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A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her husband was jailed for corruption. The couple have been the focus of multiple graft investigations since Najib's surprise election defeat in 2018, when voters' anger over a separate, multi-billion dollar corruption scandal ended his nine years in power. Advertisement · Scroll to continue A flamboyant figure by Najib's side, Rosmah was widely scorned in Malaysia for her extravagant lifestyle and penchant for Hermes Birkin bags,...

The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus. The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day. "They were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something," the lawyer, Michael Rose, told the newspaper. The cadets’ names have not been released. Rose...

China has been simulating attacks on US Navy ships and is aiming to prevent foreign forces from coming to Taiwan's aid in the event of a war, Taiwan's defence ministry said in a strongly worded report raising the alarm on Beijing's military designs. Tensions between Taiwan and China have soared following a visit to Taipei last month by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which infuriated Beijing, which viewed it as an interference in its affairs. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own despite the strong objections of the Taipei government, carried out war games after Pelosi's trip and is...

Tight control of blood sugar in teens with Type 1 diabetes may help reduce the disease's damaging effects on the brain, effects which have been shown even in younger children, according to a study. The findings indicate that better glucose control can actually improve brain structure and function in youth with Type 1 diabetes, bringing them closer to their peers without diabetes, investigators said. "These results offer hope that harm to the developing brain from Type 1 diabetes might be reversible with rigorous glucose control," said the paper's senior author, and co-principal investigator, pediatric endocrinologist Nelly Mauras, MD. "Use of...

She’s asking the Supreme Court to consider whether this seizure is an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment.The IRS wants to seize more than $2 million from an elderly woman, whose family fled from Nazi Germany, for failing to report her father's endowment to her. Now, she's petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether this is an unconstitutionally excessive fine. The Institute for Justice, representing Monica Toth, an 82-year-old grandmother living in the Boston area, filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Friday asking them to determine whether federal "civil penalties" imposed by the federal government for violating regulations...

State attorney generals obtained emails that show the Biden administration arranged weekly and monthly calls with Facebook to discuss content to censor. The documents show a specific conversation in which a Biden official asks a Meta executive to take down an Instagram account that mocked Dr. Fauci, the partisan bureaucrat who lied about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. In essence, the Biden admin sees comedy as a thoughtcrime. Consider this more proof that Facebook has acted as a government agent on behalf of the White House.

Project Veritas released a second video in its newly launched Education Series today exposing a senior administrator at a prestigious New York City private school. Jennifer Norris, who is employed by Trinity School NYC as its Director of Student Activities, was recorded admitting how her current leadership role facilitates her goal of promoting politics in the classroom. Here are some of the highlights from today’s video: Jennifer Norris, Director of Student Activities, Trinity School NYC: “I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can. And now that I'm in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” Norris:...

[Catholic Caucus] September's Poop Video - A Travesty Against God's JusticeH/T Canon 212In September's Poop Video, Francis calls upon all Catholics to "pray for abolition of the death penalty". Here it is now. Below that I will explain why I believe this is supremely wrong and spiritually poisonous.So much error. So little time. But I'll do my level best to unpack this crap.I've written much about Francis' dalliance with heresy in calling for the abolition of the death penalty. I need not rehash those writings in this post. If the reader would like to dismiss my writings as simply the...

While Fetterman is able to engage one-on-one - and has resumed campaign travel - he has more difficulty chaotic auditory environments, according to The WashingtonPost. 'We are working to figure out what a fair debate would look like with the lingering impacts of the auditory processing in mind,' Fetterman campaign strategist Rebecca Katz the paper. 'To be absolutely clear, the occasional issues he is having with auditory processing have no bearing on his ability to do the job as senator. 'John is healthy and fully capable of showing up and doing the work,' Katz added. On Tuesday, Fetterman said he...

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The radical LGBT organization Equality Florida endorsed Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) for governor in Florida’s gubernatorial race — a welcomed endorsement for Crist, who claimed that the “LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis.” “I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake, our LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis,” the Democrat claimed. “The people deserve a champion back in Tallahassee. Someone who will listen, respect, and fight for them. I vow to be that governor,” he said: I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake,...

Republicans lead Democrats by six points on the generic congressional ballot, according to the latest Trafalgar Group poll released Wednesday. The poll found that of the 1,084 likely general election voters surveyed, 47.2 percent said they would vote for the generic Republican candidate. In contrast, only 41.4 percent of the respondents said they would vote for the generic Democrat.

Rep. Eric Swalwell blasted former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after a man called the California Democrat's office and threatened to kill him with an assault weapon. A staffer of mine - who's 1 month into her job - received a call from a man saying he’s coming to our office w/ an assault rifle to kill me,' Swalwell tweeted Tuesday. 'I hesitate to share this but how else do I tell you we are in violent times, & the architects are Trump & McCarthy. Bloodshed is coming.' In a follow-up tweet, he copy and pasted...

A federal judge on Thursday handed down the longest sentence to date in a prosecution stemming from the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering former New York City cop Thomas Webster to spend 10 years years behind bars for assaulting a police officer during the insurrection. Judge Amit Mehta issued the sentence four months after a jury in Washington, DC, readily rejected Webster's claims that he acted in self-defense on January 6. During the weeklong trial, prosecutors played bodycam footage and other video that showed Webster confronting a police officer along bike racks outside the Capitol and then repeatedly...

What seemed impossible to the rest of the world — the fall of the Soviet Union — only took six years under his leadership, a reminder of how temporary political systems can be. SNIP The relevance of all of this to the U.S. is that over the last seven years, we have seen more political instability, threats of violence, talk of Civil War, political polarization and efforts to undermine key democratic institutions than at any other time in modern American history. While the comparison between the U.S. today and the USSR in the early 1980s should not be overstated, it...

Diane Swonk, the chief economist at KPMG, told Bloomberg that in her mind, these comments signal that the Fed has given up on its hopes for a “soft landing,” and now recognizes a “growth recession” is necessary to reduce inflation meaning the Fed will need to slow economic growth to well below its potential. “It’s a bit like dripping water torture,” she said. “It is a torturous process but less torturous and less painful than an abrupt recession.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will sound an alarm Thursday night about what he views as “extremist” threats to American democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism, aiming to reframe the November elections as part of an unceasing battle for the “soul of the nation.” Nearly two years after he defeated Donald Trump, it’s a reprise of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm election stakes in as dire terms as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia will lay out what he sees as the risks from those he...

The 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race is not an ideal situation. We have Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has been plagued with a slew of internal issues facing Democratic candidate John Fetterman, the current lieutenant governor, who is recovering from a recent stroke. Just to vent here a little. Yes, I’ve called this race a dumpster fire due to the appalling lack of depth regarding Republican candidates for statewide office. For all his faults, Pat Toomey is the only candidate as of late where concern about electability wasn’t front-and-center. He appealed to enough suburban voters in the Philly collar counties to...

Last month, Freeper ‘Mylife’ posted a recipe for a version of Mexican Street Corn, made as a ‘bowl’ or salad. When I went to try this, our stores didn’t yet have good fresh corn; so it’s still on my list. I’ve seen some recipes that suggest using frozen corn or canned corn, but I don’t suggest you do this – I don’t think it will really ‘char’ properly or taste right. Make this with fresh corn, carved off of the cob. For the cheese, as the recipe suggests, you can use Feta if your store doesn’t have Cotija, but a...

Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday. Currently, the United States government uses a price of $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted, but the researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the price should be $185 per ton — 3.6 times higher than the current U.S. standard. “Our results suggest that we are vastly underestimating the harm from each additional ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Kevin Rennert, a study author. Rennert and colleagues...