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Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney's office kicked their most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before they filed minor charges against the president's son. Whistleblowers who ran the IRS criminal probe into Hunter for five years told Congress about their travails with veteran Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson. But in a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by...

he Salt Lake City Police Department is asking for help identifying the person or people responsible for burning multiple Pride flags this holiday weekend. Officers responded to a home near the city's downtown area after the homeowner reported their Pride flag had been cut down and burned. Police then learned that at least four other Pride flags in the area were vandalized in a spate of incidents likely to have occurred between 1am and 1.30am on Monday. Doorbell footage captured by one resident showed a man wearing a mask, hoodie and a stab or bulletproof vest approaching a house and...

A federal judge has made a historic ruling by partially granting an injunction that blocks various Biden administration officials and government agencies like the Justice Department and the FBI from working with big tech firms to censor posts on social media. The injunction came in response to a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who have accused Biden administration officials and various government agencies of pressuring social media companies to suspend accounts or take down posts. The judge, Terry A. Doughty, wrote in the July 4 judgment (pdf) that various government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and...

You're Next Doomberg We are publishing this piece in full, without a paywall. Please share widely. “I can't impart it to anybody who hasn't been there. Standing in the security line in the airport. If you want to know what it's like to be in the Soviet Union, you are in the Soviet Union. In that moment, you are in the Soviet Union. You're in a line waiting for something, and at the end of that line, a lot of bad things can happen to you. People don't think that way. But in reality though...” – Simon Mikhailovich In the...

On Thursday, former President Barack Obama complained the frivolous indictment against 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump doesn’t disqualify him from running for President in 2024.During an interview on CNN’s “News Central,” host Amanpour said, “The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted. How is the rest of the world, the democratic world, maybe even the non-democratic world meant to interpret that indictment and indeed the fact that a federal indictee is running, is able to run for the highest office in the land, maybe even the world?”Obama on Trump Indictment: 'Nobody is above the law'“It’s...

A raft of regulations enacted by the Biden administration is pinching Americans’ wallets to the tune of nearly $10,000 per household as of the end of last year, according to a budget watchdog group. Should Biden’s regulatory trajectory keep pace with that of his former boss, Barack Obama, the cost will skyrocket to roughly $60,000 per household by the end of Biden’s possible second term in office, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity estimated in a recent report that measured “current and expected future costs.”

Two neighbors at war with each other have dug a trench and lined it with a fence and bins to divide their properties after they fell out over one residents' alleged obsession with feeding local cats. John Gutierrez, 33, a stay-at-home father from San Antonio, Texas, claims the woman living next door has repeatedly harassed his family and shouted abuse at his children while they play in their garden. Gutierrez said he had a good relationship with his neighbor until he asked the elderly woman to stop feeding the local cats as they defecated on his lawn - a request...

The American Dream is alive and well for most, but the younger generation and less educated do not share such optimism, according to a new poll conducted by NORC – University of Chicago. In a survey of 2,187 of U.S. residents – regardless of age, race, ethnicity, income, or education – a whopping 75% of respondents said they had achieved or are on their way to obtaining the American Dream, namely economic opportunity and freedom of choice.

A woman who pleaded guilty to setting fires in forested areas around Kamloops in the middle of fire season last year will learn her fate in the next few months. Kamloops provincial court Judge Roy Dickey has set Sept. 18 as the date to render a decision on sentencing, according to court records. Angela Cornish, 42, has pleaded guilty to a pair of arsons in the Lac Le June area on May 8 and May 11 of 2022. Police had been following Cornish after receiving tips on a number of fires they had been investigating in the Lac Le Jeune,...

The Ukrainian government accused Russia on Tuesday of planning a “provocation” at the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, while Russia claimed that Kyiv was planning to “attack” the facility. Fears over the safety risks for the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, have been constant throughout Russia’s invasion, but increased in early June after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the source of cooling water for its reactors. The mutual accusations were made around the same time late on Tuesday. Kyiv’s military warned of the “possible preparation of a provocation on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia power plant in the near future”.

Ukraine's air force has appeared to confirm that a U.S-made Patriot missile system was behind the downing of five Russian aircraft in one day in May 2023. A video posted on Monday shows "kill" markings on the side of a Patriot air defense system that indicate it claimed three helicopters and two jets on May 13. If accurate, this would be a record for a Patriot system in a single day.

Russia may be preparing a provocation at the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant "in the near future," the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on July 4.Russian forces have placed objects similar to explosive devices on the roof of the plant's third and fourth power units, according to the General Staff. "Their detonation should not damage power units but may create a picture of shelling by Ukraine's military."The General Staff added that it was monitoring the situation, ready to act "under any conditions."On June 20, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced, citing intelligence data, that Moscow was considering a terrorist attack...

THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY (2) President Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1926, with a speech providing a magisterial review of the history and thought underlying the Declaration. His speech on the occasion deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. The following paragraph, however, is particularly relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the variants of the progressive dogma that pass themselves off today as the higher wisdom: "About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has...

Another billionaire has added a media company to his wishlist: John Catsimatidis, the chairman and CEO of grocery chains Gristedes Foods and D'Agostino Supermarkets. He’s telling news outlets he’d be willing to purchase CNN from Warner Bros. Discovery. “I’d go run the place tomorrow morning, and all I’d want is $1 per year and a piece of the upside,” the grocery mogul, told the New York Post. Catsimatidis’ comments follow a difficult year for the media outlet, which has faced declining viewership and turnover in the C-suite. Chief executive Chris Licht was let go after a brief one-year stint as...

President Biden issued a demand for tougher firearm restrictions Tuesday after a string of deadly shootings unfolded across the country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Biden, 80, called for action while also marking the anniversary of last year’s July 4th parade massacre in Highland Park, Ill., in which seven people were slaughtered.

Experts have today warned that biological males breastfeeding babies can be 'self-indulgent' and 'selfish' — with powerful medication used to produce the milk itself carrying a potential health risk. It follows the case of a British transwoman sharing a photo of her breastfeeding her child on a bus, sparking criticism from gender critical campaigners. Mika Minio-Paluello, a former Labour special adviser, came to public attention after discussing on the news how the soaring water bills were 'tough if you're a mum'. Trans women, people who are biologically male but identify as a woman, must take powerful medication cocktails to be...

But we still have much to celebrate this Fourth of July. This year’s Fourth of July arrives at a time of doubt and even disdain for our nation’s birth and foundational principles. For most of our history this day has celebrated the bold, epochal Declaration of Independence that staked a claim to self-government and freedom from the world’s most powerful empire. The nation that followed after eight years of war went on to become, and still is, the freest, most prosperous, and, for all its all-too-human betrayals of those principles, the most generous great power in all of history. The...

I'm bound to the recliner, i had surgeey last week. Been watching all kinds of history. I'm going with Teddy Roosevelt as #2. George Washington as #1. What is your #1#2and #3? Just curious and bored. Happy Independence Day, thanks. God Bless

A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry says the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons ... It's the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment. A spokesman for the Taliban-run Virtue and Vice Ministry, Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, didn't give details of the ban. He only confirmed the contents of a letter circulating on social media. ... from the supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. The ban targets the capital, Kabul, and all provinces, and gives salons throughout the country a month's notice...

One asked how anyone can celebrate when the Court's abortion ruling allegedly removed 'fundamental freedoms for women' Leftists on Twitter don’t seem too inclined to celebrate Independence Day this year. Ahead of the July 4th holiday, several prominent liberals on Twitter expressed their disgust for America and indicated they will not be celebrating our independence as a nation. For most of them, the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has sullied the celebration. Left-wing members of news and entertainment media claimed that women in the country are no longer free...