Chicago Bears reportedly mulling Soldier Field parking area as new stadium site as talks resume with schools over Arlington Heights location
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The Chicago Bears continue to check out a variety of sites in and around Chicago — including the site of Soldier Field — as potential homes for a new stadium, officials said Wednesday.
The Bears are doing due diligence on the viability of the south parking lot at Soldier Field as the location for their next stadium, according to unnamed sources cited by The Parkins & Spiegel Show on WSCR-AM 670 The Score.
The Bears have proposed building a $5 billion enclosed stadium and entertainment and housing complex on the site of the closed Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights. The project has stalled while the team tries to negotiate favorable property taxes for the site.
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The Bears are doing due diligence on the viability of the south parking lot at Soldier Field as the location for their next stadium, according to unnamed sources cited by The Parkins & Spiegel Show on WSCR-AM 670 The Score.
The Bears have proposed building a $5 billion enclosed stadium and entertainment and housing complex on the site of the closed Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights. The project has stalled while the team tries to negotiate favorable property taxes for the site.
Chicago Bears reportedly mulling Soldier Field parking area as new stadium site as talks resume with schools over Arlington Heights location
The Chicago Bears continue to check out a variety of sites in and around Chicago — including the site of Soldier Field — as potential homes for a new stadium, officials said Wednesday.
8 Hawks named NWCA Scholar All-Americans
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8 Hawks named NWCA Scholar All-Americans
The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) announced their NCAA Women’s Scholar All-American awards. The NWCA recognized student-athletes that excel in both academics and athletics. Eight members of the University of Iowa were named for this honor. Ava Bayless Emily Frost Brianna Gonzalez...
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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
I Hope Our Brave National Guard on the Border is Armed, as They Are Under Contract Attack by ILLEGALS
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Migrant caught on video cutting border razor wire and attempting to lead dozens into US illegally
Reporters on the ground at the U.S. border with Mexico caught a migrant cutting fencing and razor wire before attempting to lead dozens of migrants into the U.S. illegally.
Kim Reynolds to join Greg Abbott, other GOP governors grandstanding, at Texas border
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will travel to Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sunday to join a group of Republican governors for a news conference as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to feud with President Joe Biden over border security.
Reynolds was one of two dozen Republican governors who rallied behind Abbott last week as he vowed to continue installing razor wire at the southern border in an effort to stem the flow of migrants across the border.
Reynolds' office said in a news release the conference would highlight the “actions the State of Texas has made to protect Americans in response to President Joe Biden’s reckless open border policies.”
The other governors planning to be at Eagle Pass are from Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week cleared the way for Border Patrol officials to begin cutting razor wire fencing that Texas officials had installed at the border after Abbott sued to stop them. The ruling did not impact Abbott’s ability to continue placing the razor wire.
Abbott has since said that Biden has failed his constitutional duty to secure the border. Abbott has declared the rise in unlawful border crossings an “invasion,” saying he has a constitutional duty to enforce border policies.
“Because the Biden administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation,” Reynolds and other Republican governors said last week.
The Biden administration has been pushing for Congress to agree on a deal to secure the southern border, and Biden said he would “shut down” the border if given the authority.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said last week Abbott had politicized the situation and was endangering people’s lives.
“It's not making people's lives safer. It's actually making it harder for law enforcement at the border to do their job,” she said in an interview on CNN. “And so we have been very clear. We want to make sure we get something done at the border.”
Reynolds will hold a press briefing in Des Moines after she returns on Monday, her office said.
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Reynolds was one of two dozen Republican governors who rallied behind Abbott last week as he vowed to continue installing razor wire at the southern border in an effort to stem the flow of migrants across the border.
Reynolds' office said in a news release the conference would highlight the “actions the State of Texas has made to protect Americans in response to President Joe Biden’s reckless open border policies.”
The other governors planning to be at Eagle Pass are from Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week cleared the way for Border Patrol officials to begin cutting razor wire fencing that Texas officials had installed at the border after Abbott sued to stop them. The ruling did not impact Abbott’s ability to continue placing the razor wire.
Abbott has since said that Biden has failed his constitutional duty to secure the border. Abbott has declared the rise in unlawful border crossings an “invasion,” saying he has a constitutional duty to enforce border policies.
“Because the Biden administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation,” Reynolds and other Republican governors said last week.
The Biden administration has been pushing for Congress to agree on a deal to secure the southern border, and Biden said he would “shut down” the border if given the authority.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said last week Abbott had politicized the situation and was endangering people’s lives.
“It's not making people's lives safer. It's actually making it harder for law enforcement at the border to do their job,” she said in an interview on CNN. “And so we have been very clear. We want to make sure we get something done at the border.”
Reynolds will hold a press briefing in Des Moines after she returns on Monday, her office said.
Kim Reynolds to join Greg Abbott, other GOP governors, at Texas border
They’re backing Texas governor’s order to install barbed wire
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Hunter Biden declines House committee invitation to testify publicly
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Hunter Biden has declined an invitation to testify next week in a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee, according to a letter from Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the panel’s chairman.
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In a statement Wednesday, Comer complained that Hunter Biden has “for months stated he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates that he worked with for years, he is refusing to come.”
Biden appeared before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees last month in a closed-door deposition after weeks of back-and-forth with Republicans over his offer to appear for public testimony or a public deposition instead.
When he did appear for the closed-door deposition, the president’s son sharply rebutted allegations that his father was involved with his business ventures. Testifying for nearly seven hours, Hunter Biden said that his father did not receive money or benefit financially from any of his business ventures, according to a transcript of his appearance.
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After that closed-door meeting, Comer said the next step of an ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Biden would be a public hearing.
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In the letter to Comer, Lowell argued that the younger Biden had answered every question Republicans had for him in the deposition, and he said the public hearing “is not a serious oversight proceeding."
“It is your attempt to resuscitate your Conference’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act,” Lowell wrote.
House Republicans have long struggled to prove that President Biden benefited improperly from his family’s businesses as part of an impeachment inquiry into the president. Even some members of their conference have expressed skepticism about the inquiry.
During his closed-door deposition, Hunter Biden testified that he never introduced or involved his father in his business dealings with a Chinese energy firm he worked with in 2017. He also defended his tightknit relationship with his father and unequivocally stated that he never called his father on behalf of his clients.
While Lowell, in the Wednesday letter to Comer, said Hunter Biden can’t attend the hearing because of a court hearing the next day in California, he noted that the scheduling conflict “is the least of the issues" they have with the invitation.
“Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended,” Lowell wrote. He then cited Comer, who on Jan. 10 said that all the committee needed was for “people to show up to the depositions and we’ll wrap this up.”
“Mr. Biden did just as you asked,” Lowell said.
Comer, in a Wednesday statement, argued that, during the deposition, Hunter Biden “confirmed key evidence” but that some of his testimony contradicts the testimonies of his former associates Devon Archer, Jason Galanis, and Tony Bobulinski.
“Next week’s hearing with Hunter Biden and his associates is moving forward and we fully expect Hunter Biden to participate,” Comer said.
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In a statement Wednesday, Comer complained that Hunter Biden has “for months stated he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates that he worked with for years, he is refusing to come.”
Biden appeared before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees last month in a closed-door deposition after weeks of back-and-forth with Republicans over his offer to appear for public testimony or a public deposition instead.
When he did appear for the closed-door deposition, the president’s son sharply rebutted allegations that his father was involved with his business ventures. Testifying for nearly seven hours, Hunter Biden said that his father did not receive money or benefit financially from any of his business ventures, according to a transcript of his appearance.
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After that closed-door meeting, Comer said the next step of an ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Biden would be a public hearing.
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In the letter to Comer, Lowell argued that the younger Biden had answered every question Republicans had for him in the deposition, and he said the public hearing “is not a serious oversight proceeding."
“It is your attempt to resuscitate your Conference’s moribund inquiry with a made-for-right-wing-media, circus act,” Lowell wrote.
House Republicans have long struggled to prove that President Biden benefited improperly from his family’s businesses as part of an impeachment inquiry into the president. Even some members of their conference have expressed skepticism about the inquiry.
During his closed-door deposition, Hunter Biden testified that he never introduced or involved his father in his business dealings with a Chinese energy firm he worked with in 2017. He also defended his tightknit relationship with his father and unequivocally stated that he never called his father on behalf of his clients.
While Lowell, in the Wednesday letter to Comer, said Hunter Biden can’t attend the hearing because of a court hearing the next day in California, he noted that the scheduling conflict “is the least of the issues" they have with the invitation.
“Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended,” Lowell wrote. He then cited Comer, who on Jan. 10 said that all the committee needed was for “people to show up to the depositions and we’ll wrap this up.”
“Mr. Biden did just as you asked,” Lowell said.
Comer, in a Wednesday statement, argued that, during the deposition, Hunter Biden “confirmed key evidence” but that some of his testimony contradicts the testimonies of his former associates Devon Archer, Jason Galanis, and Tony Bobulinski.
“Next week’s hearing with Hunter Biden and his associates is moving forward and we fully expect Hunter Biden to participate,” Comer said.
F This Guy....Bomb the SOB like Gaza!!
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Mexican president says the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the US meets his demands
Mexican President Obrador said that while he has found short term ways to curb the crisis, the United States must aid Latin America in multiple ways to stop it completely.