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The Democratic mayor of Boston has sparked outrage after inviting city councilors to a holiday party intended only for 'electeds of color.' Michelle Wu's invitation for the December 13 'Electeds of Color Holiday Party' appeared to have been sent out to all councilors by her aide, Denise DosSantos. DosSantos followed up the email 15 minutes later apologizing for the email, clarifying that it was only meant for the city's six councilors of color. Seven white council members were reportedly not intended to be invited. 'I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow,' DosSantos, a...

In an adorable video that has warmed the hearts of viewers on social media, a pair of devoted French bulldog parents can be seen training their little one to take its first steps. The heartwarming clip, which was shared on Pinterest, showcases the mother's patient demeanor and the father's eagerness to see their baby walking. Despite the puppy's inability to support its weight at this early stage, the doting parents do their best to encourage and guide their little one towards a significant milestone.

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Doctor Who teased a new Rose ahead of the first David Tennant-starring 60th anniversary specials, and revealed early on that the new character with a familiar name would be played by transgender actress Yasmin Finney. While the inclusion of the character, who, like Finney is transgender and very central to the events of the episode entitled “The Star Beast,” was praised by many, the BBC revealed that not everyone was happy about Russell T Davies’ inclusive casting.

Good news from the Supreme Court! SCOTUS will hear Fischer vs. United States, the lawsuit questioning the unconstitutional 1512(c)(2) charges used by the Biden Department of Justice to abuse and punish January 6 protesters who came to Washington DC to protest the stolen 2020 election. The case involves three j6 defendants: Jake Lang, who we have reported on extensively here at The Gateway Pundit, Garret Miller, who pleaded guilty to 11 other criminal charges and was sentenced in February, and Joseph Fischer, who, like Lang, continues to await trial. The news broke this morning. MASSIVE news out of the Supreme...

Hunter Biden on Wednesday arrived in DC and gave a press conference on Capitol Hill where he revealed he will only answer questions under his own rules despite a congressional subpoena. Congressional Republicans subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a closed-door deposition related to his influence-peddling and family corruption. Hunter Biden on Wednesday said he will only testify “at a public hearing.” “My father was not financially involved in my business,” Hunter Biden said in the presser. Hunter tacitly admitted that his father Joe Biden was involved in his overseas businesses in other ways. House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Wednesday announced...

LeBron at USC's Galen Center for son Bronny James' college debut last Sunday.

According to a new report, Joe Biden is blaming himself for the legal woes of his son, thinking if he hadn't run that this wouldn't be happening and he's prone to flipping out if anyone brings up the topic. “In private, no issue is more likely to anger or sadden President Biden than attacks on his son,” according to Axios, which describes people close to the 81-year-old president noticing that his “moods shift” when there is unpleasant news about Hunter. Few in the president’s inner circle “feel free to discuss Hunter’s situation with the president” over fears that it could...

Hunter Biden stated that he is exempt from participating in a deposition, citing the ‘illegitimacy’ of the House committee that issued the subpoena. Hunter Biden believes he is above the law. During a press conference, Hunter said he welcomed questions from the House Oversight Committee regarding their investigations into his criminal family. But there’s a catch: Hunter insists he will NOT testify behind closed doors for his deposition as required by the House Oversight Subpoena. Instead, he said he would only welcome inquiries in public. “I’m here…to ensure that the House committee’s illegitimate investigations of my family do not proceed...

The FBI and Homeland Security sounded the alarm over the possibility of “lone actor violence” that could target holiday-related gatherings and other events due to tensions from the Israel-Hamas war. The federal agencies, along with the National Counterterrorism Center, issued a public service announcement Tuesday about the heightened threat of violence this winter after issuing previous warnings in October. While the alert was not in response to a specific plot on the feds’ radar, “various foreign terrorist media organizations have called for lone actor attacks in the US,” the agencies said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump. The justices will review an appellate ruling that revived a charge against three defendants accused of obstruction of an official proceeding. The charge refers to the disruption of Congress' certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory over Trump. That's among four counts brought against Trump in special counsel Jack Smith's case that accuses the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner of conspiring to overturn the results of his election...

Fox News Political Analyst Juan Williams repeated one of President Joe Biden’s most frequent and abhorrent lies: that Biden lost a son in combat. The claim came during a segment on Fox News Sunday when Williams offered sympathy for the president, whose family is under multiple federal investigations. Biden is facing a congressional impeachment inquiry over multimillion-dollar global influence-peddling schemes run with his brother, James, and his son, Hunter. Hunter Biden was charged with nine tax-related crimes on Thursday. “I think that [Joe Biden] loves his son and lost another son in war,” Williams said. “So he’s standing by his...

A coalition of twenty Democratic attorneys general, including several from states without a prohibition on so-called assault weapons, are sounding off in support of California’s gun ban. In an amicus brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Miller v. Bonta, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell and the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington contend that California’s ban doesn’t violate the Second Amendment because the arms that are prohibited aren’t protected by the Constitution...

Here comes Biden Claus, right down Constitution Avenue, bringing you a Christmas present of … 165% mortgage interest rates!! Mortgage applications increased 7.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 8, 2023. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 7.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 6 percent compared with the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 4 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

A history teacher at a Seattle high school allegedly gave a student a failing quiz grade after he answered that only women can get pregnant and only men can have penises. Fox News Digital received screenshots of the exams taken by two separate parents of students at the school. Question 7 of the quiz similarly asked students to identify whether the statement "only women can get pregnant" was true or false. The teacher again marked the student's answer incorrect when he said the statement was true. Several other questions asked students to answer questions like, "When someone uses 'they/them' pronouns,...

Hunter Biden announced that he will defy the House Oversight Committee subpoena to testify privately and lashed out at the “unrelenting Trump attack machine.” The son of President Joe Biden re-upped his offer to participate in a public congressional hearing instead of a private deposition, which Rep. James Comer, who is leading the investigations into the Biden Family, denied. Hunter Biden opened his comments with the Capitol in the background to assembled media, acknowledging his past mistakes before lashing out at the MAGA Republicans. “I’m here today to acknowledge that I’ve made mistakes in my life and wasted opportunities and...

Palestinian-American Taher Herzallah of American Muslims for Palestine, (AMP, Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing). - In 2014 he stated "Israelis have to be bombed." Herzallah has also proposed establishing "an Islamic State" to "use violent means to resist occupation[sic]." - 2023: Herzallah called Holocaust movie Schindler’s List a pro-Israel "propaganda piece." - Oct-2023: Anybody who has any relationship or any support or identifies himself as a Jewish person or as a Christian Zionist then we shall not be their friend, I will tell you they are enemy number one and our community needs to recognize that." It was...

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that she believes Democrats are fighting for freedoms that Republicans are taking away with book bans. The former speaker claimed books in school that have been classics “are now burned.” Wagner said, “Some of the priorities for these Republican lawmakers in a vacuum. The most egregious things really stand out. Among them their war on reproductive freedom and the most recent comments from their informal head, their front runner, Donald Trump, who wants to replace Obamacare.”

A Seattle high school with a recent history of activism is facing outrage from a parent after her 10th grader was marked wrong for saying only men have penises and only women get pregnant. The parent and her student, who remained anonymous out of fear of backlash, said the answers were given on a true-false test in an Ethic Studies World History class at Chief Sealth International High School. The student put that it is 'true' that only men have penises and only women can get pregnant on his 'Understanding Gender vs. Sex' quiz. His mother claims the student failed...