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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — George Santos, who was expelled from Congress as he faced nearly two dozen criminal charges, reached a plea deal Monday with federal prosecutors in New York on two federal counts. Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. "A short time ago, after years of telling lies, former Congressman George Santos stood in the courthouse behind me and finally, under oath, told the truth. And that truth is that he is a criminal," U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said. "Santos pled guilty to serious crimes involving fraud and identity theft. He also admitted to committing...

A former U.S. Air Force member is now working as a drone operator in Russia, according to officials. The Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video to Telegram on Monday in which a man appearing to be Wilmer Puello-Mota said, "I don't consider myself a traitor," and "I love these guys," when speaking about the Russian soldiers he is serving with. -snip- Previously charged with possession of child pornography, Puello-Mota fled the U.S. in January 2024 before his court appearance.

Disgraced Democratic Senator Robert Menendez is scheduled to resign from office Tuesday, and is negotiating a pardon from Joe Biden before the president leaves office at the end of the year, according to political analysts and longtime associates of the New Jersey lawmaker. Menendez’ was convicted last month on 16 felony counts of bribery and corruption for accepting cash and gold in exchange for using his powerful post to enrich and protect three businessmen and the Egyptian and Qatari governments. “He’s likely trying to get a pardon or a reduction in his sentence,” said a New Jersey political operative who...

Vice President Kamala Harris has a problem: Large majorities of Americans believe the economy is on the wrong track, and more say the Biden-Harris administration’s policies have hurt their personal finances rather than helped, and that their personal economic situation is getting worse rather than better. That’s clearly a major headwind for Harris’s presidential hopes. Until now, her and President Joe Biden’s response to these concerns has been to tell people: Don’t believe your lying eyes (or pocketbooks), the economy is doing a lot better than you think. As the Trump campaign pointed out in a new ad, until recently...

Let's have a convention where the voices of the balaclava-clad angry mob outside don't drown out messages of unity and love on the inside. Let's wear our stupid hats and sunglasses as big as the moon. Let's shake our signs and cheer our cheers whenever a talking point is raised up upon the stage. Let us hear speeches from the men and women of the moment and let us search for the voices of the future. Let's have a convention where we offer thanks to the man who got us here—President Joe Biden. It's enough to turf out the man...

Mayor Adams’ ambitious rezoning proposal he calls the “City of Yes” — aimed at encouraging new housing construction throughout the five boroughs — is filled with commonsense ideas such as permitting apartments to be built above storefronts and relaxing the expensive requirements for new parking. Adams, in many ways, is harkening back to the golden age of pre-zoning when row homes and brownstones sprouted across the city in the hundreds of thousands. Only in New York would the idea that increased housing supply is the best way to meet increased demand be controversial.

The wife of a Southern Baptist pastor has been charged with stealing more than $400,000 from a South Carolina church and may face additional charges related to theft at other churches, police say. Ware Shoals Police Chief Bryan Louis told The Roys Report (TRR) that Shelley Strickland, wife of Baptist Pastor Mark Strickland, confessed to stealing $404,000 from First Baptist Church of Ware Shoals, South Carolina. Shelley Strickland worked as the financial secretary at First Baptist from 2017—2024, Louis said. However, her husband pastors First Damascus Baptist Church in nearby Bradley, South Carolina, and the couple live in the parsonage...

The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and the city has been bracing for violence and riots. Businesses started boarding up their windows and doors last week due to the many thousands of antisemitic, pro-Palestinian protesters expected to descend on the area organized by more than 200 different groups. Some are saying it could be reminiscent of the violence that plagued the 1968 DNC, which was also in Chicago. Chicago law enforcement dismisses that idea. "Chicago 2024 won’t be like Chicago 1968. That is the promise of law-enforcement officials and protest organizers alike as the curtain prepares...

The minister was outspoken against sexual abuse reforms in the SBC Jonathan Elwing, 43, a pastor from Palmetto, Florida, is facing a minimum sentence of life without parole over harrowing child rape allegations. However, due to an updated Florida death penalty law, he could receive capital punishment if convicted. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, police initially charged the father of four with four counts of possessing child pornography for using cryptocurrency to buy explicit images of children from the dark web. Detectives began investigating Elwing after a crypto-currency company tipped them about the purchases. Days later, police conducted...

The boss of Foxtel - a majority News Corp-owned cable television company in Australia - has "unreservedly" apologised after an image surfaced of him performing a Nazi salute. Patrick Delaney said he believed he was showing "the similarity" between the gesture and one used by some fans of a Western Sydney soccer club when the photo was taken a decade ago. "Regardless of the context, the fact I demonstrated this offensive salute was wrong," he said in an email to staff seen by the BBC. The Jewish Council of Australia condemned Mr Delaney's actions as "deeply concerning". “Equally [concerning] is...

If you leave the media bubble with its insistence that Kamala is brilliant and joyful and, instead, look at Kamala objectively, it’s clear that something is very wrong there. Most of us have assumed that she’s an ambitious dim-bulb who’s been stage-managed into a situation beyond her minimal capabilities and that she responds with strange word salads. However, there are now reports that Kamala’s real problem is that she’s an uncontrolled alcoholic who is showing up drunk at a lot of events. Is this true? I have no idea, but it’s certainly a reasonable explanation for what we’re seeing. It...

Talk about gas-lighting. Keir Starmer has basically gone over to Northern Ireland and told them that they're racists. Yes he's told the Protestants and the Catholics, who have joined together over there in the face of a greater threat, that they're racists because they've appreciated that threat. Link to transcript below video.

Democrats can’t govern to save their own lives (or cities), but one thing they are very good at — with the help of billions and billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda — is fabricating an alternate reality. Reality-reality is this: Wherever Democrats go, chaos follows. We’ve seen it in Baltimore, Ferguson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Oakland, etc., etc., And now that the entire Democrat elite and their palace guards in the fake media have landed in Chicago — a city already bucking under the horrors of decades of one-party rule (Democrats) — the Windy City is...

The six-day bank siege that inspired the controversial Stockholm Syndrome theory began on 23 August 1973. In 1980, a BBC documentary featured two pioneering New York police negotiators who had built their careers on the lessons they had learnt from hostage situations past, including this bizarre robbery attempt. "But Sven, it's only in the leg." Those were the words of Kristin Enmark, 23, who was one of four people being held hostage at gunpoint in a Swedish bank. It was day two of the siege, and robber Jan-Erik Olsson wanted to show the police he meant business by shooting her...

My flak jacket is on as I write this since I am sure to offend or piss off some friends, family, and colleagues who are ostensibly Republicans or conservatives but have a visceral aversion to Donald Trump. Some tell me they are Republican and miss Ronald Reagan but also admit they “couldn’t” vote for Donald Trump in either 2016 or 2020. Nothing says one is Republican like voting for a liberal Democrat. This is the NeverTrump wing of the Republican Party, emerging shortly after Trump secured the GOP nomination in 2016. Reasons for NeverTrump-ism are myriad. Some were offended by...

Retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the bench by President George H.W. Bush, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, whose candidacy he describes as an existential threat to American democracy. It will be the first time Luttig, a veteran of two Republican administrations, has voted for a Democrat. “In the presidential election of 2024 there is only one political party and one candidate for the presidency that can claim the mantle of defender and protector of America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law,” Luttig...

LexCity Church in Lexington, KY, is no more after their former executive pastor, Zachary King, admitted in July to law enforcement that he’d been engaging in a ‘sexual relationship’ with a 15-year-old girl over the last year and a half, prompting the beleaguered congregation to shutter their doors for good. By ‘sexual relationship’, we mean that the 47-year-old pedophile impastor groomed and sexually abused her repeatedly. According to WHAS11, on August 15, a Fayette County Grand Jury indicted him on the following charges: One count of first degree rape. One count of first degree sodomy. One count of unlawful use...

Following a spate of predator attacks on hikers and park rangers in the US, Ally Hirschlag investigates why animals attack humans in the wild. Keri Bergere was on a Saturday afternoon bike ride with her friends on the heavily-forested Tokul Creek trail near Fall City, Washington, when two cougars ran out in front of them. One went off into the woods, but the other turned around and, within seconds, had pulled the 60-year-old woman off her bike. "We didn't have a chance to face off with them to scare them away or anything," her friend, Annie Bilotta, told the local...

A New York Republican and Trump diehard claims she was barred from entering Citi Field until she took off her “Make America Great Again” hat, a decision the organization claimed was a mistake. Aura Moody and her friend Taisha were both wearing MAGA hats when they arrived at the venue for the Mets game Wednesday night, along with other members of the Queens Village Republican Club. They had just made it past security when a Citi Field staffer told them they were not allowed inside with their Trump gear on, she said. “The United States of America is no longer...

That places parading as “churches” have handed themselves over to Satan and his legion of homosexual sycophants isn’t exactly breaking news anymore. These dens of iniquity, teeming with demonic influence, proudly flaunt their “gay pride” as if it were a divine mandate—as if the Apostle Paul himself had commanded us to boast in nothing but Christ. But no, in these darkened corners, homosexuality is their god, their twisted version of deity. But this might be one of the worst I’ve ever seen. When you visit their website, the first thing you’re bombarded with are disgusting images of women decked out...