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The Georgia grand jury forewoman who holds the hopes and dreams of the opponents of President Donald J. Trump in her magic wand. She is a 30-year-old Harry Potter Witch, Emily Kohrs was introduced to the world in a recent media blitz, showing her acting overly dramatic and strange. But that act wasn’t the weirdest thing about Kohrs. After her appearance on TV media, where Kohrs wiggled, twisted, and grimaced in a very odd way while describing her duties as the forewoman of the jury- which many people hope will imprison Trump and keep him from running for President of...

Lying Rep. George Santos has co-sponsored legislation introduced in the House last week that would name the AR-15 the “National Gun of the United States.” The bill, put forward in the House last Friday by Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.), more specifically seeks to declare that an “AR-15 style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56x45mm NATO round [would be] the National Gun of the United States,” according to a summary of the legislation. The full text of the bill has not been released. Santos, who has been under fire since admitting to The Post in December that...

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China has called for a cease-fire between the two sides and for peace talks to commence as part of a 12-point plan to end the war. On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China has called for a cease-fire between the two sides and for peace talks to commence as part of a 12-point plan to end the war. China’s Foreign Ministry revealed the plan on Friday, Beijing time, and also called for the end of Western sanctions on Russia, measures to ensure...

Two Twin Cities lawmakers have introduced bills to ban the sale of new gas-powered lawn mowers and Zambonis in Minnesota.Reps. Jerry Newton, DFL-Coon Rapids, and Heather Edelson, DFL-Edina, introduced HF 1715 and 1716 this week. The first would require all new lawn and garden equipment sold or distributed in Minnesota after Jan. 1, 2025, to be powered solely by electricity. This would apply to lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, lawn edgers, string trimmers, and brush cutters.“While electric leaf blowers or hedge clippers may work fine for urban and suburban dwellers, these tools are entirely insufficient for anyone who...

@RepMTG Ukraine is the new Iraq. Our country is run by stupid warmongers that are so clueless and disconnected with what the American people want that they are literally leading us into World War 3. 4 Min Segment ...

Drip, drip, drip. The politicization scandal at the Department of Defense grows a little each day as more Republicans come forward. Two more have gone public with notices from the Air Force that their confidential files got handed over to Abraham Payton of Due Diligence Group (DDG), a Democrat oppo-research firm that worked for House Democrats last cycle.And kudos to Politico for staying on top of it, too:Sam Peters, a Republican who challenged Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) in November, and Kevin Dellicker, who fell short in the GOP primary race to take on Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), both received Feb....

A Baltimore schoolboy-turned-terrorist was quietly freed from Guantanamo Bay on February 2 by Joe Biden and relocated to Belize at taxpayer expense. He is the first high-value detainee to be released from Guantanamo Bay and the first inmate resettled by the Biden administration.Majid Khan was the only American resident locked up in Guantanamo Bay. He ran errands for the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM). He also plotted to blow up Pakistan’s then-President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in 2002. He wore a suicide vest packed with explosives and waited at a mosque for Musharraf to arrive. When he...

All his proposal would do is expand state interference in speech.Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is the newest candidate running for the Republican presidential nomination. You can read about his agenda in The Wall Street Journal. It’s heavy on trendy populism, but his embrace of meritocracy and economic growth is an improvement over the dour dead-end statism of the “post-liberal” right.But his most unique proposal, one that will probably sound enticing to many people, is a terrible one — and one that would expand state interference in speech and end up boomeranging on those it claims to protect:Viewpoint censorship extends beyond the...

Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office on Thursday morning, police sources said. Cops responded to a 911 call at 767 Fifth Avenue — where Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located on the sixth floor — at around 11:10 a.m., the sources said. EMTs pronounced the 78-year-old businessman dead at the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause of death. “The family is extremely saddened by Tom’s death. While the world knew him as one of the pioneers in the private...

Republicans are on the warpath against embattled Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Drumbeats are sounding for his resignation and he is being pilloried by conservatives on social media. It is not just the GOP, some Democrats have pointed out his failures too. The latest controversy is a train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio that released toxic chemicals earlier this month. The Norfolk Southern derailment has residents and politicians in that town faulting Pete Buttigieg and the Biden administration for abandoning them in a critical time of need. Latest Update on the SituationButtigieg finally visited East Palestine February 23, while former...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were ill prepared for just how low down the Hollywood “pecking order” they’d be, according to a former friend of the actress. TV presenter Nick Ede, who says his friendship with the former “Suits” star started years before she had her sights set on the palace, claims that the pair didn’t realize they wouldn’t be known as “Hollywood royalty” when they moved across the pond to California. “I think they came in and thought that the number one people on the block and they’re not really,” Ede, who says he lost contact with Markle when...

President Joe Biden has nominated former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank — the first time a credit card executive has been chosen for the spot. The nomination comes as Biden pitches himself as a defender of American consumers and an enemy of the banking industry. “Ajay is uniquely equipped to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history,” Biden said in a statement on Thursday. “… he also has critical experience mobilizing public-private resources to tackle the most urgent challenges of our time, including climate change.” Banga’s nomination comes less than a month after...

While the residents of East Palestine, OH, are still dealing with the aftermath of an ecological disaster they had no part in creating, the political battle over the incident continues apace.Pete Buttigieg, who completely ignored the derailment for ten days, finally visited the small town on Thursday. That only came after Donald Trump made a trip to bring water and supplies, putting the Biden administration on the hot seat. Meanwhile, the blame game has started, with the White House claiming that it was Republicans who were responsible for a train accident…two years after Biden took office.But leave it to the...

Pfizer denied conducting gain-of-function research for the coronavirus virus in a letter to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Jackson, a physician and a member of the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, sent a letter in January, which was exclusively obtained by Breitbart News’s Hannah Bleau, demanding answers on if Pfizer engaged in gain-of-function research by intentionally mutating the Chinese coronavirus. Pfizer responded to Jackson on February 23 with a letter signed by their vice president & COO of vaccine research, which was obtained by Breitbart News. In the letter, Pfizer strongly denied that the company would...

Congressional investigators have scored a major breakthrough by securing cooperation from Eric Schwerin, a close business associate of Hunter Biden who also had dealings with Joe Biden's business and tax affairs. "He is cooperating with us," House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed Thursday evening on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "His attorneys and my counsel are communicating on a regular basis. Now, I feel confident that he's going to work with us, and provide us with the information that we have requested." Comer added: "I think that Schwerwin is going to be a...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (Ohio) and other GOP panel members on Thursday are holding their latest public hearing on the souther border, entitled “The Biden Border Crisis.” This session is at the Yuma, Ariz., city hall, about five miles east of the Colorado River, which roughly follows a short leg of the Mexican border in Arizona’s southwest corner. This hearing, which no Democratic members will be attending, is one of several that various House committees are holding at the border. It follows a policy change from the Biden administration earlier this week narrowing eligibility for asylum claims based...

Sir Tony Baldry accuses The Most Rev Justin Welby of not offering ‘a fair representation of the facts’ over same-sex blessings debate The Archbishop of Canterbury misrepresented his “summons” by MPs, a former minister has claimed. Last week The Most Rev Justin Welby claimed that he was “threatened with parliamentary action” in an attempt to “force same-sex marriage” in the Church of England, following the institution’s historic vote to offer blessings for gay and lesbian couples and to apologise for its exclusion of LGBTQI+ people. Speaking to members of the Anglican Communion in Accra, Ghana, where he is still visiting,...

QUESTION: Marty; Why would Biden allow the billions he is sending to fill the pensions of government workers in Ukraine? ANSWER: This video has been going viral. However, this was from the beginning – of April 28th, 2022. The pensions are all the Ukrainian politicians – not the people. This is the kickback for destroying their own country. As long as they are being paid by the United States, they will allow this civil war to continue unabated. This money going to Ukraine is filling the pockets of Ukrainian politicians against their own people. This was not from Biden’s surprise...

The US military moving to increase its presence in Taiwan... It's now Friday in China where a 12-point plan for a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine has been published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry... A new warning from Russia tonight regarding the Transnistria Region Of Moldova. It's an ethnic Russian part of Moldova a nation sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania. Russia has a military contingent in the territory for peacekeeping purposes. Russia said earlier today that Ukraine is planning a false flag incident involving an invasion of Moldova by Ukrainian troops dressed as Russian military. Russia saying its military...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has warned that any candidate in the forthcoming general elections with questionable character would not work for the common good of the electorate. The CBCN made the submission in a communiqué issued at the end of their 2023 first plenary meeting held at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Abuja. The document was co-signed by the President of CBCN, Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, and Secretary, Bishop Donatus Ogun. According to the Bishops, politicians with evil intentions could in no way possess a good intentions for the people and the development of the nation. The communique...