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The Internal Revenue Service asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss parts of a lawsuit Hunter Biden filed against the agency over allegations that IRS agents unlawfully disclosed his private tax information. IRS officials said in a court filing that the lawsuit should be dismissed because it included claims made by agents’ lawyers, who are not U.S. government employees. Agency officials also said it should be dismissed because Biden seeks damages that are not covered by privacy law. President Joe Biden’s son had sued the IRS in September 2023 over two claims. The first was that two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley...

Japanese scientists took a video illustrating how plants communicate with each other. They created a device that vents chemicals from plants being damaged by insects directly into a healthy plant. In response, the video shows the living one producing calcium through its leaves, which indicates the plant senses danger. We don’t see plants prowling in the wild, hunting prey, and making sounds, so it’s easy to assume they don’t communicate with each other. However, this experiment proves that plants can convey messages to each other for survival. As a result, it becomes an eye-opener that expands our understanding of the...

The current escalation between Yemen's Houthi militia and the US-led naval coalition in the Red Sea serves the Iran-backed militants in several ways. In fact, it is even welcomed, according to some analysts. "The Houthis have been looking for an opportunity for confrontation with the United States," Hisham al-Omeisy, Yemen conflict analyst and former director of Washington's Information Research Center for Yemen, told DW. "For the past eight years, they've been telling their followers that they are at war with the US and with Israel, so this is a golden opportunity for them that they need to capitalize on," al-Omeisy...

"China's state-owned banks are tightening curbs on funding to Russian clients as they fear being subjected to secondary sanctions from the U.S., according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg... "...Chris Weafer, chief executive officer of strategic consultants Macro-Advisory Ltd., which focuses on Russia and the Eurasia region, previously told Newsweek that Russia should be wary of this increased reliance on China. "While China is eagerly buying energy and materials and selling Chinese-made goods to the Russia market, all of which suits Beijing, there is very little investment coming into Russia, certainly nothing like enough to replace the lost investment from...

They have made headlines in recent months through a string of hijackings and rocket strikes that have forced American vessels to intercept projectile launches and prompted the administration to authorize strikes on their territory. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Biden administration will reportedly announce plans to redeclare the Yemen-based Houthi militants a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization amid their ongoing harassment of Red Sea shipping, according to the Associated Press, which attributed the claim to "two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official." The Houthis control a large swath of Yemeni territory along the Red Sea coast and are on...

If Ukraine’s efforts are exhausted and Russia prevails, the U.S. will have to heavily arm the six countries that make up NATO’s eastern flank—Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania—unless it wants to send troops and fight its allies’ war for them. mid the chaos of last year’s House of Representatives Speaker fight, Congressional aid to Ukraine became a casualty. When Kevin McCarthy, a supporter of the Ukraine war effort, was ousted, that support was not shared by his successors and several of his colleagues. Since then, aid to Ukraine has become more divisive and stuck in limbo.

Tonight a drone sighted in waters off the southeast coast of Yemen... "The events that are taking place in Latvia and other Baltic countries now, when the Russian people are being thrown out, are very serious and directly affect the security of our country" Russian President Vladimir Putin warning... Seven Ukrainian missiles downed over Russia's Belgorod Region... Explosions heard in Odessa Ukraine late tonight... A Prime-Time speech and news conference from French President Emmanuel Macron speaking of a "stronger and fairer" France... A deal to provide more aid for Palestinians in Gaza and medicines for Israeli hostages held there... An...

Ted Cruz endorses Donald Trump for president “I believe this race is over. I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States.”

An 18-month-old child was poisoned to death after ingesting batteries and screws, and now the girlfriend of the baby's father has been arrested on homicide charges. Aleisia Lynnae Owens, 20, was charged with three counts of homicide, five counts of aggravated assault and one count of endangering the welfare of children in connection to Iris Rita Alfera's death in Pennsylvania. Iris was taken to the hospital on June 25 and was held in the PICU until she died on June 29. During an investigation, New Castle police found Owens conducted extensive online research on harmful substances for children and it...

World Economic Forum advisor and top globalist transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari warned the elite their current global order is in danger if Donald Trump is re-elected in this year’s crucial presidential election. In fact, the Klaus Schwab confidant said it is “likely” that Trump becomes U.S. president again and tries to dismantle the corrupt globalist establishment. 🚨🌎 Yuval Harari on Trump WEF Lunatic & Klaus Schwabs right hand man Yuval Noah Harari warns against Donald Trump winning the presidency. “It is likely to be the death of what remains of the ‘Global Order’ Good – another just reason to vote...

Beware, China. And Taiwan, and Asia, and America. Just after the holidays in 2022, a team from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a hefty report last year entitled The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan. It is jam-packed with insight. One hopes it finds avid readership among the uniformed services, their political masters, and Congress.The report details the design and results of an unclassified wargame set in the Taiwan Strait in 2026, toward the end of the much-discussed “Davidson window,” which postulates a Chinese attack on Taiwan by 2027....

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Several transgender candidates for state office in Ohio are facing challenges and even outright disqualification for omitting their former names from petition paperwork under a little-known state elections law, confronting a unique dilemma as they vie for office in increasing numbers in the face of anti-LBGTQ legislation. Three of the four transgender candidates hoping to win Democratic seats in the Republican-dominated Ohio House and Senate have either been challenged or disqualified for not putting their former name — also called a deadname — on circulating petitions to get on the ballot. But state law mandates that candidates...

The World Economic Forum’s president announced Tuesday at the group’s annual Davos summit that the world is moving toward a “new order.” WEF President Børge Brende made the remarks at the Davos 2024 conference in Switzerland in a discussion with Joe Biden’s White House Security Adviser Jake Sullivan about how the world is experiencing a transitional phase of global governance. The post-World War II international order “seems to be not that order anymore. We are on the way to a new order, so we are between orders,” Brende told Sullivan. “Do you agree with that? What are we able to...

Several years ago my younger brother came down with a rare condition, and nearly died. After I posted here requesting prayers, the warriors came through, and he did improve, his illness went into remission and he was able to live a normal life. The illness (Wegener's Granulomatosis, an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks [in this case] the sufferer's organs) has returned with a vengeance, and he is currently in his third hospital in 5 days with complete renal failure.

In a 14-page opinion and ruling today [SEE pdf HERE] four judges from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals deconstruct the previous ruling from their own court as well as the DC judge beneath them that gave Special Counsel Jack Smith access to President Trump Twitter account data and then enforced a non-disclosure order. There are multiple layers to this story, but the substantive part is the scheme and the construct of how the Lawfare took place. There’s no way this was coincidental; I’ll explain why. First, there are only 7 members on the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals....

They woke up this morning … and decided to get some of the gang back together at the 2024 Emmy Awards. Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli reunited onstage to present the nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, which ultimately went to Imperioli’s “The White Lotus” co-star Jennifer Coolidge. “Speaking for Michael, myself and the entire cast and crew, it was an honor working with ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase,” Bracco, 69, said. As she appeared to get choked up, she added: “And, of course, the great James Gandolfini.”

Recently there has been an ever increasing drumbeat from the media for a narrative portraying that Donald Trump would be a dangerous dictator if he returned to the White House in 2025, despite not becoming one during his first term. Further undermining the media's "Trump as dictator" narrative was an NBC News article on Monday that presents plans by liberals both in and out of government to curtail "dictator" Trump's power by using the law to thwart him, and hyped a Collusion Hoax peddler as the standard-bearer for that effort.The FIVE writers NBC crammbed into the article, Peter Nicholas, Katherine...

Disabled people are “very concerned” that assisted dying is being considered when they are lacking many supports needed to live full lives, an Oireachtas committee has heard. An activist warned the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying that it “could lead to disabled people making choices where, through lack of supports, they begin to view themselves as a ‘burden’”. Peter Kearns is a disabled activist, artist and academic, and the development officer with the Independent Living Movement Ireland. ”Give us a chance to have a bit of a life before the other bit comes upon us,” he appealed to the committee....

More information has been revealed about the secret Jewish tunnels dug under the Chabad Lubavitch Center in NYC. The Crown Heights, Brooklyn facility is a world-famous landmark for Jews.

In “The True Believer,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.” We’re about to find out just how right he was. From the 1970s to roughly now, offshoring and automation gobbled up blue-collar factory-type jobs. Auto companies laid off workers by the thousands and sent factories to Canada and Mexico. ... White-collar types were notably unsympathetic, for the most part. Berkeley professor and Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich declared the future belonged to the “symbolic analysts” — people who, in...