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The Smoking Gun.....Scary stuff.

Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin accused President Joe Biden of corruption, saying that while he didn't want to wade into "unproven facts," his belief was that Biden bribed Ukrainian officials in exchange for Shokin's firing. "I do not want to deal in unproven facts, but my firm personal conviction is that, yes, this was the case. They were being bribed. The fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in U.S. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption?" Shokin told Fox News on Friday.

The CIA has been sued for its role in helping to craft a letter from 51 intelligence officials discrediting Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation. The letter that was signed by 51 intel officials in 2020 immediately before the presidential election falsely claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop had all the 'classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.' A Republican report released in May showed that the CIA was actively involved in getting signatures for the letter which 'was a political operation to help elect' Joe Biden in November 2020.

There has been an «overwhelming scientific consensus» that global warming is being caused by humans, a statement supported by fact-check articles. However, many climate scientists have challenged this slogan in the past few years. One of these scientists is renowned 2022 Nobel Prize winner and physicist Dr. John Clauser. Recently, he stated that there is no man-made global warming crisis. John Coleman, a fellow scientist and Weather Channel founder, agreed with his belief that «there is no significant man-made global warming.» Georgia Institute of Technology’s Judith Curry, an American climatologist, affirms that the man-made climate crisis is «manufactured.» Her research...

In a recent ruling, a judge in Pennsylvania declared that an election worker is unable to file a lawsuit against former President Trump for his statements that cast doubt on the 2020 election results. The judge, Michael Erdos, determined that these statements are protected by “presidential immunity.” Specifically, Trump’s immunity covered a tweet he posted and comments he made from the White House during a Pennsylvania state Senate committee hearing in November 2020. Trump alleged voter fraud in the election that occurred in Pennsylvania. “Other legal proceedings may examine the propriety of his statements and actions while he was the...

During a sworn deposition, FBI special agent Elvis Chan claimed the bureau and big tech companies only had one meeting regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story. In a bombshell development, Meta Inc. was served with a subpoena from Congress to provide their private email correspondence with the FBI. The internal communications reveal that the FBI had extensive meetings with Facebook. Chan himself had more than one meeting with Facebook, which directly contradicts his testimony. Chan also testified of having no knowledge about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Again, this contradicts what Chan privately told Facebook behind closed doors. In the...

"Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit." Reubens starred in the the 1985 film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"; on the television show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," which ran from 1986 to 1990; and in the 1988 film sequel "Big Top Pee-wee." He performed as a voice actor on several other TV shows. Reubens was also a stand-up comedian.

"Based on the evidence I've seen so far, I think the number is going to be north of $50 million that we're talking about here," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said Friday on "Mornings with Maria." "This will go down as one of the most politically corrupt presidents and families in U.S. history," she added. "And we've got to show and prove it to the American people. We've got to show them everything that we have." Other committee members have signaled that up to $100 million flowed through the then-second family, as Hunter Biden and his foreign business dealings are currently...

An attorney for a House Republican accused a law firm representing Hunter Biden of impersonating his office. A Biden lawyer said it was just a mix-up. Kittila then accused a staff member in Clark's office of impersonating someone from Kittila’s staff in a call to the clerk of the Delaware court and asking to have the letter removed from court filings. Clark responded by acknowledging that someone from one of the firms representing Hunter Biden had called the clerk but said that she did not misrepresent herself and that she said who she was and why she was calling. The...

Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblowers provided Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FD-1023 form with allegations that the Bidens took bribes, according to a press release. Grassley disclosed the FD-1023 form Thursday and it contains allegations that Joe and Hunter Biden were bribed by Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch who founded energy firm Burisma. The firm put Hunter Biden onto its board in 2014 and he left his position in 2019.

On this week’s episodes of Wallace’s Max/CNN series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, Wallace interviewed McDaniel, as well as Hollywood superstar Goldie Hawn. In one of many memorable exchanges, Wallace asked McDaniel if she has a problem with the GOP “nominating somebody who’s under federal indictment” (she expressed openness to that) and then asked the natural follow-up for a race in which ex-President Donald Trump is the frontrunner — “Do you have any problem with the Republican Party nominating a convicted felon?”:

The bold move by Bud Light to align with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has backfired, leading to an internal shakeup with numerous executives being dismissed from the brand. Retailers are being hit hard financially as they struggle to sell their stockpile of Bud Light. Factories associated with the Anheuser-Busch brand have started shutting down.

Geraldo Rivera signed off at Fox News for good last week, and during his final appearance on the network, he praised the effects that affirmative action had on his career days after the Supreme Court struck down the college admissions policy. Appearing during a festive sendoff on “Fox and Friends” Friday, in which his colleagues at the conservative news network donned fake mustaches with balloons in the background, Rivera noted that he was a “product of affirmative action” when one of his co-hosts asked him to reflect on how his career in broadcast news has touched the Hispanic community. “I...

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and an NBC News reporter had a tense interview published Monday that widely centered around his conspiratorial views on vaccines, with the reporter calling their encounter "unsettling." Described by NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny as "one of the world's foremost conspiracy theorists," Kennedy was pushed on why he was running as a Democrat given his appeal to some corners of the political right, why he touts the unfounded theory of childhood vaccinations being linked to autism and the longshot nature of his 2024 challenge to President Biden for the Democratic nomination.

Tucker Carlson biographer Chadwick Moore said at least nine former Fox News employees have left the cable news network to work alongside Carlson again on his new show. In April, Fox News announced it had parted ways with Carlson. Since Carlson left, the network has suffered a decline in its key prime-time viewing audience, while his new Twitter show episodes have slayed cable ratings, attracting several million views.

Joe Biden left many people puzzled and questioning his intentions after the U.S. president concluded his speech at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut on Friday. What Happened: Speaking with gun safety advocates and survivors of gun violence at the University of Hartford, Biden’s closing statement, “Alright? God save the Queen, man,” generated widespread confusion and criticism across social media platforms.

A Los Angeles jury Wednesday has found "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of forcible rape. Jurors resumed deliberations Wednesday after a four-day break in the retrial of Masterson, who was charged with raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003. The jury spent about 6 1/2 days deliberating since being handed the case on May 17 after just over a day of closing arguments from attorneys. Jurors said they were deadlocked on the third rape charge against Masterson.

The former U.S. Rep. gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Colorado College, a liberal arts school she graduated from in 1988 Graduates booed and turned their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivered the commencement address at Colorado College on Sunday. Cheney repeated her fierce criticisms of former President Trump but steered clear of talking about his 2024 reelection campaign or her own political future. The Wyoming Republican blasted her House Republican colleagues for not doing enough to combat Trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has blamed a Trump-era banking law for the Silicon Valley Bank's failure. "Let's be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed," Sanders wrote in a statement on Sunday. Sanders was referring to the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which former President Donald Trump signed into law in May 2018.

Tucker Carlson did his version of the January 6th special, and it came with plenty of controversies. Allegedly, Carlson’s team spent looking at over 40,000 hours of the footage from that day and came to several conclusions. Fox aired Carlson’s special on Capitol Riot, and among the aspects of this investigation was the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. The tragic death of the officer, who passed away on January 7, was the subject of several media stories, with one side claiming that his death was due to the riots and the other saying it was from natural causes.