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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe both said in sworn testimony to the Senate on Tuesday that there was no classified information or material shared on the group chat created by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to coordinate on military strikes against the Houthis.Gabbard testified, “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat,” while Ratcliffe said, “My communications, to be clear, in the signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”The sworn statements undercut what Democrats and Trump critics are trying to claim...

Members Of the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Take Swift Action to Protect Jewish Students in Response to Inaction By Columbia UniversityWASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students. These cancellations represent the first round of action and additional cancellations are expected to follow. The Task Force is continuing to...

Whoa. If there was one thing I didn’t expect to hear today, it was former “Meet the Press" and NBC News political pundit Chuck Todd blasting former President Joe Biden in deeply personal terms. But he did exactly that on Sunday and sure didn’t hold back, saying that Biden’s image as a family man was utter bull droppings and that “he never should have been there [in the Oval Office] in the first place. He was speaking with Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the odious Lincoln Project, on "The Warning" podcast, and the two were talking about why the Democrats lost...

BREAKING: U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine, effective immediately - Fox

SNIPThe State Department ended a USAID initiative that has given hundreds of millions of dollars to the restoration of Ukraine’s power grid.Ukraine has been struggling with power outages because of Russia’s attacks on its power grid over the last few years. USAID will also drastically reduce its presence in Ukraine, according to NBC News.NBC News reported:The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.Power outages...

JUST IN - U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration — NBC

NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A lone bull on the lam, one of eight that escaped from a rodeo in a Massachusetts mall parking lot, has been caught, but not before a pursuit that ended on a highway. The bull was lassoed and led into a trailer on U.S. Highway 1 in North Attleboro on Monday night, not far from where the group of eight broke through their pens and charged through a crowded parking lot on Sunday. The bulls knocked down fencing, bumped against a tent and rumbled toward the highway before they headed to the woods. Seven of the...

Austin Private Wealth, LLC, a Texas-based financial planning company, is being scrutinized after a social media post went viral that claimed they had put options on as many as 12 million shares of DJT shares just one day before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The investment firm denied the allegations and has now blamed a filing error for this controversial action. -- snip -- According to the viral post, Austin Private Wealth’s alleged put position on July 12 was the largest among those listed—the second-biggest was Citadel’s 1.677 million short in May. The filing date is July 12th, the...

Less than a year after the revival of classic sitcom Night Court debuted on NBC, a star from the original series who fans will know well has passed away. Richard Moll, who appeared in almost every episode of the show as Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, died on October 26. He was 80 years old at the time of his passing. According to a spokesperson for Moll's family (via THR), the actor died peacefully in his home located in Big Bear Lake, California. He was married twice over the course of his life, and is survived by two children and two stepchildren....

NORFOLK, Neb. -- Around 10:00 a.m. Norfolk Police Division responded to a call of a man driving eastbound on 275 with a Watusi bull in his passenger’s seat. “The officers received a call referencing a car driving into town that had a cow in it,” said Police Captain Chad Reiman. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, something small or something that would actually fit inside the vehicle.” And the vehicle was big enough… Well, technically. “As a result, the officers performed a traffic stop and addressed some traffic violations that were occurring with that particular situation,”...

VIDEOARRIBA ONDELAY! You will want to stand up and shout that out as a bull in Alicante, Spain turned the table on some idiot who along with his compadres set a bull's horns on fire. The bull responded, as you can see, by using his horns to tenderize and fry the idiot. Of course when you tenderize and fry meat you also have to flip it which is exactly what the bull did. They say that revenge is best served cold but in this case, hot was just fine.

"The Republican Party of 1912 decided it would be better off renominating William Howard Taft, even though its voters would have preferred another Roosevelt term. The resulting split ushered in Woodrow Wilson and the first academic globalists, whose bright ideas laid the groundwork for a second world war on the eve of the conclusion of the first. ... But, despite the obvious differences, we’re heading for a 1912-repeat, in which the Republican Party ignores its own voters. The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an...

The winter is already brutal on your car because of the conditions, but drivers can make things harder by turning on the vehicle to let it warm up before driving. One thing some do when the temperatures are cold outside is to start the car and let the engine warm up a few seconds before driving. Several auto experts believe this may not be conducive to preserving the engine.

Except in early 2021, when people started noticing that they had heavier than usual, or unexpected, menstrual bleeding after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. [A]ccording to a massive study published in Science Advances which surveyed more than 39,000 adults over three months, and found around 42 percent of those with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily than usual after vaccination. Of respondents who described their menstrual cycles as predominantly regular, nearly half of respondents in the online survey (42 percent) said they had heavier menstrual bleeding after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Roughly the same proportion of people [women] (44 percent) reported...

There's only one correct way to spell it, y'all"Bless your heart," "Too big for his britches," and "Well, I s'wanee," just to name a few of our favorites. But the best-known word in the Southern vernacular is probably our most-loved pronoun: y'all. A contraction of "you" and "all," as defined by our Mason Dixonary, "y'all" is used when addressing or referencing two or more people. Though "y'all" is inherently plural, in the instance of addressing a larger group of people, "all y'all" is more of a casual, slang phrase that's sometimes used. Like how all soda is called Coke and...

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren has quietly posted a nearly 2,000-page report documenting social media posts by her Republican colleagues who voted against certifying results of the presidential election on January 6. The information compiled isn't secret, but the report is another sign of the deep distrust that has settled into the US Capitol in the weeks since the insurrection. The report chronicles the social media activity of members on public forums immediately before the November election and right after the January 6 riot. The report has been online for a week. CNN reported earlier Thursday that federal investigators are examining...

Authorities in Florida called for help from an animal handler when deputies were unable to wrangle a loose bull that took an overnight tour of a city. The Broward County Sheriff's Office confirmed deputies responded Tuesday night to search for a bull seen running loose through the streets of Cooper City. The bull was caught on video by witnesses and doorbell cameras. A police helicopter and an animal handler were called in to assist with efforts to locate and capture the bovine. The bull was seen still wandering loose at 4 a.m. Wednesday, but reports indicated the animal was captured...

A bull with an itchy bottom knocked a transformer off an electricity pole as he tried to scratch his backside - and cut power to 800 homes. Four-year-old Ron managed to avoid the box as it landed in his field, and escaped an 11,000 volt shock from the tumbling cables. But it left homes in three nearby villages in South Lanarkshire without electricity. Owner Hazel Laughton told BBC Scotland she was amazed that Ron had survived. It is thought that Ron, a limousin bull, brought the transformer down sometime between 22:00 and 23:00 on Thursday at East Shawtonhill Farm in...

U.S. stocks soared higher Thursday as the government came closer to approving a $2 trillion stimulus package to combat the coronavirus pandemic, capping a three-day rally that has pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bull market. The Dow industrials finished the day up 1351.62 points, or 6.4%, to close at 22,552.17, launching the blue-chip index back into bull market territory. The jump ends an 11-day bear market for the index—the shortest in history for the index—which reached its bear-market low just three days ago. The rapid plunge out of, and then back into, a bull market underscores just...

presidential candidate Joe Biden suggested that he would consider former failed Republican presidential candidate Jeb! [sic] Bush as his vice presidential running mate. “That son-of-a-gun Bloomberg ain’t gonna out-loser ol’ Joe Biden,” Mr. Biden told reporters. “He thinks he can show me up by winning this thing even with Hillary on the ticket. Well, Jiminy Cricket, I can win this nomination riding side-saddle with Jeb Bush, fella!” When asked about the many gaffes that Mr. Bush committed on the campaign trail in 2016 when he opposed Donald Trump, Mr. Biden scoffed: “Oh jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, he didn’t mess up as much...