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With the Middle East on the brink of war, Four Corners travels to Iran, Lebanon and Israel to investigate why a new regional war is looming. Four Corners gains rare access to Iran. There they reveal the fault lines of a repressive regime, and how its power extends through proxy groups in the region – Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Global Affairs Editor John Lyons travels to Hezbollah’s heartland in Lebanon, then to Israel, now facing war on multiple fronts. He speaks with key figures, politicians and military insiders to unravel the challenge of defusing this geopolitical timebomb. Linked index...

Joe Biden, the alleged president, traveled to Westby, Wisconsin on Thursday to deliver remarks on his ‘investing in America’ agenda. The Biden-Harris Regime has destroyed the economy. Biden-Harris tax-and-spend policies have led to the worst inflation crisis in more than 100 years. More and more Americans are falling behind on credit card bills. US credit card debt has soared past $1.4 trillion as inflation crushes hard-working families. But Joe Biden is out there touting his ‘investing in America’ agenda on Thursday and boasting about how it has made communities across Wisconsin ‘more prosperous.’ What a joke. Wisconsinites are not happy...

"Hunter Biden was attentive. He was looking at his attorneys sharply," @EricaRBrown reports on his demeanor in the Los Angeles courtroom.

Justice Department Releases Information on Efforts to Protect the Right to Vote, Prosecute Election Crimes, and Secure Elections In advance of this year’s federal election cycle, and consistent with longstanding Justice Department practices and procedures, the department today is providing information about its efforts, through the Civil Rights Division, Criminal Division, National Security Division (NSD), and U.S. Attorneys’ offices throughout the country, to ensure that all qualified voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots and have their votes counted free of discrimination, intimidation, or criminal activity in the election process, and to ensure that our elections are secure and...

Sources tell NY1 that search warrants were executed on Police Commissioner Edward Caban and on Tim Pearson, a top aide to Mayor Eric Adams. The news comes after sources told NY1 earlier Thursday that the FBI executed raids on the homes of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and of Philip Banks, the city's deputy mayor for public safety. Sources tell NY1 these investigations into Adams administration officials are separate from the investigation into the mayor’s 2021 campaign. In a statement provided to NY1 after the news on Banks and Wright was revealed, City Hall Chief Counsel Lisa Zornberg said, "Investigators...

The FBI seized the phones of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and other high-ranking department officials as part of a city corruption investigation, according to law enforcement sources. Federal officials took the devices from Caban and two NYPD lieutenants who worked in the commissioner’s office and on his detail, sources said. The phone of a lieutenant in the 10th Precinct was also confiscated. The FBI also requested NYPD Chief of Staff Raul Pintos and two precinct commanders in Queens and Manhattan turn over their phones, according to sources.

Ayala Isenberg’s story has been making the rounds for a while, and is best summed up in this Life Issues profile of her: When Ayala was a child, she was repeatedly sexually abused for years. When she was 15 years old, she became pregnant through rape. Amazingly, despite the tragedy in conception, Ayala actually felt love for the child and fought to keep it. Sadly, she miscarried and lost her daughter. Now Ayala is a powerful advocate for life with a significant presence on social media where she vigorously defends the truth that every life is sacred. She was platformed...

Russian Disinfo is baaack!

Police have released a mugshot of Colt Gray, the teenager accused of shooting dead four people at his Georgia high school. Gray appears in the booking photo with long hair that has been dyed blond - a far cry from the smiling, baby-faced boy pictured in his middle school yearbook just two years earlier. The 14-year-old was arrested on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, minutes after authorities say he opened fire on students and teachers. Gray has been charged with four felony counts of murder, and will be tried as an adult, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed....

On Thursday, Judge Tanya Chutkan held a status conference to address the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling in Jack Smith’s January 6 case against Trump. Judge Chutkan came out swinging against the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, saying the upcoming election is “not relevant.” Chutkan did not issue a ruling, but she is expected to release a scheduling order as soon as Thursday evening. President Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith presented opposing arguments for how the January 6 case will proceed in a joint status report filed last Friday night ahead of Thursday’s status conference. Last Tuesday, Jack...

As Tucker Carlson faces backlash for airing a friendly interview with a Holocaust revisionist on his online show this week, some prominent Republicans are publicly raising concerns about the far-right pundit’s influential position in former President Donald Trump’s inner circle — as he increasingly imports extreme views and fringe conspiracy theories into party discourse.

The Grammy winner’s outfit—a Dior Haute Couture creation—consisted of a glamorous black ball gown with a velvet bodice, a flattering drop-waist silhouette, and a voluminous skirt with waves of folded fabric

Francis to Muslims, "Inherited Religious Rites Must be Protected"On Thursday, Francis visited the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, to meet with representatives of dozens of false religions.He was received by the Grand Imam, Nasaruddin Umar.In the mosque, Francis and Umar listened to passages from the Koran sung by a young woman and the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke read by a priest.Then, Francis and Umar signed another joint declaration on "fraternity," entitled: Fostering Religious Harmony for the Sake of Humanity. The interreligious scribble is at least below 400 words long. It pledges to defend "human...

Krystal and Saagar discuss a new video exposing new evidence in the case of the January 6th pipe bombs. Transcript linked below the video.

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[Catholic Caucus] Swiss Bishop: "Latin Mass Has Deep Prayers, Expresses Christ's Centrality Better"Monsignor Marian Eleganti, former Auxiliary Bishop of Chur in Switzerland, gave an interview on August 14 to Kath.ch, the media portal of the Swiss bishops. Key points.- "I am very critical of the synod process. I see the danger that certain, already established agendas will determine it and control it from the beginning. This is not true listening."- "I believe that in such processes, the editors who formulate the final documents are the decisive factor - not necessarily the Holy Spirit."- "Today, the so-called 'reality of life' is...

Although the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party secured a first-place finish in the Saxony elections on Sunday, the party is still launching an investigation into an alleged computer error that cost them a seat in parliament and is also calling for an end to mail-in votes, citing security concerns and shady practices.The first issue is the alleged software glitch that resulted in the AfD and the Christian Democrats (CDU) both losing a seat, while the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) both gained one seat. The party says that it is launching an investigation into this.“We want to know exactly what...

The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked Covid-19 may have also released a 'highly evolved' strain of polio in 2014. A bombshell new study suggests that this polio strain, which infected a four-year-old boy amid a wider viral outbreak in China's Anhui province, is '99 percent' identical to a polio variant that was stored 200 miles away, during that same time period, at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology. Researchers at France's Pasteur Institute cannot say with certainty where this strain, dubbed 'WIV14,' originated. But they insisted two possibilities 'must be explored' — including the chance that WIV14...

During a town hall event Wednesday, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said that humanity could be headed for another world war under the policies of the Biden-Harris administration and reiterated his vow to undertake the "largest deportation" in the history of the United States if reelected. The pre-recorded town hall event with Fox News' Sean Hannity was held at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was first broadcast on Wednesday evening. During his remarks, Trump claimed that, under the Biden administration, the U.S. southern border was the "worst border in the history of the world" and lamented that...

It looks more and more like China might beat NASA back to the moon. If all goes according to the re-re-revised plan, Boeing's troubled Starliner space capsule will undock from the International Space Station on Friday afternoon and make an automated return to Earth, unmanned. Meanwhile, debate continues at NASA over how to proceed with the Artemis program to get us back to the moon — almost two full years after the Artemis I flight test returned safely to Earth but with the Orion capsule's heat shield showing unexpected wear and tear. "This will be an even higher-profile decision for...