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Perdue has spent most of his international business career in Asia, and has served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was chairman of the Sea Power Subcommittee, and on the Foreign Relations Committee. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday night nominated former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue to serve as the United States ambassador to China. Trump has been filling out critical roles in his next administration since he won reelection last month, including selecting his presidential Cabinet, and naming a string of ambassadors. New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik has been tapped for U.S. ambassador to the United...

The union's statements come after reports that the officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt received special financial support from police leadership under pressure from Democrats. The U.S. Capitol Police union leader is calling out the department for providing special financial and other benefits to Capt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot Jan. 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt, that were not given to fellow officers. “What a slap in the face to the rank and file officers of the USCP, especially all who were on duty on J6,” U.S. Capitol Police union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Thursday to...

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The reverberations from the Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on Dnipro continue to echo two weeks after the event, mainly because President Putin keeps making public statements about what an effective weapon Oreshnik is. These are duly repeated by the media in Russia and abroad. The use of an intermediate range ballistic missile with conventional warheads was a world first. Containing no explosive, the thirty-six submunitions inflict damage by kinetic energy, “like a meteorite falling,” as Putin put it. The shower of artificial meteorites looked impressive, but the evidence suggests that it did little actual damage. The strike was more of...

The Democrats could win every presidential election and control the other levers of government if they would reconsider their views on this one thing: religion.In the past, Democrats could comfortably speak the language of the religious, especially the religious working class they have now lost to Republicans — at least, enough of them from every ethnic and racial demographic to cause Democrats to lose the presidency and control over the rest of government.The religious working class are indeed aggrieved. They have been neglected economically, educationally and religiously. The Democrats failed in their responsibility to fight for them — their base...

Nearly a month after Election Day, it’s safe to say the Jewish results are in, and that they contain a measure of good news for both Republicans and Democrats. Jews, who make up approximately two percent of the US population, present a challenge to pollsters. But several polls in the wake of Nov. 5 have returned results that are similar enough to paint a picture of how Jewish Americans voted this year: Jewish voters supported Kamala Harris by somewhere between 63% and 71%, but Donald Trump won a higher percentage of Jews than he did in 2020. .....

Joe Biden admitted on Sunday that his Department of Justice (DOJ) is “infected” by politics. It’s an admission that’s entirely true — but not for the reasons Biden thinks. Biden issued a blanket pardon for his son Hunter for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” That means Hunter is off the hook for the federal gun and tax charges he was being prosecuted for, as well as other potential crimes he committed like FARA violations and money laundering....

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Those who use Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance will likely soon have to pay out of pocket for anesthesia services should their surgeries fall outside a specific time limit. This applies to patients in New York State, Missouri and Connecticut. Officials with BCBS announced that this would begin with claims processed on or after Feb. 1, 2025. According to BCBS, “We will utilize the CMS Physician Work Time values to target the number of minutes reported for anesthesia services.” Any surgery that goes beyond the set limit, will no longer be covered.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ~ On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS...

The arguments are expected to start at 10 p.m. EST. The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments against a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The arguments are expected to start at 10 p.m. EST. You can watch live here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6qhn5MQWn0

China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced the move after the Washington expanded its list of Chinese companies subject to export controls on computer chip-making equipment, software and high-bandwidth memory chips. Such chips are needed for advanced applications. The ratcheting up of trade restrictions comes as President-elect Donald Trump has been threatening to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China and other countries, potentially intensifying simmering...

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"Wen obtained firearms, ammunition, and export-controlled technology with the intention of shipping them to North Korea — a violation of federal law and United States sanctions against that nation," the agency says An illegal immigrant from China was arrested for allegedly shipping "firearms, ammunition and other military items" to North Korea from California, according to a Justice Department indictment released on Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested on Tuesday after hiding the weapons "inside shipping containers bound from Long Beach," the agency said. Wen, who was a Chinese national illegally residing in the United States, was expected...

Daniel Penny's subway chokehold trial resumes Monday, with attorneys expected to begin their closing arguments after a break for Thanksgiving. The 26-year-old architecture student and Marine Corps veteran faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter for the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old mentally ill homeless man who was high on synthetic marijuana when he barged onto a subway car and started screaming threats at the passengers. Neely had a warrant out for his arrest at the time, the case's final witness revealed before the defense rested its case – as well as a lengthy criminal...

The more I think about Joe Biden's pardon of his bagman/tax-cheat son, Hunter, the angrier I get — but maybe not for the reason you think. As I'm sure you're well aware by now, père Biden's blanket pardon forgives all of Hunter's transgressions going back ten years, when father (then vice president) and son were both playing footsie with Vladimir Putin's old cronies in Kyiv. Burisma? Pardoned. Million-dollar tax evasion? Ditto. Gun offenses, all of it. Then there's the Big Lie because it isn't Joe Biden without one. "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can...

Last week, Lindy Li, a Democrat megadonor who served on the DNC finance committee, said that no one from the Kamala Harris campaign is taking responsibility for the absolutely massive amount of campaign cash that vanished into thin air in a matter of weeks. Now, she is calling for a formal accounting of where the money went. She claims that certain individuals involved in the Harris campaign became millionaires overnight. She suggests that it was basically a case of friends taking care of other friends. James Carville also recently called for an audit of the Harris campaign. They are both...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Support Facility Indian Head, MarylandNaval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, also known as Naval Support Facility Indian Head, is a United States naval military installation in Charles County, Maryland, that is a NAVSEA Warfare Center enterprise dedicated to energetics (explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, reactive materials, and their application in propulsion systems and ordnance). NSWC IHD began as the Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head during World War I. Surrounded by the Potomac River and Mattawoman Creek, Naval Support Facility Indian Head is strategically situated less than 30 miles south of the nation’s capital....

American mediator Amos Hochstein, who helped broker the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect last week, accused Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire in its attempts to prevent the Hezbollah terrorist organization from rearming and reestablishing itself in southern Lebanon, Ynet reported on Monday. Hochstein's accusations against Israel, which he made to officials in Jerusalem, join similar accusations made by France. However, America;s concerns appear to concern the use of surveillance drones in Beirut rather than the strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, as France has complained about. American officials told Ynet that “restraint...

There was a fourth night of protests in Georgia over the ruling party's decision to suspend accession talks with the European Union. Tens of thousands of Georgians protested on the streets of several cities. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said demonstrators had fallen victim to opposition lies and rejected calls for new elections. ...

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