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MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes -- beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them. Demonic acts. If you think these crimes won't happen where you live, keep reading. The gang's rule is "kill, rape, control." Members are required to kill. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards. In the New York City area, MS-13 has been linked to more than 65 murders since 2009. President Joe Biden could care less. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is cracking down, jailing tens of thousands of suspected gang members and causing others to flee...

new intel from John Moore raises alarm over Pentagon's war plans

I hadn’t seen this survey by the Cato Institute until today but it’s really striking. It seems that a shockingly high percentage of Gen Z would be okay with in-home government surveillance. If that sounds like something out of George Orwell’s 1984, that’s exactly how CATO saw it.In the book 1984, citizens of the fictional nation Oceania are under constant government surveillance, including in their own homes. Devices called telescreens display propaganda and record peoples’ actions, allowing the government to monitor people even in what should be the most private place they know—their homes. This type of behavior is meant...

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott made what I thought was a very successful entry into the 2024 GOP primary. His announcement event was well attended and picked up by most news outlets. He gave a very positive, uplifting address, asking voters to stand tall beside him in the defense of the nation we all love. He’s kept himself out of the mudslinging, at least thus far. And he’s clearly willing to explore media outlets that other candidates will likely avoid like the plague. Yesterday, John discussed how he even went on The View to speak with the liberal ladies there,...

(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine. The revocation happened officially due to the manufacturer’s own request, according to the FDA. The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID inoculation is produced by its subsidiary Janssen Biotech and was authorized for emergency use on February 27, 2021.“On May 22, 2023, Janssen Biotech, Inc. requested the voluntary withdrawal of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine,” the FDA website states. “Janssen Biotech, Inc. informed the FDA that the last lots of the vaccine purchased...

RICHMOND, Va. — A teenage gunman opened fire as hundreds of people stood outside after a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday evening in Richmond, Virginia, killing two people and wounding five others, the city’s interim police chief said. As merriment turned to terror around Richmond’s Monroe Park, other people were hurt as they tried to escape the gunfire, including a 9-year-old girl who was hit by a car, Richmond Interim Police Chief Rick Edwards told reporters Tuesday night. Police initially detained two people but later said one was not involved. The other – a 19-year-old who investigators think may have...

Alec Donovan, a 26-year-old youth wrestling coach and referee from Brick, “used an internet-based application to exchange multiple images and videos of child sexual abuse, including depictions involving pre-pubescent children,” U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said after the June 6 plea hearing in Trenton. Donovan, who records show has coached at the Shorething Wrestling Club in Lakewood, also used the app “to solicit and engage in conversations with minors, including requesting nude photographs from the minors and sending nude photographs to them,” the U.S. attorney said. Donovan took a deal from the government rather than risk the...

"I come bearing the sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto," Sofia Gilberto wrote on social media early Tuesday. The singer died at home in Philadelphia, in the United States, where she had lived since the 1960s. Gilberto was born in Salvador, capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, in 1940 and was married to Joao Gilberto, a pioneer of the bossa nova genre who died in 2019. Astrud Gilberto recorded 19 albums in her career, but she had little professional music experience when she turned "The Girl from Ipanema"...

As we previously reported, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has for a couple of years now been putting out feelers for a possible GOP presidential run, with reports from late May confirming he had decided to throw his hat into the ring.On Tuesday, Christie is indeed set to make it “official” with a 6:30 pm Eastern time town hall at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, an event designed to portray Christie as the supposedly hard-hitting tough guy who will forcefully engage the frontrunner in the race, former President Donald Trump. Christie’s advisers recently admitted that his campaign will...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday FBI officials revealed that an informant file alleging President Biden engaged in a bribery scheme during his vice presidency is part of an ongoing federal investigation that involves shell companies.

We’ve seen Target take a huge stock dive with about $14 billion in market cap lost as of Tuesday, since the middle of May. We reported how they faced two downgrades — from JP Morgan and KeyBanc — and had been on the worst losing streak that they’ve had in 23 years. JP Morgan cited as the basis for their downgrade “too many concerns rising.” That’s a massive change in such a short period. Now, Elon Musk and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary are warning about what might be the next shoe to drop for the company under siege.O’Leary, on “Jesse...

As RedState reported, Tucker Carlson returned to the public sphere on Tuesday with his first official Twitter episode. That came after the once top-rated cable news host was fired by Fox News.Demand for Carlson’s new show was so high that some had trouble getting it to play at first, but when they did, it became obvious he was only escalating his already straight-ahead style. In a relatively short 10-minute monologue, the topics ranged from Ukraine to Lindsey Graham to Nikki Haley, and none of them were paid any compliments.Carlson’s words already have many on the left and the right melting...

Massive brawl breaks out outside Glendale CA school board. (Credit: Sergio Olmos)A huge fight broke out outside the Glendale School Board meeting in Los Angeles as parents, many of them from the Armenian-American community, came to protest the school’s pride events. Naturally, the left-wing zealots—read “Antifa”—showed up in force, and as you will see, some serious punches were thrown on both sides. A heavy police presence attempted to stop the fighting, violently pulling apart combatants to prevent serious injury.Someone with a bullhorn shouts, “Do not engage! Step away. We are not here to fight!” Maybe that person wasn’t there to...

Not too long ago, San Francisco was still a remarkably beautiful city, although even then it could change on a dime. One could be in the midst of a leisurely stroll down a gorgeous street filled with chic cafes, turn a corner, and find oneself without warning in the middle of a large crowd of menacing homeless drug addicts. Now, after decades of far-Left misrule that has picked up speed in the wake of the COVID hysteria, the city’s dirty, degrading, and dangerous areas are growing rapidly and taking the whole place over, and the city’s remaining sane people are...

Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced his campaign for the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, during which he knocked former President Donald Trump and strangely praised former President Woodrow Wilson at George Washington’s expense.Christie has been a fierce opponent and critic of Donald Trump, despite endorsing him wholeheartedly in 2016, since the Russia collusion investigation, a criticism that only accelerated following the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. In his announcement on Tuesday, the former New Jersey governor repeated his dislike for the former president, charging that he helped make America smaller by playing off people’s divisions.“We have...

Coming up a little later today we’ll be covering some good news from the federal judiciary, but let’s get the bad news out of the way first. A federal judge in Washington State has turned away a request for an injunction halting enforcement of the state’s newly-imposed ban on the sale of so-called assault weapons, and for the most absurd reason you can imagine.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday demanding documentation related to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last year.The raid — which took place on Aug. 8, 2022 — was reportedly aimed at retrieving “any document Trump ever saw, read, or created for the entirety of his four years as commander-in-chief.” Due to the unprecedented nature of the Biden DOJ conducting a raid on a former president and a potential 2024 rival, House Judiciary Republicans sent letters to Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and then-White House Chief...

President Joe Biden said he'd be playing golf in the PGA in response to a question about the controversial merger between the association and the Saudi-backed LIV league. The president made a small swinging motion when asked about the surprise deal and said: 'I'm planning on playing in the PGA.' Biden, who enjoys golf and played with his brother on Sunday at Joint Base Andrews, addressed the controversy on Tuesday during a meeting with his Cabinet. In a shock move on Tuesday, the PGA ceased its war with rival LIV Golf and decided to merge with the Saudi-backed entity -...

According to several ‘Chosen’ actors, tolerance is apparently a one-way street.I have never been one to jump on the boycott bandwagon. Sure, if I have a choice between a seller that shares my values and one that doesn’t, I will choose to do business with the former. And if I turn on a program or walk into a store that assaults me from every side with the demand that I embrace something I can’t, I will turn around and leave.However, until recent backlash efforts like those against Bud Light and Target, I haven’t seen boycotts accomplish much. And I find...

Adoor on the West side of the U.S. Capitol was left open and mostly unguarded for key moments during the Jan. 6 riot, allowing more than 300 people to enter the building unimpeded even as officers fought valiantly to keep protesters out of other sections of the official home of Congress, according to police security footage obtained by Just the News. The footage -- which confirms concerns first raised by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., two years ago -- shows an episode in a narrow hallway in the middle of the Capitol that began around 2:30p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021 right...