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Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson called Budde the "latest twinkle in the eye of anti-Trump media." "The bishop is following a well-traveled path forged by the likes of Michael Avenatti," Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "The bishop will become a media darling for a while, only to replaced by the next big anti-Trump thing. It's all so tiresome and predictable."

Lawmakers in the Virginia Senate gave approval this week to a constitutional amendment that would allow for preborn children to be killed with no gestational restrictions. The amendment passed in a party line vote of 21-19. Though abortion is already legal all the way through 26 weeks six days in the state — and all the way to birth if three doctors determine the mother’s life or health is at risk — the amendment would solidify that extreme stance, making it harder to undo legislatively while further loosening the third-trimester exceptions and providing no safeguards to protect women and young...

After starting with >13,000 possibilities, the 16th annual Best Of Today's Toons is over & all the votes have been tallied. Dominion equipment was not used...

Utah Hockey Club said it still expects to announce a permanent name and identity before the 2025-26 NHL season despite having "Utah Yetis" refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "Since acquiring Utah's NHL team, we have been carefully evaluating possibilities for the permanent identity of the team, while working within the complicated world of trademarks and intellectual property," president of hockey operations Chris Armstrong said in a statement Thursday. As first reported by Ryan Miller of KSL.com in Utah, the USPTO rejected a trademark application from the team for "Utah Yetis" because of the "likelihood of confusion" for...

Thanks to Joe Biden’s politicized Justice Department, pro-life advocate Herb Geraghty has been sentenced to 27 months in prison under the FACE Act just for engaging in a peaceful protest inside an abortion center. Today Herb is free after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning all 23 pro-life prisoners Biden persecuted. In a message posted on X, Herb said the pro-life work continues and imprisonment won’t stop the fight to protect babies from abortions. “I’ll be celebrating with friends and loved ones this weekend but the work doesn’t stop toward seeking justice for the unborn and liberation for...

Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning all 23 pro-life prisoners that Joe Biden unjustly imprisoned for protesting abortion, pro-life advocate Bevelen Williams has been released. The plight of Bevelyn Williams and 22 other pro-life Americans who are hoping and praying for pardons from President Donald Trump is finally over. Video Player VIDEO ON LINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 00:00 02:17 Williams, who was found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020, is in the process of appealing appealing her sentence of 41 months in prison. Williams...

Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy spat out a jet of material at one-third of the speed of light. Plus, the structure is technically made up of two jets, each about half a light-year across. The black hole in question, which has a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun, is located at the heart of a galaxy designated 1ES 1927+654. It's located about 270 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. "The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed...

Discoveries in Southeast Sicily reveal the massive scale of the Zanclean Megaflood, which refilled the Mediterranean Sea and ended the dry, salt flat-dominated landscape of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in a remarkably short period. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com In a groundbreaking study, researchers unveiled compelling evidence of the Zanclean Megaflood, a colossal event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea in mere years, reshaping its landscape with unprecedented water flow and velocities. This event, which ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, altered the geological and environmental makeup of the region, leaving lasting imprints that challenge previous theories about gradual changes. Zanclean Megaflood A...

Deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.

This is the week of the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it also coincides, not just with Martin Luther King’s birthday—on the same day as the inauguration, but also the meeting of the world’s elite at Davos, Switzerland, lorded over by 86-year-old Klaus Schwab, who, created this organization. If you don’t know what Davos is, don’t worry about it. It’s not that important, in some ways. I mean, it’s not doing a lot of good for the rest of us. But it is important because it has aspirations that are quite dangerous. Basically, its premise is that if we got...

Folk artist Lucy Dacus recently announced she is donating to individuals seeking transgender medical operations in an apparent attempt to get back at President Trump’s executive orders regarding gender and transgender individuals. Dacus, who is one-third of the Grammy-winning all-female music group "boygenius," told her X followers on Wednesday that she will give $500 to each person who comments on her status with a link to donate to their transitions, up to $10,000. "If trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make...

NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER DAY National Peanut Butter Day on January 24th recognizes an American staple in our pantries. Whether creamy or chunky, with chocolate or with jelly, peanut butter gets the recognition it deserves each year on this day. #NationalPeanutButterDay The early peanut butter made by the Aztecs and Incas around 1000 BC was more of a paste and not nearly as creamy as the peanut butter we know now. Click play and enjoy a story about National Peanut Butter Day featuring our founder, Marlo Anderson. If you enjoy the 2-minute show, subscribe with your favorite podcast player. Peanut butter...

This is a historic moment. For the past five years, I have been fighting to defeat critical race theory, gender cultism, and DEI. Now, President Trump has taken decisive action and instructed his administration to rip out these malicious ideologies root and branch, not just from the federal government but from all institutions that receive federal funding—universities, schools, corporations. All of it. It has been a long road. The Left will try to memory-hole the recent past, but we must not forget a simple historical truth: the Left put America through a reign of terror after 2020. I have long...

They have a lot in common. Following her brutal election loss, former Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly spoke with Hillary Clinton on multiple occasions as she mulls her future in the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House. Not much is known about the details of those discussions, but Harris had also consulted family members and friends while trying to figure out her future, New York Magazine reported. Clinton, 77, was the first woman to win the Democratic nomination for president, and she was also the first female to notch a popular vote victory. Harris, 60, was the...

Just hours after controversial draft rules for the Texas House were released, the chamber rushed through a vote to approve them—without allowing debate or amendments—escalating tensions between reform-minded Republicans and House leadership. As reported earlier today, the proposed rules maintained and expanded a power-sharing arrangement between Republicans and Democrats, granting Democrat vice-chairs significant authority and introducing pathways for Democrat control of new standing subcommittees. While Republicans would only be eligible to serve as chairs, all vice-chairs would be required to be Democrats. The rushed release and subsequent vote raised concerns about transparency and House Speaker Dustin Burrows’ willingness to prioritize...

“Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him” (Matthew 4:11). After Jesus’ greatest foe left, “angels came and began to minister to Him.” It is quite fitting that holy angels should come to care for and comfort Him after the prince of the fallen angels had harassed Him with three major temptations. To provide the benefits of angelic ministry was just another way for the Father to register His approval of the Son and signify the Son’s worthiness. At the first sign of confrontation with Satan, Christ could easily have summoned help from...

The latest Ross Coulthart debriefing of a government retired black ops officer, Jake Barber who was a contract ET craft retrieval operator and is now going public.

Say what you like about Axel Rudakubana, the slaughterer of three English girls under ten years old, but - unlike the British Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Liverpool Police and most of the court eunuchs in the UK media - he appears to be an honest man: It's a good thing those children are dead... I am so glad... I am so happy. He has always been entirely upfront about such things, telephoning Britain's so-called "Childline" and asking them: What should I do if I want to kill somebody? Judging from his many interactions with "the authorities" (including with...

Glenn Greenwald told FOX News host Jesse Watters that President Donald Trump is the first president in his lifetime to keep his promises once he took office. In an interview on Thursday, Greenwald added it remains to be seen whether Trump can override the establishment forces in his party. JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS: So put your chin up and your shoulders back. Today was a good day. Substack columnist Glenn Greenwald joins me now. Glenn, how do you think people are grappling with the speed of the change? GLENN GREENWALD: I think it depends who the people in question are....

A woman who served as an official in Joe Biden’s White House and on Kamala Harris’s transition team, whom bureaucrats tried to hide in the Department of Labor’s non-political workforce after the election, has been terminated after The Daily Wire exposed her scheme. “Elizabeth Peña was terminated, effective today. The Administration is actively working to ensure no other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration were secretly burrowed into the government,” an individual with direct knowledge of staffing decisions told The Daily Wire. The firing suggests the Trump team is hitting the ground running with attention to detail when it comes...