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Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Monday argued that allowing Congress to subpoena his client’s financial records and revealing them "to the whole world" would give the Upper Chamber too much power over the president. "The committee says it needs a detailed understanding and full accounting of President Trump's finances in order to legislate," attorney Cameron Norris said on Monday... "No prior Congress has demanded this kind of information, but every future Congress will if this Court upholds the subpoena. There's no principled way to limit the fallout to President Trump."....

Hospitality businesses could be shut within weeks under Government plans to halt the spread of the Covid variant as Boris Johnson faces the biggest revolt of his premiership today, with a third of Tory backbenchers preparing to vote against controversial 'Plan B' vaccine passports. Whitehall officials have drawn up proposals to limit the number of people allowed in pubs and restaurants across the country amid mounting concern over the so-called 'Omicron' strain, according to The Sun. The plans could trigger a wave of New Year's Eve party cancellations and further decimate the industry, with MPs now privately warning that they...

It wasn’t a good day for the National Football League’s draconian Covid-19 policies. They should be the shining example of how to handle the coronavirus with over 94% of their players and nearly 100% of their coaches and staff “fully vaccinated.” But being the shining example would require the vaccines to actually work at stopping Covid-19, which they do not. As a result, the league has become the perfect example of the opposite conclusion: Medical tyranny within private industry is a path to failure.On Monday, the league recorded their highest number of Covid-19 positive tests ever with 37. Of those,...

"‘The Five’ panel react to President Joe Biden polling low numbers in handling COVID-19, economic recovery, and inflation."

"Meanwhile, flash mob robbers hit a Los Angeles gun store…and get away in BMWs. California is experiencing a disturbing wave of flash mob robberies, a cargo ship crisis, and is tied with Nevada for the highest unemployment in the country. However, what do our politicos squander time trying to control? Food waste. Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trashcans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in January. The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste...

12/10/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Today, I want to share with you footage from the aftermath of an attack in Nigeria. In this attack, 10 Christians were killed when a mob of 500 Fulani militants swept into their village. You would assume that an attack of this scale would elicit a response from the Nigerian government. However, attacks of this nature have been ongoing for the past 20 years and the silence is deafening. While the government claims to be doing its best to curb the violence, the reality paints a different picture of a Muslim-led government allowing...

The Real Winner This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m freestyle swim at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio last weekend. Let’s promote her win. Let’s promote fairness. UPenn Cheats is trending… If I were the Director of Athletics at an Ivy League university like @AlannaShanahan is, I'd be ashamed to have thousands of people all saying #PennCheats like this about my sports teams.But Shanahan & the rest of @pennathletics don't seem to mind being famous for cheating. pic.twitter.com/8vPzLiPvY3— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich (@fem_mb) December 11, 2021 This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m...

"The prosecution in the trial of the infamous British socialite rested their case last week The sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime consort of the late Jeffrey Epstein, is heading into its third week following the prosecution resting its case last week after hearing from at least four alleged victims. The trial is set to resume Thursday, at which point Maxwell's attorneys will present the judge and jury with a long list of witnesses – reportedly as many as 35. The 59-year-old Maxwell, a former British socialite, faces charges of sex-trafficking. ..."

Prosecutors are asking a judge to bar a Capitol rioter from arguing that former President Donald Trump authorized him to attack the Capitol on January 6. Aaron Mostofsky, the son of a New York City judge, was photographed inside the Capitol wearing fur pelts, what appeared to be a police officer's bullet-proof vest and carrying a police officers' riot shield. Mostofsky's trial is set to begin in January and prosecutors are hoping to block him from using the "blame Trump" defense ... ..."The defendant will be unable to identify any remarks made by former President Trump that authorized that illegal...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Buttigieg, for complaining about the Biden administration restarting student loan payments. The freshman congressman tore into the transportation secretary’s spouse over the recent Instagram story that saw Buttigieg make headlines.... ..."When the Washington elites start thinking they're victims just because they have to pay their bills, expect that mentality to spill over into the radical socialist policies of the Biden administration," the North Carolina Republican continued. Buttigieg’s Instagram story was panned online after the secretary's spouse posted about his disdain with his husband’s boss’ decision to restart student loan...

San Francisco continues to face a drug overdose epidemic. The number of overdose deaths nearly tripled that of COVID deaths in 2020.The city’s data reveals there were a total of 713 overdose deaths, compared to 261 COVID-19 deaths in 2020.“Bad is an understatement. I would say it’s horrific, it is negligent, it is an epidemic in and of itself, and it was not always this way,” Jenny Shao, a freelance multimedia video journalist and San Francisco native, told NTD Television.She says drug overdoses have been an ongoing crisis for the city but have gotten much worse over the last five...

On Sunday we noted that hospitals in four states have called in the National Guard to help alleviate a severe healthcare worker shortage caused by mass firings of those who refuse to comply with vaccine mandates.Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that some of the largest US hospital systems have dropped vaccine mandates for workers amid soaring labor costs and struggles retaining enough nurses, technicians, 'and even janitors' to handle higher hospitalization rates due to the Delta variant.According to hospital execs, public health authorities and nursing groups, pre-pandemic shortages of workers, including nurses, have been compounded by burnout, as well...

[Catholic Caucus] Why We Should Not Support Altar GirlsFor hundreds of years, the ability to serve at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has brought about countless priestly vocations for the young men privileged to serve. In the words of the Archbishop of Westminster, Bernard Cardinal Griffen:“To serve at the altar, as to sing in the choir, is next to the priesthood the highest privilege which a human can enjoy. He represents the faithful and takes a most intimate part in the rich treasures of the Church’s liturgy and ceremonial. Those sacred ceremonies should be carried out with devotion, dignity,...

VIDEO: Lebanese Journalist Calls on Arab Countries to Oppose Hezbollah, Iranians in Lebanon MEMRI - Middle East Research Institute 06:30 14 minutes ago NEWSRAEL - Why this matters? Because of the crisis in Lebanon, we are hearing more and more open talk about the threat of Iran and its proxies - most notably (but not only) being Hezbollah. Though for the most, Israel's name is never mentioned, it is obvious that Israel with its strong arm - the IDF - and the Abraham Accords - are the major cog in the Middle East, allowing to take care of a problem...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has twisted the climate change movement into a political and economic weapon against the West, according to a new report by The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based non profit.Titled “China’s Energy Dream,” the report details the CCP’s manipulation of international climate agreements and comes to a startling conclusion: “China uses climate policy both as a way to strengthen its economy and as a weapon for weakening other countries.”According to the report’s author Patricia Adams, ample evidence of this corruption was seen at the recent “COP 26” climate summit held in Glasgow. At China’s insistence,...

RUSSIA has threatened to deploy intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe, as tensions over Ukraine intensify. The warning from the country’s foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov comes amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, where the Kremlin has massed 175,000 troops. Vladimir Putin has been warned of “massive consequences” if he invades Ukraine as Russia masses troops on its neighbour’s border. Ryabkov has now threatened to revive Intermediate-range nuclear missiles, deployed in large numbers by both sides in the Cold War in the early 1980s. He denied Russia was planning to invade Ukraine said Moscow would “respond militarily” if Nato...

A lower level of antibodies against the Omicron virus variant is triggered by COVID-19 vaccines, researchers said in a new study.Using blood samples from people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine or the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, researchers with the University of Oxford found “a substantial fall” in neutralizing antibodies, with evidence of some people failing to have any.“This will likely lead to increased breakthrough infections in previously infected or double vaccinated individuals, which could drive a further wave of infection,” the authors wrote in the preprint study.Omicron is a variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known...

White House pandemic adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said that despite his recent comments, currently two doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, provide full vaccination.Several days ago, Fauci said that the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated will likely change to include a booster shot, telling CNN: “It’s going to be a matter of when, not if.”But on Sunday, Fauci told ABC News Sunday that federal officials don’t yet factor a booster shot into whether one is fully vaccinated, and health officials will continue to...

The January 6th Committee has begun to dig through Mark Meadows’ text messages. The former Chief of Staff for Donald Trump received numerous texts the day of the Capitol breach from various figures urging Meadows to have the then-president speak out about what was happening.One such message came from none other than Donald Trump Jr. himself. But while Liz Cheney, who revealed the message during a hearing, appears to think it bolsters her and her colleagues’ fevered conspiracy theory about January 6th, the reality is that it kneecaps it.Here’s what Don Jr. had to say per The Hill.“He’s got to...

"Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Western European governments of having embarked on a grand exercise in “human experimentation” by “mixing huge masses of Muslims with indigenous Christians” in the hope that “something good would come of it”. ..."