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When Drea de Matteo’s character died on The Sopranos, it was agonizing for everyone — including the actress, herself. In the new documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, de Matteo, 52, recalled filming the season 5 episode entitled “Long Term Parking,” in which her character Adriana was killed for being an FBI informant. Creator David Chase kept Adriana’s fate under wraps until the very last minute to avoid any possible leaks to the public.

As the energy transition continues, tapping into the reserves of critical minerals and securing their supply chains is crucial. For this graphic, Visual Capitalist partnered with Appian Capital Advisory to provide visual context to the top countries for reserves, production, and processing of minerals that are vital to the energy transition.The analysis uses data from the USGS and the IEA across four minerals: lithium, cobalt, natural graphite, and rare earths. Which Countries Hold the Most Critical Minerals Reserves?South America dominates the reserves for lithium, with nearly half of all known reserves located in Chile (34%) and Argentina (13%). Australia, with...

President Donald Trump claimed in a recent interview that tech giant Mark Zuckerberg personally called him and stated he wouldn’t vote for a Democrat in this year’s election. Last month, President Donald Trump said in an interview with FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally reached out to him following a controversial incident involving Facebook’s false labeling of a now-viral photo. The photo, showing Trump raising his fist after surviving a July 13 assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, had been wrongly flagged as “misinformation” on the social media platform. “So, Mark Zuckerberg called...

Guess who finally updated her campaign website? And with just a day before her first presidential debate ... and only second media appearance since her anointment as nominee?Having seen her momentum deflate like a Patriots football, Kamala Harris finally went public with her agenda, at least in general strokes. Team Kamala finally added an Issues page to her official campaign website, and it's filled mainly by the rehashed Bidenomics that Harris attempted to pass off last month. It even includes the absurd reference to price-gouging that economists across the spectrum laughed off when Harris first floated the argument, another leftover...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addressed a brewing scandal in the sunshine state as law enforcement officials are going to thousands of people’s homes to see if they signed petitions to support putting a radical abortion amendment on the ballot. Amendment 4 is so extreme and dangerous that the state of Florida has deployed resources to warn voters how the amendment actually puts women’s health and safety at risk. DeSantis said at a press conference on Monday that law enforcement has launched an investigation after receiving a wide range of complaints about the group that submitted the petition for the amendment...

This was all a mistake. Surely, the United States wouldn't intentionally create a system that facilitated Iraqi banks to illegally funnel money into Iran's terrorist regime. Right? Right?!The U.S. set up an ad hoc banking system in Iraq to handle the country’s oil earnings. Iraqi banks used it to funnel dollars to Iran. https://t.co/n6I6MBF0bf https://t.co/n6I6MBF0bf— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 9, 2024Iraq gets a substantial fraction of its electric power from Iran, and the United States set up a system through which the Iraqis could pay for the power without violating sanctions. The Federal Reserve helped set it up,...

This is a sad story which just keeps getting worse. Socialist dictators Nicolas Maduro stole the recent election and seems to be getting away with it despite clear evidence that his opposition opponent Edmundo Gonzalez won by a wide margin. To solidify his rule, Maduro has been cracking down on dissent, jailing hundreds of opposition figures and forcing others to flee the country for their own safety. Last week, his government issued an arrest warrant for Gonzalez himself. In a letter posted on X on Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office said Gonzalez is suspected of “crimes associated with terrorism” including “usurpation...

Is anyone surprised that the critics have absolutely savaged the new film, Reagan? I'm not. As a teenager in the 1980s, I came of age during the era when the likes of Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, and Connie Chung savaged President Reagan on TV every single night. It was then at the pre-dawn of my political awareness that I started asking myself why such a folksy, likeable, patriotic American president like Ronald Reagan was so hated by seemingly everyone on the nightly news. Why did these talking heads despise him so much, while the actual human beings in my life—my...

Russia's air defence units destroyed at least seven Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow, while 59 of the air weapons were downed over the Bryansk region near the border with Ukraine, local officials said on Tuesday. "According to preliminary information, there is no damage or injuries at the site of the fall of the debris," Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app. The drones were destroyed in the Lyubertsy and Ramenskoye districts of the Moscow region, as well as in the Podolsk city district, Sobyanin said. Podolsk is some 38 km (24 miles) south of the...

The Sunshine State’s housing market is caught in a perfect storm that could soon drive condo owners to flee in droves. Experts are predicting that the skyrocketing costs of condo ownership — driven by massive increases in homeowner association (HOA) fees and a slew of new safety regulations — are poised to spark a fire sale that could send shockwaves through Florida. Steven Kupchan, a real estate agent with One Sotheby’s International Realty, paints a grim picture.

Bodycam footage from May 2023 of Jackson County deputies interviewing the teen who went on to allegedly attack Apalachee High School shows him denying he had made any threats and deputies taking him at his word. Breitbart News reported that the FBI was alerted to the suspect over a year before he allegedly opened fire in Apalachee High School. The FBI alerted Jackson County, and two Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies were sent to interview the then-13-year-old and his father. Bodycam footage of that interview shows the father repeatedly telling deputies that he understands the magnitude of the alleged school shooting...

SAKAI, Ibaraki -- Halal lunches, which Muslim students can enjoy, have been offered for the first time at elementary and junior high schools in two towns in Ibaraki Prefecture.

A survey shows that Muslim voters in four of six critical swing states are rejecting Vice President Kamala Harris, who faces the “Abandon Harris” campaign over her and President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Polling from the far-left Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), published Monday, shows that the Green Party’s Jill Stein is leading Harris among Muslim voters in Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, and Muslim voters in Nevada prefer former President Donald Trump over any candidate in the field. The United Arab Emirates has notably categorized CAIR as a terrorist organization, and a U.S. federal judge ruled in...

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Monday on CNN’s “OutFront” that former President Donald Trump is willing to prosecute and jail Americans for disagreeing with him. Host Erin Burnett said, “He is though laying senator the groundwork to claim election fraud if he loses in November, I just want to make sure people know that because if you weren’t listening all weekend, you might have missed that. What he said. He said that the only thing that stands between him and victory in this election is widespread fraud and cheating. Here’s what he said.” At a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump...

Springfield, Ohio — Oberlin College territory — has a population of roughly 60,000 people, and the Biden-Harris administration has dropped 20,000 Haitians in the community. As we reported Sunday, a resident told the city council that "Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them." We're also seeing several stories about Haitian immigrants killing and eating not just ducks, but pets. Cats, in particular. WOTW even reported on a woman for allegedly killing a cat and eating it in front of the neighbors. This is the woman who ate the neighbor's cat. https://t.co/fEK7xTbaZj — The...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, Washington, D.C.Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling is a 905-acre military installation, located in Southwest, Washington, D.C. established on 1 October 2010 in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of Naval Support Facility Anacostia (NSF) and Bolling Air Force Base (BAFB), which were adjoining, but separate military installations, into a single joint base, one of twelve formed in the country as a result of the law. The base hosts the Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters amongst its other responsibilities....

Tyreek Hill body-cam video from Miami-Dade Police. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Am I right?

oin with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, 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)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are...

Election data savant Nate Silver said over the weekend that Vice President Kamala Harris passed up a “big opportunity” with her choice of running mate, a move which polls indicate could cost the Democrat a crucial swing state. The FiveThirtyEight founder wrote in his “Silver Bulletin” newsletter Sunday that the 59-year-old “blew one big opportunity to tack to the center with her selection of [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz rather than [Pennsylvania Gov.] Josh Shapiro.” Silver was responding to a New York Times/Siena College poll which showed nearly half (47%) of likely voters considered Harris too liberal, a reflection of her...

More than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a senior United Nations official said Sunday, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that has wrecked the northeastern African country. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, gave the tally at a news conference in Sudan’s Red Sea city of Port Sudan, which serves as the seat of the internationally recognized, military-backed government. He said the death toll could be much higher. “Sudan is suffering through a perfect storm of crisis,” Tedros said as he wrapped up his two-day visit to Sudan....