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Joe diGenova, the 81-year-old Trump loyalist who had headed a sprawling investigation in the Southern District of Florida that targeted President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies, has resigned from the Justice Department.“It was an honor and a privilege to serve the president and the department,” diGenova said Thursday.Asked why he is leaving, diGenova declined to comment.“I’m moving on,” he said.ABC News first reported diGenova’s departure.While diGenova resigned from the Justice Department and was not fired, a source familiar with the determination told NBC News that Justice Department officials had already lost confidence in his leadership skills and his ability to...

Neo-Nazis believe a mysterious potato farmer known as “Scary Larry” is the infiltrator who prosecutors say shacked up with Southern Poverty Law Center boss Heidi Beirich. Former National Alliance member Lawrence W. Myers — an Arabic-speaking, guitar-strumming, “paranoid” man — was even kicked out of the racist group for being a spy, sources said. Multiple ex-members told The Post they believe Myers, 68, is the person labelled with the pseudonym “F-9” in a recent federal indictment, who feds claim was paid $1.2 million from SPLC donor funds. “Many people, especially [former National Alliance chairman] Erich Gliebe believe that Myers was...

Former NBA point guard Ty Lawson put himself in an uncomfortable spotlight this past July with his latest run-in with the law. The 38-year-old was arrested on July 16 in Castle Rock, Colorado, after a liquor store employee accused him of stealing a $34 bottle of vodka. According to police documents, Lawson allegedly carried the bottle to a nearby restaurant where officers later confronted him. Authorities also noted they believed the retired NBA player was intoxicated, documenting the smell of alcohol during their interaction. Things reportedly escalated after Lawson was taken into custody. Police alleged he repeatedly called an officer...

Friedrich Merz cancelled a phone call with Donald Trump hours after the US president celebrated the AfD's election win. The leaders had been scheduled to hold a call on Wednesday until Mr Trump posted on Truth Social. A spokesman for the German chancellor declined to give a reason for the snub, but noted that it was not because of scheduling conflicts. On Tuesday night, Mr Trump wrote: "Wow! The populist party in Germany just had a really big night. They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible immigration rules and regulations which have hurt Germany so badly. "They are on...

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train AI systems and asking a federal court to destroy models and training datasets that incorporate their journalism. The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed September 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, targets the use of the newspapers' work in products including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and AI features in Bing. The publishers say OpenAI and Microsoft scraped stories from their websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into their AI...

An Orange County woman was arrested by the FBI Thursday for allegedly stealing more than $400,000 from a nonprofit organization created to support a high school football team. The FBI raided the Aliso Viejo home of Julie Molina, 56, early Thursday morning. Authorities allege she stole the money while serving as treasurer for the Aliso Niguel High School football team. She’s expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned later Thursday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on four counts of wire fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. According to the indictment, from 2023...

Imagery analyzed by Faytuks Network indicates a large plume of smoke near Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline south of Medina

DALLAS, Texas—President Donald Trump on Wednesday night cast his second term as “the greatest two years in the history of the presidency,” rallying voters to support Republicans in the upcoming elections at a historic midterm convention in Dallas. Trump promised to issue a $5,000 dividend to every adult citizen if Republicans keep their majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. “Your vote will decide whether our country stumbles at the starting gate of the next 250 years or surges forward and never ever looks back,” Trump said as he began his remarks. “Vote Republican, and we will...

WASHINGTON — Any immigrant legally in the United States on a work visa would have to depart the country immediately if they lose or quit their job under a new rule being proposed by the Department of Homeland Security. The proposal would eliminate the 60-day grace period foreign workers receive when they become unemployed — allowing them to stay in the US to find more work. Instead, the loss of employment would mean an immediate loss in legal status.

This video features a gathering in Dallas where several Americans who were held hostage abroad during the Biden administration share their stories after being freed under President Trump. The speakers include Fabian Buglione, George Glesman, and Ksenia Karellina, along with Ronen and Orna Neutra, the parents of Omar Neutra, an American-Israeli citizen killed by Hamas on October 7th. Key Highlights: Hostage Experiences: Survivors discuss their time in captivity in countries like Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Russia, expressing their feelings of being left behind by the previous administration and their gratitude for their release under President Trump (0:59 - 9:52). The Case...

By the time the public hears about a local data center project, corporations are already seeking tax breaks, utility subsidies, infrastructure investments, and approvals that could reshape a community for decades. Public schools can end up carrying the cost. Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, can drive up utility costs, and bring noise, pollution, and industrial infrastructure closer to the places where children learn and live. Nearly 2,000 U.S. schools are already located within a mile of a data center or one approved for construction. Then, there is the money. Governments are handing data center corporations massive...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must be feeling chafed. Last month, amid rapidly rising interest rates on federal debt, he announced that his department would double its typical longer-term bond buybacks, from $2 billion to $4 billion. The idea was that, by boosting demand for Treasuries, yields might come down and the government would be able to borrow additional money at lower cost. And yields did come down a little bit — for about a day. Then they shot right back up to where they began.

A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth. Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles. The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia. Self said she had set out to put an...

Former President George W. Bush warned that Americans risk forgetting a critical lesson of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks if the United States turns inward and ignores threats developing overseas. "Our nation occasionally goes through isolationist periods, where the attitude is, 'Well, we've got too many problems at home. Therefore, who cares about what happens overseas?'" Bush said Wednesday, according to CBS News. "Which really means to me they just don't pay attention to the lessons of 9/11, because what happens overseas matters to our national security at home." Bush delivered the warning at his presidential library in Dallas...

The families of 9/11 victims opposed to Zohran Mamdani’s attendance at the 25th anniversary memorial have received celebrity support. Banging his gavel in the name of respect for the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, Adam Levy, son of world-renowned Judge Judith “Judy” Sheindlin, and star jurist of forthcoming CBS series “Adam’s Law,” is unabashedly backing the throng of protestors who’ve called for Mamdani’s exclusion from this year’s annual remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero, Friday, at 8:46 a.m. “Don’t show up at this memorial when you’ve supported radical Islam in the past,” Levy raged to The Post about Hizzoner....

Following the Hamas assault on Israel in October 2023, many American campuses erupted in turmoil—not due to the brutality of the attack, but in support of the Palestinian cause. In the minds of many American students, professors, and administrators, the Israelis are the aggressors and “had it coming.” Anyone who expressed support for Israel was apt to be harassed or even assaulted by pro-Hamas zealots. Jewish students were singled out for vituperation and taunts like “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” indicating a desire to see Israel wiped off the map. Encampments sprang up as activists...

Academic and author Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy.” Think of the term the next time some media hack lionizes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a midwit influencer praises Hasan Piker, or another church is converted to a mosque that is a viper’s nest of anti-American Islamic fundamentalism if not also repository for weapons. Obviously we failed to learn the lesson that our enemies so savagely wrote on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania a quarter century ago. America’s response to Sept. 11, 2001, was first the proliferation of those asinine “Coexist”...

The Indiana Supreme Court has declared incumbent Senator Spencer Deery the winner of his primary race against Trump-backed Paula Copenhaver. When reached for comment, Deery said the court’s decision made him proud. “This was a lot bigger than me,” he said. “It says that Indiana is a place where if you do everything right as a voter: you vote, you check all the boxes, you show your ID, you register, your vote should count.” Paula Copenhaver did not respond to WFYI’s request for comment. The decision ends a months-long legal battle over who is the rightful winner in Indiana’s 23rd...

A male juror in the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands the mom used to kill her children around a water bottle to mimic their strangulation in the deliberation room. Juror number 10 Nick Dargie said the holdout had every right to his opinion but that the reenactment using the same exercise bands left the room speechless. “I was so shocked. We’re not here to play detective – it’s not a game of Clue. This is serious,” Dargie, 25, the fifth juror to come forward in the macabre...

Illegal migrants excused from Sunday Mass obligation: Indiana archbishop Foreigners who are willfully breaking America’s immigration laws do not have to go to Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation this month, according to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.Migrants who are in violation of the country’s laws are also now excused from attending Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, according to a new directive from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are currently working their way through Ohio and Indiana, arresting illegal immigrants. As a result, Archbishop Charles Thompson released a decree, written in Spanish, dispensing...