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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis failed to take service of a House Judiciary Committee subpoena over email, requiring the U.S. Marshals Service to hand deliver it to her personally, the Daily Caller has learned. The House Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena to Willis on Feb. 2 for documents germane to her potential misuse of federal funds related to her indictment of former President Donald Trump. Willis did not accept the subpoena after it was emailed to her, causing the U.S. Marshals Service to have to serve the subpoena to her themselves, a source familiar with the matter told the...

Special counsel Robert Hur appears to have gotten what he was after with his final report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, claimed that Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said the evidence was insufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And the special counsel also differentiated Biden’s handling of documents from former President Donald Trump’s. But more than anything else, Hur’s ample commentary on Biden’s memory has become fodder for far-right — and not-so-far-right — media. Which...

Following a federal court ruling against the Canadian government for using the Emergencies Act during the trucker convoy, several plaintiffs plan to sue.. Several Freedom Convoy protesters, buoyed by a recent victory in Canadian federal court, said they’re preparing to sue the federal government, banks, and the police that brought the 2022 protest to a heated end. “I think it’s the second phase to what took place with the federal court case,” military veteran and plaintiff Eddie Cornell said. “We’ve got a big hill to climb, but it’s something that’s necessary. It has to be done.” On Jan. 23, Federal...

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Expect to taste up to 12 pizzas, 24 cheese samples a weekIf you possess a passion for pizza, cheese and all things dairy, your taste buds may be in luck. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Dairy Research is looking to hire a descriptive sensory panelist - in other words, a dairy taste tester - to join "a group of expert tasters" who can talk about their sensory experience, according to the job posting. The center wants someone to describe the taste of dairy foods "on the basis of appearance, texture, taste and aroma attributes" for product development and research...

It's National Pizza Day - so let's wrap ourselves in the warm, gooey embrace of cheese, settle into a heavenly array of toppings and chomp down on some delectable crust. The celebration comes every February 9, but it's hardly the only pizza-positive spot on the calendar. Still to come: National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), National Pepperoni Pizza Day (September 20), National Pizza Month (October) and National Sausage Pizza Day (October 11). There's no doubt about it - folks do love their pizza in all its forms. Here are some absurd pizza facts, helpful tips and strong opinions to fuel...

President Joe Biden, who is arguably the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, is not pro-abortion enough to satisfy the left-wing media. At a Wednesday fundraiser, the 81-year-old president said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. I don’t want abortion on demand, but I thought Roe v. Wade was right.” That statement has Biden in hot water with left-wing outlets The Nation and Slate, whose writers criticized him for supposedly not being wholly dedicated to killing the unborn ahead of the November presidential election. Susan Rinkunas wrote for Slate:

Global warming doomsayer Michael Mann of Penn State University has won his defamation lawsuit against critics Mark Steyn and Rand Simburg, proving that conservatives cannot get fair verdicts from District of Columbia juries. This is a huge, structural problem for the federal judiciary, because D.C. courts have jurisdiction over many actions regarding the federal government. Bias to the point of hatred of Republicans and conservatives by D.C. juries has made those courts a part of the Democrats’ armory. If Republicans ever again get the Oval Office and majorities in both Houses of Congress, they must redefine the jurisdiction of lower...

An aquarium and shark lab in Hendersonville is expecting a miracle birth any day -- with some exciting new additions. The Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in downtown Hendersonville has an expectant stingray named Charlotte. But this pregnancy isn't just any normal pregnancy -- and because of that, staff thought the swelling they started to see in Charlotte in September might be cancer. Why? Because there was no possible way for her to have become pregnant -- or so they thought -- as there were no male sting rays in the tank. 'Miraculous birth' expected from stingray with...

The article below (except the author's note) is from 2018. Author's Note: Originally published to great acclaim in the American Spectator on 6/29/18, my essay provoked a furious response from the GOP’s “intellectual” class and led to a serious of articles from both sides of the political spectrum including: Jonathan Chait, Michael Gerson, Michael Doran, Mark Bauerlein, and Jonah Goldberg of course. After my article appeared, the Weekly Standard shut down, the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg (who now works at CNN) and David French (who now works at the New York Times). As for Bill Kristol, he went...

The decision to confer Ukraine's highest state award on Zaluzhniy is a sign that Zelenskyy's team are trying to signal unity and respect for Zaluzhnyi after removing him as commander of the armed forces. It was announced in a decree on the president's website. Polls have indicated that Zaluzhnyi commands a larger share of the public's trust than Zelenskyy. There is no hard data yet on the public response to his removal but many Ukrainians have openly questioned his sacking on social media. The military shakeup followed months of speculation of a rift between Ukraine's two most prominent wartime figures...

MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Friday on “Deadline” that he believed Special Counsel Robert Hur’s “political report” on President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents is meant to “impact an election.” Host Alicia Menendez said, “I wanted to have you on with us because I want to know what you thought about what was in the report?”

Joe Biden held a prime time address to the nation to respond to the Special Counsel investigation into him, having classified documents in his garage, and it was an utter embarrassment.

Actor Michael Rapaport has admitted that he helped spread the left’s Trump Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax, saying he was “wrong” to have promoted the lie. Michael Rapaport spoke about the hoax during a recent interview on the Patrick Bet David (“PBD”) podcast. “One thing about the Charlottesville — that I ranted about, and I was wrong,” the actor said. “When you see the full quote, that wasn’t what he said.”

Yet, even by Vlad’s standards, it was bad. Let’s just say it won’t do anything to challenge the stereotype of Russians as stiff and melancholic. Putin hijacked the exchange with his eccentric view of history. He gave that lecture he loves, about how Ukraine is an “artificial state” magicked up by Stalin. But there was very little grilling. Carlson asked for evidence that the CIA blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline and then just accepted it when Putin said “I won’t get into details.” Hold on — the man who just bored us to tears with his fantasy history...

Usher's performance during this week's Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas extends the NFL's streak of halftime shows without a headlining rock act to 14. Chiefs starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes was still a freshman in high school when the Who concluded their set with "Won't Get Fooled Again" in 2010 at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. He's now attempting to claim his third Super Bowl crown, and there hasn't been a top-billed rock act since. Ironically, rock basically ruled halftime celebrations as the 21st century dawned. Aerosmith kicked things off in 2001 in Tampa for Super Bowl XXXV. U2 took...

Irregular immigration to the EU from Western Africa rose more than ten times on the year in January, according to the bloc's Frontex border agency, which expects overall arrivals to grow in 2024 and says halting the movement of people completely is impossible. Frontex head Hans Leijtens spoke in his Warsaw office ahead of a trip by the EU chief executive and Spanish prime minister on Thursday to Mauritania, which has recently become a major point of departure for Europe. Asked about a June EU-wide parliamentary election, in which migration is a top issue, the former Dutch border guard told...

Viral headlines exaggerated and inaccurately described a recent study about a coronavirus in mice.It’s been four years since the COVID-19 virus first began to spread. The U.S. National Intelligence Council assessed that two theories on the virus’s origins are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal or a laboratory-associated incident. Recent alarming headlines of Chinese experiments involving the virus reignited pandemic-era fears online. VERIFY reader Karen asked us on Facebook if a story from the Staten Island Advance, a newspaper local to New York City’s Staten Island, titled “Chinese scientists create COVID-19 strain that is 100% lethal to ‘humanized’ mice,...

A dangerous designer drug is gaining popularity across the nation and simultaneously sparking a rise in overdose deaths. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is now sending out a warning about bromazolam, otherwise known as “fake Xanax.” “There’s been a rapid and drastic increase in toxicology cases involving bromazolam,” Moody said. Bromazolam is an extremely potent benzodiazepine, unapproved in the United States. While it’s often seen posing as Xanax, experts say it’s much stronger, making it much easier to overdose. “The young people ordering it from social media, from drug dealers, and the risk of either getting fentanyl or worse, getting...

TOKYO -- Japan's chip startup Rapidus and a consortium of research institutes plan to start a project to develop chips more advanced than the current cutting-edge 2-nanometer technology, with 45 billion yen ($301 million) in backing from the government as it aims to revive the country's semiconductor industry. "What's important is that the most advanced technology is in Japan," Rapidus Chairman Tetsuro Higashi said at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday. The government-backed startup aims to produce 2nm chips in Hokkaido as early as 2027. Higashi is also board chairman of the Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC), a research...