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Lawyers for Donald Trump mediated with the FBI, Secret Service, and the Department of Justice and struck a deal that gagged the former president from disclosing the raid at Mar-a-Lago as it was underway, Radar has exclusively learned. In the hour after the FBI made the sensational unannounced search of the Florida property on Monday, the two feuding factions – the Trump team and law enforcement — agreed to keep the raid quiet over concerns that pro-Trump supporters would turn violent. It wasn’t until the vast majority of the agents who descended on Mar-a-Lago had left the scene that Trump...

Join RSBN's Christina Bobb and Brian Glenn with special guests Kari Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene as they breakdown the events that unfolded on Monday August 8th, 2022 where the FBI raided the 45th President Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Broadcast begins at 1PM ET.

Toxic masculinity has been under fire since third-wave feminism in the ‘90s, and for good reason – men have brought nothing but wickedness and dirty laundry into the world from the beginning. Want examples? Here are 9 horrible things brought to you by toxic masculinity: The wheel: It was just an excuse to frame women for running over curbs! Running water: Seems like a technological advance, but it's just another male ploy to keep women in the kitchen where they belong. Disgusting! Sports: NASCAR, WWE, MMA – the oppression runs so deep that even most women's sports are run by...

MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Gas Transport System Operator (GTSOU) has accepted a request from Gazprom for Tuesday to transport 42.1 million cubic meters of gas through the country, up from 41.8 mcm on Monday, data from GTSOU show. Capacity was requested only through one of two entry points into Ukraine's Gas Transport System, the Sudzha metering station. A request was not accepted through the Sokhranivka metering station. "Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.1 million cubic meters on...

Many in the US political sphere seem convinced that we are on the verge of an apocalyptic moment. On the left, outlets like Jacobin like to point out that income inequality is at the highest it’s been since 1917 — the implication, of course, being that 1917 was the year when the Bolsheviks overthrew Nicholas’s Russia and founded the Soviet Union1. On both the left and right, outlets like the Vice2 and The Federalist3 wonder if the highly polarized political environment will boil over into a second civil war. Both the left and right have their own narratives about what...

I live in Miami and a week or so ago I received a mail-in ballot for Precinct 771.0 with the following names. I intend to vote in person. Any information or suggestions would be appreciated: Congress District 27: Frank Polo REP 20 / Maria Elvira Salazr REP 21 Commissioner of Agriculture: James W Shaw REP 43 / Wilton Simpson REP 44 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 3: TeressaMaria Cervera 90 / Lody Jean 91 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 20: Brenda Guerrero 92 /Robert Watson 93 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 34: Mark Blustein 94 / Ariel...

Reports of the death of Myanmar's ambassador to China last Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming seemed all normal until reporters noted that he is the fourth ambassador to China to die within a year while in office. ... A statement by the Foreign Ministry in Myanmar announced the death of Ambassador U Myo Thant Pe without providing details on the cause of his death, despite media reports in China and Myanmar suggesting it was the result of a heart attack. Even though news of the ambassador's death did not cause major reactions in Myanmar, the country that...

Republican voter registration numbers in Wyoming have grown by a small margin as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) invited Democrats to change parties to vote in the open Republican primary on August 16, while Democrat voter registration numbers have shrunk. The numbers suggest a slight migration of Democrats to Cheney’s cause, but not nearly at the scale needed for her to overcome the margin by which she currently trails in the primary. According to the data, registered Republicans in Wyoming have increased by 11,495 from January to August this year. The number of registered Democrats, on the other hand, has shrunk...

Joe Scarborough was in all his predictable glory on today's Morning Joe over yesterday's FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Inevitably, Scarborough broke out his "fascist" shtick, using the term nine times in one exchange with Michael Steele in describing Trump and his followers. The exchange ended with Scarborough literally screaming at the camera:"You break the law, you go to jail . . . In America—even in the age of Trump! No! Man! Is above the law!"Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Republican Sen. Tim Scott said he was shocked but would not rush to judgment after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, a major escalation of the Justice Department's probe into potential mishandling of White House records."We need to let this play out and see exactly what happens. But we should have been stunned and surprised and shocked with what happened yesterday," the South Carolina senator said Tuesday on "CBS Mornings."

BREAKING: DC court appeals rules that the House Ways and Means Committee can obtain Trump’s tax returns from the IRS

The traveling ICU nurse who killed six people in a horror crash in Los Angeles on Thursday after plowing her Mercedes 90mph through a busy intersection has a 'profound' history of mental illness and has been involved in 13 prior crashes, but was still somehow subcontracted to work in a hospital and allowed to drive. Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, is in custody on six murder charges as a result of Thursday's crash. Among those she killed was pregnant Asherey Ryan, 23, her one-year-old son Alonzo and Reynold Lester, the father of Asherey's unborn baby, who also died. On Tuesday, Craig...

Russian oil has stopped flowing through a pipeline that feeds countries in Central and Eastern Europe, dealing another blow to a region contending with the loss of vital energy supplies from Russia. Transneft PJSC, the government-owned oil-pipeline operator, said Tuesday that crude exports through Ukrainian territory had halted on Aug. 4. It blamed payment difficulties caused by Western sanctions on Moscow and said Ukraine’s pipeline operator had declined to carry crude after it didn’t receive funds. A spokeswoman for Naftogaz NJSC, Ukraine’s state energy firm and the parent company of pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta, said it would issue a statement later...

Aug 9 (Reuters) - U.S. worker productivity in the second quarter fell at its steepest pace on an annual basis since 1948, the Labor Department said on Tuesday, while growth in unit labor costs accelerated, suggesting strong wage pressures will continue to help keep inflation elevated. Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, fell at 2.5% pace from a year ago. It also declined sharply in the second quarter at a 4.6% annualized rate, after having declined by an upwardly revised7.4% in the first three months of the year, the report showed.

Sandy Berger-2003 Fifty-eight year old Sandy Berger, the former National Security Adviser under the Clinton Administration, illegally took classified documents from the National Archives on more than one occasion. During his visits to the Archives, it was determined that Berger folded the documents in his clothes, walked out of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and placed them under a nearby construction trailer for retrieval later on. Two years later Berger was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and probation and fined $50,000. He also also had to pay $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation....

This is what the swamp fears the most.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised to investigate the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Attorney General Merrick Garland following the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago abode Monday.“I’ve seen enough,” McCarthy said in a statement. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned.” FBI agents executed a search warrant early Monday over allegations that Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago after he left office in January 2021, according to multiple sources. Trump...

Back in the days of Ancient Rome, around 80,000 people would gather to watch some poor bugger fight for his life against his opponent – normally another man or an animal that was fighting for his or its life as well. The crowd laughed, cheered and barracked for their favourite with little regard to who or what was fighting the battle. All they wanted was blood. And a lot of it. The Coliseum was the home of incredible violence and theatrical drama to entertain and delight the bored masses who lived in luxury, decadence and privilege. On the 8th of...

An official said the blast on the Russian-occupied peninsula was the result of a Ukrainian strike. Moscow said only that munitions had exploded. An attack in Crimea would represent a significant military advance for Ukraine.

An acquaintance recorded an event on a dvd with Macintosh equipment. The dvd plays fine on his mac computer. He gave me a copy but the dvd will not play on my PC (Windows 10) computer. All I'm getting is, "files ready to be written to the disc (1)" and underneath that is the line: "desktop 8-7-22 5.0 configrua 1kb" I click on the second line, "desktop, etc", and get an image of a notepad with a downward arrow then, "[.ShellClassInfo] localized resource name system root, etc. .dll" Will a dvd recorded on mac equipment not play on a PC?...