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A George Soros-funded group is actually arguing that President Joe Biden’s outrageous abuse of the clemency power should be used more often as an act of “mercy.” The Brennan Center for Justice posted a piece on X Jan. 5 praising Biden, and captioned it with one of the article’s hot takes that just reeked of Soros’s soft-on-crime approach to criminal justice all over it. “When it comes to ensuring a fair justice system, we believe the presidential clemency power should be used more frequently as a vital mechanism of mercy,” Brennan Center’s ironically-named “Senior Director” of “Justice” Lauren-Brooke Eisen wrote....

A Santa Ana windstorm brings wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph for parts of Southern California with 100-mph winds possible on mountaintops.

Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt of court Monday and accused of trying to “run out the clock” to avoid paying his $148 million defamation verdict — which may now cost him his $3.5 million Florida condo. Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Liman found the former Big Apple mayor in contempt twice for blowing through deadlines and not turning over key information ahead of a Jan. 16 trial over whether he has to give up the Florida abode and his prized Yankees World Series rings. Giuliani owes the multi-million dollar tab to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter...

Just a quick one on the news: Finally the current U.S. administration in its "dying days" labels Sudan's rebel forces as engaging in Genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass rape. Biden has slapped sanctions on the RSF including on its leader General Hemedti and various entities connected to him.

President-elect Donald Trump isn't ruling out using military force in an effort to gain control of Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal. During a Tuesday press conference, Trump was asked if he'd assure the world that he wouldn't use military or economic coercion to secure the sovereign territory and the vital waterway, respectively. The president-elect in his response reinforced the critical economic importance that he sees in Greenland and the Panama Canal. "I can't assure you," he said. "I'm not going to commit to that. It might be that you'll have to do something." "We need Greenland for...

A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find any evidence of criminal activity, according to a report unsealed on Tuesday. “(N)ot finding any indictable criminal activity does not mean we did not find any problems. On the contrary, there are profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States,” the grand jury wrote in its final report. In response to its findings, the grand jury made policy recommendations in its report, including increasing transparency around...

A visa programme intended to attract top talent to the United States has become a lightning rod for controversy and an unexpected battleground in America's culture wars, with racial tensions against Indians at its core. The H1B work visa debate has drawn in figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Bernie Sanders, capturing the attention of over 200 million people online and affecting 1.7 billion people across the US and India. The controversy ignited when Sriram Krishnan's nomination as Trump's senior White House policy advisor on AI sparked outrage among the far-Right Republican faction. An old tweet about...

Peter Yarrow who was part of the legendary 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul, And Mary who are best known for iconic song Puff The Magic Dragon is dead at 86. The controversial musician passed away after battling bladder cancer for four years his publicist confirmed. He was the lead vocalist of the hit track Puff The Magic Dragon - which was released in 1960 - as he denied that the song was about drugs for years which is what many had believed. Yarrow staunchly denied that it was about drug taking and has maintained that the actual meaning of the...

An ambitious ecosystem restoration project has helped saiga bounce back from 40,000 to 2.8 million in the last 20 years. Image credit: Yakov Oskanov / Shutterstock.com In Kazakhstan lives an antelope that wouldn’t look out of place on the set of Star Wars. Saiga and their gloriously wibbly noses are one of the planet’s most remarkable species, but poaching and mass die off events saw their numbers crash. In 2024, however, the Earthshot Prize awarded an ecosystem restoration effort that’s enabled the saiga antelope population to recover from 40,000 to 2.8 million in the last 20 years. As part of...

BURKE COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies in Georgia need your help finding a man wanted for questioning involving a trespassing incident. Burke County deputies said the man trespassed onto church property near Old Waynesboro Road. According to the sheriff’s office, the man placed raw field cotton onto the church porch steps. The church is made of mostly a Black congregation, officials said. Deputies said the man is wanted for questioning for trespassing and littering. No other details were released

Donald Trump did not rule out using military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland and announced a bold plan to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America'. The president-elect, 78, announced his threat of coercion on the global stage and the name swap during a wild and wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday morning. He laid out his vision for the world, took aim at Canada and tore into President Joe Biden's climate agenda. Trump also attacked his nemesis, Special Counsel Jack Smith, by calling him a 'nutjob' and...

Unwin examines the data from 86 societies and civilizations to see if there is a relationship between sexual freedom and the flourishing of cultures. What makes the book especially interesting is that we in the West underwent a sexual revolution in the late 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s and are now in a position to test the conclusions he arrived at more than 40 years earlier.

In a world where meat is often a token of comfort, health, hospitality, and abundance, one can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the conjunction “meat and evil.” Why pull meat into the orbit of harm, pestilence, ill-will, and privation? From another perspective, the answer is obvious: meat—the flesh of slaughtered animals taken for food—is the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature, violent, and often gratuitous. The truth is that meat has a checkered history in the West. From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world,...

A year-to-date after three Kansas City Chiefs fans were last seen alive, it is still unclear why they died in their friend’s snowy backyard — and authorities have not handed down any criminal charges in their deaths. Clayton McGeeney, 37; Ricky Johnson, 38; and David Harrington, 36, visited their longtime friend Jordan Willis’ home in Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 7, 2024 to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers. Two days later, the three men were found dead on Willis’ property by McGeeney’s fiancée. Willis could not be reached by phone and did not answer his door in...

@Nigel_Farage Keir Starmer is sweeping the failures of the establishment under the carpet. Nothing less than a full national inquiry into the rape gangs will do.

Today Trudeau announced his resignation, effective upon the choosing of a new leader: [video at link]. From CNN: “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its new leader,” the 53-year-old leader told reporters at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday. Canada’s parliament will be suspended until March 24 while a new Liberal Party leader is chosen, he also said. It is another of the big dominoes to fall as the long-awaited collapse of the Western order predictably accelerates. Betting tables have it for Pierre Poilievre next: Recall, Poilievre is the whip-smart ‘populist’...

President-elect Trump announced Tuesday that Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani plans to invest $20 billion in the United States “over a very short period of time” to build data centers across the country. The investment will support the construction of new data centers in the Midwest and Sun Belt regions, with the first phase of the project focusing on Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. The influx of funds will help “keep America on the cutting edge of technology,” Trump said at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. “Artificial intelligence is very big into the data centers, and that’s...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump ‘s latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case. In a one-sentence ruling following an emergency hearing, Judge Ellen Gesmer denied Trump’s request for an immediate order that would spare him from being sentenced while he appeals Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision last week to uphold the historic verdict. It was the second time in two days that Trump was denied. Trump went to the Appellate Division of the state’s trial court a day after Merchan rebuffed his initial bid...

ROME — The newly appointed Catholic archbishop of Washington, DC, said Monday that President Trump’s plans for deporting illegal immigrants is “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”“At the same time,” he continued, “we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, plans which have been talked about at some levels of having a wider indiscriminate massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” (snip)The cardinal did not elaborate on which elements of Catholic doctrine he believes prohibit the deportation of migrants who enter a country illegally.

The Washington Post began laying off a chunk of its workforce on Tuesday, cutting figures on the business side of the company. The cuts did not affect the newsroom. About 4% of the company, or less than 100 people, will be laid off across its business divisions, Fox News Digital has learned. The layoffs, beginning Tuesday, were first reported by the New York Times. "The Washington Post is continuing its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future and reach audiences where they are," a Post spokesperson said. "Changes across our business functions are all...