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Rep. Katie Porter denied firing a staffer for passing on Covid-19 to her after a testy text message exchange emerged that seemed to imply otherwise. The Twitter and Instagram account Dear White Staffers, popular for gossip on Capitol Hill, shared a text exchange between the California Democrat and a staffer with the caption:' VIBE CHECK: Rep. Katie Porter fires staffer after both test positive for COVID. Full texts from the Congresswoman firing the staffer via text. Shared with permission from staffer.' Screenshots of text messages between Porter, D-Calif., and former staffer Sasha Georgiades where Porter tells Georgiades 'you gave me...

“There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” (Proverbs 30:11-12).

Cheektowaga, N.Y. (WBEN) - When Cheektowaga Police were alerted to a glass break at the Pine Hill School on East Delevan Avenue Christmas Eve as the blizzard raged outside, officers were overwhelmed with calls and unable to investigate. Jay Withey was stranded in the blinding and dangerous blizzard that was pummeling Buffalo at the time and had sought shelter in numerous homes along the street as the fuel in his truck was running low. He offered $500 to spend the night on the floor of nearby homes and was turned away, only to return to his truck stranded along the...

Steven Tyler is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s: 'Victim' files lawsuit claiming she is the 'teen bride' in Aerosmith singer's memoir after he convinced her mom to grant him guardianship Julia Holcomb filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles under California's look-back law Accuses Tyler of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 and he was 25 Suit alleges Tyler gained guardianship of her from her mother to travel with her Tyler described the relationship in his memoir without naming Holcomb Aerosmith star Steven Tyler has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing an underage...

Data negates the possibility of liquidators behind the fund transfers due to the use of mixing tools and extensive planning to hide transaction paths. 30 cryptocurrency wallets linked to Alameda Research, the bankrupt sister company of crypto exchange FTX, became active on Dec. 28 following four weeks of inactivity. These wallets swapped and mixed over $1.7 million worth of crypto assets through various crypto-mixing services. As Cointelegraph reported on Dec. 28, the sudden movement of funds from Alameda wallets just days after Sam Bankman Fried was released on bail raised suspicions across the crypto community. Nearly 24 hours later, it...

Buckingham Palace ablaze Nostradamus predicted 2K23 will see “Celestial fire on the royal edifice.” Taken literally, this could mean a meteor is headed straight for Buckingham Palace, burning down the house if you will. On a more metaphorical tip, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who recently released a “bombshell” Netflix series detailing the dark deeds committed against them by the crown, have taken aim with a different kind of fire power, lighting up and tearing down the reputation of the royal family as we know it. World War III The prophecy points to the conflict escalating into a full scale...

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WASHINGTON — An Arizona man who became the target of online conspiracy theories after he joined protesters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, told a House committee that he wasn't secretly working for the government during the attack and that the campaign against him has torn his life apart. Ray Epps told the Jan. 6 committee that the theory that he was working for the FBI never made much sense, given that his ’ image landed on an FBI poster immediately after the attack. He wasn't working for the CIA or the National Security Agency or the Washington Metropolitan...

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon railed against Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday, calling the Texas Republican "gutless" for busing migrants to Washington, D.C., in below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve. Abbott has come under fire in recent months over the Lone Star State's practice of redirecting asylum-seekers and undocumented immigrants to cities run by Democrats. Liberals have long blasted the move as a "cruel" act of political theater, but the governor is now receiving criticism from some within his own party. Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, slammed Abbott on Thursday in a post on...

Rep. Tim Burchett sits down with Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-04) in this new episode of Tennessee Talks to discuss what really happens behind the curtains in the Swamp. [30 mins]

Las Vegas is one of the largest cities for Southwest Airlines. And with the carrier cancelling thousands of flights every day over the holidays, many of those who happened in Vegas have been forced to stay in Vegas. Southwest has said they’ll cover reasonable expenses for affected travelers. That likely covers modest meals and hotel accommodations. But what about immodest expenses? For those, Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club has Southwest passengers covered offering: Free transportation to the club Waived cover charge One free drink And a lap dance According to the club’s General Manager, With the current state of Harry Reid...

Andrew Tate is sitting in a Romanian jail cell after being arrested for human trafficking on Thursday. Incredibly, he reportedly tipped off Romanian authorities of his whereabouts in a video responding to climate activist Greta Thunberg and her sick burn of him. In case you missed it, earlier this week Tate, a former kickboxer turned misogynistic far-right media personality, attempted to troll Thunberg by flaunting the 33 cars he apparently owns. “Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” Tate wrote in a tweet directed at Thunberg....

Republican Kari Lake highlighted a story in a tweet about a recent ruling in Georgia ordering a new election there after a hearing found that state elections officials identified so many “systemic irregularities” that it likely changed the results of the election. Lake’s recent tweet about the GA election update, was made just days after a judge ruled not to overturn the result of her race in Arizona or hold a new election in Maricopa County, even after hearing testimony that the same set of circumstances occurred in her own Arizona race. The similarities to her own situation were notable....

In the aftermath of the world’s catastrophic response to Covid-19, some governments have begun conducting inquiries into what went wrong. Yet owing to a combination of politics, face-saving, and outright corruption, these inquiries have generally been toothless. For example, a report published last year by the UK House of Commons concluded, backwardly, that if the UK had gone into strict lockdown three days sooner, disaster would have been averted. Conclusions like these are as insulting to the public’s intelligence as was the response to Covid itself. The response to Covid led to the sharpest economic collapse since the Great Depression,...

Peru's Supreme Court upholding the decision to hold former President Pedro Castillo... The air raid warnings early Thursday morning in Kiev and other parts of Ukraine... The US military talking about an incident involving a Chinese warplane and a US reconnaissance aircraft last week... A group of Jewish settlers evicted tonight in Israel in a move that seems totally inconsistent with the new government's character... In Arizona some final vote numbers put out today including the very close contest for Attorney General... Authorities in Australia and Canada are not following the United States lead in imposing COVID testing on people...

You may remember the battle over the public option, an idea that was designed to gradually turn Obamacare into single-payer over time. The idea was that Obamacare exchanges would offer some sort of non-profit plan to compete with all the for-profit insurance plans. Over time it was assumed more people would select the public option until it had eventually captured the whole market. The initial plans for a public option fell by the wayside but three states have instituted some version of a public option. Politico reported Tuesday that, so far, it hasn’t worked as planned.In Colorado, which is enrolling...

A U.S. military spokesperson said the Chinese jet 20 feet from the plane's nose, which caused the U.S. aircraft to take evasive maneuvers. A military source told the New York Times that officials waited eight days before releasing the information because a 'disclosure of this type takes time to verify details, obtain and declassify imagery and make proper notifications to other government agencies.' U.S. military planes and ships routinely carry out surveillance operations and travel through the region. China claims vast swathes of the South China Sea that overlap with the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and...

The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.With the red trickle behind us and the 2024 general election less than two years away, Republican voters will be faced with three options, like it, or not. The option a majority of GOP voters choose will be pivotal in both congressional elections and the election of the next president of the United States, as well.Those options are:Continue to focus on election day only, which historically determined the outcome of all elections.Continue to whine about “massive fraud” and “stolen” elections as the reason your...

Kimberly Guilfoyle demanded she be paid $60,000 before agreeing to speak at the Jan. 6 rally, according to new details from the Jan. 6 committee transcripts. In June, it was reported that Guilfoyle, who worked on former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., was paid by Turning Point Action for her speech that introduced her fiance and lasted less than three minutes. Publix supermarket heiress Julie Fancelli was the sponsoring donor. The transcripts reveal Guilfoyle’s insistence that appearing at the “Stop the Steal” rally, which was held on the Ellipse outside the White House,...

Footage has emerged of a Russian TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS purportedly being blasted in the Bakhmut area of Ukraine, where there has been intense fighting over the Christmas period. The video, posted on Twitter and said to have been filmed a week ago, shows the weapon being raised from the tank before several rounds of rockets are fired. They can be seen exploding on the ground through the eyes of the soldiers firing them, in black and white footage with the crosshair visible on the screen. The TOS-1A is used to clear out buildings, bunkers and field fortifications. It is also...