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A 911 dispatcher told a drowning woman to “shut up” in the moments before she died on August 24, reports said. Audio recording of the phone call revealed that dispatcher Donna Reneau of Fort Smith, Arkansas, spoke callously to Debbie Stevens, 47, who was on a paper route in the 5800 block of Kinkead Avenue when her car was caught in a flash flood. “Please help me; I don’t want to die!” Stevens says on the recording. “I can’t swim! I’m scared! I’m going to drown!” Reneau replied by telling her first responders would get there when they get there. At one point, Reneau says she’s not going to die and tells her to “shut up.” Stevens tells the dispatcher she is “scared” and asks for prayer, to which Reneau responds, “Well this will teach you, next time don’t drive in the water. I don’t see how you didn’t see it. You had to go right over it, so.” Reports said the initial 911 call was received at 4:38 a.m., and first responders were dispatched two minutes later. They arrived at the scene...

A California appeals court judge has vacated the 2017 guilty verdict for the illegal migrant who allegedly shot Kate Steinle on a San Francisco waterfront in 2015. The jury did not convict the man, Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, for her murder, but agreed in November 2017 he was guilty of being a felon in possession of a gun. Zarate had been deported five times, and Steinle’s killing spotlighted the federal government’s weak enforcement of migration laws during Donald Trump’s winning 2016 campaign. The Associated Press reported: The public defender who represented an immigrant who fatally shot a woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 says he is gratified a state appeals court reversed the man’s conviction on a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun, the one count on which he was found guilty. The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday overturned the conviction against Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate because the judge failed to instruct the jury on his defense that he only momenta...

Friday on Fox News Channel, network contributor and former Rep. Trey Gowdy criticized former FBI director James Comey for claiming he is owed apologies. Gowdy said, “I’m certainly not going to apologize to anyone who violated FBI and Department of Justice policies, who violated an employment agreement, who shared sensitive information about an ongoing investigation, who sent classified information to an unauthorized person, and then had amnesia when the FBI came to his home to try to retrieve government property.” When asked a second time if he plans on apologizing to Comey, Gowdy said, “What temperature is it in Hell right now? Is it snowing? When it snows in hell, you let me know.” He added, “Why would I apologize to somebody who has been dinged on both of the major investigations by a guy like Michael Horowitz, who is hardly a Republican!” The post Trey Gowdy: I’ll Apologize to Comey ‘When It Snows in Hell’ appeared first on Conservative Fighters . from News – Conservative F...

On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Shapiro dismantles Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the new generation is more knowledgeable of American history than previous generations. Video and partial transcript below: If the older generation of Democrats seems to be fading, there’s a new, young generation of Democrats who are brilliant and wise and — oh no, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] is leading this thing, isn’t she? So AOC, the irrepressible, the brilliant — she was doing what she loves to do: Instagram videos. Yeah man, she knows Instagram like the back of her hand. She is an Instagram video expert. So, she did an Instagram video a couple of days ago, and she was asked about the new generation — millennials and Gen Zers — and here is her explaining that, in fact, young people are supremely wise and knowledgeable, which is true if you hit your head really hard on the toilet and are about to invent the flux capacitor. OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think young people are more in...

MSNBC host Chris Hayes attempted to again sow distrust in the Electoral College during his show Friday night, but his comments have earned mockery on social media. While speaking to an “All In With Chris Hayes” audience, the host suggested that the Electoral College – America’s system for selecting its president since the Constitution was written – is unconstitutional. “The weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional,” Hayes said. The host briefly paused and looked to the audience, as if this was supposed to be an applause line. His explanation for what he meant didn’t help: Here’s what I mean by that. Starting in the 1960s – 1961, particularly – the Supreme Court started developing a juris prudence of ‘one person, one vote.’ Right? The idea is that each individual vote has to carry roughly the same amount of weight as each other individual vote, which is a pretty intuitiv...

Americans just aren’t as concerned with the trade war as MSNBC thinks they should be, apparently. On Thursday, the network ran a segment claiming the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. “could lose pandas over Trump’s trade war.” The 1 minute, 40 second segment offered exactly zero evidence that this was anything other than a completely made up fear from MSNBC. “The president’s trade war with China could soon cost the National Zoo in D.C. its most beloved attraction,” said Ayman Mohyeldin, filling in for Katy Tur. “As tensions rise between the U.S. and China over trade, the pandas that thousands flock to see eat bamboo and tumble down their habit could be sent to China, which technically owns them. The vulnerable species is only on loan here in the U.S.” Mohyeldin goes on to talk about Bei Bei, the zoo’s most famous panda cub, who is already scheduled to return to China in a few months under the zoo’s current agreement with the country. As Mohyeldin reported, the 20-year lease on Bei ...

A years-old joke suggesting Floridians are dumb enough to shoot bullets at hurricanes has resurfaced as Dorian approaches the Southeastern United States. Take a look: PSA: Florida Residents Reminded Not To Open Fire on #HurricaneDorian pic.twitter.com/HenIFJSr0e — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 29, 2019 Obviously, the reason behind not firing guns into a hurricane is rather simple: the strong wind gusts could fling the bullets anywhere, potentially killing or injuring somebody else. According to Inverse, the helpful graphic actually originated in 2017 by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence during Hurricane Florence. “If you shoot any bullet into a hurricane, it will travel fast enough to kill someone, but its trajectory will be blown way off course, making it nearly impossible to predict where it will land,” noted Inverse. “It will, inevitably, hit something or someone. As with any time you shoot blindly into the air, you never know where your bullet might come to a rest.” “...

The single conviction handed down in the death of Kate Steinle — who was shot to death by an illegal immigrant on a San Francisco pier in 2015 — has been overturned by a California appeals court. Five-times deported Mexican national Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate admitted to killing Steinle, but claimed it was an accident that occurrent when he inadvertently picked up the firearm he says was wrapped in a t-shirt on the ground and it went off. No one disputes that Garcia-Zarate held the gun that fired the shot that killed Steinle, and no one disputes that the bullet ricocheted off a curb before hitting the 32-year-old woman who was walking with her father. Prosecutors claimed Garcia-Zarate aimed at Steinle but his ineptitude caused the bullet to ricochete, yet he still hit his target. The defense claims the man held the gun only for a moment, and the entire tragedy was an unfortunate accident. In November 2017, a jury found Garcia-Zarate not guilty of murder, but did convict him of felony p...

On Thursday, the only woman to ever serve as the prime minister of Canada issued a horrifying tweet in which she stated she wanted the deadly hurricane Dorian to strike President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, Florida. In response to a tweet from a scientist warning that Dorian was a major hurricane threat to the East Coast this weekend and that Florida was in the hurricane’s crosshairs, Kim Campbell tweeted, “I’m rooting for a direct hit on Mar a Lago!” Fox News reported on Thursday, “The strengthening storm churned over the warm, open waters of the Atlantic on Thursday, upgrading to Category 2 strength late in the day, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center reported. Forecasts showed Dorian tracking toward Florida’s east coast …Forecasters believe the storm will strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane by Friday, and stay well east of the southern and central Bahamas before making a turn toward Florida by Sunday afternoon.” When someone pointed out to the...

Rudy Giuliani weighed in on the explosive DOJ Inspector General Report on former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Russia probe and promised that “prosecutions will happen,” despite the Justice Department’s decision to refrain from prosecuting Comey. Giuliani said the report proves that Comey “leaked and lied,” adding that it confirms that there was a concerted effort to remove President Trump based on a “contrived, false charge.” “With what I know about Ukraine and elsewhere, I am sure that this happened and went higher and lower than Comey. Prosecutions will happen,” Giuliani declared: IG report found Comey leaked and lied (was less than candid) as FBI Director. We all know he fixed the Hillary massive email, phone and server destruction case and tried to frame @realDonaldTrump . What a legacy! Oh, he prosecuted Martha Stewart for lying. — Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 30, 2019 IG report on Comey shows that the Mueller investigation was an attempt to remove t...

President Donald Trump said he spoke to his former White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout, who resigned abruptly on Thursday after White House staff became aware of embarrassing comments she made to reporters. Trump told reporters that he found the comments “a little bit hurtful” but also noted that they were “off the record.” “I love Tiffany,” he said to reporters as he left the White House for Camp David. Politico reported that Westerhout made the comments at an off-the-record dinner with reporters during Trump’s vacation at his golf club in New Jersey. Trump said that Westerhout had been drinking during the dinner. She reportedly bragged that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters and that the president did not like to be photographed with his daughter Tiffany because she was perceived to be overweight. Westerhout resigned suddenly on Thursday. Trump said that he would speak with his daughter on the phone when he arrived at the presidential retrea...

A newly released video from YouTuber Austen Fletcher, better known as Fleccas, shows how residents of Newark, New Jersey, feel about the Democrat Party and Democrat presidential hopeful and former mayor of Newark Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). “When they get into office, they don’t do much,” one New Jersey resident said of elected politicians.”They talk a good talk, but they forget all about what they said they were going to do.” Another resident expressed her frustration with how elected Democrats are not working to advance the “general welfare of American citizens first”: They are not putting their citizens first. They are putting people who shouldn’t even be here first. And when they took that oath of office it was supposed to be to see about the general welfare of American citizens first and they’re neglecting to do that, particularly the Democratic party. "Cory Booker is not for the people" Newark residents go off on Democrat leadership and sanctuary city policies. Thes...

The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico (La Secretaría de Marina–SEMAR) has reported a major fentanyl seizure believed to be of multi-ton in the Mexican port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in the state of Michoacán. The Mexican government announced the major fentanyl seizure of initially reported by local media outlets to be approximately 25.75 tons (23,368 kilograms or 51,517 pounds) of powdered fentanyl that originated in Shanghai China and was headed to Culiacán, Sinaloa, the home base for the Sinaloa Cartel. According to a government spokesperson, the seizure was a result of a joint operation led by the Mexican naval elements of the 10th naval zone and Lázaro Cárdenas customs enforcement personnel as reported by local media. Michoacán is located in western Mexico and has a stretch of coastline along the Pacific Ocean. According to government authorities, investigators found the cargo inside a container of a Danish flagged vessel with a cargo manifest indicating that the contents consisted...

Former Vice President Joe Biden once again falsely claimed to be part of the civil rights movement as he was campaigning in South Carolina on Thursday. “I never thought coming out of the civil rights movement, that I’d see people walking out in fields, carrying torches,” Biden said while accusing the Trump administration of emboldening racists during an address at Limestone College. The claim is one the 76-year-old Democrat frontrunner has repeatedly made over the span of his political career, despite little evidence existing to prove its veracity. Biden, who served as a public defender and local elected official before being elected to the Senate in 1972, was never a full-time activist, let alone leader within the civil rights movement. Even though Biden took part in a few desegregation protests as a teenager in Delaware, no record exists that he took part in any of the central episodes of the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s. Although no records exist, Biden has still cl...

Speaking with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it abundantly clear exactly which side of the Israel-Iran conflict the Trump administration stood and how the Obama administration had clearly sided with Iran, asserting, “The previous administration guaranteed Iran a path to nuclear weapons systems, allowed them to foment terror, and allowed their missile system to run amok. President Trump has directed that we do just the opposite — to deny them the resources to create risks not only for the United States and its citizens, but for Israel as well.” Pompeo added, “Each time Israel has been forced to take actions to defend itself, the United States has made it very clear that that country has not only the right, but the duty to protect its own people. And we are always supportive of their efforts to do that. And with respect to ensuring that Israel is treated fairly at the United Nations, Israel can certainly count on the United States of America.” When Hewitt a...

On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence garnered big applause in Indianapolis when he openly defended a veterans hospital publicly displaying a Holy Bible to commemorate imprisoned veterans. According to the Indianapolis Star, the vice president addressed the American Legion’s 101st national convention on Wednesday night where he spoke about a range of issues important to the Trump administration, from foreign policy to the bettering of healthcare for veterans. His most triumphant moment, however, came when he declared that the VA would not be a “religion-free” zone. “Perhaps the biggest applause came when Pence said the VA would not be a ‘religion-free’ zone, referencing a lawsuit in New Hampshire that seeks to remove a historic Bible in a VA hospital,” reports the outlet. The lawsuit erupted in May of this year when the non-profit group Military Religious Freedom Foundation enlisted a veteran to file a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a historic Bible on dis...

Further adding to the fairly proven existence of a Hollywood blacklist against conservatives, “Will & Grace” actor Eric McCormack said he refuses to work with Trump supporters, which should come as little shock to anyone, considering that his show has consistently portrayed Trump supporters as hateful, bigoted Nazis. According to HollywoodInToto, McCormack shared his aversion for professionalism with Trump supporters in response to an article in The Hollywood Reporter (THR) announcing that the president would be holding a fundraiser in Beverly Hills during Emmy’s week. In fact, not only does the actor dislike working with Trump supporters, he also wanted THR to unmask people attending the event so that liberals like himself in the industry would know who to avoid in the near future. “Hey, [THR], kindly report on everyone attending this event, so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with. Thx. Hey, @THR , kindly report on everyone attending this event, so th...

A new study involving 493,001 participants from the U.K., U.S., and Sweden — by far the most extensive of its kind — found that it is “effectively impossible to predict an individual’s sexual behavior from their genome.” The study found no single “gay gene” and concludes that the link between genetics, environment, and sexual orientation is extremely complicated, with thousands of genetic variants potentially having some degree of influence on behavior. “Five genetic variants did appear significantly linked to sexual orientation, and thousands more also seemed involved to a lesser extent,” Live Science explains. “In the end, the scientists could not find any genetic patterns that could be used, in any way, to identify a person’s sexual orientation. Instead, the predisposition to same-sex sexual behavior appeared influenced by a complex mix of genetic and environmental influences.” “Same-sex sexual behavior is influenced by not one or a few genes but many,” the study’s conclusion rea...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested that if a meeting with President Donald Trump were to take place that the United States would have to bow down to Iran and repent from “economic terrorism” against Iran. “Those who have imposed sanctions on our people, and have carried out economic terrorism – any change in our conduct toward them must start with their repentance,” Rouhani said in a video translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “They must return to their obligations, and change the erroneous path they have chosen. They must act in the service of the world’s interests and security, while maintaining respect for the other. They must recognize our revolution, our regime, and the rights of our people, and they must reject their mistakes. With regard to the relations between Iran and America – unless America gives up the sanctions and rejects the erroneous path it has chosen, we will see no positive change.” “If you lift all the sanctions and bow down before the I...

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will serve as the inspiration for an upcoming Netflix series, which crafted the story based on her ill-fated attempted to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “the streamer, which already has an overall deal and multiple projects in the works with the Obamas, has won a multiple-outlet bidding war for ‘The Girls on the Bus,’ a drama series inspired by a chapter from New York Times journalist Amy Chozick’s novel ‘Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling.'” After a considerable bidding war, Netflix acquired the rights to Chozick’s book. “This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me,” she said in response to the new series. Though the series will not be a direct adaptation of Chozick’s book, Netflix said the show would “follow the every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, love, and a scanda...

Speaking on Fox News Thursday night, when asked whether he would like to see former President Barack Obama take the witness stand to be questioned about what he knew about the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated bluntly, “Absolutely.” Graham stated: … the counterintelligence investigation, there is no real credible evidence I’ve seen to suggest that Papadopoulos actually was working with the Russians, that came from our own people that told him about the Clinton emails. The bottom line is who briefed President Obama if anybody about the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign. And finally, why did they not tell the Trump campaign that they had concerns about people working for him tied to Russia. That’s what you’re supposed to do in a counterintelligence investigation. Host Sean Hannity asked, “Would you agree with Andy McCarthy that any counterintelligence investigation has to have a President behind i...

Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper said President Donald Trump was “willing to start a physical war” to end a potential recession and win reelection in 2020. Cooper said, “I am more concerned because this is not a man who retreats easily. What he has done is pursued a policy of protectionism. And one of the things we know is if we look at the World War II example is that protectionism and isolationism in the U.S. context does not work. And one of the ways we got ourselves out of the slump of protectionism in the 1940s was we entered World War II. She added, “So, I think the other thing we should begin to watch is the continued military posturing toward all of these countries because one of the old school American rescue missions is get us into a war because that is often seen as another driver of the economy. And Trump wants one big key thing under his belt, he either wants his wall or to ride out on the glory of the economy. If he can’t h T...

MISSOULA, Mont. — If Juniper Eastwood is feeling particularly motivated on a training day, she’s up at 6 a.m. She eats a banana and plugs in a podcast before taking off on an 11- to 12-mile run. She should stretch, but is often short on time. After a shower and getting dressed, she heads to work as a camp counselor for a youth empowerment program. Eastwood’s routine is similar to that of other college athletes practicing in the offseason. She has to prepare for grueling cross-country practices while balancing work or school. The difference between Eastwood and her teammates on the University of Montana’s cross-country team is the testosterone-suppression and estrogen pills she takes as part of her training regimen. Eastwood was assigned male at birth, but identifies as female. She’s transgender. On Aug. 31, the 22-year-old will compete in a cross-country meet in the women’s division for the very first time. She’ll be the first Division I trans athlete to compete in her sport. “(I...

Former Vice President Joe Biden argued on Thursday that Congress needs to grant legal status to millions of people who illegally entered the nation as minors because they are “more American” than many children who are United States citizens. “We have to find a pathway for DREAMers. You know DREAMers?” Biden said. “I love people that say ‘Let’s send them back.’ Can you imagine you’re four years old, your mom says you’re crossing the Rio Grande, and you say ‘no mom, I don’t want to go, we’re going to stay here?’ Come on. Come on.” “And these kids who come, and they end up doing well, they become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans,” he continued. “No, I’m serious, they get in school, they do well, they contribute to the community, they contribute to the country.” While Biden served as vice president, the Obama administration signed an executive order instituting the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program providing children who were illegally brought int...