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A Iraq War veteran accused of defrauding donors out of $350,000 (£268,747) in a bid to build a southern border wall has now agreed to plead guilty, according to a court filing. Brian Kolfage, of Miramar, Florida, was indicated in August 2020 alongside former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon for allegedly scraping off the top of millions they raised to privately build the border wall. Of the $25m (£19m) in GoFundMe donations, Mr Kolfage allegedly took $350,000 and Mr Bannon took $1m, prosecutors said. Both were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud with a third person, Timothy Shea. As Law&Crime...

Will Smith is not allowed to attend the Oscars for 10 years, Fox News Digital has learned on Friday.

Beverly Hills’ only gun shop, Beverly Hills Guns, received an order on April 7 advising the shop that it has 60 days to close. Store owner Russell Stuart told Breitbart News the order came from property management. He recounted that his secretary received an envelope and walked to Stuart with sorrow in her eyes. Stuart opened the envelope and read the order. Beverly Hills Guns has been in existence for two years, at the same address, with zero issues. Stuart explained that the order to shutter the current store means he will have to find a new location, sign a...

Beverly Hills’ only gun shop, Beverly Hills Guns, received an order on April 7 advising the shop that it has 60 days to close. Store owner Russell Stuart told Breitbart News the order came from property management. He recounted that his secretary received an envelope and walked to Stuart with sorrow in her eyes. Stuart opened the envelope and read the order. Beverly Hills Guns has been in existence for two years, at the same address, with zero issues. Stuart explained that the order to shutter the current store means he will have to find a new location, sign a...

The great debates of our time are not exclusively those hard-hitting ones affecting human anthropology and political community -- how many genders exist, what criteria we should look for in prospective immigrants, and so forth. Certainly, many of our most notable debates do implicate those most foundational rifts. But some of our other most politically urgent and galvanizing disputes revolve less around substantive questions, such as the nature of justice, than they do around one of the oldest procedural questions in the history of political science: "Who decides?" A look around the world at this present juncture suggests an emerging...

Huge blow to the FBI: Zero guilty verdicts in the case of the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor. Not guilty verdict for three, hung jury on the alleged ringleader, per @PeteWilliamsNBC — Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) April 8, 2022 Details are just emerging in the last 15 minutes. Not guilty and hung jury. -Adam fox – deadlocked no verdict -Croft – deadlocked, no verdict -Harris – count 1 conspiracy not guilty – count 2 not guilty – count 3 not guilty – count 4 not guilty -Caserta – count 1 not guilty https://t.co/tltQN8MLZA — Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) April 8, 2022...

A businessman with a £130m fortune has told his children he won't be leaving them a penny when he dies, we can reveal. Hospitality magnate Hamish Ogston, 74, is adamant he will give his entire fortune away to charity and let his three children fend for themselves in life when he is gone. His three children Darcy, Digby and Isabella have forged their own careers in business and law while Digby is also studying for a PHD - and all are apparently content with their father's plan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tearfully embracing a history-making American moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, ″We’ve made it — all of us.” Jackson delivered emotional remarks on the sunny White House South Lawn a day after the Senate approved her nomination, saying, it was a moment the entire country could be proud of. “We have come a long way toward perfecting our union,” she said. “In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the...

Wisconsin's Kenosha County executive flipped red for the first time in decades after the city gained widespread attention amid damaging riots and the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Voters elected Samantha Kerkman on April 5th as the county executive. The race was described as nonpartisan, but Kerkman had the backing of Republicans and serves as a Republican state representative. Her opponent, Rebecca Matoska-Mentink, is a Democrat and serves as the Clerk of Courts. It is the first time a woman will serve in the position and the first time since at least 1998 that a Republican has been elected. The Associated Press...

LONDON (Reuters) - Asset owners managing more than $10.4 trillion have urged governments not to let worries about security of fossil fuel supplies impede the transition to greener energy needed to limit catastrophic climate change. With governments scrambling to replace Russian oil and gas supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, United Nations climate scientists issued new warnings this week on the need to quickly scale up renewable energy and roll back support for emissions-intensive fossil fuels. The Steering Group of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, which counts some of the world's largest pension schemes and insurers as members, said on...

Videos reporting on angry Australians regarding Covid vaccination regime.

Message to the people of North Carolina from the 45th President, Donald J. Trump.

NATO estimates that Russia has lost 7,000 to 15,000 troops during the six-week war — a startling number — while Ukraine puts the toll at 18,600. Those figures rival, if not exceed, the 14,453 lost during the Soviet Union’s roughly 10-year war in Afghanistan and the 11,000 Russian service members who died in the two Chechen wars. Russia puts the official military death toll of the Ukrainian campaign at 1,351. [Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry] Peskov vaguely discussed the possibility of ending the war in Ukraine.... “Our military are doing their best to bring an end to that operation,” he told the...

Russian troops attacked a rail station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine Friday morning, leaving more than 39 dead and more than 100 hurt, local officials said. The station was being used by civilians trying to evacuate and is the latest evidence that Russians are deliberately targeting civilians. UPDATE: At least 50 people, including 5 children, have been killed Friday in an attack by the Russian military on a train station in Kramatorsk, the area's regional governor says.

The Kremlin said on Friday that what it calls Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine could end in the "foreseeable future" since its aims were being achieved and work was being carried out by both the Russian military and Russian peace negotiators. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said Moscow understood that some countries that had tried to adopt a balanced position had been subjected to pressure to vote on Thursday to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Assessments in the defense establishment: The terrorist [at] Tel Aviv, went out to attack from the mosque in Jaffa - and returned to it after the shooting until he was killed this morning by the GSS. He apparently had an early acquaintance with Tel Aviv and Jaffa from illegal entrances in the past. Apparently prayed and went out to carry out the attack...— Josh Breiner (@JoshBreiner) April 8, 2022

Finland was hit with cyberattacks targeting government sites on Friday just as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was addressing Finnish Parliament. The Ukrainian leader has regularly been giving formal speeches before lawmaking bodies across the West and the world, making urgent please for additional military and humanitarian assistance to his besieged nation. The attack impacted both the Ministry of Defense’s website and the foreign ministry’s site, the latter which later clarified that it was a denial-of-service attack, noting that the issue has since been resolved. The defense ministry earlier issued an urgent tweet saying its website was experiencing and attack and...

A unanimous decision by the California Supreme Court ruled that certain sex offenders are eligible for early parole. It stems from a 2016 ballot measure sponsored by then Governor Jerry Brown. Prop 57 allows offenders who are classified as non-violent to be released from prison early. San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan says around 4,500 sex offenders in California will now be eligible for parole.

President Biden on Friday singled out the three Republican senators who voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, praising them for setting aside partisanship in what has become a divisive process. “Not withstanding the harassment and attacks in the hearings, I always believed that a bipartisan vote was possible,” Biden said at an event with Jackson to celebrate her confirmation. “And I hope I don’t get them in trouble, and I mean it sincerely, but I want to thank three Republicans who voted for Judge Jackson.”

STIRING-WENDEL, France — Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader making her third attempt to become president of France, already had the backing of voters who came to listen to her recently in Stiring-Wendel, a former coal-mining town struggling to reinvent itself. But after a 40-minute speech focusing on the rising cost of living, Ms. Le Pen succeeded in doing what even few of her supporters would have predicted just months ago: impressing them. Voters trickling out of an auditorium into the cold evening said she had become “less extreme,” more “mature” and “self-assured” — even “presidential.” “She has softened, she...