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President Trump is reportedly considering a trip to Congress ahead of next week’s vote for the next House Speaker. Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had been approached about the possibility of becoming the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaking to reporters outside of the NYC courthouse, Trump said he would be willing to take on the role, emphasizing his commitment to doing “whatever’s best for the country and for the Republican Party.” WATCH: JUST IN: Donald Trump confirms from the New York courthouse that he has been asked about becoming the House Speaker, says he would do...

The Grace Hopper Celebration, which bills itself as a the world’s largest conference for women in computing, was recently swamped by men. The influential career fair for women opened itself to disaster by welcoming “non-binary” attendees to be inclusive of the LGBT community — an invitation men accepted in large numbers. Event organizers became frustrated by the sea of men, accusing male attendees of “lying” about their gender identities, with the event’s chief impact officer complaining, “Unfortunately — some of you are taking interview slots right now, from women who need them. Some of you are standing in line, talking...

A joyous wedding celebration in Nebraska took an unexpected turn when the wedding officiant accidentally shot his grandson in the shoulder after attempting to get wedding attendees to pay attention. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, from Odessa, Texas, had traveled to Nebraska to officiate a wedding Friday. During the ceremony, Gardner was carrying a Pietta model 1860 snub nose revolver and decided to fire a "blank" round from the handgun into the air to gather the attention of the wedding guests. However, the gun discharged, and the blank hit his 12-year-old grandson in his left...

A prominent activist with the anti-police extremist group "Stop Cop City" was arrested and charged last week in Georgia after he allegedly stole a vehicle, crashed into other vehicles, then ran from the scene, according to authorities. Matthew V. Johnson, 33, of Atlanta, Georgia has been charged with theft by taking, reckless driving, and hit-and-run, jail records show. Johnson is accused of stealing a Mercedes-Benz from Express Oil Change and Tire Engineers on Sept. 29. He then went on a rampage and crashed the stolen vehicle into multiple vehicles before running from the scene. Police were able to catch up...

Elvis Chan, a San Francisco-based senior FBI official, did not appear for a deposition on Thursday after Republicans subpoenaed him last month over his involvement in social media companies' decision to censor certain content surrounding the 2020 election. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elvis Chan, a San Francisco-based senior FBI official, did not appear for a deposition on Thursday after Republicans subpoenaed him last month over his involvement in social media companies' decision to censor certain content surrounding the 2020 election. A House Judiciary Committee room filled with several staffers appeared to be waiting for Chan as minutes passed beyond his scheduled 10:00 a.m....

An Iranian spy network, with the help of the U.S. envoy to Iran, was able to penetrate the Biden White House, U.S. State Department and the Pentagon in an effort to influence Iran policy in the Biden Administration and allied governments, reports say. Along with support from the IRGC, the intelligence operation was supported by now-suspended U.S. envoy to Iran Robert Malley, according to Iranian government emails which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source...

Rates are expected to stay higher for longer, an idea Fed officials have tried to get the market to accept and which investors are only now beginning to absorb. Getting used to a more typical rate structure doesn't sound like such a terrible thing. But after 15 years of living in an unnaturally low rate regime, normal sounds, well, abnormal. "All of this has to be assimilated and digested by the market," said Quincy Krosby of LPL Financial. "You can see that it's troubling and it's difficult."

A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone armed with air-to-surface missiles that was flying extensively in the area of U.S. ground troops in northeast Syria on Thursday, according to a U.S. official. An F-16 shot the drone down after a dozen unheeded calls to Turkish military officials stating American forces were in the area and the U.S. would engage in self-defense if it didn't leave, according to the official. The shootdown of the Turkish drone comes days after Turkey conducted retaliatory airstrikes in northern Iraq against locations related to the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), the militant Kurdish...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti joins Cardinal Müller’s support for cardinals’ dubia on Synod on Synodality'Homosexual unions cannot be blessed because God does not bless objectively sinful behavior, but always forgives the subjectively repentant sinner.'Yet another bishop of the Catholic Church has joined Cardinal Gerhard Müller in praising the five Cardinals who published their dubia challenging Pope Francis on some aspects of the upcoming Synod on Synodality – which are getting more and more explicit – that undermine the Church’s firm teachings on topic such as the ban on female ordination and the “blessings” of homosexual couples.Müller gave LifeSiteNews on October...

Western leaders have long fostered the self-serving myth that NATO is an organization solely for the mutual defense of its members. The corollary is that other nations therefore have no legitimate reason to fear the most powerful military alliance in history. After all, it is an association of peace-loving democracies. NATO is not a purely defensive alliance, and its members are not peace-loving democracies. The operational expression of the myth is most evident regarding relations with Russia. According to the dominant narrative (that a sycophantic news media obediently circulate) is that NATO’s addition of new members in Eastern Europe during...

Former President Donald Trump is considering a visit to the U.S. Capitol early next week, as House Republicans consider who should be the next speaker, two GOP lawmakers and two Trump allies confirmed to NBC News. The former president, who has not set foot on Capitol grounds since prior to the Jan. 6 riot, is considering making an appearance in an effort to “unify the party,” according to one Republican lawmaker who discussed the possibility with a member of Trump’s inner circle Thursday morning. While a small handful of Republican lawmakers have suggested Trump himself should serve as the next...

@Jim_Jordan has my full support to become the next Speaker of the House!It's time to get back to work for the American people.— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) October 5, 2023

The Manhattan judge deciding Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial lost his cool on Wednesday — slamming his hand on the bench and snapping, “This is ridiculous” — as the former president’s lawyers grilled his ex-accountant over inconsistent testimony. The judge’s annoyed reaction came after Trump’s side claimed that Donald Bender, a partner at accounting firm Mazars USA, was evading their questions. The attorneys had also repeatedly insisted they needed to meticulously go through Trump’s financial records with Bender “year by year.” “Don’t waste time,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron said sternly. Trump attorney Jesus Suarez had spent...

Abramorama has unveiled official trailer for Billion Dollar Babies (2023). Feature-length documentary that captures the incredible true story of the Cabbage Patch Kids, leaving nothing untouched, including the fundamental dispute over who originated the idea. From the marketing genius of the “hospital” in an idyllic North Georgian town where children “adopted” the dolls and solemnly pledged to love and care for them, to the subsequent business deal that gave rise to utter retail pandemonium, the film takes viewers on the wild ride through the Cabbage Patch Kids...

A three-judge federal court has picked the map Alabama will use for its congressional elections next year, one that will add a second district where Black residents make up close to half of the voting age population. The judges picked Remedial Plan 3, one of the three maps drawn by a special master appointed by the court to fix what the court found was a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act. The main changes are in the southern half of the state, where District 2 becomes the second district where Black voters will have an opportunity to elect a...

The House impeachment inquiry against President Biden will continue "full steam ahead," with "further action" expected in the coming days, despite the uncertainty surrounding who will take the helm as speaker of the House of Representatives following the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Fox News Digital has learned. McCarthy, R-Calif., who served as speaker of the House from late January through October and is the first in United States history to have been voted to be removed from the post supported the launch of an impeachment inquiry against the president last month, after months of GOP-led investigations into his family’s...

Appearing with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Mace of South Carolina exchanged some snide comments with Bannon regarding Mace’s 2021 vote to hold Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to appear before the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion. In a Wednesday posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Citizen Free Press showed Gaetz describing how he is portrayed in New York Times reporting as “hard liner,” “ultra-MAGA,” and “far right.” Gaetz then made reference to Mace, a pro-LGBT Republican seeking a middle ground on abortion who joined Democrats in voting for criminal contempt charges against Bannon.

Advisors to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council have coordinated influential op-eds in mainstream news outlets calling for more assistance to Ukraine – even slamming the prospect of negotiations as “damaging and counterproductive” – while repeatedly failing to disclose their financial interests to the lobbying group’s members: defense industry giants and the Ukrainian government.The U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), which describes itself as a “strong international voice for business in Ukraine now promoting U.S.-Ukraine business relations,” represents over 200 companies including leading defense firms such as Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin. Many of these members, therefore, are direct beneficiaries of the multi-billion-dollar aid...

Republicans are playing the long game in the fight to ban “Zuck Bucks” nationwide, and in Wisconsin they’re entrusting it to voters on the state’s April 2024 primary ballot.The Federalist first reported on Republican legislators’ strategy to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot next year, giving Wisconsiners the power to ban private funding for elections. Twenty five states have already done so, and in purple Virginia and Pennsylvania with Democratic support.The need couldn’t be more urgent. Most Americans are now familiar with partisan billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s plot to funnel $420 million to thousands of local election offices in 2020,...

FBI agent Elvis Chan, who appeared to lie under oath about his role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, failed to show up Thursday to his scheduled testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, a source familiar confirmed to the Daily Caller. The Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Chan on Sept. 21 to appear for an interview Thursday after he previously failed to attend a scheduled interview, the Daily Caller previously reported. Chan was nowhere to be found at the time the interview was scheduled, a source familiar told the Daily Caller.