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The Department of Justice manipulated evidence in the sex trafficking trial of convicted cult leader Keith Raniere, a group of FBI experts backed by famed attorney Alan Dershowitz claimed Thursday.Raniere was convicted in 2019, but now the group of six veteran FBI forensic experts claims the government framed him. They held a virtual press conference on Thursday, joined by Dershowitz, who is representing Raniere, former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins, and several others.“If true, this is a historic level of corruption,” Dershowitz said. “There must be immediate action.”

"I'm back!" With those words Danielle Smith claimed victory in the UCP race Thursday night and will become Alberta's 19th premier when she is sworn in on Tuesday. Smith claimed victory winning the UCP leadership contest with 53.77% on the sixth ballot. More than 84,000 votes were cast by the party’s membership, culminating a three-month race in Calgary's BMO Centre. Travis Toews came second with 46.33%. "It is time for Alberta to take its place as a senior partner in building a strong and unified Canada. No longer will Alberta ask permission from Ottawa to be prosperous and free. We...

White House and congressional leaders are eyeing several responses to protect U.S. consumers, ranging from an effort to wrest market control away from OPEC, limiting U.S. companies’ energy exports, and easing sanctions on unfriendly oil-producing nations — each of which carries serious potential downsides for American interests. For now, the White House is pledging to work with Congress on a bill to allow the U.S. to sue oil cartels for antitrust violations... The so-called NOPEC bill — No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels — would change antitrust laws to allow the Justice Department to sue nations that restrain trade in...

A Virginia school counselor pleaded guilty last month to having a years-long sexual relationship with a transgender student in the same district where a skirt-wearing student’s rape of a classmate in a bathroom made national headlines. Ann Marie Barrett, 43, who is married with two children, was reported by the victim in May 2021, but not arrested until six months later — one day after Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected governor in a huge upset driven by his strong stance on school safety. Although the bathroom rape, first reported by The Daily Wire, animated Youngkin’s race against Terry McAuliffe, the...

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The annual procession in memory of the New Martyr Grand-Duchess Elizabeth, born Princess von Hesse, at the oustkirts of the Russian capital, gathered 3 thousand pilgrims, reported the organizers of the procession. It has been held for the eleventh time, organized by the foundation for the revival of Christian traditions of mercy and charity. Grand-Duchess St. Elisabeth was the wife of Grand Duke Sergei , governor of Moscow, brother of Emperor Alexander III. In 1905 Prince Sergei slain by a revolutionary terrorist. After his death, Elisabeth refused to get re-married. She participated in the Moscow branch of the Red Cross,...

The documents were posted on a court docket and later taken down It includes list of documents sorted by 'privilege review teams' Trump has fumed about documents FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago Documents include 2016 letter from Dr. Harold Bornstien Several reference pardon discussions Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Marc Kasowitz, Cleta Mitchell mentioned The Justice Department inadvertently disclosed a list of Donald Trump documents being vetted by 'privilege review teams' that were included among thousands of materials seized from Mar-a-Lago. The documents, which Trump's lawyers are trying to keep out of the hands of government investigators, includes discussions about presidential pardons...

– In 2015: Warnock Called Israel An ‘Apartheid’ State Occupying Palestine[In 2015,] Warnock aimed his fire directly at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to a two-state solution in the Middle East, calling it “tantamount to saying occupation today, occupation tomorrow, occupation forever.” [...] “If you do not have a Palestinian state, you will have apartheid in Israel that denies other citizens, sisters, and brothers citizenship, or you will have a democracy that is not a Jewish state,” Warnock blasted... – In 2018: Raphael Warnock’s anti-Israel sermonIn a 2018 videotaped sermon, reported by Jewish Insider and circulating among conservative Jews,...

Billionaire Elon Musk, days after floating a possible deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine that drew condemnation in Ukraine, suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing...The Shanghai factory accounted for about half of Tesla's global deliveries last year. Musk also said China has sought assurances that he would not offer the Starlink internet service of his SpaceX rocket company there.

Jack Phillips, who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple's wedding cake a decade ago for faith reasons is challenging a separate ruling that he violated Colorado law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged...

This meme being pushed in the media of the Ukraine/Russia being a new Cuban missile crisis is a hail Mary pass by the Biden administration to paint him as a Kennedy’esq figure to save his presidency. If there is no nuclear attack (likely, hopefully) he gets credit (from the media and leftists) for the greatest diplomatic achievement of the century in averting the destruction of humanity by working tirelessly behind the scenes as the greatest and smartest president that ever lived! If they (Russia) actually do it, Biden declares marshal law, no elections, total government control for the good of...

National Security Memorandum on Partial Revocation of Presidential Policy Directive 28 The Executive Order of October 7, 2022 (Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities), establishes enhanced safeguards for United States signals intelligence activities that supersede the safeguards for personal information collected through signals intelligence established by Presidential Policy Directive 28 of January 17, 2014 (Signals Intelligence Activities) (PPD-28). The Executive Order establishes enhanced safeguards in recognition that signals intelligence activities must be conducted in a manner that takes into account that all persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their nationality or wherever they might...

[Flashback] Twenty-six Senate Democrats ...signed onto a letter sent Tuesday to President Joe Biden urging him to quickly re-enter the Iran nuclear deal as it stood in 2015. The letter, which endorses the Biden administration’s “compliance for compliance” approach, supports lifting U.S. sanctions on Iran in line with the 2015 agreement if both sides come back into compliance. Signatories on the letter include Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-VA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also signed...

The portion of the U.S. population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 rose from 0 percent at the outset of 2021 to 63 percent by the end of the year. Yet, the CDC recently estimated that average U.S. life expectancy fell by 0.9 years in 2021. This is in addition to a 1.8 year decline in 2020—and contrary to predictions that COVID vaccines could reverse this carnage. Nevertheless, a New York Times article by Roni Caryn Rabin blames this “historic setback” mainly on a lack of COVID-19 vaccination and not enough “behavioral measures to prevent infections, such as wearing masks,” especially among...

Earlier this week I covered how Democrat John Fetterman has grown increasingly desperate as he runs for the open Senate seat currently held by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). This included equating his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, with Dr. Nick, the quack doctor on "The Simpsons." Fetterman appears to have ratcheted up his attacks even further, though, and is being bolstered by far-left media outlets. In this instance, Fetterman shared an article from Susan Rinkunas at Jezebel, showing Dr. Oz giving remarks at a World War II museum, near Hitler's car. "Dr. Oz Stood in Front of One of...

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security. El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, has bused roughly 7,000 migrants to New York City since late August and sent more than 1,800 to Chicago, a city-run effort that far exceeds the more ad-hoc transportation of the past. The city's busing effort has received less attention than a separate statewide campaign by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is...

NEW YORK – Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore hasn’t ruled out the possibility that some Baltimore parishes could close at the end of a new initiative to reimagine Catholic life in the city, but he has committed to a two-year synodal-based listening process before any decisions are made. Lori announced the new initiative “Seek the City to Come” on Sept. 29. Speaking to Crux about the timing of the announcement, Lori acknowledged that changing demographics and a declining Catholic population in the city were both factors in the decision, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic that “had a disproportionate effect...

[FLASHBACK] Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, who has worked as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for 15 years, has come under heavy scrutiny for his past speeches, sermons, writings, and run-ins with police... Below are nine of the most talked about issues, in no particular order, surrounding Warnock’s Senate candidacy: [...]

Former national security adviser John Bolton thinks President Biden "overstated the gravity of the situation we're in right now" when he suggested that the "prospect of Armageddon" is the highest it's been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bolton offered his observation in an interview Friday with CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge. .... Bolton said nuclear threats must be taken seriously, but he doesn't think the world is in quite the situation the president described. .... "Well, you know, [Putin's the the center of command and control of the Russian military," Bolton said. "National Command authority is what we...