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"Any testimony she provides now could compromise her constitutional rights, prejudice her legal claims, and potentially taint a future jury pool," attorney David Oscar Marcus said A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of the late financier and convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Tuesday demanded his client receive immunity to testify before the House Oversight Committee, after the panel subpoenaed her last week.Maxwell – convicted on the charges in 2021 and now serving a 20-year prison sentence – returned to the public spotlight after the Trump Justice Department recently said it was closing an investigation on Epstein, despite President...

https://babylonbee.com/news/american-eagle-apologizes-replaces-sydney-sweeney-with-fat-transgender-double-amputee-of-color PITTSBURGH, PA — Social justice warriors scored another victory today, as retail chain American Eagle issued a public apology and replaced Sydney Sweeney in its ad campaign with a fat, transgender double amputee of color. The new campaign featuring Sweeney had caused controversy after American Eagle was accused of choosing an attractive young Caucasian woman to sell their clothing, which is a well-known Nazi dog whistle. The company aimed to quickly rectify this by replacing Sweeney with the most intersectionally diverse fashion model of all time. "We're really sorry for giving people someone pleasant to look at," said American...

Matthew Edwards, a hard working welder, had just worked a 14 hour shift and was waiting to turn into his neighborhood in Troy, New York. A marked police car was waiting at a red light in front of him at the intersection where he was waiting to make a left turn onto the street where he lives. But when the light turned green, the police car didn't move. After waiting a few moments, Matthew briefly honked his horn to alert the distracted police officer that the light had turned green. Within 5 minutes, Matthew would be violently arrested by that...

A close look at his worldview and political agendas. This summer, the voters of New York City have indicated that the man whom they would most like to elect as their next mayor is – for now, at least – Zohran Mamdani. On June 24, Mamdani finished first in an eleven-person primary race for the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination, outpacing runner-up Andrew Cuomo by nearly 13 percentage points in New York’s “ranked choice” voting system. Both Cuomo and incumbent mayor Eric Adams plan to run against Mamdani as independents in the November general election, but at this point Mamdani is...

In the weeks surrounding Trump’s inauguration, the left-wing media insisted the administration’s effort to remove trans troops from the military would weaken the force — some outlets fearmongered that up to 15,000 service members would be booted. But numbers recently obtained by journalist Chris Bray from the Department of Defense indicate that only four “transgender servicemembers” have been “removed from the military so far under the new Trump administration policy.” In May, the Department of Defense released a memo laying out how “Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria may...

Welcome to the PRAYER REQUESTS thread. This daily thread is a listing of prayer requests that have been posted by Freepers to the main forum who wish to have continued prayer. Hopefully this thread will remind us to continually pray for our fellow Freepers’ cares and needs. GOD hears and answers our prayers.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) have dropped a political nuke on Washington: Smoking-gun thumb drives containing unreviewed evidence in the Hillary Clinton email scandal have been sitting in an FBI office collecting dust for over SIX YEARS. The letter, addressed directly to FBI Director Kash Patel, demands that the unevaluated materials — which include sensitive intelligence, foreign communications, and damning evidence related to the Clinton Foundation and Barack Obama — be immediately reviewed and exposed to the American people. “Thumb drives containing unreviewed info on the Clinton...

Russia is not Iran. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed this reminder to President Donald Trump on Monday in a social media post. Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, issued what appears to be a not-so-veiled threat in response to Trump’s recent announcement that he has changed his mind about how long he’ll give Russia to strike a peace deal with Ukraine before leveling secondary sanctions against the Kremlin. On Monday, Trump reduced the previous 50-day deadline to “10 or 12” days, prompting Medvedev’s response. “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step...

Open-borders leftists are constantly claiming illegal immigrants commit disproportionately less crime than their numbers would indicate. But an anonymous source inside the San Diego Police Department tells Amy Reichert that he's seeing something different:A source inside SDPD says crime is unusually low this summer thanks to @EROSanDiego arresting career criminals who thought California’s sanctuary laws would protect them. Now ICE is tracking them down even though @GavinNewsom and Mayor @ToddGloria still shield them. https://t.co/gP88FShvqh — Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) July 28, 2025EROSan Diego is ICE, and a glimpse at the ICEBlock app, over the past week on my cell phone suggested...

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Sydney Sweeney transforms into boxing legend Christy Martin in the upcoming biopic Christy, premiering at TIFF 2025… The film explores Martin’s groundbreaking career, survival from domestic abuse, and lasting impact on women’s boxing… Directed by David Michôd, with a script co-written by Mirrah Foulkes, the project is co-produced by Sweeney and includes Christy Martin’s direct involvement… Sydney Sweeney is trading in the glam for gloves in her most transformative role yet — stepping into the shoes and ring of legendary boxer Christy Martin in the upcoming biopic Christy. The film, directed by David Michôd, is already stirring serious awards buzz...

8.7 magnitude earthquake near Russia prompts tsunami alerts in Alaska, Hawaii Alerts were also issued for Japan and Guam. By Leah Sarnoff July 29, 2025, 8:35 PM 1:07 What is an earthquake?An earthquake is caused when two blocks of Earth's crust slip past each other on a fault plane, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tsunami alerts were issued for Alaska and Hawaii on Tuesday after a major, 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, according to officials. The earthquake occurred about 85 miles off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula with a depth of nearly 12...

LOS ANGELES — In the era of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, even the simple act of buying pan dulce can set nerves on edge. So it was when Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stopped by an East LA bakery one morning only to find the doors shut and the people inside conspicuously ignoring her knocks on the window. It wasn’t until she pressed the mayoral seal printed on her jacket against the glass that the owners welcomed her in. She attributed their squeamishness to her official car, a hulking SUV with tinted windows — to many Angelenos, a symbol of...

The Steele Dossier saga isn’t over—not even close. If anything, its rot is more obvious than ever, with each new revelation pointing directly to the highest levels of the Obama administration and even reaching into the early days of the Trump White House. What we now know is already damning: the phony Steele Dossier wasn’t just opposition research—it was weaponized disinformation, deliberately shoved into the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment under orders from Barack Obama himself. Senior analysts warned it was unverified and unreliable, but those concerns were bulldozed in the name of politics. Obama ordered the revised ICA not because...

Jimmy Hoffa’s final morning on earth, in late July 1975, began with a photo session at his suburban Detroit lakefront home, and thanks to government files, we can see those images 50 years after his disappearance. The portly labor icon posed for photos on July 30, 1975, and then drove to a scheduled luncheon meeting with a pair of hoodlums from Detroit and New Jersey. The mobsters never showed, standing up Hoffa, and the famed labor leader himself was never seen again. Hoffa remained officially missing for seven years, and was declared dead in 1982.

Nathan Gould wakes up in a California state prison cell every morning at 6 a.m. He stirs a cup of instant coffee, prays with his Bible and reflects on the day in 1994 when he killed a man in Bakersfield. Homeless and drifting from one drug score to the next, Gould and his wife holed up with another transient in an abandoned warehouse. Gould attacked him with a knife, beat and tied him up, and proceeded to rifle through his belongings for a wad of cash he’d flashed earlier. When the man began yelling, Gould stuffed a sock in his...

In this version of the video of bystanders confronting the walmart stabbing perpretator (which doesn't have sound censored), if you listen closely about 22 seconds in, the soft spoken voice says put your head(?) on the ground. You hear another voice say okay, I'm muslim, then the soft spoken voice says lay on the ground... Aparrently, it is frowned upon by allah, for muslims to lay on their stomach, thus the comment why gilles doesn't want to lay down on the ground, supporting the comment he is muslim.

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) Senate campaign announced it raised more than $3.4 million in the 24 hours since launching Monday. Cooper’s campaign said it raised $2.6 million for his Senate campaign plus an additional $900,000 for the Democratic Party. Ninety-five percent of the individual donations that came into the campaign in the first 24 hours were $100 or less, according to the campaign. The former governor’s campaign called the haul “a testament” to Cooper’s “strong and deep support across North Carolina.” “I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I want to...

SLIDELL, La. — A Slidell woman has been arrested for allegedly purchasing a Lamborghini and plastic surgery while on government assistance. Agents with the Attorney General Liz Murrill's Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrested Candace Taylor, 35, of Rousset Ridge in Slidell on Monday. Agents said they received a complaint from the Louisiana Department of Health regarding Taylor allegedly committing Medicaid Recipient Fraud. According to the complaint, Taylor underreported her income in order to receive Medicaid benefits. Arrest records between 2020 and 2024 showed that Taylor engaged in a series of actions to apply for and receive Medicaid benefits through misrepresentation,...

It’s easy to think of American voters as hopelessly polarized, with few true Independents or undecided voters. But when you look beyond how people vote, to what they actually believe, the picture is more complex. In 2025, we expanded our Political Quadrants to include a third dimension gauging Anti-Establishment sentiment. We then took the combined responses and clustered them, uncovering eight Political Tribes in the American Electorate. ============ Download detailed report here.