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A new spin on old news, in May Kash Patel already explained the "classified" documents: Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that a report claiming classified materials were found at Mar-a-Lago is misleading and that the documents were actually already declassified by then-President Donald Trump, but the classification markings had not been updated. “Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Patel told Breitbart News in a phone interview... “This story is just another disinformation campaign designed...

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The Kyoto Prefecture Research Center for Archaeological Properties has announced the discovery of a strip of wood from the eighth century with 35 individual multiplications written on it.The wood strip, unearthed at the Tsuruo archeological site in the city of Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, is 219 millimeters long, 49 millimeters wide and 6 millimeters thick.As the site had a public office at the time, the research center believes that civil servants who worked there used the strip of wood to speed up tax collection work.The front of the strip shows the eight and nine times tables written in ink,...

Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, called on President Joe Biden to “answer for his agencies” after the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “The American people must always trust their government. The DOJ and FBI don’t have the luxury of saying ‘no comment.’ If they won’t comment, then Biden owes it to the American people to answer for his agencies. If Biden doesn’t act, then Congress needs to handle this,” she tweeted. Her support for Trump is significant as she is viewed as a potential 2024 presidential contender. It is also significant as a growing...

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order in effect since December that it be reinstated. The timing had been in doubt since the Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that the Biden administration could end the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Homeland Security officials had been largely silent, saying they had to wait for the court to certify the ruling and for a Trump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, to then lift his injunction. The...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump were spotted outside his Mar-a-Lago home Friday to back the ex-Commander in Chief after it was announced it had been raided by the FBI. Trump confirmed the raid - reportedly as part of an investigation into whether the former president took classified documents with him when he left the White House - on Monday evening. Some came in their cars and were camped out in the beds of their trunks, almost entirely in a show of support for the twice-impeached Trump. Many held pro-Trump signs, including ones for a presumptive 2024 campaign and even...

Ticket sales for the Artemis 1 launch, which is targeted for Aug. 29, were so popular after opening Tuesday (Aug. 2) that the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's website was briefly overwhelmed, Florida Today reported(opens in new tab) late last week. A "quick fix" to the website, however, allowed the complex to sell out two of the three package deals within 2.5 hours of opening ticket sales, the report added. The news comes amid expectations that more than 100,000 people will show up on the Space Coast of Florida, which includes the Kennedy Space Center and the nearby Cape Canaveral...

An 80-year-old woman has been banned from a YMCA pool after she demanded a transgender employee leave the women's locker room. Julie Jaman was at the Mountain View pool in the City of Port Townsend when she was made aware of the trans worker, identified as Clementine Adams, being in the changing room while she was taking a shower and 'heard a man's voice'. 'I saw a man in a woman's bathing suit watching maybe four or five little girls pulling down their suits in order to use the toilet,' Jaman told KIRO. 'I asked if he had a penis...

<p>While much of the Beatles‘ early work had been comprised of love songs, and towards the end of the 1960s, the changing political state of the world had influenced the Fab Four – and particularly the most revolutionary amongst them, John Lennon – to avert their attention to the global events that were affecting the collective consciousness of society at the time.</p>

Two House Democrats are urging Wyoming Democrats to switch parties in the state’s upcoming primary to boost the chances of Rep. Liz Cheney (R), one of former President Trump’s primary targets this cycle. “You might be a little surprised that I’d be supporting Liz Cheney in her bid to continue representing Wyoming in the U.S. House, but principle must always come before politics, and nobody has shown more honor, integrity and courage than she,” said Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) in a new ad. “Liz Cheney and I don’t agree on everything,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) in his ad. “But...

Mayor Eric Adams is planning to house up to 600 migrant households in a large midtown Manhattan facility by next week. Adams launched plans to open the facility as Texas Governor Greg Abbott began sending busloads of immigrants from Mexico and South America to New York City. The mayor has requested NYC's non-profit shelter operators to submit operating plans for the facility by Wednesday, noting it must be capable of housing 600 families and be operational by next Monday. Meantime, Adams slammed Abbott for using 'innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis' and said applauded the Big Apple...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump are gathering outside of Mar-a-Lago after the former president announced that his home was raided by the FBI on Monday. Footage of the crowds arriving has been circulating on social media, showing supporters waving flags and honking horns in support of the 45th president.

In a new type of scam that's been doing the rounds in Germany since February, people have been contacted by fraudsters posing as national or as international police agencies. Last week, Germany’s telecommunications regulator, the Federal Network Agency, said it had received 7,600 complaints about a so-called ‘Europol ploy’ in the month of June alone. The scam starts with a phone call which, when answered, plays an automated message saying that the police are waiting on the line. Users are then asked to press 1 to continue and those who follow the request are connected to a fraudster claiming to...

The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act over the weekend after hours of debate that stretched from Saturday night into Sunday morning, featuring amendments that shifted huge sums of money to benefit some at the expense of others. The measure will seek to reduce the country’s deficit by $300 billion over the next 10 years; among its provisions, it will expand health insurance subsidies, increase funding for the Internal Revenue Service, and offer financial incentives to companies that prioritize renewable energy. Democrats didn’t get all they wanted in the bill after they made some compromises to get centrist Sens. Joe...

No one in Gaza with direct knowledge of the explosions in question was willing to speak about them publicly. But live TV footage showed militant rockets falling short in densely packed residential neighborhoods. And AP visits to the sites of two explosions that killed a total of 12 people lent support to suspicions they were caused by rockets that went off course.

1/x The FBI raiding Donald Trump is unprecedented. It is corrupt & an abuse of power.What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies.And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 9, 20222/x Congress must demand answers. We need hearings; we need subpoenas.Dems in charge will refuse, but the American people deserve to know why Biden is using the FBI as his political enforcers.Tin-pot dictators do that, but that’s not how America works.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 9, 20223/x...

The secrets of what happened at Jeffrey Epstein’s homes between her “nubiles” and many powerful men will sit with the jailed socialite in a Tallahassee prison. Will she ever squeal?As Ghislaine Maxwell’s years-long plummet from grace concludes with her settling into a prison cell at the minimum security Federal Correctional Institution in subtropical Tallahassee, the enduring mystery around her dealings with Jeffrey Epstein—the who, what, and why—will remain, for the time being. Still, so much remains unanswered in the Epstein-Maxwell saga: What was the point of the industrial-scale grooming operation the socialite and the late supposed billionaire financier operated together?...

Any parent would be horrified to see their child have a seizure. For one family in League City, their baby hardly ever stopped having them. It turns out, the reason didn’t require harsh medications and treatments - but a vitamin. Learn the details on this shocking deficiency that’s been exposed, thanks to a local doctor. When Violet Raney was an infant something terrible happened. She started having seizures, one right after another, all day long. Medications didn’t work until she was so drugged and could barely move. “They’re not the best, they’re not the kindest, they can affect your liver,”...

Following the raid tonight former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik tweeted out about their next move. The Democrats and their hatchetmen have done everything they can to stop this man. Assassination is next. God save Donald Trump! Bernard Kerik also went on Newsmax tonight and echoed this dire warning. Via Mediaite:

Kobe Bryant potentially built his $600 million fortune with ADHD, as autopsy report revealed narcolepsy drug Kobe Bryant played a long and successful career in the NBA, but as per his autopsy report, he may have been battling ADHD. Kobe’s legacy was built up by everything he achieved in his career, his five rings, Finals MVPs, scoring titles, and more, but a major part of his also the fact that he spent his entire career with the Lakers. In an era defined by player autonomy and the right to take your brand anywhere, Kobe chose to stay put. He stayed...