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U.S. — Americans were not quite sure what former FBI Director James Comey had been indicted for, but they felt very sure that he deserved it. Most of the nation did not know if indictment details had even been released, but didn't really feel compelled to look into it as Comey pretty clearly had it coming. "Whatever it was, he probably did it. I mean, it's James Comey," said local man Drake Bennington. "I really haven't paid attention if it was embezzling, selling state secrets, or cooking meth. There's nothing I would put past that tool. I don't know what...

The globalists aren’t happy with the tongue-lashing President Donald Trump unleashed on the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week. His speech undermined 80 years of subversive work and propaganda designed to destroy nationhood and create a world government. Not surprisingly, their rebuke to Trump’s comments is just as dishonest as the stated purpose of their agendas. Trump impaled the UN for its refusal to support peace negotiations he worked on this year, its financing of disastrous open-border policies, and the litany of erroneous climate doomsday predictions the organization has made over the decades. He said the UN is run...

The long-awaited indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey was surely cause for celebration among his targets.Vindictive former FBI Director James Comey’s power trip is finally over as he has learned the “rule of law” he so often speaks of applies to him too.A federal grand jury has indicted Comey for obstructing a congressional investigation into the disclosure of sensitive information and with making false statements to the federal government, according to a DOJ statement. The false statements charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison, which means Comey may be fitted for the prison jumpsuit he...

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” Friday, saying the show would feature rotating hosts while there was a “blueprint” for the organization.TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down during a Sept. 10 TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University, where he was debating attendees. Erika, who succeeded her late husband as CEO of the conservative student group, said that some of the co-hosts and staff for Kirk on his radio show were “pieces of his brain.”“Collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain,” Erika Kirk said. “I know...

The pharmaceutical company behind Tylenol privately acknowledged the likelihood of an association between its drug in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism in children seven years ago, company documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” said Rachel Weinstein, U.S. director of epidemiology for Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, in 2018. Johnson & Johnson marketed Tylenol at the time but in 2023 spun off its consumer products division into a separate company called Kenvue.Legacy media headlines and vocal public health experts have dismissed the conclusion...

ANN ARBOR, MI — To get ready for a political debate at the University of Michigan campus, local Democrat Fred Phillips headed down to the gun range to practice. In preparation to repel his conservative counterparts' views, Phillips spent over an hour sighting in his scope. "Oh yeah, just getting in a little debate prep," said Phillips to the range owner as he set up his rifle. "We're supposed to talk abortion, immigration, and foreign policy. So I've got to be sure I've got my aim right." Though Phillip's methods may seem unorthodox, Democrats across the nation say shooting rifles...

Whitefish Bay businessman Bill Berrien — who also had a past dalliance with the disastrously kinky election method known as ranked-choice voting — has dropped out of the Badger State governor’s race. A Wisconsin RINO who appears to have a penchant for “sexually explicit” material — and a connection to a trans porn site — has dropped out of the Badger State governor’s race. Whitefish Bay businessman Bill Berrien, who also had a past dalliance with the disastrously kinky election method known as ranked-choice voting, quit Friday following reports linking the candidate to several “sexually explicit accounts” on social media....

KNOB NOSTER, MISSOURI — President Donald Trump shocked the world with his announcement on the evening of Saturday, June 21: the United States had successfully attacked three nuclear sites in Iran, and the B-2 bombers who had completed this incredibly secretive mission were on their way home. “Congratulations to our great American Warriors,” the president shared in a triumphant Truth Social post. “There is not another military in the World that could have done this.” It was an incredible victory for Trump 2.0 in more ways than one: Operation Midnight Hammer had been executed without a single leak to the...

The Justice Department’s announcement that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding is all but a fait accompli. Pious, sanctimonious self-righteousness and hypocritical moralizing had long ago cost him his professional reputation.With charges of perjury and obstruction, Comey could face imprisonment. If that comes to pass, his tattered legacy will earn yet another stain.More tragically, the narcissistic leader, who was relieved of his duties by President Donald Trump soon into his first term, will continue to damage the agency I love...

The pain of a government shutdown won’t just be political: Millions of low-income women and children could be left hungry as soon as next week if congressional Democrats and the White House do not come to a deal. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children will soon run out of funding. If they don’t cut a deal to keep the government open, a senior White House official told RealClearPolitics, “Democrats would be turning their back on WIC recipients.” Called WIC for short, the program provides vouchers for healthy food to low-income pregnant and postpartum women, their infants,...

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is trying to manifest her own destiny — insisting this week that she remains a top leader in the Democratic Party, despite November’s devastating loss and perception as a back stabber for shuffling her boss out of the race. “I was the Democratic nominee for president,” the former vice president told the Wall Street Journal Friday. “I came close to winning. Of course I do.” Harris – who was in Philadelphia plugging her new book “107 Days” about the 2024 loss to now President Donald Trump, declined to say whether the tour is the...

The IMAP mission will chart the boundary of the heliosphere, a bubble inflated by the solar wind that shields our solar system from galactic cosmic rays...NOAA's SWFO-L1 is designed to be a full-time operational space weather observatory...The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission dedicated to recording changes in the outermost layer of our atmosphere, the exosphere...

Zartonk Media reports that an international team of researchers conducted a comprehensive study of Armenia's "dragon stones" that has finally cracked the mystery surrounding these enigmatic ancient stone steles. Known as vishaps after the Armenia word for dragon, the monoliths can stand 18 feet high. They were typically decorated with animal imagery often depicting fish, and were erected in high altitude summer pastures. Archaeologists have been unsure exactly when or why they were created. Led by Vahe Gurzadyan and Arsen Bobokhyan of Yerevan State University, the team analyzed 115 known vishaps and determined they were often located near springs, streams,...

Explanation: On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully acquired from all three - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) - as they begin their journey to L1, an Earth-Sun lagrange point. L1 is about 1.5 million kilometers in the...

Interestingly, it is Dept of Homeland Security Investigations, not the FBI, leading the case.Three suspects, likely Antifa affiliates, followed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to his home in California, and then livestreamed the location calling on followers to join them in protest outside his home while shouting anti-ICE messaging.The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) investigated and arrested the individuals and a federal grand jury has indicted the trio. One count of conspiracy and a second count of targeting a federal officer.DHSI took the cell phones of the suspects and has the phone contact information. Antifa affiliates are freaking out.Central...

After decades of dead ends, Austin, Texas, police on Friday named deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect in the city’s infamous yogurt shop murders. The announcement follows decades without answers in the December 1991 killings of four teenage girls—Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Sarah and Jennifer Harbison—at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop in Austin. The girls, aged 13, 15, and 17, were bound, gagged, and shot, before the shop was set on fire. The breakthrough comes with notable advancements in forensic DNA testing and renewed attention from an HBO docuseries about the case. Not...

The measure sponsored by 4th Ward Ald. Lamont Robinson issued a formal apology from the City Council “to the Black citizens of Chicago for the historical injustices of slavery, segregation, systemic racism and the policies that have perpetuated racial inequality.” It overwhelmingly passed 43-4, but not without fireworks at a marathon Council meeting Thursday. “Shame on you!,” Robinson shouted after Lopez, Sposato, and Napolitano announced they would vote against the resolution. Lopez, a Southwest Side alderperson, said he wouldn’t endorse the resolution because Chicago’s “own economy was not slave-driven.” Lopez noted that the city became a haven for freed men...

CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Trump administration launched its latest crackdown on Friday by tightening the rules for commercial truck drivers nationwide. "The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100 percent broken," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. He went on to single out California, as the Department of Transportation blocks non-citizens from obtaining CDLs. "California gave (one driver) a CDL with endorsements to drive a passenger bus and a school bus that was valid for months after his legal presence in the U.S. had expired," Secretary Duffy said. Non-citizens will now need an employment-based visa and must undergo...

Ukraine has received Patriot missile defense systems from Israel that are already deployed in the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Saturday, according to Israeli media reports. Zelensky further added that Ukraine will receive two new Patriot systems soon, according to Reuters.The Ukrainian leader’s statement comes months after the Israeli Foreign Ministry told The Kyiv Independent in June that Patriot systems had not been sent to the country, ostensibly refuting earlier claims made by Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky that they had. “The statement is incorrect. Israel has not transferred Patriot systems to Ukraine,” the ministry said at...