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Karl Rove, who served as a senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, said on Friday that former President Trump did not have the authority to take presidential documents with him to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he ended his term. “Why he was holding on to these materials when he had no legal authority to do so under the Presidential Records Act is beyond me,” Rove, a Fox News contributor, said during an appearance on the network. Rove’s appearance came shortly after a federal magistrate judge approved the release of a redacted affidavit used to convince him to approve...

The IRS official chosen to lead the new "centralized office" featuring the nearly 87,000 new employees funded in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was involved in the agency's targeting of conservative groups that opposed Barack Obama's reelection in 2012. Nikole Flax served as the chief of staff for then acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller, who was fired amid a cover-up of the scandal. When Republican lawmakers sought communications related to the scandal in an investigation, Flax's emails were among those the agency claimed were lost in a computer hard-drive crash. The IRS, the lawmakers charged, was attempting to "cover up...

Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine. But it’s the worst in the Northeast. Diesel fuel and heating oil, which comprise the distillate category, are 63% below the five-year average in New England and 58% below the same average from Maryland to New York, according to a survey by the Department of Energy. Gasoline inventories are not as...

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is working to dismantle Virginia's push toward electric vehicles, calling the move "ridiculous" in a Sunday statement. Virginia's former governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, signed legislation in 2021 tying the state's emissions policies to the California Air Resources Board. The board has imposed a regimen to eliminate the sale of gas and diesel vehicles by 2035, forcing Virginia to do the same thanks to the 2021 law. "In an effort to turn Virginia into California, liberal politicians who previously ran our government sold Virginia out by subjecting Virginia drivers to California vehicle laws," Youngkin wrote in...

A podcasting convention in America has issued a “grovelling apology” for allowing Ben Shapiro into its venue, Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says. “Shapiro is a conservative and in the age of safe spaces that means his mere presence supposedly causes people physical harm,” he said. Mr Houghton said the podcaster responded to the backlash in good spirits and released a video of himself meeting and greeting fans.

A former NBA coach has been ridiculed for comparing President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness to Jesus' miracle of feeding the multitudes. Stan Van Gundy - formerly head coach of the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat, and the Detroit pistons - tweeted a meme intended to mock Republican mentalities but instead landed his own political logic in a hotbed of ridicule. The meme showed a painting of Jesus' miracle of bread a fish - a bible story where Jesus feeds thousands by miraculously multiplying a supply of bread and fish - with a caption reading 'Jesus's miracle of the loaves...

Retiring Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois suggested Sunday that his party is facing an uphill battle to win control of Congress in November - despite months of a projected 'red wave' in the 2022 midterm cycle. The military veteran and lawmaker told NBC News' Meet The Press that it would be a combination of 'cruel' anti-abortion stances along with the fringe appeal of candidates endorsed by Donald Trump that could spell the GOP's downfall. He himself did not rule out supporting a Democratic candidate in future elections - if their GOP opponent promoted false 2020 election fraud theories.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended former President Trump in the wake of an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property but noted Trump “should have turned over all” of the classified documents authorities said he kept after he left the White House. “I understand he turned over a lot of documents. He should have turned over all of them. I imagine he knows that very well now as well,” Blunt said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

"Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. "Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." "So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." John, Chapter 13 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being...

My son is a manager at SAMS in Buford, GA and he just made an announcement that the EBT System is currently down across the US.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), who played a pivotal role in revealing the Hunter Biden laptop to the public, predicted that the forthcoming movie My Son Hunter will be “censored as much as possible” by the mainstream media and political figures. Speaking with My Son Hunter director Robert Davi (Licensed to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies) on his podcast “Common Sense,” Guiliani said My Son Hunter, “Which looks to be a very high-quality production from a very high-quality director and actor, is going to be censored as much as possible by those who believe that they run the...

A Sol is a Mars-Day.PERSEVERANCEToday's Sol count:SOLS ON MARS541: XX: XX: XXSOLHRSMINSSECSSol 541,running from approx. 1825 PDT 8/27/2022 to 1905 PDT 8/28/2022(Star Number)Rosh Chodesh Elul"I Am My Beloved's"Our rabbis1 note that the name "Elul" is an acronym for the biblical phrase2 ani ledodi vedodi li-- "I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine." In other words, the intense love between G-d and the Jewish people comes to the surface during Elul.The King in the Field***Love. It is the most powerful of human emotions. We all crave it. We cannot live without it. And yet it is so overwhelming, so...

When a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, killing 29-year-old Darya Dugina, the eyes of the West immediately turned to her father, Alexander Dugin -- the ultra-nationalist philosopher credited with being the "spiritual guide" to Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. But Dugina herself played a smaller, public role in advancing Russian soft power -- assailing the West in TV appearances at home, while operating a disguised English-language online platform that pushed a pro-Kremlin worldview to Western readers. In recent years, she had sought to build influence publicly, often with an international audience in mind. And she...

One of Richelle Brooks' dreams is to send her two children to college without taking out any loans. She knows firsthand how taking out a loan to pursue higher education can amount to crippling debt. "My daughter wants to be an anesthesiologist. My son wants to be a computer engineer. Two little Black kids want this for their future," Brooks, 35, told Insider. "And this country is telling me it's impossible for me to get them there. It's a terrible, hopeless feeling." Brooks borrowed $203,000 collectively to attend undergrad, graduate, and doctoral studies. And over the years, has accumulated over...

The radar of a Greek S-300 missile system based on the island of Crete locked on to the Turkish jets on Tuesday, Anadolu reported on Sunday, citing defence ministry sources. The F-16s were at an altitude of 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) to the west of Greece’s Rhodes island when the Russian-made S-300’s target-tracking radar locked on, the report added. The Turkish planes completed their mission and returned to their bases “despite the hostile environment”. Radar lock-ons are considered an act of hostility under NATO rules of engagement. Greek defence ministry sources dismissed the allegations. Last week, Turkey summoned the Greek...

Facing Circuit Judge Peter Brigham, 25-year-old Kenvonte Lamar Daniel was asked why he should remain a free man? Daniel told the judge he has learned his lesson, has a family, is employed, wasn't trying to hurt anyone and his troubles have opened his eyes that he has to do better. "I'm trying to better myself. I want to be with my family," Daniel said. In 2019, Daniel and Darryn Lake were charged with robbing a man by law enforcement officials. Lake went to trial and was found guilty by a jury of robbery with a firearm and burglary of a...

St. Paul man Shawn Michael Tillman is accused of murdering a nemesis in cold blood on a light rail platform earlier this year. According to Crime Watch Minneapolis, he was bailed out just three weeks before the murder by Minnesota Freedom Fund, a controversial group with a history of helping violent offenders make bail. Court documents published by Crime Watch show Minnesota Freedom Fund paid Tillman’s bail April 29 on an indecent exposure case. A few weeks later, on May 20, he pumped six rounds into a man on a light rail platform near Fifth and Minnesota streets because he...

A man was filmed happily eating a shish kebab in front of animal rights activists as they protested outside several New York City stores. The man, who has not yet been identified, was filmed eating his shish kebab in front of the Nike store in New York City on Saturday, where animal rights groups were protesting the company's use of animal products. He came off the street and started eating his meal in front of the activists, according to @ViralNewsNYC, at which point a woman confronts him and tells him: 'You're disgusting. Who do you think you are?

The father of a Marine killed in last year’s terrorist bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, slammed President Joe Biden for spending the one-year anniversary of the attack filming a playful segment with comedian Jay Leno. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Kabul airport attack that left 13 U.S. servicemembers dead during President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that also left hundreds of Americans stranded in the country, which was swiftly taken over by the Taliban following America’s departure.