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The United States has invested millions of dollars in foreign assistance to an African country whose military staged a successful coup against the sitting president on Wednesday. The U.S. has sent roughly $100 million in direct foreign assistance to Gabon, a country located in the Sahel region of Africa, since 2001, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. A number of Gabon’s military forces arrested President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a successful coup that sought to overturn the results of a highly contentious election on Wednesday. Approximately $10 million of the direct foreign aid was purposed for the promotion of stability and peace in...

President Biden called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday about the major disaster declaration he signed for the state in response to Hurricane Idalia. On the call, Biden also conveyed that he “ordered all available federal resources to help with the continued response to Tropical Storm Idalia,” according to the White House. And, it added, “the president reiterated that the people of Florida have his full support as they recover from the storm.” The major disaster declaration allows for federal funding to be available to affected individuals in the counties of Citrus, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee and Taylor...

HARTFORD — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has tested positive for coronavirus, he said Wednesday. The Democrat announced Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 and reluctantly had to postpone his one-week “Walk Across Connecticut.” “Argh. I was super excited to start my annual Walk Across Connecticut today, but I started getting some mild COVID symptoms last night. I tested this morning and I’m positive,” Murphy wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Will reschedule the walk for later this year. So bummed.” Murphy, 50, began his annual walk in 2016 as a way to visit off-the-beaten path places and...

NORFOLK, Neb. -- Around 10:00 a.m. Norfolk Police Division responded to a call of a man driving eastbound on 275 with a Watusi bull in his passenger’s seat. “The officers received a call referencing a car driving into town that had a cow in it,” said Police Captain Chad Reiman. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, something small or something that would actually fit inside the vehicle.” And the vehicle was big enough… Well, technically. “As a result, the officers performed a traffic stop and addressed some traffic violations that were occurring with that particular situation,”...

FOX News Media’s Stuart Varney and Dana Perino will co-moderate the second Republican presidential primary debate alongside Univision's Ilia Calderón on Sept. 27 on FOX Business Network. "We are very proud to have Stuart Varney and Dana Perino co-moderating the second debate with Univision to provide Americans with a comprehensive view of the qualifying candidates vying for the Republican nomination for president," FOX News Media President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace said. FOX Business will host the debate from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California.

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 BREAKING: Judge Tim Kelly just made destruction of part of a temporary metal fence on govt property a federal crime of terrorism. Said removal of fence was part of the Proud Boys “conspiracy” to “influence the conduct of government.” This dramatically increases base level of jail time for Joe Biggs and Kelly no doubt will do the same for the other Proud Boys.

How many times over the past few years has Joe Biden said he never spoke to his son Hunter about his business? When that was found out to be untrue, Biden's team tried to change their phrasing and claimed that he never was in business with his son, and that he had always said that. That was some kind of an Orwellian switch: just accept what we say, and forget the prior evidence. That takes some kind of gall to pitch that position now, when we can all see what Biden and his team said before. In addition to all...

A Mexican national illegally present in the U.S. allegedly assaulted a Texas Department of Public Safety following a vehicle and foot pursuit. The man is alleged to have been smuggling three migrants who were also illegally present in the U.S. Texas DPS spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, showing a trooper engaging in a high-speed pursuit after the driver failed to yield near Sullivan City, Texas, on August 29. After the driver stopped and fled on foot, a trooper and Texas Military Department soldiers stopped him from returning to Mexico. The trooper struggled with the...

(Last Updated On: August 15, 2023) NATIONAL TRAIL MIX DAY Observed annually on August 31st, National Trail Mix Day honors the mix developed as a healthy snack for long hikes. #NationalTrailMixDay Filled with nuts, dried fruit, and grains, trail mix packs a boost of carbohydrates when the body needs it most. The nuts supply good fats as well as sustained energy, too. Since it’s lightweight, trail mix travels easily, as well. On long trails or while camping, trail mix keeps without spoiling since most of the ingredients are dried. Two California surfers claim the creation of trail mix. In 1968,...

Former President Donald Trump pleaded “not guilty” on Thursday in the Fulton County, Georgia case. The former president waived his arraignment in Fulton County. “I do hereby freely and voluntarily waive any right to be present at my arraignment on the Indictment and my right to have it read to me in open court,” Trump’s waiver said.

A four-strong gang in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, broke into the home of a white farmer chanting “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” and violently assaulted him and his wife, stabbing the latter with a spear. Tim and Amanda Platt were beaten with “pipes, crowbars, and other instruments” by the gang, said Jacques Broodryk, a spokesman for the AfriForum group which supports South Africa’s Dutch-descended Boer (Afrikaner) minority. Amanda was reportedly “beaten with a bolt cutter and lead pipes, and eventually stabbed with a spear.” Incredibly, she managed to escape the fracas while her husband was still fighting with their attackers,...

Among Republican presidential candidates, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley strikes the most fear unto Joe Biden’s campaign team, according to an insider. Driving the news: Haley, 51, is the only woman and one of three Indian Americans in the GOP’s pool of presidential hopefuls. What distinguishes her campaign, however, are policy positions that increasingly resonate with more moderate voters, particularly those actively looking for an alternative to Donald Trump. “If they nominate Nikki Haley, we’re in trouble,” a senior Democratic strategist close to the Biden campaign told Politico earlier this month. Such fears corroborate Haley’s positioning...

New records released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) reveal that Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, exchanged over 1,000 emails with the office of then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama Administration. As the New York Post reports, the records were released by NARA on Wednesday after a request from the conservative legal advocacy group America First Legal (AFL). At least 861 emails were sent or received by the Office of the Vice President during the period of time between January of 2011 and December of 2013, and over 200 more emails remain hidden due to the...

The new financial disclosure filed by Justice Thomas Thursday delivers a rebuke to activists’ smear campaign.Democrats have kept the knives out for Clarence Thomas since his 1991 confirmation to the nation’s highest court. The mere existence of a prominent black conservative has offended leftist sensibilities for decades and has placed a target on the judge for his entire career. Some of the most relentless attacks on Thomas’ integrity have come from left-wing media outlets that malign the justice with contrived scandals, free from any factual accountability for their smears. But now, a new financial disclosure from the current court’s longest-serving...

It’s taken 400 years of scientific discoveries to make it possible for anyone to find his location anywhere on the globe using GPS.With the letters GPS, we instantly recognize an innovation that has revolutionized our lives. The concept was born half a century ago in a sweltering room at the Pentagon over Labor Day weekend in 1973.That’s the genesis of the concept for a constellation of platforms orbiting the Earth, transmitting radio signals to determine location. Many years of calculation, experiment, and miniaturization led to the Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR) satellites that became known as the Global Positioning...

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has responded to the backlash over the White House’s response to the Hawaii wildfires by claiming that Democrat President Joe Biden “reacted in record time” to the disaster. Jean-Pierre made the claim during a Wednesday press briefing while gaslighting in response to criticisms over Biden’s apparent lack of interest in the disaster while he was on vacation. “It seems like the hurricane response so far is robust,” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy said to Jean-Pierre. “Did you guys realize that the initial Hawaii wildfire response was not that good or is it just easier for people...

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said he does not have the ability to bar former President Donald Trump from running for president in his state Wednesday. There have been calls to bar the former president from being able to run in 2024 related to language in the 14th amendment where it states those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government cannot hold office. Fontes said despite those claims, he cannot do so by way of a previous Arizona Supreme Court case. “Now, the Arizona Supreme Court said that because there’s no statutory process in federal...

Oh man, this one'll give you nightmares if you have little ones, so fair warning. VIDEO AT LINK............... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fox News @FoxNews · Follow Video shows 5-year-old boy ringing doorbell, seeking help after let off at wrong bus stop in 105-degree heat foxnews.com Video shows 5-year-old boy ringing doorbell, seeking help after let off at wrong bus stop in... An Oklahoma mother says her 5-year-old son and her boyfriend's 5-year-old daughter were dropped off at the wrong bus stop and wandered around in 105-degree heat trying to get home. 10:10 PM · Aug 29, 2023 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mom Kelly Mulholland took...

Perhaps the greatest danger emerging from the maniacal prosecutions against President Trump involves the left's all-out war against Trump's lawyers, which marks a broader constitutional threat to all Americans. In the Mar-a-Lago documents prosecution, former Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, "according to multiple sources," took copious notes of his conversation with Trump. Then, going full-blown Judas Iscariot, he betrayed Trum by surrendering confidential notes to Jack Smith's power-hungry little prosecutors. The New York Times, on June 11, wrote "Trump Indictment Shows Critical Evidence Came From One of His Own Lawyers," adding, "M. Evan Corcoran, who was hired to represent the former...

The left has romanticized and claimed guardianship over Native American peoples for years. Anecdotally, most of us who know Native Americans know they can't stand it. But now we are seeing a lot of instances of Native Americans pushing back at their cloying 'guardians' on the left who are starting to get overbearing. Here's their latest outrage, according to Ethan Brown, writing at RealClearEnergy:On June 2, the U.S. Department of the Interior blocked oil and gas leasing for the next twenty years within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Canyon — the site of a Puebloan civilization in now-northern New Mexico...