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A Chinese national was arrested after multiple attempts to breach the security of Mar-a-Lago, the private club and residence of former President Donald Trump.The suspect, Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, claimed to possess documents implicating the Chinese government in a recent assassination attempt on Trump.WPTV reported that Li first attempted to enter Mar-a-Lago on July 19, around 8 p.m., driving a Toyota Prius. Secret Service agents stopped him at the main gate. Li alleged he had critical information connecting China to an assassination attempt on the former president and insisted on handing over the documents. However, the Secret...

In a landmark development, Governor Josh Green, M.D., announced Friday night that a historic $4 billion settlement has been reached to resolve all tort claims arising from the catastrophic wildfires that devastated Maui last year.The devastating fires on August 8, 2023, have been linked directly to failures by the state’s primary utility provider during a critical windstorm.At first, Hawaii State Attorney General Anne E. Lopez decided to withhold initial findings from the public regarding the massive Maui wildfires that took place. This move is purportedly to “protect the integrity” of the ongoing investigation, according to a statement from the Department...

If a voter in Michigan performs a search on Google , a somewhat shocking ad might pop up. The ad shows a young man lying in bed late at night when someone else texts him, “Hey you need to vote,” and then sends the man a video of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The man can hear the gunshots and people screaming in the background. As Trump is rushed off stage with blood pouring down his face, the man watching the video types in response, “This is out of control. How do I start?” The ad then...

So much for Aerosmith’s farewell tour. The band announced they are retiring from touring after five decades together, revealing their legendary lead singer Steven Tyler’s voice can’t recover from his injury. “It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith. Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history,” their Instagram post read on Friday. “It has been the honor of our lives to have our music...

On June 27-30, 2024, tributes were paid in many places in Ukraine to the war criminal Roman Shukhevych, murderer of Jews and Poles, the nationalist Ukrainian commander who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II. To provide some historical background, Roman Shukhevych was born in 1907, graduating in 1934 from the Technical University in Lviv (then Lwow, Poland). He lived in Eastern Galicia, a multiethnic region, with a Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian population, which at that time was a part of the newly reborn Republic of Poland. From the beginning of its foundation in Vienna in 1929, he was...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, 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)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Correctional Officer Rafael Wordlaw was shot and killed at about 1:25 am when he intervened in an armed robbery on the 500 block of E 67th Street, in Woodlawn, while he was off duty. He was sitting in a car at a gas station when an armed subject attempted to rob his friend, who was pumping gas. Officer Wordlaw drew his weapon and attempted to intervene in the robbery. During a subsequent exchange of gunfire Officer Wordlaw was struck in the chest. The subject was armed with two handguns, one of which had a drum magazine and converted to fully...

NEW Dashcam Trump Shooter, 3rd Gunman? New Sniper Vid Secret Service jeffostroff 2024-8-2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjAR03hS_H0 In this Donald Trump shooting analysis, Jeff OStroff shows you a dashcam video of the suspected Trump shooter entering the AGR property before the Trump Rally. The analysis also discusses the possible 3rd shooter, believed to be a Beaver County police SWAT member, whose shot may have distracted the Trump shooter long enough for the Secret Service Hercules 1 sniper team to take their shot and kill the shooter. Also, the police's initial report on the failures that took place during the Trump Rally offers a...

The Pentagon is dispatching a new carrier strike group, a fighter jet squadron, missile defense-capable cruisers and other military assets to the Middle East amid rising tensions between Israel, Iran and Tehran’s network of proxy groups across the region, military officials said Friday. In a statement, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said the U.S. remains committed to de-escalating the increasingly dangerous situation across the theater but is taking steps “to ensure the United States is prepared to respond to various contingencies.” “As we have demonstrated since October and again in April, the United States’ global defense is dynamic and...

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Former President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to "unleash hell" on presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris during his Saturday rally in Atlanta. "24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL," Trump's campaign said in an email sent Friday afternoon. "At this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala's worst nightmares come true."

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The Mossad enlisted Iranian security agents to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a report in the Telegraph. The report says the initial plan called for assassinating Haniyeh when visited Tehran in May to attend the funeral of president Ebrahim Raisi, but two Iranian officials tell the newspaper the operation was called off due to the large number of people in the building and seeming high possibility of failure. The British daily says the agents nevertheless went ahead and planted explosives in three rooms at the compound, and later left Iran....

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the plea agreements for the 9/11 terrorist attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others and relieved the official in charge of military courts in Guantanamo Bay. The move puts the possibility of the death penalty back on the table for the trio. It was announced in a memorandum on Friday. On Wednesday, the Department of Defense reached a plea deal with Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Ramzi Bin al Shibh, three men accused of planning the attacks. The details of the deal weren't made public. This is a developing story. Check back for...

If you ever feel like you spend hours and hours scrolling on Facebook, TikTok or other social media platforms, you’re not alone. One man in Montreal was so negatively affected by social media apps that he’s filed a proposed lawsuit against Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, and Reddit. Montreal-based law firm Lambert Avocats filed a request for authorization of the class action on July 29. According to Lambert, the plaintiff has been active on social media since 2015. “At that time, he was active on various social media platforms for three to four hours per day, and...

History has its eye on us. President Biden’s decision to end his campaign was as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime. It should also be a call to action to the rest of us to continue his fight for the soul of our nation. The next 15 weeks will be like nothing this country has ever experienced politically, but have no doubt: This is a race Democrats can and must win. Mr. Biden has done a hard and rare thing. Serving as president was a lifelong dream. And when he finally got there, he...

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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, a Democrat running for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on 7 felony counts of voter fraud Wednesday. Heflin, 45, a resident of Clay County, was charged with 7 counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots, according to AG Marshall’s office. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those people’s names to vote for himself by absentee ballot. Each count of unlawful use of an absentee ballot is a Class C felony punishable by 1 year...

This shows the huge difference between two adjacent counties. "Carjacker who told cops he’d be ‘out by Sunday’ gets 22 years in prison" chicagotribune.com/2023/03/24/column-carjacker-who-told-cops-hed-be-out-by-sunday-gets-22-years-in-prison/ #CookCounty #Chicago #WillCounty #Crime #JordanHenry #Carjacking #Carjackers

As Megan Basham’s new book continues to ruffle feathers among bigEVA elites, some of her targets have started to respond and peck away at her plucking, no matter how tangentially the mention. Enter Phil Vhischer. In a post on Twitter, he scolds her for even the suggestion that he’s called Christians to have more nuance around abortion, referencing a video that “we” (He and Skye Jethani) made about abortion and whether overturning Roe v. Wade would reduce abortions (before it was) where they argue that it wouldn’t. We last wrote about the VeggieTales creator and Holy Post podcast host he...