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“It was mentioned by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, several times, that we don’t understand this process,” began Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.). “And so, for the sake of clarity, really, I’d like to show a video, a brief interview that was conducted [with] an expert in gender reassignment surgeries from Oregon’s health care system.”

Legal experts said Thursday that the statement of facts included in Hunter Biden’s proposed plea deal favored the defense as, due to the terms of the Department of Justice’s agreement with Biden, it would have immunized him from prosecution for a number of offenses. The statement of facts section of the plea deal appeared heavily skewed towards the defense, encompassing a wide range of activity that could have shielded Biden from future charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), legal experts said. That’s because the diversion agreement allowing Hunter Biden to avoid jail time for a felony gun charge...

Reston Police District – Reston officers arrested a suspect after robbing a 66-year-old woman. On July 24, at 8:20 p.m., officers responded for a robbery in the 11000 block of North Shore Drive in Reston. The victim was on a metro bus near the Hunter Woods shopping center. While on the bus, the victim began a conversation with the suspect. As the victim exited that bus, she sat on a bench at which time the suspect sat down next to her and robbed the victim of her wallet. A physical struggle occurred between the victim and a suspect, at which...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Monday, July 27. The following dispatches from E.A. PAUL, TIMES correspondent with the Army of the Potomac, have just been received here: HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 25th July -- 6 P.M. The positions of the rebel army are as follows: On Friday morning at 6 o'clock the advance of HILL's and LONGSTREETS's corps reached Culpepper. The columns were well closed up, and their entire corps must be concentrated there before this time. Of this retrograde movement there can be no question. For two days I had a favorable opportunity to take birdseye views of...

Martha's Vineyard police left the reason for the 911 call reporting Obama private chef Tafari Campbell's drowning blank in official logs from the night of the accident, DailyMail.com can reveal. Tafari, 45, fell into the water on Sunday night while paddle boarding on Great Edgartown Pond. He was not on the water alone, but police refuse to name the person he was with. At 7.46pm, a 911 call was made to report that he had fallen in and could not make it back to the surface.

Judge Noreika knew lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball while forcing her to rubber-stamp their absurd bargain. Hunter Biden arrived in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday morning expecting that, in a few short hours, he would walk out a free man with full immunity from prosecution for an exceedingly wide range of alleged criminal conduct, ranging from gun and drug charges to foreign influence peddling. His expectation was that his deal would be insulated from challenges from the presiding judge, or from a prosecutorial change of heart under a future administration. His...

A 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting three other teens during a fight in Times Square last week, the NYPD said. The baby-faced suspect, whose name wasn’t released because he is a minor, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon for the July 17 shooting, police said. Cops believe the young triggerman — whose photo the department released last week — squeezed off eight rounds from a 9mm handgun in the Crossroads of the World last Monday at about 11:50 p.m. The bullets struck three other kids, ages 15, 16 and 17....

Prosecutors tried to ‘hide’ a blanket immunity clause for Hunter Biden in a ‘crazy’ and ‘unprecedented’ tactic – but were exposed by the judge during the three-hour hearing with the president's son and his lawyers in her Wilmington courtroom Tuesday. says a former government lawyer. Ex-Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) Will Scharf slammed prosecutors and Hunter’s legal team, led by Chris Clark, for allegedly trying to fool U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika into approving the generous and unorthodox plea deal without proper scrutiny, in a fiery interview with DailyMail.com. The president’s son strolled into the courtroom in his former hometown, confident...

Woman claims doctors led her down a path of no return while she was a teenager.. A young Texas woman has filed a lawsuit for more than $1 million in damages, claiming that doctors pressured her into gender-reassignment procedures, resulting in a “botched” double mastectomy and irrevocable harm. Soren Aldaco, 21, filed the medical negligence and malpractice lawsuit (pdf) on July 21 in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, against five medical providers and their employees. The lawsuit named Del Scott Perry with Texas Health Physicians Group, Sreenath Nekkalapu with Mesa Springs, Barbara Rose Wood with Three Oaks Counseling Group, and Richard...

After two nights of earth-shaking dancing at Swift’s Seattle “Eras” tour concert at Lumen Field, enthusiastic Swifties caused seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach. The “Swift Quake” has been compared to the 2011 “Beast Quake,” when Seattle Seahawks fans erupted after an impressive touchdown by running back Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch. The ensuing celebration was detected on the same local seismometer as the Swift concert, Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. Caplan-Auerbach, who works as a geology professor at Western Washington University, saw the comparison in a Pacific Northwest earthquake group she moderates on Facebook and...

An Atlanta man says he was a foot from death. David Watkins describes waking up after a stray bullet almost hit him while he was asleep. His CPAP breathing machine was the only thing between the bullet and his head. "I have sleep apnea and that’s what saved my life," David Watkins said. That’s not a phrase often heard, but it could not be more true. Watkins provided photos which show where a stray bullet went through his room. "All of a sudden, my machine stopped working. I heard a loud noise. In my mind, I thought I rolled over...

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday night rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.” He went on to lament how “terrifying” it is seeing children “swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.” The veteran Portuguese socialist painted his picture of a world in peril during a streamed speech from U.N. headquarters in New York, returning once more to a theme of climate doom he has used...

Every leftist policy, whether centered around climate change, health, or something else, is designed to leech joy from our lives. The average Western household is hardly aware of busybodies’ plans to ban or sabotage convenience appliances, from dishwashers to leaf-blowers. They also don’t know that, for years, the water flow in US showerheads is restricted so that they don’t fully enjoy their showers. In the same way, in Europe, vacuum cleaners are less powerful than required for best performance. A recent article in the National Review entitled “The War on Things that Work“ describes a crusade by what the article...

"In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 1:6-7). Proven faith brings joy and confidence. Although some Christians fear that trials and persecutions can only rob them of their joy, Peter taught just the opposite. In fact, he said that joy comes not in spite of trouble but because...

Meta’s President, Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, had been due to speak later today at a hearing of Canada’s Heritage Committee entitled ‘The Response of Companies in the Information Technology Sector to Bill C-18’. This was an opportunity to present and discuss Meta’s position in relation to Canada’s draft Online News Act (C-18), as Meta representatives did at a Senate committee last week. Late on Thursday, the committee notified Meta that the title of the hearing had changed to ‘Tech Giants’ Current and Ongoing Use of Intimidation and Subversion Tactics to Evade Regulation in Canada and Across the World’. Clearly, it...

New evidence has surfaced which indicates Englishmen in the American colonies had the right to keep and bear arms before the right was codified in England. In 1606, King James I granted perpetual rights to arms for the Virginia colonies, which covered what would become the southern colonies during the 1600s. From The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900, by David Kopel and Joseph Greenlee, Law review article, 165 pages, 2021. In the early history section of the article, one startling fact revealed was the Royal Charter of King James I, in 1606, granted to members of...

Remdesivir may be the most despised drug in American history, earning the nickname Run Death Is Near for its lethal record during COVID. Experts claimed that it would stop COVID; instead, it stopped kidney function, then blasted the liver and other organs. Now this reviled destroyer of kidneys has been approved by the FDA for COVID treatment of kidney patients. Does anybody else feel as if the FDA is shoving its power in our faces and laughing at us? I've been joining online support groups for people who lost loved ones to the Remdesivir Protocol — a nightmarish sequence in...

As parts of the Northern Hemisphere reach heat close to the limits of human survival, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared in remarks reported Wednesday that Beijing alone will decide how — and how quickly — it addresses climate change. China’s world-leading emissions totaled 11.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to the Global Carbon Project, a decline of less than 1 percent from 2021 levels. China has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and approved the construction of dozens of coal plants last year even as it added more renewable power. China would...

I reported that Initial reports claimed that President Obama was the second paddleboarder, so I’m far from surprised when that was the only information the police hid. There is a great chance that President Barrack Obama was the second paddleboarder. pic.twitter.com/qc6uen4UXf— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 28, 2023

The mainstream media wall of silence protecting America's First Family has been crumbling for some time, but now its whole rotten foundation may collapse. And when those bricks come tumbling down, Joe Biden better cover his head. Wednesday's jaw-dropping implosion of Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal – delivered to him on a silver platter by his daddy's Justice Department – is too shocking for even the left-wing lapdog press to completely ignore. When Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika blew a faint breath at the proposed agreement, it fell apart like a house of cards. The judge simply asked government prosecutors and...