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President Donald Trump is expected to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a person familiar with the plans. Blagojevich served eight years in prison on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat after Obama won the 2008 presidential election, until Trump commuted his 14-year sentence in 2020. Why it matters: Trump and Blagojevich have a relationship dating back to 2010, when the former governor appeared on the Trump-hosted "Celebrity Apprentice" after being impeached and removed from office. Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the...

Anyone else having trouble with Newsmax+ today?Tried to reinstall - same problem. Image frozen.I know their software is bad, but never this bad. Hope they use some of the millions the public offer is generating to switch to a better provider.

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A woman's distressed 911 call revealed a possible human trafficking operation in a Lake Worth Beach home where two women were found being held against their will. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO) stated that they received a distressed call at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday from a woman who said she had been held against her will for several days. The report notes that the woman was unable to specify her location but indicated she was confined in a house by two men. ........PBSO added that both suspects are in the United States...

President Donald Trump is expected to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a person familiar with the plans.Blagojevich served eight years in prison on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat after Obama won the 2008 presidential election, until Trump commuted his 14-year sentence in 2020. Why it matters: Trump and Blagojevich have a relationship dating back to 2010, when the former governor appeared on the Trump-hosted "Celebrity Apprentice" after being impeached and removed from office.Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National...

During a recent sermon at The Potter’s House in Dallas, T.D. Jakes suggested that when God breathed life into Adam, He “breathed Eve into Adam,” and that ‘Adam was Eve’s momma’, implying a bizzare maternal role. We’ve recently written about Jakes when he noted how he disgraced his wife with his twerking comments, joined Joel Osteen for a conference where tickets cost $1000.00 , and is known to frequently wear insanely expensive designer shoes, clothes and watches that cost more than many of his congregants make in a year. (See endnotes) Jakes, who has continued to be platformed by those...

The following discussion from Dutch television concerns the fabricated reality created by the collaboration of the state and the media and pushed into the minds of ordinary citizens by the deft manipulations of propagandists. An excerpt from the introduction by RAIR Foundation: In an extraordinary admission on national television, retired Dutch Major General Frank van Kappen exposed a disturbing truth: governments and media manufacture a “preferential reality” to manipulate public perception. This revelation, broadcast on WNL Op Zondag, is not a conspiracy theory — it is a cold, hard fact straight from a respected military and strategic expert. The general’s...

Who really won the 2024 election? You may think it was President Trump, but it is becoming clear every day the big winner was RINO central – in both the House and Senate. The nominations of Kennedy and Tulsi hang by a thread – likely one vote – in a Republican Conference with 53 senators. We have all been here before – where a John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Alaska Lisa, Romney – have influence far beyond their worth because they are the swing vote in Obamacare, Kavanaugh, Secretary of HHS. In 2024, there was absolutely zero voter fraud pushback in...

Meanwhile, She's probably making a little over minimum wage for ringing them up. Yeah, We've had enough! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

A once-XXXXXL mom who had to have a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer lost over 200 lbs. so she could have breast reconstruction surgery. Tori Phillips, 39, long used food as comfort due to a tough upbringing and already weighed about 180 lbs. by the time she was 11. Over the years she tried diets and exercise programs, but she would always put the weight on again. But a health scare in her late 30s was the push she needed to throw herself into losing weight, and she’s halved her body weight following a gastric sleeve, dieting,...

A federal whistleblower has come forward with allegations that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was involved in the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whistleblower, identified as Hadassah Feinberg, a former Pennsylvania State Police employee, filed a criminal complaint on February 7, 2025, detailing claims that Shapiro conspired with other officials to orchestrate the attack as part of a political scheme. ... According to the complaint, President Joe Biden made frequent visits to Shapiro in the weeks leading up to the Trump rally to discuss what was described as an “obstacle” faced by...

I previously wrote to you demonstrating how the Democrat-backed federal government has been laundering money through USAID and other taxpayer-funded slush funds, funneling it into the hands of anti-American, anti-conservative faux Christian ministries like The After Party. But there’s more—oh, there’s always more when it comes to the left’s unrelenting war on the church. If you thought the scheme to weaken evangelical political influence ended with Curtis Chang’s laughable After Party, buckle up. Because today, we’re exposing yet another fraud, another deception, another grotesque misuse of your hard-earned tax dollars. And this time, the poison is called Revoice. Ask yourselves:...

South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace slammed the Biden administration for using more than $10million in taxpayer money to fund ‘painful and deadly transgender experiments' on mice. According to Ms Mace, the experiments 'forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies.’ In a hearing last week, she detailed findings from the White Coat Waste Project, which revealed the NIH had issued over $240 million grants for transgender animal experiments, including $26 million in active funding to support studies into the effects of feminizing and masculinizing hormones in mice. Ms Mace said in her opening statement: ‘The Biden-Harris Administration was...

It is as simple as that because we people deserve to know where all our money is being spent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge found Monday that the Trump administration hasn’t fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and told the White House to release all the money. U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell ruled that ongoing struggles to get federal money for things like early childhood education, pollution reduction and HIV prevention research violated his Jan. 31 order. He ordered the Trump administration to “immediately take every step necessary” to follow his temporary restraining over halting its plans for a sweeping freeze of federal funding....... The Justice Department argued, however, his ruling applied to a sweeping...

In a move potentially foretold by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), it seems the U.S. could be on the verge of ending penny production. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he had asked the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, calling them “wasteful.” “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,”...

-snip- Speaking to the press over the weekend, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not share any information on Putin's phone call with Trump. He said only that "as the administration in Washington unfolds its work, many different communications arise, and these communications are conducted through different channels, and, of course, against the background of the multiplicity of these communications, I personally may not know something, be unaware of something. Therefore, in this case, I can neither confirm nor deny it." In a subsequent press briefing, Peskov then said: "I made a statement on this matter yesterday, and I can't tell...

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The performer who raised a dual Sudanese-Palestinian flag during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show says he has no regrets about the stunt, which exposed a massive security failure for a major event attended by the US president. Zül-Qarnain Nantambu confirmed that he unfurled the banner, emblazoned with the words 'Sudan' and 'Gaza,' in New Orleans on Sunday evening as a message of solidarity to the victims of those conflicts. Nantambu stood on a car used as a prop for Lamar's show and held up the flag, before running around the field and then being wrestled by security staff and...

It is an undemocratic and unconstitutional power grab by a tiny group of radical leftists! LAWFARE: Obama-appointed judge threatened Trump and his team with arrest if they don't restore every last dime of funding that has been paused or cancelled. If the president wants to delay any payment he will need to justify his request to the judge's personal satisfaction. --@amuse✓@amuse

As we step into the winter months, it’s time to consider your heating options. Whether your home is warmed with electric heat or a gas furnace, you want to know your family will be comfortable when the temperature drops. Understanding your heating options, like electrification or a hybrid system, supports a comfortable home and manageable energy bill. To help you decide the best way to heat your home, we’ll explain the differences between electric and gas heat, and give a brief introduction to the hybrid dual fuel system.