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In a rare and extraordinary pushback, new FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday night that media reports claiming a female agent ran a “honeypot” operation against Donald Trump during the Obama years was not true and unfair to the agent. “A female agent was falsely referenced in the media this week as part of an alleged whistleblower disclosure- she was NOT a honeypot,” Patel wrote in a post on the social media platform X. “I have reviewed the matter, again, and she did the limited job assigned to her. These actions were also reviewed by Special Counsel John Durham and...

Kyiv holds $15 trillion in natural resources which would help break the US’s dependence on China. The strategic significance of Ukraine’s mineral resources “cannot be overstated”, according to publicly-available Nato briefings. Its vast reserves span more than 100 metals across some 20,000 deposits, including several that have been identified as critically important by both the US and Europe.

A woman's breasts ballooned in size after getting her Covid vaccine in a first-of-its-kind case. The 19-year-old from Canada went from a B cup to triple G cup within six months after receiving the two-shot course. She received her first dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine in September 2022 and her breasts started tingling and growing slightly. Both of these effects then worsened after she received her second dose of the vaccine about three weeks later. Doctors treating the woman suggested her Covid vaccine may have triggered pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) This is the first-ever case linking PASH to a...

CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX) - More details have been released after a woman was arrested for shooting a man at a New Year’s Eve party. Olivia Clendenin, 28, faces five charges, including attempted murder, according to the Clearcreek Township Police Department. The charges stem from what was originally called in as a drive-by shooting on Dearth Road at 5 a.m. on New Year’s Day. “The initial call was the belief that it was a drive-by shooting,” explained Clearcreek Township Police Chief John Terrill. “When officers got there, they did find one individual had been shot in the stomach.” Inside the...

Walmart Asks Customers to Refrain From Open Carry This correspondent walks into a Walmart about once a week to monitor local ammunition prices. Long experience has demonstrated that no gun signs are seldom noticed. Some effort is expended, attempting to do better at noticing them. At the entrance of Walmart, a sign mentioning a firearm was noticed, in relatively small letters, among other information, toward the top right corner of the entryway. The notice said:Kindly refrain from openly carrying a firearm.This correspondent is armed nearly all the time. Whether a firearm is carried openly or concealed or firearms are carried...