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CNN settled a lawsuit from a U.S. Navy veteran after a jury found the network guilty of defamation, putting the network on the hook for $5 million. Details of the settlement weren’t made public on Friday and came just hours after a Florida jury sided with Zachary Young, the veteran who brought the lawsuit for a segment that CNN ran on “The Lead With Jake Tapper.” The story at the center of the lawsuit was about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country in 2021.Mr. Young blamed CNN for destroying his business when it...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return to the nation’s capital so they can celebrate Trump’s return to the White House.At least 20 defendants charged with or convicted of joining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol have asked federal judges for permission to attend President-elect Trump’s second inauguration Monday, according to an Associated Press review of court records.The majority can go. Several cannot.In most cases, Justice Department prosecutors have argued that Capitol riot defendants shouldn’t be able...

The disappearance of TikTok threatens to erase billions of dollars from the U.S. economy and remove an important platform used by millions of American businesses and social-media entrepreneurs to connect with customers. TikTok’s demise won’t dent the U.S. economy overall, but it is poised to crimp a sizable sub-economy that has sprung up around the hugely popular app used by roughly 170 million Americans. Putting a precise figure on TikTok’s impact across the U.S. economy is difficult, though the company has touted a figure of more than $20 billion a year. Ella Livingston has a pretty clear idea of how...

President-elect Donald Trump is returning to Washington triumphant: His legal cases are behind him, corporate executives are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him, his inaugural committee has raised record sums of money for Monday’s ceremony and the Republican Party is now fully in his control. It’s a stark contrast both to his 2017 inauguration — when Trump came to Washington as a political unknown without close personal relationships to his Cabinet or congressional leaders — and to his departure from the Oval Office in January 2021, when he was widely condemned for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the...

After four years of allowing Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats to spend up a storm and calling inflation "transitory." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is suddenly concerned about the debt ceiling. In Her Last Official Act, Yellen Warns US Will Hit Debt Ceiling One Day After Trump InaugurationThis is a like a goofus who's maxxed out her credit cards and is now complaining about her credit limit. Yellen didn't complain at all the last two months as Biden has been sending money to green pushers as fast as he could. Biden has been paying off student loans illegally ... and...

A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos. A little more than half of the country expresses some desire to see Mr. Trump follow through with his harshest threat to deal with illegal immigration: deporting everyone living in the United States without authorization. The poll, which surveyed 2,128 adults...

CBN.com – “My whole family was racist, especially my step-grandfather on my mother’s side. He was a very hateful man and he hated Black people with a passion.” Johnny Lee Clary was taught to hate and fear. His family was racist and their household was full of aggression. “There was a lot of alcoholism in our home and fighting all the time,” Johnny Lee tells The 700 Club. “My mother was constantly cheating on my father. My mother drove my father into bankruptcy, and then my father was faced with losing everything he had worked hard for. I watched my...

Explanation: On January 13 a Full Moon and a Full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from some locations in North America and northwest Africa. As seen from Richmond, Virginia, USA, this composite image sequence follows the evening lunar occultation before, during, and after the much anticipated celestial spectacle. The telescopic time series is constructed from an exposure made every two minutes while tracking the Moon over the hours encompassing the event. As a result, the Red Planet's trajectory seems to follow...

After seven hours of discussion, the Israeli cabinet today approved a deal to release around 2,000 terrorists, over 100 of whom are serving life sentences for mass murders, in exchange for 33 hostages living or dead. 24 ministers voted in favor of the deal, and 8 opposed, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, as well as Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli and MK David Amsalem from Netanyahu’s Likud Party. The deal will take effect on Sunday, Arutz Sheva reported. Josh Waller of The Israel Guys called the Hostage Deal “disastrous” and a “sinister scheme going on...

He doesn’t need more cowbell. “Saturday Night Live’s” iconic “more cowbell” sketch starring Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken gets a behind-the-scenes deep dive in a new documentary – and Ferrell reveals that Walken isn’t such a fan. In the Peacock documentary “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” (premiering Jan 16), Ferrell, 57, recalled how Walken, 81, starred in a play several years after that famous “SNL” sketch. “I went to see [Walken] backstage, and he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life … every show, people bring cowbells for the curtain call and bang them. It’s quite disconcerting,'” Ferrell revealed.

He'll save the inedible bait fish, the weed that no one's ever heard of, elevate meritless executives, and kill the gas car. Those are the highest environmental aspirations of Gavin Newsom, the alleged visionary governor of California, whose distorted priorities have combined to create the conditions for LA Inferno 2025. As the smoke begins to clear, the cruel environy is dawning. Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so...

Why was the LA basin reprieved from the recent fires?

Snoop Dogg has come under fire for performing at Donald Trump’s Crypto Ball just days ahead of the President Elect’s inauguration. The event took place on Friday (January 17) at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington D.C., with a VIP reception hosted by Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks. Among the performers on the night was Snoop, despite having been somewhat vocal in his opposition to the Republican in the past. His appearance has prompted several fans to criticise him online, with some saying that it was “a bridge too far”.

A Pennsylvania woman has pled guilty to filing a false report about an attempted rape and kidnapping at a grocery store parking lot last year. The Bucks County District Attorney’s office says Anjela Urumova of Bristol Township pled guilty to seven misdemeanors after a man was falsely accused of attempting to rape and kidnap her. Charges were dropped against the man after he spent 31 days incarcerated on the false accusations. The investigation included surveillance videos from multiple retailers near the Redner’s parking lot and “multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information” from Urumova. After being confronted, the DA’s office says Urumova...

...Now, in closing today, we've seen that the Earth has gradually changed over millions of years and that the continents have drifted. Radiometric dating has solidly established that the Earth is billions of years old, leaving plenty of time for the engine of evolution, natural selection, and mutation to drive evolutionary progress. Now, Charles Darwin may have discovered the key principles of human evolution that we base these principles on, but it is my hope that you, the next generation, would take these theories and continue to help us prove just how evolution happens. Now, with that, I'll open up...

H-1B visas are a special type of visa that allow American companies to easily bring in skilled workers from other countries. They were introduced in 1990, but since 2004, they’ve been capped. President Trump, who has historically been in favor of tighter immigration restrictions, has recently implied support for the program. Since then, there has been a fierce and unavoidable public debate about the issue. But why is this seemingly small program so controversial, and what’s really at the heart of this issue? The Basics>/H3> H-1B visas were designed to help American companies hire employees of exceptional skill in certain...

Former Canadian finance minister – and deputy Prime Minister – Chrystia Freeland announced yesterday (17) that she will join the contest to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Canadian ruling Liberal Party. Before we share some of the Reuters’ reports about their former senior editor Freeland, let’s bring back a dimension of her that MSM will do their utmost to cover up: the Nazi connection. Chrystia Freeland’s family connections to Ukrainian Nazis revolve around her maternal grandfather, ‘Michael’ Mykhailo Chomiak. Chomiak was an editor of a Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda newspaper called Krakivski Visti, published in Nazi-occupied Poland...

Linda Naples, FL Verified purchase Customer Service Reviewed Jan. 13, 2025 I have been a comcast/Xfinity customer for 35 years. The customer service was not good before, but now it is outrageous. I have spent hours the last two days trying to get answers. 3 Hours yesterday. I was told it was fixed. Today I get a warning my service is going to be canceled for the same reason. Late payment. Today another 2 hours with me yelling at AI. Then another 30 minutes on the chat. Nothing. AI says the same thing over and over again with no selection...

Renters who have taken in people displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires now have some eviction protections due to a new executive order. The new order, from Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, Jan. 17, prohibits landlords from evicting tenants who violate an occupancy provision of their lease because they are sheltering at least one person due to the ongoing emergency. “At a time when so many have been suddenly displaced, we need more housing and shelter than ever,” Newsom said in a statement. “Opening your place of residence to help shelter those in need is not only encouraged and generous,...

When I found out that the New York Times was ending Charles Blow’s regular column, it was like the boot of truth had slammed onto my shoulders with a thunderous clap. An editor at the paper reportedly sent out an internal memo informing staff Friday morning that Blow’s departure was among the ways the Times opinion section would be reoriented, which means the publication will see a severe decline in mutilated metaphors, juvenile arguments, and the most unoriginal writing to ever hold such a prestigious place in news journalism. I’ll miss it dearly.