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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge is expected to consider a request for a handwriting expert to examine wills discovered in couch cushions after Aretha Franklin's death. A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Oakland County Probate Court, north of Detroit. A handwritten 2014 document shows Franklin apparently wanted her son, Kecalf Franklin, to serve as the representative of her estate, which might be worth millions. But lawyers for Franklin's estate have said "there is no basis" to believe Kecalf Franklin has those skills.

Watching the coverage Sunday of the terrorist attacks in El Paso and Dayton you couldn’t help but come away with the idea that President Donald Trump had been on the phone with both shooters, encouraging them, moments before they unleashed their evil. Of course, that didn’t happen. But you’d never know it if you were watching CNN or MSNBC. Nearly every guest, especially those who wanted to be invited back, used these attacks as an opportunity to smear anyone who wasn’t on board with the liberal agenda of seizing the rights of innocent people because two people embraced evil.“It was...

Donald Trump has appointed and the Senate confirmed 146 Article III federal judges through August 1, 2019, his third year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in a presidency of all presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. Only Bill Clinton, with 156 judicial appointments, had more. Article III federal judges are appointed for life terms by the president of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate per Article III of the United States Constitution. Article III judges include judges on the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. courts of appeal,...

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Today’s Cryptogram ADSLUAF UK VBJIIW XDVQ NAIBKK WDN XDNIY VJSLBV CB YDUAF KDHBSLUAF BIKB. ---E. H. CJVVUB You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how...

I live in Spain, having retired here in 2016 with my British citizen wife so we could enjoy the weather and be closer to her family in England. The part of Spain I live in has a large number of British expats. Nerja, which is one town over from ours, is called the largest British town not in Britain. You could live your life there and never have to learn a word of Spanish. You can imagine that a whole lot of them are concerned about Britain's scheduled departure from the EU and what it will do to disrupt their...

You may not like Trump and I don’t either. But you need to recognize the genius of his game. Yes he is a narcissistic, immature serial liar, racist, sexist molester of women and opportunist. But guess what? He is still president. Yes he stands with America’s adversaries against American intelligence agencies, insults war heroes, tells people to go back to where they came from and uses his position to make American government his personal piggy bank. But it’s working. You have to understand Trump is not using a standard of right and wrong. That is what most people miss. He...

The Foreign Ministry reportedly warned the security cabinet in a recent meeting that Israel is headed toward a confrontation with US President Donald Trump’s administration unless tight restrictions are imposed on Chinese investments in the country. As a result, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to postpone a vote, planned for the July 24 meeting, on establishing a mechanism for monitoring Chinese investments in Israel, and ordered discussions in order to revise the plan so that it would satisfy the White House, Channel 13 reported Monday, citing two unnamed ministers who participated in the meeting. In March, Trump reportedly warned Netanyahu...

The Mueller investigation is expected to have cost up to 35 million. 40 FBI agents/professionals worked for 2 years full-time on the investigation together with 19 attorneys. Just imagine if these resources were instead used to gather information and stop mass-shooters. So the Dems can blame Trump all they want but it is them who stopped the FBI from conducting real work and keep chasing a hoax and keep distracting the intelligence sources from doing their job. And of course the FBI deep state actors who rather chase after the President instead of domestic terrorists are to blame here, rather...

Mariah Carey met one of her political heroes this weekend. The Grammy winner, 49, joined Hillary and Bill Clinton at Barbra Streisand‘s concert Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “An honor to meet President Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for our country,” Carey said in a tweet Monday, accompanying the post with a pair of selfies posing with each of the politicians. She shared the same photos on Instagram.

To save time, I will not be sourcing races that only have one candidate. The general election is November 5, 2019. SAMPLE Official Election Ballot STATE OF MISSISSIPPIRepublican 2019 Statewide Primary Election Tuesday, August 06, 2019 SAMPLE Official Election Ballot STATE OF MISSISSIPPIDemocratic 2019 Statewide Primary Election Tuesday, August 06, 2019 Now for the Republican races that have two or more candidates here's my research. For State Of Mississippi Governor Vote for ONE Robert Foster Tate Reeves Bill Waller Jr. Here's a good comparison of their positions "On The Issues" Abortion     Robert Foster: Protect all innocent life, including...

The reelection campaign of President Donald Trump raised far more money from more individual donors in Kentucky than any of the other presidential candidates in the first six months of 2019, with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg raising the most in the state among the many Democratic contenders. A ProPublica database of Federal Election Commission filings shows that Trump’s campaign raised a total of $256,875 from 877 individual donors in Kentucky this year, exceeding the combined $227,205 that 21 Democratic presidential candidates raised from 478 donors in the state. Trump — who won Kentucky by 30 percentage points in 2016...

Federal law prohibits the purchase and possession of firearms by people who fall within certain categories, such as convicted felons, domestic abusers, and people with specific kinds of mental health histories. Although background checks have prevented over 3 million people in these categories from obtaining guns, federal law does not generally include other types of people identified by public health researchers as being at a significantly higher risk than the general population of being dangerous, including: -Those who have been convicted of violent or gun-related misdemeanors. -Those with a history of abusing alcohol or drugs. -Those convicted of juvenile offenses....

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump of using the language of white nationalism and said he would push for a federal buyback programme to encourage Americans to give up their military-style weapons and ammunition if elected. The former vice president said in an interview with CNN that the voluntary weapons buybacks would be in addition to his push for renewing a lapsed federal ban on new manufacturing and sales of such firearms, a prohibition he helped win in 1994 as a senator from Delaware, only to watch it expire a decade later.

The liberal media will tell you there have been over 200 mass shootings in the United States so far this year. The media will also make you believe the mass shooters are all young white males. A Wiki Page was created to list every mass shooting in the US in 2019. The list does not include those shootings where no one will speak to police. At least 20 of the mass shootings this year were in Chicago, Illinois.

Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with a new investor note covering Apple’s supply chain and how President Trump’s latest rounds of tariffs might affect things. Kuo says that he believes “the tariff may not impact the prices of Apple’s hardware products” in the United States.... ...Kuo writes that Apple has likely made “proper preparations” for such a tariff, and he predicts that Apple will “absorb most of the additional costs” in the mid-short term. Thus, Kuo believes that “prices of hardware products and shipment forecasts for the U.S. market will remain unchanged” despite the tariff. In the...

Former FBI Director James Comey, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, said in a blistering op-ed for The New York Times that Trump's efforts to "exploit the radioactive energy of racism" are "more dangerous" than he realizes. "America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He's actually doing something more dangerous," Comey wrote in the piece published Sunday. Comey's comments come after a series of racist tweets from Trump last month aimed at lawmakers of color and in the immediate aftermath of...

Following back-to-back gun massacres that left 31 dead in Texas and Ohio, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso said it was “appropriate” for President Donald Trump to call out the white supremacy that motivated the Texas shooting, but said the president must also examine his own rhetoric in the matter. In his remarks from the White House on Monday morning, the president called for the nation to “condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy” and labeled the weekend’s attacks as “evil.” The president called for bipartisan efforts to combat gun violence, while focusing much of his ten-minute address to lamenting “the...

August 6 2019 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 Thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his throne. His clothing was bright as snow, and the hair on his head as white as wool; his throne was flames of fire, with wheels of burning fire. A surging stream of fire flowed out from where he sat; Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him, and myriads upon myriads attended him. The court was convened and the books were opened. As the visions during the night continued, I saw: One like a Son of man...

Iranian President Warns: War With Tehran is 'Mother of All Wars' 09:17 06.08.2019(updated 09:21 06.08.2019) The statement comes amid increasing tensions between Washington and Iran as President Donald Trump issued an executive order on 24 June authorising sanctions on officials associated with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.