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All kinds of wild numbers are floating around about the cost of school reforms recommended by the Kirwan Commission on education and how to pay for them.

The new chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, Howard County�s Guy Guzzone, sees a way forward by phasing in the recommendations without tax hikes � at least for the moment. [The legislature presiding officers told the Washington Post�s Erin Cox that no hikes were planned in the state income, sales or property tax.]

�If you�re going to spend all this money, you want to see results,� Guzzone said in an interview [in December]. �What I believe by now at this point is that we have the resources right now to get this going. We have the resources to see improvements along the way.�

�And we�re going to keep checking. And every time we check and realize that we�re succeeding and we�re reaching the next level of success, we can say, OK, let�s figure out how to fund that next level. I think that�s the right way to think about it.�

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Milford- The Delaware State Police are currently investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred last evening in the limits of Milford.

The incident occurred on January 5, 2020 at approximately 6:20 p.m., when Milford Police Officers were dispatched to Linstone Lane, Silver Lake Estates Apartments, Milford, for a report of a domestic incident involving weapons. As Milford Police Officers arrived at the apartment, the male suspect came out of the apartment and into the hallway, advancing at Police Officers while brandishing a large knife. Both Police Officers reacted to the threat by shooting the suspect with their departmental issued handguns.

The suspect became incapacitated and the officers immediately issued first aid to the suspect, a 27-year-old male from Dover, DE. The suspect was transported to the Bayhealth Sussex Campus where he was pronounced deceased. His name is being withheld at this time pending the notification of next of kin.

The Police Officers did not sustain injury as a result of this incident and there were no other reports of injuries as a result of the domestic incident.

At the request of the Milford Police Department, the investigation into this incident is being conducted by the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit.

For the status of the Milford Police Officers, please contact the Milford Police Department at 302-422-8081.

If you or someone you know is a victim or witness of crime or have lost a loved one to a sudden death and are in need of assistance, the Delaware State Police Victim Services Unit/Delaware Victim Center is available to offer you support and resources 24 hours a day through a toll free hotline 1800 VICTIM-1. (1800 842-8461). You may also email the unit Director at debra.reed@delaware.gov

As a result of Friday�s killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, several Iranian Americans gathered outside the White House Sunday afternoon to show support for the Trump administration�s Iran policy.

�We are happy that a demon man, a monster, is dead now,� said Shirin Nariman, president of the group the Iranian American Community of Virginia which organized the gathering in Lafayette Park.

�We think this is a major blowout to the Iranian regime and people in Iran are super happy because they see that maybe this regime is crumbling.�

Festive music was played, some people danced and others passed out sweets, mirroring how many in Iran are reacting to Soleimani�s death.

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Mike Pompeo said that the escalation in Iran that led to the killing of military leader Qasem Soleimani comes from Barack Obama ‘appeasing’ the country during his time as president.

The Secretary of State made the rounds on Sunday morning political news shows after President Dondald Trump ordered an attack on an Iraqi airport in Baghdad that killed top Iranian military general Soleimani on Friday.

While on CNN‘s State of the Nation, he said: ‘Obama appeased Iran. It is important that they understand that America will no longer behave the way that it did during the Obama/Biden administration. We will no longer appease, we will no longer tolerate.

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Gender clinics blithely guide 18-year-olds through the radical steps of gender transition, but abandon them later when they regret it.

After exploiting these troubled and vulnerable youths, the clinicians often want nothing more to do with them, and even deny the existence of regret among patients they assisted in transitioning.

These clinics need to be held accountable for ruining young lives. But don�t expect the liberal mainstream media, which practically celebrate transgenderism, to do so.

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A new law has taken full effect in Maryland that aims to ban pet stores in the state from selling dogs bred in so-called �puppy mills.�

H.B. 1662, also known as the No More Puppy- and Kitten-Mills Act of 2018, was enacted on Wednesday, almost two years after Gov. Larry Hogan (R) first signed the measure into law in April 2018.

�I was proud to push for and enact the No More Puppy- and Kitten-Mills Act of 2018, which bans retail stores from the sale of commercially-bred pets that all too often come from inhumane breeding mills,� Hogan wrote of the legislation in a Facebook post on Thursday.

�We will continue to advocate on behalf of animal welfare and encourage safe, humane pet adoption here in Maryland,� he continued.

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The Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale, Kilburn, London, has held a mass memorial for slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qasem Soleimani.

Soleimani, who as leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been held responsible for directing the activities of Iran�s proxy militias and other assets in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere, and for fomenting the recent siege of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Consequently, he was eliminated by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump, along with Kataib Hezbollah founder Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.

The Iranian, described as the �Osama bin Laden of the Shiite world� by Aaron Klein, was described as an �honourable Islamic commander� by Islamic Centre of England director Seyed Hashem Moosavi in an official message of condolence.

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It�s odd how the political left cheers America�s shortcomings and mourns its victories.

The United States killed the top terrorist on the planet Thursday, and Democrats were�upset. Perhaps �upset� is too vague, they were a combination of angry and scared.

They were angry that President Trump ordered an air strike on Qassem Soleimani, a man responsible for the deaths of more than 600 American soldiers and thousands more wounded. They tried to pretend they were glad he was dead, that he deserved to die, but their quick condemnation of the action that took him out exposed what they were really thinking. Any statement on the death of a terrorist leader containing the word �but� is not a good statement.

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Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) dropped some interesting tidbits regarding the ongoing investigation into the Obama-era intelligence community and its actions during the 2016 US election.

In an appearance with Maria Bartiromo on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, Ratcliffe said “Now we come up with evidence that�s recently been reported that one of the folks that John Durham talked to was an embassy official who reached out to George Papadopoulos three months before Crossfire Hurricane was ever opened,” adding “That�s a sign that John Durham is looking at the fact that this may include Obama administration officials beyond law enforcement, perhaps to include our intelligence community.”

As the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross noted in September of 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller interviewed US embassy official Terrence Dudley about his contacts during the 2016 election with Papadopoulos – several months before the FBI launched operation Crossfire Hurricane to officially investigate the Trump campaign.

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A forensic pathologist suggested that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide in a 60 Minutes expose.

In its Sunday episode, 60 Minutes reviewed hundreds of photos during the investigation into Epstein’s death, and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden confirmed that none of the new photos released include a picture of Epstein’s body in the cell.

“Is there a photograph of when he was found dead in the cell?” asked Alfonsi.

“No, there’s no photograph taken of Mr. Epstein in the cell,” responded Baden.

The forensic images released show pill bottles, a mattress, and bedsheets fashioned into a noose in the sparse cell where Epstein, who was 66, died of an apparent suicide in August.

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