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Jonathan Turley said Monday that “somebody’s lying” about whether U.S. Attorney David Weiss was prevented by the Justice Department from seeking felony charges against Hunter Biden. snip “The different accounts that we’ve heard about what happened in this investigation cannot be reconciled,” Turley told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith. “Somebody’s lying, and there is real criminal and impeachable conduct that could be raised and that means Congress’ power is at its apex, and they can move forward and it needs to move forward and it has a full array of powers to do that with.”

It started with the peaceful protest of a “pride” drag show by a children’s theater group during the first-ever Pride Day in a small town near Portland, Ore. It could have ended there but for a brawl between the Proud Boys and the masked bunch who attempted to infiltrate the group on Saturday. The gauzy in-between of it all is being seized upon by politicos such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Eric Swalwell to make their political points. Even Elon Musk wanted to know what was going on. Naturally, because the media and Democrat narrative prevails, the Proud...

The Kremlin descended into chaos over the weekend as Russia came to the brink of civil war, and the uprising has left President Vladimir Putin exposed. The Russian government is trying to project the image that everything is under control. Others say the crisis shows Putin's war and his regime could be unraveling. In video released by the Russian government, Defense Minister Shoigu is said to be inspecting troops in Ukraine. He was one of the men Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary army was coming after, for alleged corruption and incompetence in running the war in Ukraine. Even though the uprising...

You didn’t think they’d stop at gas stoves, did you? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new regulations that would require pizzerias utilizing traditional baking methods, like wood and coal-fired ovens, to reduce carbon emissions by as much as 75%.“All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,” DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.” Under...

Our children are paying the price for prior generations’ passive acceptance of the LGBT agenda with their innocence.The content in this article is not suitable for children. There is nothing more jarring than waking up to a Twitter feed littered with photos and footage of nude men and women prancing at pride parades all across North America. Yet, that’s exactly what happened to many on Monday morning after nudists, furries, and other fetishists gathered in New York City, Seattle, and Toronto this weekend to celebrate sex under the LGBT banner. Children were not only present for these inappropriate displays but...

Democrats run the state government of Michigan, with majorities in the House and Senate of the state Legislature and Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer with the ability to sign bills into law. That's why a bill already passed by the state Legislature's House and assigned to committee in the state Senate is so dangerous. Can you believe five years in prison for speech based on someone's feelings about it? H.B. 4474 (official summary of text here, revised language of the bill here) has a good chance of becoming law, despite its obvious unconstitutionality.Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.Wade Vellky of the Michigan...

A transgender woman who murdered a lesbian couple in what was termed a hate crime has been sent to a women's prison under a new California law - sparking fears about the safety of other inmates. Dana Rivers, 68, was convicted in November of the 2016 killings of Oakland resident Charlotte Reed, 56; her wife Patricia Wright, 57; and Wright's adopted 19-year-old son, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright. A court in Oakland heard that Rivers served as an 'enforcer' of an all-female biker gang, and was enraged at Reed for leaving the gang. Judge Scott Patton called the triple murders 'the most...

I’ve telecommuted for over 30 years, which was a choice I made once home computers and the internet enabled me to establish a virtual law office. However, there’s a huge difference between individuals and small offices making lifestyle and economic choices and the lockdown’s brute force transition from an office-place economy to a telecommuting economy. The former is an organic workplace diversification; the latter is the breakdown of the commercial real estate marketplace with unfathomable consequences for the American economy. The climate changistas have long dreamed of a virtual business environment, one in which people in white-collar professions work from...

Special Counsel Jack Smith is quietly ramping up his January 6 case against Trump in Washington DC. President Trump was recently indicted by a grand jury in Florida hearing evidence in Jack Smith’s classified documents case. In a separate grand jury in DC, Jack Smith is quietly continuing his investigation into January 6 and Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election. At least six Secret Service agents were forced to testify before a January 6 grand jury in Jack Smith’s case in Washington DC, according to a leak to NBC News. Roughly five or six agents have appeared, the sources...

Students at the same graduation where a black woman snatched a microphone out of a white volunteer's hand in a viral video and made allegations of racism have disputed those claims. Kadia Iman was seen in a TikTok video wrestling a microphone out of a white staff member's hand while fellow graduates stood in line to receive their diplomas at La Guardia Community College in Queens, New York. 'I want the mic,' Iman can be heard yelling at the volunteer helper as she aggressively tugged the mic from her. 'Let go. You didn't let me get my moment.' Following the...

The Catholic Church doesn’t need to bless same-gender unions. The Southern Baptist Church doesn’t. The United Methodist Church doesn’t. No church needs to. God already blesses them—that is, if God is love in the way these churches all claim that God is. If God is really love, if that truly is the essence of the Divine, then God is for same-gender marriage, non-heteronormative marriages for the same reason God is for any loving, respectful, interdependent union. If God is love, God is for a mutually-beneficial relationship between two adult people; where they each find connection, affection, and devotion in the...

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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is getting the attention of Republican primary voters. He gets support from just 3% of Republicans as their first choice in the GOP presidential primary, according to the latest national NBC News poll. But that's just part of the picture: The number of GOP voters who see Scott as their second-choice candidate has risen sharply — more than any other Republican candidate polled by NBC News from April to June. In June, 12% of those polled said the same, a 9-point increase over the 3% who said so in April.

When the Justice Department discovered from journalists a storage locker containing evidence against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a search was executed immediately. But when IRS agents found a similar storage area containing evidence in the Hunter Biden criminal tax probe, they were denied the right to search despite meeting the probable cause standard, then Biden's lawyers were tipped off, according to new congressional testimony. Likewise, when federal prosecutors believed there was evidence of crimes at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, they launched an unprecedented and full scale-raid on the former president. But when agents wanted to execute a search warrant...

Hundreds of Portland area families whose children attend Catholic schools are protesting western Oregon Archbishop Alexander Sample’s guidance that schools under the church’s umbrella not recognize transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns and identities. Sample quietly released the 17-page document in January, when it was billed as a “teaching and formation resource” and not a mandate for the 41 archdiocesan schools, which stretch from Portland to Medford and include Central Catholic High School and 15 K-8 schools in Portland. But as the school year drew to a close, teachers and families around the metro area said some schools, including St. Rose...

Monday, CNN aired a recording of former President Donald Trump talking about “highly confidential, secret” documents at his club in Bedminster, NJ. Cooper said, “We begin tonight with breaking news. We have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government’s case against Donald Trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he’s showing a highly classified document on US war plans against Iran with people not cleared to even know it exists, let alone what’s in it. In a moment only on CNN you will hear what jurors will hear one day.”...

In the aftermath of the Wagner fighters mutiny in Russia the European Union foreign ministers calling for more aid, especially military, for Ukraine... Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking tonight saying decisions were made to avoid bloodshed with Wagner military contractors... In Toronto the Special Election for Mayor. Among many candidates the winner Olivia Chow... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting China next month... The aftermath of Pakistan's January 6th on May 9th. The powerful Pakistani military prosecuting 102 people and even disciplining some in its own ranks including 10 generals... The US Supreme Court ordering an end to a lawsuit...

The Denver metro area is a study in real estate contrasts. Many office buildings now sit with high vacancy rates, but cranes mark where new apartments are rapidly being built. At the corner of 6th Avenue in Simms Street in Lakewood used to be an office building. For a dozen years, it sat empty and now it's been turned into something unique. It is now an apartment building that has struck the right note.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one of the longest-lasting eviction bans in the country. The eviction moratorium in the San Francisco Bay Area city expires next month and Haile can't wait. The 69-year-old estimates she is owed more than $60,000 in back rent, money she doubts she will ever see. Moreover, the tenants have trashed her house and it will cost tens of thousands of dollars to make it...

The armed uprising against Russia’s military command was called off just as quickly as it first began, but the fate of Yevgeny Prigozhin—the leader of the Wagner mercenary group who led the mutiny and incurred the enmity of Russian President Vladimir Putin—is now uncertain. On Saturday, Prigozhin reportedly agreed to leave Russia for an “early retirement” in Belarus after withdrawing his troops from marching on Moscow in a deal mediated by the neighboring country’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin’s. “Realizing all the responsibility for the fact that Russian blood will be shed from one side, we...