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Many find it shocking the Department of Justice (DOJ) could be capable of ginning up false allegations against a former president in a previous election and would again do the same prior to the 2024 election. This shock, however, is a mark of just how drastically conservatives have failed to recognize the long decline of the DOJ and its ultimate transformation into a political subsidiary of a radicalized Democratic Party. Conservatives would do well to observe seminal moments that have led the country’s top law enforcement entity to its present dire state. In that review, all roads ultimately lead back...

Demand from sugar-crazed New Yorkers for a small-time doughnut shop set up by a couple who lost their jobs in the pandemic has been so high it now has a waiting list of thousands of customers. The Filipino-inspired Kora bakery was started out of a Woodside, Queens apartment last summer as a specialist online-only store of tasty treats. But with orders flying in, chef Kimberly Camara and her partner, Kevin Borja, now have a five-person-strong team and industrial kitchen. They have now been working through a 5,000-person waiting list which had swelled to as big as 10,000 at one point,...

(English-language translation) A group formed in Puerto Rico in support of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s goal of becoming the first female President of the United States includes as one of its members Vieques Mayor Dámaso Serrano, who appreciates her intervention in favor of the Navy’s withdrawal [from the island municipality]. “Puerto Ricans for Hillary” organizer José Marcano stated that the group will meet next Monday to give the campaign its first monetary contribution, whose amount was unspecified. In addition, he said arrangements are being made for a February 15 visit to Puerto Rico by former President Bill Clinton, the pre-candidate’s...