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A respected former federal prosecutor approached the U.S. Justice Department in fall 2018 on behalf of a foreign witness who claimed to have evidence that Joe Biden had "exercised influence to protect" his son's employer in Ukraine in return for money to his family, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News. The agency didn't take up the ex-prosecutor on his offer but instead secretly obtained his phone records a year later in an apparent effort to identify his contacts. Retired Little Rock, Ark., U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins wrote then-New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman on Oct. 4,...

It’s not hyperbolic to suggest that Tucker Carlson‘s seemingly abrupt departure from Fox News and his top-rated “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show caused shock waves; not only throughout the cable news industry but across America’s political landscape as well, as opinions remain sharp and varied over his “firing.”We’ll get to the latter, later.In Carlson’s first in-person, roughly hour-long speech since leaving Fox, the former top-rated host came out swinging against a myriad of issues plaguing America, as he sees them — but not including his departure from Fox and “the rest of the story” behind the departure.As reported by The Epoch...

Drone Footage Shows Line of Illegal Aliens Who Just Invaded Brownsville — Barely Any Women in Sight Our nation is facing a disaster more than it has faced in ...in....in...since I don't know when. Folks, this is scary to watch. Our nation is being destroyed with the cooperation and deliberate intentions of our government leaders.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Joe Biden, he goes careening off a cliff. That’s the story of the latest poll by ABC News and The Washington Post, which is just an absolute horror show for the president.That’s not hyperbole. We’ve gotten bad polls for the president in the past, but these numbers appear to be the worst of his presidency, and they counter a narrative of resurgence the press has been desperate to push since the beginning of 2023.Don’t take my word for it, though. Here’s George Stephanopoulos lamenting the results as “brutal.” He and his...

Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19. It may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself. The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a "cytokine storm," so often believed to cause death. "Our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for and aggressively treating secondary bacterial pneumonia in critically...

A new video shows Marine, Daniel Penny releasing the submission hold of Jordan Neely and placing him in the recovery position (5/7/23). (Credit: Mythinformed/Twitter) The death of Jordan Neely has elicited strong emotions from all sides. The homeless man was placed into a submission hold by an ex-U.S. Marine after allegedly aggressively threatening passengers on a New York subway. He was later pronounced dead after being transported to a nearby hospital.Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have used the situation as a partisan bludgeon in an attempt to stir up unrest, suggesting that Neely was “lynched.” Thankfully, to this point,...

Update from Ukraine | Wanger stays in Bakhmut | Prygozhyn Forced to obey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78FoUcJjpQQ ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 438 – Summary May 7 , 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-438-summary/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map!

“We agree privately and uniformly that [the] FBI is heading in the wrong direction and has been too entrenched with partisan politics, starting from Director Comey and intensified under Director Christopher Wray,” one agent said on behalf of the group. The retired agents each served in the FBI for more than two decades and chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. The agents describe themselves as a group of FBI veterans who love the bureau and worry about its growing role in partisan politics. (Snip) Conducting an unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home while suppressing key details related...

There's no question that watermelon is both delicious and nutritious, but new research underscores this nutrient-rich fruit's contributions to overall diet quality and heart health. A study suggests watermelon can increase nutrient intake and overall diet quality in both children and adults. The study analyzed National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data and found that total diet quality was higher in watermelon consumers as compared to non-consumers. According to the study, children and adult watermelon consumers had higher intakes of dietary fiber, magnesium, potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A as well as lycopene and other carotenoids, while they had...

Two Supreme Court justices did not recuse themselves from cases that came before the court over the past decade involving a publishing company that’s paid them in lucrative book deals. In two separate copyright infringement cases concerning the publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House, the high court declined to take up the appeals, with the court saying in 2013 that it wouldn’t hear the first case, and the second case being turned away from the court in 2019 and again in 2020. In both cases, the publisher won at the lower court level, and those decisions stood. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor,...

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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has arrived in Moscow for bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin and to attend a victory parade in the Russian capital to mark the end of World War II, likely making him the only foreign head of state to be at the May 9 events. Japarov's press service announced the official visit and arrival on the presidential website, saying the Kyrgyz leader was met at Vnukovo Airport by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin. Attendance by foreign officials at commemorations of what Russia calls the Great Patriotic War has waned since Moscow's illegal annexation of the...

A business traveler passing through Nashville woke up to find the manager of his hotel sucking on his toes, court records show. The victim said he was sleeping at the downtown Nashville Hilton Hotel on March 30 when he woke at about 5am to discover manager David Patrick Neal, 52, indulging a footy fetish on his lower digits. Startled, the guest said he screamed and called the police. Neal later said he used a key to enter the room because he smelled smoke, though police reports noted he hadn't reported the smells to anybody at the time. Neal, who has...

Federal prosecutors urged a federal judge late Friday to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison for plotting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, casting the punishment for the far-right group’s leader as a critical moment in the reckoning with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. If ultimately ordered, the 25-year sentence would go down as the longest handed down to date in the wave of more than 1,000 prosecutions stemming from the assault on the Capitol. The Justice Department’s recommendation for Rhodes came just hours after Judge Amit Mehta sentenced a Pennsylvania...

In this video Scotty talks about how expensive EVs are to maintain, and how quickly they lose value once they are driven off the dealer’s lot.

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Ron DeSantis grappled with how not to "piss off" then-President Donald Trump's voters during 2018 debate preparation sessions in his first campaign for Florida governor, according to videos obtained by ABC News. In the videos, the then-congressman can be seen talking through how to answer a mock question on whether there are any issues on which he disagrees with Trump. The question was posed to him by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who participated in the mock sessions. "Obviously there is, I mean, I voted contrary to him in the Congress," DeSantis said in the video. He added, "I have to...

The Government is ready to fight against progressive foreign policy, which aims to destroy sovereign, national foreign policy and to remove the requirement of unanimity from EU foreign policy decision-making, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest on Friday. In his speech on the closing day of the event, organized by the Center for Fundamental Rights, the Minister stressed that the first structure of progressive foreign policy pressure has been created, as nine EU member states have formed a group with the declared aim of removing unanimity from European...

NASHVILLE – Athletes must refuse to compete against transgender girls to ensure sports go back to being fair and reserved for biological females, former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines told Fox News. "We have to have girls who, when the whistle blows, they don't run, they don't swim. They stand up on the block and they don't go," said Gaines, who swam for the University of Kentucky. "It's unfortunate, of course, to ask women to make that sacrifice because these are their sports, they should be entitled to playing," she added. "They shouldn't have to give up anything to get changes."...

Steven Spainhouer, one of the first people on scene at the mass shooting in Allen, Texas, has called for M4s and AR-15s to be removed from the streets despite admitting he is a 'gun lover.' The former police and army officer said that it is long pastime automatic weapons were removed from everyday public life, on account of the rising number of mass shootings. 'I'm a gun lover, I have guns. But these M4s, AR-15s, they've got to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening, and we've got to stop that at some point,' he continued.