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A Hunter Biden email about Ukraine from 2014 looks ‘suspiciously’ like it could have come from classified information, a leading GOP senator has claimed. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said the April 12, 2014 message to one of the first son’s business partners resembles documents that the State Department gives members of the Senate when they travel overseas. “It reads like one of those scene-setters — highly detailed information in terms of Ukraine,” Johnson told Fox News Tuesday. The email from Hunter to Devon Archer includes a granular 22-point memo the Biden scion described as “thoughts after doing some research.” Those “thoughts”...

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Australian police are investigating threats against a five-year-old Jewish child amid an uproar over the publication online of a list of hundreds of Jewish creatives’ personal information by prominent pro-Palestinian activists. Hundreds of Jewish academics and creatives who joined a private WhatsApp group last year had their personal information shared publicly by the activists this week. At least one family has gone into hiding amid ensuing harassment, Josh Burns, a Jewish Australian lawmaker, said during a radio interview on Friday morning, prompting shock from the interviewer. “They were completely shattered by this whole experience, where a sort of lynch mob...

Facing impeachment, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is refusing to hand over to Congress a full accounting of every illegal alien that has been released into the United States since President Joe Biden took office in late January 2021.Last month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) sent a letter to Mayorkas asking for a “numerical breakdown of all illegal alien releases at the southwest border since January 20, 2021.”McClintock’s office confirmed to Breitbart News that as of February 9, Mayorkas has not responded to the...

The Democratic National Committee on Friday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission, accusing presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. of a "ballot access scheme" that it argues constitutes illegal coordination with a super PAC supporting his independent bid for the White House. The committee alleges that the Super PAC American Values 2024 is working to collect signatures to ensure Kennedy is on the November ballot in key states, but will have to “integrate their expenses” with the campaign in ways that violate federal election rules in order to do so. That's because, the DNC argues, many states — including...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed, “Ukraine is obviously a satellite state of the U.S.” in an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson published on Thursday. “Ukraine is obviously a satellite state of the U.S. It is evident,” Putin asserted in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Tuesday. Watch Below (time code — 01:58:15): Putin was responding to a question from Carlson, who asked, “Are you worried that what’s happening in Ukraine could lead to something much larger and much more horrible? And how motivated are you to call the U.S. government and say, ‘Let’s come to terms’?”“I already said that we...

This week, 17 Senate Republicans joined Democrats to approve sending Ukraine another $60 billion. Twelve of those Republicans previously suggested they would not help send Ukraine any more American taxpayer money until the United States’s border was secure from illegal immigration.On Thursday, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Todd Young (R-IN) joined every Senate Democrat...

Prominent Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan said she wishes Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke more about "conservative values" during his interview with Tucker Carlson. Carlson, a former host at Fox News before getting ousted by the network in the spring, released a two-hour interview with Putin on Thursday, the first that the Kremlin leader has given to a Western journalist since launching his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The conversation has received heavy amounts of criticism, with some labeling the interview as a propaganda opportunity for Putin. The conversation spanned from an in-depth Russian history lesson to Putin's thoughts on...

Donald J. Trump spoke at the NRA’s Great American Outdoor show Friday night, saying, “Your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as President.”He said it was great to be back with the “hard working, God fearing, patriots of the NRA.”Trump mentioned primaries and caucuses he has won to date, and made clear his conviction that he will win the upcoming South Carolina primary.He then talked of how he warned the American people that Joe Biden would bring America into a perilous situation, should he be elected.Trump then added, “The only thing I didn’t know: I didn’t know how...

President Joe Biden gave a press conference Thursday night after the release of a report from special counsel Robert Hur … Biden was combative, forcefully rejecting Hur’s claims that he has a poor memory. But the president was also repeatedly inaccurate, making the claims that were clearly contradicted by Hur’s report. (1)Where the classified material was stored … Biden embellished his argument with a false claim. Biden said: “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”Facts First: The special counsel’s report says … classified documents, about Afghanistan,...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump called foul on the Justice Department’s decision not to seek charges against President Biden for retaining and disclosing classified documents while he faces prosecution on similar charges. Speaking to a gathering of thousands at the National Rifle Association Friday night in this key swing state, the likely Republican nominee said if Mr. Biden wasn’t to be charged, neither should he.“This is nothing more than the selected persecution of Biden’s political opponent, me,” Mr. Trump said.Mr. Trump’s criticism follows a scalding report from Special Counsel Robert Hur that found Mr. Biden willfully retained and...

Former President Donald Trump predicted that there is a “100% chance of a major terror attack in the not-too-distant future” under President Joe Biden’s open border policies.Trump said that “terrorists” who were crossing into the United States made U.S. prisoners look like “very nice people” and touted the success of his “travel ban,” which blocked people from specific countries from entering the country.“Under Biden, millions of illegals are now pouring into our country, and these include terrorists,” Trump said during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday. “You have a 100% chance of a...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allegations from his interview with Tucker Carlson. During the interview posted to X on Thursday night, Putin claimed that Johnson “dissuaded” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from coming to an agreement with Russia and avoiding a war entirely. According to Putin, an agreement had already been outlined in a document.“He put his signature and then he himself said, ‘We were ready to sign it, and the war would have been over long ago. However, Prime Minister Johnson came to talk us [Ukraine] out of it, and we’ve missed that...

In a 67-32 vote on Thursday, 17 Republican senators voted alongside their Democrat colleagues to advance a $95 billion “emergency security spending bill” that included $60 billion in aid to Ukraine and, according to The Washington Post, billions of dollars to “Indo-Pacific allies and $10 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza.” This bill was introduced in response to the failure of its so-called bipartisan predecessor, championed by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Oklahoma-lackey Sen. James Lankford. The previous legislation that supposedly bundled border and foreign aid would have codified the ongoing southern border invasion into law by largely preventing...

For the second time in less than 10 days when discussing the death of his son Beau, President Joe Biden revealed his advancing dementia. Reacting to special counsel Robert Hur’s report on mishandling classified documents, which said Biden couldn’t remember the date of Beau’s death in 2015, Biden fumbled his angry reply, which included remarks about a wrist rosary Beau gave him. The counsel’s report confirmed that Biden’s cognitive abilities are rapidly declining, and that he can’t carry out his duties. Biden ReactsIn his short speech about the report, Biden misrepresented the report. He rightly said that Hur concluded that...

Wrestling veteran Vince Russo predicted that Triple H and other top WWE executives would depart the promotion within a year. Vince McMahon initially retired in 2022. However, he returned to the Stamford-based company in January 2023 as Executive Chairman. The 78-year-old recently resigned from his position and left the promotion amid being sued for sex trafficking by a former employee. Meanwhile, McMahon's son-in-law, Triple H, remains the Chief Content Officer. Speaking on The Brand podcast, Russo predicted that The Game and other former Vince McMahon associates would be let go from WWE within a year following the latter's departure: "I'm...

Six FBI officials stationed abroad engaged in sexual activities with prostitutes, including visits to karaoke bars, massage parlors, and gentlemen's clubs, according to a report released by the Justice Department's internal watchdog, reported NPR. The report, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request dated Oct. 20, 2021, spans 37 pages but with redactions concealing the identities of the involved officials and the countries where the incidents occurred. However, it reveals details about the misconduct, highlighting violations of Justice Department and FBI protocols, which could expose agents to potential extortion or blackmail. Among the findings, one official paid...

Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Friday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Joe Biden’s press conference addressing the report from Special Counsel Robert Hur was “terrible.” Host John Berman said, “How much democratic bedwetting do you think there will be?” Begala said, “Look, I’m a Biden supporter. And I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every two hours crying and wet the bed. This is terrible for Democrats, and anybody with a functioning brain knows that.”

2024 is the Year of the DragonAsian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10 with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks and other festivities. In many Asian cultures, the Lunar New Year is a celebration marking the arrival of spring and the start of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. It's the most important holiday in China where it's observed as the Spring Festival. It's also celebrated in South Korea and Vietnam. It begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on...

EXCLUSIVE — A group of 12 prominent conservatives, including a former governor, media executives, and a former U.S. attorney general, have issued a letter calling for Nikki Haley to drop out of the race for president. The former U.N. ambassador is the last remaining GOP opponent in former President Donald Trump‘s quest to win a nonconsecutive second term in the White House. She has vowed to remain in the race and is continuing to raise money, but the group argues she is only damaging her party. “While you have waged a spirited campaign for the 2024 Republican Party nomination, it...