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The Southern Bridge that connects the nether end of tony Palm Beach Island to the mainland city of West Palm Beach was once a calm overpass where people strolled alongside Bentleys over the Intracoastal Waterway. But since Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election, news crews have amassed on the West Palm side, while tourists are huddled on a small island adjacent to the bridge, iPhone cameras fully zoomed in and aimed at Mar-a-Lago, which sits just yards away. All are hoping to catch a glimpse of the bustling activity at the president-elect’s beach club estate home and club, which...

US District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court on Friday for violating a court order in a case related to two Georgia election workers. “A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for violating a court order that barred him from making false and defamatory statements against two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgement against him in 2023,” ABC News reported. Giuliani was held in contempt for statements he made about the Georgia election workers on a recent podcast interview.

President-elect Donald Trump is not planning a military invasion of Greenland, nor should he. However, he does actually make sense when he suggests that the United States should try to acquire Greenland from Denmark peacefully. Trump and Congress should look closely into how much Greenland would be worth to this country and examine whether it would be worthwhile to offer to buy it from Denmark for an appropriate price.U.S. purchases of territory have a long and beneficial history. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the nation’s territory in one fell swoop. The 1819 Florida Purchase, the 1848 Mexican Cession, the...

US corporate bankruptcies hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis - as Americans tighten their belts. Companies have also incresingly been grappling with high rising debts - driven by high interest rates that caused borrowing costs to spike. In 2024, 686 companies filed for bankruptcy, up 8 percent from 2023 - and almost more than 2021 and 2022 combined. It also marks the most filings since 2010, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. In addition last year, more companies tried to avoid bankruptcy through out-of-court actions, with these efforts outnumbering actual bankruptcies two to one, according...

Today, the White House is releasing the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. The Strategy was developed through a whole-of-government collaboration with a broad range of civil society partners to describe and address the bias, discrimination, and threats Muslim and Arab Americans have long faced. Over the past year, this initiative has become even more important as threats against American Muslim and Arab communities have spiked

Barbra Streisand appears to have been shamed into cutting her water usage after shocking aerial photographs showed her Malibu yard looking lush and green despite California experiencing its worst drought in history. Residents across California have been demolishing pools, cutting back on showers and letting their lawns turn brown after experts estimated that there will be less than a year's worth of drinking water left in the state's reservoirs by the end of 2015. But recent aerial photographs have shown that many stars are keeping their yards well watered with their green lawns contrasting sharply with the dusty brown landscape...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is bringing back several cabinet members from his first term to serve in his upcoming administration that will begin this month. In a series of posts on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump revealed his picks for several senior positions, emphasizing the importance of their experience, according to the New York Post. The announcements included Steven Bradbury who has been nominated as Deputy Secretary of Transportation. During Trump’s first term, Bradbury served as General Counsel at the Department of Transportation and was credited for the rebuilding of “our crumbling infrastructure” and cutting regulations that...

Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore. “Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making...

Hundreds of thousands of Romanians furious with the current government for the cancellation of the presidential election marched today (12) through the capital Bucharest to demand that the vote should proceed and that outgoing – and by now illegitimate – President Klaus Iohannis should resign. Reuters reported:“In a move that polarized voters, Romania’s top court voided the presidential election on Dec. 6, two days before the second round.The cancellation came after state documents showed frontrunner Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO, had benefited from an unfair social media campaign likely to have been orchestrated by Russia, accusations Moscow has denied.”Reuters...

When Jim Tyrer first appeared on a Pro Football Hall of Fame ballot in the early 1980s after completing an impressive 14-year career, the Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman looked like a sure bet to land in Canton. Tyrer, though, never made it into the Hall, and his name disappeared from the ballot for more than 40 years. That's because, in the early morning hours of Sept. 15, 1980, in an upstairs bedroom of a two-story ranch house, while his children were fast asleep, Tyrer took a .38-caliber pistol and shot his wife to death, and then turned the gun...

A rally has been planned for noon Monday at Allentown City Hall following the discovery of an item resembling a noose draped over the desk of a Black employee there. It was found around 7:30 a.m. Friday inside the Community and Economic Development Office, according to the police department. Community leaders will be presenting a list of demands to the city of Allentown at the rally at City Hall, 435 W. Hamilton St., a press release said. The group says that the targeted employee is part of an open Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case with other city employees against...

Furious protests have erupted in Romania following the threat by former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, saying, ‘We did it in Romania, and obviously we will do it in Germany,’ referring to cancelling the result of the German general election in February. Speaking on television, Breton proclaimed that if the European Commission decides that the election in Germany was in some way influenced by foreign interference, they would seek to annul the result of the election in the same way they have just done with the Romanian election. Why did European Commission annul Polish election? The decision to cancel the presidential...

The image, posted by the airline on social media, appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower, with some on social media comparing the campaign to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.There has been anger and dismay online over an advert used by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to promote the resumption of flights to Europe after a four-year safety ban. The image posted by the airline on social media appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower, with some on social media comparing the campaign to the 2001 World Trade Centre terror attacks in...

Incoming Vice President JD Vance has received some notable criticism for his comments on J6 protesters earlier today, and now he is firing back. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday today to speak about the incoming Trump Administration’s plans to save America. But he inadvertently whipped up a social media uproar when the subject turned to J6 pardons. During the discussion, Vance revealed to host Shannon Bream how Trump will decide who should get a pardon and who should stay in jail. And this is bad news for some notable J6 prisoners. “It’s very simple,”...

Los Angeles residents angered by local officials’ response to the fires devastating their communities are now questioning how their tax dollars are being used, a researcher told Fox News. Kristian Fors, a Los Angeles County resident and research fellow at the California-based Independent Institute, told the outlet on Sunday that Californians assume their leaders will fix problems that arise, Fox News reported. “I think at its core level, we, the citizens of the United States and of Los Angeles, we expect certain provisions from our government. And when people see that our basic needs are not being met, they’re angry,”...

Pasadena and Altadena, two communities hit hard by the Eaton fire, have a rich history of Black community and culture. Many homes go back generations and have been passed down for decades from parents to their children. Some say the areas were rare places where Black residents could afford homes, especially in the decades after the end of segregation... About 18% of Altadena’s residents and approximately 7% of Pasadena’s residents are Black... More than 4,000 structures were lost in the Eaton fire and more than 200 GoFundMe pages as of Saturday, Jan. 11, have shown the impact of the fire...

Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey has claimed that the Los Angeles fires are the result of a climate change “disaster” stoked by President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of “Big Oil” — and there is “more death” coming as a result. “Trump has been bought for $1 billion by Big Oil. Just a payoff to kill the IRA and the Green New Deal. We know what will happen. More fires, more climate disasters, more death. The LA fires are preview of coming atrocities,” Markey wrote on X on Saturday: In another post from Friday, the left-wing senator said Trump is adding “fuel...

In a burning building situation, I can assure you I don't want someone who looks like me,' wrote T Becket Adams, the program director for the National Journalism Center at Young America's Foundation. 'I don't want Temu Philip Seymour Hoffman;' he said, referring to the late actor. 'I want Ving Rhames busting in like the Kool-Aid Man,' Adams said of the Mission: Impossible

The horror that has hit Los Angeles is something we haven’t seen since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over that lantern in 1871. Back then, Chicago burned to the ground and roughly 300 people died. That was more than 150 years ago, things were different then, and things are very different now. There is literally zero reason for a repeat, in any respect, of what happened in Chicago, and yet we are getting just that because of the mentality of the radical progressive leftists who’ve run that city for all but 8 of the last 64 years. The Great Chicago Fire...

WASHINGTON — President Biden says he is still considering whether to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Biden said he and his aides were playing close attention to rhetoric from Trump and his allies about his political opponents and those involved in his various criminal and civil woes. “It depends on some of the language and expectations that Trump broadcast in the last couple days here as to what he’s going to do,” Biden said. “The idea that he would punish people for...