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A Donald Trump ally has turned over thousands of documents to special counsel Jack Smith related to efforts to find supposed voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election – including materials that haven’t been previously disclosed to investigators looking into events surrounding January 6, 2021. Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik was part of the team led by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani trying to uncover fraud that would swing the election in favor of Trump. For months, Kerik had tried to shield some of the documents from investigators, citing privilege. But in recent weeks, Kerik gave the documents to...

India's rice export ban has triggered panic buying at US supermarkets, causing the price of a 20-pound bag to surge from $16 to almost $50 in some stores. The south Asian country, which accounts for 40 percent of world rice exports, ordered a halt to its largest rice export category, non-basmati rice, on Thursday to calm domestic prices, sparking fears of global shortages. Videos and reports shared on social media over the weekend show Indian-Americans standing in long lines or panic-buying rice in Texas, Michigan, New Jersey Alabama, Ohio, Illinois and California. Some stores have hiked the price of a...

A team of researchers at Oregon State University blamed the "rise of online fascism" for students' sarcastic and mocking responses to their woke identity survey, according to a June paper published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. The researchers' paper, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences," accused the students of "tamper[ing] with the study outcomes and/or harass[ing] the researchers" by submitting responses that allegedly included "slurs, hate speech, or direct targeting of the research team." . . . According to the research team, 50...

A top Florida police official shot himself in the head on the side of a highway Sunday after an argument with his wife and remains in critical condition, according to reports. Tampa cops responded earlier in the day to a “disturbance” at a local hotel involving Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez, who was in town for a sheriffs’ association conference, and his wife. After responding officers left the scene of the initial call, Miami-Dade’s top cop shot himself in the head on Interstate 75. The Florida Highway Patrol addressed the incident in a statement.

The Bureau of Land Management announced new rules that will greatly increase the cost of oil and gas development on public lands. Critics say if the rules become final, it will likely make oil and gas production in Wyoming uneconomical. The Bureau of Land Management has announced new rules that, if finalized, will increase bonding requirements, royalty rates and minimum bids for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Statements by the bureau on the proposed rules say they will lead to more responsible leasing and development processes. Critics say it’s just a step toward the elimination of oil and...

Shocking video has emerged showing a transgender man being pummeled and body-slammed to the ground by an LA County sheriff’s deputy earlier this year after he gave the officer the middle finger. Emmett Brock, who is transgender, said the altercation began when he drove past the deputy, who was having a heated conversation with a woman, and flipped him off, according to the LA Times. Seconds later, Brock said, he noticed he was being followed by a sheriff’s cruiser. Brock said he called 911, but a dispatcher allegedly said, “What is that you want us to do? If he hasn’t...

Human smugglers have been taking advantage of record heat at the southern border to sneak migrants into the US, believing that there will be fewer border officers to stop them, according to officials. A record number of dead migrants have been recovered at the border as temperatures soared above 100 degrees for 36 consecutive days, the US Border Patrol said. “We are currently recording a significant number of migrant deaths in New Mexico due to the desert terrain and extreme heat,” the agency told the Border Report. In the summer, smugglers at the border normally avoid the hottest hours of...

Six Romanian vessels were in the Ukrainian port of Reni during the Russian strikes on the night of 23-24 July.Source: Mediafax, reported by European PravdaDetails: Mediafax reported that during the drone attack, Romanian sailors saw and heard explosions in the port, which is located on the left bank of the Danube.It is noted that the sailors and their vessels were not injured or damaged, and after the strikes, they quickly left the port and reached the right bank, where the territory of Romania begins.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the House of Representatives could be moving in the direction of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland "at a pretty quick pace," following testimony from two IRS whistleblowers before the House Oversight Committee. Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures to review the revelations from IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler. Host Maria Baritomo asked Jordan if he would impeach Garland based on his takeaways from the hearing. Jordan said it is up to the full conference of the House GOP. "I will tell you this the speaker...

Photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop show he was at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware the same day of his alleged "shakedown" messages to a Chinese business partner. President Biden recently shouted at a New York Post reporter when asked if he was with his son during the alleged WhatsApp discussion with Henry Zhao, CEO of Chinese asset management firm Harvest Fund Management, on July 30, 2017, during which Hunter said he was "sitting with" his father. Asked if Biden was with Hunter during the digital discussion, the president laughed at the question before yelling, "No!"

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River in a drone attack on Monday, targeting a vital export route for Kyiv in an expanding air campaign that Moscow began last week after quitting the Black Sea grain deal.Last week's attacks mostly struck the sea ports of Odesa but Monday's pre-dawn strikes hit infrastructure along the Danube, an export route whose importance has grown since the demise of the deal allowing Ukrainian grain shipments via the Black Sea."The Russian terrorists have again attacked the Odesa region overnight. Port infrastructure on the Danube river is the target this time,"...

Election fraud conspiracy theorist Jeffrey O’Donnell declined to appear in person at Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones’s Town Hall Thursday night. Instead, he chose to appear live via video feed from his home in Florida, transforming the event into a tightly scripted and somewhat mind-numbing Zoom session featuring The Lone Racoon of the Apocalypse and Patrick “Hand Count” Jones. Nevertheless, most of the 350 people who packed the Holiday Inn conference room applauded O’Donnell’s performance, in which he reiterated his debunked “Mesa County pattern of fraud” conspiracy theory that falsely asserts an unknown entity is using remote triggers or algorithms...

A group of cybersecurity researchers has uncovered what they believe is an intentional backdoor in encrypted radios used by police, military, and critical infrastructure entities around the world. The backdoor may have existed for decades, potentially exposing a wealth of sensitive information transmitted across them, according to the researchers. While the researchers frame their discovery as a backdoor, the organization responsible for maintaining the standard pushes back against that specific term, and says the standard was designed for export controls which determine the strength of encryption. The end result, however, are radios with traffic that can be decrypted using consumer...

In case you didn’t notice, Ron DeSantis is trailing Donald Trump in Florida by a whopping 20 points. For DeSantis to have won a landslide gubernatorial reelection last November, that spread is stunning DeSantis supporters. His big money backers are grumbling. His cheerleaders in conservative media circles are hedging. Yes, it’s a long way to the Sunshine State’s presidential preference primary in March, but the governor owns a stellar record in Florida. He’s popular, yet per polling, he’s getting the stuffing kicked out of him by Trump in every demographic save those making $200 grand or more. Men, women, Hispanics,...

Divers recovered the body of the 43-year-old male just before 10 am from Edgartown Great Pond, on which the Obama family's $12 million mansion lies. [ed: emphasis on 'lies'] The body of a paddleboarder who went missing on Sunday in the waters of Martha’s Vineyard has been found. According to Massachusetts State Police, divers recovered the body of the 43-year-old male just before 10 am from Edgartown Great Pond, on which the Obama family's $12 million mansion lies.

A suspect accused of mugging a Lyft driver jumped off New York City’s FDR Drive on July 11 and was seriously injured. Video footage shows Ismael English, 20, trying to flee the scene on the overpass as he sits teetering on the edge of the roadway, the New York Post reported Friday. English, wearing a dark colored shirt and what appeared to be grey pants, slips over the edge and hangs on for a moment before apparently losing his grip and falling to the pavement below.

Hollywood star Jim Caviezel has praised former President Donald Trump, calling him the “new Moses” who is “going to save children the likes of which you have never seen.”Jim Caviezel’s words of praise come after the actor spent an evening with Trump at a special screening of Sound of Freedom at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. As Breitbart News reported, Trump gave the anti child trafficking drama a big thumbs-up, calling it an “incredible inspiration.”“President Trump is going to save Children the likes of which you have never seen!” the actor tweeted. “You might even say he...

Michael Matt shares clips from a vintage documentary on the Second Vatican Council, and asks a few easy questions: Do you believe the Catholic Church is better off today than it was in 1965? Do you believe the Gospel is being proclaimed to the world more efficiently? Is the priesthood better off? How about your extended family? Are they all still practicing? No? So why are we still insisting that Vatican II was such a smashing success? What explains the almost cult-like adoration of a 60-year-old event that by all leading indicators left the Church in shambles? This video includes...

Divers have found the body of a paddleboarder who went missing in the water off Martha's Vineyard - that backs on to Barack Obama's sprawling $12million estate. The 43-year-old vanished on Sunday evening while he was out with another paddleboarder on Edgartown Great Pond, Massachusetts, and emergency crews were dispatched to Obama's residence. Witnesses told cops the man went underwater and then briefly reappeared as he struggled to stay afloat, before submerging again around 7.46pm. A massive joint-agency search resumed Monday morning for the African American male who was last seen wearing all black without a lifejacket, MV Times reported....

The body of a 43-year-old black man was found in an oceanside "pond" that borders the palatial oceanside estate belonging to former President Barack Obama in Martha's Vineyard on Monday. The man had reportedly been paddleboarding on the Edgartown Great Pond in the ultra-wealthy Massachusetts town and disappeared under the water shortly before 8 p.m. He was reportedly without a lifejacket and wearing all black.