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Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and picks for his White House team have been targeted by bomb threats. The FBI said it was aware of "numerous bomb threats" as well as "swatting incidents", in which hoax calls are made to attract a police response to the target's home. Threats were made against at least nine people chosen by Trump to lead the Departments of Defence, Housing, Agriculture and Labor, as well as his pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, among others. Police are investigating the incidents, which happened on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman...

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) secured a temporary restraining order Tuesday against a former boyfriend, saying in dozens of pages of court filings that he had bombarded her, as well as her family and colleagues, with hundreds of messages that she described as “persistent abuse and harassment.” Porter, 50, alleged in a filing with Orange County Superior Court that her ex-boyfriend Julian Willis, 55, was contacting her and her family with such frequency that she had a “significant fear” for her “personal safety and emotional well-being.” Judge Stephen T. Hicklin signed a restraining order Tuesday barring Willis from communicating with...

Some social media users have started to fight back after women are shaving their heads to protest President-elect Donald Trump's second administration. What started as a trend on TikTok for women to shave their heads in protest of the election results has become somewhat a more sensitive topic for others with alopecia and those who had to shave their heads for diseases like cancer, conditions where baldness is not always a choice. "To the women shaving their head for the 4B Movement, you say you're saving your head so 'men won't want you' but does that mean that men shouldn't...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that there is a “climate emergency,” and suggested that Africans without electricity must select “the right kinds of electricity,” likely referring to green energy production, and that the U.S. must help them to afford it. Kerry made the comments at a speaking event at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on Thursday. The Democrat suggested there will be a need to “declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have. And we need to get people to behave as if this really is a major transitional challenge to the whole planet.”...

Abstract Problem/Condition: CDC conducts abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions and the number of abortion-related deaths in the United States. Period Covered: 2022. Description of System: Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. For 2022, a total of 48 reporting areas voluntarily provided aggregate abortion data to CDC. Of these, 47 reporting areas provided data each year during 2013–2022. Census and natality data were used to calculate abortion rates (number of abortions per 1,000 women aged...

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed January 6 defendant Ray Epps' year-long defamation lawsuit against Fox News, ruling that Epps failed to "state a claim." Epps, who some conservatives had speculated was an undercover FBI agent sent by the bureau to stoke the January 6 riot in 2021, filed the lawsuit last year, claiming that an indictment from the Justice Department might not have surfaced against him if it wasn't for Fox's coverage. The January 6 defendant also argued that Fox News and former host Tucker Carlson engaged in a "years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps." Those falsehoods, the original...

US President Joe Biden emphasized to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call on Tuesday that, following the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, the priority should now shift to securing the release of hostages and achieving a ceasefire in Gaza, two US officials told Barak Ravid of Axios on Wednesday. Currently, 101 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including seven American citizens. US officials told Axios that Biden is committed to pushing for a hostage release deal until his final day in office, even if President-elect Donald Trump ultimately receives credit for any agreement. “Biden thinks that doing nothing...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Sweepstakes has taken an interesting turn after Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for the role in the next Presidential Administration. President Donald Trump now nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next selection… and the pro-abortion industry isn’t happy about the pick at all. The pro-abortion news outlet the 19th notes in a report that “[Bondi] also defended a Florida law that at the time required women to wait 24 hours after meeting with a physician to receive an abortion.” Additionally, in a press release, the pro-abortion...

Russia has launched a "massive strike" on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the country's energy minister said, as explosions were reported in several cities. Herman Halushchenko said on Facebook that attacks on energy facilities were "taking place all over Ukraine" and emergency power outages had been introduced, urging people to take shelter. Early on Thursday, the Ukrainian air force issued a nationwide air raid warning "due to the threat of missile danger". The air force issued further warnings of missiles, rockets and drones heading towards numerous regions around the country, including Kyiv, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Kropyvnytskyi, Balta, and Mykolaiv.

Speculation has run rampant about whether Hillary Clinton may run for president in 2028 after a speaking event was announced in coming weeks. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton are scheduled to speak in the coming weeks at the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas - which includes the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. The event, planned for the afternoon on December 7, will include remarks from the powerful couple regarding their past political and philanthropic work. 'The Clintons will share reflections on the noble and important work of public service – from securing...

Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billionaire and close Trump ally of being unwittingly used by Russia. “Vindman is on the payroll of Ukranian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, responding to comments Vindman made in an interview about Musk’s reported conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Musk added that Vindman, who played a central role in the first impeachment of then-President Trump, “will pay the appropriate penalty.”In a response...

Very interesting article on how the Trump Campaign used Marc Elias’s tactics against the Democrats to help win the election, instead of fighting the idea of early voting and mail in ballots the Republicans led by Trump campaign insiders and Republican grassroots organizations around the country worked together and embraced early voting and mail in ballots to give Trump the winning edge in the battleground states

Social media was abuzz this week after NBC published an article that claimed “Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year” and suggested the average cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people would cost just $58.08. The $58 dollar estimate comes from a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which has conducted the same survey since 1984. That survey, however, has a limited number of items on it, which together can’t be considered a full Thanksgiving meal, let alone a meal for 10 people. The survey asks volunteer shoppers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico to search their...

In Saint Helens, Oregon near Portland high school principal Dr.Katy Wagner accused of covering up sexual misconduct... At Mar-a-Lago tonight Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg... A Ukraine-wide air raid alert declared Thursday morning...Ukraine claiming a major Russian attack... The Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says he wants a Chinese merchant vessel to return to Swedish waters as the probe... The US Food and Drug Administration okaying a clinical trial of marijuana as a treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder... The Biden Administration urging Ukraine to lower its draft age... Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs denied bail for a third time......

@elonmusk Gonna happen 😂 RE: @ajtourville The IRS getting audited by the @DOGE

Archaeologists have discovered America's first firearm that was used by explorers searching for the 'Seven Cities of Gold' nearly 500 years ago.The bronze cannon, or wall gun, was part of the Coronado expedition led by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, who traveled to the New World searching for a fabled city filled with treasures.The 40-pound weapon was designed to fire round projectiles, or buckshot, which would attacked enemies like 'a swarm of hornets.'The team conducted a radiocarbon analysis on the artifact, finding it was fashioned between 1500 and 1520 with metal that indicated it was cast in Mexico due...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday stopped the federal government from destroying a fence of razor wire that Texas installed along the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass to deter migrants from entering the country illegally. The ruling, criticized by activists, came hours before Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum told President-elect Donald Trump that immigrants headed to the U.S. are being “taken care of” in her country. Texas had placed more than 29 miles of wire in the Eagle Pass area by last September when Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration over Border Patrol agents’ alleged illegal destruction of state...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; 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) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

Britons will have to fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often to hit Net Zero goals, the Government's main climate-change advisers have insisted. The stipulations outlined to MPs today directly contradict promises by Sir Keir Starmer earlier this month that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would not involve people in Britain having to change their lifestyles. New targets mean the UK's emissions should be cut to 81 per cent of 1990 levels by 2035. New targets mean the UK's emissions should be cut to 81 per cent of 1990 levels by 2035. Speaking at the Cop29 summit...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has targeted Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella over a controversial claim about the company's hiring practices. Musk’s comments came in response to an unverified post that accused Microsoft’s gaming division of excluding white candidates from its hiring process. The drama began when an unverified post on X claimed that Microsoft’s gaming division was excluding white individuals from its hiring pool. The post alleged the company was actively hiring “unqualified queer and black people” to fill roles in their video game projects, as part of an executive mandate against “crusty old white dudes.” This post appeared to react...