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FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security and revealed that, due to the Israel-Hamas war, "The threat of an attack against Americans in the United States" has been raised "to a whole other level." In his prepared remarks, Wray provided more context to those threats: "Since October 7th, we've seen a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and our allies. Hizballah expressed its support and praise for Hamas and threatened to attack U.S. interests in the Middle East. Al-Qaida issued its most specific call to attack the United States...

An Italian man who was serving 30 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend was recently released from prison because judges ruled that prison food didn’t allow him to go on a diet behind bars. In 2017, Dimitri Fricano was arrested for killing his girlfriend, Erika, during a heated argument, while they were vacationing in Sardinia. He originally told police that robbers had attacked and killed his partner, but as investigators found more and more holes in his story, he eventually admitted that he had been the one to stab her 57 times. Apparently, she had scolded him for leaving...

Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was recently removed by the Vatican from his position in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, urged Catholics in an appearance on Newsmax to resist the Pope’s changes to the church’s ancient teachings while remaining faithful to the “bride of Christ.” "Please, please don't abandon the bride of Christ, that is the Catholic Church,” Strickland said Tuesday on Newsmax's "The Chris Salcedo Show." “ He added: “Stay with her, grow more holy, grow closer to the sacred heart of Christ. But please, please don't abandon her to the foul sinfulness that is overtaking the world and, sadly,...

For Chelsea Clinton, widening access to pediatric care is one of the most essential health care initiatives of our time. As many parents already contend with caregiving responsibilities, full-time jobs, and financial strain, accessing quality pediatric care shouldn’t also be a burden, Clinton tells Fortune in an exclusive interview this week. “There are so many challenges facing kids and caregivers and families in our country,” Clinton says. Clinton’s call for increased access to pediatric care comes amid a surge in physician burnout, which has catalyzed the current health care staffing shortage. Arming parents and caregivers with health advice, many of...

A growing number of U.S. adults regularly get their news from TikTok, with almost a third of adults between 18 and 29 relying on the video-sharing platform, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center—even as fewer people get news from social media sites like X and Facebook. KEY FACTS Between 2020 and 2023, the percentage of U.S. adults who reported regularly getting their news from TikTok has increased four-fold from 3% to 14%, according to Pew Research, which surveyed 8,842 adults in late September and early October. Fifteen percent of U.S. adults between the ages of 30 and...

About 300 million people in the United States would be put at risk of death from exposure to radioactive fallout in the four days following a nuclear attack, according to a new report that models the possible effects of such a grim event. If the US is attacked with nuclear weapons, an adversary would most likely concentrate all fire on the country's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch facilities (silos). Any retaliatory attack from the US would come from these silos, located in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming - and taking them out would be an enemy's first priority....

A pro-Palestine protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C. has erupted into violence. Police have already made several arrests after 150 activists 'violently' attempted to storm the building on Wednesday night. Hundreds of protesters gathered to call for a ceasefire in the Israel Gaza conflict, but clashes quickly began between demonstrators and DC Metro police.

Iran’s supreme leader told the head of Hamas in a face-to-face meeting in Tehran that his country would not enter the war with Israel and accused the terror group of not giving any prior warning of the Oct 7 attacks. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Ismail Haniyeh that Iran – a longtime backer of Hamas – would continue to lend the group its political and moral support, but would not intervene directly, according to three Iranian and Hamas officials with knowledge of the discussions who asked to remain anonymous. The supreme leader pressed Haniyeh to silence those voices in the Palestinian...

The Adams administration just ditched a new class of rookie school-safety officers — and Hizzoner says maybe parents should step in and take up the slack. Talk about intersectionality! Here we have a decline in public safety colliding with a national border breakdown — and, as usual, the collateral damage falls on folks doing their best just to get by. And the bad news certainly won’t be limited to parents fretting about classroom safety – not with tens of thousands of penniless migrants boring a multi-billion-dollar hole in the municipal fisc. Specifically, the city just deep-sixed a class of 250...

Israeli street artist Nitzan Mintz, 32, and her partner, Dede Bandaid, 36, had just arrived in New York to study at an art residency, when Hamas terrorists crashed through the Gaza border fence and unleashed their barbaric rampage of murder, rape, arson, and torture on Jewish communities inside Israel. The shocked couple withdrew from their art program before it had even started, and tried to think of what they could do to help the desperate situation at home. Recalling the “Missing Children” pictures on milk cartons that Bandaid said had become “iconic” around the world via American films, they focused...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ America’s Team! U.S. Marines with 3rd Radio Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group and U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Extended Range Sensing Effects Company, 1st Multi-Domain Effects Battalion, 1st Multi-Domain Task Force, pose for a photograph at Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Hijyudai Maneuver Area, Oita Prefecture, Japan, Oct. 18, 2023. U.S. Marines and U.S. Army Soldiers performed a field setup and tear-down of electronic warfare systems as a part of the field training exercise portion of Resolute Dragon 23. RD 23 showcased the first ever bilateral operations...

"If you care about debt and deficits, you should want a well-funded, well-functioning IRS."Biden IRS Launches Audit Into Conservative Org That Helped Tank Nominees For Key Administrative Posts Meet the new IRS. Same as the old IRS. But with a lot more money to be put to the use of pursuing political enemies. In the latest series of Front Page Magazine’s investigative pieces on the IRS complicity in enabling leftist violence and terrorism, I profiled a nonprofit that is integrated with Hamas. The BDS National Committee referred to the Hamas atrocities as the “resistance of the oppressed” and the “powerful...

Melle Stewart was a hugely successful actress. Now she has a piece of titanium the size of her hand lodged in her skull.. An Australian theatre star and vaccination advocate is suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, claiming that a life-threatening stroke left her unable to work after taking the company’s vaccine. Melle Stewart, 42, is known for her acting in both the UK and Australia, including playing the lead in the musical Mamma Mia! and Channel 7’s Home and Away. Ms. Stewart received her first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on May 24, 2021. Two weeks later, she began having...

With government contracts and corporate backers, NewsGuard seeks to monetize the work of reshaping the internet. In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool. In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship, Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, touted his product, NewsGuard, as a “Vaccine Against Misinformation.” His written pitch highlighted a “separate product” — beyond an extension already on the Microsoft Edge browser — “for internal use by content-moderation teams.” Crovitz promised an out-of-the-box tool that would use...

President Biden is giving a solo press conference after his meeting with Communist Chinese leader Xi. It's well past his bed time, so who knows what he might say. The conference was supposed to start at 7:15 PM Eastern, now over an hour late. The reporters are done preening, so maybe getting close to starting...

GOP Congressman claims to have proof of busloads of FBI informants embedded in Jan. 6 crowdFBI Director Christopher Wray was being questioned by Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) during a Wednesday hearing when a Democrat politician tried to stop Higgins from speaking. Higgins, the Republican committee chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, was grilling Wray about whether or not FBI agents and informants were bused into Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2021 to blend in with Trump supporters and breach the Capitol.

How Hamas is aiding Putin and Xi's ideological war against the West ©Provided by Daily Mail The Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars have become a battleground for Western and Eastern influence, with each conflict threatening to disrupt the international order. Hamas's bloody invasion of Israel came at an opportune time for Vladimir Putin - with the October 7 attack taking attention away from Russia's significant battlefield losses and desperate attempts to regain occupied territory in Ukraine. Russia enjoys warm relations with the terror group's leadership, recently welcoming members to Moscow. The Kremlin is also friendly with Iran - backers of Hezbollah,...

LOS ANGELES - Police in Los Angeles are asking for the public's help in finding Dashawn Dow, a 20-year-old resident of Los Angeles, suspected in a series of violent follow-home robberies. According to the LAPD, on October 2, 2023, around 1:30 p.m., surveillance footage captured a grey Maserati tailing a male and female victim into the parking structure of their North Hollywood apartment complex. Confronted by two armed suspects upon exiting their vehicle, the victims, fearing for their lives, complied with the demands, resulting in the loss of money and jewelry. Another incident occurred on October 10, 2023, around 12:10...

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, saying the Israeli leader has “lost the public’s trust.” This is the first time Lapid has urged Netanyahu to quit since Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7. “Netanyahu cannot remain Israel's prime minister. We need a national recovery government … he needs to go now. We cannot allow ourselves to have a Prime Minister who has lost the public’s trust, whether from a social or a security point of view,” Lapid said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12. “The people who are running things...

Humanity won't forget what the elite didA healthy 15-month-old girl died two days after receiving her routine vaccinations. The toddler suffered liver and kidney failure and cardiac arrest, according to hospital records obtained by the local news outlet. Alex Jones saw this tragic story and went on an epic rant about deadly pharma shots and how the current wars going on across the globe are serving as a distraction from the deaths caused by the Covid jabs.