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Christopher Wray won’t turn over subpoenaed documents because he says he wants to protect sources — but given what’s in the forms, it seems the FBI is actually trying to protect itself and the Bidens.Sen. Chuck Grassley has already seen the FBI’s lengthy summary of a confidential human source’s claims that then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions, the Iowa Republican revealed on Thursday. Grassley further pledged to make the FBI report public as soon as the bureau complies with a congressional subpoena to provide an official copy of the FD-1023...

You’d have to go back a generation — to 1988 — to find the last time a Republican candidate won a U.S. Senate race in heavily Democratic California. This time, the party might get an MVP on the ballot. Baseball legend Steve Garvey, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, is meeting with voters and senior GOP officials as he weighs a potential 2024 Senate bid in a race that already has several prominent Democratic contenders in the field. He appeared at a recent fundraiser for Republican Rep. Michelle Steel in Orange County, where he signed...

CNN — The Justice Department has closed its investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home and will not bring any charges, according to a letter from the DOJ obtained by CNN. The decision comes ahead of Pence’s planned announcement next week that he will run for president in 2024. It allows Pence to offer an additional contrast between himself and former President Donald Trump, his political rival who’s under serious investigation by the Justice Department and others.

NASCAR fans are revolting against the racing league after one tweet sparked massive amounts of controversy, which means NASCAR may soon face the 'Bud Light' treatment of being boycotted by Americans. NASCAR posted a gay themed image and this: "We celebrate the LGBTQ+ community during #PrideMonth and beyond."

Abortion activist and doctor Caitlyn Bernard has been reprimanded by fine and letter by Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board for violating HIPAA by discussing a 10-year-old patient who was sent to her from Ohio for an abortion last July. The story that Bernard shared while at an abortion march with an Indianapolis Star reporter was repeated around the world. The subsequent fallout from Bernard’s loose lips was a media frenzy to identify the child and make sure the rapist was punished. The child’s family was identified shortly after and found to be living with the illegal alien rapist, Gerson Fuentes.MedPage Today...

A fed-up San Francisco resident has decided to leave his crime-ridden, drug-infested neighborhood that he says reminds him of a “zombie apocalypse” — and has launched a fund-raising campaign to pay for his move. Darren Mark Stallcup, 26, an activist living in the Golden City’s Tenderloin neighborhood, is seeking to raise $6,000 to relocate, telling Fox News Digital that he was “witnessing a fentanyl genocide.” “It is with heavy heart that I’m saying goodbye to my apartment in the Tenderloin. I can no longer live in a neighborhood where I’m constantly tripping over bodies, fecal (matter),” and needles,” he said...

The son of a senior Home Depot worker, who died after a serial shoplifter shoved him to the concrete floor, said his elderly dad was simply “going to ask for a receipt” when he was savagely attacked — as he calls for an urgent crackdown on rampant theft. In the disturbing caught-on-camera assault, Gary Rasor, 83, was forcefully shoved to the ground after he approached a man wheeling out three pressure washers worth over $800 from the Hillsborough, North Carolina store on Oct. 18. He died due to complications from his injuries on Dec. 1. Rasor’s eldest child, Jeff Rasor,...

Over the last decade, the Republican Party has spent tens of millions of dollars on its voter contact efforts to help identify who their voters are and where they live. The action was critical to the party’s get-out-the-vote efforts over the last several election cycles. On paper, the voter canvassing efforts were an enormous success. But the reality is, the entire operation was a mirage. And the party leadership knows it. The voter contact effort depended on paid vendors instead of volunteers as the get-out-the-vote effort used to. Canvassers were usually paid by the number of potential voters they contacted....

A “killer” elephant has reportedly claimed its eleventh victim, an auto-rickshaw driver, after rampaging through Indian villages. The elephant has reportedly killed 11 people and destroyed 300 houses and shops across the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in recent years. Arikomban, translated to “rice tusker”, was named by locals can after his fondness raiding rice shops. He has been caught several times and relocated to nature reserves but activists have fought to free him.

A bill to limit law enforcement officers from issuing tickets for “low-level violations”, such as expired plates or having a light out, was narrowly passed in the Senate on Wednesday. Senate Bill 50, authored by Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), would prohibit a law enforcement officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists. The bill would authorize a law enforcement officer who does not have grounds to stop a vehicle or bicycle, but can determine the identity of the owner, to send a...

Archaeologists have discovered an underground bunker in northeast China where Japanese scientists performed horrific biological experiments on human subjects during World War II, including subjecting their victims to dehydration, frostbite, and anthrax bombs. The New York Post reported on Thursday that the derelict bunker was unearthed near the city of Anda in Heilongjiang province. Although the facility had been known about for nearly eight decades, its existence and precise location wasn't confirmed until a week ago, according to the South China Morning Post. A partially U-shaped structure that measures roughly 108 feet long by 67 feet wide, the covert "horror...

The Microsoft president is worried that China, Iran, and Russia will use AI to spread misinformation; from an article out at The Sun last week:Brad Smith gave a speech in Washington on May 25 which discussed how AI could be regulated.Smith’s biggest concern is deep fakes made by AI that end up spreading misinformation.He said: ‘We’re going to have to address in particular what we worry about most foreign cyber influence operations, the kinds of activities that are already taking place by the Russian government, the Chinese, the Iranians.’He added: ‘We need to take steps to protect against the alteration...

The U.S. added 339,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The job market scrambled the expectations of economists in May. Expert forecasters projected a gain of roughly 195,000 jobs last month, according to consensus estimates, but for the jobless rate to stay largely even at 3.5 percent. The jobless rate has bounced between 3.4 percent — its level in April — and 3.7 percent since March 2022. The Labor Department also revised March and April’s job gains up by a combined 93,000 jobs, the latest sign...

Homosex Blasphemy Law: Priest ConvictedFather David Muscat's initial acquittal has been overturned and he has been given a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years (MaltaToday.com, May 31).Muscat had declared that practising homosexual sin was "worse than being possessed by the devil" after a homosexual murdered a woman in Sliema, Malta.The positive outcome of the conviction is that a courthouse has implicitly recognised the seriousness of being possessed by the devil.Most EU countries have homosex blasphemy laws similar to Islamic blasphemy laws.

Once again, the President of the United States has fallen down at a public event, this time after delivering the graduation speech at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Anyone can slip and fall, but when an 80-year-old elder repeatedly falls in public, it is a sign that it’s time to retreat from the rigors of normal activity and receive the care that a lifetime of work merits. So far, thankfully, Joe Biden’s falls have not broken a hip or otherwise caused serious, permanent damage. But there is no reason to expect that the pattern of falls we have...

Alexander Soros, the son of far-left billionaire George Soros, has continued to have access to the upper echelons of the White House and has regularly taken advantage of his Biden family connections. According to an analysis of visitor logs obtained by the press, the second-youngest Soros son, who currently serves as the board chair for his father’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) network, has visited the White House at least 17 times since 2021. Many Americans and politicians alike have long held a negative opinion of his father, George Soros, as having an “evil villain” reputation.

Former President Donald Trump’s second televised town hall of the 2024 presidential campaign season took place yesterday, broadcast in prime time for an hour on the FOX News channel. The venue was a large facility in Clive, Iowa, with an enthusiastic crowd of Trump supporters who applauded and cheered throughout the event.As he began the broadcast, host Sean Hannity said (according to a transcript provided by FOX News):SEAN HANNITY: By the way, unlike fake news CNN, it's not my job to sit here and debate the candidate. We're going to ask him about the issues of the day that actually...

About two-thirds of the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is thought to arise from genetic influences, but about a third could be influenced by environment and lifestyle, opening the door for behavioral interventions that could delay or prevent pathophysiological changes that occur with AD. Now a new study in a mouse model of AD examines the effects of environmental enrichment on AD symptom progression and pathology. Dr. Kempermann commented, "AD does not start when the symptoms become obvious. There is a decades-long silent period, during which the pathology progresses undetected." Dr. Kempermann said, "However, we discovered that there are already...

Recall, Christians, what Sacred Scripture declareth: "Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall." [Proverbs 16:18]And also: "Pride is the beginning of all sin. He that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end." [Ecclesiasticus, 10:15]Pride is numbered in the Catholic Catechism among the Seven Deadly Sins [CCC 1866]. Writing in the early Seventh Century AD, Pope Saint Gregory the Great reflected on the sin of pride in his epochal Moralia in Job, saying: "Whoever extols himself above his proper condition, is weighed down by the very burden...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)The next day as they were leaving Bethany he was hungry. Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went over to see if he could find anything on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves; it was not the time for figs. And he said to it in reply, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again!” And his disciples heard it. Mark 11:12–14This is a very unique and interesting story. The first thing this tells us is that Jesus was fully human. As a man, He was hungry....