks, failed to sit in the marked seats and booed at the Utah...
Fire Chief Details Battling USS Bonhomme Richard Blaze as Investigations Begin
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““After the explosion, we moved off [the pier]. At that point, we realized that we were going to have a major firefight.””
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On midday Thursday, Navy officials declared all known fires aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) had been extinguished after more than four days of battling the blaze that was sparked on Sunday. “Now that things are starting to cool off, we can go and actually assess… what...
Investigators: Texas couple defrauded Army out of millions
Via: FLYNAVY1 • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
“This scheme allegedly continued for years, even while Pelayo was stationed in South Korea before his retirement last August.”
DALLAS -- Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money from 10 bank accounts belonging to a married couple of U.S. Army veterans in Texas, saying the pair used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military out of as much as $11 million. Army investigators...
Maryland's GOP governor: 'Why didn't Trump help my state with coronavirus testing?'
Via: FLYNAVY1 • News & Politics • 45 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“"Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation's response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we'd be...”
Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan criticized the President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday, describing how the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic was inadequate and did not provide testing resources, prompting the state to outsource COVID-19 tests from South...
New Political Ad Uses Donald Trump Jr.’s Words To Attack His Father
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““Don Jr. will go down in history as one of the most vile and cancerous individuals to ever disgrace the United States of America.” ”
A new attack ad by progressive political action committee MeidasTouch is throwing Twitter into a frenzy. On Monday night the group released a minute-long video on YouTube, using the words of Donald Trump Jr. to point out the “hypocrisy” of the impeached president and his immediate family. In a...
Mulvaney calls U.S. coronavirus testing abilities 'inexcusable,' breaking from Trump
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“ “I know it isn’t popular to talk about in some Republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country,””
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Monday criticized the U.S. coronavirus testing process, calling his family’s difficulties in obtaining tests and delays in the results “inexcusable” in the seventh month of the pandemic, splitting from his former boss’ repeated boasts about...
