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45th President of the United States, President Donald J. Trump to Hold a Rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, August 30, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 10:30 a.m. ET. President Trump will address the third annual National “Joyful Warriors” Summit in Washington, DC, as a special guest on Friday, August 30, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.

A Kentucky man who was the first known person to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Michael Sparks, 47, was convicted in March by a federal jury in the District of Columbia on all six charges that he faced, including two felony offenses of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder. On Aug. 27, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Sparks to 53 months in prison and fined him $2,000.

Kamala Harris has taken insufficient heat for ducking the press because she inevitably wanders into incoherency speaking on her own. She has directed her minions to "leak" her policy proposals up to now. The pressure on her to do an interview has built to significance and Harris decided she'd do something. So, she chose to do an interview, sort of. Naturally, she chose the safe harbor of CNN as her venue. Outside of Politico, no one in the legacy media has been a bigger cheerleading hack for Harris than CNN. Watch Jon Karl fight tooth and nail for her in...

DOUBLE HEADER TRUMP EVENT DAY! President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will Deliver Remarks on the Economy, Inflation, and Manufacturing in Potterville, Michigan, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Watch all-day LIVE coverage on RSBN starting at 11:00 a.m. ET. And.... President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will Hold a Town Hall - moderated by Tulsi Gabbard - in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. EDT.

A federal judge has ordered the release of a defendant convicted in the January 6 Capitol attack due to a Supreme Court ruling.The Supreme Court ruled in June that federal felony "obstruction of an official proceeding" charges are only valid if the government can prove that a defendant "impaired the availability or integrity" of documents or records rather than merely obstructing an official proceeding.Prosecutors had used the charge against hundreds of January 6 defendants under the assumption that it pertained to obstructing an official proceeding like the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress, which was stormed by a mob...

Jack Posobiec broke exclusive news on Wednesday's episode of Human Events Daily that the Western District of Pennsylvania US attorney has empaneled a grand jury to investigate the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and consider criminal charges.What has been known surrounding the case is that the shooter Thomas Matthew Crook's father, Matthew Crooks, has retained a lawyer and 5 Secret Service from the Pittsburgh field office covering Butler have been placed on leave.This new development comes after a request from America First Legal to the Community College of Allegheny County, the school which Crook's attended, for records was denied. AFL...

The Kamala Harris campaign has created a digital operation with over 175 staff members to attack former President Donald Trump online. The Harris campaign has recruited an army of GenZ staffers from Harris for President and the Democratic National Committee to target voters ahead of November. A spokesperson for the Harris campaign told Axios that the digital team is focused on using social media to "break through a challenging media environment to reach the voters who are most difficult to reach." The digital mobilization team's "rapid response" accounts are responsible for reacting to and capitalizing on trends and key moments...

The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to unblock President Joe Biden’s income-driven student loan repayment program. In a brief order, the Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s request to reinstate the program after it was paused by a federal appeals court. The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which lowers monthly loan payments based on income and creates a faster path to loan forgiveness, was challenged by a group of red states. “The Court expects that the Court of Appeals will render its decision with appropriate dispatch,” the Wednesday order states. The Biden administration argued the appeals court’s injunction “severely...

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Deliver Remarks on the Economy and Energy in Erie, PennsylvaniaVice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Deliver Remarks on the Economy and Energy in Erie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, at 3:00PM EDT. p>Since Harris and Biden took office, Kamala Harris has turned her back on everyday Pennsylvanians and broken one promise after another. In 2019, Kamala said that there’s “no question I’m in favor” of banning fracking; in 2020, after becoming Biden’s VP nominee, she flip-flopped to say she wouldn’t ban fracking. And as soon as she took power, the Harris-Biden...

The Biden-Harris administration has deployed a little-known hiring mechanism to staff key divisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) ahead of the 2024 election, according to documents provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT). Hundreds of people, primarily lawyers and judges, have been appointed to the Environmental and Natural Resources (ENRD) and Antitrust and Immigration Review divisions of the DOJ using its “Schedule A” hiring authority since President Joe Biden took office, documents shared with the DCNF by PPT show. Schedule A hiring does not require appointments to be made on the basis of...

Special counsel Jack Smith has charged former President Donald Trump in a superseding indictment in his federal election interference case. "Today, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment, ECF No. 226, charging the defendant with the same c, riminal offenses that were charged in the original indictment," a Justice Department spokesperson said Tuesday.

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Deliver Remarks on the Economy, Inflation, and Manufacturing in Big Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at 1:30PM EDT. The radical policies of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the far-left Democrats, including Tim Walz, have driven the American economy into a tailspin, leaving Michigan families struggling to make ends meet. With inflation in Michigan soaring to 20.50%, families are now facing an additional $1,031 in monthly expenses. Since Comrade Kamala took office, Michiganders have had to shell out $9,819 more on transportation, $4,464 more on energy, $4,020 more on food, and $4,183...

ABedouin man who was held hostage in Gaza for more than 10 months was rescued by Israeli forces on Tuesday, Israeli officials announced. Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was rescued from an underground tunnel in a "complex mission" by Israeli commandos acting on intelligence, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a news briefing Tuesday. "He is alive and back home in Israel," Hagari said. Alkadi, a father of 11 from south of Rahat, an Arab Bedouin city in the Southern District of Israel, was taken hostage during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks while working in security at a...

It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy. But the state demanded wind. Let’s discuss the amazing bottom line results. So Much for So Little The Wall Street Journal asks Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power? New York state signed a contract in June to buy electricity generated by two large wind farms, Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, off the coast of Long Island. The projects are expected to begin in 2026 and 2027, with power delivered to Brooklyn (Empire) and Long Island (Sunrise). The state will pay $155 and $146 per megawatt-hour,...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 22, 2024) — 45th President Donald J. Trump will address the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. The conference, which is the association’s annual business meeting, runs Friday through Monday at Huntington Place, the Motor City’s main convention center. More than 4,000 Guard officers, spouses and other guests are registered to attend. In addition to association business, the conference agenda every year includes Pentagon leaders and lawmakers. During presidential election years, NGAUS also invites the Democrat and Republican nominees for president. The association has hosted at least one...

“No guarantee of free speech” - Walz There you have it folks, this commie psycho telling you flat out there's no guarantee of your constitutional rights. And speaking of "misinformation", their convention was 3 days of misinformation, everything about that convention was misinformation!!!!

Preliminary results of the most massive attack by the Russian Armed Forces on objects in Ukraine in recent times: ▪️At least five explosions were recorded in the area of ​​​​Zhulyany airport in Kyiv, where the positions of the American Patriot air defense system may be located ▪️A total of about 10 arrivals were recorded in Kyiv ▪️The strikes in Vinnytsia and Poltava hit the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units for rotation ▪️Emergency power outages began throughout Ukraine after the strikes ▪️Power grid facilities were hit in Poltava, Lutsk and Odessa ▪️There are arrivals at industrial and infrastructure facilities...

The Talk Shows August 25th, 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt; Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.); Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.); retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Russia interference conspiracy theorist and Trump administration commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (2017-19) Scott Gottlieb. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Colorado democrat Gov. Jared Polis; cFromer Reform party Candidate for President 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Panel: Michael Allen, Francesca Chambers, Richard (He prefers Dick) Fowler and Mollie Hemingway. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by...

The IDF says it has detected preparations by Hezbollah to launch rockets and missiles and is preemptively striking in Lebanon “to remove the threat.” Fighter jets are striking Hezbollah targets that “posed an imminent threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the army says, adding that “life-saving instructions” will be sent out in some parts of the country. Alarms are meanwhile sounding in several northern communities.