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@RepJamesComer Great @WSJ article on our investigation into Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings. We’re digging into 150+ transactions flagged by banks. Now, @POTUS is changing the rules and making it harder for Congress to get financial information from @USTreasury .

Co-written by Richard Starkey and George Harrison, this was the lead single from Ringo's self-titled 1973 album

Henry Kissinger, the 99-year old former secretary of state, suggested that Ukraine would likely have to give up some territory in a negotiated settlement, though he added that “ideally the dividing line should be a return to the status quo” before the invasion, which included the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the seizure of parts of the Donbas. “Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,’’ Mr. Kissinger concluded. Almost immediately, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine accused Mr. Kissinger of appeasement, retorting angrily that “I...

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement authorities faced questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers. Investigators were also unable to say with any certainty whether an armed school district security officer outside Robb Elementary in the town of Uvalde exchanged fire with the attacker, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, when Ramos first arrived on Tuesday. The motive for the massacre - the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, a decade ago - remained under...

Ricky Gervais knew what he was doing and why he was doing it when he took on transgender activism in his new Netflix special, SuperNature. Three quarters of an hour into his set, he told his audience: 'I talk about AIDS, famine, cancer, the Holocaust, rape, paedophilia...the one thing you should never joke about is the trans issue. They just want to be treated equally. I agree; that’s why I include them. But they know I’m joking about all the other stuff, but – they go – ‘no, he must mean that’.' The backlash to Gervais's jokes suggest he was...

This is the Uvalde police SWAT team. This community of 13,000 people spends 40% of its municipal budget on the police.

What this. I will summarize. Day 9 of Sussmann trial (this is a walkthrough of the trial transcript -curious no cameras, or recording, right)? The evidence shows Sussmann guilty as hell. So much so the defense does not even contest. BUT - Judge instructions to jurors include statements such as "if the defendant didn't mean to harm, was operating out of good faith that his actions were legal, even if he lied, he should not be held guilty" This is how they cheat justice. Oh, and there are a bunch of Dem insiders on the jury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHflMfTyxdQ Get ready for...

President Barack Obama isn’t often accused of striking the wrong political chord, but it happened Wednesday when he linked George Floyd’s murder to the Texas school massacre. The 46-year-old Floyd died two years ago Wednesday at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, an anniversary that was largely overshadowed by the horrific slaughter Tuesday of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer,” Mr....

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) pushed for restoring the ban on assault weapons and banning high-capacity magazines by claiming that if the school shooter in Uvalde, TX “didn’t have two AR-15s, but had a single handgun because he couldn’t get his hands on two assault weapons at the age of 18,” “then we wouldn’t have the high death rates” in the shooting that we do.

An off-duty border patrol agent has told how he evacuated children including his own eight-year-old daughter from Robb Elementary School, armed with a shotgun he had grabbed from his barber's as he left to dash to the site. Jacob Albarado, a father of three, received a text message from his wife Trisha - a fourth grade math and science teacher at the school - when he was in the barber's chair. 'There's an active shooter,' she said. 'Help. I love you.' Albarado leapt up and grabbed a shotgun the barber lent him, and rushed to the school. Inside, 18-year-old Salvador...

‘We can show you what we’re capable of in six seconds’: Putin’s Chechen warlord protégé Ramzan Kadyrov threatens to attack POLAND in retaliation for its support for Ukraine during invasion Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Chechen Republic, has threatened to attack Poland Kadyrov is President Putin's protégé and often shares his criticisms of the West Poland had been steadfastly loyal to its ally Ukraine thoughout the invasion 'Once Ukraine is done, we can show you what we’re capable of,' Kadyrov warned By President Putin’s protégé Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechen Republic, has threatened to launch a military attack on...

On Thursday, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, paid tribute to the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, by visiting a memorial near the site of the deadly shooting. The Duchess was captured by photographers placing a bouquet of roses at a small memorial set up by local residents just outside the Uvalde County Courthouse. The memorial is not far from the scene of one of the deadliest school shootings in more than a decade. She also dropped into a community center nearby that was hosting a blood drive for the victims still recovering from injuries that resulted...

The corporate effort to indoctrinate children into believing they are born in the wrong body is reaching new heights under the Biden administration. Toymaker Mattel has partnered with transgender actor Laverne Cox to create its first transgender Barbie doll modeled after the Emmy Award-winning actor’s likeness. The symbol of body dysmorphia will be featured in Mattel’s “Tribute Collection Barbie” edition and retail for $39.99. Transgender Barbie will hit store shelves ahead of Cox’s 50th birthday in honor of his “impact as an advocate for LGTBQ rights,” People Magazine reports. Cox, famous for being the first non-white transgender woman to land...

It might seem counterintuitive, but tropical forest soils are, almost universally, terrible for farming. That’s due primarily to the insanely dense amount of life in these environments: In less alive forests, dead plant and animal matter has time to decompose and leach its nutrients into the soil. But in the tropical forest, huge numbers of insects, fungi, and bacteria devour any decomposing matter before it has a chance to enrich the soil. But people around the world live in tropical forests, and have had to figure out some way to make the soil actually productive. (The effects of the destruction...

Newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal secret US plans for ‘apocalyptic’ scenarios when a president may activate wartime powers. The documents – known as presidential emergency action documents – were provided to the New York Times by the Brennan Center for Justice after it gathered the materials from the Bush presidential library under the Freedom of Information Act. Only 500 pages were disclosed to the Brennan Center for Justice – 6,000 classified pages were withheld. “The newly disclosed documents show that there were 48 of the directives when the Bush administration took office; by 2008, that...

When a new book came out, the great C. S. Lewis would first seek out an old one on the same subject. That’s good advice for embattled Americans. In fact, two old books address what is happening today with rare perception. Regent College Publishing has reissued The Green Stick and The Infernal Grove, the two volumes of Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge. Paul Johnson called it one of the great autobiographies of our time, which might be an understatement. Wisdom and wit leap off the pages, and there’s even a news hook: Russia has invaded Ukraine and that...

Biden tells everyone to get a gun.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In the wake of the mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, Congress is weighing a plan to give states incentives to adopt “red flag” laws like the one Florida enacted in 2018 that is aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous or mentally unstable individuals.

Trump can appeal the ruling to the state's Court of Appeals Former President Donald Trump will have to testify under oath as part of the New York Attorney General's Office's investigation of his business practices after a state appellate court ruled against him Thursday. The ruling by a panel of four judges upheld a decision by New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who said in February that Trump and two of his children had to comply with subpoenas calling for them to sit for depositions. Engoron had recently ordered that Trump was in contempt for failing to turn over...