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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be considering a run for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination following a recent CNN interview conducted over the weekend. Speaking with CNN anchor Michael Smerconish on Saturday afternoon, Kennedy was asked if he would consider seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. “Is it possible that you will seek still to be the Libertarian candidate, which would assure you getting on all 50 state ballots?” Smerconish said. “That is something that we’re looking at,” Kennedy responded. “We have a really good, relationship with the Libertarian Party. I’m going to be speaking at the California...

Iranian sources to @AJArabic: “The US sent more than one message to Tehran over the past two days via third parties. Washington's messages said that it did not want an open war and warned that expanding the war would be met with the US action. Tehran rejected Washington's threats and said targeting its territory is a red line, and crossing the line would be met with an appropriate response. Tehran's message said that it does not want a war with Washington either, but it will forcefully confront any American adventure.”

Empower Oversight says power grab would be unconstitutional, usurping powers on Congress and infringing 2nd Amendment. The whistleblower group that represented the IRS agents in the Hunter Biden case is warning that the Biden administration is preparing an “unconstitutional“ power grab to regulate private gun sales by requiring a background check. In a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Empower Oversight said it had learned from two sources that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was directed by the White House to make the change and “has drafted a 1,300-page document in support of a rule that...

Embattled Georgia DA has a 'pattern' of 'ethical violations, abuse of power' and misusing funds, whistleblower says.. Fani Willis may have fired the employee who warned her about mishandling federal funds. But she didn't deny her allegations. Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney's office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders "alternatives to the juvenile court system." During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting...

BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds. Willis did not dispute the allegations. 56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - President Joe Biden will mark the one-year anniversary of a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, with a February visit to the embattled community, the White House announced Wednesday. During the visit on a yet-to-be-announced date, Biden will meet with residents affected by the Feb. 3, 2023, chemical release and assess his administration’s progress in working with state and local leaders to protect the community and hold accountable the railroad responsible for the accident, Norfolk Southern, the White House said.

CINCINNATI, Friday, Jan. 29. The Commercial has the following special dispatch: FIVE MILES NORTH OF TUNNEL HILL, GA., FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 1864. Gen. PALMER, with Gen. DAVIS's division, moved here yesterday on a reconnoissance. The Twenty-eighth Kentucky and Fourth Michigan drove in the rebels' advance pickets and captured a company of rebel cavalry. The rebels retreated from Tunnel Hill during the night. They lost 32 killed and wounded. Our loss was two wounded. The object of the reconnoissance was effected. Gen. CLAIBORNE's rebel Division is above Tunnel Hill, on the Dalton road. The balance of the rebels have disappeared. They...

A large fire broke out at a Texas chicken farm this week, and firefighters are expected to tackle the blaze for several days. The massive fire broke out at Feather Crest Farms fire in Kurten, Texas, roughly 100 miles north of Houston, in Brazos County. KXXV-TV reported that no workers or other people were injured or killed in the incident. So far, the cause of the fire is unknown. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK................ Firefighters from multiple local departments have been battling the blaze since Monday. “Upon arrival there were two buildings on Feather Crest Farms property,” Jason Ware, deputy emergency...

These migrants appear to have better rides than some Brooklyn families they’ve been hitting up for cash, food and clothes. Authorities on Friday night towed at least five unregistered vehicles apparently being used by migrants that were illegally parked outside the city’s controversial tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, according to Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D-Brooklyn) The wild scene – which Williams caught on video and shared on Facebook — included a white pickup truck with no plates being towed from a grassy lot that is federal parkland to the dismay of at least one migrant seen pleading to gain access...

(Reuters) -Insurer Health Care Service Corp said on Wednesday it would buy Cigna's Medicare business that manages government-backed health insurance for people aged 65 and older for $3.3 billion in cash. The sale consists of Cigna's Medicare lines, including Medicare Advantage, Medicare supplement and Medicare drug plans, as well as a unit called CareAllies that works with physician groups and other healthcare providers.

The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl. It appears we’ve come full circle since the 2004 Democratic National Convention when then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us … there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. …...

Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C., have banned efforts to change sexual orientation, commonly but mistakenly referred to as “conversion therapy,” for minors on the premise that therapies seeking to mitigate or resolve unwanted same-sex attraction are inherently harmful and increase the risk of suicide. Father Paul Sullins, a Roman Catholic priest, senior research associate at The Ruth Institute, and former sociology professor at Catholic University, found that the opposite is true, however. Not only is there no evidence that efforts to change sexual orientation, which Sullins refers to by the acronym SOCE, increase the risk of suicide among those who...

When CBP goes to Texas to REPLACE the razor wire or assist with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION...what the F do they think they are doing???Where is a moral compass and their allegiance to the flag that they swore to? OR can the OPT-OUT of that part when they get their badge? I guess I have always thot, at 68y/o, that when you see OUR FLAG that you see the RED in it as the BLOOD that was shed for it! I would love poll these agents and asked them" did you have any family that served in WW2/Korea/'Nam? What stories did they...

The proposal to allow undocumented individuals to join the military and earn citizenship has sparked heated debate and raised eyebrows among conspiracy theorists who see it as a concerning development. Advocates argue that it addresses the recruitment challenges faced by the military while providing an opportunity for undocumented individuals to serve their country. However, critics express apprehension about the potential risks and implications of such a policy shift. As discussions unfold, the debate intensifies, leaving many questioning the potential consequences of this bold proposal.

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit, Fair Fight, is laying off the majority of its staff, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Fair Fight, a group Abrams founded to combat alleged voter suppression in Georgia, will be laying off 75% of its staff and significantly narrowing its scope of operations, the AJC reported. The organization holds $2.5 million in debt but only has $1.9 million in cash, according to the AJC. Salena Jegede, chair of the organization’s board, said that it faces a “serious funding deficit that makes our current trajectory unsustainable.” Finances haven’t always been an issue for Abrams’...

Residents of Lilliput, one of the islands of “Gulliver’s Travels,” dubbed Gulliver “man-mountain.” In the plight for his freedom, “said man-mountain” promised to, “be aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping to raise certain great stones.” Perhaps a figurative stone is the weight of the political moderates. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) the senator, as opposed to John Fetterman the candidate, seems to be doing this in a Sen. Joe Manchin-esque (D-W.Va.) manner. We might want to start calling the 6-foot-8 Fetterman man-Manchin. Capturing the politically murky middle is a difficult task, particularly in a journalistic environment where extremes get clicks....

t takes a kind of malignant genius to destroy California, but the state’s ruling elites are well on their way to assure its decline. If the downward spiral continues, it will stand as a testament to the insane variety of progressive policies that have driven middle and working class people, as well as numerous companies, out of the state. No place on earth came into this century with more going for it than California. It is a naturally beautiful state, home to some of the world’s mildest climates, enormously fertile both in its land and its people. It has long...

A self-proclaimed 'messiah' decapitated his 68-year-old father - then held up the victim's head in a politically-charged YouTube video blasting the federal government and the Biden administration. Justin Mohn, 32, is in custody in Pennsylvania after his father Michael was found by his wife, beheaded, inside the home that the trio shared in the quiet Philadelphia suburb of Levittown. Early Wednesday, the suspect was charged with murder in the first degree, abuse of a corpse and possession of an instrument of crime with intent. Hours before his arrest, Mohn held up what he claimed was his father's head during a...

Vigilance is necessary this time around to insure a free and fair election and to keep the cement of fundamental transformation from hardening into unbreakable rock. It should be painfully obvious to everyone by now that we are living in the fast-hardening cement of what Barack Obama promised to wildly cheering crowds on the campaign trail in 2008—”a fundamental transformation of America.” Anyone who can remember back to the decades before the Obama presidency will recall a country committed to fairness and common sense: judging a person based on the content of their character rather than the color of their...

President Joe Biden will visit East Palestine, Ohio, to mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating train derailment, the White House announced Tuesday.Biden will meet with residents impacted by the derailment and the hazardous chemicals that were subsequently spilled into the community as a result, Bloomberg News reports.The White House said Biden will address his administration’s progress in working with state and local leaders to protect the community and hold Norfolk Southern accountable for their actions.