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Daniel Penny's subway chokehold trial resumes Monday, with attorneys expected to begin their closing arguments after a break for Thanksgiving. The 26-year-old architecture student and Marine Corps veteran faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter for the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill homeless man who was high on synthetic marijuana when he barged onto a subway car and started screaming threats at the passengers. Neely had a warrant out for his arrest at the time, the case's final witness revealed before the defense rested its case – as well as a lengthy criminal...

In yet another O'Keefe Media Group undercover video, Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), admitted that "the vaccines don't prevent you from getting COVID. I haven't gotten the latest COVID shots, and I'm not going to. For people that are 30 or under, it really increases your risk for heart conditions. The data does show that. I'm close enough to 30 to where I don't want to have a heart attack." Cholan also predicted that "incoming Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won't be able to accomplish...

Ever since Hunter Biden was convicted on federal charges of possessing a firearm while an unlawful user of drugs (and lying about that fact on the background check forms he filled out when purchasing a revolver), Joe Biden has insisted that he wouldn't be pardoning his son. That all changed late on Sunday when Biden announced he'd issued a full pardon, just a few weeks before Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced for his felony crimes. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he...

New York City officials are reacting to a bombshell new report by The Post that shows an alarming 58,626 migrants with felony records or facing criminal charges are freely roaming the Big Apple, with some 670,000 in total across the country. Out of the 759,218 illegal border-crossers who now call the five boroughs home, 7.7% were either previously convicted of crimes or had criminal charges pending, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data. But instead of rounding up and deporting tens of thousands of known criminals, critics say the city has rolled out the red carpet with its...

Following the news that President Joe Biden pardoned his embattled son, Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly reassuring he would not do so, some Democrats are speaking out against the move. One Democrat governor and one Democrat member of U.S. Congress voiced anger against the pardon, which covered every crime he committed “or may have committed or taken part in” over an 11 year period. Far-left Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted on X: “While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the...

BREAKING: Some Democrats push for President Biden to preemptively pardon Special Counsel Jack Smith ahead of Trump re-entering the White House - Newsweek

Keith Olbermann blasted his former protégé Rachel Maddow for lacking “principle” after the MSNBC host reportedly signed a rich new contract to stay at the network — despite layoff fears and cratering ratings at the left-leaning cable channel. Olbermann, who hosted the MSNBC prime time show “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” from 2003 to 2011, responded on X to journalist Jeff Jarvis’ observation that the Comcast-owned network “might have to change its identity” after parent company Comcast announced plans to spin off its cable assets. Jarvis then wondered whether Maddow — who reportedly signed a five-year, 125-million deal last month on...

Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies President Trump said, “Does anyone notice that the election-rigging Biden administration never goes after the riggers, but only after those that want to catch and expose the rigging dogs?” One of the most high-profile examples of the government’s prosecution of the innocent—is former Mesa County Clerk, Tina Peters. After Peters’ sentencing last month to nine years in prison—new information has surfaced showing that Colorado officials were working for Dominion and Runbeck, while simultaneously orchestrating Peters’ reputational and legal downfall through back channels. PETERS PROTECTS HER ELECTION RECORDS FROM BEING ERASED BY DOMINION,...

Below is my column in Fox.com on President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter of not just his convicted crimes but any crimes that he may have chosen to commit. President Biden has set a standard that is not merely a new low but positively subterraneous for future presidents. Here is the column: President Joe Biden’s decision to use his presidential powers to pardon his own son will be a decision that lives in infamy in presidential politics. It is not just that the President used his constitutional powers to benefit his family. It is because the action culminates...

Many Evangelical leaders have increasingly aligned with the leftist ruling class, while many in the pews maintain more conservative views.Over the past decade, a clear political divide has emerged within American evangelical Christianity. Institutional leaders have increasingly aligned their organizations with the leftist ruling class, while many in the pews maintain more conservative views and resist these shifts. Trump’s recent victory has intensified this balancing act for leaders and further deepened the divide within the movement.Signaling approval for the left’s cultural dominance while maintaining Religious Right credentials has never been easy. In the 2010s, the strategy was to expand the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in the war, just weeks after he was rebuked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conflict is approaching a pivotal new phase, with the new U.S. administration of Donald Trump taking office next month and potentially determining the trajectory of the war after the president-elect´s pledge to end the fighting. Ukraine is sensitive to whether cracks might be appearing in the unity of its...

The best way to promote fertility isn’t funding parenthood. It’s stopping the government programs that discourage people from having babies.Birth rates are plummeting in the United States and globally, forecasting a political and financial crisis. The most recent estimate predicts the average American woman will have 1.6 children in her lifetime, far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a steady population and even further below the 2.5 rate observed in the United States as recently as 1970.Many cultural and technological factors have contributed to this dramatic decline, and public policies play a role in shaping people’s decisions about...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” Matthew 8:8–9These are words spoken by a man who is very familiar with the exercise of authority. He is a Roman centurion, and he states that he himself is “a man subject to...

@amuse PARDON? Democrats are now calling on Biden to pardon his entire administration, Democrats in Congress, and himself. So much for the party of ‘no one is above the law’!

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month. The Zone Corporation announced Monday morning that after 41 years of King’s ownership, Bangor area channels WZON, WKIT, WZLO will sign off on Dec. 31. In a press release, King cited losses in the millions of dollars and his advancing age as reasons for the shut down. “While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,” said King. “I’ve loved the people who’ve gone to these stations...

Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters anymore. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening but not actually following through on everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire to leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election. So far, few have followed through on their promises, although a handful have left the country. Good riddance to them. Trump did win, bigly, in a landslide of sorts. He won the Electoral College handily, 312 to 226. Trump also won the popular vote, 49.9% to 48.3%. As...

-snip- Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian tycoon who is subject to western sanctions, told the Financial Times that President Vladimir Putin was likely to reject a peace plan proposal by Trump’s recently nominated special envoy for the conflict, Keith Kellogg. “Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself, because we don’t like any of it. That’d be the whole negotiation,” Malofeyev said in an interview at a luxury resort in Dubai.

From the thread (edited to remove cursing): Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire Yup. True story. Hunter was our tenant in Venice, CA. Didn't pay rent for over a year. Tried to pay w/ art made from his own feces. Absolute s*** bag . 10:39 PM · Dec 1, 2024 · 618.6K Views Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire He changed the locks and used secret service to enforce. We had no access to the property. 10:44 PM · Dec 1, 2024 · 106.2K Views

Joe Biden’s whole presidency has been built on untruths. We were led to believe, for instance, that since 2021 the commander-in-chief has been fit and well enough to serve, when everybody could see that he was not. So the latest proof-of-dishonesty over the pardoning of Hunter Biden comes as no great surprise. Of course, Joe was going to grant clemency to his errant and only living son. He just pretended he wouldn’t all year for electoral reasons. “I believe in the justice system,” said the president in a statement. “But as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw...

Mexican drug cartels are now recruiting university chemistry students to enhance fentanyl production, according to a New York Times investigation. Fentanyl, responsible for 74,702 deaths in the US in 2023 alone, is a synthetic opioid notorious for its potency and addictive properties. To maintain their supply chains and increase product potency, cartels like the Sinaloa cartel are targeting young, skilled chemists to independently synthesize precursor chemicals traditionally imported from China.