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Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Wednesday of “lying” about the origins of a missile that killed two people in Poland Tuesday. “[Zelenskyy] was commanding the U.S. to lead the Third World War immediately. So as we said, this was not a minor AP story. The only problem was it was completely and utterly wrong. Zelensky, the unnamed intel officer, and the Associated Press had all been trafficking in dangerous misinformation,” Carlson said. “That became clear within a few hours, when pictures of the exploded missile surfaced on social media. People who know a lot about...

End of the electric car gravy train: Owners will pay £165 a year in road tax from April 2025 and models that cost over £40k face an added 'Tesla tax' of £355 a year Electric vehicles no longer exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty from April 2025 EVs registered after April 1, 2017 will pay a standard annual rate of £165 Decision made to 'make our motoring tax system fairer', All electric car drivers will pay £165-a-year in tax from April 2025 as Jeremy Hunt announced an end to tax exemptions for greener vehicles in his Autumn Budget As part of...

PALM BEACH, Florida — At least 12.5 million Americans watched some or all of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement speech live on Tuesday night, television and digital ratings reveal. Fox News and CNN, both of which carried parts of the speech live, saw massive ratings spikes during the Trump announcement, per Mediaite. Fox News surged to more than 5.16 million viewers during the Trump announcement—929,000 in the key 25-54 age key demographic—and CNN soared to 2.43 million viewers, including 656,000 in the key demographic. Newsmax, which carried Trump’s announcement live, also saw a surge in viewers up to...

An Idaho Democrat who carried an endorsement from Planned Parenthood learned that the hard way last week after initial reports from election night showed she had won a state House seat that covers parts of three counties, only for one of the counties to learn that those initial reports were incorrect. And the GOP came out on top after all. According to the Idaho Capital Sun, a nonprofit outlet, Democrat Karma Metzler Fitzgerald at first appeared to have won the race for House District 26, Seat B, which represents parts of Blaine, Jerome and Lincoln counties in the south-central part...

Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said Thursday on “CNN This Morning” that he is “very seriously” looking at a presidential run for 2024. Co-host Kaitlan Collins asked, “what does a successful republican candidate in 2024 look like to you, I wonder? Hutchinson said, “A successful candidate is someone who addresses the problems that faces America. As you mentioned, I was in Iowa yesterday, and people are concerned about the rising cost, the excessive government spending, and they want their lives back, their freedoms back, and that’s the Republican message. This last midterm election was not a rejection of our ideas. It...

Migrants flooding Yuma, Arizona, overwhelm hospitals, strain resources: city official ... Illegal immigrants have flooded Yuma hospitals and have caused some residents fearing their safety to hire armed security, a Yuma city official told Fox News. "Two of these families down here actually had to hire private security guards — armed security guards — to keep people out of their yards," a Yuma county supervisor, Jonathan Lines ... They were constantly having people come into their homes, into their yards, and they were not very respectful." Nearly 1 million of the 4 million migrants who have crossed into the U.S....

“Some people might ask in this time of great need for zero emissions, ‘Why are we removing the dams?’ First, we have to understand this doesn’t happen every day … a lot of these projects were licensed a number of years back when there wasn’t as much focus on environmental issues,” said FERC Chairman Richard Glick. “Some of these projects have a significant impact on the environment and fish.” US regulators approved a major milestone Thursday in a plan to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the...

Big Tech is rigging elections to help Democrats. A team of researchers led by Robert Epstein, Ph.D. found that Google took steps to shift votes in favor of Democrats during the midterm elections. According to the findings, Google nudged undecided voters toward the Democrats by showing them biased content on Google and YouTube. They also found that Google was sending far fewer go-vote reminders to conservatives than to liberals and moderates. The extent of how many votes were shifted by Google’s meddling is unknown. The Epoch Times reported: Based on my team’s research, Google, and to a lesser extent, Facebook...

According to one anonymous inside source, Bankman-Fried is being cooperative with the Bahamian officials. With up to $2 billion of customers' money missing, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried may be extradited back to the United States from the Bahamas. The 30-year-old is at the center of a huge cryptocurrency controversy, after it was revealed that his crypto exchange had been "funneling money to a sister trading company run by his girlfriend," according to The New York Post. Now, American and Bahamian authorities are discussing the potential extradition of Bankman-Fried to the US for questioning, according to a Bloomberg report. Three people...

Thousands of asylum seekers will be sent to live in Britain's rural communities Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said migrants will be housed across UK 'We're seeking to procure accommodation more broadly in smaller cities' The Home Office has been warned it could be liable for unlawful detentions Richard Martin, co-owner of the Blazing Donkey Country Hotel near Sandwich, Kent, turned down a £1 million opportunity to house asylum seekers - saying he 'couldn't think of anything more absurd' snip

The Federal Reserve may have to raise its benchmark interest rate much higher than it has previously projected to get inflation under control, James Bullard, who leads the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said Thursday. Bullard's comments raised the prospect that the Fed's rate hikes will make borrowing by consumers and businesses even costlier and further heighten the risk of recession. Wall Street traders registered their concern by sending stock market futures further into the red early Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 330 points shortly before trading began. Bullard's remarks followed speeches by other Fed...

BREAKING 🚨 House Republicans announce an investigation into Joe Biden Wire fraud... people trafficking.. etc. Clip

REAL News Michiana has obtained security video showing Democrat St. Joseph County Clerk of the Circuit Court, Rita Glenn, entering the secured absentee ballot area alone after business hours. In the video, Glenn enters the area with a grocery bag, then exits with several documents and throws them away. The video was taken by security cameras in the hallway outside of the secured absentee voting area in the Clerk’s office and appears to show Glenn potentially ripping the documents up prior to shoving them down the sides of a blue disposal bin in an attempt to conceal them. Glenn is...

Fans love that Tim Allen is reprising his role as Santa for the Disney+ miniseries, “The Santa Clauses,” but some critics are complaining he’s too much of a “right-wing Santa.” The 69-year-old actor is one of the few openly conservative people in Hollywood. This makes it no surprise that critics zeroed in on a single line in the new “Santa Clauses” series that follows up on the popular “The Santa Clause” movie franchise, which premiered in 1994. Allen again plays toy salesman Scott Calvin, who becomes Santa, but now he’s looking for a suitable successor to wear the red suit....

Growing research indicates that one's purpose—i.e., the extent to which someone perceives a sense of direction and goals in their life—may be linked to health-protective benefits such as better physical functioning and lower risks of cardiovascular disease or cognitive decline. Now, a new study found that people with higher levels of purpose may have a lower risk of death from any cause. "Having a purpose in life has been known to improve many health outcomes on average," says Dr. Koichiro Shiba. The results showed that people with the highest sense of purpose indicated the lowest risk of death (15.2 percent...

Idaho police have distanced themselves from claims that the unsolved murder of four students poses no danger to the public, saying: "There is a threat out there still." Officials in the small college town of Moscow had insisted that there was "no imminent threat to the community at large", despite identifying no suspects. Investigators do not yet know who killed Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves with an "edged weapon" in the small hours of Sunday morning. On Tuesday, Moscow police chief James Fry admitted that the killer could still be at large, partially walking back the...

The Biden administration weaponizes the FBI against Israel As in the Dreyfus affair, there are no Jewish criminals here, and everyone knows it. The Biden administration has ordered the FBI probe into Shireen Abu Akleh’s death because it wants a crisis with Israel. Nov 16, 2022 The Biden administration is feeding Israel to the wolves. That is the only reasonable way to understand Channel 14’s bombshell report on Sunday that the FBI has opened an investigation of IDF soldiers in relation to the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh died on May 11 in Jenin while...

So the GOP now has the power of the purse. I did some searching but cannot really find out what this enables them to do, outside of passing bills. Do they really get to say what money actually gets spent? Like a literal checkbook? Just curious…

Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. Like many of Trump’s speeches as president, his announcement speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday was filled with false claims about a variety of topics – from his record in office to his Democratic opponents to the economy, the environment and foreign policy. Here is a fact check of 20 false or misleading things he said. This is not a comprehensive list. Afghanistan withdrawal Trump claimed Tuesday evening that the US left $85 billion worth...

Last week ftx, the second-largest crypto-exchange, ran out of cash. It is the biggest cryptocurrency disaster yet. Investors wanted to know what they did wrong. Now we have the answer: almost everything. The result is a scandal so big it goes far beyond those just interested in bitcoin. It links to corruption at the highest levels and may have even played a major role in the United States midterm elections. The media, financial authorities and the Democratic Party are all implicated. ftx allowed people to easily trade cryptocurrency. Set up an account, and you could buy, sell and save bitcoin...