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Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has called for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate allegations of influence-peddling against Democrat President Joe Biden and his family members. Turley has joined the growing chorus calling for investigations after several left-wing corporate media outlets recently confirmed that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” is genuine. The George Washington University Law School professor is pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special prosecutor to probe the Biden family business for links with the president’s political career. Turley said the “demonstrably false” statement from the White House, that Hunter Biden never made money in...

Ashooting in downtown Sacramento early Sunday left six people dead and at least 10 wounded, police said. Authorities did not offer many details, except to say shooting occurred in the vicinity of a nightclub. Video posted on social media showed people running through the street as the sound of gunfire could be heard. Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said the shooting occurred around 2 a.m. and police don’t know whether one or more suspects were involved. This is “a very complex and complicated scene,” she told The Associated Press as she asked for the public’s help. Numerous ambulances were sent...

VIDEOThe liberals are DESPERATE for Attorney General Merrick Garland to act in a completely political manner and indict President Donald Trump BEFORE the midterm elections. Sleepy Joe has caused so much havoc on America both economically and socially that they see such a phony indictment as the only way to stave off big election losses in November.The good news for Merrick Garland is that he doesn't even have to build a real case against Trump. He can just present a bunch of easily disprovable charges since the goal is an indictment, even if it is completely phony, for purely political...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Biden administration rescinded Title 42 because their “focus” is creating a right to remain for immigrants seeking to enter the United States. Title 42 was enacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the COVID pandemic in March 2020.

Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law was both “absurd” and a “crazy fight.” Anchor Dana Bash said, “Your fellow Republican governor, DeSantis in Florida, he suggested he will retaliate against Disney after it criticized Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. What is your reaction to that, and more broadly, what do you make of that legislation?”

Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump publicly calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any dirt he might have on Hunter Biden in an interview with “Just the News” was “the worst possible thing you can do.” Anchor Dana Bash said, “A federal judge wrote, ‘based on the evidence, the court finds it more likely than not that President trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.’ He’s effectively saying that the former president committed federal crime. Do you agree?”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the average American did not want to be governed by Republicans “who live in a totally different reality.” Clinton said, “I always thought the best politics is doing the best job you can do, and there are a lot that Democrats can talk about in the upcoming midterms. I’m aware that midterms are always difficult for the party in power, but we’ve got to start there and do a better job of telling it. For those who say it hasn’t gone far enough, that’s always the...

Neighbors shared information and worked together to try to stop a stranger who they say followed a 12-year-old girl to a Southeast Portland porch, exposed himself and asked if she wanted to have sex as he cornered her. . . . Portland police arrived and arrested a 20-year-old man, Bill Glenn Fomonyuy, at 8:39 a.m. Monday on allegations of coercion, luring a minor and public indecency. Fomonyuy was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 3:47 p.m. and released on his own recognizance four hours and 15 minutes later.

KRISTINA KARAMO RISES.Kristina Karamo is running for Secretary of State in Michigan.President Trump endorsed this magnificent woman! She is A FORCE!On Saturday Kristina Karamo spoke to the massive crowd in Washington, Michigan.TRENDING: Biden Telling Staffers He Wants the Justice Department to Prosecute TrumpThis woman is ON FIRE. Listen to this Savage Angel!

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Alexia Newman says she’s never seen tickets for one of her events sell so quickly. The executive director of the Carolina Pregnancy Center tells Fox News that "all the reserve seating is sold out and has been sold out for a couple of weeks and we’re still getting calls from people" regarding a May 5 dinner on behalf of the facility that’s being headlined by former Vice President Mike Pence. Newman said that as of Friday, more than 1,600 tickets had been sold, with general admission seats still being sold.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Supreme Court decisions put Americans on the cusp of losing "fundamental rights" Sunday on "Life, Liberty & Levin." Over and over again, the big landmark cases are 5-4," he told host Mark Levin. "We're one vote away on issue after issue after issue from losing our fundamental rights."

Saddam, Gaddafi, Iran, Venezuela – they all tried but couldn’t do it. But Russia is on a different level altogether. The beauty of the game-changing, gas-for-rubles, geoeconomic jujitsu applied by Moscow is its stark simplicity. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s presidential decree on new payment terms for energy products, predictably, was misunderstood by the collective west. The Russian government is not exactly demanding straightforward payment for gas in rubles. What Moscow wants is to be paid at Gazprombank in Russia, in its currency of choice, and not at a Gazprom account in any banking institution in western capitals. That’s the essence...

Conservative MP David Warburton has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital after allegations about him were made in a newspaper. His wife Harriet said he has been admitted with severe shock and stress following allegations in the Sunday Times, the BBC reports. The MP for Somerton and Frome was suspended from the Conservative Party on Saturday pending a parliamentary investigation into his conduct. The Telegraph said Parliament's Independent Complains and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) had received a report claiming the MP had behaved inappropriately, but that he had denied any wrongdoing.

Former President Donald Trump hosted a “Save America” rally on Saturday, April 2, in Washington Township, Michigan. It’s part of a series of “Save America” rallies that he’s hosting. Here’s a look at how many people attended Trump’s rally, including crowd photos, overflow details, and updates about what happened.

Late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned if gas buyers from "unfriendly" states refuse to pay for fuel in rubles, Moscow would consider it a breach of contract. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that a ruble payment scheme that Russia currently uses with gas would be extended to new groups of goods in the future. In an interview with the broadcaster Rossiya 1, Peskov said that Russia's European counterparts will pay for gas in the same currency that is indicated in their contracts, but that the final payment will go to the Russian energy giant Gazprom in rubles....

A recent letter backing Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court rattled off many of her supporters’ oft-stated reasons she should be confirmed — her top-notch academic credentials, her support from police groups, her expansive experience in the law. But this particular endorsement, written by 16 law professors from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, added another element of Jackson’s record that has not been as frequently discussed. “Though we do not believe that religious faith should be a test for any federal office, as faculty at a law school whose sponsoring church endured persecution by the federal government, we...

I wonder how far all this will go. By “all this”, I mean the headlong push, always in the same direction, always away from the world I recognise. To me it seems as though a pendulum is swinging, has been swinging for years now, but always and only one way – further and further from the point where I stand. I wonder too, how far that pendulum can swing before it must stop and, inevitably swing back the other way, and with a vengeance. Every action, after all, has an equal and opposite reaction. To me there seems no avoiding...

Parkland High alum David Hogg has not done much with his life since experiencing an admittedly horrific and unfathomable terror. Look, politics aside, what Nikolas Cruz did that day is horrendous. Full stop. I am sorry for the victims and the families of victims.However, it’s been really hard to sympathize with some of the survivors since almost the very beginning. People process traumatic events differently, but when kid victims lecture the entire nation over Constitutional rights with which they disagree and have no historical or contextual understanding of – nor grasp basic human nature and common sense – it comes...

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has decades in public office, but Republicans in this Democratic-leaning state still see an opportunity to win a U.S. Senate seat after a roughly 30-year drought. Republicans are touting Themis Klarides, the former GOP leader in the state House of Representatives, as a formidable challenger with the best chance of capitalizing on the strong national headwinds facing Democrats this election year.