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It’s Washington’s newest guessing game: Who is the unnamed Biden family member who got proceeds from a $3 million wire to Hunter Biden associate John “Rob” Walker weeks after Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017? House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) first revealed Monday that bank records obtained via subpoena implicate a “new Biden family member” in the panel’s probe of the first son’s alleged influence-peddling scheme. Comer is expected to reveal the person’s name at some point, but has not yet announced specific plans to do so, leaving the door open to speculation about who else...

The three swept items, worth over $5,000, off the shelves into bags before fleeing the store in a gray 2018 Kia Optima, Katris said. Officers spotted the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. The Kia ran a red light at Route 60 and Hawthorn Hills Square and officers terminated the chase, Katris said... The Kia left the roadway on the southeast corner of the intersection and drove into a wooden fence. ...The third retail theft suspect, a female, who was the front seat passenger of the Kia, was impaled by a wooden fence post. Officers performed first aid...

Many artists have one song they can’t escape, and Phil Collins is the same. At some stage, a creation stops being under the ownership of the artist who crafted it and becomes a part of the collective lexicon. Phil Collins’ pop behemoth ‘In The Air Tonight’ is one such piece that transcended the artist. Following Peter Gabriel’s departure from the group, they desperately needed to reinvent themselves to survive, and Collins stepped up to become the band’s new singer. It was a decision which could have gravely backfired, but instead, it started the most commercially successful chapter of Genesis’ career,...

Cardinal Cupich on 10 years of Pope Francis: women, LGBT Catholics, sex abuse and what comes nextWhen Pope Francis named Blase Cupich as archbishop of Chicago in 2014, some interpreted the appointment as a signal that the pope sought to reorient the U.S. hierarchy. Francis, who was elected pope 10 years ago on Monday, has spent the last decade reforming the Vatican bureaucracy and trying to implement his vision of a church that acts as what he describes as a field hospital, responding with mercy to the needs of ordinary Catholics. In the United States, home to a vocal group...

Republicans in the Idaho legislature are looking to approve a resolution that would ask President Joe Biden, as well as Congress, to flood the United States labor market with more foreign workers as well as to grant an amnesty that would give green cards to millions of illegal aliens holding American jobs. A resolution, authored by State Sen. Jim Guthrie (R) and cosponsored by State Sens. Treg Bernt (R), Linda Hartgen (R), and Chuck Winder (R), asks the federal government to stem the flow of illegal immigration by requiring E-Verify for employers, among other things, while also expanding the number...

"And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way. "And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: "Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest." Mark, Chapter 11 1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 2 And saith unto them, Go your way...

KYIV, Ukraine ― The crowd at G-Versace Club ― mainly queer men, but also a sizable proportion of young women ― went as wild for every performer as the audience might at a Beyoncé or BTS concert. The Feb. 11 show opened with “the Go-Go GIANNI Boys,” a troupe of scantily clad, svelte men who danced choreographed numbers. Then, six drag queens with names like Gina Smile or Alcodiva took to the small stage, lip-syncing to both Ukrainian and international hits. While all were eager to forget the war for a few hours, it wasn’t ignored, either. Toward the end...

On this date in 1719, Mary (Marie) Hamilton, lady-in-waiting upon the tsaritsa Catherine I, was beheaded in St. Petersburg for infanticide. Lady Hamilton — her Scottish family had emigrated generations earlier — did not like to wait on her libido. She could tell you if Peter the Great deserved his nickname, and dish on any number of other courtiers, nobles, and hangers-on. This pleasing sport, of course, assumes with it the risks imposed by an equally impatient biology. Hamilton’s gallantries two or three times quickened her womb. Her decision to dispose of these unwanted descendants in the expedient way —...

The man who sparked outrage by abandoning a German Shepherd in broad daylight in Texas has been arrested, charged, and identified as an individual illegally in the U.S., the Dallas Police Department and county jail records say. Ramiro Zuniga (L) in a Dallas County Jail mugshot, (R) the moment the German Shepherd was abandoned on the side of Dowdy Ferry Road (WFAA screengrab). Ramiro Zuniga, 41, was arrested Saturday and charged with a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge, stemming from an incident that shocked locals last Wednesday evening. The video, which was recorded by the animal rescue group the Dowdy Ferry...

Bruce Springsteen has pulled out of his third concert in a week with an unspecified illness forcing him off the road with his band at the expense of an appearance planned Tuesday for Albany. The postponements come as Springsteen’s first major tour with the E Street Band in six years ends its first month on the road. AP reports the New Jersey rocker also gave himself and his band sick days last Thursday when they were to have performed in Columbus, Ohio, and again for a scheduled concert Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The concert tour has...

We’ve all had the experience of waiting at home for a delivery to arrive, only to discover a note on your door later in the day claiming that a delivery was attempted and failed. If this has happened to you, you might be wondering how you could have missed your delivery if you were home all day. Now, TikTok user Michelle (@michellegwynn85) has gone viral after sharing her potential explanation. In a video with over 3.6 million views, Michelle claims that she was waiting at home for a new washing machine to be delivered from Lowe’s. Rather than ring the...

Karl Lauterbach is Germany’s Federal Minister of Health. Yesterday, he dropped a bombshell on Germans in an interview. It has been posted on Youtube with English subtitles.You can find the video here (start: 3:54; end:15:17 [interview with minister of health starts at 8:07).The COVID-19 ‘vaccine’-induced injuries that were covered in this program are severe, life-altering, and permanent. More people are waking up to the reality that more of these severe injuries have occurred and continue to emerge than what has ever been admitted publicly by those pushing the shots. This is the nature of passive monitoring systems, particularly when coupled...

Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱@elderofziyonPalestinians OVERWHELMINGLY support the cold blooded murder of Jewish civilians. And they always have.

Former President Donald Trump told Iowans Monday night that he is the only candidate who could “prevent World War III” as the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on.“Standing before you today, I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III,” he said, speaking in Davenport.PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Standing before you today, I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III." pic.twitter.com/pmN1Grgc4l— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 14, 2023Trump pledged to have a deal reached between Russia and Ukraine as president-elect before his term even starts if...

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC Jen Psaki told late-night host Stephen Colbert that she’d never be asked to do what Fox News hosts did in the blockbuster Dominion filings because “MSNBC has a very high standard of what is factual.” Psaki has not been shy about ripping Fox News over conduct revealed in the blockbuster filings by Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for defamation and seeking $1.6 billion in damages. During an appearance on Monday night’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new MSNBC show Inside With Jen Psaki,...

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) pushed back on President Joe Biden blaming the rollback of some financial regulations — which Gottheimer voted for — for the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse by stating that the regulators “should have caught” problems with SVB.Host Jake Tapper asked, “So, today, President Biden placed some of the blame on this move by President Trump and Republicans in Congress to roll back some of the financial regulations in 2018. I think it was some of the Dodd-Frank regulations. You just heard Mark Zandi say that that change, that weakening...

A Romanian court on Tuesday (Mar 14) denied social media personality Andrew Tate's request to be released on bail from police custody pending a criminal investigation into alleged sex trafficking. Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian female suspects have been under police detention since Dec 29 as prosecutors investigate them for suspected human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, accusations they have denied. The Bucharest court said Tate’s request to have police custody replaced with a restricted release on bail was "inadmissible in principle".

The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans.Declaring this week that defending Ukraine against Russia’s invasion was not a vital interest for the United States, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida cemented a Republican shift away from hawkish foreign policy that has played out over the past decade and accelerated with Donald J. Trump’s political rise.Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis — whose combined support makes up more than 75 percent of Republican primary voters in the nascent 2024 presidential contest — are now largely...

Eph. 1:16-18 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And we know that...

The Ides of March—a day of murder that forever changed history ​The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C still resonates as a day of infamy. Here's how the plot unfolded.Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marked March 15, or the Ides of March, as a day of infamy. It has fascinated scholars and writers ever since. For ancient Romans living before that event, however, an ides was merely one of several common calendar terms used to mark monthly lunar events. The ides simply marked the appearance of the full moon. But Romans would soon learn...