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"Million Dollar Listing" star Josh Altman predicts the Pacific Palisades will never be same because he doesn't expect the majority of families will return. In a new interview with Fox News Digital, Altman explained how the Los Angeles fires have affected residents of the Southern California town and what the future looks like. He says his insurance agent told him that "90-plus percent of these people are heavily underinsured." Altman added, "I think 65-70% of the people do not go back to the Palisades or Malibu. I can just tell you from gauging all these calls that I'm getting where...

Israel will release major terrorists, including those who have murdered dozens of civilians, in exchange for the 33 hostages who will be freed by Hamas from captivity in Gaza, where they have been held illegally for 470 days of war. Under the terms of the deal, there will be a ceasefire lasting six weeks (42 days), during which Hamas will free several living hostages once a week, plus twelve hostages in the final week, freeing living hostages before deceased ones. In return, Israel will withdraw partially from Gaza, and will release roughly 1,900 terrorists — including nearly 1200 who were...

A record number of millionaires have left Britain since Sir Keir Starmer came to power and there is growing concern that Labour’s tax plans are exiling international investors and damaging the economy. The Treasury is facing calls to reverse its crackdown on non-domiciled residents as the scale of the exodus becomes clear. Tax advisers also report that growing numbers of British entrepreneurs are prepared to leave the country after the tax rises announced in the autumn budget. In total Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires to migration last year, a 157 per cent increase on 2023, meaning it lost more...

Jeffrey Epstein was offered a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors in return for incriminating information that would lead to President Trump’s impeachment, according to the late pedophile’s cellmate. Ex-Westchester cop and convicted killer Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s bunkmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan weeks before his death in August 2019, said the disgraced financier dished on the dirt-digging expedition after a confab with the feds. “He said, ‘When you were a cop, what do you know about proffers and cooperating?’ I said, ‘Jeff, it’s pretty simple, the prosecutors, you know, they caught a fish — you. They’re not...

Former Vice President Mike Pence reportedly plans to attend the inauguration on Monday despite the bad blood between him and President Donald Trump. On Friday evening, the New York Times reported Pence would attend and “was invited by the congressional committee overseeing the event, as is the custom for all former presidents and vice presidents, according to one of the people with knowledge of the planning.” “It is unclear what impact, if any, the request by Mr. Trump to move his second swearing-in ceremony into the Capitol Rotunda will have on the seating arrangements for former presidents and vice presidents,”...

The reality of working beside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been revealed in a new bombshell article - with some claiming the Duchess was so difficult people needed 'therapy'. The couple have famously worked on many different projects over the years, from Harry's tell-all memoir Spare to Meghan's podcast Archetypes and the pair's controversial Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. And while some have claimed the couple are full of good ideas that had to be 'abandoned' for practical reasons, others say they struggled to think up anything worthwhile, US society bible Vanity Fair reported. When brainstorming podcast ideas for...

Multiple issues have come to light since a new provider took over the Department of Defense's managed care support contract in 26 states. TriWest Healthcare Alliance began its $65 billion, nine-year contract to manage Tricare's west region on Jan. 1. Service members reported issues updating their information online and reaching customer service. One San Diego-area service provider told KPBS he hasn't been able to file claims or verify patient coverage since the switch. Tricare, the military's health care system, is managed by contracted health care networks similar to those who provide private health insurance. When a service member, their family...

Soon, open border advocates will step up their agitprop against the new Trump Administration for alleged migrant family separation at the U.S. border. A number of broader points about the family separation phenomenon are worth remembering. 1. The overwhelming majority of migrant family separation decisions are not made at U.S. border by DHS. They are made by parents or others — including cartel criminals — in home countries. 2. Daily, thousands of border violators abandon some or all of their children in their home countries to make the trek into the U.S. illegally to find work. Thousands of others send...

A record number of millionaires left the UK last year, with the exodus said to have accelerated after Labour came to power in July. A total of 78 centi-millionaires (people with $100 million or more) and 12 billionaires departed the UK last year, according to New World Wealth, a research firm. The news, coming on the back of recent turmoil in bond markets and warnings from businesses, has raised further concerns about Labour's tax plans. Millionaires are mostly moving to other European countries such as Switzerland and Italy, or to the UAE. The flows of millionaires out of the country...

Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was always unconstitutional. I knew it. You knew it. Democrats knew it. Obama knew it. Yet somehow it always seemed to survive legal challenges. Well, finally, a federal appeals court has ruled that this Obama-era program is, in fact, unconstitutional—a timely gift for Trump mere days before he takes office. A federal appeals court on Friday declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful, casting a cloud of uncertainty over more than half a million unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. A...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is expected to be approved as Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security following a confirmation hearing in which the Senate committee presented only softball questions to the shotgun-wielding governor. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee was previously expected to go "scorched earth" on Noem but instead asked questions about her favorite movies, food, and what kind of gun she was carrying. One particular exchange between New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Noem stood out: Gillibrand: Governor Noem, you previously said — [shotgun racking sound] Gillibrand: — uh — you are a woman....

What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era. Yes, Democrats must get mean – ruthlessly, bitterly mean. This is not to say, however, that they need merely to cast aside the former first lady’s once-famous, now-infamous messaging mantra. No, what I prescribe is not just a new approach to political discourse but a new theory of opposition party politics. Trumpism has corrupted America in many ways, but one of the most obvious...

True to his Party's belief that crises are opportunities to advance the interests of Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) has used the state's wildfire disaster to launch a campaign website. "So far there has been a lot of finger pointing about who's to blame for the magnitude of the fire damage being done in our state," Newsom complained. "What is needed is an honest assessment of the facts. We're calling on folks to help out by donating funds to ensure that those of us who have been diligently governing the state do not suffer undeserved blame." The Governor insisted that...

TikTok has been officially banned over concerns of improper data collection and the spread of propaganda from the Chinese-owned app. Now Gen Z is in a bit of a pickle. What else are they supposed to do with their time? The Babylon Bee had come up with 15 things Gen Z-ers can do with their time in a world without TikTok: 1. Use your phone to actually call people: Little do you know, but phones can also function as phones. 2. When wanting to watch TV, turn on the TV: The larger screen will shock and amaze you. 3. Now...

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations. The unanimous decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans — two judges appointed by Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and one by Democrat Barack 0bama — is the latest blow for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, whose beneficiaries have lived in legal limbo for more than a decade. It signals no...

‘I refuse to believe this was just a series of unfortunate accidents and incompetence,’ Davis said. ‘It’s just not.’ Federalist CEO Sean Davis dropped some stunning details about the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in a Friday conversation with Tucker Carlson on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” The conversation explored how, six months after the shooting, despite a congressional investigation, little is known — or has been released — about the shooter, and the incident quickly fell out of the news cycle. Davis began the interview by describing three critical things the American people need to know: the...

On Friday night, the government ministers approved the hostage deal, and the Ministry of Justice published a list of 735 security prisoners scheduled for release in exchange for 33 hostages held by Hamas for over a year. This list includes senior terrorists responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in Israel's history, including commanders of terrorist organizations and planners of attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds of Israelis. Link to full list .....

A once quietly prosperous city in California's bay area has been gripped by a crime wave. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program has named the city of Vallejo, just 30 miles outside San Francisco, as having one of the highest crime rates in the state. The problem has become so bad that frustrated residents have started a petition pleading with Governor Gavin Newsom to increase the police presence in the area. 'As a resident of Vallejo, I am deeply concerned about the safety of my community. Vallejo is currently experiencing an alarming increase in crime rates,' Paula Conley, 55, wrote...

Fanell Sawyer keeps replaying in her head the morning she learned Donald Trump had won the election. She was at home in Georgia, ready to start another day working remotely in customer service for an insurance company, when her teenage daughter turned to her and uttered seven words that felt like a gut punch. “Mom,” she said, “This country doesn’t care about women.” ... { scrolling down to the real story } ... This weekend, demonstrators will travel to D.C. and cities across the country for the People’s March, organized by leading civil rights, racial justice and reproductive health organizations....

German bishop says ‘we do not have to evangelize’ the world since people can be ‘happy’ without GodGerman Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck has said that “we do not have to evangelize the whole world” and that people are “happy and content” without God.In a sermon on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, in the Essen Cathedral, Overbeck said that “we do not have to evangelize the whole world and win them over to a certain form of church life.”“God will find ways to lead those who cannot or do not want to believe in Him onto a good path,”...