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The Talk Shows February 2nd, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.); Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.); Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Leftist Dr. Cornel West and conservative Dr. Robert George, the “ideological odd couple,” discuss the need for civil discourse in this era of polarization. Panel: Josh Holmes, Josh Kraushaar, Mary Katharine Ham and Whine Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker:...

Dear Mr. Attorney General: In the fall of2022, former President Donald J. Trump was a subject of two separate criminal investigations by the Department ofJustice. The first was an investigation into whether any person violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election. The second investigation focused on the possession of highly classified documents at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago social club following his presidency.

In a significant escalation of trade tensions, President Donald Trump has imposed crushing new tariffs on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico, citing concerns over the influx of deadly fentanyl into the United States. The administration announced a 10% tariff on Chinese goods and a 25% tariff on products from Canada and Mexico. These measures are set to take effect on February 4, 2025.

By reinterpreting previous excavations and conducting new surveys, the team from Newcastle University, UK, together with colleagues from the University of Exeter, believe they have located a power centre belonging to Harold Godwinson, who was killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.Bosham, on the coast of West Sussex, is depicted twice in the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously narrates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 when William, Duke of Normandy, challenged Harold for the throne. The Tapestry culminates in Williams's victory at Hastings, but earlier in the artwork Bosham is shown as the place where Harold enjoys a feast...

John Harold Rogers, a former U.S. Federal Reserve official, has been accused of conspiring to steal Fed trade secrets to help China by the U.S. Justice Department. The U.S. attorney's office outlined the charges faced by Rogers, a former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB) arrested on Friday. Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. for comment. Why it matters The Fed's international finance division researches foreign economic activity, U.S. trade and global markets. The charges Rogers faces add to a climate of suspicion over claims China is undertaking...

Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences? Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens. Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely? After four years of Biden's appeasement, Mexico seems to assume that it has...

How do you convince the most fortunate people on Earth that they should hate the country they’ve benefited from their whole lives? A short video from 2021 of Avi Horowitz interviewing students at Yale University was recently re-posted by Prager Univ. The students in the video found the idea of getting rid of our U.S. Constitution to be plausible and interesting, and moreover, many of them embraced that as a legitimate and desirable goal. One of the interviewees stated emphatically that our Constitution is a racist document. Although it is not clear that this brief video represents a majority or...

I was curious if she was a swimmer; found this instead.

“Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him” (Matthew 4:21-22). When Jesus first called James and John, they were unrefined, tough fishermen by trade. The Holy Spirit had already drawn them to faith in the Savior (John 1:35–51; 2:11), but now Jesus summoned them to work as evangelists in spreading His gospel. Like Peter and Andrew, they did not hesitate to leave the fishing business,...

Philosophers, writers and thinkers insisted that the Holocaust was an inflection point in history, but it’s clearer now than ever before that it did not change history, it only accelerated it. Israel was not, as politicians all too often insist, “born out of the ashes of the Holocaust.” It was born out of the blood, sweat and determination of a relatively small group of Zionists who defied the traditionalists and leftists in their own communities to go and rebuild their own homeland. Liberal Jews have made “If you will it, it is no dream” into an airy cliche when it...

The website for the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8bn budget for global humanitarian operations, under state department control. A message stating that the “server IP address could not be found” appeared when attempts were made to access the website on Saturday. Two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Friday that the Trump administration was moving to strip USAid of its independence as a government agency and put it under state department control. The apparent failure of...

Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S. government payments after the administration ousted a top career official at the department, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe government deliberations. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved access to the Treasury’s payments system for a team led by Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive working in concert with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” the people said. David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades and had been...

In his second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to effectively manage the Executive Branch. He has blindsided -- even gelded -- his detractors in the media and Congress, and issued an astonishing array of executive orders which reveal how tax funds have been flowing out of the Treasury to the benefit of the Deep State and its friends without regard (and often even being inimical) to the national interest. So much has happened that I cannot cover it all, but I will try to hit briefly and in...

With federal Parliament paralyzed and a lame-duck Prime Minister Trudeau biding his time until his successor takes the reins, tensions are boiling over as Canada plunges toward economic chaos. Canada is in the midst of a political dumpster fire, and instead of looking better, things are looking increasingly chaotic. The country is without federal leadership, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government paralyzed and Parliament prorogued earlier this month amid dwindling approval ratings. With no government in action, Canadians are left in a state of turmoil — while the Trudeau Liberals focus on a leadership campaign rather than addressing the looming...

CBS News staffers are reportedly furious over parent company Paramount Global’s intent to reach a settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit filed by President Trump over a controversial “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Journalists at the Tiffany Network’s news division are up in arms as Paramount chairwoman Shari Redstone green-lighted talks with the president’s representatives over a payout, the Status newsletter reported on Friday. Then-candidate Trump filed a lawsuit in October in which he accused the long-running investigative program “60 Minutes” of manipulating an interview with Harris in a way that was unfavorable to him. Insiders...

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Fox News host Harris Faulkner’s program, “The Faulkner Focus,” took down ABC’s “The View” in average total ratings for the first time ever in the month of January. “The Faulkner Focus,” which airs during the 11 a.m. time slot, ended the month with an average total of 2.552 million viewers, while “The View” garnered an average of 2.508 million. Fox News remained the most-watched cable news network by garnering 2.7 million total viewers and averaging 1.9 million viewers across the day, according to AdWeek “I could not grab this big win without my wonderful team,” Faulkner said. “It’s a testament...

SNIP The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems.SNIPOfficials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.SNIP"This makes it much harder for anyone outside Musk's inner circle at OPM to know what's going on," Moynihan said.MUSK INFLUENCEA team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20,...

The NBA landscape has completely changed after an early morning blockbuster three-team trade that is one of the most shocking in league history. The Mavericks are sending Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Lakers while Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick are going to Dallas, according to multiple reports. The Jazz are the third team in the deal and are acquiring guard Jalen Hood-Schifino and two 2025 second-round draft picks from the Clippers and Mavericks.

Here is Bharat Masrani. Born in Uganda, he is the overall head of TD Bank for Canada and its foreign holdings. Under his "leadership" TD Bank ran a massive money laundering operation that was working for Mexican cartels who were moving Chinese fentanyl. TB Bank must now pay a three billion dollar fine** put in place by the UNITED STATES Dept of Justice. Nothing has happened to Marsani - other than he has to bail out of the bank early with a bunch of money. Canada has done NOTHING to him nor any of the other risk/financial offers involved. DO...