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While investigating Hunter Biden in December of 2020, federal investigators were allegedly told they would not be allowed to approach the younger Biden’s house to interview him, but would have to wait nearby until Biden—the subject of their investigation—contacted them with his approval—which never came. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Monday conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation. According to Oversight Republicans, the FBI whistleblower confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony, including their allegation that both Secret Service headquarters and...

The conflict between the military and the mob in Second-avenue, on Thursday night, proved, as has been anticipated, to be the decisive struggle between anarchy and order, and yesterday morning beheld a restoration of peace and quiet throughout the length and breadth of the City. Nearly all kinds of business was resumed, and, except for the military precautions observable around the theatres of the late riots, a stranger would not have mistrusted that there had been any departure from the usual serenity of the Metropolis. Toward noon, the following proclamation was issued from the Mayor's Office, and was felt to...

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Public school districts in large cities, many facing budget squeezes from plunging enrollments driven by parental discontent over Covid-19 policies, are unlikely to find relief anytime soon. The latest census data show that families with the preschool-age children who would form the next generation of students are abandoning cities, especially big ones, at unprecedented levels. The combination of outmigration and a slowdown in births is thus accelerating a trend that emerged even before Covid: cities with fewer and fewer children as a percentage of the overall population. Though the trend is most pronounced in states where population growth has lagged,...

A former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the Hunter Biden criminal investigation has confirmed several key aspects of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower testimony from June, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer announced Monday. The former agent said that the Biden family and the Secret Service were tipped off about an interview the FBI planned to have with Hunter Biden in December 2020, according to a transcribed interview conducted by the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Biden entered a plea deal in late June after he was charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and illegal possession of a...

The Biden family opened more than 20 shell companies to hide payments and launder money, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said Sunday. After reviewing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the Treasury and subpoenaing banks and individuals, Comer posted on Twitter that the Biden family created more than 20 entities to accept, forward, and collect payment from a wide range of business associates. “We found all these shell companies that make absolutely no sense,” Comer told Fox News. “I don’t believe they have paid a penny of revenue, a penny of taxes on most of the millions of dollars...

Courtesy of Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) Earlier this month, a Portland man was brutally stabbed to death protecting his transgender-identifying friend from a convicted criminal, who was allegedly targeting the "LGBTQ+ person." More than two weeks later, why haven't we heard about this seemingly "anti-trans" hate-fueled murder on the streets of an ultra-liberal haven? It's self-evident: The suspect is black. The homicide victim, 32-year-old Colin Michael Smith, a white male, was with friends outside of the High Dive Bar in the early hours of July 2 just before 2:00 a.m. when a black man—whom authorities have now identified as...

At this time stamp, Dan Bongino says that Donald Trump "cant run for re-election. He's out". WTH?

Massachusetts officials are now asking residents to take border crossers and illegal aliens into their homes as illegal immigration continues adding to the state’s homeless population.Gov. Maura Healey (D) is calling on residents with empty bedrooms in their homes and apartments to consider taking in border crossers and illegal aliens, WBUR reports:"Massachusetts officials are seeking residents willing to host newly arrived families in need of shelter. Hosts are asked to provide a room or apartment for a few days, until longer-term accommodations can be arranged.A significant portion of the families in need of housing in the state are new immigrants....

EMBEDDED LINKS TO STORIES AT SITE................. Remember when Disney protested Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Law, which Marxists mocked as a “Don’t Say Gay” law? Remember how neocons said DeSantis should not retaliate? Remember when Disney owned ESPN and ABC? It soon may sell them off because the company needs cash. Remember when Disney stock was $197.16? Well, it closed at $90.47 yesterday. How bad are things at the House of Mouse? Jim Cramer recommended buying it. Maybe you should. What do I know? I’m a writer, not a stock analyst. But I do have a pretty good eye for...

There was a dream scenario, and it went like this: both big-ticket donors and grassroots activists would unite behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, fresh off last year’s landslide reelection campaign. Donald Trump, meanwhile, would find his own White House bid hobbled by his legal troubles in New York, Georgia or Washington. And so the Republican Party would not have to suffer through the kind of crowded and messy primary that allowed Trump to claim the nomination in 2016. Then the dream ended, and the GOP woke up to the very reality that the party had hoped to avoid, with Trump...

VIDEO AT LINK................ Some Germans are now taking matters into their own hands: They are FED UP with CLIMATE CHANGE IDIOTS. And I don't blame them one bit!..................

Buying a microwave dinner in San Francisco now requires a security clearance. Frozen food customers in the crime-plagued city have been forced to put their purchases on ice and find a clerk to unlock chained coolers, as retailers take drastic measures to keep shoplifters at bay. The doors in the frozen foods section at one local Walgreens are seen locked from the customers, who apparently need the staff’s assistance to access the products. “Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day. The whole store is virtually locked up,”...

"That you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Pet. 2:9). God has granted you the ability to understand the truth and live accordingly. In the natural realm, darkness can be a debilitating and frightening thing. The story is told of a missionary who was on board ship one dark night when suddenly he was awakened by the frantic cry of "Man overboard!" Immediately he arose from his bunk, grabbed the portable lamp from its bracket, and held it at the window of his cabin. He couldn't see anything,...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, introduced extraordinary legislation on July 13, suggesting that the U.S. government or private contractors may secretly possess recovered UFOs and “biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.” According to the legislation, “non-human intelligence” is defined as “any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform, regardless of nature or ultimate origin which may be presumed responsible for” UFOs. [...] The proposed legislation follows explosive allegations by a former intelligence official, David Grusch, that secret UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs were illegally hidden from Congress. Importantly, the powerful investigative...

An American citizen has been detained in North Korea after straying across the border into the communist country without permission during a tour, the United Nations Command said Tuesday. The detainee has not been identified, but South Korea’s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper, citing South Korea’s army, reported that the person was a US army soldier. The person was taking part in a visit to the Joint Security Area – the border village in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas that is guarded by soldiers from both sides. “A US National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military...

The consequences of avoiding reality are killing us … literally! American leaders and policy makers in the 21st century should have paid attention to the profound wisdom put forth by Ayn Rand in the last Millennium: “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”It pinpoints the basis for countless problems in America run by Democrats in recent years, clarifying why they occurred. Consider the following illustrations: 1. “You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality” of funding coronavirus gain-of-function research in a communist country whose long-term goal is to destroy you, “but you cannot avoid the consequences...

Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) said Monday on CNN’s “The Source” that former President Donald Trump can lose the state of Georgia in the 2024 presidential election if he keeps talking about alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. Kemp said, “We have to have a candidate that can win and can beat Joe Biden That can win in states like Georgia. There is no path for us to win the White House if we can’t win Georgia. And so that’s what I’ve stayed focused on and really, I’ve had a message to every candidate out there. Listen, we have to...

Some people will do anything for a Disney experience. Knewz.com learned about one family which took an unexpected 17-hour drive. Nathan Montanez simply planned to drive his wife and two children to an airport. He would stay home in New Jersey and work while they flew to Orlando to visit Walt Disney World. But then came trouble. United Airlines canceled the flight 15 minutes before takeoff from Newark Liberty International Airport.

During an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that “we have and want to continue to have deep economic ties” with China and noted the near-record amount of trade between the two countries. Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Annmarie Hordern asked, “But when you’re looking at de-escalating, we’re trying to figure out what would be left on the table. Because what it feels [like] now is the administration is actually just amping up when it comes to potential tit-for-tat with Beijing. There is the outbound executive order that potentially we could see as soon as the end of...