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InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has jettisoned his support for Donald Trump and is backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential race. Jones, who was recently ordered to pay $49.3 million to parents of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim in a defamation case, admitted he's 'pigheadedly' supported Trump throughout the years. But, he said on his InfoWars podcast, he's now backing DeSantis, who is 'way better than Trump.'

After much anticipation, the Big Ten has finalized a blockbuster media rights partnership that is the largest in all of college sports. The deal is at least $7 billion total, sources confirmed to Front Office Sports. The rights will be shared between FOX, CBS, NBC, and NBC’s Peacock, and include not only football and basketball but all olympic sports. They’ll run from July 1, 2023 to the end of the 2029-30 season. In total, the deal will reach the mid-$7 billion range, a source told FOS. But it will slowly increase throughout the seven years. The first year, before USC...

NEW YORK CITY – Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty Thursday to tax violations spanning over a decade, agreeing to serve 100 days behind bars and testify about the Trump Organization's business practices. Weisselberg, 75, was charged with evading taxes by receiving perks that were not counted as income. He pleaded not guilty to 15 counts, including grand larceny last year, which, in the state of New York, is the unlawful taking of funds or property valued at $50,000 or more. "In one of the most difficult decisions of his life, Mr. Weisselberg decided to enter a plea...

PRIDE, a summer-long homosexual bacchanalia, is spreading Monkeypox. Though the CDC and the World Health Organization have issued warnings about monkeypox, and its dangerousness is at the top of gay websites, hundreds of thousands of gays are having sex with locals in scores of cities across the world. Monkeypox has gone from a few handfuls of cases worldwide in mid-May to more than 28,000 on August 5! The U.S. government just declared monkeypox a public health emergency, though 98% of the infections are in gays.

Pediatrics, flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics a study claimed that social influence isn’t the reason that as many as 9% of America’s youth now call themselves transgender. ....study is deeply flawed and likely couldn’t have survived a reasonable peer-review process.....Nevertheless, the media have promoted his work as a refutation of the claim that the wildfire spread of transgender identity is an example of social contagion—a phenomenon in which members of a group (mostly young and female) mutually influence one another’s emotions and behavior. Pediatrics then published his highly flawed 2020 study alleging that puberty blockers reduce suicide...

Everyone likes to blow off steam during their time off work – but Finland’s Prime Minister found herself in hot water this week for doing just that.Sanna Marin, 36, was forced to defend her position and her private life after a leaked video of her partying with some pals circulated on social media.In the video, which was originally published as numerous Instagram stories, Marin can be seen in white pants and black tank top singing and dancing along to Finnish pop music.According to local newspaper Iltalehti, various high-profile Finnish personalities were with her in the footage, including influencer Janita Autio,...

1.What kind of exercise do lazy people do? Diddly-squats. 2.What do you call a pony with a cough? A little horse! 3.What is Forrest Gump's password? 1Forrest1. 4.Why did the M&M go to school? He wanted to be a Smartie. 5.What did one traffic light say to the other? Stop looking at me, I'm changing! 6.What do you call bears with no ears? B. 7.What's a foot long and slippery? A slipper! 8.Why do French people eat snails? They don't like fast food! 9.What's red and moves up and down? A tomato in an elevator! 10.I invented a new word...

Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was returning from his lunch break when he heard a "loud thud" and the sound of metal rolling. The cylinder was about 7 inches by 5 inches with grease all over it... Two other people saw the object fall around 12:30 p.m. near the capitol building in Augusta, according to a Maine Department of Public Safety news release. No injuries were reported. The Maine Department of Public Safety said in a news release that the FAA is "attempting to locate the source of the part which is likely from a large airliner on an...

Donald Trump is securing his grip on the Republican Party less than three months before the midterms, with GOP primary voters surging to the polls in Wyoming to oust his most vocal GOP critic, scores of nominees for state and federal offices amplifying his false claims and bellicose rhetoric, and many prominent party figures echoing his evidence-free attacks about the FBI search of his home. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Trump’s staunchest Republican opponent in Congress, lost her primary Tuesday in a landslide to Harriet Hageman, whom the former president endorsed with the sole mission of dislodging Cheney. The race attracted...

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Liz Truss remains far ahead of leadership rival Rishi Sunak in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, a YouGov poll for Sky News showed on Thursday. The governing Conservative Party is voting by postal ballot to choose a new party leader after Boris Johnson said he would step down following a series of scandals. The winner will be announced on Sept. 5. Truss, who has consistently topped polls of Conservative Party members, has a 32 percentage point lead over Sunak among those who have decided to vote, the survey showed. Truss was on...

Seeking to close in on J Street-backed Democratic frontrunner, Republican nominee says he won't pressure Israel... PHILADELPHIA-Mehmet Oz sought to present pro-Israel bona fides at a Philadelphia event for Republican Jewish voters Wednesday night, as the GOP candidate aims to close a widening gap in order to become the first-ever Muslim elected to the US Senate. Recent surveys showed Democratic nominee Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman leading over the retired heart surgeon and TV personality by double digits after the two began the race neck and neck. Oz was welcomed by a warm audience at a hotel ballroom where roughly 300...

It’s astonishing how, by the time we normal folk first hear of a new Globalist Socialist initiative, it turns out there’s already a significant amount of infrastructure in place. Take eating bugs, for example. Did you know that there are currently sizable cricket farms in many parts of the world, including Canada and the United States? Or that cricket flour is already used in some foods? For example, Entomo Farms in Canada currently produces a weekly harvest of 50 million crickets, which it mills into 9,000 pounds of “protein.” The owners plan to triple production within a year. Some of...

Those taking the German government to task over the ongoing gas crisis have been branded the “new enemies of the state” by one government minister in the country. An ostensibly “centrist” minister in Germany has branded those looking to hold officials accountable for their chronic mismanagement of the country as the “new enemies of the state”. The minister — who is a member of former chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party — made the claim as authorities in the country begin to fear significant backlash for gas shortages in the winter, with one official saying that he is...

VLADIMIR Putin has been forced to pull back his jets and helicopters from Crimea after a massive blitz on Russian military bases - as humiliating video shows mutinying soldiers refusing to fight. Ukrainian intelligence sources claim some 24 fighter jets and bombers along with 14 choppers retreated deeper into the Black Sea peninsula - or back to mainland Russia. The dramatic withdrawal follows the heavy bombardment of Putin's military bases on the Russian-occupied peninsula over the last nine days from Ukrainian special forces. A devastating series of explosions at an air base last week destroyed 20 jets and caused £1bn...

Aides to former President Donald Trump believe that a member of his family may have tipped off the FBI about the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, The Guardian reported. Multiple sources close to Trump told the publication that after the August 8 search of Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida, aides began speculating about who could have been speaking to the agency. In the search, agents took more than a dozen boxes of items, as well as highly classified information. They appeared to have specific information about what to look for. Speculation initially focussed on Trump's political aides, and...

Long-time school choice advocates celebrated with Governor Doug Ducey as he signed a bill that opens the scholarship program to every K-12 student in Arizona. —-break—-Buried Lead Arizona families who participate in ESAs would receive more than $6,500 per year per child for private school, homeschooling, microschools, tutoring, or any other kinds of educational service that helps meet the needs of their students outside the traditional public school system.

An old video that shows that the Clinton's have had a connection to Soros for many years!

The single-shot firearm, which resembles a pen in size and shape, was found during X-ray screening of the man’s luggage at about 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 13, a representative for the TSA confirmed. Massachusetts State Police were called to the security checkpoint, where they interviewed the passenger. After speaking with police, the male traveler was allowed to continue through the airport and ultimately to his destination in Portland, Oregon — sans pen gun. He also would have been allowed to transport the item had he packed it properly in his checked baggage, the TSA said.

A long-awaited study at the University of Minnesota has found that the controversial drug ivermectin is not effective at treating COVID-19. The findings, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, add to a growing body of scientific evidence pushing back against the use of the antiparasitic drug that has been promoted by some prominent voices on social media. The U of M’s study focused on three common drugs: ivermectin, metformin, and fluvoxamine. Researchers determined that none of the drugs proved effective at preventing low oxygen levels, ER visits, hospitalization or death. The study showed some promise for the...

President Biden called Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., after her overwhelming defeat in Tuesday's Republican primary, according to a new report from Bloomberg.