Free Republic

BERKELEY, Calif. - Cal Athletics appears to be dealing with the aftermath of the recent collapse of cryptocurrency FTX. Last week, the crypto exchange filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after its value tanked in a matter of just 9 days. According to a UC Berkeley report, Cal Athletics is one of those affected by the collapse.

Former President Donald Trump has a slew of legal woes hanging over his head as he mounts his recently announced bid to retake the White House in 2024. The 76-year-old faces the threat of a federal indictment over classified documents allegedly found at his Mar-a-Lago club and his namesake company, the Trump Organization, is on trial for criminal tax fraud in Manhattan. A couple of lawsuits against him are also still being fought in court, though some have recently been resolved, including the ex-president snagging wins in cases brought by his niece Mary Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

Former Vice President Mike Pence says in his new book that he was angry, not frightened when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters broke into the Capitol chanting for him to be hanged on Jan. 6, 2021. The 63-year-old Pence’s memoir, “So Help Me God,” was released Tuesday and is the first full recounting of the Capitol riot in the former Indiana governor’s own words. “They had come to protest the result of the election and to prevent Congress from fulfilling its responsibility to open and count the Electoral College votes,” Pence writes of the rioters. “And, as I later...

Ukraine partnered with FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US. The multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency company FTX, run by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democrat donor right after George Soros, collapsed last week as details emerged regarding their financial practices, which led to a run by customers on FTX. FTX did not have the funds to pay out. It was also revealed that FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer...

Adam Frisch in Washington for new-member orientation by: Lanie Lee CookPosted: Nov 15, 2022 DENVER (KDVR) — The race between Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch is still undecided, but preparations for the next meeting of Congress must go on. That’s why Frisch is in Washington for new-member orientation, even as he trails his incumbent opponent by 1,122 votes. Newly elected lawmakers arrived for orientation on Monday, including the handful of candidates who remain in undecided races. “It is in the best interest of the district for me to attend new member orientation given the closeness of this race, which could...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday vowed to “stay out” of the potentially “highly contested” 2024 Republican presidential primary. “The way I’m going into this presidential primary season is to stay out of it,” McConnell told reporters. “I don’t have a dog in that fight. I think it’s going to be a highly contested nomination fight with other candidates entering.” It is well known McConnell was not the biggest supporter of former President Donald Trump, who announced he was running for president Tuesday night. No other GOP primary contender has entered the race.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced at the Senate Democratic lunch Wednesday that he will nominate Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) next month to serve next year as Senate president pro tempore, a position that is third in line to the presidency. The nomination will need to be approved by the entire Senate Democratic Conference. Schumer also announced that the Senate Democratic caucus will hold its leadership election on Dec. 8. The job of Senate president pro tempore comes with a large, ornate office on the ground floor of the U.S. Capitol and a large security detail. The current office...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley attempted to speak with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday following a missile-caused explosion in Poland but was unable to get through, the top military official revealed Wednesday. Milley said his staff tried to connect him with Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov but they were “unsuccessful in getting me linked up. He instead spoke several times with his Ukrainian counterpart, with his Polish counterpart and with other chiefs of defense in Europe, Milley told reporters at the Pentagon U.S. officials are still waiting on more information as to the exact origin of a Soviet-era...

The Canadian icon explains why his environmental views may spell the end of touring for himNeil Young has not performed live since September 2019, and it now seems that might have been his fans' last chance to catch the Canadian icon in concert... ...And while the pandemic is still causing concern and complications among touring musicians, Young has added a more definitive reason why he may never hit the road again. In a new interview with Q's Tom Power, promoting another new Crazy Horse album, World Record, Young explains that his environmental views, especially when it comes to eating sustainably,...

Former President Donald Trump, aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms, announced Tuesday night that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. “In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump told a crowd gathered at Mar-a-Lago, his waterfront estate in Florida, where his campaign will be headquartered. Surrounded by allies, advisers, and conservative influencers, Trump delivered a relatively subdued speech, rife with spurious and exaggerated claims about his four years in office. Despite a historically divisive presidency...

Get ready for a baby bust. Sperm counts globally have fallen at an alarming rate – dropping by more than 62% between 1973 and 2018 – and could lead to a reproductive crisis, new research has found. During the same period, the concentration of sperm among men dropped by more than 51%, from 101.2 million to 49 million sperm per milliliter of semen, according to the peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in the journal Human Reproduction Update. That number is still above the World Health Organization’s cutoff, namely 15 million per milliliter, below which men are deemed to have a low...

STOCK ISLAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Deputies in the Florida Keys put a man behind bars Sunday after they say he stole 85 pounds of shrimp and other items from a storage facility. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said at around 10 a.m., the owner of the facility contacted authorities after he noticed that his lock had been broken off. Deputies said 85 pounds of shrimp, a Garmin GPS unit, an air pump, and an engine part had been stolen from the facility.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in front of hundreds of supporters at Mar-a-Lago, telling them that “America’s comeback starts right now.” His announcement was presidential in nature and perfect in tone and content.In his announcement, President Trump focused on and spoke to the American people. He set forth his agenda for the future and how he planned to bring America back from its current state of ruination and return it to greatness. He touched on the many important issues that America and Americans are currently concerned about and explained how his...

Several law enforcement recruits have been left with “life-altering injuries” – including loss of limbs – after a wrong-way driver plowed into them on a training run in Los Angeles early Wednesday, authorities said.

Democrat Chuck Schumer has suggest the following: “we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.” Chuck Schumer later called for amnesty for “all 11 million or however many” illegal immigrants there are currently in the United States: Watch Chuck Schumer on video below: VIDEO AT LINK.............. It remains unclear where Chuck Schumer has gotten information on the rate of reproduction in America or what it has to do with immigration. There is some text missing from the quote above which was taken from Twitter, so it might lack context...

Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Luke 19:11–28Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus uses images drawn from the world of business to instruct us in Christian living. And he especially likes the dynamic of investment, risk, and return as a model of the spiritual life. The reason is clear. God exists in gift form. Therefore, if you want his life in you, you have to learn to give it away.Think of the coins we read about today as everything that we’ve received from God—life, breath, being, powers, and so on. Because they come from God, they are meant to become gifts. If...

Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers that Kyiv may not withstand the first 72 hours of Russian invasion and that it could fall in less than 3 days, Fox News reported citing multiple sources with the United States Congress. Milley reportedly warned lawmakers in this week's closed-door briefings, adding that around 15,000 Ukrainian troops and 4,000 Russian troops could lose their lives if Moscow chooses to invade.

During the month of October I sent two letters to my Representative , Steve Scalise and two to Senator John Kennedy. These were real hard copy correspondence. To date none have been answered. A staffer from Scalise's officecalled about three weeks later. H knew nothing about one of the letters and little about the other. He called the letter an 'e-mail' which means he didn't even bother to look at the document. He said he would 'try' to get a response back. So far no response. Called Scalise's office today, did speak to some staffer who knew nothing about the...

Amazon has begun laying off employees in its corporate and tech workforce. CEO Andy Jassy has moved aggressively to cut costs across Amazon, and the company previously said it would freeze hiring in its corporate workforce. Amazon on Tuesday began laying off employees in its corporate and tech workforce as CEO Andy Jassy steps up efforts to rein in costs. The company notified workers in several divisions, including Alexa and the Luna cloud gaming unit, that they were being let go, according to LinkedIn posts from Amazon employees who said they had been impacted. Amazon is aiming to eliminate about...

A Florida man has been arrested for DUI and animal cruelty after punching a dog and throwing it down steps. Deputies responded to a home on SE 149th Place in reference to a disturbance. When deputies arrived they learned that, while he was intoxicated, Deanta Bridges, 27, punched a dog and threw it outside down a set of steps. Deputies say he left the home in a vehicle prior to the deputies’ arrival, despite the fact that he was under the influence of alcohol. Bridges was later located and agreed to perform Field Sobriety Exercises, and was placed under arrest...