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Oil and gas companies will be forced to face a suit seeking damages over Honolulu's claims they downplay their products' contribution climate change. The Supreme Court turned down an appeal from fossil fuel giants on Monday, rejecting an attempt to skirt a climate change lawsuit seeking to hold companies liable over claims of deceptive marketing about the effect of greenhouse gases. Companies such as Sunoco, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP said they are facing dozens of lawsuits, leaving a vital industry at risk of owing billions of dollars over accusations it causes climate change. The justices denied the oil and...

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, let's be honest. Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy are opposed by the lobbyists. That's who opposes them, right? Bobby Kennedy is opposed by pharma and agg lobbyists. Tulsi Gabbard is opposed by lobbyists acting on behalf of foreign countries. That's a fact. So there is no reason that lobbyists should take precedence over the population of the United States. And so why wouldn't you say to--

Tim Sweeney, the founder and chief executive of Fortnite parent company Epic Games, has accused Big Tech leaders of shifting political allegiances to "curry favor" with President-elect Donald Trump. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, Sweeney warned that Silicon Valley's most powerful bosses would be feigning political allegiance to the MAGA movement to push a "scummy monopoly campaign" with the incoming administration. Newsweek reached out to Epic Games, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Tesla, and the Trump transition team via email for comment. Sweeney's accusations come after several tech chief executives who did not publicly support Trump...

German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck called "incoming President Donald Trump's expectation that we will devote 5% of our GDP to our own national defense is unrealistic. Look, prior to 1945 we spent far more than 5% on our defense, but were still battered into submission by the combined might of Russia and the US. For the next 45 years Germany was occupied by foreign troops--Russia because it hoped to eventually dominate us and the Americans because they didn't want Germany to be absorbed into a communist empire." "So, why should we spend anything on our own defense?"...

@charliekirk11 🚨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Thrilled to announce that Village People, one of President Trump's personal favorites, will be performing LIVE at the Turning Point Inaugural-eve Ball. Also featuring: @JDVance @DonaldJTrumpJr @KashPatel @TulsiGabbard @MegynKelly @GlennBeck @StephenMiller & More...

“It was a beautiful moment,” Rachel Ramey remembered about the birth she unexpectedly witnessed while visiting Adamscows Dairy in Laton for a practice dairy-judging session with her Frontier FFA team. Ramey said she advocates being a “light to shine on ag wherever you go” and uses her smartphone to capture farming moments.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., instructed his caucus not to hold back when it comes to confirmation hearings beginning this week for some of President-elect Trump's nominees for top roles. During last week's caucus lunch, Schumer said these hearings will be an opportunity for them to grill Trump's choices and ask them questions about the incoming president's agenda, a Senate Democratic source told Fox News Digital. In particular, the Democratic leader told his party that they should press nominees on how they specifically will help carry out some of the items Trump pledged to do during the campaign, the...

After a fire that never should have happened burned thousands of houses to the ground in a liberal enclave of Los Angeles through a combination of Democrat incompetence and more Democrat incompetence, you might ask yourself whether the deep blue people of Los Angeles are ever going to come to their senses and start electing people who aren’t a bunch of communist morons more concerned with Ghana junkets and lesbian representation at the fire department then with actually doing their jobs. Don’t bother asking. The answer is “No.” They’re never going to change. They can’t change. They’re going to keep...

On Wednesday night, the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California, became the target of a significant theft that resulted in the loss of three Humvees, along with various essential military equipment. According to local police, the perpetrators reportedly broke into the facility by cutting a lock and possibly a section of the fence surrounding the perimeter. The intrusion was discovered shortly afterward, prompting an immediate investigation. Stolen Items Among the stolen items were Humvees M1151A1 and M1097 models, one of which was armored. Additionally, the thieves took: Machine gun mounts Tripods Medical equipment Binoculars Bayonets Humvees and military equipment...

SACRAMENTO, CA — With Governor Gavin Newsom facing withering criticism over his preparations for wildfires, the Delta Smelt Fish Association hosted a press conference to reiterate their support for the Governor. The fish expressed total support for the Governor's decision to allow millions of gallons of rainwater to give them more room to swim, as opposed to collecting it to put out fires. "We fully support Governor Newsom's water management," said the Delta Smelt spokes-fish. "Things really looked dire for us delta smelt fish, but thanks to Governor Newsom, all the water that could have been put into fire...

Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant The homeless man tackled and zip-tied by onlookers who say he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near a Los Angeles wildfire is an illegal immigrant who will likely be protected by California’s sanctuary city status, according to sources. The suspect is Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally, sources told The Post. He was chased and taken down by residents of Woodland Hills after they allegedly saw him torching old Christmas trees and debris on fire with what one resident...

Blastoff is imminent.

Historian and author Victor Davis Hanson—or, as Mark Levin properly calls him, “America’s Wise Man” —recently noted that California’s progressives are actually taking the state backwards. This matches what I have often written, that today’s progressives are anything but, and in truth could be better classified as “regressives.” Here’s Hanson, himself a resident of California, per a video posted by the Western Lensman on Twitter/X: “It was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy, you put it all together and...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” Mark 1:14–15We have now completed our Advent and Christmas Seasons, and thus we begin the liturgical season of “Ordinary Time.” Ordinary Time must be lived in our lives in both an ordinary and extraordinary way. First of all, we begin this liturgical season with an extraordinary calling from God. In the Gospel passage above, Jesus begins His public ministry by proclaiming that “The Kingdom of God is at...

That relief includes nearly 85,000 people who attended schools that “cheated and defrauded their students,” 61,000 borrowers with a total and permanent disability and another 6,100 public service workers, Biden said in a statement.

Across the globe, as more nations legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia under the guise of "death with dignity," more suicidal people are given the tools to kill themselves. But it's not enough for the culture of death to simply be accepted; instead, death must be celebrated. Case in point: a Georgia newspaper reported on the emergence of "Death Cafes" as part of its "reasons to be cheerful" series. At Death Cafes, end-of-life doulas lead participants in navigating their feelings about death — including after a loved one has killed himself or herself through assisted suicide or euthanasia — but participants...

CBN.com -“How do I stop using? How does a person that has a couple hundred people around him that buy drugs from him every day, just stop?” It was a question that tortured Jared Bellan for years. He made $5000 a day selling drugs. He wanted to quit using them, but he was hopelessly addicted to heroin. In the beginning, drug use wasn’t a prison for Jared, it was an escape. Living in a rural town was boring, and for Jared, marijuana was the perfect distraction. He started smoking when he was 13 years old. He eventually tried alcohol and...

NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd has reportedly been “quietly” meeting with other news outlets and telling them he plans to leave his current network in 2025 amid frustrations with his current role. According to Semafor, the former Meet the Press host has been talking to “top editors and leaders from other media organizations” and discussing “potential roles outside the network both in broadcast and digital media” as he intends to depart NBC News when his contract is up later this year. This comes after Todd was replaced by Kristen Welker as host of Meet the Press in 2023...

President Joe Biden’s farewell speech to the State Department on Monday will reportedly omit his most serious policy blunders. The octogenarian is scheduled to give multiple speeches this week during his last seven days in office to frame his presidency as a success. The planned speaking tour comes after Americans told Gallup they will remember Biden as the second worse president in the history of the republic. The two policy failures Biden will ignore during Monday’s State Department speech include his deadly Afghan withdrawal, which took the lives of 13 U.S. troops, and the Americans who died at the hands...

The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department. It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.