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"I note that the prosecution is outrageous in their demands" Marine Le Pen This week French prosecutors revealed that they want a five-year prison sentence imposed on Marine Le Pen the leading Presidential candidate in the 2027 election. In addition they want he excluded from running for office for five years effectively booting her out of the 2027 election. The charges involve 26 defendants over alleged... Late this week Premier Michel Barnier saying it would be likely that the "finance" part of the 2025 budget would be approved via Article 49.3... Thursday night at the Stade de France heavy security...

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 🚨 #BREAKING: California’s 45th Congressional seat is now set to flip from Republican to Democrat after THOUSANDS of new ballots pour in How the HELL are they still “counting” ballots in California?! Rep. Michelle Steel had been leading by thousands of votes until today, and the Democrat challenger is now leading by *31 votes.* There is NO WAY. California is corrupt as hell.

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson walk out to UFC 309 Trump walks out with Elon, Tulsi, RFK Jr, & Dana White at UFC 309 Nov 16, 2024

BREAKING: Trump team puts together a list of military officers to court martial involved in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal - NBC Charges of "TREASON" are being considered for some officers... They are also getting together a potential commission to investigate the withdrawal that resulted in American deaths. WOAH. The list includes both current and former U.S. military officials - and will be used to examine if they can be "court-martialed for their involvement." “They’re taking it very seriously."

When Donald Trump is inaugurated as America's 47th president on January 20, the event will mark the official start of his second term in office with carefully stage-managed images that will be seen around the world. Within hours of the event, Trump will take his seat behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and launch what he calls 'the biggest mass deportation in American history'. While the expulsion of illegal immigrants was a focal point of Trump's election campaign, the precise details of how he intends to accomplish his goal of removing as many as 20 million people from...

Things might look gloomy at CNN with layoffs, salary cuts and a new digital programming model that may or may not work. But On The Money has learned that private equity firms have been crunching the numbers on a possible acquisition of the ratings-challenged network. Don’t exactly hold your breath for anything happening soon, my sources both at CNN and in the private equity business tell me. The network’s parent, Warner Bros Discovery, isn’t yet shopping CNN. Indeed, no firm has made a bid, my sources tell me: the PE people I spoke to don’t really know how to really...

The effort to bankrupt, disgrace and banish Donald J. Trump to a jail cell in Riker’s Island has instead helped pave his road right back to the Oval Office. The unprecedented abuse of the American legal system fueled plenty of cable news coverage, but it also alienated the electorate. As with President Joe Biden’s mental decline, voters trusted their own eyes over the tale being told on their screens and delivered a decisive verdict against an eight-year politically-motivated lawfare campaign — exit polls showed that Trump voters were more likely to say democracy was under threat. It is worth recapping...

…Even after the creation of the World Wide Web and web browsers, for many years readers of news largely found it on journalism websites, where information was handpicked by professional editors. Now, half of adult Americans get their news from social media (Pew Research center 2023) often curated—that is, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by their family and friends. “The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want, so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard University. “What is being lost is the idea that people trust an...

To his detractors, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet looks like a rogues’ gallery of people with dubious credentials and questionable judgment. His supporters see something different. “It’s a masterpiece,’’ Eileen Margolis, 58, who lives in Weston, Fla., and owns a tattoo business, said of Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks unveiled over the past week. “If it was a painting, it would be a Picasso.” A “brilliant alliance,’’ is how Joanne Warwick, 60, a former Democrat from Detroit, described many of the nominees. “It’s pretty much a star cast,’’ said Judy Kanoui of Flat Rock, N.C., a retiree and lifelong Democrat who...

After President-elect Donald Trump won a second term, multiple defendants charged for their roles in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, asked to delay their cases because they anticipate pardons from Trump.Many were denied, but each nonetheless raised questions about how Trump will handle the cases.According to data collected by NPR, more than 1,500 people have been charged in relation to Jan. 6, with nearly 1,000 pleading guilty.At least a dozen cases have been dismissed, while plenty remain with changes following Trump’s election. At the beginning of November, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced multiple sentences and...

At least Mike Tyson stayed up for the duration. That's a lot more than Netflix can say.Last night, the 58-year-old former boxing great stepped back into the ring against 27-year-old Jake Paul, the headline bout on what turned into a lengthy card and an even longer experience for viewers. Having a subscription already, I attempted to tune in at times, only to get the "25%" spinning wheel every time. I finally gave up on it after a few attempts and instead watched On Patrol Live and a couple of YouTube body-cam videos.It turned out that my choices had more fight...

THE WOMAN WITH THE ROSE John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front...

Bluesky is drowning under the weight of the leftists reporting everything. 3000 reports per hour! 😂 Bluesky Safety In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We're receiving 3,000 reporter/hour. To put the tin context, in all of 2023, we received 360k reports.

Sir Keir Starmer told the Welsh Labour conference he would defend Labour’s Budget “all day long” as farmers protested against inheritance tax changes outside the venue. Hailing a “new era” of Labour Wales and Labour Britain “pulling in the same direction”, the Prime Minister said the Welsh branch had “carried the torch” for the party during 14 years of Conservative rule in Westminster. In his first address as Prime Minister to the conference, Sir Keir praised the election of 27 MPs in July, making Wales a “Tory-free zone” . As he spoke, farmers unhappy with the changes to inheritance tax...

Lots of articles on how MSNBC's audience has completely collapsed -- disappeared -- once Kamala lost and the got disillusioned, but the full extent is shocking. Their prime-time shows can't even get 75k people watching in the key demo (18-54). Weekend shows don't even get 30k!

Allies of Mr Trump said his team is considering deporting illegal immigrants to a number of countries - including Rwanda. A source close to Trump’s camp said: “Trump campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration - and he is determined to stick to it. “His team is looking at the Rwanda scheme. He is considering deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda and other countries so they cannot stay on American soil.” Mr Trump won a sweeping victory by promising to crack down on illegal immigration in America. He accused Joe Biden and the Democrats of woefully failing to...

Does it seem like Trump is already president? If his first week following the election is compared to a football game, he isn’t just throwing long bombs or running a smashmouth fullback right up the middle; he’s more like a run-and-shoot offense that completely confuses the defense and leaves it breathless. I’m hoping he names Steve Bannon to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, because that will ensure that Democrats will support their instant abolition. And why did Biden look so happy this week? I’ve got two theories. . .

Many songs romanticize the road, playing up the lure of both the journey and the destination. “I And Love And You” by The Avett Brothers takes a different tack, examining what pushes one to leave in the first place while ruminating on the chances missed with those left behind. The song proved crucial for The Avett Brothers, as it kicked off their time as major label artists in 2009 by serving as the title track, opening song and lead single of the album they made with producer Rick Rubin. As Scott Avett told American Songwriter, the move to the new...

An election worker in Hubbard County, Minnesota, has just been arrested & charged with two felony counts for allowing 11 unregistered people to vote in the 2024 election. His name is Timothy Scouton, and he's now facing up to five years in prison and a hefty fine. Scouton explicitly directed the non-registrants not to use the registration forms. I wonder how often this sort of thing happens and doesn't get caught. ... Now show me who is arrested in Bucks County, Pennsylvania….