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Authorities in California charged a 29-year-old man with "malicious destruction' for allegedly starting a deadly fire that erupted into the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history and destroyed much of the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood, officials announced Wednesday. Federal law enforcement officials accused 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht of lighting a fire on New Year’s Day that was initially extinguished by fire crews, but continued to smolder underground before reigniting during high winds, acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said during a news conference. Rinderknecht was arrested Tuesday in Florida, where he moved after the fire, and is due to appear in...

Judge Napolitano and Col. Macgregor (queued at 17'13"). Video at the link-click.

Suddenly Democrats who have long turned a blind eye to corruption within the Department of Justice (DOJ) are now worried about its weaponization.Their timing could not be more disingenuous; it came during a hearing Tuesday, less than 24 hours after clear evidence that former President Joe “Autopen” Biden used the FBI to spy on Republicans. Documents show the FBI obtained cell phone records of eight Republican senators and a U.S. Representative for Jan. 4-8, 2021, as part of the “Arctic Frost” investigation. Arctic Frost eventually became Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s elector lawfare case against Trump.The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood reported the...

ALEXANDRIA, VA — At his arraignment on charges of making false statements and obstruction, former FBI Director James Comey produced a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials testifying to the fact that he's totally innocent. At his highly publicized hearing in a Virginia federal courtroom, Comey produced the letter as evidence to show that these trusted members of the intelligence community were just as confident in his innocence as they were in the fall of 2020 that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian misinformation operation. "This is rock-solid proof of my innocence," Comey told the court as he held...

ARLINGTON, VA — An embarrassed Jay Jones realized earlier this week that he was only supposed to support murdering kids before they were born, not after. Sources say that the Democrat AG candidate who fantasized about murdering Republican children over text was totally mortified to realize that he should have just been publicly supporting the murder of children in the womb instead. "That's my bad," said Jones, slapping his forehead in frustration. "I forgot that you can only want to kill kids before they pass the birth canal, not afterwards. Silly me. I deeply apologize for my texts wishing death...

Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.STATE OF SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years. The company, Terradot, is spreading tons of volcanic rock crushed into a fine dust over land where soybeans, sugar cane and other crops are grown. As rain percolates through the soil, chemical reactions pull carbon from the air and convert it into bicarbonate ions that...

NEW YORK CITY — New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani paraglided into his campaign event today in honor of October 7th and the horrific atrocities committed by Hamas that day. Mamdani chose to pilot the same sort of paraglider that Hamas used to commit mass rape and murder at a music festival, stating that it was the least he could do to extoll the glorious freedom fighters. "What a beautiful anniversary we are celebrating," said Mamdani as he strode from his paraglider to the podium. "Look around you at the New Yorkers wearing Hamas headbands, celebrating women and children...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn called out Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin during a Tuesday hearing for not publishing deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.Blackburn previously said that Durbin had “blocked” her from requesting subpoenas for Epstein’s flight logs, according to a 2023 press release. Bondi made a similar allegation during a Senate Judiciary Committee, which Durbin denied, but Blackburn refuted.WATCH:“Senator Durbin, I find it very interesting that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight logs in 2023 and 2024. You fought that,” Bondi said. “Did you take money from Reid Hoffman...

The roiling kerfuffle in late night network television demonstrates how confused, hypocritical, and angry Americans have become.Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel should have been canceled long ago. They have little interest in creating a comforting diversion for all Americans, which used to be the reason for late night television. Instead, their goals are to advance progressive causes and bash anyone who disagrees. In doing so, they long ago lost most conservatives, many centrists, and even sympathetic viewers who wanted relaxation, not divisive politics.But the real rub is that their self-indulgence isn’t good for business.In the second quarter of 2025, Colbert...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) rejected a one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies, which Breitbart News has reported that Democrats essentially shut down the government over. The Hill reported that while Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) is advocating for legislation that would “extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credit” until the end of 2026, Jeffries criticized Republicans for thinking “Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies: Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) is pushing legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, which expire on Jan. 1, through the end of 2026....

If you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful.Decades ago, it was dubbed the Tiffany Network – home of the great journalist Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and innovator of the top-flight magazine program, 60 Minutes.Even outside its news division, the network was a place where the variety-show host Ed Sullivan could break down racial exclusion by inviting outstanding Black entertainers to his Sunday night program; that was controversial in an era of intense racial turmoil. The CBS news department had some of the best journalists in the nation,...

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal. It is one of many “paper mills” that have emerged across Asia and Eastern Europe over the last two decades. Paper mills are having remarkable success peddling tens of thousands of bogus academic journal papers and authorships to university and medical researchers seeking to pad their resumes in highly competitive fields. These sophisticated outfits also engage in trickery to...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called a fundraising email that went out on the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel a mistake in a statement provided first to POLITICO. “That email mistakenly went out yesterday. Abdul has been clear and consistent: he holds equally valuable the lives of all innocent people and condemns violence against them,” said spokesperson Roxie Richner. The fundraising email from El-Sayed’s campaign started by marking that “Two years ago this month, Netanyahu’s military launched a ground invasion of Gaza. Since then, the world has watched tragedy unfold in real time.” It drew condemnation...

The use of GLP-1 medications has skyrocketed due to their ability to help people lose weight as well as their involvement in managing type 2 diabetes. "Unusual" Side Effect of Ozempic-Like Drugs Challenges Doctors: ResearchThe use of GLP-1 medications has skyrocketed due to their ability to help people lose weight as well as their involvement in managing type 2 diabetes. Edited by: NDTV News Desk Health Oct 08, 2025 14:44 pm IST Published On Oct 08, 2025 11:10 am IST Last Updated On Oct 08, 2025 14:44 pm IST Read Time: 3 mins Share TwitterWhatsAppFacebookRedditEmail "Unusual" Side Effect of Ozempic-Like...

Democrats promise “affordability,” but their record shows the opposite—higher taxes, tighter regulations, and policies that drive families and businesses out of blue states. In the wake of devastating setbacks in the 2024 elections, Democrats are deemphasizing identity politics and are instead prioritizing economic issues. Democrats are now embracing an “abundance movement” and claiming they are the party to deliver abundance to working families. The latest iteration of this new strategy was expressed by Democratic activist and pundit Donna Brazile in her recent commentary published by The Hill, “Democrats’ path to victory in 2025 and beyond.”In an attempt to project an...

America has a sickness, and it’s not just a horrendously unhealthy food supply. It’s deeper, darker, and more sinister. It goes by three letters: TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. What is TDS? It is a condition that turns ordinary people into hateful monsters whenever President Trump is mentioned. It drives politicians, journalists, professors, and late-night comedians to hate rather than admit that President Trump is good for America. It divides families, ruins friendships, and convinces people that their fellow Americans are enemies rather than good-natured citizens. I’ve known about TDS since before it had a name. Back in 2016, I...

A Dominican priest in Chicago who said he’d spent the day helping a young U.S. citizen who’d been beaten by ICE agents after he was “detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home” posted some video of tear gas. “America,” he wrote, “we are better than this.” The irony is that a lot of us have spent our lives convinced that we really were better than this, and now Donald Trump seems hell-bent on proving us wrong. He has declared war on some U.S. cities, where our military is, according to him, supposed to train...

An AI startup spent more than $1 million to advertise on New York City’s subways — and New Yorkers simply aren’t having it. Posters for Friend, a necklace style device that listens to your entire day and sends you push notifications, were defaced with warnings about the dangers of AI. Vandals took sharpies to the ads, which went up late last month, scrawling messages like, “AI wouldn’t care if you lived or died” overtop utopian slogans. Our tech overlords might want to intrude even deeper into our lives, but is wearable AI where people finally say enough is enough? Perhaps...

If you listened to “Father Figure” and thought it sounded familiar, you’re not crazy. In Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, her song “Father Figure” uses bits of George Michael’s 1987 classic of the same name, including the lyrics, “I’ll be your father figure” as well as some of the melody. However, the message Swift sends couldn’t be more different than the one Michael sent. You want a fight, you found it I got the place surrounded You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning Whose portrait’s on the mantle? Who covered up your...

Billions flow from taxpayers to insurance companies while families pay more for less care and shrinking doctor networksFor the second week in a row, Democrats are blocking roughly a quarter of federal spending, causing what Washington calls a government “shutdown,” unless Congress gives additional billions of taxpayer dollars to private health insurance companies via Obamacare. Republicans have never taken responsibility for Obamacare, and they should not start.Obamacare offers junk insurance at outrageous premiums. In 2021, Democrats created temporary COVID-19 emergency premium subsidies for families earning $130,000 to $600,000 annually because even wealthy people struggle to afford Obamacare. These supposed...