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Grassley highlighted the numerous ways Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s potentially criminal business activities. Delaware assistant U.S. attorney was briefed in October 2020 that a confidential human source (CHS) had reported Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed Sunday in a letter to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. A source familiar with that briefing has now confirmed to The Federalist that the Pittsburgh office told the Delaware office the CHS’s reporting appeared credible and merited further investigation. That added detail increases the significance...

A trial for a Las Vegas police officer accused of stealing nearly $165,000 in a series of casino heists is set to begin Monday with prosecutors painting him as a gambling addict who grew increasingly desperate under a crush of debt. Prosecutors claim Caleb Rogers, 35, carried out three robberies over a span of four months while armed with a weapon issued by the police department. Rogers' attorney, Richard Pocker, said the government's evidence allegedly tying Rogers to two of the robberies is weak. He accused the FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives of pressuring two people, including...

The topic of Bible prophecy is more relevant to our lives now than at any other time in the history of the church. It’s never been more vital that churches teach it, and believers understand it. It’s not just the convergence of a host of prophetic signs that make it so, but the existential dangers to our lives and livelihood that threaten everyone. I have watched recordings from the World Economic Forum (WEF) meetings during which time the elite talk openly about the need to drastically reduce the world’s population. One woman causally suggested that five hundred million would be...

Rikkie Kolle, a 22-year-old man, beat out nine women to attain the title of “Miss Netherlands” on Saturday, sparking outrage on social media as many users said the win showed we are experiencing a trend of erasing women.The Miss Netherlands competition is part of Miss Universe, and Kolle will compete in the 72nd Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador later this year.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said former President Trump continues to pose a major challenge to media organizations covering him. “I think that every news organization in America was disrupted by Donald Trump,” Tapper said during an appearance on journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast published Monday. “Especially by his attacking the media.” Tapper, CNN’s chief Washington correspondent, noted Trump has “picked on us a lot, but that’s OK,” adding “he knocked everybody in the news media off.” Trump attacked Tapper last month after the anchor directed CNN’s control room during coverage of the former president’s arraignment in Florida to stop showing video...

Pope Francis on July 9 named 21 new cardinals, including the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Christophe Pierre; American-born Archbishop Robert Prevost, who oversees the appointments of Catholic bishops worldwide; and the new head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández. The pope made the announcement at the end of his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer from a window in the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square. Francis said he would install the new cardinals during a consistory at the Vatican on Sept. 30, saying these new cardinals represent the universality of the global church and the "inseparable...

Police said a group of two to four people threatens their victims before stealing their belongings, all while riding Divvy bikes, in most cases. In one case, they even stole a victim's car. "I just think it's nuts, like, the whole idea. They just get on these bikes and go away," said Felicia Davis, who works downtown.

Last week, US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled against the Biden Administration's collusion with social media to censor free speech, calling it "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government has blatantly ignored the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to freedom of speech. The purpose of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment is to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of the market, whether it be by government itself or private licensees." Former...

Jesus March celebrates and walk the path of Antifa with no sparklers or fires.

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews said Monday on “Morning Joe” that President Joe Biden’s world leadership is “brilliant” at the level of former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Matthews said, “Tom Friedman, I guess a couple months ago, said Joe Biden has united NATO as never before, his problem is uniting the United States, that is the challenge. I noticed that Richard Haass said the other day in leaving his post at the Council of Foreign Relations, he said biggest challenge in the world today is us. It is so interesting how this whole thing is polarized...

Kiev needs to take whatever terms they can get and stop the carnage The situation for the Kiev regime is catastrophic now and figures to get worse.

Threads, the new “Twitter killer” app rolled out by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week while Elon Musk’s micro-blogging site has seen traffic “tanking,” according to a tech executive. The initial burst of success for Threads has fueled a war of words between Musk and Zuckerberg. The Twitter boss referred to his tech rival as a “cuck” and challenged him to a “d–k measuring contest” over the weekend. Not only have users been signing up to Threads through their Instagram accounts, but they have also been posting prolifically. Since the system went...

rotests against the judicial reform measures being proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government took on religious overtones as protesters targeted MK (Likud) Ariel Kallner’s home in Haifa on Thursday night, plastering the neighborhood with posters proclaiming, “Here lives a messianic [believer].” Kallner filed a complaint about the matter with the police. He responded to the protesters: “The anarchist cowards came in the dead of night and vandalized the residential building where I live and the bus stop across the street.” Kallner told Hebrew-language Maariv news, “Do you really think they will succeed in breaking me? A complaint will...

It’s no secret to anyone paying attention that Joe Biden is visibly suffering through mid-stage dementia. The 80-year-old can barely walk and has no idea what he is doing anymore. Democrats are running Old Joe for president again which tells you EVERYTHING about the blatant fraud in our elections. On Monday Joe Biden looked like he could barely walk as he arrived in London for a visit. He later had trouble walking to Windsor Castle.

Cardinal: Christians must remain universalistsCardinal Marx: Church is for everyone - not just for ChristiansCathcon: the Church is for salvationA church in itself is a heresy: Cardinal Reinhard Marx from Munich emphasizes that Christians must remain universalists. "If we give that up, we haven't lived the core of Christianity."Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx often misses seeing the bigger picture in the churches. "A church in itself, that's heresy," in other words false teaching, he said at a conference on political Christianity at the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing over the weekend: "Only one community that says we are there for everyone, only...

Widespread flooding is expected to continue saturating parts of New York through Monday, as videos emerged of heavy rain showers in Hudson Valley submerging vehicles and turning one roadway into a waterfall. Most of the heavy flooding will swamp areas north of the five boroughs — spanning from Albany to the Canadian border east along I-87, Fox Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate told The Post. “All of the rain is going to be funneling into the Champlain Valley in Vermont and causing a real problem for folks in Vermont and northeastern New York,” Tate told The Post. Regions north of Yonkers...

Longtime Benician Harold Bray, a humble man, claims he is no hero. Benicians — and well, many Americans — beg to differ. They think he’s as good as gold. Well, maybe closer to bronze. With the passing of Cleatus Lebow in October at the age of 98, Bray is the lone living survivor from the legendary USS Indianapolis. On Friday night in front of the city’s clock tower, Bray was celebrated and honored for his service with the unveiling of a statue made by Matt Glenn. The life-sized bronze statue stands nearly 7 feet tall, affixed to a pedestal. It...

With the spectacle of kaiju candidates Ronzilla and King Don flattening Tokyo as they battle it out for the presidential nomination, it's no surprise that the Senate races are getting short-shrift. But don’t overlook them – look the hell out of them. These are hugely important because a Senate majority provides a critical bulwark – not the sissy dork kind but the real kind – against total Dem dominance if we lose our razor-thin House majority and if we nominate a presidential candidate who can’t get it done in the general. We have a very good map this cycle –...

[Catholic Caucus] Erotic Poet and His Buddies Get the Cardinal’s HatThe college of Cardinals, like the “Office Formerly Known as Holy,” is not of divine institution.It gradually emerged in the early and middle periods of what I term “First Christendom” in my book (commonly known by the pejorative “Middle Ages”) as a result of various papal ends, and it eventually became a central piece of Vatican bureaucracy.And like all pieces of the Vatican machine, it can be used for good or bad ends, depending on the good or bad actors pulling the strings in the Eternal City.Since Paul VI, we’ve...

An appeals court panel has struck down a block on a Tennessee act that bans prescribing body-disfiguring puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones or sex-change surgeries from being performed on children and youth expressing confusion about their sex, allowing the state to enforce the law. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on Saturday that a Tennessee law passed back in March could take effect, removing a preliminary injunction placed on the act from a lower court. Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, authored the opinion...