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The details John Durham sprinkled throughout his filings suggest even more bombshells are to come. Enemies of Donald Trump surveilled the internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his New York City apartment building, and later at the executive office of the president of the United States, then fed disinformation about that traffic to intelligence agencies hoping to frame Trump as a Russia-connected stooge. A tangential filing on Friday in the criminal case against former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann revealed these new details uncovered by Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation. The revelation came in the middle of a 13-page...

Ontario will remove most pandemic restrictions, including vaccine passports, by March 1 and loosen capacity limits sooner, Premier Doug Ford announced Monday. Masks will still be required indoors in public spaces until at least mid-March. The announcement, which came as convoy protesters occupied Ottawa for an 18th day and the federal government enacted the Emergencies Act, brought accusations that the province had caved in to convoy demands. Ford denied that, saying Monday’s announcement occurred “not because of what is happening in Ottawa and Windsor, but in spite of it.” Still, at least some saw the announcement as a victory for...

Celebrities and politicians were caught maskless at the Super Bowl on Sunday, despite the indoor mask mandate in place until Feb. 15. LeBron James, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Affleck, and Jay-Z were among those captured enjoying themselves without a face covering. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was called out for not wearing a mask at a recent game, also ignored the rules. Last time he claimed to be holding his breath when he removed his mask for a photo. Critics point out that these adults flouting the rules come as California schoolchildren have no such option,...

Since becoming University of San Francisco’s rabbi-in-residence in 2019, Rabbi Camille Angel has been busy, whether she’s creating inclusive on-campus spaces, helping to empower students through her classes, officiating Jewish lifecycle events or leading Passover seders. When Angel’s hiring was announced, it made headlines. A Jesuit Catholic university appointing a rabbi-in-residence was unprecedented, especially when that rabbi is a lesbian and longtime LGBTQ activist. She says credit for her presence on campus is largely due to the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. “I was trained and I’m a rabbi to serve Jews, and I do — I...

Top IBM executives were directly involved in discussions about the need to reduce the portion of older employees at the company, sometimes disparaging them with terms of art like “dinobabies.” A trove of previously sealed documents made public by a Federal District Court on Friday show IBM executives discussing plans to phase out older employees. Now it appears that top IBM executives were directly involved in discussions about the need to reduce the portion of older employees at the company, sometimes disparaging them with terms of art like “dinobabies.” A trove of previously sealed documents made public by a Federal...

Biden retains key demographicTRANSCRIPTA new poll reveals Biden is more popular among U.S. Catholics than he is with many other religious groups. Church Militant's Paul Murano points to some reasons why that might be the case. Despite Joe Biden's job approval tanking among just about every demographic, he's still popular among Catholics. A new poll reveals Catholics' overall approval of Biden dropped from 56% to 46% since this time last year. Among Hispanic Catholics, Biden's approval rating was 74% last year and dropped to 64% a year later. It's higher than any other Christian group other than Black Protestants. The...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Monday rebuffed concerns that have risen in recent weeks over former President Trump's handling of his administration's records, saying he doesn't know "what's true and what's not." Last month, the National Archives and Records Administration recovered 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. It was later reported that classified documents had been discovered among the boxes.

For Abbaro, dating in the Black community has still had its challenges. She remembers a hurtful incident from her college days. “I was talking to this Black guy [and he said], ‘Just so you know, I don’t date Black women. Black women are whack and I only date white girls,’” she recalls. Black women are often exoticized and fetishized. Being discriminated against can have major impacts on Black women’s mental and emotional health, as well as on their dating habits. In Murphy’s case, that early experience left a major mark on her psyche. “I mentally prepared myself for the rejection...

President Joe Biden’s top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are set to issue a new memo that is likely to further cripple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ ability to arrest illegal aliens. A class-action lawsuit, initially brought by a number of open borders groups, demanded recourse for illegal aliens who were arrested by ICE agents as part of “collateral arrests” in traffic stops and often without a judicial warrant.

Mushtaq Ahmad, a mentally ill person, was stoned to death for desecrating the Quran in Punjab provinceTwo months after the lynching of a Sri Lankan over blasphemy allegations, a mentally ill person was brutally stoned to death for allegedly desecrating the Quran in Pakistan’s Punjab province. An enraged mod lynched Mushtaq Ahmad after the son of a cleric accused him of burning pages of the Quran in a mosque of Talumba town in Khanewal district on Feb. 12. “People were raising slogans and beating a person tied with ropes. Police tried to dissuade them but they kept beating him. They...

HERSHEY, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) ­– The Hershey Company recently fired several unvaccinated workers who sought religious exemptions from the COVID-19 jab mandate, in some cases citing Pope Francis’ support for the abortion-tainted vaccines. Office workers interviewed by The Epoch Times said that the company subjected them to months of meetings pressuring them to get jabbed, as well as invasive questions about their faith and personal lives that some described as “interrogation.” “I really thought I’d be OK,” said Kim Durham, a sourcing buyer and payment analyst who left Hershey in January. “I thought, you cannot question my faith. Nobody can question...

Wordle – After I made 5 wrong guesses, at least I knew the status of 21 different letters. Can anyone come up with 22 or more?This is a screenshot of my Wordle game from February 14, 2022. I didn’t get it until the last possible try. But because of the five wrong guesses that I did make, at least I was able to know the status of 21 different letters. Can anyone come up with a set of five words that lets us know the status of 22 or more letters?For those who can’t see the screenshot, my guesses, in...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New JerseyJoint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL) is a United States military facility located 18 miles southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. The base is the only tri-service base in the United States Department of Defense and includes units from all six armed forces branches. The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's McGuire Air Force Base, the United States Army's Fort Dix and the United States Navy's Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, which were merged on 1 October 2009. It was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing...

Los Angeles County remained on track Monday to lift its outdoor mask-wearing requirement by mid-week thanks to another drop in the number of COVID-positive patients in local hospitals. According to state figures, there were 2,054 COVID-positive patients in county hospitals, down from 2,086 on Sunday. The number of those patients being treated in intensive care was 437, down from 439 on Sunday. Hospitalizations had climbed to over 4,800 in mid-January at the height of the Omicron-variant-fueled winter surge in cases. Under guidelines announced this month by county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, if the hospitalization number stays below 2,500 for...

OTTAWA—Freedom Convoy organizers say they will continue to protest on Parliament Hill despite the federal government’s declaration of a state of emergency. “We are not afraid. In fact, every time the government decides to further suspend our civil liberties, our resolve strengthens and the importance of our mission becomes clearer,” organizer Tamara Lich said on Feb. 14 in anticipation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act over the protests demanding an end to COVID-19 mandates. “We will remain peaceful, but planted on Parliament Hill until the mandates are decisively ended. We recognize that there is a democratic process...

The 78-year-old comedian finally addressed claims that he was very difficult to work with on the sets of “Saturday Night Live” and the TV series “Community.” In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” Chase explained how it didn’t bother him when he heard that his former co-stars had bad experiences working with him. “I guess you’d have to ask them. I don’t give a crap!” he laughed. “I am who I am. And I like where — who I am. I don’t care,” he continued. “And it’s part of me that I don’t care. And I’ve thought about that a...

For a second year, Jill Biden decked out the White House in celebration of Valentine’s Day. On the North Lawn, a giant red heart displayed the quote “Three things shall last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love” from 1 Corinthians 13:13. Cartoon renderings of the Bidens’ puppy, Commander, and their cat, Willow, stood on either side of the sign, wearing heart-shaped tags.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke in a hypothetical head-to-head gubernatorial poll from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The poll found that 47 percent of the registered Texas voters said they would vote for Abbott, 10 percent more than the Democrat primary candidate.

Everyone understands the concept of self-defense. When one person is attacked by another, he or she may fight back to protect himself or herself from harm. For most people this is self-evident. It is a natural instinct to fight back when attacked. It is also virtuous and just to resist aggression. This applies to countries as well, of course. When one country attacks another, the country being attacked will inevitably respond with military force, even if facing overwhelming odds. Due to current and forthcoming federal policies, Alberta needs to see itself as a community under attack and act accordingly. The...