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CHICAGO — Cook County’s former top prosecutor has lost her license to practice law. The Illinois Attorney Registration and disciplinary commission says Kim Foxx’s law license was suspended on December 1 because she failed to complete her continuing legal education requirements. That’s the same day Eileen O’Neill Burke took over at the Cook County state’s attorney.

New data has revealed that CNN has hit its lowest total day demo rating - a key category for cable news networks - in the outlet's history. Among the coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic - referred to as 'demo viewers' - CNN's daily audience dropped by one percent from last year. Last year, CNN's day total demo number was 94,000. This year, it is reportedly 92,000, Mediaite reported based on to data from Nielsen Media Research. The media outlet only accounted for 11 percent if cable news viewers during prime time last month after the election. Since Donald Trump's...

Pittsburgh, PA – Today, Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger announced the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program is open and accepting funding applications from established nonprofits, economic development organizations, and educational institutions to create Business Assistance Service Centers across Pennsylvania to support and empower our small, diverse businesses. Applications will be accepted through January 22, 2025. Since day one, Governor Josh Shapiro and his Administration have advocated to open new doors of opportunity for minority-owned businesses across the Commonwealth. The Governor’s bipartisan 2024-25 budget includes funding for the Historically Disadvantaged Business...

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is “apoplectic” and “humiliated” by the network’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, The Post has learned. Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace, was particularly upset about being forced to apologize, a source with knowledge of the situation said. Another source told The Post that “George is defiant.” A third source said Stephanopoulos “is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don’t work [at ABC anymore].“...

Ana Orsini, a local news anchor in Tucson, Arizona, has died at age 28, her KOLD News 13 colleagues announced Monday in a heartbreaking segment. Co-anchor Carsyn Currier said tearfully that they were “devastated” by the news. “Ana was not only beautiful, talented, and hilarious, but she was unlike anyone I’ve ever met,” she wrote. “To know Ana was to LOVE her. She made everyone around her feel so special, heard and understood. Waking up in the middle of the night to go to work is always challenging, but knowing I was going to work with Ana made it...

DISGUSTING: Chris Wray, the FBI Director, handed an FBI National Academy diploma to a foreign student in the Quantico program. Wray announces the student is from “Ramallah, the State of Palestine.” January 20th could not come sooner.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul said Tuesday that he believes that some unidentified drones spotted above New Jersey and New York are “spy drones” from China — after Biden administration officials insisted many of the aircraft are innocent commercial aircraft. “We want answers but the response I’m getting is we don’t know whose drones these are,” McCaul (R-Texas) told reporters before executive-branch officials offered a classified briefing to members of the House intelligence committee. “I was with the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, he said that these drones have been reported over military sites, military bases. I would not...

Brits "revolt". Labour promises of redressing pensioners' grievances, and have done bugger all. Pensioners short changed, on top of winter fuel allowance short change, illegals get lots of bennies. Ukraine gets cash, too. Terrorist orgs get money, too. Labour misdirects and obfuscates. Granny is freezing. Pensioners are taking to the streets. Transcript linked below video.

But surprisingly, a few of those foods are actually among the most disliked by the younger generations once the festive season rolls around. A new poll by of 2,000 adults who celebrate Christmas, carried out by Aldi, has found that those born in 1996 or later are apparently “turning their back on” traditional favourites in favour of festive dishes with some sort of “modern twist”. snip Top 10 most disliked Christmas foods Mince pies – 31% Christmas pudding – 29% Christmas cake – 25% Cranberry sauce – 25% Brussels sprouts – 24% Bread sauce – 22% Chestnuts – 21% Brandy...

On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blasted the peace efforts by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.To begin with, Zelensky rejected the notion of having intermediaries, saying that Ukraine needs – and has – direct relations with the United States.essanews reported:“President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed the importance of Ukraine having direct interactions with the United States. ‘We are currently in a transitional period in the United States. I am in contact with President Trump’, he stated. ‘We have had several meetings and talks. I don’t need intermediaries for this’, Zelensky announced during the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Ukraine.He added...

In short: During building works at The Hutchins School in Hobart in March 2024, bones were found and construction halted — leading to the ultimate discovery of almost 2,000 bodies that were believed to have been moved from the old graveyard over which the school is located. An archaeological team undertook what is believed to be the largest mass exhumation in Australian history, digging up the bodies and attempting to identify them — hampered by appalling burial practices and poor record-keeping. What's next? The team have revealed how they solved the "giant puzzle" — and have released publicly the names...

All that was missing was Bernie's trademark "gr-e-e-e-e-d" . . . If you had only read the transcript, you might have thought it was the socialist senator from Vermont who was inveighing against a government for billionaires. "of the billionaires, for the billionaires, by the billionaires." But no! That was born-again liberal populist Joe Scarborough on today's Morning Joe. Scarborough demanded that former Ohio congressman Tim Ryan [who lost to J.D. Vance in the 2022 senatorial race] explain how Democrats have lost Ohio to the Republicans, given the disparity between the household income of only $34,000 in Youngstown, and the...

The European Parliament’s Sarah Knafo said it’s time to stop “totalitarian temptations” by the European Central Bank and adopt Bitcoin. European lawmaker Sarah Knafo called on the European Union to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve while rejecting the proposed adoption of the “digital euro,” a central bank digital currency (CBDC) under development by the European Central Bank (ECB). Knafo, a French magistrate and a member of the European Parliament since June, delivered a pro-Bitcoin speech calling on European lawmakers to launch a strategic BTC reserve. “No to the digital euro, yes to a strategic Bitcoin reserve,” Knafo said in an...

Learning to simply fly a drone can be a great, entertaining hobby. Take it to the next level when you use a drone to take some beautiful pictures and videos. When you first start out, you'll want to make sure to familiarize yourself with the regulations, then you can take your hobby to new heights. If you're a professional video maker, having a drone can help enhance your work with aerial shots. It doesn't have to be a huge investment because good drones no longer cost an exorbitant amount. You can now get quite a few camera drone models for...

The so-called J6 “gallows” were used as a prop by the Justice Department and Democrats for nearly four years to argue that the Capitol Hill protestors were threatening government officials and staging an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. President Joe Biden even falsely claimed earlier this year that they were “erected to hang Vice President Mike Pence.” However, it appears as if the public will never know who built them, according to a report released Tuesday by the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight. Tuesday’s report followed earlier findings from February, when the subcommittee revealed that the FBI claimed to not...

On December 12, we were contacted by a Catholic League member who sought to have a nativity scene displayed in the lobby of his cooperative building in Larchmont, New York, a town in Westchester. The lobby has a Christmas tree and a menorah. His request was denied. When he was told that the nativity scene was a religious symbol and could not be displayed, he pointed out that the menorah was also a religious symbol. He was told they didn’t see it that way. That same day, I wrote a letter to the Property Manager, sending a copy to the...

Nigel Farage and his party treasurer have met with Elon Musk at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for the first time since rumours surfaced of a multi-million donation from the tech tycoon. The Reform UK leader and Nick Candy, the billionaire husband of singer Holly Valance who will take up the fundraising role for Mr Farage's party in the new year, met on Monday 16 December, the party said. The meeting comes following reports that Mr Musk was considering donating £78m to Mr Farage - an ally of Mr Trump - as a "f*** you Starmer payment". Later Mr Farage tweeted...

State-of-the-art drone-hunting technology being used on the battlefield in Ukraine could soon be deployed to crack the mystery behind a spate of unmanned flying objects purportedly spotted in the skies over New Jersey, New York and other Northeast cities, experts said. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deploy the Robin Radar System to assist investigators in getting to the bottom of who is behind the alleged drones that residents and local and state officials say have been flying over communities at night since mid-November. "I...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke urges Catholics to stay in the Church even if the ‘highest’ leaders commit ‘apostasy’‘No matter what we are asked to suffer, we must remain with Him, even if those in the highest positions of authority in the Church should abandon Him, should commit the grievous crime of apostasy from the Catholic faith,’ Cardinal Burke declared.Cardinal Raymond Burke exhorted Catholics to hold onto the Catholic faith regardless of “apostasy” at the highest levels of the Church hierarchy. In a December 14 homily during Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin, Cardinal Burke encouraged...

Palestinine is a powerful and dangerous hallucinogen available without prescription on the media market, particularly on the web which is less regulated. Palestinine is rarely found at a pure state. It is usually cut with antizionol and antijudaine which increase tenfold its hallucinogenic properties. This anarchotic can be taken by oneself while on the Internet, or in a group during anti-Israel demonstrations. Its traffickers concoct dreadful elixir-articles that mess up the reader's judgment. And for a good reason: Palestinine contains a very high level of hatred. One only has to inhale a few anti-Semitic articles on a virulent website and...