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Ken Griffin, founder of Miami-based hedge fund Citadel, is frustrated with DeSantis' lack of progress in the GOP primary race, and has 'hit the pause button' on his support, ABC News reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with Griffin's thinking. However, Griffin's spokesperson dismissed the claim, telling DailyMail.com: 'Ken is not pausing anything. He continues to assess the field.' According to sources cited in the recent ABC News report, Griffin has grown impatient as he waits for DeSantis to show progress as a presidential candidate. The outlet reported that other GOP donors have privately begun to question DeSantis' viability...

As the revelations of potential bribery, bank fraud and tax evasion swirl around Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, both men, who are increasingly appearing together, seem extraordinary calm and unconcerned in public as Joe flashes his signature supercilious and mocking smirk whenever he is asked about the various investigation into his and his son’s activities over the past 12 years. Thanks to pre-emptive presidential pardons, Joe knows that he, Hunter, and the family will never have to answer for any of their alleged egregious criminality. The Supreme Court has ruled that a president can issue a pardon before charges have...

Hunter Biden was spotted Thursday walking with his Secret Service agent in Malibu, as his lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump's attorneys insisting he stop saying the cocaine found at the White House belonged to the first son. Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell asked the ex-president's legal team to push Trump to stop disparaging the Bidens, for fear that there could be an escalation of violence akin to January 6 or the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi. In recent Truth Social posts, Trump has made wild claims about the Biden family's drug use - suggesting on Thursday...

In the final year of World War II, the U.S. spent about 38% of its GDP on its military. When adjusted for inflation, the military budget over those four years of war came to a staggering $4.1 trillion in 2020 dollars.And as Visual Capitalist's Pallave Rao and Joyce Ma detail below, almost 80 years later, modern day military spending isn’t much of a far cry from World War II budgets. The top spenders have continued to increase their military capabilities, while war in Ukraine has caused countries in the region to re-evaluate their budgets as well.In 2022, global military budgets...

p>The phrase “small town America” often conjures up images of white picket fences, well-trimmed lawns, and big houses. But how safe is modern-day suburbia in America?Some of the smallest places in the country can actually be among the most dangerous. Take for example Bessemer, Alabama, with a population of around 26,000 and a violent crime rate of 33.1 per every 1,000 residents.That said, there are many small cities that are true havens for families across the United States. Visual Capitalist's Avery Koop uses this map to showcase the safest cities in the U.S., using FBI data and Census Bureau populations...

A recent Gallup poll finds that a majority of nearly 70 percent of respondents oppose allowing men who claim to be transgender women to play women’s sports, and 55 percent say changing one’s gender is “morally wrong.” The poll released on Monday seems to show that the radical transgender movement is not achieving its desired goal of normalizing transgenderism. Indeed, it seems to be backfiring. Two findings, in particular, seem to show that many are pulling away from trans acceptance. A previous poll from 2021 found that 51 percent felt changing one’s gender is “morally wrong,” but this year’s survey...

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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This video tells a different story of Jan 6 Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds...

Yesterday California adopted a set of new math standards which are focused less on math skills and more on equity and “meaning-making.”The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested revisions, and reignited decades-old arguments over the purpose of math education and the meaning of equity.The 1,000-page framework aims to put meaning-making at the center of the math classroom, promoting a focus on problem-solving and applying math knowledge to real-world situations. It also encourages teachers to make math culturally relevant and accessible...

During the NATO summit this week, President Biden promised Ukraine President Zelenskyy that there would be no end to U.S. assistance to his country. Coincidentally, perhaps, this announcement has appeared on the White House's website:So, what's going on what that? Something's up.Nothing to see here. Just Biden calling up the reserves in preparation for World War 3 against Russia over a tinpot puppet kleptocrat in Eastern Europe. https://t.co/8Wwx7HWuvd— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 13, 2023🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Biden Expands the War for American men and women.Reservists ordered to Active Duty after Zelensky asks Biden for more American money and troops. https://t.co/w7k92VIxZw— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell)...

The Secret Service gave a classified briefing to Congress on Thursday about the cocaine that was found in the West Wing over the Fourth of July weekend on Sunday, July 2, after the House Oversight Committee demanded answers from them.As we reported, they’re insulting our intelligence with the claim that agents are unable to find the culprit and that they’re wrapping up the case already. That’s despite visitor logs and cameras. It’s a horrible take, and the statement the Secret Service released about what they did to investigate just makes them look worse. This is just going to feed the...

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The southwest is dealing with a dangerous heat wave that could bring temperatures as high as 130 degrees in the desert, as 113 million Americans currently live under heat warnings. Blistering conditions will build Friday and throughout the weekend in the central and southern parts of the state, where many residents should prepare for the hottest weather of the year, the National Weather Service warned. Known as a 'heat dome' to meteorologists, the phenomenon is now set to persist through much of the month - scorching metros in Arizona, Nevada, and California in the process. Midday highs were mostly expected...

In a pre-clinical, proof-of-concept study, researchers found that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a green tea compound with powerful antioxidant properties, could be promising for both treating and preventing uterine fibroids. An estimated 77% of women will develop fibroids in their lifetime, most of them by age 50. Black and Hispanic women develop them at 1.5 to two times the rate of white women. While many people with uterine fibroids are without symptoms, about 25% experience significant symptoms including heavy uterine bleeding, pelvic pain and infertility. Uterine fibroids are the leading cause of hospitalization hysterectomy. In addition to complete removal of the...

It was July 5 in Beijing and Chinese Premier Li Qiang was meeting with a delegation from Japan led by a former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives who has also served as minister of foreign affairs. But it was Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki and not Yohei Kono who during a photo session was accorded a place of honor. While pictures were being taken, Tamaki stood to Li's left, while Kono stood to Li's right, a positioning that says much about China's intentions. Tamaki's visit to Beijing as well as to Fuzhou, on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan,...

A series of explosions in the Ukrainian city of Kirvoy Rog early Friday morning... In the end only 70 US House members all Republicans voted to stop US military aid to Ukraine... A brawl in Kosovo's parliament today as ethnic Albanian Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke... Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says 50 Iranian terrorism plots have been stopped... The Russian military in Syria says that US coalition warplanes violated Syrian airspace 10 times...] "Shame on them" Actress Fran Drescher, President of the Screen Actors Guild, announcing a strike... In the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa a spokesman for...

Police have arrested a woman in connection with the July 2 'drug overdose' death of acting legend Robert De Niro's 19-year-old grandson Leandro. The suspect, believed to be a woman but whose identity still hasn't been revealed, is accused of selling Leandro De Niro Rodriguez drugs shortly before he was found dead in his New York City apartment. The teenager's lifeless body was found sitting in a chair beside white powder inside a $950,000, one-bedroom apartment on Wall Street in New York. A police source tells DailyMail.com the substance was found near his body and there were no signs of...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that the state will purchase and distribute a social studies textbook to students in the Temecula Valley Unified School District — where the district’s board of education voted to keep the book out of classrooms because of supplemental material from the textbook that references Harvey Milk — if the board doesn’t walk back its decision by the beginning of the upcoming school year.

A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling the military leadership about the dire situation at the front in Ukraine, where he said Russian soldiers had been stabbed in the back by the failings of the top military brass. After the June 24 mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, the biggest domestic challenge to the Russian state in decades, President Vladimir Putin has so far kept Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov in their jobs. Major General Ivan Popov, who commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army, said in a voice message...

(Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) — Bombshell new documents have recently come to light revealing how the U.S. Government illegally spied on and entrapped citizens during the 2014 “Bundy Ranch Standoff,” and beyond. The document, which was authored by Larry Wooten, a former Special Agent with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), reveals the terrifying extent to which the Federal Government is willing to go to ensnare patriotic Americans who stand up to government overreach. Wooten first made waves in 2017, after sending an 18 page whistleblower document (available in full here) to Washington State Representative Matt Shea chronicling “a widespread pattern...