Zion Harvey is nine years old. Like most boys his age, he enjoys baseball and football, does push-ups and loves his mother.
Unlike every other child his age, however, Harvey’s hands belonged to someone else until last year.
According to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s website, Harvey lost his hands at the age of two, thanks to a life-threatening infection. Doctors were forced to amputate “his legs below the knee,” as well, and at the age of four his damaged kidneys were replaced with one from his mother, Pattie Ray.
Harvey now has full use of his legs, and thanks to prosthetics, and in NBC’s video above can be seen with a football, swinging a bat and telling his mother how much he loves her.
“When I got my hands, it’s like, here’s the piece of my life that was missing. Now it’s here. Now my life is complete,” said Harvey, who told his mother in 2015 that “if [the hand surgery] gets messed up, I don’t care, because I have my family.”
“Without my mom, I would not be here right now,” Harvey, who is the first child to ever receive hand transplants, told NBC.
More of Harvey’s amazing story is here, via NBC. (For more from the author of “VIDEO: Nine-Year Old Boy Says New Hands Make His Life ‘Complete'” please click HERE)
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During a tour through Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate, made a quick stop for a haircut in Norristown.
Pence was surrounded by reporters and camera crews as he entered Henry Jones’ barbershop.
Yet despite the media fanfare surrounding the incident, the barber had no idea he was cutting the hair of such a high-profile figure.
After Jones finished cutting Pence’s hair, he shook the governor’s hand and said, “Your name was?”
“Mike Pence,” he replied. “I’m the governor of the state of Indiana, and I’m running for vice president of the United States.”
“Go ahead, man. Whoa,” replied the 74-year-old barber with a chuckle. “Vice president? Oh boy.”
“We were just in town doing a rally, campaigning, and heard you were the place to come for a haircut,” said Pence. “You’re very gracious.”
Throughout the haircut, Pence and the elderly barber discussed several issues, including the barber’s 40 years of experience cutting hair, the places Pence frequents in Indiana for his regular haircuts, sports and even married life.
Surprisingly, the one issue Pence did not discuss on the campaign stop was the 2016 election.
“Give me a handshake again,” said Jones toward the end of the event. “This is great. Woo! This is history over here, I’m telling you.”
“We’re hoping to make some history,” replied Pence, before taking a picture with the man and another member of his campaign.
Pence was visiting Pennsylvania on Tuesday while Trump was in Texas for a live town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. (For more from the author of “Barber Has Surprising Reaction When Trump’s Running Mate Stops in for a Haircut” please click HERE)
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The Department of Justice released a new police training video Thursday that demonstrates how to have “respectful, professional, and safe” interactions with members of the transgender community.
The 12-minute video was created with the goal of improving relations between law enforcement and the LGBT community in the hope of reducing cases of alleged discrimination. It presents a range of scenarios that show how officers should respond when they encounter an individual who identifies as transgender.
“When someone’s name or gender on a license is different than what you expect, how do you react? Is this person committing identify theft? Are they a fugitive? Possibly they are just transgender,” Cpl. Evan Baxter of Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department explains in the clip.
In such instances, police are encouraged to ask the individual, “Do you prefer if I call you ma’am or sir?”
“Hey, I don’t have to be in the room to know what just happened. Someone snickered, laughed or made a joke,” the narrator addresses viewers after “Scenario 1” in the video. “Trust me, I know; I’m a cop, too. As police officers, we use humor to deal with things that make us feel uncomfortable or afraid […] To outsiders, it’s perceived as unprofessional and disrespectful.”
A subsequent scenario in the video demonstrates what an officer should do in cases involving a transgender person using a restroom that corresponds to the opposite sex. In the video, a mother with a baby calls 911 after encountering a man in the woman’s restroom.
“I was in the restroom but I’m a woman,” the man tells the officer. The officer then apologizes and leaves with no further questions asked.
The clip stresses the importance of remaining courteous and keeping questions relevant to the situation in question.
“Transgender Americans, like all Americans, deserve to be treated with courtesy and respect by law enforcement officers,” Paul Monteiro, acting director of the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service said in a press release. “The information provided in this video will help strengthen the relationship between police and the transgender community, allowing for more effective investigations and safer encounters for officers and citizens alike.”
Watch:
(For more from the author of “DOJ Releases Video That Teaches Cops How to Interact With Transgender People” please click HERE)
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Last night Fox News aired part 1 of a 2-part interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange noted that they are currently reviewing “thousands of pages of material” related to the Hillary campaign which he described as “significant.” When asked whether the new material will be leaked before the November 8th election, Assange responded “yes, absolutely.”
“We have a lot of material, thousands of pages of material. There’s a variety of different types of documents and different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles that are, you know, quite interesting, some even entertaining.”
We now know that Assange planned the timing of the previous leaks to correspond with the Democratic National Convention which has since resulted in the dismissal of 5 DNC officials, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz. We assume this leak will also be timed to maximize it’s effectiveness with speculation swirling that it could be released before one of the scheduled debates in October.
When asked whether the next release could be a “game-changer” in the November Presidential election, Assange replied:
“I think it’s significant. You know, it depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.”
(Read more from “WIKILEAKS CHIEF: We Have a Little October Surprise for Miss Hillary” HERE)
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Four patrol boats operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps harassed an American destroyer on Tuesday near the Straits of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Two of the Iranian boats came within 300 yards of the USS Nitze in a manner that the unnamed official called “unsafe and unprofessional.” The IRGC boats harassed the Nitze by “conducting a high speed intercept and closing within a short distance of Nitze, despite repeated warnings,” the official added.
The Nitze attempted to communicate with the IRGC vessels 12 times and fired 10 warning flares in the direction of the two closest boats. “The Iranian high rate of closure… created a dangerous, harassing situation that could have led to further escalation, including additional defensive measures by Nitze,” the official said.
The incident is the latest Iranian challenge to American presence in the Persian Gulf and its commitment to keep the area open to international shipping. IRGC naval forces captured ten American sailors and two boats in January, an incident that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called “outrageous, unprofessional and inconsistent with international law” during a Senate hearing in March. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson echoed Carter’s assessment while announcing the result of the Navy’s investigation into the seizure in June. “Those boats and crewmembers had every right to be where they were that day,” Richardson said. “The investigation concluded that Iran violated international law by impeding the boats’ innocent passage transit, and they violated our sovereign immunity by boarding, searching, and seizing the boats, and by photographing and video recording the crew.”
The U.S. Navy reported last month that in 2015, there were close to 300 encounters or “interactions” between American and Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf. While most of the encounters were not considered to be harassment, the behavior of the Iranian navy was found to be less disciplined than that of other navies. Lt. Forrest Griggs, the operations officer of the USS New Orleans, explained that risks arise from the unpredictable behavior and uncertain intent of the Iranian vessels. “It’s very common for them to come up to within 300, 500 yards of us, and then they’ll turn, or parallel us and stop,” he said. (Read more from “WATCH: Four Iranian Vessels Harass U.S. Destroyer by Straits of Hormuz” HERE)
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Breaking news from the Associated Press indicates that the State Department has confirmed the $400 million cash payment to Iran was in-fact contingent on the release of American hostages.
BREAKING: State Dept. says $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on American prisoners' release.
The Obama administration had previously claimed that a $400 million cash payment made to Iran in January was unrelated to the release of American hostages in Iran.
President Obama held a press conference earlier this month in which he explicitly denied paying ransom for hostages.
But this new report raises the question, why did Obama lie? (For more from the author of “Confirmed: Obama Lied About Paying Ransom to Iran for Hostages!” please click HERE)
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Hillary Clinton’s doctor released a statement on Tuesday debunking the validity of documents purportedly leaked from her office, claiming the candidate has serious medical problems.
According to FactCheck.org, fake documents represented to be from Dr. Lisa Bardack’s office appear to have originated from a since deleted Twitter account.
The documents contained information claiming Clinton continued to suffer from the effects of a 2012 concussion that she suffered after fainting. The symptoms included “blacking out,” “uncontrollable twitching” and “memory loss.”
WATCH: disturbing video of Hillary Clinton having some kind of seizure, convulsions on camera in late July interview pic.twitter.com/3mauI5nd9j
The documents further claimed that Clinton suffers from “complex partial seizures” and “early-onset subcortical vascular dementia.”
In a statement released on Tuesday, Bardack said, “As Secretary Clinton’s long time physician, I released a medical statement during the campaign indicating that she is in excellent health.”
“I have recently been made aware of allegedly ‘leaked’ medical documents regarding Secretary Clinton with my name on them. These documents are false, were not written by me and are not based on any medical facts,” she continued. “To reiterate what I said in my previous statement, Secretary Clinton is in excellent health and fit to serve as President of the United States.”
Bardack released a letter about Clinton’s health in July 2015, which describes the candidate as “a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.”
The letter also addresses Clinton’s concussion noting that she experienced double-vision after the fall for a period of months and was placed on an anticoagulant medication to dissolve a clot in her brain.
According to the doctor, follow up testing in 2013 “revealed a complete resolution of the effects of the concussion” and a “dissolution” of the clot. Clinton remains on anticoagulant medication as a precaution.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity reported extensively on Clinton’s potential health issues on his program last week. He aired photo showing Clinton being helped up stairs by a Secret Service agents last February.
“You see from our picture up there that it looks like she can barely get up stairs without two people carrying her,” Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox medical expert said of the photo. “I want to know what her neurologist says. I’ve reached out to her neurologist at Columbia after she had that fall. No comment. I want to know what her neurological records show.”
The Clinton campaign has dismissed the reporting by Hannity and others as “deranged conspiracy theories,” CNN reported. (For more from the author of “Clinton’s Doctor Refutes Claims of Candidate’s Ill Health” please click HERE)
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One group of protesters were demanding that Trump release his tax returns — something he claims is not possible because of an ongoing audit — and held up signs that read “TAX FORMS.”
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released hers on Friday, so now pressure is mounting for Trump to do the same.
Later in his speech, a man from the audience shouted “Black Lives Matter!”
In a return to classic Trump style, the businessman pointed out the protester in the crowd and said, “Go home to mom! Go home to mom! And your mother is voting for Trump! She’s voting for Trump! It’s true, it’s true.”
The crowd cheered as the man was escorted out of the building.
Trump then used the end of his speech to convey how important winning the Keystone State was.
“We have to win Pennsylvania, so important,” he said. “We win Pennsylvania, we’re gonna win it.”
The Republican party is currently conflicted on its chosen candidate, with an open letter that was drafted this week urging Priebus to stop funding Trump’s campaign and to allocate resources to House and Senate members.
Priebus came to the rally to dismiss the doubt and pledged that the GOP will do all it can to support its presidential nominee. (For more from the author of “Classic Donald Trump Shuts Down Protester With ‘Mother’ of All Comebacks” please click HERE)
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Vice President Joe Biden, who is notorious for his inability to keep his hands to himself in public, just shared a ridiculously long hug with none other than Hillary Clinton . . .
Biden grabbed Mrs. Clinton around the waist and held on for nearly 20 seconds, while Clinton squirmed and patted his arm several times . . .
As luck would have it, Biden got another opportunity later in the day to cozy up to Clinton when she briefly lost her footing while stepping down from the podium following her campaign speech.
Clinton has a history of falling. After fainting and falling in 2013 while U.S. secretary of state, she was treated for a blood clot in a vein in her head at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital . . .
Photos, published by the Reuters and Getty news agencies, show Clinton, 68, receiving help as she tries to ascend a staircase in front of a home. The images were actually taken in February when the former first lady was campaigning for president in South Carolina, as WND reported. (Read more from “Hillary Slips After ‘Creepy’ Hug From Biden” HERE)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) couldn’t guarantee money Iran got through President Obama’s landmark nuclear deal wouldn’t go to financing terror attacks against Israel during her debate Sunday against primary challenger Tim Canova . . .
Debate moderator Jim DeFede brought up the $1.7 billion Iran got in January as part of a failed arms deal settlement, which included a $400 million cash payment on an unmarked cargo plane that critics charged was effectively a ransom and tied to the nuclear agreement. Iran freed four hostages on the same day it got the cash.
DeFede misspoke about the amounts of money allocated to Iran through the nuclear deal, which is more than $100 billion in sanctions relief, but the crux of his question was whether Wasserman Schultz could guarantee that none of it would be used by Iran to finance terrorist attacks against the Jewish state.
“Can you guarantee that that money, that $1.8 billion that’s part of the Iran deal, won’t be used to finance terror against Israel?” DeFede asked. “Can you guarantee it?”
“You can never guarantee anything, Jim,” she said. (Read more from “Wasserman Schultz Can’t Guarantee Iran Nuclear Deal Money Won’t Go to Attacking Israel” HERE)
