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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) appointed his predecessor, former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R), to fill the state’s U.S. Senate seat, vacated by former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) in January. Term limits rendered Ricketts unable to run for reelection. Being appointed to the position was widely expected after he said he intended to seek an application for consideration for the appointment following Pillen’s announcement that he would “seek qualified applicants” to fill the upcoming vacancy. Sasse, a two-term senator, left his U.S. Senate seat to become the president of the University of Florida. He officially resigned from the Senate on...

In 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage Via @jj_talking pic.twitter.com/L7c80MRRiS— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 12, 2023

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Wednesday that the man who shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake on Saturday morning is a government employee. The shooting happened at around 4 a.m. on Quincy Street, when a homeowner went outside after hearing noises and observed 'someone that appeared to be tampering with vehicles,' according to police. The homeowner opened fire with a registered firearm after a brief interaction with the teenager, who later died from his injuries at a local hospital. The man phoned 911 after shooting Blake and was performing CPR on the boy when police arrived, Chief Robert...

Multiple House Democrats are reportedly pushing again for reparations and a national apology for slavery, according to Fox News. The group reintroduced legislation to create a commission whose members would address slavery in America, and one Democrat hopes the nation can deal with the issue, the outlet continued Thursday: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and 52 House Democrats proposed the legislation this week in an effort to keep the issue alive. Her legislation, which was considered by the House Judiciary Committee in the last Congress when Democrats were in charge, is unlikely to taken up in the 118th Congress led...

Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will be sworn-in next week on three Bibles with significance to his family and Jewish faith. Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s outgoing attorney general, will use a family Bible that he has used for swearing-in ceremonies since 2005, a Hebrew Bible that was in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during the 2018 massacre, and a Bible carried by a Jewish soldier from Philadelphia during the D-Day invasion in World War II. Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro Shapiro, who embraced his deep Jewish faith on the campaign trail, will be the third Jewish governor in Pennsylvania history after Milton Shapp...

The transgender high school teacher in Canada who went viral for her prosthetic Z-cup breasts could be asked to tone down her attire. Kayla Lemieux, previously known as Kerry, wears extra-large breasts with artificial nipples under tight tops, along with flex shorts and a blonde wig. She teaches at Oakville Trafalgar High School, near Toronto in Ontario. But she could soon be forced to stop wearing her controversial attire after the Halton District School Board directed staff to develop a 'professional standards of dress' policy during a meeting on January 3. Students and parents have raised concerns about Lemieux's attire,...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Miami woman was arrested after police said she stabbed her roommate multiple times during an argument over a missing phone, NBC affiliate WTVJ reported. Police said the stabbing happened at an apartment on Northwest 12th Court. When officers arrived, they found the woman bleeding from her wounds. The new station reported that the woman was taken to a trauma center and treated for multiple puncture wounds to the right side of her body. A third roommate told officers that he was leaving when he heard loud screaming and then saw the bleeding woman collapse on...

Eight high school students in Texas have been hospitalized after their football coach forced them to do 400 push-ups in an hour without any breaks. Rockwall-Heath High School Head Football Coach, John Harrell, has been put on administrative leave after he reportedly forced students to do 300 to 400 push-ups during an eighth-period athletic class on Friday. A mother, who did not want to be identified, claimed the football players were forced to do the intense workout without water breaks, according to Fox 4 News. She said her son was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis - the breakdown of muscle tissue that...

Ireland must prepare to grant asylum to migrants supposedly fleeing climate change, a government minister from the Green Party has declared. Roderic O’Gorman, Ireland’s controversial Minister for Children, has declared that his country must make preparations to allow in a large number of migrants supposedly fleeing from the effects of climate change. While Ireland has already been pursuing a relatively open borders approach when it comes to the issue of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, the suggestion that it starts allowing climate migrants to stay in the country has shocked even some of the Irish government’s own ministers. Speaking to the...

Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday the DOJ was launching a Special Counsel to investigate Joe Biden’s mishandling of top secret classified documents as Vice President of the United States. This comes after a second batch of classified documents was found in his Delaware garage next to his Corvette. Garland nominated Robert Hur to investigate Joe Biden’s criminal activity. Unlike the US president, the vice president does not have the right to take and store classified government documents. Robert Hur was a US Attorney for the District of Maryland from April 2018 to February 2021. Hur was a...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday argued President Biden knew his private office had classified documents, or he wouldn’t have had his attorneys remove things from his office. “I think if you call a lawyer to remove something for your office, he must have known ahead of time,” McCarthy said. “So, I think he has a lot of answers to the American public. The good thing about that is the American public has a Congress that can get the answers.”

Perhaps annual increases for a number of years of the debt limit could be traded for partial ratification of a federal expenditure control amendment such as: If any fiscal year after September 2032 ends in the red, all persons elected to a term of federal office encompassing any portion of that fiscal year shall be forever barred from from obtaining another federal position, another term or any federal origin payment or benefit of any type. I believe most Republican-run states would ratify such an amendment. To make it likely that it gets ratified by at least 38 states, the debt...

Delta employees will be barred from the airline's Sky Club lounges unless they pay for a ticket. That means flight attendants and pilots will not be permitted access when flying standby for free. The airline is working to fix long lines and overcrowding at its popular airport lounges. Delta employees will no longer be able to access the airline's popular Sky Club lounges unless traveling on a paid ticket, the airline told staff in an email sent Thursday. The controversial changes come as Delta struggles to combat overcrowding in the lounges, first announcing major restrictions on which passengers can buy...

President Joe Biden acknowledged Thursday that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his “personal library” at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, along with other documents found in his garage.

A wild deer wreaked havoc in Minnesota last weekend after launching itself through the glass door of a butcher shop. The shop's surveillance camera captured the mid-sized deer making its grand entrance by shattering the glass door in the entryway.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday he had appointed a special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up at an office President Biden used at his namesake think tank in Washington, DC, and his home in Delaware. Republicans called on Garland to name a special counsel to examine whether the Obama-era documents were mishandled by Biden following revelations this week that a box containing classified documents were discovered in a locked closet in an office the president used at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement on Nov. 2, just days before the midterm elections. Then on...

Brian Kemp on his way to the WEF gathering Davos to be with all of his new friends. By the end of his next 4 years, this state will look nothing like it does now, let alone what it looked like 12 years ago, when Deal took his seat in the Governor's office. For those of you on Twitter or can access it..... https://twitter.com/search?q=Kemp&src=trend_click&vertical=trends Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson Jan 11 Why is Georgia Governor Brian Kemp going to the World Economic Forum event next week? Shane Hazel @ShaneTHazel Oh look Georgia. Brian Kemp is headed over to the WEF. Great...

Earlier this morning, Palestinian police officer Samir Aslan was killed in clashes with IDF forces which made arrests in Qalandia, north of Jerusalem. From abuali

WASHINGTON — President Biden admitted Thursday that more classified documents were found inside his Delaware garage near his Corvette after the revelation Monday that 10 sensitive documents were found at Biden’s former think tank office in Washington. The jaw-dropping disclosure comes as the Justice Department reviews whether Biden mishandled classified information — a potential crime — after he left office as vice president in 2017. Attorney General Merrick Garland was due to make a statement at 1:15 p.m., possibly to appoint a special counsel in the matter. “Classified materials next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?” Fox News...

WASHINGTON — President Biden admitted Thursday that more classified documents were found inside his Delaware garage — near his prized classic Corvette — after the revelation Monday that 10 sensitive documents were found at Biden’s former think tank office in Washington. The jaw-dropping disclosure comes as the Justice Department reviews whether Biden mishandled classified information — a potential crime — after he left office as vice president in 2017.