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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after falling and fracturing her hip during an event in Luxembourg, sources close to the congresswoman told The New York Times. She is “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” a Pelosi spokesperson wrote in a statement Friday. Pelosi tripped while descending a marble staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, The Times reported.

President-elect Trump and anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit for depositions next week in Trump’s defamation case against ABC News, a judge ruled Friday. Trump sued the network and the anchor in March after Stephanopoulos repeatedly said on air that a jury found Trump “liable for rape” in a lawsuit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape. Following a discovery hearing on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid ordered both Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions next week that could last up to four...

It’s going to be awkward at FBI headquarters next month when President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the bureau likely takes over. *** Patel has promised to “clean house” at the Hoover Building, and hold all those who “abused their power” during the Russiagate “witch hunt” accountable. He might start with the officials and agents who secretly vacuumed up his phone records and emails starting in late 2017, when he led a House Intelligence Committee investigation into the FBI’s reliance on Hillary Clinton’s false opposition research to surveil a Trump campaign official as a supposed “Russian agent.” According to a...

...Wray once testified under oath that there were no undercover agents on the ground at the Capitol. But now, that statement reeks of yet another Swamp word game in action.... ... Because after the IG report was released, we now know there were dozens (likely way more) of fed informants on the ground and inside the Capitol building. The word game seems to involve “undercover agent” and “fed informant.” Meanwhile, the former Capitol Police chief begs to differ. He claims there were undercover agents on the scene.... ... Renowned legal scholar and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley sounded the alarm...

....there were at least three informants who had been tasked directly with following specific targets and informing on their plans in relation to January 6th. In addition to these three informants who were asked to track specific people well in advance of January 6th, the FBI IG report acknowledges 23 additional informants who traveled to DC on January 6 and reported on the events to their respective FBI handlers.. ...The DOJ IG report goes on to a more damning revelation: of the 26 CHS’s, 4 entered the Capitol building, and 13 entered the restricted area around the Capitol. We reported...

hey’re bending over backwards to waste cash on turnstile jumping. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to spend up to $1 million in federal grant money on a study they hope will help them understand the mindset of the average fare evader, The Post has learned. The pricy research – which comes as the authority is crying poverty and pushing for a detested congestion pricing plan — is being blasted by critics as a huge waste that will only tell them what anyone with common sense already knows about scofflaws.

The Sooner State Republican decried how social media has hampered lawmakers’ ability to negotiate on legislation behind closed doors.Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., complained on Thursday that social media has ruined Congress’s ability to make secretive deals on legislation before it is released to the public.Mullin made the comments during a panel at a conference hosted by the No Labels party, which purportedly aims to “give power to the middle, in Washington and across America.” The event featured guests from across the political spectrum, including Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana and Democrat Sen. Tim...

Russian President Vladimir Putin backs Hungary’s proposal for a Christmas cease-fire and prisoner swap in Ukraine.The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin backs Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s proposal for a Christmas cease-fire and prisoner swap in Ukraine, after Kyiv criticized Orban for not consulting with Ukrainian officials, hinting it undermines Western unity in the face of Russia’s invasion.Orban proposed the cease-fire and prisoner exchange in a call with Putin on Dec. 11, according to statements from both the Kremlin and Hungary. Specific details were not disclosed.Shortly after Wednesday’s call, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to X to criticize Orban,...

Controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson has fled Canada as liberals push to pass legislation that he says will suppress free speech and turn the country into a “totalitarian hellhole.” Speaking in a recent episode of his daughter’s show, “The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast,” Peterson said he opted to move to the US over the contentious bill, C-63, and ongoing feud with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. “The issue with the College of Psychologists is very annoying, to say the least, and the new legislation that the liberals are attempting to push through, Bill C-63, we’d all be living in a totalitarian...

After an uncertain start, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland were getting to be UK chart regulars by the time of their late 1979 single.Ten weeks. That’s all it took for The Police to progress from their first UK No.1 single to their second. “Message In A Bottle” had achieved the feat at the end of September 1979 and held on to the prize for fully three weeks. Then on December 8, that year, “Walking On The Moon” soared like a space rocket from its No.6 entry the week before to repeat the achievement. After an uncertain start, Sting, Andy...

WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday the Republican Party “will use its best efforts” to end daylight saving time, which he called “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump said on social media. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings - has been in place in nearly all of the...

Mayor Eric Adams told incoming border czar Tom Homan he wants to reopen the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Rikers Island — sparking swift outrage from immigration advocates and setting up an almost-certainly fierce fight with the City Council. The mayor’s desire to thaw the troubled jail complex’s ICE office — recounted to The Post by Homan — came during a cordial face-to-face between the pair Thursday at Gracie Mansion focused largely on sanctuary cities, deporting alleged criminal migrants and finding more than 320,000 missing migrant children, sources said. The hardline Homan, who was handpicked by President-elect Donald...

Comedian John Mulaney paid a visit to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night, and he brought two of his favorite topics with him: fatherhood and Steely Dan. “So I love Steely Dan,” the comedian proclaimed. “Some people don’t like Steely Dan. It’s a very divisive band. When I had a son I go, ‘Great, fresh person. Fresh ears.' That’s one reason to have a baby, so you can test Steely Dan out on them.’” The comedian then proceeded to detail his efforts to get his young son interested in the jazz rock band’s music. “He loves dancing,...

All four Georgian opposition parties that secured seats in the October general elections on Thursday have rejected the legitimacy of the upcoming presidential elections on Saturday, calling the parliamentary vote “rigged” and reaffirming incumbent President Salome Zourabichvili as the country’s "sole legitimate leader". In a joint statement, the Unity National Movement, Coalition for Change, and Strong Georgia condemned the forthcoming elections, while the Gakharia for Georgia group expressed its stance in a separate message. Incumbent President Zourabichvili, the last one to have been elected by popular vote, will see her term expire next week. The opposition’s joint statement claimed the...

Google-parent Alphabet and Apple must be ready to remove TikTok from their U.S. app stores on January 19, two US lawmakers said in a letter to the companies’ CEOs Friday. The bipartisan letter came from two leaders of the US House of Representatives’ committee on China: Republican Representative John Moolenaar, who is the committee’s chair, and the group’s top Democrat Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi. Last week, a U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok in the United States or face a ban. The app is used by 170 million Americans. Separately, Moolenaar and Krishnamoorthi also...

Michael Moore reacted to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by saying he wants to “pour gasoline” on the “anger” people feel toward the health insurance industry. In a Friday Substack post, Moore said that while he condemns “murder” in general, he does not condemn the “anger” people feel “toward the health insurance industry.” In fact, he wants to further fuel that anger. “The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut...

Not everyone is convinced.-Archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has been on the hunt for Cleopatra VII’s tomb for nearly 20 years, believes she’s found a bust that depicts the Egyptian queen. -The claim has put some at odds with Martinez, as other experts say the bust looks nothing like Cleopatra. -Along with the marble statue, the team also discovered 337 coins—some of which (less controversially) depict Cleopatra. Lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez has been on the hunt for Cleopatra VII’s tomb for nearly two decades. And now, she believes that she and her team have just unearthed a small marble bust of the...

President Biden pardoned two Chinese spies and the relative of a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party who was caught with tens of thousands of images of child pornography on his computer last month in a prisoner swap between the two countries that was made public Thursday when the three received clemencies. Yanjun Xu and Ji Chaoqun, who were both convicted of espionage, were granted clemency last month, along with Shanlin Jin, who was convicted of possession of more than 47,000 images of child pornography while a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2021. Five days...

In what the media hailed as the most prestigious award announcement of the season, Vice President Kamala Harris was named "Person of the Year" by Wine Enthusiast magazine. The annual honor, given to a person to recognize outstanding achievement in wine consumption, was voted unanimously to be awarded to Harris after the awe-inspiring work she did throughout 2024 to promote and exemplify the enjoyment of wine. "She blew every other candidate out of the water," said Jacqueline Strum, the magazine's editor and publisher. "Each year, we look for the person who the public would think of most synonymously with wine....

When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set out to rejuvenate Japan’s economy more than a decade ago, he laid out a strategy known as the “Three Arrows,” which aimed to banish deflation by easing monetary policy, increasing government spending and restructuring the economy so that it was poised for growth.President-elect Donald J. Trump could soon brandish three arrows of his own. Mr. Trump’s Treasury secretary pick, Scott Bessent, has mapped out a three-pronged approach to jump-starting a U.S. economy that has been saddled with inflation and sluggish output. The concept, which he billed during the campaign as his 3-3-3 plan, entails...