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Former CIA Director John Brennan and disgraced former FBI Director James Comey are now under criminal investigation by the FBI for potential wrongdoing related to the now-debunked Trump–Russia collusion narrative — including allegedly lying under oath to Congress, according to bombshell revelations from DOJ sources obtained by Fox News. According to DOJ sources, CIA Director John Ratcliffe formally referred evidence of Brennan’s misconduct to FBI Director Kash Patel for criminal review. Meanwhile, a separate FBI probe into James Comey is also active, though details remain under wraps. Sources told Fox News that the feds are exploring a potential “conspiracy” between...

Zeldin says EPA's priorities include its mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse.On Tuesday, Scripps News spoke with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin about speeding up environmental permitting, investments in American businesses and the EPA's mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse. "I said that if confirmed, I would make it a high priority to ensure that we were getting to the bottom of where tens of billions of dollars were going before we got there," Zeldin said, referencing evidence that the EPA under President Joe Biden was improperly distributing funds. "And now the Biden EPA — they were...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that the Senate will move “soon” on a “tough” Russia sanctions bill that will also penalize the Kremlin’s top energy recipients, China and India. “President @realDonaldTrump is spot on about the games Putin is playing,” Graham said in a Tuesday post on X. “The Senate will move soon on a tough sanctions bill – not only against Russia – but also against countries like China and India that buy Russian energy products that finance Putin’s war machine. The Senate bill has a presidential waiver to give President Trump maximum leverage.” “When it comes to...

Here Are the Vatican II Passages That the Church’s Enemies Demand We AcceptAs Diane Montagna highlighted in her report on Francis’s fraudulent promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, Rome’s battle over the Traditional Latin Mass continues to hinge on the question of whether Traditional Catholics “reject the Second Vatican Council”. The Vatican II passages below did not “cause” the crisis in the Church, but they and others like them have been used by the Church’s enemies to offend God, lead souls to hell, and cause inestimable harm in the world.As Diane Montagna highlighted in her report on Francis’s apparently fraudulent promulgation of...

Most Canadian citizens consider the United States the "greatest threat" to their country, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Among Canadians, 59% said that the U.S. was the nation's greatest threat, as President Donald Trump continues to suggest that Canada should become the 51st American state. Israelis are especially likely to name the U.S. as their country's most important ally, with 95% saying so in the survey... • South Korea is second on the list where its citizens consider the U.S. its most important ally at 89%...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred Brennan for criminal investigation to the FBI, sources told Fox News Digital Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital. CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital. The sources said that the referral was received and told Fox News Digital that a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and...

The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s “wrecking ball” federal job cuts to proceed while the legal battle continues. The Tuesday night ruling underscores the urgent need to rein in an oversized federal workforce and restore efficiency to government operations. Despite ongoing challenges from partisan opponents, the Court’s decision signals a victory for taxpayers tired of bureaucratic bloat and a federal government that operates leaner and smarter. In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court approved the White House's urgent petition submitted last week, allowing Executive Order No. 14210 to be implemented as the legal disputes continue in the Ninth...

The Austin Fire Association had strong words for Fire Chief Joel Baker Monday, claiming his delay on sending firefighters to assist in Kerrville over the holiday weekend may have cost lives. "I have firefighters that are in the area that are hanging their head in shame," A.F.A. President Bob Nicks said. "People in the community are asking, why wasn't the Austin firefighters here to help us?" Nicks says when the Hill Country is in trouble, the Austin Fire Department has a responsibility to respond. "This is in our backyard," Nicks said. "We know people in that area. We have family...

Exploiting the deaths of innocents to make your political argument is evil.We go through this virtually every time some tragedy hits. I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely sick of it. And after what happened in the Texas Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, in which flash flooding claimed a death toll of at least 80 and probably more than 100, many of them children who were at summer camps along the suddenly swollen Guadalupe River, the epidemic of ghoulish behavior among the talking heads and operatives of the Democrat Party and the Left has gone entirely off...

SummaryTrump criticizes Putin, says his statements 'meaningless' Trump says he is considering Senate bill on Russia sanctions Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for intensified contacts to secure U.S. arms supplies WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had approved sending U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine and was considering additional sanctions on Moscow, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the growing death toll in Russia's war with Ukraine.Trump, who pledged as a presidential candidate to end the war within a day, has not been able to follow through on that promise and efforts by his...

Flights at several major airports from New York to Dallas have been grounded Tuesday evening, sending air travel throughout the US into chaos.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced ground stops for flights leaving New York's John F Kennedy Airport, New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.Severe thunderstorms throughout the country caused to temporary pause. A ground delay at Philadelphia International Airport and New York's LaGuardia Airport has also been issued through Tuesday night.Flights at both JFK and Newark have been grounded until at least 5:15pm ET. Meanwhile, flights...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a trans teacher in Florida has no right to refer to herself with the gendered honorific “Ms.” or ask to be referred to with the pronouns she/her under what critics have called Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. The trans algebra teacher, Katie Wood, sued her employer, the Hillsborough County School Board, in 2023 soon after Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law was enacted. A lower court found that the law likely infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and granted a preliminary injunction. However, the conservative-leaning appeals court overruled the lower...

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court Votes 8-1 to ALLOW President Trump to CUT the Federal Workforce in any department he chooses Justice Ketanji Jackson was the ONLY "No" vote.

The charade is over, but what does it mean?Another piece of the jigsaw puzzle has been made public in the decades-long drip, drip, drip of information regarding the JFK assassination. Newly released documents reveal — as was long suspected — that a CIA operative was tailing Lee Harvey Oswald. This comes despite multiple denials that anyone from the nation’s chief intelligence agency had been lurking around the 23-year-old who has held the title of lone assassin since John F. Kennedy’s murder in Dallas, TX, on Nov. 22, 1963.One document from the 40 released on July 4 detailed surveillance of Oswald...

The Department of Justice said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation to a third country if he is released from jail while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges in Tennessee.Justice Department attorney Jonathan Guynn told a federal judge Monday that Abrego Garcia would be deported to an unnamed third country, other than his native El Salvador, FOX5 DC reported. Last month, DOJ officials and the White House said that Abrego Garcia would stand trial in the U.S. and potentially serve prison time before facing deportation.U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis for the District of Maryland,...

A large file of over 320 pages, damming the paper Haaretz who lost its way especially since 2000.

From 2018 and 2024, the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. arranged for the ‘resettlement’ of 6,299 ‘refugees’ in Maryland. Nearly 1 in 5 of them came from the Islamic terror state of Afghanistan and 1 in 10 came from the equally violent and dangerous terrorist state of Syria. Nearly 70% spoke no English. The second most common language was Arabic.However in Washington D.C., once part of the state and likely to be part of it again if retrocession reform advocates get their way, only 73 ‘refugees’ were resettled in 6 years.The Immigration Research Initiative listed an even smaller number...

Christians are permitted to hate sin and death without explaining how they fit into some inscrutable providence of Almighty God.The flooding in Texas that has killed at least 100 people, including dozens of little girls at a Christian camp on the Guadalupe River, is the kind of catastrophe that causes people to question the existence of God. How could a loving God allow this to happen? How can a system of Christian belief in a God of justice and mercy be reconciled with such suffering and devastation and death?These questions aren’t new, of course. They regularly and understandably resurface at...

A California man is recovering from life-threatening injuries after being stabbed with glass shards outside a GameStop following an argument over someone allegedly cutting in line to buy Pokémon cards. Officers responded to a violent altercation at approximately 9:22 a.m. on Saturday at the GameStop located on Junipero Serra Boulevard, according to the Colma Police Department. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from head wounds and multiple stab injuries. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and is now listed in stable condition. The incident reportedly began when 49-year-old Miguel OrellanasFlores attempted to cut in line, prompting...

How will Congress react to a bill banning weather modification? Georgia’s Republican congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, announced she’s introducing such a proposal soon with a fellow Republican Southern lawmaker, Tennessee’s Tim Burchett, as a co-sponsor. While it’s sure to generate jeers of “conspiracy theories,” that will only indicate the ignorance some may harbor about a practice that is out in the open. Greene tweeted Saturday that she aims to make it a felony offense for private or government entities to inject, release, or disperse anything into the atmosphere that would change the “weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity.” She said...