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Fake heiress Anna Sorokin says her around-the-clock home confinement and ban from social media are “more restrictive” than being behind bars, new court papers show. Sorokin — who rose to infamy under the alter ego Anna Delvey — has been forced to stay in an apartment 24 hours a day for more than a year as she fights deportation and her 2019 conviction for scamming $200,000 from banks and businesses. Now the fraudster is asking a Manhattan federal judge to step in and change the conditions of her house arrest — which ban her from leaving home for any reason...

Joe Biden has nothing on his schedule for next 4 days.

The person who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s packed Houston-area mega-church on Sunday has been named as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, according to the Houston Chronicle, as authorities revealed that “Free Palestine” was written on the weapon used in the attack. Moreno entered Lakewood Church just before a Spanish-language service was due to begin at 2 p.m. with a boy, believed to be about 4 or 5 years old, and opened fire as hundreds of people were taking their pews. Two off-duty officers working security at the church — a Houston cop and an agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage...

Lloyd Austin underwent an invasive surgical procedure called a prostatectomy for his prostate cancer. He was readmitted to the ICU ward of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center seven days later, on January 1st, due to complications caused by a severe infection. It appears he was septic. He concealed his inability to carry out his duties from Biden, Congress, the Pentagon, and his Deputy Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Hicks. On January 4th, finally becoming aware of Austin’s hospitalization, security adviser Jake Sullivan notified Hicks, who was on vacation in Puerto Rico. Even though Biden continued to back Austin, Austin was already...

Vice President Kamala Harris declared she is 'ready to serve' if President Joe Biden is unable to perform his duties as president as questions swirl around his declining cognitive abilities. Her remarks come after a recent NBC poll showed that 62 percent of voters cited 'major concerns' about Biden's mental and physical health. And last week, Special Counsel Robert Hur described the president as an 'elderly man with a poor memory' in a scathing report on the president's mishandling of classified documents. 'I am ready to serve. There's no question about that,' Harris, 59, stated in an interview with the...

A team of scientists from the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences says they have finally solved the millennia-old mystery of why blueberries are blue. The answer, they say, lies in tiny crystalline structures hidden within the berry’s wax outer coating that reflects light in a specific way to make them appear blue as opposed to the reddish color of the pigments found in their fruit skin. This also applies to other blue foods like damsons, sloe, and juniper berries. The same research team also says they have been able to reproduce the blue-light-reflecting crystals outside of the berry....

@charliekirk11 Young men understand what is at stake. If the trend continues, young men are going to shock the world in November. Keep working.

Randolph County couple Greg and Teresa Almond were recently awarded $1 million in punitive and compensatory damages after a federal jury determined that deputies illegally raided their home six years ago. On Jan. 31, 2018, Randolph County Deputy Sheriff Nathaniel Morrow arrived at the Almond home around 2 p.m. and told Teresa that he was there to serve paperwork related to ‘a civil matter,’ according to documents from a federal civil rights lawsuit the couple filed in 2019. Teresa told Morrow that Greg wasn’t home but said that he could return in two hours to give him the paperwork then....

A new case of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Southern California’s Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego County, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention press officer Ana Toro told CNN. This is the second evacuee from Wuhan, China under quarantine at MCAS Miramar to test positive. More details: This is the 14th confirmed case in the US and the eighth in California

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is hospitalized after experiencing symptoms of an "emergent bladder issue," according to the Pentagon. Austin "transferred the functions and duties of the office" to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, according to the Pentagon's Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder. CBS News' David Martin reports.

Pointed language in special counsel Robert Hur’s classified records report drawing attention to President Biden’s age and cognitive ability is coming under fire from former Justice Department officials who say he overstepped his mandate in the case. Hur ultimately declined to recommend any charges for Biden due to key weaknesses in the case: He simply did not believe he had enough evidence to convince a jury that Biden willfully kept the documents — the burden of proof in such cases. But that detail is being overshadowed by how Hur described Biden, their interactions, and the president’s overall cognitive abilities in...

Rogue Space Systems has announced the failure of its Barry 1 satellite, which occurred before the company could test a controversial quantum drive propellantless propulsion system. In a posted statement, the company said Barry 1 was able to complete a portion of its primary mission, including tests of their Scalable Compute Platform (SCP). Unfortunately, they lost contact with the satellite before they could perform any tests of IVO Ltd.’s Quantum Drive. “Rogue’s Barry-1 satellite didn’t make it all the way through LEOP (Launch and Early Orbit Phase),” said IVO founder and President Richard Mansell in an email to The Debrief....

Kamala Harris insists she’s ‘ready to serve,’ touts her ‘capacity to lead’ Vice President Kamala Harris claimed she is “ready to serve’’ and touted her “capacity to lead” when asked last week about boss President Biden’s advanced age and voters’ concerns over it. “I am ready to serve — there’s no question about that,” Harris told the Wall Street Journal. She insisted that everyone who observes her performance in office “walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.” Harris spoke during an interview aboard Air Force Two — two days before special counsel Robert Hur’s scathing report touching on...

There’s a modern-day gold rush happening in the attempt to dig green-energy rare earth minerals out of the ground. Some believe Wyoming could be America’s answer to China’s lock on the market. And one of a handful of Wyoming companies in the rush may have hit the mother lode. American Rare Earths Inc. has its sights on thousands of acres of land near Wheatland, Wyoming. The company disclosed in a technical report on Wednesday that it found 64% more rare earth minerals than it had originally envisioned in a March 2023 assessment of the land. The newly disclosed figure of...

The establishment media appeared to work overtime to defend President Joe Biden’s “deteriorated” memory against special counsel Robert Hur’s powerful analysis of Biden’s cognition. The defense is the media’s latest painstaking endeavor to provide cover for Biden, whom Hur detailed as not competent to stand trial for stealing classified documents. Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote in his report on Biden’s wrongdoing. Biden claimed in a press conference his memory is “fine.”

"I remember asking myself questions. I'm trying to be a better man, I'm trying to be a good man. And I remember asking myself the question, what is a good man, and I was dwelling on it for weeks. I pride myself on being a good man. But really what is that? I'm sitting in my prayer time, my quiet time, God started speaking to me, telling me a good man is a dead man. And at first I heard that and I was like, I don't really know what that means. I want to live. But then he revealed...

A new law requiring New York businesses to clearly display the total cost of purchasing items with a credit card — including any surcharges — is in full swing. As of Sunday, businesses in the Empire State are required to disclose any additional credit card surcharges before a customer begins to check out. The businesses can either post the total price, inclusive of the credit card surcharges, or list the different prices for both card and cash payments for items. “As more New Yorkers use credit cards and EBT [electronic benefit transfer] products to purchase goods and services, pricing transparency...

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New York City could soon ban detergent pods across the five boroughs in the latest “green” push from lawmakers. The “Pods are Plastic Bill,” introduced by City Councilman James Gennaro last week, would make it illegal to sell any pods and laundry sheets if they’re made with polyvinyl alcohol. Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law. The bill would also require education and outreach to businesses on the ban for the first year. The law wouldn’t...

Today is the anniversary of the birth of America’s great or greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America’s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its “ancient faith” that all men are created equal. In 1858 Lincoln attained national prominence in the Republican Party as the result of the contest for the Senate seat held by Stephen Douglas. It was Lincoln’s losing...