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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he exchanged text messages with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on March 31 and planned to discuss spending and reforms with Ms. Greene this week.

resident Joe Biden on Monday — amid the fanfare of the White House Easter Egg Roll at which the commander-in-chief instructed revelers to say "hi" to the "oyster bunnies" (yes really) — tried to claim he "didn't" declare Sunday Transgender Day of Visibility. According to a White House pool report, Biden was asked to respond to House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) statement that it was "outrageous" for Easter Sunday to be proclaimed Transgender Day of Visibility. "He's thoroughly uninformed," the president said of Speaker Johnson. When asked to clarify, Biden replied "I didn't do that." Some tried to explain Biden's...

What do you buy your daughter to mark her coming of age when she turns 21? If you are Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake the gift of choice is a 9mm Sig Sauer P365-XL Comp handgun, finished with flourishes of rose gold. 'My baby girl is growing up. I won't always be there to protect her,' Lake told DailyMail.com.

Loren Merchan's firm was paid $4 million by Adam Schiff at the same time he conspired with Michael Cohen to take down Donald Trump. Cohen will be a witness in Judge Merchan's courtroom next month.

Moscow on Monday accused Israel of carrying out an “unacceptable” attack on a diplomatic building in Syria, after air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus. “On the evening of April 1, the Israeli Air Force struck the Iranian consulate building in Damascus,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. “We strongly condemn this unacceptable attack against the Iranian consular mission in Syria.” Israel did not comment on the reported attack. Syrian and Iranian officials have also accused Israel of staging the strikes. Moscow said that any attacks on a diplomatic building were “unacceptable”. “We call on the...

Okay, to be fair, “beware” kind of applies to all of academia at this point, but I think this one is worth mentioning, and I happened upon it by chance:‘New’ refers to the improbability of any one discipline or mode of thinking (e.g. Marxism, postmodernism) producing similar results, and that ‘no one (other than the interdisciplinarian) takes responsibility for studying the complex problem, object, text, or system that falls between the disciplines or that transcends them’ (Repko & Szostak, 2016, p. 324).This passage comes from a 2020 college textbook, the Third Edition of Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies by Allen F....

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked far-left NY Judge Juan Merchan to amend Trump’s gag order to include family members of trial participants. Bragg urged the judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ trial to expand the gag order over ‘dangerous and violent’ rhetoric after Trump defended himself against alleged attacks from Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan – a far-left political operative. “Defendant’s dangerous, violent, and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and trial participants alike— including this Court,” Bragg’s prosecutor wrote in a motion on Monday. Bragg’s motion asking the...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that he expects to move a package including aid for Ukraine with “some important innovations” when the House returns from recess. In an interview on “Sunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy,” Johnson stressed the difficult position he’s in, with a historically narrow House majority, but said he was working throughout the current work period to come up with a package and plans to put it on the floor when the House gavels back into session.

"But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee." "Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the...

Surveillance video shows a man going into a convenience store and seconds later, a huge razor-sharp saw blade flew across the parking lot and embedded into the door frame. The blade, which was being used to cut concrete, came loose from a nearby construction site and spun at incredible speed right into the store.

Two alleged squatters are suing the owners of a duplex after they were accused of making themselves at home in the pricey Queens residence and refusing to move out. The home’s price was listed at $930,000, the New York Post reported Sunday. The outlet noted New York City has “permissive” laws when it comes to such situations.

President Joe Biden spoke with slurred speech while discussing the White House Easter Egg Roll in an interview on a morning show on Monday, highlighting the difficulty the 81-year-old president has even with short live television interviews. “What is so special about this egg roll?” the interviewer asked. Biden responded with a noticeable lisp.

NY Parole Board frees 37th cop-killer in 6 years: ‘It’s a disgrace’ A convicted murderer who fatally shot an off-duty NYPD officer during a robbery in Brooklyn nearly 40 years ago was released on parole earlier this week — the 37th cop killer in the state granted their freedom in just six years. Alexander Evans, who gunned down Officer James Holmes on March 23, 1986, was sprung from Otisville Correctional Facility on Monday after the state Parole Board decided in favor of his release, state records show. Evans, 57, was serving 32 years to life for killing Holmes, 47, an...

At the end of 2019, Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was leading the first impeachment effort against President Donald Trump. After months of making accusations and conducting Congressional inquiries related to Trump’s July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—a conversation Democrats described as a “quid pro quo” attempting to trade military aid for an investigation into the Biden family’s corrupt business deals—Schiff and six other Democrats delivered articles of impeachment to the Senate in January 2020. [snip] Contrary to hand-wringing assertions that the former president and his allies are unfairly “attacking” Judge Merchan’s “child,” Loren...

Political turncoat and Hawaii native Tulsi Gabbard – now on Donald Trump's shortlist for his VP running mate – could be making the red state of Texas a permanent home, DailyMail.com can reveal. The former Congresswoman and one-time Democrat put down roots in the Lone Star State in mid March after she and husband Abraham Williams bought a rustic but charming single-story house in a suburb of Austin.

Prince Harry has said in interviews about his memoir, Spare, that he had enough material for a second book—so, will he put that material to good use? Opinions are split between two royal authors The Mirror spoke to. Royal author Tom Quinn said that Harry (and possibly his wife Meghan Markle, as well) have discussed the possibility of a second book, but this one with a much more “conciliatory” tone. “It wouldn’t include explosive allegations like his first book did, as the couple are reportedly keen to reunite with Harry’s estranged family,” The Mirror writes.

A majority of voters say they support slapping a 10 percent tariff on all imports, according to an exclusive new poll, in a boost to President Donald Trump's plan for reducing U.S. reliance on foreign producers. According to the latest J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com 2024 poll, 24 percent of likely voters strongly support the policy proposal while another 30 percent tend to support it. 'European capitals and businesses might be quaking in their boots at the idea of Trump 2.0 on tariffs, but the American people welcome the policy.' The poll tested the opinions of 1,005 likely voters on March 21. It...

A Bojangles Cajun restaurant undergoing renovations near Raleigh, North Carolina, accidentally misspelled the chain’s name on an outdoor sign as seen in hilarious photos blowing up online. “I saw the sign and I was looking at it, and I’m like, ‘It’s not right,'” eyewitness Gonzalez Espinosa told USA Today of the recent incident. He saw the botched signage while landscaping near the chain’s Knightdale outlet, which has been undergoing renovations since fall.

Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said, adding she was beside him along with two of her brothers, James and Jeff. The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. The battleship’s dead account for nearly half of those killed in the attack.

Janaina Prazeres, a 35-year-old Brazillian model featured on the cover of Playboy Norway a few months ago, recently visited an unspecified Disney amusement park, where her look turned heads — though not in the way she intended. The influencer modeled her ensemble on her Instagram story for her 60,000-plus followers. Despite fully covering up with a long-sleeved sweater and denim-inspired leggings — much more clothing than her usual scantily-clad attire — online trolls are saying her look was too form-fitting for a family theme park, The Daily Star reported.