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A 235th judicial nomination by Joe Biden confirmed by the ... A Houthi missile attack on Central Israel late tonight with interceptors unable... In Germany a tough deal cut between Volkswagen and its union... The troubled Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey aircraft are back in service with the US Navy and Marines but... Eight people convicted in a French anti-terrorism court...beheading of teacher Samuel Paty... US diplomats visiting Syria speaking of 'productive talks' with the country's new government... US politics the US House passing a spending... A car ploughing into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany...two dead and at least 68...

The new 2024 Census count for states was just released and it shows a giant surge in immigration. In 2022, adding humanitarian migrants (refugees and asylum-seekers) increased international net migration from 999,000 to 1,693,000, an increase of 69.5%. In 2023, the increase was from 1,135,000 to 2,290,000, or 101.7%. The 2024 figure of 2,786,000 included humanitarian migrants. What’s not known with any precision – and what angers voters – is how many of the new entrants were illegal immigrants. A recent Goldman Sachs estimate puts the number at around 60%. We do know that LEGAL immigrants are helping America avoid...

The Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa with a panoramic view overlooking the vineyards of Napa Valley, appears to be first-rate in all ways but one. While the glamorous resort, an hour’s drive from San Francisco, fills rooms that routinely go for $2,000 a night with A-list celebrities and tech titans, financial records suggest it did not provide much of a return to at least two of its investors – Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul. That changed when it received millions in congressionally authorized COVID-19 relief in 2020 and 2021. he Auberge du Soleil investment,...

Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country’s unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping — and painful — reforms in Latin America’s third-largest economy. Gross domestic product grew 3.9% in the July-to-September quarter compared with the previous three months, Argentina’s statistics agency said Monday. The agriculture and mining sectors drove the expansion, with consumer spending also growing strongly. But manufacturing and construction suffered sharp declines in output. The news of the economic rebound comes a year after Milei was elected on a ticket to tackle chronic hyperinflation...

Delaware County, [Pennsylvania] prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Collingdale woman who they say repeatedly tried to submit voter registration forms for dead people and against an elderly man who cast ballots in both Florida and Pennsylvania last month. The charges are the first to come from the county’s investigations into alleged voter fraud and irregularities in the 2024 election. Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s loud and persistent claims of Philadelphia-area voter fraud before the election, few charges have been filed more than a month after ballots were counted. Delaware County officials said that the election was safe and secure, and...

The Washington Commanders’ plan for a new stadium in Washington, D.C., needs a recalibration. The U.S. House of Representatives avoided a government shutdown by passing legislation that will extend funding into mid-March. However, the bill no longer includes language that would transfer control of the RFK campus in the nation’s capital from the federal government to the District. The initial terms in a continuing resolution announced on Tuesday did include language that previously passed House and Senate committees, and would grant the District administrative control of the 174-acre campus for 99 years and allow D.C. to build a stadium along...

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A top aide on Vice President Harris’ failed presidential campaign recently called for more cultural voices like the vocal anti-America and anti-Israel Twitch star, Hasan Piker, who previously faced backlash for saying that “America deserved 9/11.” Harris’ former deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, said during a recent interview that Democrats are “losing hold of culture” and laid out a strategy for them to develop a “whole thriving system” ahead of future elections. “We need a whole thriving ecosystem,” Flaherty told Semafor. “It’s not just Pod Save America, though I think we should have more of them. It’s not just Hasan...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that Republicans were “taking orders from the world’s richest man,” Elon Musk, regarding a failed continuing resolution (CR). In a post on X, Clinton accused Republicans of being “on course to shut down the government over the holidays.” “If you’re just catching up: the Republican Party, taking orders from the world’s richest man, is on course to shut down the government over the holidays, stopping paychecks for our troops and nutrition benefits for low-income families just in time for Christmas,” Clinton wrote in her post.

• Last-minute deal: The House has passed a stopgap funding bill just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a federal government shutdown. It now heads to the Senate for approval. • What’s in the deal: The latest plan would extend government funding into March and includes disaster relief and farming provisions, but does not include a suspension of the debt limit, which President-elect Donald Trump has been demanding that Republicans address. The House voted 366 to 34 to approve the measure. More Democrats than Republicans supported the stopgap bill, which required a two-thirds majority. All the "No" votes came...

[H/T Grey_whiskers]The spike proteins shouldn't be there. It's possible that vaccine genetic material has integrated with human DNA, causing long-term spike production. The Yale team will publish its findings soon.Yale University scientists have found Covid spike protein in the blood of people who received Covid mRNA shots - up to two years after they received the jabs.The people were never infected with Covid, antibody tests show, and our immune systems rapidly destroy newly produced spike proteins. The finding suggests some people who took the shots may be making the proteins on their own. SNIP SOURCE—Some vaccine-skeptical researchers have previously suggested...

A Virginia college student is accused of plotting a "mass casualty attack" on the Consulate General of Israel in New York, according to court records. The FBI arrested Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, 18, a student at George Mason University, this week in connection with the alleged plot targeting Jews, court records show. The case began in May, when the Fairfax County Police Department informed the agency of an anonymous tip reporting an X account that engaged in "radical and terrorist-leaning behavior," according to an affidavit in support of the criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed against Hassan in U.S....

Intel's (INTC) fall from grace seemed to happen all at once. Shares of the once iconic chipmaker plummeted 60% in 2024. The company posted the biggest loss in its 56-year history in its latest quarterly earnings report. Its market cap has dropped 80% since 2000 — when it was one of the most valuable companies in the world. Company insiders and industry analysts tell Yahoo Finance that Intel's dramatic crash is the result of a slow deterioration spanning more than two decades. “They had a God complex; they were super arrogant,” a former high-level executive who worked at Intel for...

“The rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, 2021, is incredibly disturbing,” Judge Beryl Howell said U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.” But as President-elect Donald Trump — once a defendant in Chutkan’s very court — prepares to retake the White House and pardon many Jan. 6 perpetrators, Chutkan now says, “I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days.” Chutkan’s comments, delivered this week as she sentenced another member of the Jan. 6 mob to eight...

President Trump has filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit by Texas and Missouri to stop the Biden Regime’s auctioning of border wall materials. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Biden Regime is using its final weeks in power to auction off massive amounts of unused border wall materials that have been left sitting in the Arizona desert since Biden took office. Every day, an amount of materials that could build up to half a mile of wall are being transported north to be sold starting at $5 for each “32.91’ X 7.91’ Steel Bollard Wall Sections w/Grout,” according to...

The 34 GOP lawmakers opposing the bill cited concerns over increased spending and the absence of significant fiscal reforms. The 34 Republicans who voted against the resolution are: Jim Banks (R-IN) Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Dan Bishop (R-NC) Lauren Boebert (R-CO) Josh Brecheen (R-OK) Tim Burchett (R-TN) Eric Burlison (R-MO) Michael Cloud (R-TX) Andrew Clyde (R-GA) Eli Crane (R-AZ) John Curtis (R-UT) Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) Russ Fulcher (R-ID) Tony Gonzales (R-TX) Bob Good (R-VA) Lance Gooden (R-TX) Glenn Grothman (R-WI) Andy Harris (R-MD) Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) Wesley Hunt (R-TX) Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) Monica De La Cruz Lopez (R-TX) Nancy Mace (R-SC)...

At yesterday's Chicago City Council meeting, multiple citizen speakers slammed Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Released in 1965, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.The Mamas & The Papas’ classic 1965 version of “California Dreamin’” has joined Spotify’s Billions Club. It’s the seminal California band’s first time achieving the milestone. The group, fronted by Mama Cass, originally sang backup on the song, first released in 1963 by Barry McGuire. But their version would go on to endure as one of the most popular hits of the era. ‘Jingle Bell Rock’: Bobby Helms’ Rockin’ Christmas Classic Cara Delevingne Stars As Elton John In New ‘Step Into Christmas’ Video US Battle...

Researchers find that pandemic policies sparked a wave of violent crime.Restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 did a huge amount of damage to our liberty, prosperity, kids' education, and even our sanity. But now there's evidence supporting what many of us suspected: Lockdowns also contributed to a surge in crime that temporarily reversed a decades-long decline in homicides. According to a new Brookings Institution report, forcing young men out of work and out of school fueled a surge in violence. Worse, this outcome was predicted. You are reading The Rattler, a weekly newsletter from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. If you...

Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP), says he will introduce a motion to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government in the new year. It marks a turn for the NDP leader, whose centre-left party helped prop up Trudeau's minority government in exchange for support on their shared political priorities. He is the last of Canada's three main opposition parties to turn on Trudeau, meaning the prime minister is now unlikely to survive a non-confidence vote. Singh's announcement comes at the end of a difficult week for Trudeau, who is facing growing calls to resign from his own...