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MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in next year’s Australian Open despite his high-profile deportation in January. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Tuesday said it had confirmed newspaper reports that the immigration minister had overturned a potential three-year exclusion period for Djokovic. The Australian Border Force has previously said an exclusion period could be waived in certain circumstances — and that each case would be assessed on its merits. ... The 21-time Grand Slam singles champion wasn’t allowed to defend his Australian Open title this year after a tumultuous 10-day legal saga...

The shooting hasn't been politically convenient for the left and their associated media acts. The recent mass shooting at the University of Virginia has quickly vanished from corporate media headlines after reality contradicted the racial narrative that quickly arose out of the triple homicide. Though corporate media outlets like ESPN and The Washington Post were initially interested in the UVA mass shooting, which killed three members of the school’s football team, that quickly waned after it was realized that the shooter wasn’t a bloodthirsty white supremacist or unhinged gay porn YouTube star, but a black former member of the team...

The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board’s former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.” On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, including six who received endorsements from the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty. Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a new committee to decide whether certain books and materials should...

TRINIDAD – A 13-year-old corgi and her owner were viciously attacked Tuesday Saturday, Oct. 29 by a pack of poodles at Trinidad State Beach. Kathrin Burleson was walking her dog Emma and was with a friend at the beach when a pack of 10 standard poodles jumped out of a car about 50 feet away and ran towards them. Burleson said she reached down to pick up Emma, who was so scared that she wiggled out of her harness. Within seconds, the pack was on top of them. “Then they jumped us,” Burleson said. “We were at the bottom of...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Homecomings Are The Best! Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Paola Bellucci poses for a photo with her family at the pier in Portsmouth, VA, Monday. Northland completed a 59-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea conducting migrant interdiction, law enforcement and humanitarian missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Hillard) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Blue Angels In The Sky! The U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight...

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment” (Proverbs 17:22-23).

President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the first time since records began. Auto sales have fallen over 60% so far this year, and may end up being less than a quarter of what they were a decade ago, according to Maxim Sokolov, head of Russia's top carmaker Avtovaz. Some of this year's drop is due to the pullout of foreign carmakers such as Renault (RENA.PA) and Mercedes-Benz and a collapse in demand due to a mass...

On Wednesday, following two days of impassioned statements from victims and family members, Judge Jennifer Dorow imposed the statutorily mandated sentence, ordering Brooks to serve a life sentence without the possibility of extended supervision for each of the six counts of first-degree intentional homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon. The sentences will run consecutively, the judge said. In addition to six consecutive life sentences for first-degree intentional homicide, Dorow also imposed sentences Wednesday for Brooks totaling hundreds of years of additional confinement for the remaining 70 counts he was found guilty on last month. She sentenced Brooks to...

Nov 15 (Reuters) - Attorney regulators in New York on Tuesday disbarred two lawyers who pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail at an empty city police car during protests over George Floyd's death. New York's Appellate Division, First Department said Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman qualified for automatic disbarment based on their guilty pleas in June. Although the court's order was released Tuesday, it retroactively dated the start of their disbarment to June 2, when Mattis and Rahman admitted in Brooklyn federal court to conspiracy to commit arson and possess an explosive device. Mattis and Rahman told U.S. District...

On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, Donald Trump announced that he will run for re-election in 2024. He gave a very serious speech and outlined the terrible problems we face. The full speech and transcript are below. “I am asking for your vote. I am asking for your support. And I am asking for your friendship and your prayers on this very incredible but dangerous journey. If our movement remains united and confident that we will shatter the forces of tyranny, and we will unleash the glories of liberty for ourselves and for, our children and for generations yet to come....

A long-duration lake-effect snowstorm is expected to bury parts of western and northern New York, including the cities of Buffalo and Watertown, under up to 3 feet of snow into this weekend. Bands of heavy snow are expected to develop to the east and northeast of lakes Erie and Ontario beginning Wednesday night and continuing right through Sunday, when the Buffalo Bills are scheduled to host the Cleveland Browns at Highmark Stadium in the Buffalo Southtowns. Lake-Effect Snow Warnings have been issued from the Buffalo metro area southwestward into northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio ... This will be the start...

Predator. School shooter. Not intelligent. Privileged. Racist. Dumb. What do these words all have in common? These words were all listed as adjectives used to describe white students in a freshman English class at Scappoose High School in Oregon. About 25 students walked into Ms. Autumn Gonzales’ classroom at Scappoose High School in Oregon to a whiteboard with two columns, one labeled “White Girls,” and the other “White Boys.” In total there were 21 words used to describe white girls and boys and not one was positive. According to one student who spoke with Libs of TikTok, “the students were...

What has now been identified as a Russian-made, but Ukrainian-launched S-300 air defense missile, landed in the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland on Tuesday, 15 miles from the Ukrainian border. The errant missile landed on a grain silo and the explosion killed 2 people.Immediately following the incident, Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki called an urgent meeting with the government committee for national security and defense affairs while Poland’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying that a “Russia-made” missile had landed on the border with Ukraine and summoned the Russian ambassador for a meeting.The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement...

The State of California will suffer a $25 billion deficit in 2023-2024, despite enjoying a record-setting $98 billion budget surplus this year, according to new analysis from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. The new projections, released Wednesday, come just over a week after elections in which Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), were reelected to every statewide office after a year of lavish public spending. The Legislative Analyst’s Office explained that the deficit could be even worse, if a recession is particularly bad (original emphasis):

Senator Mitch McConnell fended off a challenge from Florida Sen. Rick Scott to hold on to his position as GOP leader on Wednesday. In a secret ballot election, McConnell, R-Ky., garnered 37 votes to Scott's 10, with one senator abstaining, according to Sen. Ted Cruz. McConnell gave a thumbs up as he walked through the Capitol after securing his victory. A separate vote on a motion to delay the leadership vote until after the Georgia Senate run-off election on December 6 also failed 16-32.

Trump cannot win Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Arizona with those three far leftwingers as Governor. The 2022 Midterms proved that Trump has no chance of winning them in 2024. This is optimistic, but Trump's road to 270 Electoral Votes is Nevada, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Georgia on top of the states he won twice. I am not saying this is going to happen. Wisconsin is one of the only states that made improvements after 2020 with mail-in ballot drop offs and removing dead people from the voter rolls. Let's hope there won't be a pandemic in 2024 that will allow the left...

Administration seeks to soften blow of FBI investigation into Palestinian-American reporter's killing, Israeli official says, speculating that ramifications will be minimal The White House informed Israeli counterparts that it was not involved in the decision to open an FBI investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Wednesday. The message appeared aimed at blunting Israeli fury over the investigation...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the January 6 House Select Committee helped stop the red wave in the 2022 midterms. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “The GOP now in disarray. McConnell just beat back a challenge from Senator Rick Scott to be minority leader, and Kevin McCarthy faced a challenge as well as he’s pursuing the speakership. All while the disgraced ex-president announced a bid again to run for 2024. Adam Kinzinger, in a new op-ed, writes, ‘Trump has proven him woefully unfit to hold the office that he sullied and shown he can’t be trusted...

“In the Kherson direction, today at 5 o’clock in the morning Moscow time, the transfer of units of Russian troops to the left bank of the Dnieper River was completed. No units or military equipment and weapons were left on the right bank. All Russian soldiers crossed to the left bank of the Dnieper,” read the announcement of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Friday, November 11, 2022 – the anniversary of World War I Armistice Day, 1918. The amount of misinformation and sheer nonsense about the Russian withdrawal from Kherson published since the time of the announcement “wouldn’t fit...

The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence. Please help...