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Donald Trump on Saturday shot down a report that Nikki Haley, his bitter presidential primary rival, has vaulted into “active consideration” to become his running mate. “Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the V.P. slot, but I wish her well!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, signing the post “DJT.”

O.J. Simpson — who became one of the most infamous figures in the US during his murder trial in the ’90s — has died after a cancer battle. The former NFL star died Wednesday in Las Vegas, his family confirmed. He was 76.

The merger of Truth Social’s parent company and the special purpose company set up to acquire it was completed Monday. Shares of the combined company, which will be named Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol DJT. TMTG, as a publicly traded company, will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer, Devin G. Nunes, and its existing management team. Shares of DWAC, the special acquisition vehicle, soared on Monday. At around noon, they were up by more than 20 percent.

ADEN, Yemen, March 2 (Reuters) - The Rubymar cargo ship, attacked last month, has sunk in the southern Red Sea, Yemen's internationally recognised government said in a statement on Saturday. If verified, it would be the first vessel lost since Houthi militants began targeting commercial shipping in November. [ed., Sinking has since been verified by multiple outlets including UK maritime shipping office.] The government statement said the ship sunk on Friday night and warned of an "environmental catastrophe". The ship was carrying more than 41,000 tons of fertilizer when it came under attack, the U.S. military's Central Command previously said.

A US Senate staffer allegedly caught filming himself having sex in a Judiciary Committee hearing room has been fired, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) said on X. “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate. We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” a Cardin spokeswoman told The Post. Maese-Czeropski, a 24-year-old legislative aide, posted video of himself...with another man on a public X account. His face was clearly visible according to The Spectator, which first broke the story Friday. The roughly eight seconds of intercourse took place in the same room where nominees to the Supreme...

The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in what sources tell Fox News was an attempted terrorist attack.Explosives were in the vehicle at the time and two people who were in the car are dead, the sources told Fox News. A border officer was injured.

Hamas has threatened to kill one hostage for every Israeli airstrike “targeting innocent civilians,” a spokesperson for the terrorist organization said Monday, two days into the devastating war on Israel. [SNIP - lower down the page there is this update] Biden: At least 11 Americans killed in Israel, US citizens 'likely' held hostage

When the same government agents who conducted warrantless searches of Americans' cell phones in order to nab every patriotic granny waving a flag near the Capitol on January 6 claim they have no way of tracking illegal aliens in the United State, they're lying. When the same national security surveillance State that censors Americans' online speech claims not to know how many illegal aliens are here, it is lying. When the same IRS that regularly targets conservatives for their political beliefs claims it can't track tens of millions of migrants working here illegally — or worse, stealing Americans' social security...

Beer juggernaut Anheuser-Busch has seen its value nosedive nearly $5 billion since Bud Light’s polarizing partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. According to the Dow Jones Market Data Group, Bud Light's parent company is down 4.7 percent and has lost about $4.56 billion in market cap since March 31. The beer maker’s stock shed more than 1.5% on Wednesday alone. SNIP Anheuser-Busch stock plummeting comes as country music singer John Rich said he pulled cases of Bud Light from his Nashville, Tennessee, bar as part of a boycott against Anheuser-Busch; conservative rocker Kid Rock used several Bud Light cases for...

To this day, media accounts claim Sicknick was “slain” on Jan. 6, and powerful Democrats, including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi have continued to cite his death as evidence of a “deadly insurrection” at the Capitol that day. But hitherto unseen surveillance footage from inside the Capitol, aired by Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night contradicts that claim. It shows Officer Sicknick walking through the building “after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside.”Electronic bookmarks archived on the Capitol database show that the Jan. 6 committee examined the same footage of a healthy Sicknick walking around...

Canada's Defence Minister Anita Anand would not speculate on where the object came from. She described it as cylindrical in shape but said it was smaller than the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina in the US a week ago. It was flying at 40,000ft and posed a risk to civilian air traffic when it was brought down about 100 miles from the border at 3.41pm EST (8.41pm GMT), she added.

A woman was beheaded by a sword-wielding assailant on a residential street in the Silicon Valley town of San Carlos, California, on Thursday in front of horrified onlookers. The man was later arrested... The suspect, who returned to the scene, was arrested in connection with the woman’s death, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect was later identified as Jose Landaeta Solano. (Click link to read full article.)

Pallets of baby formula are being sent to holding facilities at the border amid a shortage that has seen many parents unable to find it at their local stores, according to a GOP representative. [Below is the photo she posted of pallets of baby supplies at a border center. "They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border," Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said in a video posted to Facebook Wednesday. "Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula."

The actor, John Schneider, gives a brilliant analysis of the Alec Baldwin shooting using the same type of Colt single-action revolver. In the process, he explains gun safety, how to inspect such a weapon, and how the set of circumstances Baldwin says happened could not have actually occurred as claimed.

WAUKESHA, Wis. - The suspect in a Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee that killed six people was in court Tuesday where first-degree intentional homicide charges were filed, a crime that can carry the stiffest penalty possible under Wisconsin law — mandatory life in prison. The prosecutor in the case indicated a sixth count of first-degree intentional homicide will be filed – because they have learned of a sixth death, a child, as a result of the Christmas parade tragedy.

SANTA FE, N.M., Oct 27 (Reuters) - Actor Alec Baldwin fired a 45 caliber Colt pistol loaded with a live lead bullet in last week's accidental fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of his movie "Rust" where filmmakers showed "complacency" toward safety, authorities said on Wednesday.

According to Panama Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, recent rush of Haitian migrants is only the beginningNearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have already made their way over the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, but Panama's foreign minister says far more are on their way – and she has been sounding the alarm for months. In a new interview with Axios, Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes said that since the beginning of 2021 more than 85,000 Haitians have crossed through Panama and that she believes "they all are heading toward the U.S." The Haitians have been coming from Colombia, traveling through the dangerous Darién...

<p>DEL RIO, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard to use vehicles to create a miles-long barrier to stop the flow of mostly Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. The vehicle barrier, along with the recently constructed Texas border fencing, effectively blocked the illegal crossings and enabled Border Patrol officials to reduce the population of the Del Rio migrant encampment.</p>

It’s been more than thirty years since consumer inflation ran as hot as it did in July. Consumer prices were up 4.2 percent compared with July of 2021, according to the Personal Consumption Expenditure price index released Friday. That’s the highest since January of 1991. Core prices, which strip out volatile food and energy costs, were up 3.6 percent, also a thirty-year high.

The U.S. has no plans to evacuate Americans in Afghanistan who are located outside Kabul, according to a report Tuesday. Officials from various departments — including State and Defense — informed Senate staffers at a Tuesday morning briefing that they do not know of a way to get those Americans through Taliban checkpoints located outside Kabul, the location of the main airport, The Washington Post reported, citing two Senate aides. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s office set up a hotline for Americans — including those who are essentially "trapped behind Taliban lines," The Military Times reported. "The situation is dire,"...