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Attorney General Pam Bondi will hold a press briefing today at the Trump White House. Watch LIVE at 4 pm EST on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. The former Florida Attorney General is expected to make remarks on the judicial overreach of numerous far-left judges across the country who believe they were elected US president.

Mafia godfathers in Sicily have been caught on wiretaps lamenting the “miserable” calibre of new recruits as nearly 150 alleged criminals were arrested in dawn raids involving 1,200 police officers. Crime bosses from Cosa Nostra, the Italian island’s notorious mafia, unfavourably compared the new generation of mafiosi to those of the past, invoking the example of The Godfather, the classic 1972 film starring Marlon Brando as the Sicilian-American patriarch Don Corleone. They said that, unlike their predecessors, new recruits were too quick to turn “pentito” – or state witness – as soon as they were arrested. “The calibre these days...

A team member for President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, pushed back Wednesday on allegations that Patel played a role in the firings of bureau personnel just hours after swearing not to do so during his confirmation hearing late last month – dismissing accusations from the panel's top Democrat as a politically motivated effort to derail his confirmation. A senior transition team official for Patel refuted the allegations made by the ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, Dick Durbin, that Patel had orchestrated the firings after his confirmation hearing. "I have received highly credible information from multiple sources that...

American teacher Marc Fogel calls President Donald Trump and his team 'heroes' after he lands on U.S. soil following his release from a Russian prison.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin expect to meet in the future, probably in Saudi Arabia, Trump said on Wednesday after a call with the Russian leader.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) intends to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the senator announced Wednesday. “I intend to support Robert Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. While there is no dispute that the U.S. spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country, our health outcomes do not reflect this investment,” she wrote in a lengthy statement on X. “Instead of focusing on who covers our exorbitant healthcare costs, we need to reduce these costs by directing our attention to prevention and...

Entire Federal Workforce Replaced By One 16-Year-Old Chick-fil-A Worker

US President Donald Trump has been invited to Moscow by Russian leader Vladimir Putin as they discussed ending the war in Ukraine during a phone call on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited United States President Donald Trump to Moscow in a major step forward in ending the war in Ukraine. On Wednesday, the US and Russian leaders held a phone call in which they discussed a variety of topics including the conflict, and the potential of future cooperation between the US and Russia. During the phone call, the pair agreed to meet in the future, with Putin inviting...

President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies Tuesday to demonstrate that their employees’ roles are legally required, granting Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) broad new powers to eliminate positions deemed unnecessary. The executive order requires agencies to defend its workforce against elimination or consolidation, while restricting departments to hiring just one new employee for every four who leave. It also creates a “DOGE team lead” position within each agency to oversee what the order calls “large-scale reductions in force” by identifying which functions aren’t mandated by law.

... The problem with that starts with the fact that it's not in a database. It's a wildly heterogeneous collection of different databases, ISAM files, and card images, and I would bet money that a lot of it is on old 7-track tapes. Some of these are probably stored in Iron Mountain or a similar installation. Also, some of the data may still be just on paper, as, apparently, government retirement records are. So what Big Balls and the other wizards are going to need to do to start with is find the data. I'm willing to bet there's no...

President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday about starting negotiations "immediately" to end the war in Ukraine. Trump said in a social media post that he and Putin held a lengthy phone call during which they committed to “work together, very closely” to bring the conflict to an end and would meet in person, including perhaps in each other's countries. It was unclear how closely Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be involved. Although Trump held a phone call with him Wednesday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said, characterizing it as a "good conversation." Trump's prioritization...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats have unleashed furious attacks on Republicans for using winning the election as an excuse to try to take control of the government. Democrats have accused Republicans of attempting to make decisions as to how the government ought to be run, as if Republicans were voted to be in charge. "Winning the election gives Republicans no right to run this country," shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren at a protest. "They cannot simply come in and take control of governmental agencies simply because people voted for them. We must employ every means possible to resist this takeover." Democrats have...

From Plato all the way to today, many scholars in the field have contemplated the existence of this highly technologically advanced ancient civilization and the reason for its downfall. If you start talking about the lost ancient city of Atlantis, most people will probably think you’re living in ‘la la’ land. Many people are unaware that this city has been studied seriously for hundreds of years. For example, we can see that it was a subject of significant importance for researchers at the Smithsonian Institution, as emphasized by their Annual Report of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution...

President Donald Trump is holding media outlets accountable for refusing to abide by his executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. He even shut one of the world’s biggest news sources out of a Tuesday evening news conference. News outlets and private companies alike have rushed to insert the body of water’s new name into their lexicon. During an earnings call earlier this month, Chevron cited the Gulf of America while speaking about its offshore drilling activities. The Google and Apple map apps both display the Gulf of America. In order to receive access to White...

The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois history. The feds summoned 50 witnesses to a 12th-floor courtroom in their bid to prove Madigan and Michael McClain guilty of “corruption at the highest levels of state government.”

Reuters reported: “Speaking at a meeting of Ukraine’s military allies at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Hegseth delivered the clearest and bluntest public statement so far on the new U.S. administration’s approach to the nearly three-year-old war. ‘We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective’, Hegseth told the meeting of Ukrainian officials and more than 40 allies. ‘Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering’, he added.” “He also told Washington’s NATO allies that they would have...

During his first overseas flight as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth shared a video of himself aboard a C-17 Globemaster III transport jet sitting in a Silver Bullet Command and Control Module. The converted Airstream trailer is one of two the Air Force deploys to give senior leaders, like Hegseth and other VVIPs, a secure, quiet place to conduct business in the middle of a noisy, often-crowded cargo aircraft.

The town of Worcester, Massachusetts, voted to become a “sanctuary city” for transgender and “gender diverse people” this week after several self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ members asserted they are under attack in President Trump’s America, with one warning that transgender individuals would make the city a “very unsafe space” if it does not bend to their will. The meeting lasted several hours as several self-proclaimed queer members of the community pleaded for sanctuary status. One individual wearing a red hat — clearly a biological male — said he represented both the “b” and “t” in the community and explained that he feels...

The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. Surely, we all thought, it would take Trump’s anti-bureaucrats some time to clear the judicial logjam. But all of us were wrong. It was a simultaneous coordinated assault, deployed with consummate skill in a single afternoon. It was all happening at once. We will start with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his incredible comments. The Speaker explained, “There’s a presupposition in America that the commander-in-chief is going to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars.” Johnson also pointed out that DOGE workers were better able to make decisions on government funding than members...

I think it’s important to remember that President Trump ran on this. I mean, he said, ‘we’re going to look for wasteful spending across our government,’” Britt replied. ... “And it’s interesting that none of you had anything to say over the last four years when it is clear that our commander-in-chief was not in command, Britt said. “And if we’re going to use the term ‘co-president,’ then let’s go back and say ‘Co-President Jake Sullivan,’ ‘Co-President Ron Klain,’ ‘Co-President Jill Biden.” “I mean, it seems that some of the biggest decisions were made during the president’s afternoon nap time,”