A mosque shooting survivor in New Zealand has been hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths after confronting the shooter by yelling "come here!" and leading him on a chase that ended with the shooter speeding away in his car….
{FD} France’s Yellow Vests clash with riot police in Paris, water cannon and tear gas deployed with at least 20 arrested
French Yellow Vest protesters hit the streets on Saturday for the 18th straight weekend to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron and clashed with riot police, prompting the use of tear gas and a water cannon to disperse the agitators.
{FD} Old CNN website was source of unvetted ‘random’ info used by author of anti-Trump dossier, docs reveal
Former British spy Christopher Steele confessed that he used an unverified report submitted to a CNN website, where “random individuals� can post information, for his salacious anti-Trump dossier.
{FD} Germany investigates hundreds of neo-Nazi emails sent to politicians, lawyers and a pop singer
German authorities are probing hundreds of threatening emails sent by supposed neo-Nazis targeting politicians, lawyers, a pop singer and others.
{FD} North Korean sham election had 99.99 percent turnout, state media says
North Korea’s state media claims the turnout in the country’s recent rubber-stamp election was 99.99 percent – up from 99.97 percent last time in 2014 – and said it would have been 100 percent if not for the citizens currently abroad….
{FD} FAA says Boeing 737 Max jets can be operated despite Australia, China grounding the plane
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday that it will continue to trust and use Boeing 737 MAX aircrafts even as Australian, Chinese and other aviation authorities are suspending the use of the aircraft following the deadly crash of one…
{FD} Beto O’Rourke’s ‘privilege’ may be hurting candidate with women, column says
Beto O’Rourke has been slammed for his male privilege, pointing that no female politician could get away with O’Rourke’s style of exploring a presidential campaign bid.
{FD} Fights erupt at Jerusalem’s Western Wall after ultra-Orthodox Jewish men try to block women’s group from praying
Brawls broke out on Friday between thousands of young ultra-Orthodox Jews and a group of progressive Jewish women at the Western Wall in Jerusalem over their right to pray at one of Judaism’s holiest sites.
{FD} US seeks access to inspect rebuilt North Korean missile launch-site
The U.S. government will seek North Korea to allow American inspectors to access a missile-launch site the regime began to restore despite its pledges.
{FD} Venezuela in chaos after massive power outage, Maduro’s regime blames Marco Rubio
Venezuela plunged into darkness Thursday evening following one of the largest power outages in years, spreading chaos in an already disrupted country facing political turmoil.
{FD} Channeling FDR, Eric Holder says Dems should consider packing Supreme Court to counter GOP ‘power grab’
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the next Democratic president should look into expanding the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to counter Republicans' "power-grabbing antics."
{FD} Break liberals’ grip on New York by splitting state into 3 regions, Republican proposes
A Republican state lawmaker proposes slicing New York into three autonomous regions in order to end the stranglehold that New York City liberals have on the rest of the Empire State.
{FD} Uzbekistan ex-ruler’s daughter ‘forcibly removed’ from her apartment, sent to prison after violating house arrest
The daughter of Uzbekistan’s former leader has been detained and sent to prison after violating the terms of her five-year house arrest, authorities said on Tuesday.
{FD} Iranian lawyer defending hijab protesters convicted by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, faces years in jail
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been convicted and faces years in prison after defending protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarves for women.
{FD} Ilhan Omar says she does not recognize Venezuelan interim president, defying Dem leadership, Western governments
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar said she “absolutely not� recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the interim Venezuelan president, defying consensus among Western leaders and her own party.
{FD} United Nations showcases photograph of communist ‘mass murderer’ Che Guevara
The United Nations’ office in Geneva, the home of its Human Rights Council, is showcasing a giant photograph of notorious Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in its halls, a U.N. watchdog group revealed.
{FD} New spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders won’t be able to vote for him in 2020 – she’s an illegal immigrant
Bernie Sanders’ newest deputy national press secretary won’t be able to cast a vote for her boss in the 2020 presidential election. That’s because Belén Sisa, a millennial Arizona left-wing activist who joined the Democrat’s staff this week, claim…
{FD} Disgraced ex-lawyer murders mother, vanishes on eve of serving sentence for theft, police say; manhunt underway
An all-out manhunt is underway after a disgraced ex-lawyer allegedly violently murdered his mother, cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet and fled a day after he was supposed to turn himself in for a 30-year sentence.
{FD} 2020 Democrats jump to endorse Green New Deal despite spending hundreds of thousands on air travel – including private jets
Top Democrats running for president in 2020 have jumped on and endorsed Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s radical Green New Deal that aims, among other measures, eliminate air travel.
{FD} New border-security deal in Congress would likely offer Trump just a fraction of requested $5.7B for wall
Details of a likely bipartisan border-security deal in Congress are being worked out after the White House indicated it will accept an agreement giving President Trump just a fraction of the money he’s demanded for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wa…
