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Spanning 3,400 miles, the tunnel would be the most ambitious infrastructure project ever undertaken. The difficulties of building an underground rail tunnel all the way from London to New York might seem insurmountable, yet plans to actually construct such a tunnel are genuinely being considered, with those behind the idea estimating that it could cost somewhere in the region of $20 trillion. Not only would the tunnel be the longest ever built by a huge margin at 3,400 miles long, but it would also make incredibly fast trans-Atlantic travel a reality, with trips between New York and London taking a...

Syria’s new transitional government says there is no place for Russian presence in Syria a week after the country’s long-time President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown. The new government also says it is open to engage in contacts with all countries to pave Syria’s new future. The Spokesperson for the political department of Syria’s new transitional government has called on Russia to reconsider its presence in the country now that their ally; President Bashar al-Assad, has been overthrown. A convoy of Russian military vehicles was spotted traveling from the coastal city of Latakia, and were headed southward towards the city of...

As is usual for the year 2024, we are in uncharted waters. The Presidential Pardon is one of the only plenary powers that a president has. This power is one of the only ones that has nearly no restrictions or controls. The Founders granted the president this power with the thought that we would never have a truly criminal president. The Framers of the Constitution modeled portions of our system on the British system of governance; in particular, the Pardon. The King of England was able to pardon individuals, and so were the governors of the American colonies. It was,...

Serbian authorities have rejected the claims they used forensic tools from Israeli company Cellebrite and bespoke spyware for illegal surveillance, calling them "nonsensical". Serbian police and intelligence services have used advanced spyware alongside other digital tools to hack the phones of activists and journalists and illegally surveil them, Amnesty International said in a report published on Monday. Mobile forensic products made by Israeli firm Cellebrite are being used by authorities in Serbia to extract data from individuals' phones, while new Serbian spyware — dubbed "NoviSpy" by Amnesty — has been developed to covertly infect devices and capture information, according to...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Breaking: Judge rejects Trump bid to toss DA Bragg conviction over SCOTUS immunity ruling From justthenews.com 5:53 PM · Dec 16, 2024

A hunt was underway tonight for a missing radioactive package which 'failed' to arrive at Madrid's Barajas Airport. Spain's Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) sounded the alarm this evening over the transport package with 'four radioactive sources' of 'very dangerous' category 2 Selenium-75. Local reports said the CSN had sent a team of inspectors to the airport to try to glean more information. It was not immediately clear how the transport container with the radioactive package had gone missing…… The International Atomic Energy Agency defines Category 2 on a scale of one to five as 'very dangerous for people because the...

Bergoglio Received Madame Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, the New President of United Methodist ChurchFrancis met on Monday with members of the World Methodist Council, representing allegedly 80 million cult members.Among the delegation was Debra Wallace-Padgett, a grandmother, who identifies as a "bishop". She is the guru, the newly elected president of the United Methodist Church.Francis thanked God that Catholics and Methodists have "overcome our estrangement" in "reciprocal knowledge, understanding, and love" over the past 60 years.He sees it as a goal to "unite the different intelligences and wills" of the different religions [in psychology, this would be a Multiple Personality Disorder].Francis...

"New York police recovered a massive drone abandoned in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A video shows an NYPD officer holding the large aircraft, which appears to measure over five feet in diameter. Officers found the drone on a sidewalk after responding to an emailed tip. During the investigation, a passerby mentioned working in the building housing the drone’s manufacturer, Amogy, Inc. Amogy CEO Seonghoon Woo later confirmed the drone belonged to the company, explaining it had been left on the sidewalk after a company party about a month ago. This comes amid reports of thousands of unidentified drone sightings along...

The pain in my father's eyes is a sort of memory seared so thoroughly that I will never forget it. There he was, aged 41, in the back of a police cruiser as I stand outside looking back at him, myself frozen in time. His sharp, deep blue eyes were not onlooking some boyish mishap of mine or expressing a sense of fatherly pride. He sat there, handcuffed, utterly defeated by life. Only moments earlier, on a cold, damp January 2007 day along the hills of East Tennessee, my father and I hastily packed whatever personal belongings we could salvage...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky should be prepared to make a deal to end the conflict. "He should be prepared to make a deal," Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago. Trump added that his team is going to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky about ending the conflict in Ukraine. "We'll be talking to President Putin, and we'll be talking to Zelensky and representatives from Ukraine," Trump told reporters. Trump also mentioned that during the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris he had been approached by Zelensky. "He would like...

Clear coordinated with Harris Campaign, election interference. Selzer was clearly paid off to deliberately inflate the Harris figures by a huge amount, which was promptly picked up and amplified by legacy news media. Great days.

Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton is weighing in on Sesame Street not being picked up by HBO. The ex-Senator urged followers via her Facebook page to help donate to keep the long-running children's series going. This comes on the heels of Warner Bros. Discovery announcing last week it had opted out of renewing its deal to create new episodes. The current Sesame Street library will continue being on Max's platform until 2027. On her Facebook post, Clinton included a throwback photo of herself on the set of Sesame Street with the caption: Big Bird needs a...

Presidents don’t ordinarily pick the director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the US government. But President-elect Donald Trump says he wants his ally Kari Lake to take over VOA. Trump’s Wednesday night social media post – in which he said, “I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America” – presages many future fights over VOA, which became an ideological battleground during Trump’s first term in office. Some journalists at VOA are highly concerned about that idea that Lake, a longtime local TV anchor turned...

Senator Thom Tillis appears to have been granted a larger slice of the lobbyist money from Thune and McConnell because he certainly is taking up a position next to Joni Ernst in strategic opposition to President Donald Trump. The level of passive aggressive threat-speak within Tillis’ very carefully selected wording is quite concerning. “President Trump enjoyed a great deal of Republican support in his first term,” Tillis notes. “But if people want to play the outside [pressure] game, they run a lot of risk,” he continues. “Four votes is all it’s going to take to kill a nomination here, so...

Stephanopoulos was clearly and deliberately pushing the "Trump raped E. Jean Carroll" meme for political elections reasons to help the Democrats. ABC should make him pay the $15 million from his salary. Sucker's now run away from X. He was getting clobbered there.

As everybody knows, the Irish Times is about as close as it gets to being the house journal of official Ireland, which makes this paragraph of its breaking news story this afternoon about the Israeli decision to close the Dublin Embassy particularly hilarious:“To date, Israel has not applied similar measures to other countries, including Egypt, Spain, and Mexico, which also joined the petition accusing Israel of genocide..”The subtext is obvious: The perfidious Israelis have unfairly singled out little old Ireland again. Why, we’ve been unfairly treated!In reality, the reasons why Ireland would be treated differently to those three countries are...

The enemies of Israel are taking notice as the IDF drops an “earthquake bomb” on targets in Syria, which registered a 3.0-magnitude earthquake. Meanwhile, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen fire a missile directly at Tel Aviv. Will the Jewish State’s wars against Iranian terrorism, soon include a direct conflict in Yemen? Watch now.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) called for his House colleagues to “stand up to gun manufacturers” following reports of a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, Wisconsin. Breitbart News noted that Madison Chief of Police Shon Barnes indicated the suspected shooter was a juvenile. The juvenile is believed to have used a 9mm handgun in the attack, according to FOX 13 Memphis.

A Wisconsin school shooter who killed two was a girl, police sources say. The unidentified female shooter killed a student, teacher and then herself at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison shortly before 11am Monday. Police have yet to reveal the identity of the shooter, her victims or a possible motive. Wisconsin police have refused to release the age of the teenage student who opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, killing two. At least two students remain critically injured in hospital. Follow along for DailyMail.com's live updates of the ongoing situation.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to fork over taxpayer money to build a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills drew renewed scorn – after the NFL team’s billionaire owners sold a minority stake for a massive profit, The Post has learned. Hochul, a Buffalo native, had agreed in 2022 to provide $600 million in state funding – with Erie Country tossing in an additional $250 million – for the privately-owned stadium after Bills owner Terry Pegula threatened to leave Western New York. The new 62,000-seat Highmark Stadium, expected to open in 2026, played a significant role in inflating the value of...