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The fiscal 2024 funding package unveiled early Thursday would funnel $200 million toward the project to build a new FBI headquarters, a plan some House Republicans criticized and previously said should not get more funding. The General Services Administration last year picked Maryland as the home of the new FBI headquarters over Virginia, after a lengthy and high-profile competition over where the new facility would be built. Conservatives raised questions about that selection process and in general have expressed hostility toward the FBI this session, citing in part how the agency has handled politically sensitive investigations. The more than $1.2...

The Senate on Friday will consider a $1.2 trillion, six-bill funding package with a midnight deadline approaching to avoid a partial government shutdown. This compromise suite of legislation has detractors in both parties. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has expressed displeasure at the price tag, although he isn’t expected to stand in the way of a vote.A two-week recess for the Easter holiday, s

A UC Berkeley professor is being pilloried after telling students to “get out of the Bay Area” if they want a girlfriend. SNIP “If you want a girlfriend, get out of the Bay Area. Almost everywhere else on the planet is better for that. I’m not kidding at all. You’ll be shocked by the stark differences in behavior of women in places where women are plentiful versus their behavior within artillery distance of San Jose and San Francisco.” Shewchuk’s comments were in response to a student who was asking for advice about finding work in the Bay Area and dating...

Missing hiker Caroline Meister, 30, has been found dead, authorities confirmed Friday afternoon. Meister’s body was found by a search and rescue crew at the bottom of a waterfall in a steep ravine on Friday morning at about 10:45 a.m. Foul play is not suspected. The coroner has yet to confirm the cause of death, but the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said her injuries were consistent with a fall from height. Meister had been missing after embarking on a hike from the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center since Monday, March 18. Meister had lived and worked at the Zen center on...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; The End to Abuse & Sex Trafficking, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) THE GREATEST DAY THE SUN TURNED DARK WAS THE DAY THE SON DIED FOR US ON THE CROSS

The swamp is back in full force we have a thousand-page Bill of $1.2 trillion filled with all manners of spending priorities that are at odds with the American people. This bill is over a thousand pages long, contains hundreds of pages of report language, 1,400 ear marks, and we've had about 24 hours to review it. That is not the way to do business, and the American people and American families are the ones left holding the bag. This is business as usual in the swamp, and here's the deal to my Republican colleagues: You will own every single...

If you pay for car insurance, you’ve probably noticed that rates are really high lately. You’re not alone. Last week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — the government’s method for tracking what people are paying for goods and services and how that’s changing over time — noted that the price of car insurance was up more than 20 percent over the same time last year. What’s particularly painful is that rates were already rising: CPI reports have shown that, overall, car insurance rates are up more than 38 percent since January 2020. What’s going on? The big insurance companies have...

Penn State wrestling has done it again. Cael Sanderson and the Nittany Lions secured the program’s 11th NCAA championship since Sanderson was hired in 2009 and Penn State’s 12th NCAA championship overall. The program’s first title came in 1953 and, under Sanderson as coach, Penn State has become one of the top dynasties in sports. The Nittany Lions, winners of the Big Ten championship and the Big Ten regular-season crown, entered T Mobile Center in Kansas City as the heavy favorites to secure a third consecutive team title and, while the three-day event concludes Saturday night, PSU has already blown...

The FDA has agreed to delete and never republish several social-media posts suggesting that ivermectin, a drug that some doctors used to treat COVID-19, is for animals and not humans. While the FDA still does not approve of using ivermectin to treat COVID, it settled Thursday a lawsuit brought by three doctors who sued it, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, and FDA secretary Robert Califf. All parties have settled. The lawsuit, filed on June 2, 2022, was brought by doctors Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik and Robert Apter, each of...

Miller told DailyMail.com he felt 'threatened' by the January 6 Select Committee Bombshell claims give an look inside the panel's alleged intimidation to stop a direct witness sharing a story that didn't 'fit their narrative' Said panel wanted him to stay silent about Trump authorizing the National Guard Donald Trump's former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller claims the January 6 committee threatened to 'make his life hell' if he kept claiming his former boss authorized National Guard deployment during the Capitol riot. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center said he became 'fearful'...

https://youtu.be/aAi5FHSkUAQ?si=eJNnBb5ceQatnAqiRusanda Panfili (violin) and Tina Guo (cello) just kill it here. They experience every note they play at a level at which we can only guess. The last 5 minutes of The Da Vinci Code as linked below are a cinematic masterpiece. Combined with Zimmer's otherworldly composition, it frames the sudden dawn of understanding, of revelation. It is the triumph of intellect and reason, of faith and spirit distilled and channeled into one stunning and moving realization. Those of you who have read the book and seen the movie know what I'm talking about. Even moreso if you've read Holy...

The way people buy and sell homes in the U.S. may be about to change, following a landmark settlement proposed by the nation’s top real-estate-industry group. But that may not make things easy for home buyers, one mortgage-company CEO says. The settlement proposed by the National Association of Realtors, which will go into effect in mid-July if it’s approved, would require that listings on the NAR-run Multiple Listing Service — a database of homes for sale — no longer have a field showing how much buyer’s agents will earn in commissions on the sale. In other words, buyer’s agents won’t...

NBC raised eyebrows Friday when it announced that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will join the network as an on-air contributor. McDaniel, who stepped down from the RNC at the start of this month, will provide conservative political analysis on NBC and its affiliate MSNBC. She makes her on-air debut on Sunday. NBC News political coverage chief Carrie Budoff Brown explained that McDaniel was chosen because she can provide “an insider’s perspective on national politics and the future of the Republican Party.” That insider knowledge is apparently enough for NBC to overlook the rest of McDaniel’s history. Although...

Fox News host Emily Compagno said Friday on “Outnumbered'” that as a Republican, she was “sick and tired” of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) for her attempt to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), which she called a “tantrum.” Compagno said, “I feel like we are seeing yet another tantrum by a tiny faction of that conference that is disrupting the entire machine that we just exhaustively waited for to get back on track. And here were are again; watching someone steal the time, steal the audio, steal the limelight, steal the attention. She says we should have our attention...

Friday evening, Moscow time, four or five armed men strolled into the Crocus Concert Hall in northwest Moscow and opened fire on the crowd. Before departing the area they had killed at least 40 people and wounded over 100 more. My colleague, Ward Clark, has some good observations; the only one I'd add is that at least two of the attackers had trouble managing magazine changes. While Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, hinted that Ukraine had been behind the attack and threatened to commit atrocities that the Russians have failed to commit so far should Ukraine...

Shortly after a massive terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia, the first unverified claim of responsibility has been made. Initial speculation centered on Chechen rebels or Ukrainians, but according to a post put out by the Amaq News Agency, which is the propaganda wing for ISIS, the terrorist group is saying it carried out the attack. In English: ISIS claims responsibility for the terror attack in Moscow Reports from the scene suggest the men who carried out the attack were bearded and carrying Russian AK-style weapons. That doesn't exactly narrow it down given the proliferation of both throughout the world. Still,...

American History of Voter Fraud Released July 4th 2022 A film by @lovelilahart and myself The film covers election rigging in the United States 1800s-2022 Both parties have been caught rigging general and primary elections

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"We are at war" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying the participation of the US and NATO in Ukraine... Two are dead in the crash of a school bus in Texas... Author-Activist Candace Owens..."I am finally free"... "Speaker Johnson violated our rules and forced us to vote for a bill funding open borders, abortion and trans ideology for our kids"...Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene...calling for a new Speaker... Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher...early exit deciding to leave... A terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow tonight...More than 60 killed and over 100 wounded... The US Central Command striking three underground storage facilities...