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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said there would be "hell to pay" in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. "Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America," Trump said in a post on social media.

If you've been tempted to download the Bing Wallpaper app to spice up your Windows 11 desktop backgrounds, you may want to think twice.The Bing Wallpaper app - itself not a new product - was recently added to the Microsoft Store for simpler download and installation. Going on a gut feeling to investigate it when the app appeared on the store, Rafael Rivera discovered a heap of concerning capabilities that he said on X essentially make it a piece of Microsoft-developed "malware." "Who makes a dedicated wallpaper app these days?" Rivera posited to The Register in response to questions about...

NORTH POLE — As operations at the North Pole ramped up in preparation for Christmas, Santa Claus confirmed that Hunter Biden was still on the "naughty" list despite receiving a full presidential pardon. Though President Joe Biden officially pardoned his son of any crime committed or prosecuted in the last decade, Santa's team revealed that it would have no bearing on how Hunter Biden would be classified for all Christmas gift purposes this year. "Yeah, he's been a permanent fixture on the bad list for a long time," said Dave, a spokeself for Santa's Workshop. "We were made aware of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday to shelve the planned hosting of the "Friendship Games", a big multi-sports event that the International Olympic Committee had condemned as a purely political project. Russia announced last year that it planned to relaunch the competition first staged in 1984 as a Soviet-led alternative to the Los Angeles Olympics, which the USSR had boycotted in retaliation for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. -snip- Putin's decree, published on an official website, left open the possibility of staging the games at some point in the future pending a "special decision...

The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival. They demand that major polluting nations be held to account. After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.” “The stakes could not be higher. The survival of...

Pardoning a president’s son could be an effort to obstruct justice, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested in 2018. Schiff’s comment is relevant after President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden for tax and gun violations. The pardon also includes any alleged crimes with which the Justice Department did not charge him. Many legal experts believe Hunter may have committed Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations, at the very least. Republicans also say Joe Biden benefited from the transactions. “The Congress ought to know whether the President is using the pardon power to obstruct justice,” Schiff said. “The American people have a...

"Why lie about [pardoning Hunter] for so long?" WHOOPI: "I would stop calling it a lie."

What Muggers Look For There are actually several signs that muggers look for in their victims before they strike. There is of course no real “handbook” that muggers use to guide them in search of their victims, although there is a loose set of rules gleaned from repeatedly mugging people. They also get groomed for the job by their more experienced “mentors” if they’re already part of a gang, or if they join one while in prison. These are some of the characteristics they look for in people before they strike: The “Weird Walkers” When picking a potential victim, muggers...

Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump should “sit out” criticizing President Joe Biden for pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed Monday. Swalwell, who is accused of sleeping with a Chinese spy, tried to defend Joe Biden’s pardon by pointing to the weaponization of Biden’s Justice Department against Trump. Most of the cases and charges against Trump have been dropped after his victory in November, underscoring the political nature of the prosecutions. Swalwell’s defense of Biden’s pardon of his son, moreover, does not square with some other members of his party. “If you defended the 34x felon,...

On the menu today: This isn’t just about Hunter; this is about Joe. A review of White House transcripts reveals ten times that either President Biden or White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphatically assured the public that there was absolutely no chance that the president would use his authority to pardon his son Hunter for his various crimes — six felonies combined, six misdemeanors. This was predictable, and predicted, because no matter how many times Joe Biden looked you in the eye or television camera and gave you his “word as a Biden,” the overwhelming majority of us knew...

NATIONAL FRITTERS DAY National Fritters Day on December 2nd allows for no frittering away of the time. So make haste and get them while they are hot! #NationalFrittersDay Fritters come in various forms, from morsels dipped in flavorful batters to bits of dough stuffed or filled with delicious surprises. All of the varieties are deep-fried and served hot with dips, drips, or dustings of seasonings, sweets, or sauces. Cultures all over the world make some kind of fritter. May believe Ancient Romans first consumed fritters. They then introduced them to Europe. Most commonly filled with fruit or cheese, fritters can...

There is an old saying that when the United States sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Recent events in Canada, however, suggest that the US should immunize itself from a dangerously virulent virus that has swept across the nation — nowhere more so than in Montreal: Open Jew hatred. According to the Toronto Sun, last year, Montreal has endured the most antisemitic hate crimes of any city in North America. Indeed, since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel, antisemitic incidents in Canada have increased by an astounding 670%. Canadian Jews — a miniscule 1.4% of the nation’s population —...

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said Monday that President Joe Biden will be remembered as a “complete and total disgrace” over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. Biden issued a formal pardon for his son Sunday evening after the White House assured the American public for months that he would not do so. Jennings argued that this action made the “strongest possible case for [President-elect] Donald Trump” by proving that the president blatantly lied to the American people only to ultimately protect his son in the end. “Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case...

The Dog’s Breakfast Syria is a mess with up to 70 factions fighting. The typical maps of Syria don’t do the conflict justice and show the sheer scale of independent factions as well as factions within factions. But why did anti-government forces make such quick gains after years of static front lines? Here is a basic rundown of the conflict in a nutshell: Bashar al-Assad is the President and Dictator of Syria. Bashar al-Assad He became the president of Syria in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad

The budget for 2025, which was published Sunday, allocates about $126 billion (13.5 trillion rubles) to national defense – amounting to 32.5% of government spending.

No more freaks in the military. No more America-hating freaks in our (executive) Government. Dozens if not hundreds of Biden-reversing EO's to be issued. I honestly don't mind if Trump misses most of the festivities to get these done. My sister has become active in state (TX) Republican politics and was at a meeting the other day detailing the way forward. It will be at least a hundred Executive Orders signed on Day 1, and the signing of these will be released ONLY to alternative, legitimate media outlets little by little. The left won't know where to aim, and their...

Biden buys a book by contemptible lying Palestinian BDS propagandist Rashid Khalidi, who falsely asserts that Jews and Arabs had no conflict before Zionism Over the weekend, President Joe Biden was seen having purchased a book by professor Rashid Khalidi called " "The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017" Khalidi has been called the most significant Palestinian intellectual of his generation, the successor to Edward Said, and the preeminent living historian of Palestine. He recently retired as a professor at Columbia University. This year he was a leader of the anti-Israel protests...

Many transgender people in the US are scrambling to shore up their treatments out of fear the incoming Trump administration will follow through on threats to restrict their healthcare. “My goodness this subreddit has exploded ever since Emperor Trump’s ascendency. Literally overnight almost a thousand newcomers,” read a post just after the 5 November election in one Reddit forum dedicated to sharing advice on gender-affirming hormone therapy. A popular underground hormone manufacturer stopped taking new orders in order to get through a backlog.

Reaction on both sides is mixed in response to Joe Biden’s sprawling pardon last night of his son, Hunter. Claiming his son had been “singled out” and “treated differently” by the Department of Justice and federal judges, Biden not only absolved Hunter of the two criminal convictions for which he was set to be sentenced this month but any crime over a nearly 11-year period: Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto ROBERT HUNTER...

In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician. Though the case was a slam dunk, a corrupt judge had let the brutes off with no jail time. That the system is rigged against those who play by the rules suddenly dawns on the law-abiding undertaker, whom the film’s co-writer, novelist Mario Puzo, named Amerigo Bonasera — as in Goodnight, America, where threats lurk around every corner, and the rules...