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Archer has denied that he intended to defraud anyone and claimed that prosecutors have relied on circumstantial evidence. he Supreme Court rejected former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer's appeal of his criminal conviction in connection to a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe. Archer was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to just over a year in prison in 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribe of $60 million in bonds. The Supreme Court refused to hear Archer's appeal challenging his sentence on Monday. Archer is out on bail, and the court's rejection of his appeal means his conviction...

A bill that would protect historical memorials, including controversial monuments to the Confederacy erected after the Civil War by White citizens’ groups, moved through a committee in the Senate, powered by a Republican supermajority on the Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability. No Democrat supported this measure. Sen. Jonathan Martin’s bill (SB 1122) would impose penalties on local officials who removed those and other historical monuments after July 1, 2024. That mirrors a House companion in key ways, including potential removal from office by the Governor, as well as civil penalties and required restitution for monument restoration from the...

The remains of the last known victim of the Green River Killer have been identified as a Washington State teen – though investigators say there may still be other unsolved cases linked to the infamous murderer. The partial remains were identified as belonging to Tammie Liles, of Everett, the King’s County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) announced. “With this identification, there are no other unidentified remains associated with the Green River Case,” the sheriff’s office said. The incomplete set of bones and teeth were first discovered in 2003, when serial killer Gary Ridgway – known as the Green River Killer – led...

President Joe Biden holds just a three-point advantage over former President Donald Trump in Virginia — a state Trump plans to make a “heavy play” for, assuming he wins the nomination — in a hypothetical two-way general election race, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) poll. The poll, published on Tuesday, shows that 43 percent of the 812 registered voter respondents would back Biden versus 40 percent who would support Trump. Four percent would vote for someone else, five percent would not vote, and six percent would remain undecided. Biden’s lead falls within the plus or minus 5.46 percent...

Ask Nikki Haley's supporters in New Hampshire to explain why they are voting for her and the answer is clear: Trump. In contrast, Trump's supporters say: Country, America, or border. 'Nikki Haley’s support is not about Nikki Haley. Only two percent say they are voting for her because of her policies,' said James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, which conducted the survey. 'Meanwhile Trump's supporters are energised for positive reasons: Trump’s strength, his plans on the economy and – above all – his record in his first term.

The State Department on Monday brushed off reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering his government to look into the nation’s former “real estate” abroad, saying Alaska would be staying in American hands. Putin signed a new decree last week to allocate funds for the research and registration of Russian property overseas, including that in former territories of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, Russian state media TASS reported. The decree, which comes amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, did not specifically mention Alaska, though it caught the attention of military bloggers, who argued Putin was using the decree to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Lawyers for the Republican presidential primary front-runner had asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to examine the gag order after a three-judge panel upheld but narrowed the restrictions on his speech. Trump can now appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The gag order was imposed by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in October in response to concerns from special counsel...

German music producer Frank Farian - founder of the disco band Boney M - has died at the age of 82, according to his family. They released a statement on Tuesday via Farian's agency saying he had passed away at his home in Miami. Boney M, which formed in 1976, had a string of hit singles including Daddy Cool, Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon. Farian also went on to found the duo Milli Vanilli, who were involved in a lip-synching controversy.

As the Episcopal Church consecrated Gene Robinson the 9th bishop of New Hampshire in November 2003, he wore the customary vestments. He was also wearing a bullet-proof vest. What made the occasion controversial, indeed historic, was the Church's acceptance of Gene Robinson as the first openly-gay bishop in all of Christendom. Robinson is quick to point out that there have always been gay bishops in the Episcopal Church. "There have been a lot of us, let's just be clear," he said. "I'm just the first openly-gay one." Almost certainly the first Episcopal Bishop with purple nail polish. This was, of...

The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor shared an explosive story last week that Barack and Michelle Obama are angling to replace decrepit, unpopular Joe Biden with the younger and more popular Michelle as the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Michelle has reportedly already surveyed major Democrat donors about her potential candidacy and in 2022 allegedly told a gathering of CEOs in New York City she was running. Now, the New York Post’s Cindy Adams reveals that a secret plan has emerged to throw Old Joe under the bus. She claims it comes from “credible sources few have access to and usually not meant...

On Wednesday at the World Economic From annual event in Davos, World Health Organization (WHO) director General Tedros Ghebreyesus called for global leaders to sign a treaty to prepare a response to a hypothetical "Disease X" that they say could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19.During his speech,Ghebreyesus said, "There are things that are unknown that may happen, and anything happening is a matter of when, not if, so we need to have a placeholder for that, for the diseases we don’t know.""We lost many people [during COVID] because we couldn’t manage them,” he continued. "They could have been saved,...

WHY is the US Congress involved with creating a bill called “Disease X Act” back in June of 2023?Why has this slipped totally UNDER THE RADAR!!?US Congress Disease X Act of 2023Disease X is the mystery contagion that the WEF is having a meeting about on January 17th, 2024 that they say “could have 20 times more fatalities than COVID”The origins of Disease X go ALL the way back to 2018, in an article from the WEF.This is not a coincidence!You better believe this is PRE-PLANNED, and they are working on bringing this SICK plan to fruition. What is the...

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian @campbelledu - discusses the Top 5 Maritime Stories as of Jan 23, 2024.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis lashed out at critics of her liaison with special prosecutor Nathan Wade saying "there are plenty of white folks in the Georgia government who have done the same things I've done with Nate. They don't get criticized. Why am I their only target? I'll tell you why. I'm Black. The same racists who enslaved my ancestors are blaming me for imitating the norms allowed for whites." "Nate is a great friend and a great lawyer," Willis continued. "Unlike anyone else I could've hired to be special prosecutor, he was willing to share a portion...

President Biden knows full well Vice President Kamala Harris is “not up to the job” of commander-in-chief — and he preferred Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as his running mate in 2020 before caving to public pressure, according to a new book out Tuesday. Biden chose Harris days before that year’s virtual Democratic National Convention after promising to select a woman and after pro-Harris lobbying from former President Barack Obama, veteran Washington journalist Charlie Spiering writes in his book “Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House.” While the 59-year-old Harris is just “a brain stroke away from the presidency,” her...

$13 million in federal funding is coming to repair electric vehicle charging ports across the state. Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that the money has been awarded to the New York State Department of Transportation (NYS DOT) by the US DOT’s Federal Highway Administration’s Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Program. Funding will be used to repair or replace broken or non-operational EV charging ports. “New York State is the national leader when it comes to investing in innovation to combat the plague of global climate change,” Governor Hochul said.“This federal award will enable us to keep our...

CNN senior political commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday on “CNN This Morning” that it is “sobering” that former President Donald Trump looks to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Network political commentator Van Jones said, “In 2020, we cleared the field for Biden. We saw this threat coming from Bernie Sanders in the eyes of the Democratic establishment, cleared the field to make sure this party didn’t become an unrecognizable version of itself. The opposite is happening now. You are clearing the field for a Donald Trump. You are clearing the field for somebody who led an...

A few weeks ago, the US political right went crazy over a pin-up calendar. Towards the end of last year, the conservative start-up Ultra Right Beer released the Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America 2024 Calendar. It featured PG-rated bikini and short-skirt pics of right-leaning personalities, such as ‘the Redheaded Libertarian’, Josie Glabach, and Riley Gaines, the American swimmer who once lost out to swimsuited man Lia Thomas. Major conservative influencers reacted with complete and unexpected hysteria. Former Donald Trump consigliere Jenna Ellis referred to the calendar as pornography. Rapper Bryson Gray, founder of the ‘MAGA Music’ genre of rap,...

Michael Yon joins Alex Jones live from Panama to break down what he and his team have discovered. SUMMARY: The ChiComs are building bridges and thoroughfares through Panama's Darien Gap to feed huge illegal alien processing centers funded by the US government.

The Jerusalem Post decided it was a good idea to twist the Israel-Hamas war into a whining session about how the Jewish state’s military offensive was contributing to the so-called “climate crisis.” Talk about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. “Climate crisis on Gaza battlefield: CO2 emissions surge from Israel-Hamas war,” read The Post’s ludicrous Jan. 14 headline. It didn’t take long for the liberal outlet to then wokescold Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Hamas following the terror group’s Oct. 7th genocide against the Jewish people as somehow exacerbating climate change. “Some 99% of these emissions were attributed to...