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Proterra, the electric bus company at the center of an apparent conflict of interest involving Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, has filed for bankruptcy, Reuters reported Monday evening. Granholm drew immense scrutiny when it was revealed that she maintained her financial positions in the firm, for which she used to sit on the board of directors, after she assumed her post as the leader of the Department of Energy (DOE) and began to direct policies which could have favored her own financial interests. Granholm eventually closed her position in the firm late in May 2021, and netted capital gains amounting to...

Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court have been debating back-and-forth about recent actions taken by the court's new liberal majority, floating allegations of illegal actions and improperly-noticed meetings. The spat began shortly after new liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in on Tuesday, after which the liberal majority on the court quickly moved to fire the administrative director of the court and place organizational power over the Supreme Court in a three-justice committee instead of solely with the chief justice — who is currently a conservative. Chief Justice Annette Ziegler said the meetings conducted by the four liberal justices were...

BALTIMORE, Friday. Aug. 7. The flag-of-truce-boat New-York, under charge of Maj. JOHN E. MULFORD, arrived at Fortress Monroe from City Point last evening, with 250 exchanged prisoners. The Richmond papers contain some news of importance. JEFF. DAVIS has issued an urgent appeal to Confederate officers and soldiers to return immediately to their various camps and corps. He complains of a want of alacrity on the part of all classes in coming forward in this most dismal hour of the South. The Richmond Examiner is gloomy over the prospects at Charleston, and says the fall of that place will be the...

California cities are losing local control as state-mandated housing to battle what officials call the state’s “housing crisis” sweeps the Golden State, experts say, with some afraid of losing their small-town feel. The state’s housing department requires local jurisdictions every eight years to plan for housing, including that which is deemed “affordable” sold at or below market rate, as part of what’s known as a Housing Element. Of concern to some is that squeezing in high-density affordable housing may not suit every city the same. Sebastopol—an apple farming town of 7,500 people in Northern California east of Santa Rosa—is just...

Folks, if you haven’t seen this, buckle up and get ready to be excited because God is on the move! Did you know that in the late 80’s an American went to Italy and there met a religious hermit – the Hermit of Lereto as he is called – and that hermit told this man that God had revealed to him that God would raise up a man to lead America back to God and he had the name of that man. When he was asked who God was raising up, the hermit replied, “Donald Trump.” You can imagine that...

A severe weather outbreak has killed one person and knocked out power to more than 1 million customers across the eastern US on Monday. Officials say that a 28-year-old man was killed after being struck by lightning from passing storms in Florence, Alabama, on Monday evening. Police say the man was working outside at the Florence Industrial Park when storms hit. More than 130 million Americans across the region were at risk of seeing the severe weather outbreak as powerful thunderstorms produced hurricane-force wind gusts, large hail and tornadoes across the region

A federal appeals court has upheld Josh Duggar's conviction after he was sentenced for downloading child sexual abuse images. On Monday, the former reality television star's argument that a judge should have suppressed statements he made to investigators during the image search was rejected. He will remain in prison. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal by Duggar, whose large family was the focus of TLC´s '19 Kids and Counting.' Duggar, 34, pleaded not guilty to one count of receiving and one count of possessing child pornography, but a jury found him guilty...

As Twitchy reported earlier, Rep. Darrell Issa had a forum in California Monday featuring Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. The parents had plenty to say to President Joe Biden, who ended up calling the withdrawal a "success." Thirteen U.S. servicemembers died as the result of a suicide bomber who targeted the airport where people were crowded together in a desperate attempt to get out of the country before the Taliban took over. I really despise Joe Biden. I don't buy into his "grandfatherly" image at all. He flew off the handle...

Members of Congress pay consultants a lot of money for expert advice. But today, as a former political consultant, I want to offer two bits of expert advice — for free — to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). First words of advice: Before you release any document publicly, be sure to read it carefully. Otherwise, you may be mortifyingly embarrassed, as both Comer and Jordan were last week. For two years, Comer and Jordan promised to prove that Hunter Biden was engaged in criminal activity in his business relations with Ukraine...

Oberlin College is embarking on another legal battle now that it has finally paid out $36.59 million in damages to a local bakery for falsely accusing the business owners of racism. This time, the college is suing four of its insurance providers after they failed to reimburse the school for the multimillion-dollar judgment in the Gibson Bakery’s case. After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum to the bakery in September 2022. Gibson’s Bakery sued the college in 2017, accusing the school and one of its administrators of hurting its business and libeling it over...

The heir to the waning Anheuser-Busch fortune has aired disapproval toward his old firm's decision to do business with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney - and said the sentiment is shared by his late ancestors who helped build the beer company from nothing. Sitting down for an interview Friday, former owner Billy Busch, 62, lamented the series of failed PR stunts his successors undertook with the influencer, and how it's already lost his father's and grandfather's firm some $27billion. Speaking to TMZ, Busch said his late father, August 'Gussie' Busch Jr, and his dad, A-B creator Adolphus Busch, 'would have rolled...

As a general rule, a prosecutor can’t establish criminality unless he demonstrates criminal intent. For that reason, Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to establish that President Trump knew for a fact that he had lost the election. I have a problem with Smith’s reasoning because, to this day, I am certain that Trump did not lose the election. Here is some of the evidence. Strange ballots in Fulton County A review of Fulton County’s 147,000 mail-in paper ballots has been continuously blocked by the Georgia Secretary of State. However, a diligent nonprofit organization (VoterGA.org) managed to get some low-resolution...

A cousin to Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos was arrested after he was accused of threatening to shoot up a school and shoot his sister in the head, according to authorities. Nathan Cruz, 17, allegedly told his sister he planned “to do the same thing” as his sicko cousin, who shot and killed 19 students and two staffers inside Robb Elementary School last year, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio officers responded to a mental health call after the teen suspect’s mother grew worried Monday morning. “The suspect’s mother was especially concerned because...

The state of Arkansas has created a law to protect the ability of medical marijuana users in the state to obtain a concealed carry handgun license. HB1784 was introduced on March 29, 2023. On April 4th, 2023, the House voted for bill HB1784, 82 to 5, with eight not voting and five not present. On April 7, 2023, the Senate voted for the bill HB1784, 26 to 3, with two not voting and two not present. HB1724 was signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) into law on April 12, 2023. Here are relevant excerpts. From the Arkansas State Legislature:(B)...

@PolitlcsUK 🚨 | NEW: No 10 has officially endorsed Lee Anderson in suggesting asylum seekers should “f*** off back to France” if they dislike the barges @realBenBloch 🚨 Downing Street has told Sky News that Alex Chalk was speaking on behalf of the government when he defended Lee Anderson this morning. Lee Anderson said: "If [illegal migrants] don't like barges then they should f*** off back to France."

Just days after the discovery of sexually explicit books available to students in Texas public schools, another book that depicts masturbation, pedophilia and anti-Christian ideology has been found in at least two school districts. The book Blankets, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson, includes full frontal nudity of children and teenagers, sexual abuse, apparent depictions of pedophilia, and disparaging comments about Christianity. Blankets is described as an “autobiographical graphic novel based on the author's experiences growing up in a religious family in rural Wisconsin, describing his rivalry with his brother, and his experiences with first love.” In addition to sexually...

"If I . . . know all mysteries and all knowledge . . . but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Cor. 13:2). True knowledge is always governed by love. Christians should never take knowledge for granted. The ability to learn of Christ and grow in His truth is a blessing beyond measure. Paul prayed that we would be "filled with the knowledge of [God's] will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding" (Col. 1:9). That's what enables us to live in a way that pleases God (v. 10). But knowledge must be governed by love, just as love...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 3John Testifies Again About Jesus 22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23 Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. 24 (This was before John was put in prison.) 25 An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you...

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that “Hunter Biden was obviously trying to divert the different kinds of money” into bank accounts in the names of his family, but none of that involves President Joe Biden and the President has “never been accused, meaningfully, of any corruption in his life. I don’t think it has started now.” After host Chris Cuomo referenced payments to members of the Biden family, Raskin responded, “As far as I know, Hunter Biden made a bunch of business deals, which is lawful, which a lot of family members have done,...