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A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with illegal collusion. The Onion was named the winning bidder on Nov. 14 over a company affiliated with Jones. US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez’s decision means Jones can stay at Infowars in Austin, Texas. The Onion had planned to kick Jones out and relaunch Infowars in January as a parody. At the end of a lengthy two-day hearing in a Texas courtroom, Lopez criticized the auction process as flawed...

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar pick, Tom Homan, outlined his deportation plans in Chicago, emphasizing strict enforcement and criticizing Illinois leaders.

ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently, a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether China, Russia, Iran or Venezuela routed illicit money to Democrat candidates. House Administratrion Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., whose panel oversees election integrity, told Just the News on Tuesday that ActBlue turned over documents under subpoena showing a major change in September to its donor verification policies designed to protect against illicit money flowing into political campaigns. ActBlue disclosed that it updated its policies on Sept....

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the federal government has been weaponized to spy on Americans' bank accounts and financial transactions. "We know in 2023 [that] 14,000 different individuals in the government [about] three million times in one year......14,000 individuals did over three million searches of this database of information on Americans banking habits," Jordan said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. Last week the House Judiciary Committee issued a report that detailed how the federal government had unchecked access to private financial data of everyday Americans. "The FBI has manipulated the Suspicious Activity...

Already the go-to drug of choice for millions with type 2 diabetes, metformin might also fight lung cancer if those patients have it as well, new research shows. Metformin appears to help boost the benefits of immunotherapy drugs used to fight lung tumors, according to a team led by Dr. Sai Yendamuri. There was one big catch to the new finding, however. "Our work shows that the anticancer effect of metformin is active only in the context of obesity," Yendamuri said in a Roswell news release. "We observed longer recurrence-free survival in overweight patients who took metformin and underwent surgery."...

Poster's note: Funker530 is currently assembling combat footage from around the world for archival purposes. The organization produces this YouTube video livestream roughly weekly that covers fresh combat footage and aftermath footage assembled from around the world, presented by a combat veteran. This is today's episode of their Combat Footage Review focusing on the fall of Syria - all the video the media does not want you to see. There is also footage from other theaters of war around the world. While most of it is not exactly gorey, this is war footage and war is messy. Viewer discretion is...

After often remaining silent about her name being used in cultural disputes, Caitlin Clark has spoken up. The WNBA phenom was named Time's Athlete of the Year after putting women's basketball and women's sports on the map. After she entered the league, there were several comments made about her being White. WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson said Clark being White was a "huge thing" when it came to Clark's popularity. Angel Reese even said there had been "a lot of racism" from Iowa and Indiana Fever fans. Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington, who poked Clark in the eye during a Connecticut...

Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis is a cost-saving alternative to surgery, according to a study. The analysis was based on a review of data from more than 1,000 patients, aged 7 to 17, who were treated for uncomplicated acute appendicitis at several hospitals throughout the Midwest region between 2015 and 2018. Parents were given the choice of two treatment strategies—antibiotics alone or urgent laparoscopic appendectomy. Nonoperative management consisted of at least 24 hours of intravenous antibiotics. Patients whose symptoms did not resolve underwent laparoscopic appendectomy during the same hospital admission. Ratio of costs-to-charges-based data (cost divided...

Former California Rep. and now U.S Senator Adam Schiff appeared on a press stage with Chuck Schumer this week and complained about the idea of Trump sending his political opponents to jail. The nerve of this guy. Do Democrats really believe that no one remembers anything that has happened over the last eight years? Democrats and their allies in the media gleefully spoke about their ambitions to send Donald Trump to prison and repeatedly tried to ruin his presidency and his life. Now that the tables have turned, Schiff thinks everyone is going to shake hands and go about our...

KEY POINTS * The Corporate Transparency Act of 2021 requires many businesses to report beneficial ownership information by Jan. 1, 2025, in an effort to curb crime through shell companies. * About 32.6 million businesses are subject to the new BOI reporting, according to federal estimates. * Individuals who “willfully” violate the requirement may be subject to fines of $10,000 or more and possible jail time. * A federal court in Texas temporarily halted enforcement. Small businesses and their owners could face penalties of $10,000 or more if they don't comply with a new U.S. Treasury Department reporting requirement by...

UCLA Student kicked out of class for voting for Donald Trump The class was having time to “mourn the loss of our country” after Donald Trump won, she said she voted for Trump. “I got kicked out of the class. I was told to leave that class and not return for the remainder of the quarter because I was quote unquote, a threat to my fellow students' safety.” “Because I voted for Donald Trump. I was a threat to their safety.”

I’m sure the halls of the Republican Party establishment were not pleased with the reports that President-elect Donald J. Trump had former Arizona journalist Kari Lake at the top of the list to be our next ambassador to Mexico. Lake is a twice-failed candidate in Arizona and burned many bridges with some key members of her party. She’s reportedly been working trying to mend the fences. Yet, that’s no longer an issue for the ambassador to Mexico job. Trump announced he’s going with Ron Johnson. No, it's not Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI).🚨President-elect Trump taps Sen. Ron Johnson for United States...

“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson is in the “early stages” of Alzheimer’s and battling another blood-related disease that is “causing problems with his entire body,” his family has revealed, sparking an outpouring of support on social media. Last week, Robertson’s son, Jase, revealed the state of his 78-year-old father’s health on an episode of the “Unashamed with the Robertson Family” podcast. “Phil’s not doing well. We were trying to figure out the diagnosis, but according to the doctors, they are sure that he has some sort of blood disease causing all kinds of problems,” Jase said. He added, “And he...

Anyone who has voted Republican in more than one election quickly becomes familiar with feeling exasperated. GOP politicians have a history of not handling success well. I can't be precise about how long this has been the case, but this past spring marked my 40th anniversary as a Republican/conservative activist and it's been that way in all that time. Every once in a while a Republican politician will act like he or she won an election — Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and President-elect Donald Trump come immediately to mind — but it doesn't happen often enough. It is both mind-blowing...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he is working to bypass the New York City Council to change the city’s sanctuary city law ahead of a meeting with the incoming Trump administration’s border czar.CBS News host Marcia Kramer asked Adams, a Democrat, about his pending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, over illegal immigration in the city.Adams stated that he wants criminal illegal aliens deported first, adding that he may try to bypass the City Council-passed sanctuary law, which in part bars the city’s police department from telling federal immigration officials about criminals’ immigration status.“The City...

The United States is set to fall in worldwide life expectancy ranking by mid-century, with widespread obesity adversely affecting people’s health, according to a recent study.The peer-reviewed study, published in The Lancet on Dec. 7, forecasted the life expectancy for Americans between 2022 and 2050 after taking into account the effect of more than 350 diseases and injuries.Study authors said overall life expectancy is projected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035, and to 80.4 years in 2050. The study said the increase “is forecasted to be modest compared with that in other countries around...

Sort of put the brakes on.Less than 24 hours ago, when word of Bashar al-Assad's bugging out of Dodge signaled the fall of decades of dictatorship over Syria was official, those always open, welcoming doors to the German Republic slammed shut.It all came to a screeching halt.Syria updates: Germany halts asylum proceedings for SyriansGermany is reportedly putting a halt on asylum proceedings from Syrian citizens. The decision comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad was toppled in a lightning offensive by rebel forces. DW has the latest.The German government started reevaluating the numbers almost immediately.Germany is set to temporarily suspend decisions...

Following a major 48-hour bombing campaign in Syria, the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday said it had destroyed most of the former Bashar al-Assad regime’s strategic military capabilities, in an effort to prevent advanced weaponry from falling into the hands of hostile elements. In a statement, the IDF said that its Air Force and Navy had carried out over 350 strikes against “strategic targets” in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime over the weekend, taking out “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria.” The military estimated that it had destroyed 70-80 percent of the former Assad regime’s...

Momentum is building among Democrats to oust their ailing leader on the House Agriculture Committee, part of the party's generational shake-up on Capitol Hill in the wake of their demoralizing losses in November. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) — the committee’s current ranking member — faces a challenge from fellow Democratics Reps. Jim Costa of California and Angie Craig of Minnesota for the post in the next Congress. And, according to more than two dozen House Democratic lawmakers and aides granted anonymity to discuss the matter, Scott is poised to lose the vote if he doesn’t step aside before then. “The...

The Bidens have been quite pleasant to Donald Trump since he won the 2024 election — some might even say unreasonably pleasant. Despite all the nasty things Trump said about Joe Biden during the campaign and his ongoing threat to have a special prosecutor “go after” him, Biden still invited Trump to the White House last month. And Trump told the New York Post that he had a lovely interaction with First Lady Jill Biden at the reopening of Notre Dame on Saturday: “Very nice. She couldn’t have been nicer,” Trump said about their talk. “It’s politics. You have to...