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Veteran CBS News reporter Jan Crawford dinged news organizations for not thoroughly covering President Biden’s “obvious cognitive decline” this year until it became unavoidable during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump over the summer. Crawford, the network’s chief legal correspondent, insisted stronger reporting on the topic could have changed the entire election as she responded to a question from “Face the Nation” moderator Major Garrett about the most underreported story in 2024. “Undercovered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate,” she said on the Sunday morning show. She...

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Generally, prosecutors enjoy nearly complete immunity for their legitimate actions. That’s a recognition of the fact that many are not happy with what prosecutors do, even if prosecutors are careful to remain well within the limits of the law and responsible prosecutorial discretion. The same is true of judges, though they arguably have even more immunity. The problem is the power to prosecute, like the power to tax, is the power to destroy. Particularly during the Harris/Biden years, Americans have seen numerous examples of rogue prosecutors abusing their powers and bringing prosecutions based on “novel legal theories.” Translation: making stuff...

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Burning HomesPalestinian terrorists threw a grenade into the bomb shelter where a Jewish woman was hiding. They entered, dragged her outside, shot her in the head, and smashed her head open with his rifle - link. Palestinian terrorists dressed as IDF soldiers gunning down civilians in cars on the road - Twitter link. Amalia (6) and Michael (9) hid in this closet for 14 hours, after they saw their mother and father m*rdered by Palestinians. Their little sister Abigail (4) was in her father's arms when he was executed by Hamas. She crawled from under his dead body and ran...

US President Joe Biden directed that January 9 will be a national day of mourning throughout the United States for former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100. "I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter," Biden said in a statement...

Ukraine is losing the battle on the ground. Many of its soldiers are tired and exhausted after three years of fighting. The question – can the country endure another year of war? Their forces are still resisting Russian advances in the east. But they're almost surrounded near the town of Kurakhove – scene to some of the most intense fighting in recent weeks. The Black Pack, a mortar unit, is trying to prevent their encirclement around Kurakhove. The Russian are closing in on three sides. We meet the team at a safe house, getting a rest from the fighting. They're...

The leader of Azerbaijan directly blamed Russia on Sunday for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet last week, calling on Moscow to accept responsibility and offer compensation to victims. President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with Azerbaijan’s national broadcaster that a vague apology issued by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a day earlier would not suffice to preserve friendly relations between the two former Soviet states. ...“We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia,” Mr. Aliyev said in the interview, according to a summary published in English by Azerbaijan’s state news...

Led by Jacob Kegerreis, the team's new study revealed that a rogue asteroid may have passed too close to Mars. During its flyby, Mars' strong gravitational pull would have disrupted, or ripped apart, the asteroid, leading to hundreds of thousands of small rocky fragments orbiting Mars.While more than half of the fragments created from the disruption event are believed to have been ejected away from Mars, those trapped within the planet's orbit would have continued to collide, creating more debris. After these collisions stopped and the fragments settled into a ring around Mars, the material within the rings likely began...

As America witnessed inflation and expanding government spending in the 1970's along with political scandal in the form of Watergate a new face came onto the political scene. The new face created a notion of someone who was a different kind of Democrat who looked like he was from the outside of politics... Early on in the 1976 Presidential Campaign the media would seize on the religious aspect of Jimmy Carter's life with description: "Born-Again Christian" Jimmy Carter won a narrow victory in 1976... Some watershed moments would certainly be Iran where Carter would pull the rug out from under...

When I read the New York Post article proclaiming that President Trump supports the fraudulent system known as H1B visa hiring, I knew something was amiss because we previously looked at Trump’s various business hires and use of the visa process.Apparently, the NY Post called President Trump to get him to weigh in on the controversial subject that has been triggered by Elon Musk saying he would “go to war on this issue” to maintain the H1B visa system -and subsequent foreign employment for tech skilled workers- his various companies depend upon.Here’s the topline takeaway from the article that has...

MAGA world erupted after Christmas in a not-very-useful debate over H-1B visas — a side issue that while important, especially to the tech industry, can’t possibly be Team Trump’s top immigration priority. Before anything else, the new president must get the border fully under control and start undoing the worst damage from the Biden disaster. That is in fact the plan: Border Czar-designate Tom Homan is already getting set to ID, detain and deport the worst criminals, including the Tren de Aragua crews. The new Homeland Security team under Kristi Noem will oversee a border clampdown; Trump diplomacy is already...

Bill Gates funds Dutch medical center that engineers mosquito-vaccines.In a startling revelation, scientists have successfully created a mosquito that injects humans with a genetically engineered, malaria-casing parasite that travels to the liver where it infects red blood cells. The bizarre experiment details were published last month in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).The study was conducted by researchers at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in Leiden, Netherlands.The same month the study was published, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $2,287,871 to LUMC to develop “next generation malaria vaccine candidates,” according to the Foundation’s website.This was in...

Tesla billionaire and X owner Elon Musk appeared to soften his stance on H-1B visas on Saturday night after saying he'd “go to war” for the visas, amid an ongoing online spat over immigration and the tech industry.Tensions erupted between wealthy members of the tech world, including Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for what they describe as highly skilled workers in their industry by using H-1B visas, and Trump supporters who have long championed more stringent immigration policies to give priority to American workers.On Saturday night, Musk responded to a mega-thread on social media platform X...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the United States will hit its statutory debt ceiling around the middle of January, a development she said will prompt the Treasury to resort to “extraordinary measures” to prevent the government from defaulting on its obligations.Yellen outlined the looming fiscal challenge in a Dec. 27 letter to congressional leaders, urging them to act to protect the nation’s economic credibility and preserve fiscal stability.She noted that the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 temporarily suspended the debt ceiling through Jan. 1, 2025, enabling lawmakers to avert default during contentious budget negotiations. A day after that...

After World War II, a major priority for U.S. policymakers was to push home ownership for as broad a swath of the population as possible. In many ways, the agenda was a success. Happy families living in fine homes all over the United States, one income from a stable job, and two cars became the mark of prosperity, and a point of advertising for the American experiment the world over.Every TV show featured exactly this.Two decades into the 21st century, that dream is broken, as most people cannot even think about home ownership even with two incomes. The latest trends...

A Chinese man who killed at least 35 people last month by driving his car into a crowd was sentenced to death on Dec. 27, amid growing concerns over a recent wave of deadly attacks across the country.The driver, identified as Fan Weiqiu, acted out of anger stemming from “a broken marriage, personal frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the way financial assets were divided during his divorce,” according to a statement from the intermediate court in Zhuhai, a city in southern China.Fan pleaded guilty to endangering public safety through dangerous methods, according to the court’s announcement.The incident occurred on the evening...

A silver Maserati SUV was targeted in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, according to police. The shooting happened around 12:20 p.m. in the 10200 block of Linden Avenue North. Video captured by a person’s surveillance camera shows a Jeep almost pinned in a Maserati. The Jeep’s passenger window comes down, and the driver steps out and unloads a barrage of bullets as the Maserati speeds away. Responding officers found more than half a dozen shell casings at the scene. “Seeing it right outside my neighbors house 12:15 in the afternoon, it just enraged me really,” said Andrew...

Tren de Aragua gang members are known for violence, murder, kidnapping, extortion, bribery and human and drug trafficking. Aviolent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), has expanded its criminal operations into Florida, according to multiple reports. As the border crisis escalated, a record number of illegal border crossers from Venezuela were released into the U.S. by the Biden administration and TdA violence expanded nationwide, including in Florida. Tren de Aragua gang members are known for violence, murder, kidnapping, extortion, bribery and human and drug trafficking and are linked to more than 100 law enforcement investigations nationwide. Last November, a...

Here we go. Dr. Leana Wen, the Communist doctor who demanded Americans lose all their rights during the Covid pandemic, appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday to discuss the Bird Flu outbreak. The CDC recently confirmed the first severe U.S. human case of H5N1 bird flu in a 65-year-old Louisiana man who had contact with sick backyard birds. California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom last week declared a state of emergency in response to the recent bird flu outbreak. On Sunday CBS News rolled out Covid tyrant Dr. Leana Wen to weigh in on the bird flu and she...