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A report by CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid indicates journalists were spotted consoling each other in the hallways after learning that President-elect Donald Trump had nominated Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General. Reid provided the insight during a segment on "The Situation Room" With Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer inquired as to the panel's thoughts on what the nomination would mean for the Justice Department. Reid chimed in and pointed out that Gaetz's pick is controversial due to his ongoing investigations. "But just because you‘ve been investigated, right, Hillary Clinton has also been criminally investigated, but not charged, it doesn‘t...

As the results started to pour in on Tuesday night last week, an optimistic mood in Kamala Harris's team quickly dimmed. With the writing on the wall, Harris herself went to bed, refusing to concede defeat to Donald Trump until the following afternoon. By then, a Democratic blame game was already in full force. 'It's a blood bath,' one observer noted of the rabid infighting – with no one spared humiliation.

SENATE PROBE ON ELON BASED ON WSJ’S UNFOUNDED CLAIMS? A WSJ article alleging Elon held “regular conversations” with Putin is now driving a Senate investigation—but where’s the accountability for WSJ’s reporting? Despite relying solely on unnamed “current and former officials,” the piece quickly sparked backlash, with both Elon and the Kremlin slamming it as “absolutely false.” Now, Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Jack Reed are calling for a probe based on these unverified claims—so why isn’t WSJ facing scrutiny for publishing such an explosive story on shaky grounds? https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1857608109012783348?t=ns0BAkwpB0os0TDMCX-LeQ&s=19 Sources: Sky News, PBS

In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, many Americans, especially celebrities, have pledged to give up their citizenship and move elsewhere. For Americans exploring dual citizenship options or seeking a second passport, many countries offer pathways to citizenship based on ancestry. These countries often allow citizens of foreign nations to claim nationality through parents, grandparents or direct ancestors. Here is a list of nine countries offering citizenship by descent, arranged alphabetically. 1. Ghana Under Ghana’s Citizenship Act of 2002, individuals with a Ghanaian parent can apply for citizenship. The country’s “Year of Return” initiative encourages African Americans and Afro...

In Pennsylvania, Bucks County Commissioners Diane Ellis-Marseglia and Robert Harvie decided to count ballots that the State Supreme Court has ruled cannot be counted. Centre County, Philadelphia County and Montgomery County have made the same decision. Ellis-Marseglia asserted that "the court ruling is invalid because it violates the human right of people to be able to vote for who shall govern them. We are following the precedent we established in the 2020 election to count all ballots without respect to whether they met the requirements to be signed, dated, and received on time from duly registered voters." The Commissioner brushed...

Some House Democrats have had enough of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) analysis of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Election Day loss to President-elect Donald Trump – and one lawmaker believes it’s time for her to “take a seat.” Pelosi, 84, ruffled feathers within the Democratic caucus after she told the New York Times last week that “Had [President Biden] gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” suggesting that an “open primary” to replace Biden, 81, on the Democratic ticket would’ve been her preference. “She needs to take a seat,” a senior Democratic lawmaker told Axios, in...

Police in the U.K., who I’m assuming have run out of stabbings to look into, are now investigating a nine-year-old boy for calling his classmate a “retard.” That’s according to The Times, which did an investigative dive of their own into some of the “non-hate crime incidents” U.K. cops had recorded in the interest of “public safety.” (And yes - this is the same country currently jailing people for making "offensive" social media posts.) This newest insanity is all thanks to the U.K.’s recently implemented Non-Hate Crime Incidents law, which, according to government guidance, mandates that police investigate reported “incidents”...

A federal appeals court has ruled the Department of Education improperly rejected Grand Canyon University’s switch from for-profit to nonprofit status, granting a key point in the Christian school’s appeal of a record fine. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision Friday. It overturned a 2022 summary judgment by a lower court because the department failed to apply a relevant federal law to the Phoenix campus. The Education Department denied the nonprofit status in 2019, arguing it would enrich the for-profit company that previously owned GCU, even though the IRS and state...

A federal appeals court determined that the White House does not have the authority to issue binding environmental regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), upending several decades of the practice. NEPA is a federal law that requires federal agencies to conduct a review of environmental impacts before making any decisions and then issue a “detailed statement” of the environmental review. In a divided decision Tuesday, the D.C. District Court of Appeals ruled that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), established to instruct agencies on NEPA compliance, does not have the power to issue regulations on other...

Staten Island leaders demanded Whoopi Goldberg apologize for falsely claiming a Big Apple bakery refused to serve her sweet treats because of her lefty politics — as the family-run business was inundated with orders. “The View” co-host sparked widespread outrage this week when she alleged that the beloved 145-year-old Holtermann’s Bakery on Staten Island declined to make her a batch of Charlotte Russe desserts due to her political beliefs. “Recently someone took to the national airwaves and defamed, frankly, this family business,” borough president, Vito Fossella, fumed at a news conference held outside the bakery on Friday. “We’re here to...

It's currently unclear how many times the aircraft was hit. DALLAS — A Southwest airplane was reportedly struck by gunfire at Dallas Love Field Friday night, according to the airline. A Southwest spokesperson said the plane was hit while preparing for departure to Indianapolis and no injuries were reported.

The family of slain civil rights militant Malcolm X filing a 100-million US dollar lawsuit... President-Elect Donald Trump naming Karoline Leavitt... White House press secretary... Political polling in Israel the latest Lazar Poll shows parties in the current government lagging... Israel carrying out a fourth wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon... 155-millimeter artillery shell struck a United Nations headquarters in southern Lebanon... Texas Supreme Court ruling that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to delay the execution... German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia looks forward to...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh BREAKING: With the continued counting of ballots, the Democrat has just taken a lead of mere hundreds in the North Carolina Supreme Court race. Before the update comes in, the Republican holds a lead of just ~2,000 ballots. But the incoming ballots from a deep blue area will flip the race for the Democrat.

For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while “populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.” Magyar, a scholar of autocracy, isn’t interested in calling Donald Trump a fascist. He sees the president-elect’s appeal in terms of something more primal: “Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” Around the world, populist autocrats have leveraged the thrilling power of that promise to transform their...

Shaquille O'Neal says he's bored with basketball. The former Los Angeles Lakers center reacted to a recent report about the NBA's declining ratings by claiming that the league has become too predictable-and he quickly pointed to Stephen Curry, the master of three-pointers, as the reason. According to a report by Sports Media Watch, ratings for the first two days of the 2024-2025 NBA season dropped by as much as 47% compared to last year, depending on the game. O'Neal didn't hold back on finding a reason for the ratings decline. On the latest episode of "The Big Podcast with Shaq,"...

With the election now over, the courts have to decide quickly whether to move forward with the criminal cases against Donald Trump. Although this idea will pain my fellow Democrats, all of the cases should be abandoned.Democracy’s ultimate verdict on these prosecutions was rendered by voters on Election Day. The charges were front and center in the campaign. The president-elect made a central feature of his candidacy that the cases were political and calculated to stop him from being re-elected. Despite the prosecutions, more than 75 million people, a majority of the popular vote counted so far, decided to send...

In this clip from my recent event at the Danube Institute, I share my thoughts on Elon Musk, the U.S. Election, and why it breaks the left's narrative about immigration.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that while most Senate Democrats do not believe that the “core accomplishments” of the Biden-Harris administration were the wrong policies, “there were some key issues that were not addressed quickly enough or well enough. One of them was housing and another was border security.”

We try to be polite in talking about our political opponents, but sometimes it is impossible. Some of them are–there is no other way to put it–morons. Such as Senator Mazie Hirono, Democrat from Hawaii. I can’t find a good clip of her comments during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on bump stocks, but here is a report: Hirono began her opening remarks by referencing an earlier hearing in which the “entire panel” of witnesses agreed that “this nation is awash in guns.”She went on to stress the phrase “awash in guns” at least three more times, then said, “Meanwhile,...

Residents of Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood are venting their frustrations after an Aldi store abruptly closed its doors, leaving many wondering where to access fresh food. According to the company, the store closed last month, with officials saying that all employees were offered transfers to nearby stores. While the company says no jobs were lost, the neighborhood’s loss of easy access to fresh food is a painful reality for residents to navigate. “All the stores in our community are closing,” one shopper told NBC Chicago. “It’s just sad that a lot of people don’t have transportation.” The neighborhood also is...