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Donald Trump has publicly praised Project 2025, calling parts of the policy agenda "very conservative and very good." During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from the initiative. He called parts of the 900-page guideline spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation "ridiculous and abysmal." "I know nothing about Project 2025," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in July. "I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal." On Thursday, Time magazine named Trump its 2024 Person of...

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Among the roughly 1,500 people granted clemency by the outgoing President Biden were several corrupt local officials, fraudsters, and a crooked judge. Biden also commuted the sentence of a Chinese spy convicted of possessing child pornography. President Joe Biden’s pardon and commutation spree this week included granting indulgences for convicted fraudsters and corrupt public officials, a move that will likely sharpen criticism of the outgoing executive’s use of the constitutional power. But the president, who is already facing public disapproval for his decision to grant an extensive pardon his own son for charged and potential crimes, may find it even...

The UK economy stumbled and shrank for the second month in a row through October as concerns about the Budget continued to drag business confidence down. The downturn represents the first back-to-back falls in output since the coronavirus pandemic began and a setback for new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves who rushed through painful tax increases in her recent first budget. Official figures showed gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1 percent during the month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), following a 0.1 percent decline in September, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour government...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday said the government doesn't have the authority to shoot down drones and believes reports of some sightings are cases of mistaken identity. Mayorkas appeared on CNN when he was asked about why the federal government doesn't take down one of the many drones that have been spotted across multiple states in recent weeks. “Our authorities are very limited,” Mayorkas told CNN host Wolf Blitzer, citing missions involving unmanned aircraft conducted by various federal agencies. "We have various authorities that are discreet to their particular missions. We can't just shoot a drone out of...

The US Navy dropping charges against two Navy SEAL officers... President Biden got it absolutely wrong...some children took their own lives..."...Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro reacting to Joe Biden's pardon... In Miami real estate broker Tal Alexander ordered held without bail...sexual assault and sex trafficking...prosecutor warned Alexander may flee...Israel... Israeli television news program says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was told about Israel's vulnerability to attack... President-Elect Donald Trump lining up...pushing for an end to Daylight Savings Time... A massive Ukrainian drone attack...fuel fire...Russia's Oryol Region... A US appeals court rejecting a bid by social media app TikTok to stop...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas downplayed the wave of drone sightings in the tri-state area and emphatically argued the feds can’t just “shoot” them down amid calls by some lawmakers to do just that. Mayorkas, appearing on CNN Friday night, insisted many people are simply seeing drones that can be purchased at “convenience stores” and most instances are “cases of mistaken identity.” The Homeland honcho insisted to CNN host Wolf Blizter that his agency has seen no evidence of anomalous activity.

SNIP It also amends the Criminal Code to create a new standalone hate crime offence that would allow penalties up to life imprisonment to deter hateful conduct, as well as raise the maximum punishments for hate propaganda offences from five years to life imprisonment for advocating genocide.SNIPHarmful content is defined in the legislation as content that incites violence, that foments hatred, that incites violent extremism or terrorism, is used to bully a child, that sexually victimizes a child, that induces a child to harm themselves, or intimate content communicated without consent.The bill also creates a new Digital Safety Commission, which...

A community remains on alert after surveillance cameras captured a naked suspect lurking around the backyard of an Inland Empire home. In a video posted to Instagram by @morenovalleymatters, the male suspect was seen walking around the backyard of a Moreno Valley home on the 24000 block of Patrician Court on Dec. 10 at around 8:20 p.m. At one point, he tried opening a door to gain access to the home, but the door was locked. He spent the rest of the night lounging on a makeshift bed he created by pushing two outdoor patio chairs together. The homeowners were...

The head of UnitedHealth Group is calling for change in the healthcare industry after the targeted killing of the CEO of one of its two subsidiaries. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel in Manhattan at around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4. On Monday, Dec. 9, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the case. At the time of his arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Mangione was found to be in possession of a three-page manifesto critical of healthcare companies. He condemned UnitedHealthcare's increasing market capitalization amid declining American life expectancy and...

President-elect Donald J. Trump has weighed in for the first time regarding the drones invading America and our military bases. Trump called BS on the Biden regime’s claims that they have no knowledge of who is responsible for the drones and demanded the Regime tell the truth immediately. He then called for the drones to be shot down if the government was unwilling to provide answers (they won’t). “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge? I don’t think so!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Let the public know, and now. “Otherwise,...

The University of Michigan has fired an administrator after she was accused of saying that Jewish students should not benefit from diversity programs as they are "wealthy and privileged," according to documents obtained by the New York Times on Thursday. The administrator, Rachel Dawson, formerly worked as director of UoM's office of academic multicultural initiatives. According to the documents and her lawyer, the firing comes on the back of alleged comments made at a conference in March, in which she claimed the university was "controlled by wealthy Jews." Dawson also said that “Jewish people have no genetic DNA that would...

I have known for years that the online Left was losing the moral plot. But if you had told me that one day they would celebrate the slaughter of a man from a humble background in which the suspect is a swaggering rich kid, even I would have struggled to believe it. This, at root, is what the creepy idolisation of Luigi Mangione represents. Strip away all the TikTok guff about him being a modern-day Robin Hood. Ignore the apologetics of Leftish talking-heads who fantasise that Mangione has stuck it to The Man. For what we’re talking about here is...

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee announced late on Friday that the state’s data system has been hit with a major cyberattack. McKee will hold an unprecedented press conference Friday at 7:30 PM regarding a cybersecurity breach of the RIBridges system. That system is managed by Deloitte, one of Rhode Island’s largest tech vendors, and the exposed data includes HealthSource, Medicaid, and SNAP. According to McKee’s office, on December 13, [today] the State was informed by its vendor, Deloitte, that there was a major security threat to the RIBridges system. In response, we have proactively taken the system offline so that...

Why did this guy get a commutation of his sentence? After spending his entire presidency coddling criminals and supporting Sorosian lawlessness, Joe Biden decided to commute the sentence of the one judge out there who sentenced kids to draconian, disproportionate jail terms on minor drug offenses -- in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks from private prison owners who belong in jail, too. According to the New York Post: The corrupt former Pennsylvania judge convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted Thursday by President Biden. Former...

FOOTAGE from Syria shows hordes of Vladimir Putin's troops fleeing the country in military trucks after a decade of bloodshed. And satellite pics from a Russian airbase on the west coast reveals how Vlad's men have been forced to take apart their attack helicopters and air defence units before leaving hot on Assad's tail.

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Negative language can perpetuate feelings of doom. Don’t be a doomer. Individuals who are regularly exposed to content about global warming or climate change have reported stronger feelings of inefficacy or the inability to contribute to a desired goal, a study found. [More at link]

Millions of people celebrated the end of the Assad regime on Friday with mass rallies in Syria.

Twelve California recipients have been awarded $135.2 million by the Environmental Protection Agency to purchase a combined total of 455 zero-emission vehicles, Senator Alex Padilla announced on Friday. The funding comes from the Inflation Reduction Act as part of EPA’s new Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program.