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President Trump’s team has revealed a highly suspicious comment made by an FBI agent during a meeting at Mar-A-Lago two months before the raid that may very well prove Trump was being set up for a raid. The unprecedented raid on the Florida home of former President Trump continues to bring factors to light concerning all the players including the FBI. This week has already seen matters unfold, starting on Monday with a ruling concerning the warrant used by the FBI to conduct the search. Early on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart, the judge who approved the FBI’s search warrant,...

First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday in a "rebound" case, her office said. Jill Biden, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, was prescribed the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, which President Biden also took after testing positive last month. Like his wife, the president also suffered a rebound COVID-19 case.

Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist lashed out Wednesday at supporters of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying they have “hate” in their hearts. Crist, who currently represents the state’s 13th Congressional District, defeated Democratic challenger Nikki Fried in the state’s primary race Tuesday, and will face DeSantis in November. Crist previously served as the Republican governor of Florida between 2007-2011 before switching to an Independent and later a Democrat. Crist said Wednesday he wanted the votes of “good Republicans” rather than those that support the incumbent. “Those who support [DeSantis] should stay with him and vote for him and I...

Democratic Pennsylvanian Senate candidate John Fetterman still can’t get it together cognitively, so there will be no debates with Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz. Fetterman having a mental flameout on a debate stage was probably the best way for Oz to turn his floundering campaign around. Still, Democrats also know their guy isn’t at 100 percent, so we have this phony war between the two camps and their egregiously flawed candidates. Oz got into a bid about crudité while Fetterman remains incapable of speaking in complete sentences. His appearance in Erie, Pennsylvania, was marked by a severe mental disconnect, one...

California is set to roll out its long-awaited ban on new gasoline cars on Thursday, which is part of its rule to have all new cars sold by 2035 to be electric only in an effort to fight climate change. Governor Gavin Newsom first announced the ban in 2020 as a means to reduce the amount of smog-induced pollution in the air, which will improve the state's air quality that is the worst in the US. The move will also make California the first in the world to mandate zero-emission vehicles on its roads. Thursday's launch will require that 35...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky admitted that "we are responsible for some pretty dramatic public mistakes in our handling of the covid pandemic. Among these mistakes were (1) an inadequate cover-up of the fraudulent testing of the covid vaccines, (2) too much transparency in covid death data, (3) failure to conceal data proving that the vaccines, the masks, and lockdowns were unsafe and ineffective, and (4) hit-and-miss censorship of dissenting views from doctors and scientists." "We need to do better," she said. "That is why I am ordering a reorganization of the agency. First and...

FEAST OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, APOSTLE JOHN 1:45–51 Friends, in a conversation with Jesus in today’s Gospel,Nathaniel (usually identified with the Apostle Bartholomew) makes the earliest New Testament profession of faith in Christ’s divinity: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God.” Faith is the virtue upon which Christianity rests and is the capacity to see beyond the senses to a deeper or higher reality. There is an anticipation of faith in Plato’s parable of the cave, in which a man escapes from a cavern where he had been forced to see only flickering shadows on the wall. When he emerges from...

Food pantries across the U.S. say they're struggling to meet demand as the rising cost of groceries is forcing more Americans to opt for donated meals. A recent survey from Feeding America, a nonprofit network of 200 food banks, found that 155 food pantries reported a jump in families coming to their door. "People coming through and they're not just getting for their family, but they might have a sister or a brother they're getting a little bit extra for," Tehma Smith Wilson, who runs a food pantry in Baltimore, told CBS News. The increase in people seeking help from...

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DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it calculates the number of fake accounts on its platform. The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021. The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts. The number of fake accounts “represent the average false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during a quarter,” the letter said. It added that fewer...

Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt released his first general election advertisement Monday, focused on how his upbringing impacted his life. The ad, titled “Good Man,” features former Nevada Attorney General Laxalt and his wife Jaime, and will run on cable and broadcast across the Silver State. “I was raised by a single mom with no college education. And as a kid, I didn’t know who my father was,” Laxalt said, later adding that his mother taught him “to face challenges head on and to work hard.” “Adam’s early life wasn’t easy,” Jaime Laxalt added. “Adam dedicated his life...

The Trump administration pressured the Food and Drug Administration, including former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, to authorize unproven treatments for Covid-19 and the first Covid-19 vaccines on an accelerated timeline, according to a report released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that former President Donald Trump committed a “form of grand theft” by having government documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, FL. Anchor Poppy Harlow said, “This newly released letter from the National Archives from back in May illustrates this month’s long back and forth with the Trump team and them about these documents, and it also shows the delays from former President Trump’s team on returning them. ”

Membership in ERIC will strengthen NJ voter file accuracy TRENTON, NJ New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way announced that she and the New Jersey Division of Elections have taken steps to ensure the integrity of the state voter files by joining the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is a nonpartisan non-profit organization with the sole mission of assisting states in increasing access to voter registration for all eligible citizens and improving the accuracy of America’s voting rolls. ERIC is governed and managed by its member states. Participation in ERIC as a member state will help New Jersey election...

The idea of munching on mealworms may sound like a challenge from the latest series of 'I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here.' But it could soon become a reality, as scientists claim to have transformed the insects into a 'meat-like flavouring'. Researchers from Wonkwang University have cooked up mealworms with sugar, and claim they taste just like real meat.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested on Wednesday that people who believe President Joe Biden can forgive student debt on his own are misinformed. “The president can’t do it,” Pelosi said, at a press briefing. “That’s not even a discussion.” Pelosi said any student debt forgiveness would have to be carried out by Congress. ... Biden has asked the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education to review his legal authority to forgive student debt. Decisions from those agencies are not yet public. “They are likely to reach the same conclusion as the one reached by Speaker Pelosi,”...

Scottish mountain biker Rab Wardell has died in his sleep just two days after taking victory at the national championships. Wardell, 37, won the men’s elite race at the Scottish MTB XC Championships at Kirroughtree Forest in Dumfries and Galloway at the weekend.

WASHINGTON — California on Thursday is expected to put into effect its sweeping plan to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could have major effects on the effort to fight climate change and accelerate a global transition toward electric vehicles. “This is huge,” said Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency’s transportation emissions program under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “California will now be the only government in the world that mandates zero-emission vehicles. It is unique.” The rule, issued by the California Air...

All throughout last week, some five or six Coptic churches in Egypt have “caught fire”— ... the Church of Abu Seifein (named after Saint Mercurius of Caesarea, who is revered by the Copts). At least 41 Christians — 18 of whom were children — were either burned alive, killed by asphyxiation, or ... Considering that Muslims have torched or bombed hundreds of Coptic churches over the decades in Egypt — and often when churches are packed — it is, of course, difficult to resist that explanation. Moreover, this last week was the “anniversary” of when Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers torched 62...

Theres something beautiful about a billboard with a message thats a sarcastic jab at liberal insanity. I think I like this one the most: "Protect Pregnant Men from Climate Discrimination"