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ew York Attorney General Letitia James has issued subpoenas for Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump as part of a probe into the Trump Organization’s business practices, Fox News reported. The subpoenas requested testimony from Ivanka and Donald Jr. as well as documents "in connection with an investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization, or any matter which the Attorney General deems pertinent thereto," according to a court brief released to the public on Monday. .....

For generations, the arch on the right side of Spooner’s Cove in Montaña de Oro State Park has been a source of second glances from passersby and inspiration for landscape photographers, family photos and no doubt even a few seaside marriage proposals. It also was written into area history for centuries. But, as Kerry Keltz of El Moro wrote on NextDoor, “Nature giveth, nature taketh away!” On Christmas Eve, locals started reporting that the arch, which added an artistic flair to an already stunning landscape, had collapsed. “What?!,” wrote Sophie Fauchier of Ferrell on NextDoor, “I have been admiring that...

WARNING: @AnaheimPD says a deadly batch of tainted drugs may be going around. In just a little more than an hour today, they responded to 3 dif locations to find 4 people dead, possibly from #fentanyl laced drugs.

Now it’s personal…Several of my loved ones have suffered seriously from the so-called ‘vaccines’Mon Jan 3, 2022 - 4:19 am ESTMon Jan 3, 2022 - 6:01 am EST (LifeSiteNews) – We were thrilled five years ago when one of our son’s was admitted to one of our nation’s service academies. He took to the military discipline like a duck to water (his father had trained him well) and had a great first two years.Then COVID hit, and with it interminable lockdowns, masking and social distancing — all of which we know now did little or nothing to stop the spread...

A restaurant that unveiled plans to offer free meals to unvaccinated customers has drawn mixed responses from online commenters in South Korea. A restaurant specializing in abalone located in western Seoul uploaded a post through its official Instagram account saying that it would provide an additional abalone for free if unvaccinated customers place take-out orders, as a way to express its sympathy and help cheer them up. In the photo of the restaurant’s entrance that was posted together with the text, there was a sign saying, “The unvaccinated are not virus carriers.” The post included hashtags such as ‘opposition to...

(A) We were lied to, about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines (better called substance injections). (B) Treatments for COVID, such as ventilators and Remdesivir―along with the vaccines themselves―together have killed hundreds of thousands of people in America alone. (C) The afflicted have often not been treated early enough to save lives. We should have focused on early treatments for those most at risk, rather than on unproven vaccines. An estimated 85% of deaths could have been saved by unpoliticized early treatment. Remember, COVID is not a serious disease or life-threatening for the vast majority of people. (D) Government...

Students of the University of California Irvine campus headed back to school on Monday although classes will take place online for at least two weeks, the school says. On the day classes resumed, the school acknowledged firing an outspoken professor who refused to be vaccinated. On Monday, UCI fired the outspoken School of Medicine and director of the Medical Ethics Program, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, for refusing the vaccine. It is the school's strict adherence to vaccine policies that enabled many families to want to send their students back to school. Though some students would remain at home, many arrived back...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty on 4 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud after 7 days of jury deliberation. Jurors found her not guilty on four other counts and failed to reach a verdict on three others. Her trial spanned more than four months and featured bombshell testimony from investors, ex-employees, and Holmes herself.

Scott Davidson, the CEO of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica, said last week that the death rate in Indiana is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people. The shocking admission by Davidson was made during an online news conference that was organized by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, reports TheCenterSquare. According to Davidson, the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and the deaths are not in the old, but in “primarily working-age people 18 to 64”. “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be a 10%...

A Swedish start-up tech company has invented a scannable microchip that is implanted in people’s arms and can display your COVID-19 vaccination status. This digital implant is designed to be embedded into people's arms so your vaccine passport pops up when scanned.Created by the tech start-up Dsruptive Subdermals, the controversial invention is made of a pre-programmed scannable implant two millimetres by 16 millimetres in size.The invention received a lot of attention when first announced with some describing it as "invasive".One Twitter user argued: "Look, I’m as pro-vaccine as anyone around…AND I’m pro-vaccine passport (on a voluntary basis only), but this...

The Trial of the Century Takes the Pope to Court. Which Also Risks an Incident With ChinaAmong the papers in the possession of the Vatican tribunal called to judge Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants, with the next hearing scheduled for January 25, there is an explanatory note at the top of which it is written that “during the board meeting of April 6 the Holy Father gave the authorization to make the aforementioned Note public.” Signed: Edgar Peña Parra, substitute secretary of state.This is what Settimo Cielo does in this post: provide readers with the essential features of...

@julie_kelly2 Interesting filing today in Oath Keepers case. Defense wants to subpoena Ray Epps, Stewart Rhodes, and Officer Harry Dunn, who several Oath Keepers say they helped protect from violent protesters. Trial in April: Docs...

ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) – A man is accused of shooting a woman to death in an apparent road rage incident on his way to a bar on New Year’s Eve, police said. READ MORE: Rostraver Township Police, Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office Investigating Shooting Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Montel Hairston is facing charges of first-degree murder, two counts of possession of a firearm, and driving with a suspended license in Holly Vadella’s death. (Photo: Provided) Police said Vadella was driving on Rostraver Road on her way home from visiting her mother when Hairston was following closely behind her. Witnesses told police...

Explanation: You couldn't see Comet Leonard’s extremely long tail with a telescope — it was just too long. You also couldn't see it with binoculars — still too long. Or with your eyes -- it was too dim. Or from a city — the sky was too bright. But from a dark location with a low horizon — your camera could. And still might -- if the comet survives today's closest encounter with the Sun, which occurs between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. The featured picture was created from two deep and wide-angle camera images taken from La Palma...

Portland [Maine] City Council meets to discuss ending state of emergency Councilors are expected to weigh in on two major issues, an increase in wages for in-person workers to $19.50 per hour and a proposed indoor mask mandate. Author: newscentermaine.com Published: 5:32 PM EST January 3, 2022 Updated: 5:32 PM EST January 3, 2022

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday continued his direct challenge to President Joe Biden, calling on the White House to permit his state to provide monoclonal antibody treatments to COVID-19 patients. At a news conference to hit Biden administration restrictions on Florida's ability to provide monoclonal antibody treatments, DeSantis offered up some stinging criticism. "We're past the point now where we're able to get it directly from any of these companies," DeSantis told the reporters. "The federal government has cornered the entire market. They basically took control of the supply in September." The Biden administration has required states to...

This beer is dirty! Pabst Blue Ribbon took a bizarre stance Monday against those abstaining from drinking this month, tweeting — and then deleting — “Not drinking this January? Try eating ass.” When someone on Twitter asked the company what the tweet against “Dry January” was about, it said “it’s about ass and eating it.” The tweet went viral, as users expressed their shock the official brand would use such crass language to discuss those trying to cut back their alcohol intake in the New Year.

As schools across the country return to in-person learning after winter break amid soaring cases of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this morning authorized the use of a booster dose in children ages 12 to 17 if it has been at least 5 months since completing the primary vaccination series. The regulatory agency also said children ages 5 to 11 who are immunocompromised can receive a third dose, as well. The booster period was also reduced from 6 months following the primary series to 5 months for adults.

Four centuries ago, the Gates of Vienna became a symbol of the defense of Western Civilization when the Polish king Jan Sobieski came with his 23,000 troops to help stave off the advancing Ottoman Empire.Vienna once again was at the center of civilizational conflict when Austria was seized by Adolf Hitler in 1938 and then, after the defeat of the Nazi empire, a sector of the city and the country’s eastern region were occupied by the Soviet Union.After the war, with Austria teetering between a future of communist tyranny and Western democracy, it was a Catholic priest of Slavic heritage...

Facebook has suspended the page of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), an action that came fast on the heels of Twitter permanently banning the Republican congresswoman’s account. Rep. Greene decried Facebook’s actions in a post on Gab.com, the free speech friendly social network, accusing them of censoring her for critical commentary on the Vaccine Averse Reactions System (VAERS), the official system for reporting negative vaccine side-effects to the government. “This is beyond censorship of speech,” said Rep. Greene. “I’m an elected Member of Congress representing over 700,000 US tax paying citizens and I represent their voices, values, defend their freedoms,...