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Since the legacy media is running out of fodder on NY Rep. George Santos, The Washington Post decided it needed to set its investigative sites on the freshman representative from Florida, Anna Paulina Luna. Luna has been making her mark among the newly-minted GOP House. Luna was one of the gang of 20 who held House Speaker McCarthy’s feet to the fire on the Rules package in order for him to secure her vote for his speakership.

Emails released Friday by the National Archives reveal references to President Biden’s lawyers handing over boxes of documents in Boston — confirming a little-known detail in the chronology of Biden’s classified documents scandal. “Please ensure that the boxes in your office in Boston remain secure in a locked space and are not accessed by anyone,” National Archives official Gary Stern wrote on Nov. 7 to Biden attorneys Patrick Moore and Bob Bauer. The email was sent five days after Biden’s lawyers say they discovered classified documents at Biden’s post-vice presidency office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.

Adidas’ divorce from Kanye West could cost the company more than $1.3 billion in revenue after it cut ties with the rapper in the wake of his anti-Semitic remarks, the Germany-based sports apparel maker said. Shares of Adidas fell 11% on Friday after the firm warned it could end the year at a loss for the first time in three decades as it struggles to sell unsold stock of Yeezy products. The company said its financial guidance for 2023 “accounts for the significant adverse impact from not selling the existing stock” of Yeezy brand shoes and clothing.

Two enormous cracks in Earth's crust opened near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people. Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) found the ruptures by comparing images of the area near the Mediterranean Sea coast taken by the European Earth-observing satellite Sentinel-1 before and after the devastating earthquakes. The longer of the two ruptures stretches 190 miles (300 kilometers) in the northeastern direction from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The crack was created by the first of...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest rebukes Pope Francis for calling to decriminalize sodomy: ‘Do you belong to Christ, or to Sodom?’Pope Francis is 'using his platform to embolden sinners and to shame the saints into silence and conformity with the world,' said Fr. Jason Charron.(LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest has rebuked Pope Francis for his calls to decriminalize sodomy during his recent visit to African countries South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The priest called the Pope to repent of his promotion of homosexuality, addressing the Pontiff in a video and asking, “Do you belong to Christ, or do...

n a small San Joaquin Valley neighborhood surrounded by miles of nut and citrus groves, six electric vehicle charging stations sit abandoned. Their parking spots are empty, their screens shattered. Over five short months and with nearly $2 million, the state powered a fleet of Teslas and Chevy Bolts that lent residents of this isolated community a transportation lifeline. Then one day at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cars vanished.

The charge is connected to the Jan. 15 death of her husband Joseph Hartsfield, who died at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital sfter a "suspicious illness," Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.... Deputies had been called to the hospital that day and launched an investigation after they were given inconsistent information. Hawthorne said that the inconsistencies coupled with "other determining factors made the illness appear more suspicious in nature." Authorities have not said what led up to Joseph Hartsfield's death, but Hawthorne said foul play is suspected. The sheriff told NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston that during the investigation, detectives learned that Sarah...

Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the British musician, composer and screenwriter, has died suddenly aged 65, The Independent has learnt. The multi-talented entertainer, who performed for King Charles, enjoyed a prolific career that included writing the screenplay for director James Ivory’s 1987 film Maurice, starring a young Hugh Grant in one of his first onscreen roles. He was the brother of Sarah Sands, journalist and former editor of the Evening Standard. His death comes as a double blow to the family amid an ongoing search for Ms Sands’ former husband, British actor Julian Sands, who went missing two weeks ago while hiking in...

A Huntington Beach City Council decision over what flags to fly in front of city government buildings made earlier this week received increased scrutiny on Thursday with more LGBT groups demanding that the rainbow-striped gay pride flag be allowed to fly again.

The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government convened this week and is scheduled to hold its first hearing. The FBI stands accused of a vast swath of abuses, such as labeling parents at school board meetings with terrorist threat tags, collusion with social media to monitor and censor Americans’ free speech, and identifying (with a high level of confidence) Catholics with a preference for Latin Mass as potential recruits for Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist organizations. These assaults by the nation’s top law enforcement agency on American’s civil rights are legion (pun...

Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) is likely to announce his decision on whether he’ll run for president in April, the prominent Republican said earlier this week. Hutchinson has hinted at a possible White House run for weeks, telling CBS News on Monday that he would make an announcement “probably [in] April.” It’s not clear whether Hutchinson has made a final decision, telling the outlet it depends on the “response to the message that I bring.”

The Sun has always fascinated astronomers. And now, a new development has baffled scientists. A huge part of the Sun broke off of its surface and created a tornado-like swirl around its North Pole. Though scientists are trying to analyse how this occurred, the video of the development has stunned the space community.

Former President Trump touted former Vice President Mike Pence as an “honorable man” on Friday, following reports that Pence had received a subpoena from the Department of Justice’s special counsel investigating Trump on multiple fronts. “Mike Pence is an honorable man,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday. Trump’s remarks come one day after reports emerged that Special Counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed his former vice president. Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to oversee the Justice Department’s investigations into the former president, including his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack...

A POLICE van has been torched during a protest in Liverpool over migrants staying in hotels. Footage shared on social media shows hundreds of people gathered outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley. The hotel is being used to house migrants. Staff from refugee charity Care4Calais said they became trapped in a car park. They described the protest as "out of control". Police said they were "facilitating an initially peaceful protest" and a group who opposed them at about 6.30pm on Ribblers Lane. Scenes then turned ugly, however, as missiles were thrown towards officers and a police van was set on...

Everything is always a conspiracy theory, until it’s not.Perhaps it’s just me but having followed the GOPe schemes and machinations for so many years it seems a little blasé to see the Wall St republican control groups begin open admissions about how they construct their planning sessions. However, for the interest of those who still think the larger Big Club design is all just a massive conspiracy theory, perhaps it is beneficial to record the actual moments as they happen.David McIntosh the president of the Club for Growth lobbying group that represents the interests of U.S. multinationals and Wall Street...

VIDEOThe incredibly smarmy Chris Sununu is ultimately fated to have his posterior handed to him in a most humiliating manner only he doesn't know it yet. One who does know is Jeb Bush who has this very sad message for Governor Smarmy.

The New York Times piece said Fetterman 'may have set himself back permanently' by campaigning instead of resting after his stroke ----------------------------------- On Friday, the New York Times released an article, titled "Fetterman, Recovering After Stroke, Labors to Adjust to Life in the Senate," detailing his struggles with quotes from senators and staff, with the admission that the campaign set back his stroke recovery. "But his adjustment to serving in the Senate has been made vastly more difficult by the strains of his recovery, which left him with a physical impairment and serious mental health challenges that have rendered the...

Four students have been charged in a New Jersey school hallway attack on a classmate who killed herself days later, prosecutors said. One was charged with aggravated assault, another with harassment and two others with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said in a statement Friday. Their names have not been released. NBC News does not usually name minors charged with a crime, even those charged as adults. "Each juvenile and their guardian was served with a copy of their complaint and are released pending future court appearances," Billhimer said. The prosecutor's announcement is the...

The White House said Friday that a 'high-altitude object' has been shot down over Alaska.President Joe Biden ordered the shootdown, spokesman John Kirby said, adding that the origin of the object has yet to be determined.Responding to reporters' shouted questions about the shootdown Friday afternoon outside the White House, Biden called the operation a "success."It comes just days after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon last Saturday, following a political firestorm.Kirby said the object was about the size of a small car and was at flying about 40,000 feet.He said because it posed a reasonable threat to the...

For nearly two years, Dr. Pierre Kory has been trying to tell the United States and the world that Ivermectin is highly effective in preventing COVID-19. On January 5, following the release of “the 16th positive, statistically significant trial” reinforcing the effectiveness of the affordable drug, Kory reiterated that same message. Indeed, the latest study proving Ivermectin’s effectiveness was a gold-standard randomized clinical trial (RCT) conducted by MedinCell. The study, conducted on 399 patients, met its primary efficacy endpoint with a reduction of 75 percent of COVID-19 infection in the group treated with daily oral administration of Ivermectin compared to...