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New York Attorney General Letitia James is not backing down. Her sprawling business fraud case against President Trump took a meteoric hit when a divided appeals court Thursday threw out the roughly $500 million civil fraud penalty against him and his company despite keeping the case intact. However, she vowed to appeal to the state’s highest court, even as the Justice Department has turned up the heat on her, pursuing probes scrutinizing her office and personal real estate in an escalation of Trump’s vows for retribution against his foes. James is among Trump’s most prominent adversaries after winning the civil...

Researchers have found a promising treatment breakthrough for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that avoids many of the drawbacks of current drugs, and it has come from an unexpected place. Now studies have found that a drug commonly used to treat lung fibrosis could also be ideal for overcoming key problems associated with current treatments for COPD. Dr. Belinda Thomas said the current standard of care for COPD usually includes steroids, drugs which are good at reducing inflammation. However, sudden attacks of COPD (called exacerbations) are usually caused by viruses and steroids encourage their replication, making things worse. Steroids can...

If the Cracker Barrel market puke has anything to teach Wall Street, it’s that investors who are deciding where to put their money must add corporate “wokeness” to their menu of risks to ­digest. In fact, making “woke” an investing risk factor — in some cases as important as the direction of interest rates and inflation — seems so obvious that I hesitated to write this column. Recall Bud Light’s ­Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, or Target CEO Brian Cornell’s recent exit following his ill-fated ­obsession with DEI. Wokeness is generally defined as subjecting the culture and business to left-wing dogma involving...

GENIUS MOVE! Russian Revenues CUT IN HALF! | RFU News RFU News — Reporting from Ukraine 686K subscribers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBmcrP_YMY Length 5:10 Aug 23, 2025 "Today, Russia has suffered a massive defeat on the economic stage. Here, Opec+ has cut Russia at the knees and offered India a cheap alternative to Russian oil to avoid further sanctions. With Russia desperately offering to sell its remaining oil at an even further discounted rate, revenues are dropping far lower than previously predicted, as Russia’s main economic crutch is being snapped in two. India has been under a 50% tariff from the US since...

A Frisco man faces three felony charges after firing a gun at a group of teenagers who attempted a "ding dong ditch" prank at his house. The Frisco Police Department said Monday that 58-year-old Damon Wolfe was arrested for the incident, which happened on the night of July 28. Wolfe had called 911 just before 11 p.m. that night, telling dispatchers that he had shot at someone who tried to kick in his door, police said. Officers who responded to the scene on Scottsdale Way said Wolfe left his residence, walked into the street, and fired multiple rounds at a...

Kansas City’s $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes — because the city can no longer afford it. Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist proposals — including free buses in the five boroughs and Soviet-style, city-owned grocery stores — are now 0-2 when tried elsewhere, after Kansas City’s own venture with a government-run grocery abruptly closed earlier this month. The Midwest city used federal COVID-19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses. But local funding dried up, and riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless...

At least we know he won’t be a strongman leader. Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani struggled to execute a single unassisted bench press rep while trying to impress a crowd at the annual Men’s Day open streets event in Brooklyn Saturday. Photos showed the 33-year-old Socialist, and Democratic Party nominee, was unable to lift a bar loaded with what was said to be 135-pounds off the rack without help — and his two reps required full assistance from a smiling, large-biceped Men’s Day celebrant, photos showed.After throwing in the towel, Mamdani stood up and gave all the credit to the spotter,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

The St. Pete Police Department said Marcia Morgan was arrested Monday for disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence. Officers said Morgan was upset that her neighbor was parking near her yard when the incident started. They said she, while dressed in a hot dog costume, started leaning against her neighbor's vehicle. She also ripped toilet paper and started placing it all over the vehicle, the responding officer said in her arrest affidavit. She's accused of being intoxicated and refusing to cooperate with the investigation, according to SPPD.

Just thot I share to brighten someones weekend. Johnny Quest is awesome! Cheers...

Join us for the 23rd annual tribute to celebrate the life and on-going legacy’s of Layne Staley and Mike Starr. The tribute weekend will kick off with a fan organized event and two shows at The Neptune Theatre in Seattle’s University District. *Thursday, August 21st – A fan organized gathering at the International Fountain (starts at 6:30pm). Address to the International Fountain at the Seattle Center – 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109 *Friday, August 22nd – STG Presents: Grunge Night – A Tribute to Seattle Music *Saturday, August 23rd – STG Presents: Layne Staley Tribute 2025 STG Presents: GRUNGE...

HOW BIG IS ONE? As a man walked a desolate beach one cold, gray morning he began to see another figure, far in the distance. Slowly the two approached each other, and he could make out a local native who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he hurled things into the ocean. As the distance between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the native was picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the...

Friday’s Bolton raid and the rebuke of Trump’s $500M fine show what happens when justice is not impartial.If you are a liberal alarmed by the Friday raid on the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, well, you should be. It’s possible that if charges come out, we’ll learn that Bolton committed a security breach that would have been prosecuted under any president. But there are reasons to suspect otherwise, given that President Donald Trump and FBI director Kash Patel have endorsed lawfare against their political enemies, including Bolton.This is a crisis for American democracy, because even if charges...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson One year ago today, RFK Jr. endorsed Donald Trump for President. From Nick Sortor 3:08 PM · Aug 23, 2025 ·

It’s not just you. It really is impossible to keep track of all the political news. But one thing is pretty reliable: When Donald Trump has a bad week, he will use social media to make a presidential announcement.Last week was one of those bad weeks. President Vladimir Putin of Russia landed in America as if he had V.I.P. tickets to a private Taylor Swift meet-and-greet. He made no concessions in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Trump belatedly realized that he had been played. Plus, that Jeffrey Epstein thing just won’t go away.So, true to form, the president took to...

Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher Exposes the Crime of the Century on The Dr. Maria ShowCatastrophic new data are emerging on COVID-19 mRNA injections — pointing to nothing less than a transgenerational crisis. The evidence now shows an unprecedented rise in infant mortality, mounting proof of sterilization, total collapse of birth rates, and the devastating “Cascade of Harms” being documented in the scientific literature. I broke down these findings in detail during my recent interview on The Dr. Maria Show on Lindell TV. Below is a comprehensive summary of the most critical evidence uncovered so far: For decades, infant mortality in the...

Decision comes as Trump administration implements continuous vetting for roughly 55 million visa holdersSecretary of State Marco Rubio's announcement this week halting work visas for foreign commercial truck drivers drew praise from conservatives in the wake of a deadly accident in Florida."Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers," Rubio announced on X on Thursday. "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers."The move follows a deadly crash in Florida in which an illegal immigrant from India allegedly...

The Trump DOJ called Garcia a "clear danger" who must be held accountable.Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gangbanger and illegal immigrant facing human smuggling charges, could be deported to Uganda, Garcia’s legal team says. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security allegedly told Garcia’s legal team on Friday that their client could be sent to Uganda if he refused to accept a plea deal offer on serious smuggling charges. If not accepted by Monday, the departments allegedly said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would start the process of deporting Garcia to Uganda. If, however, the deal was...

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials.Reuters could not immediately verify the report.The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.The news came as U.S. President Donald Trump has grown more frustrated publicly over the three-year-old war and his inability to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.After...

Petty Officer Jinchao "Patrick" Wei, 25, was convicted of six federal charges including espionage. Prosecutors say he passed sensitive Navy ship information to a Chinese intelligence officer for $12,000. Wei is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1 and faces a lengthy prison term.