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New professionally edited video has emerged of police officers allowing protesters into the Upper West Terrace Doors of the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. A trusted source exclusively released the video below to The Gateway Pundit. Tightly edited with markers and commentary narration, it is meant to be presented in court to defend Brady Knowlton and Patrick Montgomery. Both men are facing felony charges for “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding” on January 6th. This new video will indisputably exonerate Brady Knowlton, Patrick Montgomery and all the rally-goers seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge....

Former President Barack Obama sat down with NBC “Today” co-host Al Roker on Tuesday to weigh in on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Obama advised that Putin had “always been ruthless against his own people, as well as others. He added the brutality on Ukraine was a “reminder of why it’s so important for us to not take our own democracy for granted.”

According to reports in the French newspapers Ouest France and Le Monde, France and Italy already have delivered “several dozen” MILAN anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine between February 28 and March 3, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. According to reports, both countries have delivered the latest and most capable versions of the system. The systems were delivered to Ukraine on the border with Poland. We remind you that the French army is in the process of replacing its 528 MILAN launchers [428 portable and 100 interchangeable in VAB and VBL vehicles] with the new anti-tank systems MMP [Missile Moyenne Portée] with a maximum...

Illinois is poised to become the first state in the Midwest to ban “ghost guns,” as Democrats respond to election-year pressure to curb violent crime and President Joe Biden wages a national war on the “do-it-yourself” firearms. Holding up a ghost gun in the White House Rose Garden on Monday and warning that “anyone” can make a gun, Biden said “a domestic abuser can go from a gun kit to a gun in as little as 30 minutes.” Sitting in the audience was Chicago Police Supt. David Brown, whose department is fighting its own battle against the easy-to-assemble but hard-to-trace...

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.

Putin treats his former colleagues as scapegoats for Ukraine war setbacks, analyst says Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears not to be going according to plan, and President Vladimir Putin seems intent on blaming his old colleagues at the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) – the intelligence agency successor to the KGB – for the quagmire. Putin reportedly purged more than 100 agents from the FSB, and his government sent the head of the department responsible for Ukraine to prison. About 150 FSB officers have been dismissed, The Times of London reported Monday. The ousted agents belonged to the Fifth Service, a...

Nuland has supported and facilitated Obama-era policies aimed at confronting, containing, and deterring Moscow across multiple policy fronts. Summer 2020 op-ed for Foreign Affairs, Nuland offered a series of policy prescriptions for the next president on how to deal with Russia: ...a united 'global front' to check and deter Russian military aggression, a more robust toolkit to crack down on Russian disinformation, further sanctions, and public diplomacy efforts 'aimed directly at the Russian people'. Nuland played a central role in executing the Obama administration’s Ukraine policies during and after the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. She conveyed U.S. support 'for demonstrations in...

Hunter Biden knew he was working with associates who were high up in Chinese intelligence circles, according to a new report. The report published Monday by Yahoo News delves into the connections between Hunter Biden and Patrick Ho, referred to as Patrick Ho Chi-ping in some reports concerning Ho’s 2018 bribery conviction that was linked to arms dealing and bribery in Africa. Yahoo’s report is written by Michael Isikoff, its chief investigative correspondent, and Zach Dorfman, its national security correspondent. Both are veteran and respected journalists. (Isikoff is probably best known as the reporter then working for Newseek who had...

With big cities seeing spikes in crime and Republicans making it an election year issue, President Joe Biden on Monday sought to recast guns — specifically, untraceable ones — as a root cause of the problem. Speaking from the Rose Garden, Biden held up a so-called ghost gun kit, displaying what law enforcement and lawmakers have labeled as the new weapon of choice for criminals because of its lack of a serial number and its ability to be purchased without buyers undergoing a background check. It was an effort to put some political muscle behind a finalized ghost gun rule...

The explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987.... The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass ejection (CME) — explosive balls of solar material — both of which could spur more intense northern lights in Earth's upper atmosphere. The material in that CME is likely to impact Earth on April 14... The idea of a "dead" sunspot is more poetic than scientific, said Philip Judge, a solar physicist at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), but the convection of the sun...

The Walt Disney Company will soon be airing an ad on all of its channels featuring the mother of a trans-identified child lambasting supporters of bills banning genital mutilation surgeries for children and the teaching of LGBT ideology in schools. The mother accuses these Americans of trying to “tear our families apart.” The LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD released the public service announcement called “Protect Our Families” last week. The 60-second ad profiles the Briggle family, which includes Amber Briggle along with her husband and her two children. The ad focuses on her trans-identified daughter, who now identifies as a boy...

On January 24, 2022, The FDA revoked Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for two COVID monoclonal antibody (McAb) treatments, bamlanivimab and etesevimab (administered together) and REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab), made by Eli Lilly and Regeneron respectively. Again on March 25, the FDA revoked the EUA for sotrovimab, which is no longer authorized for use at this time in specified states and territories due to its ineffectiveness against the prevalence of Omicron sub-variants, such as BA.2 in those regions, brought in from overseas. Even these state-of-the-art McAbs can’t keep up with the rapidly mutating, highly transmissible COVID-19 variants. In doing so, the...

War is one of the most consequential actions our government can take. The question is whether, looking back at America’s conflicts in the past hundred-plus years, we can discern lessons that should guide us going forward. David T. Pyne, a former U.S. Army combat arms and H.Q. staff officer with an M.A. in National Security has used his Substack account to write a concise essay analyzing which wars America should have avoided entirely and which were justified wars, whether conducted wisely or not. Trump understood much of this intuitively; Biden does not. The post, entitled “How Modern Wars Have Harmed...

Tucker Carlson opened his show on Monday night with the story of the mass lockdown in Shanghai, with more than 24 million people turned into starving prisoners in their homes, as the government adds in the singular cruelty of slaughtering their pets. This is ostensibly in the name of a “Zero COVID” policy, but that’s nonsense. The real goal is to bring the citizens of Shanghai to heel lest they start to pose a threat to Xi Jinping’s and the Party’s dominance.We’ve learned a lot about COVID since China released it to the world in 2019. It’s most dangerous to...

In modern Chinese history, Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) holds a unique place. He led the revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty in 1911; devoted his life to championing an independent and democratic China; and was a revolutionary leader and a man of vision. Sun remains the only political leader honored by both mainland China and Taiwan. What’s fascinating about Sun, but little known in America, is that his birthplace, formal education, medical training, religious faith, and political values made him a true American. Sun’s elder brother concealed the fact that Yat-sen was an American. His family would claim that he was...

resident Joe Biden's feckless, weak leadership in foreign affairs and his misguided "green" energy policies are killing innocent women and children by financing Vladimir Putin's genocidal invasion of Ukraine. Biden's ideologically driven energy policies are also wrecking the U.S. economy, but that's for another column -- as is our analysis of how Hunter Biden's activities have compromised his father. That's our upcoming piece: "Never Underestimate the Power of Blackmail." This week, our research shows how Biden's energy policies are financing the horrific genocide and war crimes Putin is perpetrating against the Ukrainian people. According to the Ukrainian government, more than...

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin surrendered to authorities early Tuesday morning to face fraud-related charges in connection with a previous political campaign, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast. Benjamin, 45, was arrested on several charges, including bribery, in connection with his alleged participation in a scheme to obtain campaign contributions in exchange for securing a state grant. The U.S. Southern District of New York is expected to hold a noon press conference about Benjamin’s arrest. He is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday afternoon. More to come..

Multiple people were shot at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday morning, the city's fire department told CBS News. There's a heavy police presence at the station in the Sunset Park neighborhood, at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue, CBS New York reports. The NYPD is reporting a smoke condition at the station. An NYPD official tells CBS News a smoke bomb device was found. A photo from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station. The D, N, and R subway trains are holding in stations in both directions in...

<><>Hunter Biden caught his first break in 1988 when he was busted for drug possession. Suchat Pederson/The News Journal via USA TODAY NETWORK <><>Hunter Biden used dad’s pull to lobby for friends to get federal jobs, emails from laptop show <><>$54M in Chinese gifts donated to Ivy League school tied to Bidens <><>Hunter Biden frequently covered family expenses, texts reveal Hunter Biden has been living off his father’s influence and connections his entire life, a review of public information and data contained on his old laptop show. <><>The future first son caught his first break back in 1988 when he...

Testing Mania: Illogical and Harmful This adapted excerpt is from Dr. Scott W. Atlas’ bestselling book, A Plague Upon Our House, published by Bombardier. By the time I arrived at the end of July 2020, the administration had already developed a massive testing capacity from scratch. Nearly a million tests per day were being conducted. The effort was led by Admiral Giroir, who was assigned the thankless task of overseeing that project. I understood why the VP was so excited when he had displayed that simplistic chart on my first visit. And over the next weeks the administration continued to...