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President Joe Biden and his family are at the center of an influence-peddling scheme in which they traded the patriarch’s decades of time in political offices to line their own pockets and then tried to cover up their profiteering with a myriad of complicated transactions and accounts, the House Oversight Committee confirmed during a press conference on Wednesday. With the help of whistleblowers and congressional subpoenas, Republicans are confidently reporting that the Bidens received at least $10 million worth of diluted payments from foreign companies during and after the president’s time in the Obama White House. These payments were diced...

The Bush clan is always in the background, like the stench of a rotting whale carcass just over the horizon. With Georgia on their mind for 2024, Governor Brian Kemp hosts a stop Trump confab at their infamous and preferred Sea Island retreat. Meanwhile, thanks to the intrepid boots-on-ground reporting of Laura Loomer, we discover that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is meeting with Zuckerberg’s far-left Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), in Washington DC. Why would state election officials be meeting with far-left election manipulation groups. Well, put those two datapoints together, and once again the strings...

The Trump campaign has released a new ad titled "Mourning in America," in which an alarm clock is shown with the word "morning," which then becomes "mourning," depicting the suffering felt by average Americans under President Joe Biden. Images of chaos at the border, Drag Queen Story Hour, American coffins, and a stumbling President Joe Biden play out while a narrator says: "It's mourning again in America, and thanks to Joe Biden, our borders are now wide open for all to come. Our schools free from parental involvement. .... Under Biden's unprecedented inflation, the hope of home ownership gone, and...

New York CNN — A major Paramount division announced Tuesday it will shutter MTV News and slash its US workforce by 25%, bringing to an end the iconic music video network’s news division that once covered a range of issues from pop culture to politics and became a household name for Generation X and Millennial adolescents. Chris McCarthy, who heads Paramount Media Networks, MTV and Showtime, said in a memo to staff Tuesday that despite the media giant’s “success” in streaming, the company continues to “feel pressure from broader economic headwinds like many of our peers.” “As a result, we...

Rick Beato checks out the top 10 rock songs of 2023 … so you don’t have to!

President Biden today claimed that he is not a crook, echoing the claims of the former disgraced President Nixon. Despite the claims of Rep. Comer, House Oversight Committee, Biden claims that the 10 million dollars routed through multiple LLCs were the result of consulting fees paid to the best son ever Hunter and himself. Biden noted that he had not engaged in laundering bribes or kickbacks through bogus Netflix deals, bogus book deals or ghost employment at Marxist State Media (MSM) networks as other political entities had done. Biden stated that if Rep Comer and the Ultra-MAGA people did not...

KEY POINTS - Disney’s streaming losses narrowed during the fiscal second quarter, as price increases helped offset the loss of subscribers at Disney+. - The company posted revenue and profit in line with Wall Street’s projections. - Disney reported significant growth at its theme parks during its second fiscal quarter. However, its linear TV unit struggled.——- break ——- Wall Street had expected Disney+ subscriptions to grow less than 1% during the quarter to reach 163.17 million users. However, the service saw a 2% decline in memberships, falling to 157.8 million subscribers from 161.8 million as of Dec. 31. The majority...

According to The Aviation Herald, the aircraft was performing its initial climb out of Amsterdam's runway 24 when the left-hand engine, a General Electric GE90, began to vibrate. However, as these vibrations remained within "acceptable ranges," the crew continued the climb to cruising altitude. The jet was enroute at an altitude of FL300, about 310nm westsouthwest of Amsterdam, in English Airspace, when a failure of the aircraft's number one engine occurred, prompting a diversion and the decision to return to Amsterdam. Referencing a map, this incident would have occurred somewhere above Swindon or Bristol. ...It's interesting that the aircraft flew...

But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel put his new fake-paper detector to work, he was “shocked” by what it found. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a medRxiv preprint posted on 8 May, are well above levels they calculated for 2010—and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in a 2022 publishers’ group report. “It is just...

Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) got the nickname ‘the dumbest man in Congress’ for saying Guam would tip over and capsize due to overpopulation. No one thought he could top that but he did today. Johnson was talking about the migrant crisis and said that Republicans would “gladly” bring back slavery during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Johnson said: “Republicans like to see them migrants lined up at the border because they know that that’s a stream of labor ready to be exploited with cheap, if any, compensation. “I mean, if you could get back to slavery, you would...

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. (To the Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.)" John, Chapter 19 1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on...

Anheuser-Busch’s former chief creative officer — whose iconic ads included the “I Love You, Man” commercials and the talking frogs — blasted the company’s Belgian parent InBev over Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco. “It took us 20 years to take Bud Light beer to the No. 1 beer in the country, and it took them one week to dismantle it,” Robert Lachky told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this week. Anheuser-Busch has suffered from “a complete lack of corporate oversight, and it’s been that way since (InBev) took the company over,” he added in the Monday interview.

The mother of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in the classroom says her son felt 'ignored' in the days before the incident. Speaking for the first time since the incident Taylor told Good Morning America that her son was suspended the week before the shooting for 'knocking the phone' out of his teacher's hand 'on accident.' But Zwerner said that the child was 'violent' in the lawsuit, claiming that he 'slammed the cellphone on the ground so hard that it cracked and shattered.' Taylor described her son as a 'great' and 'energetic kid', claiming he doesn't talk about...

Explanation: For ten years the stargazer dreamed of taking a picture like this. The dreamer knew that the White Desert National Park in Egypt's Western Desert is a picturesque place hosting numerous chalk formations sculpted into surreal structures by a sandy wind. The dreamer knew that the sky above could be impressively dark on a clear moonless night, showing highlights such as the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy in impressive color and detail. So the dreamer invited an even more experienced astrophotographer to spend three weeks together in the desert and plan the composite images that needed to...

Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren revealed Wednesday that he has been secretly fighting cancer for eight years. “They found a tumor … in my kidney, and they took it out here in LA in 2015,” Lundgren, 65, explained on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger.” “But then they did a biopsy — and it was cancerous.” SNIP “The Expendables” actor grew emotional recalling his journey. He said after the initial tumor discovery he underwent scans every six months, then every year, which he said were “fine.”

California high schooler says she's been called a 'white supremacist,' 'bigot' and 'transphobe' following her passionate speech A California high school student who torched her school district over a transgender bathroom policy is speaking out on the backlash following her heated speech, saying she has garnered more "hate" than gratitude for her passionate stand. Former Martin Luther King High School student Megan Simpkins detailed the reaction she has received from her community after slamming the school for "affirming the mental confusion" of trans students at the expense of their female counterparts. "Surprisingly, a lot of people at my school have...

Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street before causing a fiery crash that killed a woman and her dog. “Guilty,” said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24, who will avoid trial and is expected to be sentenced Aug. 9 to three to 10 years in state prison under terms of his plea deal with prosecutors. The minimum three-year sentence cannot be reduced by converting the year-and-a-half that he has spent on house arrest to time already served.

A Connecticut state representative and a wrong-way driver were both drunk behind the wheel when they were killed in a fiery crash just hours after the politician’s swearing-in ceremony in January, according to officials and state police. State Rep. Quentin Williams, 39, a Democrat from Middleton who had just been sworn into a third term, died on the morning of Jan. 5 as he was heading home from Gov. Ned Lamont’s inaugural ball in Hartford. Williams’ Infiniti Q60 burst into flames after it was struck head-on by 27-year-old Kimede Mutafaj driving her Toyota Corolla the wrong way on Route 9...

A decision to authorize all Border Patrol Sectors to begin "safe" mass releases of migrants to city streets if NGOs are overcapacity will take place in line with a 2022 memo that was uncovered during legal proceedings initiated by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody last year and outlined how to handle releases when Title 42 ends.

An Elk Grove father said he is thankful to be alive after his Tesla caught fire Saturday while he was driving. “It’s just all gone,” Bishal Malla said. “I’m just so lucky to be alive.” Malla said he had been out running errands nearby and was about to get on Highway 99 near Cosumnes River Boulevard when he felt his car start shaking. He thought it might be a flat tire, he said. “The moment that I opened the door, I saw smoke coming from the bottom,” he said. Malla said he had seen reports about Tesla fires, so he...