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Monday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi�s (D-CA) decision to withhold articles of impeachment from the Senate.

Hawley accused Pelosi on �Fox & Friends� of �attempting to obstruct a Senate trial� and called for a change in the Senate rules to allow for the case to be dismissed if she continues her refusal to send over the articles.

�You know, Nancy Pelosi is attempting to obstruct a Senate trial. That�s all there is to it,� Hawley stated. �The Constitution says that the Senate is the one that will have the trial. It says the trial will follow the impeachment. Now, she�s trying to prevent a trial. She�s trying to obstruct it and upend the Constitution. Here�s what needs to happen: we need to change the Senate rules to allow the Senate to dismiss this case if she refuses to send the articles over.�

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The U.S. has made no decision about withdrawing troops from Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday in response to a letter from a senior military officer that appeared to suggest a withdrawal was underway.

Esper told reporters Monday that the U.S. is not pulling troops out of Iraq.

He said he didn�t know anything about a letter that appears to suggest some preparation of troops to move out of Iraq. But he said there has been some repositioning of U.S. forces.

�There�s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq,� he said, adding, �There�s no decision to leave, nor did we issue any plans to leave or prepare to leave.� He said the U.S. remains committed to the campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq and the region.

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Actor George Lopez responded to a call by mourners in Iran over the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani for an $80 million bounty on President Trump’s head.

“We’ll do it for half,” Lopez said on social media.

The celebrity was responding to reports that a eulogist at Soleimani’s funeral called for the U.S. president to be killed as payback for Soleimani’s death.

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz repeated a familiar talking point coming from Democratic lawmakers in recent days, suggesting President Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian general this week to distract the American public from his impeachment.

“This action was taken more in President Trump’s self-interest rather than our national interest,” Wasserman-Schultz said Sunday on CNN. “We had damning developments in just the last day … That is outrageous, and I think it has a lot to do with why the attack was carried out.”

Wasserman-Schultz appeared to be referencing a report by the New York Times from over the weekend, showing the White House sought to conceal a series of e-mails between top Trump administration officials and the Office of Budget Management regarding frozen military aid to Ukraine at the center of impeachment.

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RICHMOND � Gun rights advocates and militia members from around the country are urging thousands of armed protesters to descend on Virginia’s capital later this month to stop newly empowered Democrats from passing gun-control bills.

What began as a handful of rural Virginia counties declaring themselves �Second Amendment sanctuaries� has jumped the state�s borders and become an Internet phenomenon. Far-right websites and commenters are declaring that Virginia is the place to take a stand against what they see as a national trend of weakening gun rights.

Unlike blue bastions such as California and New York, Virginia is a former Confederate state with strong rural traditions and lax gun laws. Guns represent the strongest, reddest line against the demographic changes that have seen Old Dominion voters usher in a new era of Democratic leadership in recent elections.

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2020 is finally here, and it�s coming with its own set of challenges.

Not only do we have to break the habit of writing 2019, when we really mean 2020, but the dawn of a new decade also creates a unique opportunity for scammers, says Ira Rheingold, executive director for the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

How exactly, you ask?

When the year 2020 is abbreviated on official forms and documents, those looking to exploit unsuspecting people can easily manipulate those numbers and leave people potentially vulnerable to fraud.

For example, a document dated 1/4/20 can easily be changed to 1/4/2021 by adding two numbers at the end.

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As vice president, Joe Biden made foreign political decisions that helped terrorist leader Quasem Soleimani form an Iranian-friendly government in Iraq. Biden also warned President Barack Obama against raiding, and inevitably killing, Osama bin Laden in 2011. The record shows that Biden made foreign policy decisions that cut in favor of international terrorists.

According to a 2013 New Yorker profile, Biden played a pivotal role in pushing the United States out of Iraq and handing over power to Iran, the world�s largest state sponsor of terrorism. According to the profile, Biden called the pro-American Iraqi politician Ayad Allawi to ask he stop trying to form a government. This left space for Soleimani to ensure an Iranian-backed politician took control of the Iraqi government.

After the U.S. military killed Soleimani, Biden released a statement claiming Soleimani�s death was a �hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region.�

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Immediately following the vicious machete attack at a Hanukkah party at a rabbi�s Monsey, New York, home, the suspect�s attorney, Michael Sussman, pointed to his alleged �long history� of �mental illness and hospitalizations,� depression, and psychosis.

Sussman claimed the attacker heard a �voice talking to him about a piece of property that he understood was in that house,� and the requisite �demons� he saw and �not terribly coherent � explanations� he provided prove this, as strategically interpreted by the lawyer.

The perpetrator�s family, in a statement provided by what many families posit in service of exculpatory rhetoric of mental illness, said, “We believe the actions of which he is accused, if committed by him, tragically reflect profound mental illness for which [he] has received episodic treatment before being released.”

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Have the Iranians, the Arabs and Muslims, and the rest of the world had had it enough of the international terrorists, ie the Americans? Is it about time that the Arab and Muslim world get their acts together to stop the Americans from killing them at will and then threaten them that should they retaliate or think of taking revenge, they would be bombed again and again and more Arabs and Muslims