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Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith shut down rumors he could be running for president in 2028 during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "Let me put the presidential aspirations to bed," Smith said on the premiere episode of the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. "If I have to give up my money, it's not happening." Smith is the first guest on Hannity's brand-new twice-weekly podcast aimed at delivering long-form, unfiltered conversations with compelling figures across culture, business, sports, politics and beyond. The full interview, which will be released Tuesday on YouTube, features the discussion surrounding his decision after...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are asking the Justice Department to consider bringing criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in President Donald Trump’s first administration who became a star congressional witness about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to two sources familiar with recent developments.GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk made a criminal referral of Hutchinson to the Justice Department in recent days, the sources said. He accused Hutchinson of lying to Congress in her summer 2022 testimony when she alleged Trump was aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021, and forged ahead with his attempts to...

The duo made a lush, poignant album that remains a high point in both artists’ careers.On March 7, 1963, John Coltrane made one of his most lush and poignant albums, it was one on which he shared center stage, not with another instrumentalist but unusually with a singer. The singer was 40-year-old Johnny Hartman whose debut recording was Songs from the Heart, recorded with a quintet for Bethlehem Records released in 1955. When they arrived at the studio they had no charts, no prior arrangements worked out, this recording of John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman was without a net, but...

Quentin Tarantino is firing back after Rosanna Arquette criticized his use of the N-word in his films during a recent interview. In a career-spanning conversation with The Sunday Times, Arquette discussed her minor role in Tarantino’s 1994 black comedy, “Pulp Fiction,” saying that while it’s “a great film on a lot of levels,” she generally disapproves of the director’s repeated use of the racial slur in his films. “Personally I am over the use of the N-word — I hate it,” Arquette said in the interview, published on Saturday. “I cannot stand that he [Tarantino] has been given a hall...

Chinese-American tech billionaire Lin Bin purchased a small stake in the Miami Dolphins at a valuation of $12.5 billion, ​a record for a publicly known minority transaction, ‌Sportico reported Tuesday. Bin is acquiring a 1% stake in the holding company that owns the Dolphins, Hard Rock Stadium, Formula 1's Miami ​Grand Prix and part of the Miami Open ​tennis tournament. The previous top valuation for a minority ⁠transaction was $10 billion, set in October when the Koch ​family bought 10% of the New York Giants.

“Country Joe” McDonald, who fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish and became an emblem of the 1960s antiwar counterculture through a prominent appearance at the Woodstock festival, died Saturday at age 84. The singer, born Joseph Allen McDonald, died of Parkinson’s in Berkeley, according to a statement on the group’s social media and reported sources close to his wife. McDonald’s best known song was “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” a Vietnam protest song he performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The performance included the infamous call-and-response “Fish Cheer,” which had the audience spelling out the F-word at McDonald’s behest. Born on...

This really is an all time photo. A protestor shouting about the pros of immigration is interrupted by an Islamic terrorist throwing a bomb jumping over him.

People on the Falkland Islands have said they have forgotten what fresh food looks like with a crucial shipment of supplies delayed. Residents are waiting for the latest supply vessel to arrive from Uruguay, which usually lands every four to five weeks, but there has not been one for three months. It is thought that the boat will arrive on Saturday, March 8. There is a shortage of fresh fruit, vegetables and processed bread, as well as “no cheese”. The shipments are done via Uruguay because Argentina “wouldn’t allow them”. Cathy Jacobson, 67, originally from Southampton, runs the Victory Bar...

Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Iran’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father just more than a week after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes. A statement from the Assembly of Experts — the panel of Shia clerics responsible under Iranian law for choosing the country’s top leader — said Mojtaba Khamenei had been selected as the third leader of the Islamic Republic, according to reports from IRIB state TV and the Fars, Tasnim and ISNA news agencies. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is widely viewed as a hard-line figure with close ties to the powerful...

JULIE DONUTS@Juliedonuts·6hPRESIDENT TRUMP POSTED THIS AGAIN!BIBLICAL!If you haven’t seen this, WATCH THIS!! WOW what a story…ANOINTED!!ransomnote: click on image to view 4 min https://x.com/Juliedonuts/status/2031074893526085824/video/1videoTRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Clarence Sexton: ".... a great revival in theHebrides in the early 1900's began tomove, Moved up to the pleading for it, into the 40s. Maybe we could say it topped out in the early 50s. Two old women, one was 84 years old, and one was82 years old. One was blind, and one was humped over so badlywith spinal stenosis, just arched over. But they had passion for revival. They wanted God to work. This is...

Before we get started, I’d like to point out to the useless sycophants in the entertainment media that what I’m doing here is how it’s done. You see, the news that The Bride! is a super-woke spin on The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) has been obvious for some time and became blatantly obvious when the reviews poured in — especially the “positive” reviews, because even the “positive” reviews were “positive” in a grudging and backhanded sort of way. So, yes, I wanted The Bride! to fail at the box office, because woke delivers lousy art...

[Catholic Caucus] The Mass We Understand—and the Faith We Don’tFor nearly 60 years now, multiple generations of Catholics have lived entirely within the experience of the post-Vatican II liturgy—the Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. One of the pastoral goals of the reform was intelligibility and fluency of the Mass texts.Full disclosure: I love both forms of the Mass, and I am a music director at a parish that executes both with intentionality, reverence, and beauty.After Vatican II, the spoken texts of the Mass were rendered into the vernacular so that Catholics could consciously follow and...

PENNSYLVANIA - Starting next month, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania will be required to reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump rejected former President Joe Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over a tranche of documents requested by the Senate as part of various probes into the 46th president, determining it is "not in the best interests of the United States." White House counsel David Warrington wrote Monday in a letter addressed to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and obtained by Fox News Digital that Trump "does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege" over records sought in four congressional probes. The letter directs NARA to provide the materials to Congress. The dispute centers on...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: That if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.1 John 5:20 "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true...

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kim, and John Dean, who served as White House counsel to Nixon during the Watergate scandal and went on to, along with Butterfield, help expose the wrongdoing. As a deputy assistant to the president, Butterfield oversaw the taping system connected to voice-activated listening devices that had been secretly placed in four locations, including...

A transgender California high schooler dominated a major track-and-field meet on Saturday, claiming three first-place medals in girls’ events — including the high jump, in which she beat the runner-up by almost a foot. AB Hernandez, a senior at Jurupa Valley High School and a biological male, competed in the girls’ events at the Roosevelt Invitational over the weekend, despite being at the center of the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to the state. Hernandez swept the competition, securing the gold in the high jump with a clearance of 5′ 8″ (1.72m) — almost a foot higher than...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, MississippiNaval Construction Battalion Center is a 1,100-acre U.S. Navy industrial complex located in Gulfport, Mississippi. It serves as home base for the Atlantic Fleet Seabees,which are the Navy's construction battalions.NCBC exists to maintain and operate facilities and provide services and material in support of Naval Construction Force Units, to include Amphibious Construction Fleet Units, the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Enhanced), and other fleet and assigned organizational units deployed from or homeported at NCBC Gulfport, and to perform such other functions and tasks as may be assigned.Seabees have resumed their...

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the Islamic Republic of Iran’s current ruling regime is overthrown, collapsed, or otherwise ceases to govern by March 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”.

Begging for a Way Out. White Flag in Beirut? Hezbollah Makes Desperate Plea for Ceasefire Talks. In a stunning reversal, Hezbollah leadership has reportedly initiated secret feelers for a ceasefire negotiation as Israel debates whether to accept a strategic surrender or move for the total elimination of the group. Eliana Fleming