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After recount, Marc Elrich remains Democratic county executive nominee (The Washington Post)
A recount Monday in the Democratic primary for Montgomery county executive slightly changed the vote totals but not the outcome: At-large council member Marc Elrich remains the Democratic nominee.
The runner-up in the race, Potomac businessman David Blair, requested a partial recount after the certified election results showed Elrich ahead of him by just 79 votes. Monday’s recount of absentee and provisional ballots, as well as ballots cast at a Potomac early-voting center and a Clarksburg precinct, narrowed the margin to 77. [Read More]
New York Gov. Cuomo pardons illegal immigrants facing deportation for crimes (Fox News)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pardoned several illegal immigrants Monday in order to help them avoid deportation.
The New York Democrat, who is up for re-election this year, pardoned seven people who had minor criminal convictions, ranging from petty larceny to drug possession, his office said.
And with the pardons, Cuomo didn’t miss the opportunity to take a dig at the Trump administration and its “zero-tolerance” immigration policies that left thousands of minors separated from their families after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. [Read More]
4-Year-Olds Are Smarter Than Democrats. Study Finds Toddlers Dislike Freeloaders. (Daily Wire)
Democrats are all about free stuff. Free health care. Free college. Free birth control. Heck, even free money (with the new very Democratic idea of “basic income,” in which the government takes your money and gives it to . . . anyone).
Free free free is all the rage now, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Geezerville) and upstart House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Stalingrad) — both Socialists — all over the news. [Read More]
A Massachusetts man has been charged with stretching the spirit of the Planet Fitness “judgement free zone” slogan after allegedly stripping at the front desk of a gym and exercising in the nude.
Eric M. Stagno, 34, of Haverhill, Mass., was charged with indecent exposure, lewdness and disorderly conduct after police responded to the gym in nearby Plaistow, N.H., according to local media reports.
“The story we got from witnesses was that the guy walked in, stripped down right there in front, left the clothes and belongings at the front desk, walked back and forth across the gym a couple of times and then settled in over at the yoga mats,” Plaistow police Capt. Brett Morgan told the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper. [Read More]
Dogs go out of their way to help upset owners, study shows (The Telegraph)
Dogswill make a speedy effort to comfort their owners if they think they are upset, a study has shown for the first time.
Although anecdotally, dog owners claim that their pets are in tune with their emotions and will offer support in times of crisis, it has never been scientifically tested before.
In a new study, scientists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, took 34 dogs and positioned them behind a door which was closed with magnets, with their owners on the other side. [Read More]
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