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The US House Select Committee report on COVID-19 released...after the 2024 Election and during the holiday season... In Israel the Hostages and Missing Families forum with a positive response to President-Elect Donald Trump's call... Intel CEO Pat Geisinger resigning... President-Elect Donald Trump will be in Paris Saturday for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral... The Syrian military said to be making progress in taking back territory... A judge in Delaware ruling against a 56 billion dollars pay agreement for Tesla CEO Elon Musk... Israel striking targets in Lebanon tonight...nine deaths reported... The United States tightening its restrictions on computer...

Dozens of Syrian government troops have been filmed surrendering to rebels after they were abandoned by their comrades at a town south of Aleppo. The men are filmed being led at gunpoint by rebel fighters who shout at the prisoners and chant, “Allahu Akbar”. The prisoners, who are not wearing military uniforms, run across sand dunes towards a group of buildings with their hands behind their heads. They were captured after being left behind by retreating Assad forces near the town of Khanaser, some 50 miles southeast of Aleppo, which was seized by rebels on Saturday. Since the shock rebel...

President-elect Trump suggested to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week that if a tariff for failing to address trade and immigration issues would kill the neighbor to the north’s economy, maybe it should become the 51st state, sources told Fox News. Last Friday, Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago unannounced after Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products. Specifically, Trump is threatening to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico over their failures to curb the flow of illegal immigrants and illicit drugs from those countries into the U.S. Now, new details are beginning to emerge about the meeting...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday indicated that bipartisan negotiations to avert the threat of a government shutdown this month are “on the right track,” but he warned against “divisive” provisions. Schumer said from the Senate floor that both parties are “making progress negotiating on a bill that can pass the House and Senate with bipartisan support.” “We need to keep divisive and unnecessary provisions out of any government funding extension, or else it will get harder to pass a [continuing resolution] in time,” he said. “For now, I’m pleased negotiations are on the right track, and I...

Some friends are forever, and a few people are lucky enough to have pictures to show for it. A group of four women from the UK traveled to a seaside resort in Torquay, Devon, England, in 1972. During their time there, a photographer snapped a picture of them walking arm in arm on the promenade. Now, the four of them have reunited over half a century later to recreate that heartwarming image. Carol Ansbro, Marion Bamforth, Susan Morris, and Mary Helliwell, from Halifax, had the time of their lives on that trip. “Our first holiday in Torquay was truly amazing,”...

Hunter Biden still owes a Venice Beach, California, landlord more than $300,000 in back pay rent. Shaun Maquire, a partner in San Francisco-based investment firm Sequoia, revealed that Hunter Biden still owes him rent money from 2019-2020. “So what happens to the $300k+ in back pay rent that Hunter Biden owes my family from 2019-2020?” Shaun Maguire said on Sunday after Joe Biden pardoned Hunter of all crimes committed between 2014-2024. “Is that pardoned now?” Shaun Maguire said. .....Snip..... Shaun Maguire said Hunter tried to pay him rent with “art made from his own feces.” “Yup. True story. Hunter was...

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Dec 2 (Reuters) - California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday announced he is seeking up to $25 million in additional funding for legal fights with the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The announcement came on the first day of a special session of the California legislature dedicated to preparing the liberal state for the second term of conservative Trump. If approved by the legislature, the California Department of Justice and state agencies would get the extra funding for court battles in areas such as reproductive rights, environmental protection and immigration. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, also a...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Support Facility Indian Head, MarylandNaval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, also known as Naval Support Facility Indian Head, is a United States naval military installation in Charles County, Maryland, that is a NAVSEA Warfare Center enterprise dedicated to energetics (explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, reactive materials, and their application in propulsion systems and ordnance). NSWC IHD began as the Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head during World War I. Surrounded by the Potomac River and Mattawoman Creek, Naval Support Facility Indian Head is strategically situated less than 30 miles south of the nation’s capital....

SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he’d be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind’s clean energy to transport goods across the Atlantic. But the hit to Jourdan’s pay is buying him peace of mind. When his 3-year-old son, Marcel, grows up, the burly French mariner wants to be able to explain what he did to make a dent in the the shipping industry’s huge carbon footprint. The international merchant fleet of more than 100,000 ships transports more than 80%...

More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes with each other. These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall...The first part of the find occurred in July 2021 during an excavation at Koobi Fora, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, where the skeletal remains of several ancient human relatives have been found. That excavation revealed one hominin footprint, alongside several other tracks made by large birds. The team decided...

A number of Joe Biden critics have questioned why the president's pardoning of his son Hunter Biden goes back to 2014. President Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a full and unconditional pardon for his son over federal tax and gun crimes, for which Hunter Biden was due to be sentenced this month. The pardon covers offenses he "has committed or may have committed or taken part in" between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. Several MAGA figures have noted that 2014 is the year the younger Biden joined the board at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Republicans have...

MAJOR FINDINGS: - The NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. - The Constitution can't be suspended in times of crisis. - COVID emerging from a lab leak is "not a conspiracy theory." - EcoHealth and Dr. Peter Daszak should "never again" receive taxpayer funds. - Public health officials have lost the trust of the people. - Trump's Operation Warp Speed was a success. - The COVID response was "rampant" with fraud, waste and abuse. - "The prescription cannot be worse than the disease," lockdowns had horrific consequences. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a final report regarding its two-year investigation into social distancing, masking, and the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In the 520-page report, the committee released its findings regarding “the origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic,” the “Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Transparency of the Use of Taxpayer Funds and Relief Programs” that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic, “the implementation or effectiveness” of federal laws or regulations that were “applied, enacted, or under consideration” to address the pandemic, as well as “the development of vaccines and treatments” during the pandemic. “Since February 2023, the Select Subcommittee sought to...

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would be attending the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, slated for Saturday. The Cathdral was horribly damaged in a fire in April 2019. It has undergone extensive repairs. "It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago," Trump said. "President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full...

After months of Biden, his crooked regime rats, and their media lackeys swearing up and down that Hunter wouldn’t get a pardon, Joe just went ahead and announced he’s pardoning his son. Shocking, right? Yes, there’s a lot to be angry about—the elitism, the mockery of justice, and the immorality of it all, not to mention, once again, Hunter and Joe get away with murder. However, there’s a YUGE silver lining for us, and it’s definitely worth talking about.But before we get to that, let’s take a moment to look back on how the Dems and their media lackeys lied...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, 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)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true...

President-elect Donald Trump vowed there would be "all Hell to pay" when he takes office should Oct. 7 hostages remain in custody at that time. His remarks came more than one year after Hamas launched a surprise raid on Israel, killing roughly 1,200 civilians and taking hundreds of hostages. The Israel Defense Forces invaded the Gaza Strip in retaliation and fighting has persisted since.

Delaware Chancery court judge Kathaleen McCormick has denied Tesla’s request to revise her decision to strike down CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package — despite shareholders voting at the company’s annual meeting this year to “re-ratify” the deal. McCormick also awarded the plaintiff’s attorneys a $345 million fee — payable in cash or Tesla shares — that is eye-popping but still a fraction of the $5.6 billion those lawyers requested earlier this year. Tesla awarded the compensation package to Musk in 2018, at a time when the electric automaker was in crisis. It laid out a series of stock...

Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan is in a race for her life. On Tuesday, the 68-year-old will hear the verdict in her appeal against the death sentence handed down on her in April for masterminding the world’s biggest bank fraud. It was a rare and shocking verdict - she is one of very few women in Vietnam to be sentenced to death for a white collar crime. The court found she had secretly controlled Saigon Commercial Bank, the country’s fifth biggest lender, and taken out loans and cash over more than 10 years through a web of shell companies,...