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EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, reacting to Special Counsel John Durham’s latest filing, told Fox News in an exclusive interview that the original Trump-Russia probe was about "manufacturing a situation" around Donald Trump and his associates in an effort to tie them to the Kremlin, calling activities surrounding the origins of the investigation a "masterclass in deception." Durham, in a Feb. 11 court filing, first reported by Fox News, alleged "Tech Executive-1," now identified as Rodney Joffe, and his associates, including a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Michael Sussmann, "exploited" internet traffic pertaining to a...

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NBC News national security contributor and former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi said on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Attorney General Merrick Garland needs to establish limits on special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump Russia probe.

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An artist's conception of the Starshot Lightsail spacecraft during acceleration by a ground-based laser array. Previous conceptions of lightsails have imagined them being passively pushed by light from the sun, but Starshot's laser-based approach requires rethinking the sail's shape and composition so it won't melt or tear during acceleration.Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before. But if humans want to actually reach our nearest stellar neighbor, they will need to wait quite a bit longer: a probe sent to Alpha Centauri with a...

Hillary Clinton's never-ending shenanigans in 2015-2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton's machinations. Clinton hired a British national and ex-spy, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt on her election opponent, Donald Trump. She hid her likely illegal campaign payments to him through at least three paywalls - the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. Partisans in the FBI helped her, by variously spying on minor officials affiliated with the...

This is another in a series of self-defense against bear events uncovered in a Freedom of Information Act request done by AmmoLand. It seems they have not been published before. On October 18, 2010, an elk hunter was successful in collecting a bull elk at the head of the North Crandall Creek drainage in Wyoming. It was late in the day, so they field-dressed the elk, moved the gut pile about 50 yards away, and left the elk to be retrieved the next day, with horses.On October 19, 2010, three men were on their way to retrieve the elk. Because...

Coronavirus policies are beginning to boomerang on Democrats, as polls underscore public fatigue with both the pandemic and the policies intended to keep it from spreading. Democrats have been generally unified in backing vaccinations and the use of masks and mask mandates by local communities to stop the spread, but the party's voters are becoming more divided on the continued aggressive use of such restrictions, and frustration is mounting. In San Francisco on Tuesday, three school board members were recalled in a special recall election. The recall wasn't entirely related to COVID-19, but voters in the liberal enclave were partly...

Remember when social media was fun? If you aren’t yet in your 30s you might not remember since you were a toddler at the time. Facebook status updates were funny, people interacted with them and everything you posted. Twitter was the place for quick quips and Instagram was where people showed you what they were eating. Now they’re all different forms of toilets, with left-wing “moderators” moving to silence opinions they don’t like or fear are too effective. There’s a push to create an alternate online universe, a “safe space” for conservatives and anyone else who holds an opinion out...

Regime media flagship CNN recently rolled out Governor Larry Hogan of the State of Who Cares to proclaim that he is thinking of running for president in 2024. It’s not kind to laugh at the mentally ill, but then our kindness is kind of used up, so consider this my laughter at the idea that this insufferable dork – who bears a striking resemblance to Brian Stelter (who is a potato) – is ever going to be president of anything. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He announced on CNN that he’s going to occupy the sane lane of the 2024 Republican primary. The idea...

It doesn’t seem possible that we’ve weathered an entire year since that bleak day last Feb. 17 when at 12:06 p.m. Eastern the inevitable-yet-shocking announcement was broadcast to the world: Rush Limbaugh had passed away. The radio titan, having lived his threescore-and-10 to the absolute fullest, returned his borrowed talent to God. It was a devastating gut-punch to us, his "highly overrated" staff, and to his vast listening audience. Our beloved friend would no longer be providing his brilliant, inspiring, often-hilarious daily clarity and reassurance we had all come to cherish over more than three decades.

Justin Trudeau, current Prime Minister of Canada, and heir of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is angry. There are truckers – lots of them – clogging the streets of Ottawa, honking their horns, and revving their engines. Raised in privilege as a Prime Minister’s son, Mr. Trudeau doesn’t believe that he should have to listen to the people’s voices, let alone their engines. So, he has ordered police to steal the drivers’ fuel and even impound their vehicles. He has ordered banks to confiscate their bank accounts. He has even decreed a national emergency – which he didn’t do for...

Usually, we live our daily lives not having to make immobilizing decisions that sever aspects of who we are in any fundamental way. Typically, we wake up, have something to eat, go to work, handle occupational challenges presented to us and eventually allow some leisure time. But a demand to choose between two or more features that relate to a healthy, fully functioning sense of self is not usually something we come across. Since the Left is well known for avoiding debate, well-established data, and reasoned argument, it comes as no surprise that the weapon of force is one of...

SMETHPORT, Pa. (AP) - Some Democrats here in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats. The party’s brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers and yard signs and refuse to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly. These Democrats are used to being outnumbered by the local Republican majority, but as their numbers continue to dwindle, the few that remain are feeling increasingly isolated and unwelcome in their own communities. “The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am laying a stone in Zion as a foundation, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone...

Photo Maryna Lisnichuk Maryna Lisnichuk The armed formations of Russia in the morning of Thursday, February 17, resorted to artillery shelling of the village of Stanytsia Luhanska in the Luhansk region. One of the shells hit the kindergarten, where at that moment there were children with educators. The two women suffered a concussion, the Come Back Alive Foundation said on its Facebook page. Subsequently, the headquarters of the JFO told the details of the emergency (to view the photo, doskrolte news to the end). It is noted that Russian mercenaries used heavy artillery weapons during the shelling of the village....

Dr. Chandra Ojha, a cardiologist in El Paso, Texas, is used to demanding work. But lately, Ojha, who has waited more than three years for his green card through a since-expired government program, has been “feeling the stress.” It became so intense that a recent bout of chest pain spurred him to have a heart investigation done on himself. Born in India and trained in London and the U.S., the 44-year-old Ojha filed his initial green card petition in 2018 based on a $500,000 investment in a California hotel under the EB-5 visa program. The program allows foreign investors who...

The Biden administration is suing Missouri over its controversial gun-rights bills passed last year, which would allow citizens to sue state or federal agencies for $50,000 if they prove their Second Amendment rights were violated. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the lawsuit Wednesday, saying House Bill 85 violates the “Supremacy Clause, is preempted by federal law and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity.” The Justice Department (DOJ) states in the lawsuit the law hurts cooperation between federal, state and local law enforcement. “The penalties associated with H.B. 85 have prompted state and local agencies and individuals within those entities...

An Israeli farmer earned a Guinness World Record when he harvested a massive strawberry that weighed 10.19 ounces. Guinness said Ariel Chahi, whose family owns the Strawberries in the Field business in Kadima-Zoran, Israel, holds the record for the world's heaviest strawberry after his enormous fruit weighed in at 10.19 ounces, beating the previous record of 8.82 ounces. The strawberry is of the Ilan variety, which was first bred by Nir Dai, a researcher from the Israel's Agricultural Research Organization. Dai, who was among the witnesses at the weighing of Chahi's strawberry, credited the strawberry's size to unusually cold temperatures...

A Florida woman used money from a pandemic relief loan to hire a hitman to murder a rival who had dated her ex-boyfriend, police said. Jasmine Martinez allegedly used the federal Paycheck Protection Program to pay a gunman who fatally shot Le’Shonte Jones and wounded her 3-year-old son in a broad daylight attack outside her Miami apartment on May 3, 2021, NBC 6 reported. Martinez had withdrawn more than $10,000 in the days before the shooting, after she netted $15,000 from the federal government she applied for to help her single-employee beauty salon, according to an arrest warrant cited by...