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Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson called Budde the "latest twinkle in the eye of anti-Trump media." "The bishop is following a well-traveled path forged by the likes of Michael Avenatti," Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "The bishop will become a media darling for a while, only to replaced by the next big anti-Trump thing. It's all so tiresome and predictable."

NEW: Woman releases stunning new song called BIPOC: (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Singer Molly Gawler released the song this week and is encouraging people to collaborate on it. “Black and indigenous people of color, black and indigenous people of color, lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, and queer, lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, and queer, Asian American Pacific Islander…”

The Moscow Exchange dropped by 1.7% to 2,424 points as of 1400 GMT, marking its lowest level in 20 months, because of ongoing geopolitical tensions in Russia and uncertainty surrounding the Russian Central Bank’s monetary policy decisions. Tensions between Russia and Western countries, along with sanctions, continue to weigh heavily on the nation’s markets as E.U. imposed new sanctions on Russia following the U.S. While the Russian Central Bank’s tight monetary policies have yet to yield results in combating inflation, uncertainties regarding decisions to be made during the bank’s December 20 meeting have negatively impacted financial indicators. -snip- On Oct....

The lawyer representing Luigi Mangione claims his client exploded outside a Pennsylvania courthouse because he was 'agitated' at a lack of legal representation... As he was being led into the courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Mangione, 26, yelled at reporters for being 'completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!'... But speaking with Erin Burnett on her CNN show Wednesday night, defense attorney Thomas Dickey said his client was upset that he did not have legal representation at that point. 'He's irritated, agitated about what's happening to him and what he's...

Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion on her failed presidential campaign, hemorrhaging on average $100 million per week — proving that she and her claque are as bad at managing money as they are at generating coherent policy ideas. The big-ticket items: - $900,000 to advertise on the outside screen of the Las Vegas Sphere (Harris ended up losing Nevada). - A cool million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for Harris’ splashy townhall event with the media queen. - Ten million for a series of Gen X-bait conferences with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi (Harris ended up losing Gen X)....

Kamala Harris leads her closest potential 2028 Democrat presidential contender by 33 points, according to polling from Echelon Insights. Here’s the breakdown: Vice President Kamala Harris — 41 percent California Gov. Gavin Newsom — 8 percent Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — 7 percent Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — 6 percent Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — 6 percent On one side of the scenario, you can see why Democrat voters still support her, even after her decisive loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. She still has the best name recognition. She’s been vice president for four years. She never...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government on Monday signaled that it planned to hit back with trade restrictions of its own if President-elect Donald J. Trump followed through on his threats to impose sky-high tariffs on Mexican exports to the United States. “If you put 25 percents tariffs on me, I have to react with tariffs,” Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s economy minister, told a radio interviewer on Monday. “Structurally, we have the conditions to play in Mexico’s favor,” he added. “A tariff war doesn’t end well,” said Valeria Moy, the general director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, an economic research institute....

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that former President Donald Trump was a “fat,” “pathetic” loser. Carville said, “A little factoid there was the 61 legal actions brought, they lost 60 of them. They got some minor insignificant ruling in Pennsylvania that would have changed nothing in that race. And the idea that you had all of these rules violations that went on, and no one said anything? Again, I think I’m right on this, somebody will correct me if I’m wrong, 61 lawsuits. They were 1 for 61. That’s not a good average. That’s not...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Honored for his devotion to a basketball team that doesn’t have a Hall of Fame history, Billy Crystal couldn’t help but note the irony. “How strange to be getting a ring before any of the Clippers,” he said. The actor is being added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein SuperFan Gallery and took part in a ceremony Sunday along with fellow entertainer and filmmaker Spike Lee and Philadelphia businessman Alan Horwitz. Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is also being added but the three-time Academy Award winner was not able to attend.

Ben Stiller made a surprising revelation during a Comics For Kamala Zoom fundraising event he attended with other superstar comics in support of Vice President Kamala Harris for President in 2024. The Zoolander actor hopped on the call with fellow funny entertainers such as Nick Offerman, Whoopi Goldberg, and Patton Oswalt, among others, for the latest benefit hosted to raise money for the Harris campaign. With so many lively individuals in one space, an shocking moment was bound to happen, which it did. On the Zoom call, not only did the television star pledge to donate $150,000 to the campaign,...

Russia has captured 162 square miles of the Ukrainian territory since June 14, the Interfax news agency said Tuesday, citing Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's security council. Russian forces have captured the village of Tymofiivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Interfax news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying Tuesday. Also, Russian forces have thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border in Russia's Kursk region, the interim governor of the region said Tuesday.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said she will not be stepping down from her role in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

President Biden just spoke about the assassination attempt, said many of the right words--full review, whatever security Trump needs, reassess security at Republican convention.

George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter · 4h Statement by President George W. Bush: "Laura and I are grateful that President Trump is safe following the cowardly attack on his life. And we commend the men and women of the Secret Service for their speedy response."

WASHINGTON — Like every other Kentucky Republican on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticized the New York criminal case that ended in a guilty verdict for former President Donald Trump. Paul posted on social media, “This verdict will tragically undermine Americans’ confidence in impartial justice. A sad day for America.” Yet unlike Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and most of the commonwealth’s Republican congressmen, Paul said he has not yet decided whether to endorse Trump. “I think that it’s important that if he wants to get my vote and my support and wants me to be more active...

Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was dismissed as “pathetic” for saying Wednesday she plans to support former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in the general election come November, with erstwhile Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) delivering the character appraisal. “Not a surprise but: Pathetic,” the now CNN commentator wrote, in response to Haley saying she would vote for Trump, as reported by the Hill. His assessment followed other similar appraisals made in media outlets in the hours after she spoke. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race back in March handing...

Is Taylor Swift the last hope for Biden’s flailing presidency? Rob Reiner seems to think so. Rob Reiner is begging Taylor Swift to publicly endorse President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, saying he’d “give anything” for the pop star to make an announcement. Swift has remained conspicuously silent on the 2024 presidential election, after endorsing Biden four years ago. The singer must weigh the damage such an endorsement would do to her personal brand at a time when 81-year-old Biden is facing record-low popularity, especially among young Democrats, millions of whom have soured on his presidency. “I’d give anything for her...

The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament is accusing the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and other groups of killing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. ... "Washington and Brussels are to blame for Navalny’s death," Volodin said, according to translations from the Moscow Times. "Who benefits from Navalny’s death today?" "All their names are known: from the Secretary General of NATO and the U.S. leadership to [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz, [British Prime Minister Rishi] Sunak and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky — they’re the perpetrators of Navalny’s death," he added, according to the Moscow Times.

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, a former ally of Donald J. Trump, delivered a blistering critique of the former President, implying that Trump prioritizes personal loyalty over the nation’s welfare. In 2017, Donald Trump, who was then serving as President, threw his support behind Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s governorship. This endorsement from Trump was a significant boost for DeSantis, a tea-party conservative, enabling him to surpass the right-wing GOP candidate Adam Putnam, who was serving as Florida’s agriculture commissioner at the time, Politico reported. “Congressman Ron DeSantis is a brilliant...

Ron DeSantis asked Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday to arrange a head-to-head debate that would allow the Florida governor to take on former President Trump. “Well, Sean, I don’t think we’ve spoken since that debate, and the reaction that I’ve gotten has been incredible in terms of obviously being able to show that freedom works, and the California model’s a failure, what that means for the country,” DeSantis said. DeSantis praised Hannity’s moderating skills and suggested he hold additional debates with either of his top competitors in the presidential primary