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"Dd any unelected official or family member of President Joe Biden execute the duties of the Presidency?"Pleading the Fifth means avoiding self-incrimination and while it’s routine under some circumstances it’s the correct thing to do, doing it when you’ve been asked…If Biden family members or other unelected officials wielded presidential powersIf they had been told to lie about Biden’s health… is obviously incriminating. The House Oversight Committee released its report on the ‘Autopen’ during which they talked to key White House figures.The first respondent in the video is Anthony Bernal, Former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to...

The House Oversight and Reform Committee has released a 100-page report [pdf HERE] highlighting how people around Joe Biden hid information about his cognitive incapacity and worked around the issue using his autopen signature to authorize presidential actions. The House committee has released the video and transcript of all the witnesses questioned during their investigation [SEE HERE] to support their contention and referral to the Dept of Justice for a criminal investigation of the events.WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff report titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.”...

Within hours of her 2016 presidential campaign loss, a devastated Hillary Clinton attributed her defeat not to the American voters who rejected her, but to Russia, echoing a campaign theme she had been developing for months. “Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss” and “kept pointing her finger” at Russia, according to Shattered, a 2017 book about her campaign—“Her team coalesced around the idea that Russian hacking was the major unreported story of the campaign.”The corporate media were also devastated, as they had spent the entire campaign mocking the idea that Trump and his anti-establishment positions on foreign...

“Puerto Rico doesn’t have to be ‘American’ to be a friend of America. Let it be what it already is — a nation.”So editorializes Javier A. Hernández, a Puerto Rican author, linguist, educator, and former federal official. And Hernández is one more thing, too: a pro-Puerto Rico sovereignty advocate. So his passions are clear. Yet so is his point:Should Puerto Rico ever become a state, it would never, ever assimilate into the United States.Nor would it be reasonable to expect it to.Absorbing the island would be, in fact, a bit like accepting Spain as the 51st state and counting on...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The original 1954 Queen Isabella Causeway is under demolition as part of a newly initiated project by the General Land Office of Texas and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Material from the original causeway will be used to create an artificial reef site located 10.1 miles offshore of the Brownsville Ship Channel entrance jetties at South Padre Island. The project is expected to cost approximately $9.2 million and will serve as a habitat for marine life managed by Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Nigel Farage has overtaken Sir Keir Starmer as the nation’s preferred choice of prime minister for the first time. The Reform UK leader is seen as a better candidate to lead the country by 33 per cent of people, compared with 30 per cent who prefer Sir Keir, a poll shows. A monthly tracker of political preferences by Ipsos, the polling firm, also shows that Andy Burnham, the mayor for Greater Manchester, is favoured over Sir Keir as a better prime minister. Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, appears to be enjoying a post-conference bump with voters choosing the...

The latest arrests include illegal migrants who have been convicted of crimes such as lewd and lascivious act on a minor, aggravated criminal sexual assault with bodily harm, aggravated kidnapping and possession with the intent to distribute. The latest arrests include illegal migrants who have been convicted of crimes such as lewd and lascivious act on a minor, aggravated criminal sexual assault with bodily harm, aggravated kidnapping and possession with the intent to distribute. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday told Just The News exclusively that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are continuing to arrest the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich calls Traditional Latin Mass “a spectacle”Chicago’s Blase Cupich has asserted that the Traditional Latin Mass was “more of a spectacle rather than the active participation of all the baptised”.In a reflection on the liturgical reforms which came from Sacrosanctum Concilium, one of the four constitutions of the Second Vatican Council, the cardinal argued that the document drew on scholarly research which revealed “adaptations that were introduced over time, which incorporated elements from imperial and royal courts.” The reform, he contends, aimed to purify the liturgy of “these adaptations … to enable the liturgy to sustain the...

Zohran Mamdani has enough support to win the mayoral election by just 15 points – and without the majority of votes — despite New Yorkers largely disagreeing with his progressive policies, a poll released Tuesday found. The lefty Democratic nominee’s 43% support to Andrew Cuomo’s 28% in the new Manhattan Institute poll is a wider margin than late-game recent surveys showing a narrowing gap between the candidates. But the survey found that if Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa — in a distant third place, with 19% support — were to drop out, the race would narrow considerably. “In hypothetical head-to-head matchups,...

The attorneys general of 24 states filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Trump administration’s attempt to stop the invasion-through-legal-loophole of “birthright citizenship.”Attorneys general Jonathan Skrmetti, R-Tenn., and Brenna Bird, R-Iowa, led the charge alongside nearly every Republican state attorney general in the country with the 37-page brief asking the nation’s high court to side with the Trump administration’s argument that the 14th Amendment clearly does not allow for any person born on American soil to automatically become an American citizen.After President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office properly interpreting the...

Milei’s coalition secured 41 percent of the national vote and tripled its seats in Congress, positioning his party as the first political force nationwide.The results of Argentina's midterm elections Sunday were not widely expected. Pre-election polls had predicted a tie nationwide. Instead there was a clear win for President Javier Milei's coalition, La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances), which secured 41 percent of the national vote. The Peronist opposition followed with 32 percent, while regional parties divided the remainder. Voter turnout was 68 percent, below typical midterm participation levels. The vote consolidated Argentina's increasingly polarized landscape, with centrist and third-party options...

The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.A self-proclaimed socialist is on track to become New York City's next mayor. The rise of Zohran Mamdani represents a troubling moment in American politics. In some ways, his candidacy isn't a radical departure from the mainstream Democratic Party. He promises to "freeze the rent for millions," make buses "free" in part to prevent disgruntled riders from attacking bus drivers, and provide "universal" (i.e., government-sponsored) day care. When Kamala Harris ran for president, she pledged to "cap unfair rent increases" by suing corporate landlords. Elizabeth Warren regularly...

In a speech to American troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday, President Trump said he would escalate his orders to active duty branches of the military if he decides it is appropriate.President Trump told American troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday that he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into cities to enforce his crackdowns on crime and immigration, further escalating how he has talked about using the military at home and abroad. Speaking to thousands of military service members aboard an aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on Tuesday, Mr. Trump delivered a...

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica and is set to wreak havoc on the Caribbean island, including an abundance of displaced wildlife. The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a 'powerful' Category 4 at 4pm ET, hours after it made landfall on the west coast of Jamaica. The Jamaican government has contacted the Trump administration and launched a relief website as the nation looks to recover from the catastrophic winds, flash flooding and storm surge So far, multiple deaths have been reported. Locals have been warned to shelter indoors, with 185mph winds, flooding and huge ocean surges all...

I admit my headline is clickbait and based on a dream that could never happen. Javier Milei is the president of Argentina, not an American. Further, Zohran Mamdani appears to have a lock on the New York City mayoral election, if only because Republican Curtis Sliwa will not drop out. That his real competition is the tarnished Andrew Cuomo doesn’t help either. Neither of these men has anything close to President Milei’s charisma, let alone his originality. Neither, for that matter, does Mamdani, whose “democratic socialism” is just the same old, same old in new clothes. Nevertheless, the victory a...

US Department of DefenseOne person survived the strikes and was rescued by Mexican search-and-rescue teams. US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said.Mexico's navy says it is still searching for a lone survivor approximately 400 miles (643km) from the Pacific coastal city of Acapulco. It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump,...

The Microsoft co-founder recently penned a letter arguing that increasing global prosperity is the best way forward on the issue.Next month, government officials, policymakers, and activists will flock to Belém, Brazil, for the United Nations' annual climate change summit. In the past, these conferences have focused on wealth distribution schemes and transitioning from fossil fuels. At this year's conference, Bill Gates is advocating for a different strategy: shifting the primary focus away from climate change altogether. On Monday, the Microsoft co-founder penned a letter on his blog, Gates Notes, that argued for adopting "a different view and adjust[ing] our strategies...

The driver who drove off the Santa Cruz Wharf on Sunday morning has been identified. The coroner's office identified him as William Westerman, 65, of Scotts Valley. Westerman died after being rescued from his vehicle in the water. According to the Santa Cruz Fire Department, crews from multiple agencies responded to reports of the incident at 9:44 a.m. A dog that was also in the vehicle was rescued and is expected to survive. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A message in a bottle found during a beach clean-up in Australia turned out to contain letters from two World War I soldiers who launched their bottle 109 years earlier. Debra Brown said she and her family were cleaning up along the shoreline in Wharton Beach when her daughter found a bottle containing letters from Malcolm Alexander Neville and William Kirk Harley, soldiers serving in World War I in 1916. Neville's letter showed he came from Wilkawatt, South Australia, and Brown was able to use Facebook to contact Herbie Neville, the soldier's great nephew. The elder...

Democrats on Tuesday voted for the 13th time to keep the federal government shut — as Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Post there was an easy fix to ensure millions of Americans won’t lose access to SNAP food payments. “The simplest way to end it and the simplest way to make sure that people are getting the food assistance they need is to pick up the bill and give us five votes,” Thune said in an exclusive interview as the Senate failed to reopen the government in a 54-45 vote. “And we’ll, we’ll send it to the president....