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Pam Bondi and Kash Patel tapped Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI. Fox News reported: Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau, Fox News Digital has learned. Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Fox News Digital has learned. “I am thrilled to welcome Andrew Bailey as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI,” Bondi told Fox News Digital. “He has served as a distinguished state attorney general and is a decorated...

Bill Maher has lashed out at Democrats for declining to come on his show. “People ask me all the time, ‘Why haven’t you ever had Hillary or Bill Clinton on? Why didn’t you have Kamala on during the last campaign?’” Maher said on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday. “You think we don’t ask?” Noting that it took him “eight years and a petition to get Obama on,” Maher lamented that he could not even attract Democratic politicians for whom he has voted. “We ask these people every week. They say, ‘No,’” he added. “And these are people, all people...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington State University faculty member told co-workers that if he ever became a professor, he would likely stalk or sexually abuse his future students, according to the documents. She urged her co-workers to cut Kohberger’s funding to remove him from the program.“He is smart enough that in four years we will have to give him...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will suspend two boys who attend Stone Bridge High School because of their interactions with a female student who identifies as male, and chooses to use the boys' locker room at school. Earlier this year, 7News Reporter Nick Minock was the first to report that LCPS launched a Title IX investigation into the students after they were recorded on video asking why there was a girl in the boys locker room. 7News was also the first to report that the female student who identifies as male was the one who...

The comment comes during a meeting at the White House among Trump and several European leaders, including Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his view that a peace agreement is attainable between Russia and Ukraine, which would resolve the last war he has to handle as president.Trump claimed that the Russia-Ukraine war is the most difficult for him to solve but that he previously viewed it as the easiest. The comment came during a meeting at the White House between Trump and several European leaders, including Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. "This is a decision that can...

Liberal judges on a federal appeals court just sided with unelected Washington bureaucrats and gutted one of Congress’s most powerful tools to rein in the runaway Administrative State, the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The CRA is clear, when Congress repeals a regulation—and the President signs that repeal—federal agencies are barred from bringing back the same or “substantially similar” rules. That safeguard is critical to protect American workers, families, and businesses from suffocating regulation. But according to Senator Eric Schmitt, that safeguard has now been shredded. “Led by liberal judges, a federal court just undermined one of Congress’s most powerful tools...

Did you see Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s heated interview that came out a week ago? If you didn’t, it was something else. In fairness to Cruz, I do believe Carlson was poking and prodding in ways that were a bit annoying, and I don’t fault Cruz for being irritated with Carlson at times. In addition, until Cruz embarrassed himself with two-bit Dispensationalist heresy, I don’t think he was being overly unreasonable, and I agreed with his sentiments in some cases. Carlson and Cruz spoke largely about the Iran-Israel situation, which, as it stands, is in a state of flux....

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Mountain Home Air Force Base, IdahoMountain Home Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles southeast of Boise via Interstate 84. The base is also used by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), which has a detachment of F-15SG fighters on long term assignment to the base and a squadron composing of RSAF and USAF personnel. The host unit at Mountain Home since 1972 has...

The insects are not only a nuisance, but they also pose a major threat of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus.LAS VEGAS — If at one time it was thought mosquitoes couldn’t survive in desert climates, this city is a case study in how wrong that is.Mosquitoes typically prefer more tropical, humid conditions, but these biting machines have exploded in number throughout the Las Vegas Valley in recent years because of a host of changes. A mix of urban development, climate change, insecticide resistance and genetic adaptations are creating a more hospitable environment for the insects...

The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas because of violations of US law and overstays, the department told the BBC. The agency said the "vast majority" of the violations were assault, driving under the influence (DUI), burglary and "support for terrorism". The move comes as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on immigration and international students.While the State Department did not specify what they meant by "support for terrorism", the Trump administration has targeted some students who have protested in support of Palestine, arguing they had expressed antisemitic behaviour. Of the 6,000 student visas that were...

"I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" is a song written in 1967 by singer-songwriter Joe South. It has since been recorded by artists of various styles and musical genres. [I Never Promised You A] Rose Garden" (Martina McBride, 2005)

https://babylonbee.com/news/problems-in-the-middle-east-blamed-on-the-03-of-it-that-isnt-an-islamic-dictatorshipAMMAN — As experts and diplomats continue to search for the solution to the generations-long conflict in the region, one surprising study has concluded that problems in the Middle East should definitely be blamed on the 0.3% of it that isn't an Islamic dictatorship. Though opinions on the conflict have been divided over the decades, a consensus was reached that all of the problems flow from the minute portion of the region that isn't ruled by bloodthirsty, murderous terrorists who want to conquer the entire world. "It's definitely all Israel's fault," said analyst Ibrahim Hamzi of the Institute for Blaming...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that in a bid to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, he plans to set up a direct meeting between the two countries' leaders, followed by a trilateral meeting in which he would take part. Trump revealed the next steps in his attempt to broker a peace deal on Truth Social after a full afternoon of meetings at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders who are eager to see Ukraine safeguarded from future Russian aggression. When the talks ended, Trump wrote, he called Russian President Vladimir Putin...

For quite some time, the leftist political establishment has been accusing President Donald Trump of abandoning the US Constitution. Now they have me wondering why that’s supposed to be a criticism. Just last week The New York Times, the establishment’s chief house organ, boosted the arguments of writer Osita Nwanevu in a column headlined: “Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.” Why? Because “The left can’t win without a new Constitution.” He’s hardly the first Democrat to say so. I’ve noticed that whenever the Constitution stands in the way of something the left wants at the moment,...

Two shots to the face of a felonious attacker solves a lot of problems for a lawful and responsible gun owner whose life is being threatened. Traditionally, many trainers teach the Mozambique drill as two to the chest and one to the head. But sometimes you have to improvise when under attack and two to the face works well, too. A man riding a Greyhound bus did just that when an armed robber struck at 5:30am outside Atlanta’s bus station. Somehow the story of a good guy with a gun thwarting a violent perpetrator committing a felonious attack doesn’t sell...

President Donald Trump said he has started organizing a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss ending Russia's war in Ukraine. While the latest talks held Monday between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders did not produce an agreement to end the three-and-a-half-year war, the gathering seems to have laid the groundwork for meetings between Trump, Zelensky and Putin. The president posted on Truth Social, "I had a very good meeting with distinguished guests, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Prime Minister Keir Starmer,...

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Bill Barr shared “new” details about the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and his death in federal custody while awaiting trial — during a deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, according to the panel’s chairman. ... A source familiar with the deposition told The Post that Barr testified he wasn’t aware of any missing footage from cameras at the Manhattan detention center where Epstein was found dead — despite critics pointing to nearly three minutes being cut in a video released by the DOJ last month. Barr also affirmed an FBI-DOJ assessment...

A Danish woman donated her daughter’s pet pony to Zoo in Denmark — so it could be eaten by lions. Pernille Sohl reportedly donated her teenage daughter Angelina’s German riding pony, Chicago 57, to the Aalborg Zoo in the country’s northern region. Zookeepers have said they’re hoping to mimic the natural food chain of predators by feeding them smaller donated pets. “It might sound very dramatic and bizarre that you would feed your pet to animals in the zoo,” Sohl, 44, told the Times UK. “But they are going to be put down anyway and it is not like they...

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson ignited some anger on the left by re-posting a pro-Christian message from a conservative provocateur. 'It's all about Jesus,' read the X post from Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder In itself, the post isn't altogether different from what Jackson typically puts on social media. A devout Christian, Jackson's X page is dominated by bible verses, baptisms and some occasional football content. But Kirk has faced accusations of racism for his attacks on diversity initiatives and the idea of white privilege, making Jackson's re-post a bit more divisive than his others. 'Kirk is outright...

The song was a musical tour de force by the 23-year-old Motown genius, who survived a serious accident just after its release.The song was a musical tour de force by the 23-year-old Motown genius, who survived a serious accident just after its release. Stevie Wonder always did make his songwriting genius sound easy. On August 18, 1973, “Higher Ground,” from the uniformly brilliant album Innervisions, entered the Hot 100. On September 29, it topped the Billboard R&B chart and had fans and fellow artists In awe. As for Stevie himself? “I did the whole thing in three hours,” he later...