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Trump 'misrepresented' Hunter Biden laptop letter, John Brennan complains after losing security clearance... ...his security clearance was revoked on Tuesday.... ... By executive order, Trump revoked the security clearances of the 51 former intel officials ... .... Other officials named in the EO include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., former CIA director Michael Hayden, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former National Security Advisor John Bolton. ....

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger is expected to return to a courtroom this week ahead of his summer murder trial for the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022. A hearing Thursday will consider 12 suppression motions filed by Kohberger’s defense. It will be the first time Kohberger has been back in court in over two months, when his defense team asked a Boise judge to “sanction” prosecutors over “inadequate disclosures” through the discovery process. His defense team is requesting expert witnesses be excluded from the case as a solution. His team is attempting to have...

A DOG owner was eaten by her pet pugs after dying in her apartment and being left to rot for days. The horrifying scene was discovered after Adriana Neagoe's family members raised the alarm when they had not heard from her in five days. The 34-year-old, from Târgu Jiu, northwest of Bucharest, Romania, had not responded to any phone calls or messages and when concerned relatives visited the flat there was no response. After alerting the police, officers and firefighters broke down the door to find Neagoe's lifeless half-eaten body on the floor. Her two beloved pugs were found beside...

‘THE DEEP STATE IS REAL:’ White House Advisor Reveals How Bureaucracy Protects “Its Own Interests,” Predicts Bureaucracy Will ‘Crush’ RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary; "If I Was Given an Order… I Would Either Try to Block It or Resign” “RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him.” “Can you give me an example of how you think they'll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?” Describes a ‘fake commission’ to “Make him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it's not…”

Most of us feel we make it through each day as upstanding citizens. Picking up our trash, holding the door, and saying “hello” on the street are markers of a polite person. However, a playback reel could reveal something surprising and, to some, horrifying: We’re all rude! That’s right — we can be impolite sometimes, even when trying our best not to be. Whether due to excitement, distraction, or frustration, sometimes our best efforts slip and give way to less-than-impressive behavior. Do your good manners go out the window in these daily situations? Etiquette plays a significant role in building...

A local meteorologist who worked for Milwaukee’s CBS affiliate was fired from her job after she posted criticism on social media denouncing Elon Musk as a “Nazi” over his controversial arm gesture at a pro-Trump rally. Sam Kuffel, the weather reporter for CBS 58, was let go by the station a day after she posted two items on her Instagram page condemning Musk. In one post, Kuffel commented on an image of Musk at the podium, writing: “Dude Nazi saluted twice. TWICE. During the inauguration.” "Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS58,” CBS 58 news director Jessie Garcia...

BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned on Thursday that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world´s biggest military alliance and that its credibility could cost trillions to restore. NATO has been ramping up its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying thousands of troops and equipment to deter Moscow from expanding its war into the territory of any of the organization´s 32 member countries. “If Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of NATO again, it will be a much, much higher price than what...

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood firmly against it. The New York Democrat ripped Republicans for the bill which is named after the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant. The Senate voted to approve it 64-35 and the House followed with a 263-156 vote that included 46 Democrats. Ocasio-Cortez unloaded in a rant on the House floor, warning that the legislation is “corruption in plain sight.” The bill will “expand mandatory detention to include noncitizens convicted of or charged with burglary, larceny, theft or shoplifting, as well as those who...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would apply pressure for interest rates to fall, paving the way for a possible confrontation with the Federal Reserve as its first rate decision of the year approaches. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump told an assembly of global leaders that interest rates both in the US and internationally were too high and that he would call for an instant move toward lower rates. “I’ll demand that interest rates drop immediately,” he said. “And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us all over.” Trump...

In the recent frenzy of commentary seeking to interpret U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s increasingly adamant comments about territorial expansion to Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, too much of the discussion has focused on matters of secondary importance. These range from assessing whether Trump is merely engaging in a game of showmanship or distraction, to deciphering how those regions’ inhabitants feel about ceding territorial control to the United States, to determining how much it would cost to purchase their acquiescence. From a policy perspective, though, more fundamental matters have gone surprisingly unaddressed, beginning with the question of whether any of...

Surprising candor from Mika Brzezinski this morning in comparing the Trump to the Biden pardons. An agitated Joe Scarborough kicked off the discussion on today's Morning Joe by insisting that things would not "end well" for Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, and the Republicans by downplaying the Trump pardons and focusing on Biden's pardons. [snip] That's when Mika delivered her surprising coup de grace: "As hard as it is to say, this is his right as president . . . Donald Trump kept his word and Joe Biden did not . . . It is his right, and he promised. And...

"Disrespectful", "insulting", and "ill-informed." Donald Trump's threats aimed at strong-arming Moscow into ending its war in Ukraine have been badly received by some politicians and nationalists in Russia who say his tactics bode ill for a deal. -snip- Influential war bloggers, read by millions of Russians and licenced by the authorities, expressed outrage. One of them, Voenkor Kotonok, said Trump's statement was "insulting, arrogant and self-satisfied." Another, war correspondent Alexander Kots, speculated that the Middle East ceasefire had given Trump a misplaced sense of omnipotence. "Russia is not the Gaza Strip. And starting a dialogue with ultimatums is not the...

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., joins Morning Joe to discuss House Republicans forming a new sub-committee to look into the events surrounding Jan. 6. Rep. Raskin also discusses Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters.

President Donald Trump attacked Bank of America for failing to lend to conservatives during a sudden attack during a livestream speech to execs and elites in Davos. The sudden blast came in an angry speech where Trump vowed to slap tariffs on countries that don't manufacture inside the U.S. and demanded OPEC lower oil prices. During a question-and-answer period, the bank's CEO Brian Moynihan asked a softball question about how his executive orders would impact his push for economic growth and market growth. Trump responded, then told him: 'I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives … they don’t...

I did not start taking notes until about 10 minutes in, sorry, but here's what I gathered so far: He will get rid of 10 regulations for each new regulationTariffs, whose amounts are not yet established, will be imposed on foreign goodsFederal tax breaks will be given for companies that make products within the US: he will lower it from 21% to 15% if products are produced in the USA.He will reduce interest rates and inflationThe US is becoming a merit-based countryHe (of course) talked about the borderThere are only 2 genders. Transgender surgeries will be rare. Transgender athletes will...

Joe Biden was hit with one final insult after handing the White House to Donald Trump - Google left him off the list of US presidents. Social media users have pointed out that the Democrat was left out of the search engine's results when people looked for 'US presidents in order.' It showed Barack Obama and both of Trump's terms - but nothing for Biden, who served between 2021 and 2025. Search “US presidents in order” Biden completely cut out…' A second said: 'Go to Google and search… US Presidents. 'Y’all are not going to believe what they did. Hint…someone...

A Milwaukee meteorologist at the CBS affiliate WDJT-TV has been fired after accusing Elon Musk of making a “Nazi salute.”

Newly sworn-in Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Panama for his first international trip as the nation’s top diplomat, Fox News has learned. Though details are still being worked out, the visit could come as early as next week. The planned trip comes after repeated vows by President Donald Trump – who returned to the White House on Monday – to take back the Panama Canal. Trump mentioned the Panama Canal again during his inaugural address on Monday, claiming that it was now in the hands of China and vowing to take it back. "China is operating the...

The administration readied the order Wednesday afternoon, and President Donald Trump signed it just past 5 p.m. The order fully restores tough American sanctions on the Yemen-based terror group that the Biden administration lifted in 2021. Trump added the Houthis to America’s FTO list in the waning days of his first administration, but the Biden White House reversed the move amid efforts to ease diplomatic tensions with Iran. The Biden administration did redesignate the Houthis as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist outfit last January, when the Houthis launched a wave of attacks on global shipping vessels. While that designation does...

President Trump revoked security protection for his former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and a former top aide, Brian Hook, despite warnings from the Biden administration that both men faced ongoing threats from Iran because of actions they took on Mr. Trump’s behalf, four people with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Hook had been part of an aggressive posture against Iran during the first Trump presidency, most notably the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qassim Suleimani in early 2020. Mr. Trump also remains under threat because of that action, and his...