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Lucy Mercer Rutherford is most well-known for being the mistress of President Franklin Roosevelt. While FDR told his wife Eleanor that he ended the affair in 1918, Lucy Mercer was by his side on the day he died.

Kayleigh McEnany came under attack by her former boss on Truth Social last night. His very thin skin was pierced by the former White House press secretary, now a Fox News host and contributor. Kayleigh quoted a poll number Trump disagreed with and he went full force against her on his social media platform. (snip) Kayleigh was hired by Trump to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I really liked Sarah in the job, too. Both women had the ability to stand firm against the daily attacks by the press corps and defend Trump. They didn’t back down when the dialogue heated...

President Biden said Wednesday that he believes that things are going according to plan so far for the House to pass the bipartisan debt ceiling package despite several Democrats and Republicans vowing to vote in opposition of the measure. “We’re going to deal with the debt ceiling,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think things are going as planned, God willing.” Biden said he is hopeful that by the time he lands in Colorado later Wednesday evening ahead of a planned address to the U.S. Air Force Academy, the bill will have passed the House. The vote...

The Kern County Coroner's Office reports the cause of death for the inmate, 53-year-old Juan Pablo Villanueva, killed in North Kern State Prison in Delano on February 24 as ligature strangulation. CDCR said Villanueva was serving a sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old, when he was found unresponsive in his cell on February 24, 2023. CDCR said his cellmate, Ramon Escobar, was serving several sentences for five first-degree murders and seven counts of attempted second-degree murder. A CDCR officer saw Villanueva unresponsive in the cell and immediately went to get medical personnel. Responding staff...

Republicans are crying foul following the news of President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s (R) family. Justice, who is also a GOP Senate candidate hoping to unseat Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), is the latest to experience political targeting from Biden’s DOJ, as it has filed a civil complaint against his family’s coal empire — over a dozen coal businesses ran or owned by his son Jay Justice — citing “repeated violations of the law” in hopes of recovering what the assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division Todd Kim...

A veteran CUNY law professor has blamed the “blatant call for American insurrection” in this year’s graduate commencement speech on the school being run by a bunch of “far left, Marxist lunatics.” Professor Jeffrey Lax, a full-time CUNY professor for 20 years, told Fox News that Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s anti-Israel call for revolution was “the most disturbing commencement speech I have ever heard in my entire life.” But “the problem is not her,” he insisted of the radical Queens grad who called the NYPD “fascist” and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestinians. “Students are allowed to be idiots — you’re...

The National Eating Disorders Association disabled its chatbot, named Tessa, due to the “harmful” responses it gave people. “Every single thing Tessa suggested were things that led to the development of my eating disorder,” activist Sharon Maxwell wrote in an Instagram post. The chatbot was set to become the primary support system for people seeking help from the association, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to eating disorders. Tessa, described as the “wellness chatbot,” was trained to address body-image issues using therapeutic methods and limited responses. However, the bot encouraged Maxwell to lose 1 to 2 pounds a week, count calories,...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Assistant Minority Leader Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that while President Joe Biden “has increased a lot of spending” “We didn’t run up the debt” because they paid for things like the American Rescue Plan Act. Clyburn said, “[Former President Donald Trump] made it very clear that if he were President, he would understand the sanctity of maintaining the good faith and credit of the United States of America. Now that he’s no longer President, he doesn’t care whether or not the country defaults. So, that’s the hypocrisy that’s in this. Look,...

..... Lake: The video shows Maricopa County breaking the seals on the tabulator machines and basically reprogramming them. There’s no observers there, there’s no Republican, Democrat observers, and no lawyers there, they’re breaking into the machines, [and] reprogramming them so that they would fail on election day. And this is what you’re seeing here. Now, we did try to bring this in when we were just in court. We told the judge, “hey, look, we got this new information that we did not have in the last trial because Maricopa County dragged their feet and wouldn’t give us the system...

In true Michael Scott fashion, two Hawaii tourists followed their GPS right into the water. On April 29, a tourist drove a Dodge Caravan into the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island, according to Hawaii News Now. Christie Hutchinson, who was at the harbor after sailing with a group of friends and her husband, posted a video of the event on social media. She said the two tourists were using GPS to find a manta ray tour and may have been confused because there was a car on the ramp to pull a boat out of...

This is the astonishing moment a motorist flipped her car after hitting the ramp of a tow truck at full-speed, before crashing 120ft through the air into a vehicle in front. The Georgia State Patrol confirmed a 21-year-old Tallahassee woman was severely injured in the airborne crash on Highway 84, but miraculously managed to survive.

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A Florida man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly staged a pair of house fires and claimed they were racially motivated attacks when he fell behind on home payments. George Carneiro was arrested in connection with the March 13 blazes that caused “extensive property damage” at two newly built, vacant homes he owned in Clay Hill, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday. The incidents were initially investigated as hate crimes after deputies found signs with swastikas and emblazoned with the words “Latinos are not welcome” at the scene, WTLV reported. Officials now believe that Carneiro staged the...

Staunch alt-right rapper Forgiato Blow is topping iTunes charts with his new song, “Boycott Target,” but claims Apple’s censorship is “keeping it off the radar.” The song — featuring fellow rappers Jimmy Levy, Nick Nittoli and Stoney Dudebro — was released on May 25 in response to Target’s Pride-themed clothing for children. The song’s lyrics address an LGBTQ “agenda” that the rapper sings has gone “too far” — and has caused the discount retailer to lose $10 billion in the past 10 days. “Attention all shoppers, there’s a clean up on every aisle. Target is targeting your kids,” Blow says...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced Wednesday that a New Jersey medical group had settled for $100,000 for refusing to allow religious exemptions to the company’s influenza vaccine policy, according to a press release. Six employees were denied requests to obtain a religious exemption to Inspira Medical Centers’ (IMC) policy requiring the influenza vaccine for all staff in compliance with a “New Jersey statute that requires health care employees to get the influenza vaccine,” according to the Wednesday press release. The EEOC found that the company had failed to meet the requirements for religious accommodation under the Title...

Last week, explosive footage was released by the Election Oversight Group that shows the “Secret Testing” that took place in Maricopa County on October 14th, 17th, and 18th, after the Logic and Accuracy testing reportedly done on October 11th. In that video, you can see at the 7:02 mark that at least four employees tried to feed ballots through the tabulators but those ballots were rejected and spit back out, multiple times in some cases. On Tuesday, Kari Lake attorney Kurt Olsen sat down with Ashe in America and the Gateway Pundit’s Brian Lupo on Badlands Media to discuss new...

A three-year-old video showing Chick-fil-A’s boss shining the shoes of a black man during a plea for white people to fight racial injustice resurfaced this week amid a push by outraged conservatives to boycott the fast-food chain over its hiring of a diversity officer. Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, got down on his knees at a church in Atlanta in June 2020 as the city was gripped by protests over the police-involved deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks. “I invite folks to put some words to action, and if we need to find somebody...

Chris Christie plans to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary next week in New Hampshire — and his campaign will focus on attacking his former ally and current GOP frontrunner in the race, former President Donald Trump. The former New Jersey governor will announce his campaign Tuesday at Saint Anselm College in a town hall event, according to Christie advisers who spoke with Axios. His campaign messaging will be focused on speaking to the nation’s “exhausted majority” and running “a non-traditional campaign that is highly focused on earned media, mixing it up in the news cycle and engaging Trump,” the...

Well, four American submarines carry over 300 Tomahawk missiles between them.Four Ohio-class SSBN were converted into SSGNsCertainly 600 heavy duty missiles is enough to take out the bulk of the Chinese 200-ship (or so) navy. A single good hit by a Tomahawk will disable a carrier and sink a frigate, two to three hits will take out any ship out there. Certainly five American submarines carry enough payload to sink or disable the entire Chinese navy, even excluding the possibility of nuclear-tipped warheads (Tomahawk or otherwise). The problem is the many layers of defense the subs would have to contend...

I'm just frustrated. I have 2 older daughters in their 30's. I can't talk to them about any current topic. Everything I say triggers them. Today I got in a fuss defending the gallantry of Southern soldiers. Then I got in a fuss about being a culturist because I believe a substantial portion of the Black underclass in 5 times more likely to commit crimes and murder than other groups. 30 people a week shot in Chicago or New Orleans is OK but DeSantis is a racist. I just said I never see race in a competent individual. I just...