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Project Veritas posted a video on Monday that included never-before released audio of a phone call with Ashley Biden confirming that the diary that they turned over to police was hers. In September 2020, Project Veritas received a call on its tip line claiming to have Ashley Biden’s “pretty crazy” diary along with some clothing, luggage, and other personal effects in their possession. That call along with the fallout for investigative journalists doing their job is explained in the video by new Project Veritas CEO, Hannah Giles. From Project Veritas: In the Fall of 2020, Project Veritas was approached by...

It's more than half a decade late coming online and has cost billions more than estimated, but Georgia Power's Vogtle Unit 3, the first US nuclear reactor built from scratch this century, has finally come online. Located near Waynesboro, Georgia, the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant's third reactor will supply an estimated 500,000 homes and businesses in the region with power. Utility companies in Georgia, Florida and Alabama all receive electricity generated by Vogtle's existing reactors, the first two of which came online in the late 1980s, and a fourth power facility is due to come online within the...

Tony Vaughn’s favorite part about delivering mail is also what opens him up to danger when he’s on the job. “We’re out in the community, we’re part of the community. We take pride and sometimes personal ownership of these routes. We see kids grow up, and meet neighbors. And the neighbors look out for us,” Vaughn said. Right now, they could really use people looking out for them. After serving as a carrier for almost 40 years, Vaughn is now the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ local branch. He’s worried for his colleagues. “Letter carriers are getting...

Collapse is never a sudden occurrence; it is an outcome of gradual erosion over time. A weakening that takes place almost invisible to those who pass through the construct, until eventually, at an uneventful time in the mechanics of history, the process gives way.Fitch has joined with the prior position of Standard & Poors to downgrade the USA credit rating. The weight of debt, in combination with reverberations from the continued hammering deep inside the political fundamental change operation, has triggered another flare.

The city paid big bucks for two posh, gas-guzzling new SUVs to escort Mayor Eric Adams and other top officials around town — even though the bike-boosting pol once vowed to pedal to work “all the time.” City Hall added a gleaming black Lincoln Navigator with tricked-out rims and a Chevrolet Suburban High Country with 420 horsepower to its fleet of department cars, for a combined total of at least $157,000, The Post has learned. Adams’ gets carted around daily in the High Country, which has an abysmal gas mileage of just 14 mpg in the city. The pollution-spewing Navigator...

(Last Updated On: July 31, 2023) NATIONAL ICE CREAM SANDWICH DAY | AUGUST 2 On August 2nd, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day encourages us to cool off with one of our favorite frozen treats. Whether it’s vanilla, strawberry or Neopolitan between two chocolate wafers, the dessert sure will hit the spot on a hot summer day. #IceCreamSandwichDay The original ice cream sandwich sold for a penny in 1900 from a pushcart in the Bowery neighborhood of New York. Newspapers never identified the name of the vendor in articles that appeared across the country. However, the ice cream sandwiched between milk...

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While former President Trump’s latest indictment rocked political and media circles Tuesday evening, the news was likely not a factor in market losses Wednesday morning. “A fundamental market tenet is that market prices are based on expectations, not realizations. The Trump indictment was widely anticipated, so while a seismic event politically, it really isn’t a major event with respect to capital markets,” Robert Johnson, a finance professor at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, told The Hill.

Between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians have lost one or more limbs since the start of the war.The Wall Street Journal writes about this, noting that these figures are comparable to the First World War.The publication cites the data with reference to the Kiev charitable organization Houp Foundation and the German manufacturer of prostheses Ottobock. The latter, in turn, rely on the data of the leadership of Ukraine and partner companies.The article notes that the actual number of injured may be even higher, since the process of prosthetics takes a long time.The publication writes that at the beginning of the war,...

One hundred years ago Wednesday, on Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding died inside San Francisco’s Palace Hotel—an opulent place for visiting dignitaries, then as now. Or so the historical record says, anyway. According to the House of Shields, among the oldest and most regal bars in San Francisco and directly across New Montgomery Street from the Palace, Harding snuck out of the hotel via tunnel and died at the bar in the company of his mistress. Officially, House of Shields will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any subterranean passages, but Harding was a well-known philanderer with...

Using NASA’s Van Allen Probes, new research reveals that the Van Allen radiation belts contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth.The Van Allen belts are a collection of charged particles, gathered in place by Earth’s magnetic field. They can wax and wane in response to incoming energy from the sun, sometimes swelling up enough to expose satellites in low-Earth orbit to damaging radiation. The discovery of the drain that acts as a barrier within the belts was made using NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in August 2012 to study the region. A...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Matthew 13:44Today’s Gospel presents us with two very short and similar parables. In the first, quoted above, the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a “treasure.” In the second parable, the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a “pearl of great price.” Though these parables are very similar to each other, there are also subtle differences worth...

On this date in 2005, U.S. journalist Stephen Vincent was abducted off the streets of Basra by a Shia militia. Before the day was out, he had been extrajudicially executed on the outskirts of town — along with his assistant and translator, who managed to survive the execution. Vincent, originally from California, had been a New York journalist (most prominent on the arts scene) for more than twenty years when he stood on his apartment’s roof on September 11, 2001, and watched United Airlines Flight 175 smash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Deeply shaken by the...

A study done in Basel Switzerland indicates that the rate of myocarditis after the COVID vaccine is not as rare as claimed by the vaccine's manufacturers. Among the 777 study participants with a median age of 37--all medical professionals getting the COVID vaccine–the incidence of elevated cardiac enzymes 3 days after injection was a pretty substantial 3%. This is 3000 times higher than the CDC's claimed 0.001%. This study suggests that the CDC, FDA, and NIAID have been deceptive about vaccine safety. Dr. Anthony Fauci has defended this deception as "the lesser of evils. Given the threat of a massive...

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Former President Donald Trump says he could face a combined total of 561 years in prison from the left’s witch hunts. On Tuesday, Trump was indicted on four counts —Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights. “The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified,” the indictment from special counsel Jack Smith’s office said....

President Joe Biden longed for his Department of Justice (DOJ) to take action and prosecute former President Donald Trump over what transpired on January 6, 2021 — a wish that came to fruition this week, over a year after reports of Biden’s initial complaints on the matter. In April 2022, the New York Times delved into the priorities of Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration, the latter of which had been hoping Garland would be more aggressive and take more decisive action to target Trump for January 6. According to the Times’ report, Biden had “confided to his...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau are separating after 18 years of marriage. In a brief statement issued by the prime minister on Instagram, he said that after "many meaningful and difficult conversations" the pair have "made the decision to separate." "As always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build," said Trudeau in his post, which was also shared by Sophie's account. For the well-being of their children, the Trudeaus are asking Canadians to respect the family's privacy at...

A jury has sentenced Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers to death for his crimes. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville read the verdict about 11:45 a.m. Jurors had been deliberating since about 9 a.m. Tuesday and signaled they’d reached a verdict at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. When Bowers shot out the front window of the building Oct. 27, 2018, three congregations were preparing for services: Tree of Life, Dor Hadash, and New Light. Twenty-two people were inside the monolith at the corner of Shady and Wilkins. Half were killed: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal,...

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced legislation Tuesday that would abolish the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for reportedly pushing issues such as abortion, gender equity programs and climate alarmism abroad. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the legislation, which is related to a May 10, 2022 Heritage Foundation report that found USAID was using U.S. taxpayer dollars to push far-left ideology.