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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has finally broken his silence on his much anticipated potential 2024 presidential run, giving an interview from the governor's mansion in which he said that he has what it takes to be president and "I can beat Biden."DeSantis sat down with Piers Morgan in a wide-ranging interview, saying "stay tuned" when asked about the potential 2024 bid for the GOP nomination. Former President Donald Trump is currently the front-runner for that spot, as he endeavors to earn his second term. "It was clear that the governor has had enough of Trump’s constant baiting and felt ready...

NEW YORK – Donald Trump is expected to be indicted on Wednesday, but his arraignment in New York will not take place until next week, according to a new report from DailyMail.com. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is expected to formally charge the former president over hush money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Following the indictment, arrangements will be made with Trump and his Secret Service detail for his surrender, after which he will travel to New York to be arraigned, the report said. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, will be making the indictment.

Here we go. As The Gateway Pundit predicted, Trump will likely face charges from New York, Georgia and special counsel Jack Smith in an effort to derail the former president’s 2024 White House bid. Far-left Soros-backed District Attorney Alvin Bragg is threatening to arrest Trump for allegedly paying porn star Stormy Daniels ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer. Now this… Fulton County DA Fani Willis is considering RICO and conspiracy charges against Trump over his efforts to challenge...

Biden spoke shortly before the market opened at 9.30am in attempt to shore up trust in the banking sector amid amid fears of a rout after the collapse of SVB 'Our actions should give Americans confidence that the US banking system is safe,' the president told the press conference But investors are smelling blood in the water. First Republic Bank saw its shares crash 74 percent to $21.50 from a high of $81.76 in premarket trading ********************************************************************************* Trading has been halted in First Republic Bank this morning after shares by a record 67 percent before the market opened after Joe...

The group of Ron DeSantis’ top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump. The Florida governor’s three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel — just four miles down the road from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — kicked off Friday evening with a cocktail reception and dinner for the approximately 150 attendees. The event, billed as a celebration of the “Florida blueprint,” precedes a likely DeSantis presidential bid that would pit him against Trump. And the roster of people there shows that the governor is appealing to major GOP figures...

International inspectors this week found Iran has uranium enriched to 84% purity, just 6% below that needed to produce a nuclear weapon, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. The International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing its quarterly report on Iran's nuclear program, and two monitors found the near-nuclear weapon capability — the highest found to date.

Jimmy Carter receiving hospice care, Carter Center says February 18, 2023 / 3:25 PM / CBS News Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving hospice care at his home, the Carter Center announced Saturday. He made the decision after a series of short hospital stays, the center said in a statement. This is a developing story and will be updated.

6:13 PM EST: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and FEMA make joint announcement of Biden administration's reversal to send disaster relief to Ohio. The White House also reversed itself and pledged to “provide any additional federal assistance the states may need” to address the disaster.

Fauci comes clean: We knew the Covid vaccine was never going to workWHAT if Dr Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have got you and me blocked and banned at any point in the past three years? That’s just happened.His article in Cell, ‘Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses‘, states it as plainly as possible: the Covid-19 vaccine didn’t work because it couldn’t work.First, some review from what we knew before this whole fiasco began.Vaccines aren’t suitable for coronaviruses. Such respiratory viruses spread and mutate too quickly. This is why there has never...

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed their “DREAM Act” amnesty that would provide green cards and, eventually, naturalized American citizenship to nearly two million illegal aliens. Graham and Durbin, who hold powerful positions on the Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the amnesty after repeatedly proposing the plan since 2017. (Snip) Durbin suggested that amnesty for DACA illegal aliens “is a matter of simple American fairness and justice” before thanking Graham “for his continued partnership in this important bipartisan effort.”

With the confirmation of a dozen new moons in Jupiter’s orbit, the biggest planet in the Solar System is suddenly the neighborhood big dog when it comes to moon collection. With the advent of these 12 previously undiscovered moons, the gas giant now has 92 known orbiting entities, surpassing Saturn’s amazing collection of 83. Although scientists face a significant challenge in locating these tiny celestial entities, both planets are really expected to be joined by many more moons. The intense glare emitted by Jupiter further complicates things, and any that are tiny enough to have escaped discovery up to now...

@JackPosobiec BREAKING: John Fetterman has been rushed to a DC hospital. Doctors fear he may have suffered another stroke

* rump commented on 2021 story with pictures of DeSantis in his 20s *'Whistleblower' story claimed he was pictured with high school seniors *Trump commented on it, writing: 'That's not Ron, is it?' Former President Donald Trump, who ripped through the 2016 presidential field with attacks on his rivals, reposted images of a young Ron DeSantis allegedly partying with high school teens and adding his own mocking commentary. 'That's not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The post linked to a Truth Social Account that grabbed a digital image...

A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows just 37% of Democrats say they want him to seek a second term, down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections. While Biden has trumpeted his legislative victories and ability to govern, the poll suggests relatively few U.S. adults give him high marks on either. Follow-up interviews with poll respondents suggest that many believe the...

As the late great poet Maya Angelou might have said had she thought it was necessary, “When someone shows you over and over and over again that they are a traitor, believe them.”For further, completely appropriate emphasis, she might have elaborated: “When someone shows you over and over and over again, for their entire lives, in business and in government, that they are not only traitors, but corrupt, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, coup-plotting, racist, misogynist traitors, then seriously, I’m not kidding about this, believe them!”But, of course, as we have all witnessed during the past half-century of Donald Trump’s life (unless...

President Biden said in a Tuesday speech at a fundraiser that climate change is a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war. Biden made the comments during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York City. "If we don’t stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius, we’re going to have a real problem. It’s the single-most existential threat to humanity we’ve ever faced, including nuclear weapons," Biden said. "And so we have a real big problem." Biden added that he inherited an "America First" foreign policy which put "America last."

A lawyer for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin made his case on Wednesday for why his client's three convictions in the murder of George Floyd should be overturned, which the state vehemently rebutted.

Australian prelate suffered complications from hip replacementAs reported by The Australian, Cdl. Pell died in a Vatican hospital on Tuesday of cardiac arrest shortly after having a hip replacement. Catholics and others on social media are expressing sorrow at his passing. Pell was born on June 8, 1941. He was an exceptional athlete as a young man. In 1959, he signed a contract to become a professional Australian rules football player, although he later decided to pursue a priestly vocation. He was ordained a priest forever in 1966. In the years that followed, he went on to earn a doctorate...

Rising MMA star Victoria Lee died at the age of 18 last month, her family have confirmed. No cause of death was given. Lee was one of the world's most promising mixed martial arts artists and had earned the nickname 'The Prodigy'. The Hawaii native came from a strong MMA pedigree with her sister, Angela, holds the ONE Championship atomweight world title while their brother, Christian, is the ONE lightweight champion.

UPDATE posted around 12:36 am EST: Kevin McCarthy won the House speakership during the 15th round of voting this week which began late Friday night and spilled over into Saturday after the clock struck midnight. He earned 216 votes. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, and Matt Rosendale of Montana, who had previously voted against McCarthy in the first 14 rounds, each voted present in the 15th round, which lowered the threshold McCarthy needed to secure victory — Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida, who had switched to present in the...