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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared himself the winner in Iowa after technical glitches and snafus prevented the state party from announcing any caucus results Monday night. Buttigieg, who was hoping to get a boost out of the nation's first caucus state to drive past more seasoned rivals, went beyond any of the other Democratic presidential contenders his his caucus-night speech. 'We don't know all of the results. But we do know that by the time it's all said and done, Iowa: you have shocked the nation. Because by all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious,' Buttigieg...

A delay in the results of the Iowa caucuses has left the Democratic presidential campaigns in the dark about the state of the race in the Hawkeye State. Aides to some of the leading candidates said late Tuesday that they know little if anything about the cause of the delays, even after a briefing from Iowa Democratic Party officials. “They basically told us nothing,” one senior adviser to a leading candidate said of the call between Iowa Democratic Party leaders and the campaigns. Asked what they were hearing about issues related to the caucus results, another Democratic campaign source replied,...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren's campaign manager, Roger Lau, said she is in a three-way tie for the lead in Iowa, with Joe Biden a "distant fourth." With no official results in due to reporting issues by Iowa Democrats, campaigns are scrambling to make sense of a race with no clear winner. "From what we can tell, Warren, [Bernie] Sanders, and [Pete] Buttigieg, based on our own data and data collected by our own operations and organization, are fighting for the lead, and it's clear that Biden is a distant fourth," Lau told reporters

The Iowa Democratic Party is unlikely to release any results from its first-in-the-nation caucuses until morning, after technical snafus and reporting concerns led to major delays in voting. Hours after caucuses convened at 1,700 locations across the state, frustrations mounted among campaign operatives who said they could not get answers to questions about the delay. A conference call between top campaign officials and the state party ended abruptly, two sources on the call said, without any real answers. “The [Iowa Democratic Party] hung up on campaigns when they pressed for a release time,” said one senior strategist for a leading...

February 4, 2020 Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3 Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants. He was mounted on a mule, and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth, his hair caught fast in the tree. He hung between heaven and earth while the mule he had been riding ran off. Someone saw this and reported to Joab that he had seen Absalom hanging from a terebinth. And taking three pikes in hand, he thrust for the heart of Absalom, still hanging from the...

Representative Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) said Monday that “a whole range of utterly unacceptable conduct in a president would now be beyond reach” if the Senate acquits President Trump in his impeachment trial. Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, said during closing arguments in the trial that “Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election, or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let Jared Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision whether to go to war.” Schiff also accused Trump’s legal team of employing the “dangerous” and “absurd” argument that...

Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign called on the Iowa Democratic Party to provide answers about issues that plagued Monday night's caucuses across the state after results were delayed. In an email to party officials obtained by CBS News, the Biden campaign's general counsel pointed to "considerable flaws" in the caucus system that resulted in both the party's app for reporting caucus results and a backup phone line to fail Monday evening. "I write on behalf of the Biden for President Campaign regarding the considerable flaws in tonight's Iowa Caucus system," Dana Remus wrote. "The app that was intended to...

SEOUL - A South Korean woman returning home after a trip to Thailand has been infected with a strain of coronavirus that has killed over 400 people in central China's Wuhan city. The patient is a 42-year-old woman who arrived in South Korea on Jan 19 and started feeling chills on Jan 25, the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) revealed on Tuesday (Feb 4), the Yonhap news agency reported. She was tested postive for the viral infection on Monday after her condition did not improve despite receiving treatment, said the KCDC.

Bishop Schneider: ‘The Pope cannot be silent as he watches the wolves devour the flock’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks out against the German bishops’ ‘synodal path.’ ROME, February 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has the duty to prevent bishops in Germany from leading clergy and faithful down the “synodal path” over the precipice of heresy, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said.  In a new statement published today on the German-language outlet Kath.net (see official English text below), the auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, argued that the “synodal path” is “an attempt” to officially sanction the “heretical doctrine and practices” that have...

Mark weighed in Monday on Rush Limbaugh’s announcement that he has advance lung cancer

Buttigieg essentially declares himself the winner in Iowa: “Because by all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.” Pete Buttigieg on stage: “So we don’t know all the results, but we know by the time it’s all said and done, Iowa you have shocked the nation.”

i am searching for a western film that i vaguely recall watching in the early 1960s. two men (and a woman?) find themselves alone and stranded, without supplies or transportation, in the mexican desert in the late 19th century. they walk and come across a railroad track. they follow the line and find an overturned two man handcar. they get the handcar back on the railroad track. then they operate the handcar until they get to a big city (vera cruz?). there is a gunfight of some sort, and they win the gun fight. iirc, the movie has two famous...

In some parts of the world they conjure wild memories from the 2010s. In Russia, they're more popular than weed.When a group of powerful, legal stimulants burst onto the drug scene in the UK and U.S. a decade ago, they caused a media frenzy. In Britain, mephedrone came virtually out of nowhere in 2009 to become a hugely popular drug with university students, clubbers and rural teenagers. Dubbed "meow meow" by newspapers and sold online as “plant food,” it was the “killer” drug that made people rip off their own scrotums. Yet behind the hype, to young people using it,...

The Green Bay Packers announced Monday evening that former safety Willie Wood has died at the age of 83. "The Green Bay Packers Family lost a legend today with the passing of Willie Wood,” said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy via a press release. “Willie’s success story, rising from an undrafted rookie free agent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is an inspiration to generations of football fans. While his health challenges kept him from returning to Lambeau Field in recent years, his alumni weekend visits were cherished by both Willie and our fans. We extend our deepest condolences to...

The Iowa Democrats hosted a conference call with the campaigns within the last hour. Sources confirm the Iowa Dems hung up on the campaigns as campaigns pressed for more information about the issues with reporting and when they would receive more data/results. Sources say the call got very heated.

Federal agents do surprise compliance checksA Nebraska gun dealer will spend more than two years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered gun silencer. In U.S. District Court on Friday, Joseph Melton, from Holdrege, NE, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to the charge. Melton will also be on supervised release for two years. Advertisement Melton, 31, was a candidate for mayor of Holdrege in 2018 and was part owner of Leadfoot LLC, a gun shop and manufacturer in Holdrege. Leadfoot obtained a federal firearms license to manufacture and sell silencers. During a compliance check...

A Plattsmouth High School student asked his girlfriend to prom by taking her up in an airplane and having her look down and discover a message below. Carmelo, a 16-year-old exchange student from Spain, was looking for a creative way to ask his girlfriend to prom, his host brother Trey told KETV. Thanks to a friend of Carmelo's host family, Carmelo was given the opportunity to take his girlfriend, Rachel, and Trey on a flight to view the area. Unbeknownst to Rachel, Carmelo and Trey had been working to plan a surprise for her. With some help, Carmelo had the...

Dog detectives might be able to help save ailing citrus groves, research published Monday suggests. Scientists trained dogs to sniff out a crop disease called citrus greening that has hit orange, lemon and grapefruit orchards in Florida, California and Texas. The dogs can detect it weeks to years before it shows up on tree leaves and roots, the researchers report. Advertisement “This technology is thousands of years old – the dog’s nose,” said Timothy Gottwald, a researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a co-author of the study. “We’ve just trained dogs to hunt new prey: the bacteria that...

In a room full of powerful food executives, Tyla-Simone Crayton was in her element. Without an ounce of nerves to be seen, the Texas "Sauce Boss" dished out tastings of her secret recipe to a VIP crowd at the World Food Championships in Dallas. “Everybody go home! That is amazing,” the CEO and President of the World Food Championships, Mike McCloud, exclaimed to the crowd of eager tasters. She was one of five entrepreneurs to showcase their product. “It's been exciting,” Crayton, the CEO of Sienna Sauce, told InsideEdition.com. “I've been able to meet people that I probably would've never...

Suspects accused of shining laser at pedestriansA group of Florida Institute of Technology students trespassed on a construction site, climbed a radio tower and pointed a green laser at pedestrians because they were bored and wanted to “mess with people,” according to the Melbourne Police Department. Police said they were called to the Roberts Hall construction site around 1:20 a.m. Sunday after security officers spotted the three teens on top of a radio tower on the roof of the seven-story tall building, pointing a green laser at people as they walked by. The building is vacant and under construction with...