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As the Kevin McCarthy drama dragged on, commentators began trumpeting the death of former President Donald Trump’s power and influence in the GOP. Then today, it became known that Trump actually brokered the deal between the GOP rebels and Rep. McCarthy’s allies that make the Californian’s election as speaker possible.“Trump’s spell over GOP breaks with McCarthy meltdown,” claimed Politico three days ago.“Trump’s inability to lift Kevin McCarthy in speaker race leaves media asking ‘what power does he really have?'” asked Fox News just two days ago.“House speaker election: fight over Kevin McCarthy’s leadership has exposed limits of Trump’s power,” chirped...

Did the Idaho quadruple murder suspect discuss the gruesome stabbings in a Facebook chat group before his arrest? Bryan Kohberger, 28, is accused of fatally stabbing 20-year-old Ethan Chapin of Conway, Washington; 21-year-old Madison Mogen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle of Avondale, Arizona; and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves of Rathdrum, Idaho on November 13. A motive for the murders is still not known. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer weighed in on a suspicious Facebook page named “Pappa Rodger” that many believe could belong to Bryan Kohberger. “Pappa Rodger” was a member of a University of Idaho Murders-Case Discussion chat...

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin makes a tackle, gets up, and immediately falls down. Every commentator immediately declares that Hamlin’s medical emergency is due to “commotio cordis.” Or so it seems. Any discussion of the possibility of the COVID vaccine’s involvement is “lies.”I serve as a medical information resource to an Orlando political talk show called “The American Adversaries.” So, when this very public medical event happened, I became Chris Hart’s on-air guest. His co-host is Mike McBath, a former Detroit Lions player who is still actively involved in player issues. While doing my homework, I found lots of doctors...

John 2:1-11 Friends, in today’s Gospel, we read about the wedding at Cana. Jesus’ mother is the first to speak, as John tells the story: “They have no wine.” On the surface level, she is indeed commenting on a social disaster, running out of wine at a party, and she is asking Jesus to do something to make things better.But let’s go deeper. Wine, in the Scriptures, is a symbol of the exuberance and intoxication of the divine life. When God is in us, we are lifted up, rendered joyful, transfigured. Therefore, when Mary says, “They have no wine,” she...

A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference. “The individual is a 6-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” Drew said. “We have been in contact with our commonwealth attorney and some other entities to help us best get services to this young man.” Drew said the female teacher – who is in her 30s – was shot inside a classroom and added that “this was not an accidental shooting.” The police chief said there...

President Donald Trump shared damning audio tapes on Truth Social that captured several stunning omissions from an embattled election worker in the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia.“The Ruby Freeman tapes that I put up on Truth Social are AMAZING,” he wrote. “Now they have been heard and seen all over America, together with the actual act of ‘stuffing the ballot boxes’ with far more votes than needed for me, and Senator Perdue, to win GEORGIA.”“I wouldn’t go too detailed into this at all…”“It’s just political…“Maybe it’s a cover up.” pic.twitter.com/ztPDuhMX1l— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) January 4, 2023Freeman has come...

COCOA, Fla. (CBS12) — Police made a troubling discovery after a welfare check led to The Cocoa Police Department said they responded to a residence at 2111 Otterbein Avenue on Jan. 1, in regards to a welfare check on 80-year-old Kathleen Ruhlander. The woman's granddaughter contacted police saying Robert Ruhlander, 53, the elderly woman's son, wouldn't let her see her grandmother. When another relative attempted to reach out Ruhlander told her the elderly woman was, "taking a nap." Officers said multiple welfare checks were attempted that day, however Ruhlander wouldn't let the officers inside the residence, closing the front door...

@JosephFordCotto Some conservatives claim that a convention of states will "restore the Constitution to its former glory" and "defeat leftist tyranny." In reality, if there were any such convention, leftists would commandeer it, obliterating free speech and whatever remains of free assembly.

Rep. Mike Rogers lunged at Matt Gaetz after the Florida lawmaker blocked McCarthy in the 14th round.

If he gave up stuff to become speaker, IMO, he bought a name tag and perhaps cannot be trusted

Which came first, The Partridge Family or The Brady Bunch? ANSWER: The Brady Bunch began airing in September 1969 while The Partridge Family debuted a year later. The Brady Bunch began airing in September 1969 while The Partridge Family debuted a year later

Jacob Sanchez made an everlasting impact on his students and loved ones. SAN ANTONIO – His playful, easygoing personality made him an easy pick to be a student’s favorite coach. But 35-year-old Jacob Sanchez was also an inspiration, a leader and an innovator that made him so likable to those he worked with at Devine Middle School. On Thursday, Sanchez collapsed at the start of class and staff members conducted CPR. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office reports he died of a heart attack. On Friday, the Devine community gathered for a vigil before the start of school and school...

A lawyer who had emailed me, who was involved in some way with the Raland Brunson case in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he had informed me that he “have heard the Supremes accepted the Brunson case.” So this lawyer had informed me that the Raland Brunson case had been accepted at the conference today in the U.S. Supreme Court. Hooray!!!! Great for them. Brian Hill also sent a letter to the Supreme Court in support of the Brunson case.

Adraft of the new House rules package that's circulating among lawmakers on Friday evening has been obtained by Just the News. The package contains changes to the rules related to appropriations process that would allow amendments on the floor from any member regardless of the committees on which they sit, the reinstatement of the Holman rule that allows the House to strip funding for salaries of certain federal programs or cut specific government programs and allowing only one lawmaker to make a motion to remove the House speaker. The final rules package is expected to be voted on late Friday...

Consumers can take a lot, but when you start raising prices on staples like eggs and milk, a definite din begins to rise from the streets. I knew something was up during a pre-Christmas trip to Costco, where a frenzied mob of shoppers were exasperated after being told, "We're out of eggs. We won't have any more until a truck comes in!"

In a potentially escalatory move, French President Emmanuel Macron became the first Western leader to supply Ukraine with tanks following talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, the West is conducting regime change in Russia by engaging in a proxy war through Ukraine and the oh-so-willing Volodymyr Zelensky. Could this have anything to do with the 2014 Ukrainian insurrection funded and conducted by the Obama Biden regime in the United States? Now the erstwhile leader of all Europe, Emmanuel Macron, has become the first furnish tanks to Ukraine, immediately followed by Germany and...

Excess deaths among children aged 0 to 14 in Europe surged 755% between January ad September 2022, according to official data, despite efforts by EuroMOMO to downplay the figures. The European Union has launched an investigation into the increase, which comes after the European Medicines Agency approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for children in May 2021. Overall, excess deaths rose 630% since the vaccine’s approval for use in children by September of 2022.

Newly elected Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) thanked former President Donald Trump for his ardent support in the speaker’s race moments after he secured the post in the fifteenth vote. “I do want to especially thank President Trump,” McCarthy told reporters. “I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning”: McCarthy mentioned that Trump made multiple calls to other members in support. “Somebody wrote the doubt of whether he was there, and he was all in. He would call me, and he would call others. And he really was. I was just...

In a speech on border security and enforcement Thursday, President Joe Biden compared asylum seekers at America’s southern border to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. The remark came in response to a question about whether Biden viewed migration as a human right. “Well I think it is a human right if your family is being persecuted,” Biden said. “I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go […] escape and get help where they could.” Vice President Kamala Harris nodded in agreement with the president’s remarks. Biden went on to say that...