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Seeking to advertise the economic value of political fealty to Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party rewarded Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday. In an editorial, Beijing’s state media Global Times newspaper congratulated Hungary over a major new construction project. It proclaimed that "China’s biggest electric vehicle battery maker," Contemporary Amperex Technology, is to build a $7.5 billion battery plant in Hungary. In return for his political support for China in European Union and NATO policy meetings, and his silence over Chinese human rights and militarism, Orban has earned China’s economic patronage. The Global Times is not terribly subtle about...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday rebuffed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida, saying the investigation “implicates highly classified material” and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses. The government’s opposition came in response to court filings by several news organizations, including The Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the warrant to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. The court filing — from Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, and Jay Bratt, a...

Two of the most high-profile Republicans who have stood up to former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud are facing the voters on Aug. 16. And while one of them will almost certainly survive, the other is probably going to lose. Out of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot, only one is also running for reelection this year: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. And she’s virtually guaranteed to make it to the November ballot — but not necessarily because Alaskans agree with her criticism of “Stop the Steal.”...

Ray Epps, an Arizona man who has been the focus of conspiracy theories that federal agents plotted the Jan. 6 riot, reportedly told the FBI that he expected a bomb to go off near the U.S. Capitol during the preceding "Stop the Steal" rally. Epps acknowledged during two FBI interviews last year, which were reviewed by The Epoch Times, that he trespassed on restricted Capitol grounds and urged other protesters to enter the building The FBI has never arrested Epps, despite the confessions, nor has the Justice Department charge him with any Jan. 6-related crimes.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling $10 million worth of fall advertising reservations in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — three states at the center of the GOP’s push to regain control of Congress. The New York Times, which reported the news on Monday, notes Republicans have been struggling to raise money as of late, as well as that the decision to pull ads for some of its top candidates could be tied to the party’s financial troubles. The NRSC has cut the most money, $5 million, in Pennsylvania, where quack TV doctor Mehmet Oz is taking on Lt. Governor...

CNN anchor Jim Acosta grilled Andrew Yang, former Democratic presidential candidate, about the platform of his newly formed political party, the Forward Party. Last month, in collaboration with the former Republican congressman from Florida David Jolly and former Republican Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman, Yang announced the formation of the Forward Party in an op-ed published in the Washington Post.

Trump is going to cost us the senate again. https://t.co/dAkvxbueNZ— Marc Thiessen 🆓🇺🇦 (@marcthiessen) August 15, 2022Really? And was has McConnell done? He blamed the Tea Party in 2010. What is McConnell’s message, around which GOP Senate candidates are encouraged to campaign? There is none. He does control the NRSC, doesn’t he? https://t.co/kpiOPrFvmZ— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 15, 2022

Epps admitted to trespassing, directing protesters to go into the Capitol. ‘I wish I could take that back,’ he told agents. By Joseph M. Hanneman When James Ray Epps Sr. first called the FBI regarding his January 2021 activities in Washington D.C., he didn’t mention how he implored protesters in several locations to go inside the Capitol, but he later told an agent that he expected a bomb would detonate on a side street near the Capitol. Those are just two of the revelations in a collection of Epps-related material obtained by The Epoch Times, including FBI interview summaries, FBI...

..... The most recent round of talks concluded last week, as the parties closed a final text and key negotiators prepared to consult with their capitals. Those talks took place following a proposal submitted on July 26 by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. The US described the tabled draft as “the best and only basis on which to reach a deal.” On Friday, an Iranian official indicated that the Islamic Republic may accept the final compromise worked out in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear agreement. "The European Union's proposals are acceptable provided that they provide assurances to Iran...

Key members of President Biden’s cabinet are going on tour in a bid to promote the $737 billion energy, climate and health care legislation passed by Congress last week. As part of the “Building a Better America Tour,” Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will travel across the country to tout the inappropriately named Inflation Reduction Act, according to an internal memo obtained by Politico.

The House Speaker’s current drive to combat Chinese government aggression abroad may be complicated by Nancy’s son’s connections to a Chinese company. Nancy Pelosi’s son is the second largest investor in Chinese tech company whose senior executive was arrested in a fraud investigation.Paul Pelosi Jr, 53, worked for the telecom firm Borqs Technologies in a board or consulting capacity in addition to investing, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.As compensation for his services, he received 700,000 shares, leaving him the fifth-largest shareholder in the business. He surpassed one of the company’s two co-founders in stock ownership when other insiders...

If you think Antifa are not operating in large numbers in Texas, you are sadly incorrect. I’m a 22-year-old from Denton, Texas and an unapologetic conservative activist. I spent much of my time at the University of North Texas, from which I just graduated, leading its main conservative student group, the Young Conservatives of Texas. And for that, Antifa and the far-left here have sought to intimidate me into silence by doxxing me and my family, and threatening me with violence and even death. My first experience with far-left extremists from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was during my senior year...

The Attorney General and FBI Director were called to the White House today to consult with President Biden. Specifically, President Biden requested that the DOJ and FBI raid Trump's Mar-A-Lago home again and also raid the residences of Gov. De Santis and Gov. Kristi Noem. Biden stated that his wife, Dr. Jill, was really impressed with the dresses and accessories seized by Garland and Wray and desired to flesh out her Fall and Winter wardrobe with more ot those items. Dr. Jill identified the DeSantis and Noem residences as excellent additional sources. Garland stated that it was possible to get...

Explanation: The North America nebula on the sky can do what the North America continent on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall. The featured image shows the star forming wall lit and eroded by bright young stars, and partly hidden by the dark dust they have created. The part of the North America nebula (NGC 7000) shown spans about 15 light years and lies about 1,500 light...

The pandemic housing boom is over. Welcome to the housing recession. That was the message from the National Association of Home Builders on Monday. The NAHB/Wells Fargo housing market index unexpectedly dropped six points to a reading of 49, below the breakeven point indicating a deteriorating market. This is the eighth straight monthly decline for the index of homebuilder sentiment. Apart from a brief period at the start of the pandemic, this is the first below 50 reading since 2014.

Former President Donald Trump said Monday that FBI agents “stole” his passports last week when they raided his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla — his latest explosive allegation against federal law enforcement. “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!” the 45th president added. FBI agents searched Trump’s residence within his ritzy Mar-a-Lago club Aug. 8 in connection to...

DOJ *opposes* the release of the underlying FBI affidavit because "it would serve as a roadmap to the government’songoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps."— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 15, 2022I thought Merrick Garland said they wanted to be transparent? Guess that was only until they lost control of the narrative?!? https://t.co/p0PmcWRScf— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 15, 2022

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment Monday of Simon Stiell from the Caribbean island nation of Grenada as the new U.N. climate chief, calling him, “a true champion” of creative approaches to tackling the global climate crisis. Stiell, who originally trained in the United Kingdom as an engineer and earned an MBA there, was a senior member in Grenada’s government from 2013 until June 2022, serving as minister for climate resilience and the environment for five years. Prior to joining the government, he spent 14 years in the technology sector, holding senior executive positions in industry...

For carrying a “large wooden stick” on January 6 -- and for things the ex-officer said and believed.. Former police officer Thomas Robertson, who according to CBS News, “stormed the U.S. Capitol” on January 6, 2021, will spend more than seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Robertson, 49, was charged with interfering with police officers and “entering a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.” The seven-year sentence, handed down last Thursday, matches the longest prison term among the Jan. 6 cases to date. Its severity was not entirely the result of...

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