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“Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper was baffled over reports Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed campaign blew six figures to build a version of her California-based studio in Washington, DC for their controversial pre-election interview – claiming the makeshift “cardboard” set “wasn’t that nice.” The failed Democratic presidential nominee reportedly used $100,000 from her $1 billion war chest to build the fake set of the wildly popular podcast in a “random house” for the surprise Oct. 6 interview, which the Los Angeles-based podcaster laughed off as “hilarious.” “My studio that is gorgeous in Los Angeles doesn’t even cost six figures,...

President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has revealed that the nation's largest mass deportation effort will begin in Chicago. Homan, 63, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term, laid out his plans to remove migrants who illegally crossed the southern border. 'Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,' Homan told the crowd at the Northwest Side GOP holiday party where attendees included Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. He went on to call them both 'terrible,' while also urging them to follow in the footsteps...

Discovered Connection Between Nancy Pelosi & Luigi Mangione Raises Questions In UnitedHealth CEO Murder Investigation Key Points • Cyberattack Timeline: A major cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group in February 2024 coincided with Paul Pelosi's $4 million investment in Palo Alto Networks, which later investigated the breach. • UnitedHealth CEO's Death: Brian Thompson, UnitedHealth CEO, was murdered shortly before he was set to testify in a DOJ case that could have implicated Nancy Pelosi in insider trading. • Luigi Mangione's Role: Luigi Mangione, a tech-savvy scion of a wealthy Maryland family with historical ties to the D’Alesandro family (Nancy Pelosi), was arrested...

Disturbed adaption of Simon and Garfunkel.

The South China Sea remains a flashpoint of escalating tensions as China intensifies its aggressive maritime activities, targeting nations like the Philippines CNS Admiral Dinesh Tripathi during his customary briefing of media before Navy Day last week expressed concern about Chinese maritime activities in the South China Sea, all of which China claims. Two countries it especially targets in SCS are Taiwan and the Philippines in whose waters it has indulged in offensive naval actions. It signed a defence agreement with the US in 1951; last month it signed an intelligence and technology agreement facilitating satellite intelligence and access to...

After 60 years of searching, geneticists have finally identified the gene behind the marmalade coloration in domestic cats. Two independent teams of researchers found any fiery-hued fuzz on our beloved clawed floofs is likely the result of a missing segment of DNA in a non-protein-coding part of the cat's genome. "It's been a genetic mystery, a conundrum," Stanford University geneticist Greg Barsh told Sara Reardon at Science. Barsh and his colleagues discovered cat skin cells from which orange fur sprouts express 13 times as much RNA from a gene called Arhgap36, compared with skin cells from cats with no orange...

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Senator Joe Manchin just walked onto the Senate floor as the deciding vote to DENY Democrats' left-wing selection for the National Labor Relations Board, Lauren McFerran. This now means Republicans could gain a majority on the NLRB when Trump takes office. ... The GOP can now confirm two nominees to the board. If this happens, Republicans will have a one-seat majority ... This was made possible by JD Vance RUSHING to D.C. all the way from Mar-a-Lago today to vote against Lauren McFerran .. He got on a plane to Washington specifically to be in the Senate for this vote."...

Lawsuit would target DA Alvin Bragg and the medical examiner's office.. Marine veteran Daniel Penny's defense team is eyeing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others behind the charges, turning the tables after the lengthy high-profile case concluded with an acquittal. "Just like Danny said in his interview, it was like they wanted to try and get him on something," Penny's defense attorney Steven Raiser said Wednesday, reacting to the acquittal on "Fox & Friends." "They knew they weren't going to be able to get him, so they had to get rid of that top count...

Around 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It's often associated with hearing loss. Not only can the condition be annoying for sufferers, it can also have a serious effect on mental health, often causing stress or depression. This is especially the case for patients suffering from tinnitus over months or years. There's currently no cure for tinnitus. So finding a way to better manage or treat it could help many millions of people worldwide. And one area of research...

Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered remarks at the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research. Biden told the attendees that doctors opened up the top of his head twice and couldn’t find a brain. Joe Biden had multiple brain surgeries in the 1980s after suffering two brain aneurysms. “I have been a beneficiary of a lot of the research that’s been done. I had two cranial aneurysms; I had two nine-hour operations — they took the top of my head off twice and couldn’t find a brain the first time.” WATCH:

West Point said the discrepancy on Hegseth's relationship with the school was because of an "administrative error" but that a further review confirmed that he was accepted into West Point in 1999, but did not attend the university. Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday called for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to conduct an internal investigation into allegations that it repeatedly lied to a member of the press about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. A reporter at ProPublica claimed that an official at the school told them on the record twice that Hegseth was never accepted into...

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...

The joy of Germany's Syrian refugees rejoicing the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government this weekend has quickly died down as leading lawmakers began calling for them to be deported back to their war-torn homeland. Hours after Syrians jubilantly took to the streets in several German cities on Sunday, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel declared anyone celebrating 'a free Syria evidently no longer has a reason to flee'. 'He should return to Syria immediately,' she said bluntly in a public statement shared on social networks. On Monday, prominent conservative lawmaker Jens Spahn told...

Kremlin sources have revealed the tricks Russia reportedly used to smuggle President Bashar al-Assad out of Syria as his regime suddenly collapsed. It comes as one of Vladimir Putin's allies confirmed for the first time today that Russia did indeed help the ousted dictator flee to Moscow. Three sources told Bloomberg News that Moscow organised for Assad to escape via its air base on the Syrian coast, using a 'transponder trick'. He was reportedly ordered to tell no-one, switch his transponder off and get on his private plane in the capital Damascus. The aircraft then travelled to Russia’s Khmeimim air...

In Israel a 12-year-old-boy killed, two other people wounded in a shooting attack... Four police guards lightly wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack... British farmers brought tractors to protest at Parliament...opposing new inheritance taxes... Brazil's President Lula da Silva will require more surgery tomorrow... During their raid of presidential offices in South Korea police were kept out of the personal office of President Yoon Suk Yeol... Meta social media apps...impacted by a mass global outage... FBI Director Christopher Wray says he'll resign... Real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander along with their brother Alon alleged to be involved in sex...

Donald Trump once publicly speculated that Time would never name him the news magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Now, the honor will be bestowed on him twice. Time will name Trump as this year’s choice on Thursday, recognizing the president-elect as the individual or group deemed to have wielded the greatest influence on global affairs “for good or for ill.” To celebrate the unveiling of the magazine cover, Trump will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump sat for a wide-ranging interview with the magazine last month. Time...

West Point has acknowledged it inaccurately informed a media outlet that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, did not get accepted into the institution more than two decades ago. Earlier Wednesday, Hegseth posted on social media that ProPublica “is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999” without any additional information. He accompanied that with a picture of his acceptance letter into the institution. Hegseth did not attend West Point but rather Princeton University, graduating in 2003. A ProPublica editor subsequently acknowledged in response to...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Kamala Harris's loss in the U.S. presidential election was a setback for women's progress — and cited several recent incidents that he said suggest women's rights are under attack by "regressive" and "reactionary" political forces. In an address to an Ottawa gala for Equal Voice, an organization that works to get more women elected to public office, Trudeau said politicians who are hostile to women's rights — particularly a woman's right to choose abortion — are "winning too often, unfortunately." He said feminists like himself have to be "lucid" about the challenges ahead....

12-year-old boy murdered, two people moderately injured, and two lightly injured as terrorist opens fire on a bus near the Al-Khader Junction, before fleeing the scene. Security forces are searching for him. ================================================================== A 12-year-old boy was murdered on Wednesday evening, shortly before midnight, when a terrorist fired at a bus near the Al-Khader Junction in Gush Etzion. The teen was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead after prolonged resuscitation efforts. Four other people suffered injuries in the attack and were evacuated to hospitals for treatment. The terrorist fled the scene and IDF troops are...