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Israel announced a more aggressive policy in response to 'Hezbollah’s daily attacks'..... at a situation assessment at the northern border on Saturday, Israel’s Defense Minister 'Yoav Gallant' said, ....“We have adopted a policy of active defense – exacting a price against every threat – from the air and from the ground, with great force.”...“We exact a price for every threat, hitting imminent threats and Hezbollah infrastructure,” Gallant added. Another indication of a more aggressive Israeli policy can be seen in unconfirmed Lebanese reports that Israeli fighter jets carried out mock attacks over the stronghold of Hezbollah in southern Beirut.....Similar reports...

Attorneys representing President Joe Biden's brother, James, have signaled the House Oversight Committee that he will sit for an interview as part of that panel's ongoing investigation of the first family, Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., confirmed on Friday. "[W]e have heard from James Biden's attorney, and they have signaled that he will come and answer questions in front of the House Oversight Committee, and we're very appreciative of that look forward to that," the Kentucky Republican said on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "We have as you know, the IRS notes that the IRS whistleblowers turned over...

By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in disarray after the sudden ouster of his predecessor last month. But as Johnson, R-La., tries to rebuild that slim majority, he’s fast running into the same hard-right factions and divisions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was unable to tame. That’s disrupting the party’s agenda, shelving priorities and leaving gnawing questions about any leader’s ability to govern. Capitol Hill devolved into fresh scenes of political chaos this past week as tensions soared. A Republican senator challenged a Teamsters union boss to a brawl, one of several outbursts involving lawmakers,...

Synopsis: Vivek nails it when asked about Trump's use of the word "vermin" to describe people he doesn't like. He (Vivek) goes after CNN reporter for focusing on mere vocabulary words while our country and way of life are being destroyed before our eyes. See video at link.

TORONTO — In what is sure to become a beloved, time-honored holiday tradition, a local toy company has introduced its new "Jordan Peterson on the Shelf" doll that will sit and watch you to make sure you keep your room clean like a decent, mature adult. "I can feel his eyes on me whenever I'm in my bedroom," said Adam Copeland, who placed the Jordan Peterson on the Shelf in his room last week. "I used to have a hard time staying motivated to clean my room and take responsibility, but the shame I felt knowing Dr. Peterson was right...

Washington, DC, Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency in the nation’s capital this week after the opioid fatalities spiked and juvenile crime soared ten percent from 2022’s alarming rate. The order will enhance the activation, implementation, and coordination of aid agreements between the District, federal, and local authorities to allegedly reduce crime.

If the Chinese spy balloon incident wasn’t enough, the Biden administration has now to offered China and Russia a VIP tour of the US National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear testing site. GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) was so angry at the Biden administration’s decision, she is now demanding answers as to why Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm offered foreign adversaries access to a sensitive US nuclear testing site. In a letter signed by 18 Republicans sent to Granholm, Stefanik wrote: “The Biden Administration’s willingness to allow our strategic rivals this unprecedented access to our sensitive nuclear testing will only embolden...

We all saw the recent story of the LA homeowner who defended his family with his personal firearm. We also know abortion will be used by Dems again in 2024 as a "single-issue" to turn out voters. Well, we have an important "single-issue" for voters as well - Gun Rights.

A new controversy has broken out in Europe over the use of the so-called "pain grip" by German police. More specifically, it's a restraint technique being used to remove climate change protesters who are blocking roads and otherwise causing chaos in public. A recent viral video showed police using the move on a man who was sitting in front of a bus, ignoring orders to get up. As he's carried onto the sidewalk, you can see his right hand being forced down to put pressure on his wrist. The man can be heard screaming as if he's feeling the worst...

Polls show that 75% of adults think the economy is in "fair" or "poor" shape, that 61% are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and that only 14% believe they are better off since Biden took office. President Biden thinks "these people are suffering a disconnect from reality. More people in the United States are in the workforce today than any time in American history. We now have the lowest rate of inflation of any advanced economy in the world. Meanwhile, median household wealth has grown by 37% in real terms since the depths of the pandemic." CNN Senior Political Data Reporter Harry Enten...

Media Matters, the Soros-financed smear outfit that thrives on intimidating journalists into spouting its far-left agenda, has picked the wrong target. According to Reuters: X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, will file a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk said on Saturday in a post on the platform, soon after major U.S. companies paused their advertisements on the site. "The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company," Musk wrote in...

Video of the shootout with comments by Colin Noir and reference to the "rooftop" Koreans from the LA riots of 1992.

One of two women who allegedly shoplifted from a California nail supply store returned to the business minutes later to demand her cellphone, which she had dropped, police say. The store owner offered to exchange her electronic device – which Murrieta police said had the suspect's California driver's license and a credit card inside the case – for the stolen goods, but the suspect allegedly assaulted him prior to leaving a second time. The incident unfolded just after noon on Sept. 19. The event was caught on Premier Nail Supply's surveillance cameras, and footage was shared with FOX 11 Los...

Defendant Was Influential Member of the Ranfla Nacional, MS-13’s Board of Directors that Directed Transnational Criminal Operations At the conclusion of a removal hearing, a federal court in Houston, Texas ordered Elmer Canales-Rivera, aka Crook de Hollywood, a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13, to be transferred in custody to the Eastern District of New York where he and 13 other high-ranking MS-13 leaders were indicted in December 2020 on terrorism offenses relating to their direction of the transnational criminal organization’s criminal activities in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, and elsewhere over the past two decades. On...

When Hunter Biden's foreign business deals began drying up amid his recovery from addiction and his father’s 2020 presidential campaign, he tapped a rich new source of money that has kept him afloat: Democratic supporters of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by Just the News. Evidence gathered by federal and congressional investigators show Hunter Biden collected over $6 million since his father began running for the presidency in 2020. The assistance flowed predominantly from prominent Democratic donor and respected Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, whom the first son reportedly befriended at one of his...

A newly appointed Home Office minister sparked fury on the Tory right today after pictures were unearthed showing her taking the knee during the Black Lives Matter protests. Laura Farris, the MP for Newbury, said how it was important MPs and other public figures 'are there with the community showing their support' in the fight against racism in 2020. She attended the event in the Berkshire town in June 2020 in a mask during the Covid pandemic, less than a month after the murder of George Floyd by police in the US city of Minneapolis sparked worldwide protests. But her...

Explanation: One year ago a Space Launch System rocket left planet Earth on November 16, 2022 at 1:47am EST carrying the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis I mission, the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems. Over an hour after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39B, one of Orion's external video cameras captured this view of its new perspective from space. In the foreground are Orion's Orbital Maneuvering System engine and auxillary engines, at the bottom of the European Service Module. Beyond one of the module's 7-meter long extended solar array wings lies the spacecraft's...

A Chicago man enjoying a slice of pizza was savagely beaten and robbed by two brutes in a brazen daylight attack caught on camera Monday — a day before the House Judiciary Committee visited town to hear testimony about how “soft-on-crime” policies have turned the Windy City into an “active warzone.” The victim, an unidentified 33-year-old, was walking down a residential alleyway in Bucktown around 2:55 p.m. when two males ran up to him from behind and delivered a brutal sucker punch to his head. Collapsing face-first into a chain-link fence, the victim cried out in surprise as his assailants...

Bob Vander Plaats, an influential evangelical leader in Iowa, is widely expected to endorse Ron DeSantis in the presidential primary. But now, with Donald Trump dominating the field, he is poised to back a candidate who is running 30 points behind the frontrunner here — testing not only the clout of his own endorsement, but the willingness of evangelicals to abandon Trump. Earlier this week, CBS reported that DeSantis told fundraisers he expects Vander Plaats’ endorsement within a week of the summit, which the DeSantis campaign denied.

Ok. I hope this doesnt get pulled. I'm struggling to be civil here...again...at the insanity of this biden administration-driven solution to a very real and tragic problem/crisis all due to the unsecured southern US border. Brandon is beating his chest talking about: "Biden-⁠Harris Administration Continues Progress on Fight Against Global Illicit Drug Trafficking." No, lets not address the actual real problem thats happening at the border. That would defeat the ultimate purpose of destroying the moral institutions of the United States of America.