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DC SWAMP EXPOSED. PART 1 - D.C. Blackmail: A Capitol Hill intern reveals how members of Congress are coerced to vote a certain way through blackmail and extortion after affairs & sex parties: “Cawthorn wasn’t lying neither” O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe has discovered that nothing is as it seems when it comes to Congress Members’ voting patterns, the staffers they hire, or their activity outside of Congress. Meet Titus Warren, a Democrat working for Republicans in Congress. These Republicans do not care about Warren’s political views or the potential of him tipping off the other side. In fact,...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A former WWE employee who claimed she received “hush money” from founder and longtime CEO Vince McMahon accused him of sexual abuse and trafficking. According to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, Janel Grant, who worked at the company’s headquarters, alleged that McMahon sexually exploited her and attempted to traffic her to other WWE employees. The 67-page complaint details years of alleged abuse, largely at the hands of McMahon, 77, and the company’s former head of talent relations, John Laurinaitis.

Billionaire donors who helped fuel Nikki Haley's rise to a third place finish in Iowa and second in New Hampshire are pulling back from her effort to go one-on-one against Donald Trump in South Carolina. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who has helped bankroll Democrats and cut big checks to Biden's reelection effort, but also gave $250,000 to a super PAC backing Haley. Also bailing out is metal magnate Andy Sabin, who told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto he was ready to 'walk away' from Haley. He had contributed $1.7 million to GOP campaigns over three cycles. 'Haley needs to drop...

Thursday, during an appearance on FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized Democrats who backed proposed funding for war-plagued areas in Israel and Ukraine. The Kentucky Republican suggested it seemed as if the United States was “funding both sides of every war.” “So he wants to send money overseas more to work on border, you know, and his notion of working on it is really just to spend more money on processing people coming in, Senator,” FBN fill-in host Jackie DeAngelis said.

The donor class began to cut off all future funding of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s campaign after she lost the critical Republican primary in New Hampshire, multiple advisers to political megadonors told the Washington Post Wednesday. The desertions represent the beginning of the end for Haley’s ability to remain in the race. Haley was the donor class’s choice candidate to block former President Donald Trump, but after his historic victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Haley’s financial backers apparently see the writing on the wall. Democrat billionaire donor Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, paused donations to pro-Haley PACs....

Flight 72 Sol 1035 Date Jan. 18, 2024 Horizontal Distance 0 m 0 ft Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft Max. Groundspeed 0 m/s 0 mph Duration 32.0 seconds Route of Flight Airfield ChiFlight Log By the NumbersFLIGHTS 72FLIGHT TIME ~128.8 MINSDISTANCE FLOWN 11 MILES (~17.0 km)MAX. GROUND SPEED 22.4 MPH 10 m/sHIGHEST ALTITUDE 24 METERS (~79 ft)

A current and former law partner to Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor leading the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia, have been told to expect a subpoena to testify at a hearing next month on whether he and the district attorney who brought the case should be disqualified over their alleged affair and financial ties, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The district attorney, Fani Willis, also is expected to be subpoenaed, sources say, and possibly others in her office. The Fulton County judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump and his allies called for the...

The dress that E. Jean Carroll — the woman who has sued former President Donald Trump for defamation for denying her claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the early 1990’s — claims she wore during the alleged attack did not exist at the time, Trump’s lawyer pointed out. Carroll’s second defamation trial against Trump is underway. Notably, Trump is not facing criminal charges in these cases. Carroll first went public with her story in 2019, posing for a cover of New York Magazine in the Donna Karan blazer dress that she claims she...

The city of Seattle, Washington, agreed Wednesday to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit from a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who participated in the violent and destructive 2020 riots following the death of George Floyd.A Wednesday press release from the city revealed that Seattle is settling a complaint filed by a group of 50 protesters in September 2020 who claimed they were injured by police while participating in the demonstrations. Seattle admitted to no wrongdoing.According to the city, the complaint involved hundreds of interactions between the protesters and local law enforcement officials, over a million pages of...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wants the United States to stop being the "sugar daddy of the world." In a Thursday interview on Fox Business' Mornings with Maria, the Libertarian-leaning Republican laid into proposed funding for Ukraine. President Joe Biden has pushed a $100 billion spending package that includes spending on Ukraine, Israel, and the United States' own southern border. Republican lawmakers, however, have pushed back against Ukraine funding, some wanting it cut altogether and some arguing for larger border reforms in exchange. Paul said it's not "entirely clear" how proposed humanitarian funding for Gaza and Israel is being split up,...

LANSING, Mich. — The Republican National Committee determined Kristina Karamo was "properly removed" as MIGOP chair, according to its initial review. This news comes just weeks after a January 6 meeting when the Michigan Republican Party voted to remove Karamo; however, Karamo pushed back. She and her supporters released their own report days later, claiming the party's bylaws were violated and the decision to remove her as chairperson was null and void. In a letter, the RNC Counsel's Office states it "has reviewed the MIGOP Bylaws, meeting minutes and other materials provided by both sides in this dispute. Based upon...

The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay another $3.55 million to two additional victims of former teacher and convicted pedophile Mark Berndt, a firm representing the victims said Tuesday

Explanation: You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that's probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured with an allsky camera on January 16. The temperature recorded on that northern winter night was around minus 20 degrees Celsius. As ice crystals formed in the atmosphere overhead, street lights spilling illumination into the sky above produced visible light pillars, their ethereal appearance due to specular reflections from the fluttering crystals' flat surfaces. Of course, the projected light pillars trace a map of the brightly lit local streets,...

I don’t know how many times I have to say this because I’ve been around for a while, and I’ve seen this same thing happen again and again and again when squish GOP senators try to negotiate with the Democrats about immigration. I know it’s meant to bully mental defectives, but when it comes to the GOP Senate caucus, that rule does not apply since some of its members apparently cannot learn from experience and must learn through pain. Here is a message to you, spineless Republican senators…. Stop trying to do immigration deals with the Democrats. This same sorry...

Herbert "Cowboy" Coward, who as the sadistic toothless man in John Boorman's Deliverance terrorized canoeists and audiences alike with the chilling line, "He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?," has been killed in a car accident. He was 85. Coward died Wednesday when the Nissan he was driving was struck by a pickup truck driven by a 16-year-old in Haywood County, North Carolina, North Carolina State Highway Patrol officials told WLOS-TV.

hieves purloined an ATM from a Bank of America in Oakland in broad daylight, just down street from the city's only In-N-Out, which will soon close its doors amid soaring crime rates. Video from the scene showed the ATM hitched to a white van with a cable, flying down the street as sparks sprayed from the pavement. The Bank of America on Hegenberger Road sported a boarded-up window following Sunday morning's break-in. Police said another ATM was stolen about an hour earlier from a nearby business and later recovered. Anthony Pearson was taken into custody in connection to the bank...

The newly installed head of Kim Foxx’s post-conviction unit recently told a Cook County judge that a side business she fronts, in potential conflict with her new duties reviewing innocence claims by inmates, isn’t really a business at all. Michelle Mbekeani, the head of Foxx’s Conviction Review Unit, told Judge Michael McHale that Periodsentence.com, on whose website she is listed as Founder/CEO, is a “school project” that incurs “absolutely no revenue at all.” Period connects inmates claiming innocence with defense attorneys. Last May, however, a photo surfaced on X in which Mbekeani is seen accepting a check for $75,000. Posted...

Aformer U.S attorney general said the federal cases involving former President Donald Trump should be fast-tracked in the courts like key decisions involving President Richard Nixon were. Eric Holder, who was attorney general from 2009 to 2015, said the cases against Trump need to be heard before the November election. Legal maneuvers by Trump's lawyers have held up the federal election case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in Washington, D.C. Smith also brought charges against Trump in the classified documents case in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court will at some point decide if Trump is immune from prosecution for...

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) House of Delegates has passed a resolution during their meeting on January 10th. The resolution promises that teachers and members will celebrate Black Lives Matter throughout February, with union members donning t-shirts and incorporating at least one approved lesson into their classrooms. According to the CTU's resolution, there is also an emphasis on advocacy that aligns with "the national demands for hiring more Black teachers and ending the pushout of Black teachers in our schools, proper implementation of restorative practices in schools and ending zero tolerance discipline, teaching students Black history and other ethnic studies...

White House National Security Adviser John Kirby sidestepped questions on the topic during a brief gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Abbott has used the Texas National Guard to block agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection from accessing certain areas along the U.S.-Mexico border.