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The FBI executed what turned out to be a high-profile search warrant Friday in Sterling, Virginia sending the D.C. media and social media into a tail spin. News helicopters, TV news casters. The whole circus came to Sterling on Friday for the five-hour FBI raid. While many wildly speculated the raid was somehow linked to the Trump White House, FBI sources confirmed to True Pundit the operation is terrorism related, FBI sources said, and part of an ongoing terror-related investigation. FBI sources said the target of the warrant is renting the apartment unit in Sterling and is an “Arabic-speaking male.”...

Some media observers say overseas reporters cover U.S. politics better than stateside scribes. It’s a case-by-case situation, of course. It’s not far from the truth, though. We saw a great example of it recently courtesy of the BBC. The Post, out in select theaters now and going wide January 12, stars Meryl Streep as Katherine Graham, The Washington Post publisher circa 1971. Graham approved the publication of The Pentagon Papers under great duress, a watershed moment in journalism. Tom Hanks co-stars as editor Ben Bradlee, and Oscar winner Steven Spielberg is behind the camera. Talk about heavy hitters. The story...

California under Jerry Brown... (Video of homeless lining the streets)

President Donald Trump is good at trolling liberals. Well he’s done it again, this time on the topic of global warming. Trump took to twitter and took a sledgehammer of reality upside the heads of climate-change preaching liberals who are always insisting the sky is falling. Following record cold temperatures in the east, Trump decided it was time to call for some global warming. "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to...

British Major General Rialls, 1000 British Regulars and 400 Indian allies cross the Niagara River. They attack 2100 New York State Militia under the command of Major General Hall. After a short fight, the militia withdraws (by some accounts run). The British troops put the torch to the villages of Buffalo and Black Rock, burning all but 4 out of 150 buildings. Also burned are 4 ships tied up there. The British and their Indian allies withdraw to Canada.

Müller: Müller: "The Book of Buttiglione has dispelled the doubts of the cardinals" For his seventy years the most significant words are those received by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller has "defended the clear traditions of faith, but in the spirit of Pope Francis" has "tried to understand how they can be lived today. » . And precisely in this sense was the full and articulate introductory essay that the German cardinal wanted to write in support of the initiative of the philosopher Rocco Buttiglione, who has collected in a recently published volume his contributions for a...

Christianity has been growing at a fast rate in the last couple of decades in Iran, that has caused the Islamic government a lot of concern, according to Mohabat News, an Iranian Christian News Agency. A high profile Islamic seminary official, Ayatollah Alavi Boroujerdi, stated "accurate reports indicate that the youth are becoming Christians in Qom and attending house churches." Another most senior Islamic Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has repeatedly expressed his concern over the spread of Christianity among the youth in the country. He and his other colleagues blame foreign influence for the conversion of young Iranians to...

Protests beginning Thursday sparked by economic unrest in Iran have quickly turned into massive demonstrations, not just against economic policy, but against the Islamist controlled government as a whole. These gatherings are the largest form of anti-government demonstrations in the middle eastern country since 2009. Citizens continued demonstrations Saturday in the cities of Teheran, Kermanshah, as well as nearly 20 other locations chanting against Iran's President Hassan Rouhani as well as the Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei What started as smaller protests against poor economic conditions, allegations of corruption, as well as the Iranian government's involvement in foreign nations has quickly...

By comparison, President Donald Trump received a mere $20,252 from 61 DOJ employees in same period More than 2,600 individual contributions collectively worth in excess of $416,000 were made to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by persons who listed the Department of Justice (DOJ) as their employer, according to federal campaign data compiled by opensecrets.org. Contributions to President Donald Trump were paltry by comparison, coming from only 61 individuals listing DOJ as their employer and making 54 donations collectively worth $20,252. All of the data covered the election cycle from Jan. 1, 2015, through the 2016 election on November...

From glancing at the headlines (or even at entertainment news), you could be forgiven for thinking a full-blown Watergate is upon us. “Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg find parallels to Nixon era,” ran a Dec. 15 headline in The Washington Post. Spielberg has said he made the movie “The Post” because the dawn of the Trump era was exactly the right time for an unabashed prequel to “All the President’s Men” that ends with the Watergate burglary. Hanks added that if President Trump invited him to screen the movie at the White House, he’d decline and be more likely to...

If there is one thing the Russian leadership despises, and fears, it is civil unrest. The “color revolutions” of recent decades in Ukraine and elsewhere, along with the “Arab Spring,” have shown Moscow in real time what can happen when a political movement spirals beyond control. The Russian people have seen their standards of living decline, and social services cut in favor of military spending over the last several years. In short, the trappings exist right now for a good old-fashioned spate of civil disobedience. The Kremlin knows this. They thought they had all the T’s crossed and the I’s...

Anti-Iranian government protests continued for the third straight day as men, women, and even children take to the streets against the theocratic state's leaders. Women are abandoning Islamic dress code, the youth are chanting "the students would rather die than bow to power,"  and public displays of the Supreme Ayatollah are being torn down in defiance of the government. These protests were sparked by economic unrest, but the people of Iran have quickly capitalized on anti-establishment resentment and are challenging the government as a whole. These are the largest demonstrations against the government since 2009. However, earlier in the year President...

.... Here are 15 flops from the past year, be it commercial bombs or tone-deaf cultural grenades, from the worlds of music, TV, movies, and celebrity culture... Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi commercial... Sean Spicer at the Emmys.... “As a father of daughters…”.... Mariah Carey at New Year’s Eve... The launch of Megyn Kelly Today.... Marvel’s Inhumans... Matt Damon... Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy... Kathy Griffin’s Trump mask fiasco... Fyre Festival... Tulip Fever... Kid Rock’s “Senate run”.... Baywatch vs. Rotten Tomatoes... The Mummy and the Dark Universe....

In the capital they showed their anger through normally taboo slogans, such as “death to the dictator”, chanted by students gathered near Tehran university – a barely veiled attack on the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Clashes with security forces followed. It was not clear how many were detained in Tehran on Saturday, but scores of protesters are believed to have been arrested in western Kermanshah and eastern Mashhad, Iran’s conservative second city, where the latest unrest began.

A Democratic senator from New Hampshire has been added to a “black list” after Russia denied a visa request effectively canceling a bipartisan congressional trip to the country in the coming weeks. The Russian Embassy said Saturday that it had denied the visa request by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in response to those U.S. lawmakers who backed more sanctions on Russia earlier this year and are part of a “black list.” The two-term senator along with Sens. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, and John Barrasso, of Wyoming, had planned to travel to...

Prelims on Fox Sports One and Fox Sports Go at 8 Eastern, Main Card on PPV and pirate sites we won't mention at 10 Eastern. Cris "Cyborg" Justino defends her Women's (Yes, she's a real woman) Featherweight Championship against Former Bantamweight Champ and Rousey-Slayer Holly "The Preacher's Daughter" Holm in the Main Event. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Edson Barboza in the Co-Main. Dan Hooker vs. Marc Diakiese Cynthia Calvillo vs. Carla Esparza And Carlos Condit vs. Neil Magny round out the main card

Gareth Thomas was a classically trained actor who did a great amount of stage work. Though he was famous for not watching his TV performances, he thought it was safe to come to our room during a convention to watch the music videos. Imagine a room filled with people watching him watch TV. And when he saw himself shot as Blake, he jerked backward instinctively. A truly lovely man. Much missed.

Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction. Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media literacy skills that they say are critical to democracy. The effort has been bipartisan but has received little attention despite successful legislation in Washington state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Mexico. Several more states are expected to consider such bills in the coming year, including Arizona, New York and Hawaii. “I...

Judicial Watch President discuss the multiple scandals of 2017.

Vice President Pence arrived in Aspen, Colo., this week for a holiday vacation — but not without encountering a silent protest from his neighbors in the liberal ski resort town. “Make America Gay Again,” reads a rainbow banner posted on the stone pillar at the end of the driveway of the home where Pence and his wife, Karen, are staying. A dispatcher with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office referred The Washington Post to the White House press office Saturday, but Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Buglione told the Aspen Times that Pence’s next-door neighbors posted the banner shortly after the vice president...