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The charge at the center of the arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was the obstruction of an official proceeding before Congress...The charge - formally known in the penal code as 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2) - was never a perfect fit for the many cases [about 360 cases] stemming from the Capitol attack...The measure was initially intended to prohibit things like shredding documents or tampering with witnesses in congressional inquiries.

Japan eyes $11.6B in construction bonds for military facilities TOKYO DEC 13, 2022 - 10:24 AM GMT+3 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) battle tanks and a helicopter take part in the annual live-fire exercise at East Fuji Maneuver Area, in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, May 28, 2022. (Reuters Photo) Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) battle tanks and a helicopter take part in the annual live-fire exercise at East Fuji Maneuver Area, in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, May 28, 2022. (Reuters Photo) RECOMMENDED An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the Turkish Air Force takes off on a sortie from an air base during Exercise...

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US man seeks exoneration in Missouri murder Updated: 13 December ,2022: 10:27 AM GST Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor’s office told a judge Monday. But Assistant Missouri Attorney General Miranda Loesch said detectives will testify that they never threatened or coerced anyone. Advertisement “They did their job” and followed leads that pointed to Johnson as the killer, Loesch said. ADVERTISING For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or...

Two police officers among six killed in gunfight in Australia’s Queensland Published: 13 December ,2022: 10:37 AM GST Updated: 13 December ,2022: 10:58 AM GST Six people including two police officers were killed in a gunfight at a remote property in Australia’s Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited the place to investigate reports of a missing person. Initial information indicated the officers were shot by two armed offenders on Monday evening when they approached the residence on the property in Wieambilla, about 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Queensland’s capital Brisbane, state police said in a statement....

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul . . . Matth. 20:28

Updated: 12 December ,2022: 10:26 AM GST Iran on Monday carried out the second execution linked to nearly three months of protests, the judicial news agency Mizan reported. “Majidreza Rahnavard, who was sentenced to death on November 29 for killing two security guards with a knife and wounding four others,” was executed in public in Mashhad, the report said. Advertisement For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. ADVERTISING He was arrested on November 17 while trying to flee the country, according to Mizan. Iran has been rocked by weeks of protests sparked...

A loud blast and gunfire were heard in the Afghan capital Monday near a guest house popular with Chinese business visitors. AFP, Kabul Published: 12 December ,2022: 02:32 PM GST Updated: A loud blast and gunfire were heard in the Afghan capital Monday near a guest house popular with Chinese business visitors, a witness said. Although the Taliban claim to have improved national security since storming back to power in August last year, there have been scores of bomb blasts and attacks -- many claimed by the local chapter of the ISIS group. Advertisement For all the latest headlines follow...

A verdict was reached on Monday in the in the battery trial of Fort Lauderdale police Officer Steven Pohorence... Prosecutors have a video showing Pohorence’s interaction with a woman who was kneeling during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 near the Broward County Main Library....

TACOMA, Wash. — The defense rested its case on Monday in the criminal misdemeanor trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who returned for a second day of testimony. The sheriff is accused of filing a false report that a Black newspaper carrier threatened to kill him. On his second day on the witness stand, Troyer said he never requested the big police response when he called a back line to dispatch about a confrontation with a suspicious man in his neighborhood who Troyer said threatened him. “I knew one or two units was all I needed to handle the...

Trans hockey player Danny Maki was left concussed after a much larger player collided with him during a trans hockey tournament last month. The tournament saw a championship match in which a team dominated by trans women trounced a team of mostly trans men. Despite the NHL promoting the tournament and VICE filming the tournament, next to nothing has been published about it. Quilette magazine Jonathan Kay suggested that because of the outcome of the tournament, the NHL has opted not to give it coverage A female-to-male transgender hockey player was left concussed after being flung to the floor by...

....America First Legal is headed by Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. While AFL lacks the name recognition and financial heft of many conservative counterparts, it has racked up notable court victories over the Biden administration. Casting itself as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” AFL has weaponized the grievance politics embodied by Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement through dozens of federal lawsuits... ...The group’s success is alarming civil rights advocates, who fear Miller has figured out how to harness the courts to protect America’s declining White majority ...

The Da Bank of Afghanistan, the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan, tweeted images of the cash A large package containing around $40 million in cash for "humanitarian aid" was seen on an airport tarmac in Afghanistan, officials there said last week. The money was handed over to the Da Bank of Afghanistan, the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan, which is headquartered in Kabul. The bank tweeted several images of the cash. One shows packages of U.S. $100 notes bound in plastic... ...In September, the Biden administration announced the creation of a fund to assist the people of Afghanistan, apart from...

Georgia PAST0R gets 14 years - Corey D. Butler (plead guilty to disseminating inappropriate images of minors..got 14 years when could have got 30)

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told reporters on Monday that he won’t rule out leaving the Democratic Party, as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) did last week — but he added it won’t be in the near future. “I’ll look at all of these things. I’ve always looked at all those things, but I have no intention of doing anything right now,” Manchin told CNN reporter Manu Raju, before adding: “Whether I do something later, I can’t tell you what the future is going to bring.” The centrist Manchin has been a member of the Democratic caucus since he was elected to...

I do not know exactly why there is what to me is very clear evil in government over Australians and so many other western peoples now. A lady artist who marched for freedom in Melbourne last Saturday sees this evil in ways similar but not identical to mine. The police, bureaucracy and judiciary here in Victoria have been twisted out of recognition by woke crap. Samuel Johnson wrote of the ancient Romans that, " in their corruption, (they) sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another." If we can recover from this mass psychosis, I think women...

The Biden administration has approved an application by Washington state to expand health insurance access for all residents regardless of immigration status by allowing it to forgo requirements set by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Treasury Department approved Washington’s application for a State Innovation Waiver, issued under Section 1332 of the ACA. The application for this waiver was submitted in May. What is a 1332 waiver? A state may apply for a 1332 request if it wishes to pursue “innovative strategies” for providing affordable health care while still retaining protections...

It was releveled during an executive session that an active shooter training was not completed by the Uvalde County Sheriff’s office prior to the May 24th shooting. On Monday, the Uvalde County Commissioners announced that at the time of the mass murder, only 20% of the officers in the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office had received training on how to deal with an active shooter situation. […] According to reports, county or state rules do not apply to individuals who are not school-based law enforcement officers, to receive active shooter training. To further note, Texas law of law enforcement agencies do...

Five examples when the Ukrainian warriors proved there is nothing impossible for Ukraine Since the first days of the russian full-scale invasion, Ukrainian defense forces have not only been deterring russian offense against multiply overwhelming force, but also doing it the way that writes the modern history of warfare. Defense Express has gathered five examples of when the Ukrainians made what'd been seen impossible. *Read more: [The russians Brought the Most Powerful Artillery Systems to Bakhmut, But They May Run out of Ammunition- https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/the_russians_brought_the_most_powerful_artillery_systems_to_bakhmut_but_they_may_run_out_of_ammunition-5115.html] The Terms of Mastering New Weapons Nowadays it is taken for granted: the allies give some...