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An attorney for Derek Chauvin is planning to ask an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial. Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned the (b)lack man to the ground with his knee on his neck for 9½ minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests around the world and forced a painful national reckoning with police brutality and racism. Hennepin County...

Road users are being urged to take care following overnight snowfalls in many areas, with low temperatures leading to icy conditions. Met Éireann meteorologist Gerry Murphy said any showers this morning could be of sleet and snow, although as the day goes on showers will be predominantly of rain and sleet. Two Status Yellow warnings for snow and ice remain in place for 22 counties until 9 am. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Mr. Murphy said it will be quite cold again tonight and temperatures will drop down as low as –4°C in places, with rain and sleet developing in...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom 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. "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the...

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Hunter Biden’s monthly rent of $49,910 matches a rental deposit at the House of Sweden related to the Biden family business venture with the infamous CEFC China Energy Co. Hunter’s $49,910 deposit also matches the amount of money he logged on a 2018 background check document unearthed by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. In an email on October 13, 2017, Cecilia Browning, the general manager of House of Sweden, an office complex in Washington, DC, emailed Hunter about a lease that Hunter and his Chinese business partners were trying to terminate, according to emails unearthed from Hunter’s “Laptop from...

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This is hilarious. As you know, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger went from Congress to CNN in the blink of an eye. We’ve not seen a big deal made about it, but he had to have been in talks with CNN while he was still in Congress doing his job of preventing Donald Trump from ever holding office again. Unless someone from CNN just brought a suitcase of cash to the Capitol and made him an offer as he was carrying out his cardboard box full of stuff. What a tool We’d forgotten that Kinzinger — along with so many Never...

From the comments, Peter Sepall, "Great interview with Steve Kirsch. For anyone interested he has a channel here on rumble called Stkirsch. I knew from the start that they were lying about the vax being safe, not because I knew it was unsafe, but because I knew they couldn't know that it was. How could anyone know that a new medical procedure would have no long term consequences? Applying simple informal logic to life and not just going along with the crowd, whatever the crowd, can have profoundly liberating and health preserving results.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare was caught in controversy last September, after its website was shown to be directing users to “Porn Literacy” resources online. Then, on Tuesday, January 17th, Anna K. Miller and Scott Yenor revealed that 8th grade students in Moscow Idaho were being taught about “anal and oral sex” and were shown a graphic video produced by Trojan Condoms, that shows a cartoon removing a condom from an erect penis in their sex-ed class. Now, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has again been caught; this time with mandatory “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and...

Microsoft is preparing to axe thousands of jobs in the latest move by one of the world's biggest technology companies to reduce its workforce in the face of a slowing global economy. Sky News has learnt that the US software giant could announce plans to cull a significant number of posts around the world within a matter of days. Microsoft, which employs more than 220,000 people, including 6,000 in the UK, is said to be contemplating cutting roughly 5% of its workforce, which if accurate would equate to approximately 11,000 jobs. That figure could not be verified on Tuesday evening,...

Two weeks before the slayings of four University of Idaho students last November, the man now accused of killing them sent a series of messages to one of the victims on Instagram, an investigator familiar with the case tells PEOPLE.

Kari Lake, the Republican who lost the Arizona governor's race this past November, could beat both potential competitors Ruben Gallego and Kyrsten Sinema were she to run in 2024 for the latter's Senate seat, according to a recent poll. The survey, released January 11 by website Blueprint Polling, imagined a scenario in which Sinema, a former Democrat turned independent who's held her Senate seat since 2019, runs for reelection against Lake and Gallego, a Democrat who represents the state's 3rd Congressional District. Lake, who rumors say is considering running for the seat but has not confirmed this, polled at 36...

The Australian nation started as a penal colony. The best of Australian culture is robust and free. But the worst is weak and servile. Freedom Fighter Matt is a working man in Melbourne not afraid to denounce leftist police totalitarianism. God Bless Matt.

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov did not take the pregame skate on Tuesday night because he refused to wear the team's LGBTQ+ Pride Night warmup jersey, citing his religious beliefs. Provorov, 26, told reporters after the Flyers' 5-2 home win over the Anaheim Ducks that it was his choice "to stay true to myself and my religion," which he identified as Russian Orthodox. "I respect everyone. I respect everybody's choices," he said.

Local beavers are helping Ukraine defend itself from a potential new front in Russia's invasion, Reuters reported on Thursday. The animals are unwittingly helping Kyiv by building dams that keep the ground marshy and impassable, a military spokesman told the agency. This helps Ukraine by making it less likely that an attack could come via Belarus, which borders Ukraine not far north of the capital Kyiv...

Nine American citizens have been arrested and charged after allegedly trying to smuggle drugs from Los Angeles to London, British officials said. Additionally, more than $6.7 million worth of cannabis (or £5.5 million) was seized, according to the National Crime Agency in the U.K. The passengers were flying from Los Angeles to London’s Heathrow Airport when they were taken into custody last week. Each were found to have between 30 and 50 kilos of marijuana checked in their baggage, officials said. “In total more than 340 kilos of herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of more than £5.5 “million...

A lot of truth in this commentary. If you leave a gate open, the cow will wander off. So, if you intentionally leave a gate open, you want the cow to wander off. You can't blame stupidity or laziness. It was intentional. If you cut police budgets, you will get more crime on the streets. So, if you intentionally cut police budgets, you wanted more crime on the streets. If you cut back the supply of oil, gas prices will go up. So if you intentionally cut back the supply of oil, you wanted gas prices to go up. If...

AUBURN, NY — Following the new tradition of erecting disturbing modern-art monuments for prominent historical figures, the city of Auburn has unveiled a bronze statue of abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman's left big toe. "We felt that this was a fitting tribute for the great Harriet Tubman," said Brandon Quezada, chairman of the city's Artistic Initiatives Committee. "Knowing that Boston was unveiling the unspeakably creepy ‘The Embrace' statue for Dr. Martin Luther King that bears a striking resemblance to various human organs mashed together in an ungodly chimeric abomination from the pit of hell, creating a monument depicting...

As reported earlier Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proudly displayed their tax filings on the JoeBiden.com webpage. But then suddenly the documents were taken down and the webpage sent readers to a Democrat fundraising page. The Gateway Pundit investigated these documents on the Wayback Machine. Links to their tax filings were originally posted on the joebiden.com financial disclosure webpage in July 2019. The original list of tax filings included filings from 2016, 2017, and 2018: In January 2022 the JoeBiden.com financial disclosure webpage included the additional filings from 2019 and Senator Harris’s forms from 2019. The JoeBiden.com financial disclosure webpage...