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Former Republican state legislator Austin Smith pleaded guilty Monday to what he previously called “ludicrous” charges that he personally forged more than 100 signatures on his petitions for reelection last year. The Republican from Surprise was a member of the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus, which has a history of spreading false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and pushed for election law changes in the state legislature.

The Straits Times reports that pieces of a wooden ship estimated to have been between 160 and 230 feet long have been unearthed on Malayasia's Pulau Melaka, or Malacca Island. Ruzairy Arbi of Malaysia's National Heritage Department said that the ship was discovered during an excavation conducted by his department and the Melaka Museum Authority. Initial study suggests that the vessel was made of saga wood, which is native to the Malay Archipelago, and dates to the thirteenth century. "At this stage, we are still assessing the available data and artifacts to piece together the ship's history," he said. "We...

The Democrats have a long history of being in bed with entertainment industry elites. I don't like to use the word "Hollywood" when writing about the lefties in showbiz, because there are a lot of conservatives working behind the cameras there. Most of the stars, as we are painfully aware, are enthusiastic socialists, mostly because they can afford to be. This relationship between the Dems and entertainers has given the latter the false impression that they know something about American politics. Some do, but even those who have some activist experience are still out of touch due to the aforementioned...

Explanation: No one on Earth sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Moon is tidally locked in synchronous rotation, showing only one side to denizens of our fair planet. Still, given modern digital technology, combined with many detailed images returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie can be composed. In fact, the featured time-lapse video starts with a view of the familiar lunar nearside and quickly finds the Mare Orientale, a large crater with a dark center that is difficult to see from the Earth, rotating into view just below the...

A Utah judge just turned a safe Republican congressional seat into a near-guaranteed Democrat seat — and she did it in a state controlled top to bottom by Republicans. How does that happen? A generation of weak Republicans in the elected branches handed liberals control of the judicial branch and gave them the ballot initiative system they needed to take over the state piece by piece. Democrats can’t win statewide office in half the country, so they’ve turned ballot initiatives into their weapon of choice. Pollsters craft soothing messaging, activists gather signatures, and voters — thinking they’re supporting neutrality —...

CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip got tense on Tuesday (November 18) after MAGA political commentator Scott Jennings felt he was being accused of making a “racial” comment towards a fellow panelist. On Tuesday’s show, Phillip was joined by Jennings, Lydia Moynihan, Tezlyn Figaro, pollster Josh Doss, and The Black List founder Franklin Leonard to discuss the ongoing drama surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. The debate heated up as the panel discussed whether the files could incriminate President Donald Trump. “You think after ten years of public life, you wouldn’t know it already?” Jennings asked Leonard in regards to evidence of...

Left-wing academic Noam Chomsky allegedly once wrote in a letter that he believed Jeffrey Epstein had “penetrating insights.” The House Oversight Committee released an additional 20,000 pages of documents received from Epstein’s estate on Nov. 12. In a letter attributed to Chomsky, 96, that was released by the Oversight Committee, the linguist appears to praise Epstein for his “curiosity, extensive knowledge.” In the same letter, Chomsky seemingly also referred to Epstein as a “regular source” of “stimulation.” A representative for Chomsky did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. “I met Jeffrey Epstein half a...

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Infowars founder Alex Jones urged President Donald Trump to “stop attacking” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday, warning “it doesn’t help” anyone to push the MAGA movement further into civil war. “Trump is not God. We are big supporters, but we’re not Democrat cult members where we don’t question things,” said Jones during an appearance on Eric Bolling’s Real America’s Voice show Bolling! “When we think something’s wrong, we might be wrong too, but we’re gonna speak out about it.” He continued: He’s the best shot we’ve got at saving...

Denmark’s farmers have recently been reporting that their cows are collapsing and suffering illness after eating feed containing a methane-reducing additive called Bovaer. Use of this feed is now legally required for many farms in Denmark as part of its national climate policy. Some farmers claim their cattle experienced severe symptoms after eating the additive-infused feed, including collapse, lethargy, reduced feed intake, fever, diarrhea, miscarriages, and significant drops in milk production. Based on these complaints, another Scandinavian country poised to implement the same policy is halting the move. In Norway, the government had mandated the use of Bovaer as an...

“Tough decisions must be made” has become the refrain of a political class that insists British people tighten their belts, again and again, while they continue writing blank cheques to the rest of the world. Whether it was the Tories before, or Labour today, the script never changes: taxes go up, services get worse. What they never admit is that the only people ever asked to sacrifice are the British people themselves, while the state funnels ever larger sums to foreign nationals. Britain has been turned into a global food bank, funded by taxpayers who can barely keep up with...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to introduce a resolution to censure fellow Republican Rep. Cory Mills (Fla.) on Wednesday, The Hill is told. The move comes as Republican tensions rise over failed efforts to censure Democrats that, in turn, have repeatedly protected Mills from retaliatory censure. Mace plans to make her proposal a privileged resolution, which would force GOP leadership to act on the matter within two legislative days, meaning a vote would be expected by the end of the week. Mills has been at the center of numerous personal controversies this year. Most recently, a Florida county judge granted...

Makeup mogul Jeffree Star is blasting parents who push transgenderism on kids calling them “fucking weirdos.” The makeup icon, known for his outrageous personal style, spoke out on the issue during an appearance on The Skinny Confidential podcast. “Why are we encouraging our kids to be a different gender and feed them false information when they’re so young?” he said. “When I grew up and started looking different, my mother encouraged me to just be myself. When I started wearing makeup and being more feminine and wanting to do certain things… it wasn’t like ‘Oh my God, Jeffree needs, what...

Six Democrat lawmakers released a viral video urging troops to “refuse illegal orders.” The clip, led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, warns that “threats to the Constitution are at home.” Conservatives erupted, accusing Democrats of pushing the military to defy President Trump. War Secretary Pete Hegseth hit back instantly, dismissing the video as “Stage 4 TDS.” Democrats insist it’s about law, not politics, as they push bills to curb Trump’s war powers. The showdown has triggered a fierce debate on loyalty, legality and military obedience

We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of taking it for granted. Boris Yeltsin visiting an American grocery store in 1989. Via XWhen I think of the unbroken chain of generations leading to our time and of everything they have built for us, I am humbled. I am overwhelmed with gratitude; shocked by the enormity of the inheritance and at the impossibility of returning even the smallest fraction of the favour. ~Toby Ord, The PrecipiceProgress is our escape from the status quo of suffering, our ejection seat from history. ~Derek Thompson, The AtlanticIn...

VIDEOSorry Seth Moulton! But just because President Donald Trump was merely MENTIONED in Epstein Files does NOT mean you are absolved of your more than obvious DEFAMATION of him when you publicly claimed on Morning Joe that he had improper relations with underage females. And you only made it WORSE when you repeated the DEFAMATION to Politico Hack Dasha Burns a week later while PRETENDING that just Trump's name appearing in the Epstein Files somehow absolves you. Hopefully a lawsuit award will not only include a hefty financial penalty against you but will also require an abject public APOLOGY.

DEARBORN, MI — A pair of dueling demonstrations unfolded along Schaefer Road and Michigan Avenue on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as anti-Islam activists and pro-Muslim counter-protesters clashed in front of a heavy police presence before moving toward Dearborn City Hall for the evening council meeting. The city, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States, has recently become a repeated target for out-of-state activists who falsely claim it operates under “Sharia law.” The tensions began when Jake Lang, a Jan. 6 rioter who has described himself as a political prisoner, arrived on Michigan Avenue attempting to burn...

A mother and father were convicted of decapitating two of their children and then making their two younger sons view their siblings’ headless bodies. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell were found guilty Tuesday of murdering their daughter, Maliaka, 13, and son Maurice Jr., 12, in the family’s home in Lancaster, California, in November 2020.

Tesla, SpaceX and xAI CEO Elon Musk along with Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang speak at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

Bill Clinton’s Administration was infested with creeps who reportedly visited Epstein Island. President Trump is right. It is time to investigate the Clintons and the entire Democrat Party for their connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton We know that the Clintons are closely tied to Jeffrey Epstein. We reported in 2019 that investigative reporter Conchita Sarnoff, the author of “Trafficking” on the Jeffrey Epstein case, joined Shannon Bream and said Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane 27 times and ALMOST EVERY TIME that Clinton was on the plane there were underage girls on the plane. Sarnoff also said Bill Clinton...