from Your News: Prosecutors argue new federal law signed by President Trump requires disclosure within 30 days. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom The Justice Department on Monday renewed its bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury records, telling a federal judge that Congress has explicitly authorized the release of investigative materials tied to the late financier’s sex trafficking case. TRUTH […]

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Let’s face it: Republicans are staring at a wipeout in the midterm elections. The economy is battered, GOP leadership looks unfocused, and swing voters show signs of fatigue with the endless drama surrounding Trump. The trend lines point in one direction.But another truth sits alongside it: Republican voters still want a reason to show up. The base will not match the left’s turnout intensity unless the party gives them a fight worth having. And no issue energizes the conservative electorate more than immigration. If Republicans intend to use their remaining political capital, this is where to use it.At a minimum, Trump should return to his original 2015 promise: Pause immigration and restore sanity to a system voters believe is broken beyond recognition.Last week, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced exactly that fight.What the PAUSE Act doesRoy’s PAUSE Act freezes all legal immigration — except temporary tourist admissions — until the federal government establishes permanent enforcement against illegal entry and against categories of immigration voters have opposed for years. The bill sets clear conditions for lifting the moratorium.Reversing Plyler v. Doe, allowing states and localities to deny illegal aliens access to public schools.Reforming birthright citizenship so that minors receive citizenship only when at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or green card holder.Ending chain migration and the diversity visa program; limiting entries to spouses and unmarried minor children; ending extended-family preference categories.Prohibiting the entry of Sharia-law adherents, Chinese Communist Party members, known or suspected terrorists, and members of foreign terrorist organizations.Barring noncitizens from accessing means-tested federal benefits such as SNAP, SSI, TANF, Medicaid, Medicare, WIC, federal student loans, and public housing.Ending adjustment of status for H-1B visa holders and abolishing the unconstitutional optional practical training program that displaces American tech workers.The bill accomplishes all of this in fewer than 10 pages. Original co-sponsors include Reps. Keith Self (R-Texas), Brandon Gill (R-Texas), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).A long-delayed agendaConservatives have pushed these reforms for nearly two decades. Some ideas surfaced in the Trump years through executive actions, but courts blocked several and entrenched others — especially anchor-baby citizenship and taxpayer-funded K-12 education for illegal aliens.Other essential reforms, such as ending optional practical training, halting visas from China, or barring Sharia-law adherents, were never attempted.RELATED: Trump can’t call it ‘mission accomplished’ yet Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe genius of Roy’s bill is simple: It creates a standing incentive for courts, presidents, and future Congresses. If judges want legal immigration to continue, they must revisit the policies that created the crisis in the first place.Staring at political realityIf Trump focused his attention on this bill — and forced congressional Republicans to choose — he could unite conservatives heading into primary season. A transformational immigration fight would energize GOP voters at a moment when the party shows weakness across the map.Democrats have over-performed by an average of 15 points in recent special elections. That surge alarmed Republicans enough that they pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) from consideration for U.N. ambassador for fear of losing her district, which Trump carried by 15 points. Democrats are now pouring money into Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which Trump carried by 20. A party that cannot defend safe seats is a party in trouble.If Republicans can’t win in red America during a bad economy, it’s not because voters demand new talking points. It’s because the party has failed to deliver on the core issues that animate its base.RELATED: The right must choose: Fight the real war, or cosplay revolution online wildpixel via iStock/Getty ImagesThe choice aheadTrump could offer a fresh economic vision or finally follow through on repealing Obamacare. But at a minimum, he should return to his original 2015 promise: Pause immigration and restore sanity to a system voters believe is broken beyond recognition.The window is closing. If Republicans refuse to use the power they still possess, they will lose it — not gradually, but suddenly.The PAUSE Act gives them a chance to reverse that trajectory. The question is whether they will take it.

A richly furnished pyre burial from the High Roman Empire period (early 2nd century) has been unearthed at Lamonzie-Saint-Martin in southwestern France. It contains unusually valuable furnishings, including coins, gold sheets and an intaglio ring with a pendant engraved with Greek lettering. The site at a ford on the Dordogne River was known to contain remains of a Neolithic settlement, but the discovery of a sole Roman grave was unexpected. It consists of a rectangular pit with edges clearly defined by burn material. A small terra sigillata vessel and a clear class vial were found in one corner, and cremated human remains emerged just under them. A bronze coin confirmed that this was pyre burial from the High Empire period. This type of burial is known as a bustum, a cremation grave where the remains of the burned body are left in place at the pyre, as opposed to the more typical cremation burial where one pyre was used multiple times and the burned bones collected for burial elsewhere. The pyre would be built over a shallow pit that captured the bones and ash as the fire burned. Once the fire died out (or was doused), the pit would be covered with soil. A meticulous excavation of the fill of the pit ensued. Just six inches deep, the fill consists of ash and charcoal with cremated bone fragments and grave goods. Any find, bones and artifacts, were left in situ for photogrammetry recording so that a 3D model of the burial can be created for later analysis. The terra sigillata beaker, which may have been manufactured in the local workshops of Montans at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries, was removed in a soil clump. A long iron object, heavily corroded with what looks like a wooden handle, was also removed in soil so it can X-rayed and fully excavated in laboratory conditions. Towards the south end of the pit, a concentration of valuable grave goods were found, including a group of about 10 coins, sestertii and asses, interspersed with small gold sheets that may have decorated a purse or case that once held the coins. A group of crystals, likely originally mounted on an organic base like leather, were found among the bone remains. Among the 22 gold objects (sheets, wires and droplets), three stand out in particular: a bracelet made of a twisted band ending with a loop clasp; a probable bulla (a bubble-shaped pendant that was given to the young men of wealthy Roman families) and an intaglio ring. This ring, deformed by the heat and its fall into the collapsed pyre, is adorned with a claw-shaped bezel that once held a small intaglio. Made of a material yet to be identified (rock crystal?), it is very small and bears seven letters engraved in the Greek alphabet: Allallé. The epigraphic study of this object will focus in particular on determining whether this could be the surname of the deceased. The recovered remains and the structure will be now studied by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers. In addition to examining the funerary practice itself, researchers will consider its place in the wider landscape, where the necropolis associated with the bustum may be, where the Roman-era settlement was, and whether there was a Greek population located here as evidenced by the engraved jewel.

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