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We are just a few days removed from President Donald Trump’s big announcement that he is planning on running for president again in 2024.Everyone and their brother has an opinion of how the speech went.Scared democrats claim it was “boring” and that Trump stands no chance.The RINOs also appear unimpressed.Trending: Maricopa County Attorney Caught On Camera Over “Canceled” Ballots: “I Don’t Give a F***”However, others had a more positive reaction to Trump’s latest announcement.Count former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee among the latter.Huckabee claims that the message delivered by President Trump in his speech will make him “unbeatable” in 2024, no...

Legal experts rallied to Donald Trump's defense Friday in criticizing Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of former federal attorney Jack Smith as special counsel to head the Department of Justice's investigations of the former president.Smith was the chief prosecutor at The Hague investigating war crimes in Kosovo and who led the DOJ unit involved in investigating public corruption in the Obama administration. Smith, said to be a political independent, will oversee the investigations of Trump's alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and of his storing presidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump has denied all...

Exhausted and overwhelmed, Gretchen Miller felt the frustration of the past three years rise up within her. On a whim the 54-year-old from Sydney posted a message to her local community Facebook group. “Does anyone else feel like screaming?” she asked. The responses poured in. “I want to scream because of climate change and economic inequality,” one woman wrote. “Because of real estate agents and landlords,” said another. “My fiancé decided he didn’t love me anymore,” read one reply. Miller said she received more than 100 messages in the first hour. From that callout, the Shout Sisters group was formed....

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump asked him to violate his oath to the Constitution on January 6, 2021. Pence said, “I write did it in the book, I will never forget, it was the night before January 6, the president and I were alone in the office in what was ultimately a tense conversation. I had made my position clear, as vice president, I did not believe I had the authority to return or reject electoral votes when the House convened to count the electoral votes, but there...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not last long as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Host Jake Tapper asked Pence what kind of Speaker he expected McCarthy to be. Kinzinger said, “If you had asked me five years ago, I would have said a pretty good one. Now, I think he has cut so many deals with bad people to get to this position that I think he’s not going to be a leader.”

<p>A brave 19-year-old fast food worker from the Bay Area lost her eye after she tried to stop a man from bullying a special needs boy.</p><p>Bianca Palomera was working at Habit Burger Grill in Antioch, California on Nov. 12 when she noticed four men harassing a special needs boy — the brother of one of her coworkers who was waiting until their shift ended, KNTV reported.</p>

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that he would keep his promise to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) from committees if elected Speaker of the House. Bartiromo asked, “What are you going to do in terms of these Democrats that you have on such important committees? You’ve talked in the past about removing Ilhan Omar, about removing Adam Schiff, about Eric Swalwell. Will you deliver?”

Resident ⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside Office of the President is disappointed by the Western reaction to the rocket attack on Poland and attributes this to the fact that Britain is gradually starting to exit the Ukrainian case, leaving the main place of the United States. This is due, first of all, to a set of internal problems that allow London to have limited participation and support for Kyiv, which is clearly not enough for Ukraine. Resident ⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside Our source in the OP said that all public gifts to Ukraine from British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were just a veil that hid the real...

...200 people attended the United Against Hate forum in the event center at the Coeur d'Alene Casino. The forum was organized by Josh Hurwit, U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, the DOJ and the FBI. United Against Hate is an initiative launched by the DOJ to improve efforts to combat hate crimes through relationships at the local level. The objective is to create and strengthen trust among community leaders, law enforcement and members of the public. "...hate did not exist on this land. It was an introduced...

Elevated levels of CO2 make it difficult for plants to obtain the minerals necessary to grow and provide nutritious food..."Two main nutrients that are essential for human nutrition may be affected by this phenomenon. The first one is proteins built from nitrogen. The second one is iron."

This week Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked enforcement of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” saying that “it infringes on the right of university professors to exercise their freedom of speech in their classrooms.” Walker declared that “professors are the priests of our democracy. The enemies of our democracy cannot be permitted to interfere with their efforts to convert students to the correct way of thinking about our history and our society.” Bryan Griffin, press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis asserted that “the Stop WOKE Act protects the open exchange of ideas by prohibiting teachers who hold agency over others...

Pope on shared Easter date with Orthodox: Pick a date and we’ll accept"On this point, I want to say – indeed, to repeat – what Saint Paul VI said in his day: We are ready to accept any proposal that is made together."Both the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches have spoken about resolve to find a shared date for Easter, and it seems that this goal might be closer than ever.This November 19, Pope Francis received in audience His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, which has its See in Iraq.The Pope thanked the...

Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright — with the Elections Integrity Unit — wrote a letter to the Maricopa County officials Saturday demanding an accounting for the widespread ballot tabulation and ballot printer problems seen during the general election on Nov. 8.Among the most troubling issues raised in the letter directed to Thomas Liddy with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office was the apparent co-mingling of ballots in black duffle bags in at least one polling location, which were successfully run through the on-site tabulators with those put in “Door 3” to be sent to the Election Department’s downtown Phoenix tabulation...

On November 12, 2022, Al-Aqsa Call YouTube channel published a video of Gaza-based Hizb-ut-Tahrir-affiliated preacher Nabil Al-Halabi giving a Friday sermon in which he criticized the recent visit of Pope Francis to Bahrain as part of the "Bahrain Dialogue Forum: East and West for Human Coexistence," saying that such dialogues are organized within the context of the U.S.-led campaign against Islam and Muslims. In the sermon, Al-Halabi accused Muslim clerics and scholars who participate in such dialogues of abandoning the concepts of reinstating the Caliphate, waging jihad, and Hudoud (i.e., the Islamic penal code).

The inner workings of Tether remain remarkably opaque. New Tethers are supposed to only be minted, and added to the crypto ecosystem, when somebody gives Tether Limited dollars to create them. And if that’s how it all worked, Tether would be fine. "But there is no evidence Tether actually works this way. We repeat: There is no proof that Tether stablecoins are backed by the store of tangible assets that is supposed to justify their value. Despite first being released eight years ago, Tether has never been audited in any way. It first promised an audit in 2017…to, you know,...

An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub late Saturday, killing five people and wounding 18, officials said. The club said the suspect was subdued by patrons. Authorities received a report of a shooting at Club Q at 11:57 p.m. and responded within minutes, said Lt. Pamela Castro of the Colorado Springs Police Department. A 22-year-old gunman walked into the club and immediately began firing from a “long rifle,” police said. Two firearms were found at the scene. The gunman was taken into custody around five minutes after police first received a call about the shooting at Club Q. Police...

The US Navy is facing recruiting challenges in a tight labor market, and has raised its maximum enlistment age to 41 in order to attract more sailors to the fleet. The Navy is also looking to increase its use of bonuses and other financial incentives to attract recruits. While most of these middle age recruits will be eligible to serve in combat assignments in some of the most physically demanding Navy communities, including the NAVY SEALs, have age cutoffs that differ from the general enlistment age, reports the Navy Times. “As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment,” US...

Is it just me or does the CNN website seem to be taking a Moree middle of the road approach tan before. Gone are the front page filled with Trump bashing and conservative bashing in general.

Candace Cameron Bure, the Hallmark Channel queen who rose to fame as D.J. Tanner on “Full House,” just wants to make Christmas movies that spread the joy and wholesomeness of Christmas and of her Christian faith. To that end, she recently moved from Hallmark to Great American Family, a new, smaller channel “that is positioning itself as the God-and-country alternative for holiday entertainment.” For the crime of wanting to make a product that aligns better with her Christian faith, Bure is getting slammed as a bigot. But instead of apologizing for her convictions, Bure’s words and actions indicate she’s more...

Actress and former Hallmark star Candace Cameron Bure is pushing back after giving an interview to the Wall Street Journal on Monday in which she signaled her new network would stick to traditional values and shun same-sex storylines. "I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core," she told the outlet, provoking social media backlash from celebrities, including actress Hilarie Burton ("One Tree Hill"), who labeled her a "bigot," and teen YouTuber JoJo Siwa, who called her statement "rude and hurtful to a whole community of people." Bure, who rose to fame as a child star...