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WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK IS HAPPENING IN NEW JERSEY? This happened a week ago: New Jersey GOP councilwoman gunned down outside her home in targeted attack And then this news broke today, one week later: New Jersey GOP councilwoman gunned down outside her home in targeted attack 51-year-old Milford Councilman Russell Heller was found dead on Wednesday just after 7 am in the Somerset parking lot of the local energy company PSE&G where Heller worked, according to the New York Post. Police identified 58-year-old former employee Gary Curtis as the suspect, and discovered him dead in his car from a...

Henry Bicker Gibson was cashier of the Ontario Bank, director of multiple financial ventures, president of a canal company, and president of two railroads, the latter of which was merged with others to form the New York Central.

Former President Donald Trump detailed his plan for “reclaiming American energy dominance” and creating the “power plants, pipelines, grids, ports, refineries, and shipping terminals of tomorrow” in his latest campaign ad video shared exclusively with Breitbart News.Trump, who remains the lone candidate in the 2024 presidential primary field, pledged to “bring back a pro-American energy policy at long last” if he is elected to the Oval Office, unveiling his plan to de-regulate the industry, once again exit the Paris Climate Accords, and “rapidly” approve “worthy” domestic energy infrastructure projects to lower prices and create jobs for Americans:I will deploy a...

Over 50,000 Americans died at Gettysburg, making it the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in our nation's history. And if you'd stepped on this sucker, you might have been the last casualty of the Civil War. From The Hill: According to the park, the shell was found within the Little Round Top rehabilitation project area in the southwest corner of Little Round Top, the site of a Union victory over the Confederacy on July 2, 1863, amid the Battle of Gettysburg. Officials with the park say the device dates to 1863. It weighs about 10 pounds, and measures about...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday defended President Biden’s reaction to the flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the United States and said he agreed with the president’s decision to shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina. Romney said he was satisfied with answers he received from senior administration officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, at an all-senators classified briefing on the incident. “My questions were satisfactorily answered and I believe the administration, the president, our military and our intelligence agencies acted skillfully and with care. At the same time, their capabilities are extraordinarily impressive,”...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new high-income tax by Metro is waiting on collections from thousands of households in Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties. Anyone with a late payment could be facing additional fees and interest. The Supporting Housing Services tax collects 1% of personal income for individuals who make more than $125,000 annually or more than $200,000 for joint filers. In the past month, Metro has issued roughly 20,000 notices to taxpayers fitting the income requirements for either failing to pay the 2021 tax by April 2022, or for mistakes in their filing, according to Metro spokesperson Nick Christensen. “We're...

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) let President Joe Biden have it over the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying on Wednesday that he had been wrong to dramatically change border policy without having a good plan in place to mitigate the potential fallout of those changes. Cuomo made the comments during the most recent episode of his podcast — “As a Matter of Fact …” — and he even went so far as to say that “the southern states were right” when they warned Biden not to dismantle the policies left in place by former President Donald Trump and...

So many lies were told at the House Oversight’s first committee hearing Wednesday into the corruption scandal involving Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and the subsequent cover up by the FBI with social-media firms to rig the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. Or, as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tried to rebrand it: “Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop.” It’s a sign of desperation that more than two years after The Post published the first bombshell story from the laptop, Dems can’t get their stories straight on what the laptop really is. Is it Hunter’s property, his “personal data” that was...

A group of institutional investors are suing energy and gas giant Shell for allegedly not properly preparing to shift away from fossil fuels, as reported by Reuters. Client Earth, investors and activist group in Shell, are taking the board of directors to court over allegations that they are harming the company's future by not properly shifting toward green energy. The environmentalists say it is the company's duty to shift away from fossil fuels and pivot in order to fight the "climate crisis." "Shell’s Board is legally required to manage risks to the company that could harm its future success, and...

SANTA FE – Lawmakers are evaluating a wide-ranging package of proposals to impose new firearms restrictions in New Mexico.Democrats hold large majorities in both chambers and have made gun legislation a priority this year.Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, also called on lawmakers to take action during her State of the State address.One proposal – a restriction on a straw purchase for a felon – has bipartisan sponsorship.House Bill 9: Unlawful access to firearm by minor Where it stands: Awaiting action by full House. Approval there would send it to the Senate and Senate committees.Senate Bill 44: Ban firearms at...

For the first time since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, a draft resolution has been submitted to the US Congress, in which a group of American lawmakers demands that the administration of President Biden complete the process of allocating military assistance to Ukraine. The draft resolution is registered in the US House of Representatives, which, as you know, has been under the control of the Republican Party since the beginning of the year.The sponsor of the draft resolution is Congressman Matt Goetz, representing the above-mentioned party. He is elected from Florida. Goetz, by the way,...

Twitter executives being beholden to so-called experts’ tweets is hardly better than doing the FBI’s bidding. When the New York Post dropped its bombshell reporting on documents recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in October of 2020, Twitter did not reach out to the FBI to ask whether the reporting was Russian disinformation — despite extensive coordination with the FBI to prepare to combat foreign election interference. Instead, according to testimony at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing, Twitter relied on the tweets of supposed experts, making the tech giant’s decision to censor the Post’s story even more outrageous. The House...

Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-host Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was “overhyped” as a potential 2024 presidential candidate. Griffin said, “On DeSantis, I think he is so overhyped. I’m just going, to be honest, I’ve seen Trump take out every mini version of Trump for the last five years. I think right now, the party wants something other than Trump. They want Trump light, so they are boosting and hyping DeSantis. He doesn’t do national interviews. He does nothing on the national stage. I think he will implode once Trump goes after him and...

Hunter Biden said he was 'fine' with Rosemont Seneca helping provide office space, obtain visas for BHR employees FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden proposed hiring a full-time employee in 2015 who could work in the Washington, D.C., office space "directly connected to the Rosemont Seneca offices" with a "separate entrance" and serve as the communications liaison with the Beijing team on behalf of the U.S partners of BHR Partners, according to a review of emails from Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop that have been verified by Fox News Digital. BHR Partners, a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China...

A billionaire venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital has blasted San Francisco’s seedy, drug-addled downtown — lambasting the city’s Democrat leadership for leaving them “zombie zones.” “It’s a strange city that bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles. Yet that’s San Francisco today,” Michael Moritz, 68, seethed in a fiery op-ed published in the Financial Times on Wednesday. “Between 2020 and 2022, 1,985 people here have died from drug overdoses compared to 1,143 from Covid-19,” he added. The former journalist-turned-investor said rampant and unchecked drug use has turned the City by the Bay into a “zombie” land. “Fentanyl, the...

VIDEOJames O'Keefe is one of the few real journalists left in an America full of "Solidarity Journalism" talking heads reciting the approved narrative. For that reason the Deep State, the Swamp, the liberals, the Big Media fake news frauds, and Big Pharma, especially Pfizer, want him OUT at Project Veritas. Despite all that opposition the great mass of thinking people have his back as you can hear in these voices of SUPPORT for James O'Keefe.

Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building in Washington, D.C., her office said. Craig, a Democrat who has served in Congress since 2019, “defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,” her chief of staff said. Her office said there is currently “no evidence” that the incident against Craig, the first openly LGBT member of Congress from her state, was “politically motivated.”

Despite disagreements between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, the prelude to the transit of power continues. Personnel changes in the Security Council are one of the manifestations. If the transit scenario is implemented, simultaneously with the appointment of Dmitry Patrushev as prime minister, his father Nikolai Patrushev leaves the Security Council, and Rashid Nurgaliev takes his place. Averyanov was sent to "look after" the Medvedev, just in case.

On Wednesday night lines of monster missiles rolled through the North Korean capital Pyongang. But it was not just his weapons that Kim Jong-un was parading. On show too, was his daughter. As the North Korean leader took up his usual parade position, at the centre of the balcony, he was joined, unusually, by the young girl dressed in black. She is thought to be his second oldest child, called Kim Ju-ae, aged around 10 years of age. This is the fifth public appearance she has made, and all in less than three months. During this short time she has...

A new study published on Wednesday suggested that a deep-space umbrella of lunar dust could help slow the effects of climate change. The study, published in the PLoS science journal, explains how a cloud of lunar dust launched between the Earth and the sun could block some of the solar radiation that warms the Earth. This research offers new support for a lesser-known corner of solar geoengineering, a field that seeks to scatter or reflect solar rays before they hit the Earth. The European Union is actively studying this idea, and the Biden administration has also started looking into it....