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The Justice Department on Friday urged a federal judge overseeing former President Trump's election fraud case to issue a protective order against the former president after he made social media posts the department argues are threatening. Prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order in the case a day after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his favor and block the peaceful transition of power. The protective order would limit the information Trump and his legal team would be allowed to share publicly about the...

The Russian military is targeting women in its latest drive to recruit soldiers for its war in Ukraine. An independent news outlet called the hotline on the advertisement and was told that women under 50 are being encouraged to sign one-year contracts. They could enter with “minimal” professional training, the recruiter said in the call.

Fox News stars Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade erupted at each other this week while discussing the latest criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump, RadarOnline.com has learned.The surprising skirmish took place on Thursday night shortly after Trump pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C. federal courthouse to four criminal charges connected to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.“Brian, I’m just reporting the facts!” Doocy shouted.

The AG has been subjected to longstanding prosecutorial misconduct in still-pending criminal proceedings. Liberty-minded legal scholars decry prosecutorial abuses—including over-criminalization of conduct, overcharging of defendants, selective prosecution, and politicized sentencing—as we descend ever-further into the arbitrary enforcement of laws. University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds calls the weaponization of the criminal justice system “ham sandwich nation,” referring to the notorious ease over-aggressive prosecutors have in obtaining indictments from grand juries. Unscrupulous prosecutors can (and do) use this imbalance of power to coerce plea bargains from out-matched defendants lacking the resources to defend themselves. But at least criminal defendants enjoy...

Press ReleaseTwo U.S. Navy Servicemembers Arrested for Transmitting Military Information to the People’s Republic of China Thursday, August 3, 2023 For Immediate ReleaseOffice of Public AffairsIn two separate cases in the Southern and Central Districts of California, two U.S. Navy servicemembers were arrested for transmitting sensitive military information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).“These individuals stand accused of violating the commitments they made to protect the United States and betraying the public trust, to the benefit of the PRC government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Department of Justice...

Listening to Republican media pundits counting the days until the Dems abandon a scandal-ridden president, I have to wonder what kind of fantasy world these Pollyanna types inhabit. Biden is exactly the kind of figurehead his handlers, whether woke ideologues or Deep State operatives, want as their frontman. Why should they care if Jim Jordan, James Comer, Chuck Grassley or the head of a Ukrainian gas company think that Joe or his ne’er-do-well son is a criminal slimebag? Our corrupt demented titular head of state serves the needs of those who put him in power and who right now are...

Portland, Oregon is .. one of the most woke Democrat cities in America. And like so many cities on the left, they have a problem with crime. Some of the crime in Portland is just your garden-variety crime. Some of it, however, is political. I'm referring in particular to Antifa, the so-called “anti-fascist” group that itself is actually quite fascist with its tactics... in cities like Portland and Seattle, and even in places like New York City, there is a political will carried out by Antifa that is, I hate to say it, reminiscent of Hitler's Brownshirts. .. they are...

President Biden faces low approval ratings on the economy, so the White House has rolled out a new messaging campaign to repackage his inflationary economic policies: Bidenomics. In an address, President Biden made a pitch to the public that the U.S. labor market is thriving thanks to his agenda. He claimed this his policies created 13.4 million new jobs. Is that true? Today, the U.S. has had the highest economic growth rate, leading the world economies since the pandemic. The highest in the world. (Applause.) As Dick said, with his help, we created 13.4 million new jobs. More jobs in...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula as a glowing green and purple eye, presenting the familiar astronomical object in an altogether new light. Aside from its stunning aesthetic value, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57 (M57), located around 2,200 light-years away, in intricate detail that will surprise even astronomers who are familiar with the object.Located in the Lyra constellation, the Ring Nebula is a popular target for space enthusiasts as its donut-shaped ring of glowing gas and dust is visible even with small backyard telescopes throughout...

An infamous ambulance-chasing lawyer — exposed as a scammer by The Post in 2019 — was sentenced to four years behind bars for filing close to 300 sham lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act in New York and Florida. Stuart Finkelstein, 68, was handed the sentence Thursday from Manhattan federal Judge Paul Gardephe, who also slapped him with three years of post-release supervision and over $800,000 in fines and forfeitures. Gardephe will determine the restitution Finkelstein must pay at a later date. The Davie, Fla., man pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in July 2022 for a...

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A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022 and delivers a major victory to abortion rights supporters, who see the case as a potential blueprint to weaken restrictions elsewhere that Republican-led states have rushed to implement. *** “This is exactly why we did this. This is why we put ourselves through the pain and the trauma over and over again to share...

One of the more bizarre aspects of the Biden family's influence peddling scheme is Hunter's boast that "the troupe of very handsome Aryan godlike men I bring with me everywhere I go has immensely impressed my Chinese business associates." This statement appeared on Hunter's laptop and was confirmed by his former business partner Devon Archer in his testimony at the House Oversight Committee hearing this week. One of the more incriminating bits of Archer's testimony revealed that "in 2014 Burisma executive Mykola Zlochevsky told Hunter that his company needed help from the United States government to deal with the pressure...

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EVOLUTION: FACT OR FICTION? We’re told to believe that nothing, plus time, plus chance, equals everything. That is a fairy-tale for adults. Tragically, it’s being taught to our children. But the scientific evidence supporting Creation is now overwhelming..

Indictments are coming fast and furious now. They seem to be timed with bad news about corrupt Joe Biden and his corrupt family. This week’s indictment by Department of Justice Democrat Jack Smith was timed to the House testimony from Devon Archer, Hunter’s former partner in crime. Trump has now been indicted three times. The Manhattan Democrat Alvin Bragg says Trump lied 34 times on business records. Jack Smith federally indicted Trump a few months ago for supposedly mishandling secret documents, something Hillary and Biden did more clearly and abundantly. Smith indicted Trump this week for claiming the election was...

Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said with a sigh. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged on summer nights in the southern Michigan countryside. They were looking for increasingly scarce Indiana and northern long-eared bats, which historically migrated there for birthing season, sheltering behind peeling bark of dead trees. […] The two bat varieties are designated as imperiled under the Endangered Species Act, the bedrock U.S. law intended to keep animal and...

How did you get those three women, Obama’s college and law school girlfriends, to give you Obama’s love letters to them, and what was the most surprising thing you found in them? With Alex [McNear, Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College], I think she wanted to have her role known. So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, “It’s about homosexuality.”

A former special operator who rescued refugees from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in 2021 and whose business was destroyed by a CNN story he says was false and defamatory, won a significant procedural victory in a Florida court in his libel lawsuit against the network. In an order allowing Zachary Young to sue for punitive damages, Judge William S. Henry in Bay County quoted startling language from CNN employees' internal emails and texts regarding the story that aired on Nov. 11, 2021. Mr. Young, a security consultant with extensive military and government security experience, launched an effort...