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President Donald Trump's administration finally got settled into the White House this week, but word has it that cleaning the place out after Joe Biden's departure was a daunting task. Trump's team worked long hours following the inauguration, and you won't believe what they found. The Babylon Bee's Washington, D.C. connections provided the following list of things found by Trump's staff when cleaning out the White House: 1. 74 bags of a white, powdery substance: Test results were still pending to identify the substance, but… you know what it was. 2. Several leftover cases of adult diapers: As any parent...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he wanted to immediately meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had told him he was ready to make a deal to end the war.

EXCLUSIVE LAFD Assistant Chief Kristina Kepner was accused of brutally assaulting ex-girlfriend... who claims boss Crowley 'covered it up' and promoted her A senior official at the Los Angeles Fire Department made 'homicidal and suicidal' threats, strangled and chased her girlfriend with a carving knife, court documents claimed. LAFD assistant chief Kristina 'Kady' Kepner then wrote a suicide note after cutting herself according to a 2021 domestic violence restraining order filed by the ex in a Los Angeles court. During an argument at their home, the LAFD official allegedly 'lunged' at her ex and began strangling her, while saying that...

The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) proudly announces its unwavering support for Congressman Thomas Massie’s introduction of H.R.645, the National Constitutional Carry Act. This landmark bill will eliminate the patchwork of state-level carry permits, allowing law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment freedoms nationwide without needing a government-issued permit. “Your right to self-defense shouldn’t be contingent on government permission, bureaucratic red tape, or arbitrary state boundaries,” declared Dudley Brown, President of the National Association for Gun Rights. “This legislation guarantees that constitutional carry is recognized nationwide, so Americans can exercise their God-given right to keep and bear arms without...

Trump signs order on JFK, MLK files.

VIDEOPerhaps the most HILARIOUS moment from Davos 2024 was when a frustrated Richard Quest of CNN yelled "NOW YOU HAVE TRANSGRESSED!" at the Rebel News reporters who dared to question whether he was acting as a regime journalist who did not dare to challenge the power of the World Economic Forum. Well, we got a very similar performance from Richard Quest this year at Davos when he was challenged by Ezra Levant for being a mere "fluffer" for Klaus Schwab.It will be interesting to see if Quest actually does dare to ask probing questions this year. CNN is undergoing YUUUUGE...

Why the Church’s enemies hate the Immaculate Conception(TFP) — The following text on the Immaculate Conception is adapted from a lecture Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira [the founder of Tradition, Family, Property] gave on June 15, 1973. It has been translated and edited for publication without his revision. Note, in this text, he uses the words “Revolution” and “Counter-Revolution” as he defined them in his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution. In this sense, the Revolution is a centuries-old process, motivated by pride and sensuality, and therefore egalitarianism and liberalism, that dominates the modern world and seeks to destroy Christian civilization. “Counter-Revolutionaries”...

NEW: Woman releases stunning new song called BIPOC: (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Singer Molly Gawler released the song this week and is encouraging people to collaborate on it. “Black and indigenous people of color, black and indigenous people of color, lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, and queer, lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, and queer, Asian American Pacific Islander…”

President Donald Trump revoked Mike Pompeo’s taxpayer funded security detail, four people with knowledge of the matter told the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman. Only former presidents and their spouses are automatically granted ongoing protection, according to the Secret Service. Pompeo, who served as Trump’s former CIA director and secretary of state, will likely have to pay his own tab to fend off what Haberman called “ongoing threats.” Trump also saved the taxpayers money by revoking security from former national security adviser John Bolton and former Pompeo aide Brian Hook. Haberman reported on Trump’s change in policy: Mr. Pompeo and...

A hiker was shot and robbed by “suspected cartel members” Wednesday while exploring an area along the edge of San Diego County near the U.S.-Mexico border with a group, U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector officials said in a social media post. The post, which had an accompanying video, appears to show the hiker being airlifted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection from where the shooting occurred in the Jacumba Mountains Wilderness, a federally-maintained desert area spanning San Diego and Imperial counties. Border Patrol says agents were dispatched to “rescue the hikers, evaluate them, and neutralize any threats.” The post’s...

The 14th Amendment does not confer automatic citizenship. Claremont Institute scholars, including me, Ed Erler, Tom West, John Marini, and Michael Anton, President Trump’s incoming Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, have been contending for years—decades, really—that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances. Other prominent scholars, such as the late University of Texas law Professor Lino Graglia, University of Pennsylvania Professor Rogers Smith, and Yale Law Professor Emeritus Peter Schuck, have come to the same conclusion based on their own extensive scholarly research. Claremont...

A conservative think tank is demanding President Trump release Prince Harry’s immigration file, on the heels of allegations that the Duke of Sussex may have lied about past illicit drug use when emigrating from the UK. Harry’s immigration status has already sparked a legal battle and a pledge from Trump, 78, on the 2024 campaign trail that he’d take appropriate action in response to any false claims on official forms — after the exiled British royal family member confessed to taking cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms in his 2023 memoir, “Spare.” Applicants for visas or green cards are typically required...

A fight broke out at a wedding at Boca Lago Country Club after two young girls cut Mark Roher in line for the buffet. Do not get between a man and his meat. When two girls cut Mark Roher in line for the carving station at a wedding at Boca Lago Country Club on Saturday, January 18, the South Florida attorney flew into a rage .The 52-year-old confronted the man that allowed his daughter and another young girl to join him in line and chaos ensued, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office police report. "The slimmer man ignored...

Scientists may have identified a way to naturally regulate blood sugar levels and sugar cravings in a similar fashion to drugs like Ozempic. In mice and humans, the key to unlocking this natural process was found to be a gut microbe and its metabolites – the compounds it produces during digestion. By increasing the abundance of this one gut microbe in diabetic mice, researchers led by a team at Jiangnan University in China have shown they can "orchestrate the secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1". Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that is naturally produced by the body and which helps regulate...

<p>Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski — who broke with her party on numerous occasions to support former President Joe Biden’s nominees — became the first Republican senator to publicly oppose Pete Hegseth’s nomination to serve as Defense secretary.</p><p>Murkowski was one of several Senate Republicans rumored to be potential “no” votes against Hegseth, and she made it official with a Thursday statement making clear that she cannot support his nomination because of character concerns related to Hegseth’s past infidelity and accusations about his drinking habits, among other issues. Murkowski previously voted to back 12 Biden nominees whom most Republicans opposed in 2021, according to Alaska Public Media, and she voted with Biden about 64% of the time in 2023, according to ABC News.</p>

The last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy can now be published after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of all remaining documents about the 1963 murder. Conspiracy theories continue to swirl 60 years after the killing. And any new information will excite the amateur sleuths who continue to wonder whether there is more to the story than just a lone gunman in the shape of Lee Harvey Oswald. Trump signed an executive order that directs his Director of National Intelligence to put together a plan within 15 days for the full release of documents...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about each of the slayings.

It happened again. An Afghan Muslim "asylum seeker" went on a stabbing spree in a crowd of daycare children at a playground. He stabbed a 2-year-old child to death and gravely injured two others. He then killed a 41-year-old man who intervened to try and save the children. There are no words. A bystander captured the event on video. We will only share the audio here. Warning: this is extremely distressing and disturbing. VIDEOS AT LINK.......... Activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek expressed her frustration with the constant political failure to do anything about the problem. [Warning: Language] Andy Ngo pointed out this...

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration considered making a deal that would have lined Melania Trump’s pockets in order to curry favor with the new president, according to a report.</p><p>As part of a desperate scramble to make inroads with Donald Trump, the Ukrainian president’s aides floated brokering the purchase of the Ukrainian language rights to the first lady’s memoir, unnamed Ukrainian officials told The New York Times.</p>