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The United States has reportedly encouraged intelligence agencies to ramp up spying efforts in Greenland amid President Donald Trump repeatedly floating the idea of taking over the Arctic island.... The Wall Street Journal reported, citing two sources, that high-ranking officials working under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Habbard sent a "collection of emphasis message" to the heads of various intelligence agencies last week. Intelligence agencies have been directed to learn more about the independence movement on the island and the general attitude of the Greenlanders towards American resource extraction, the Journal added. The agencies have been asked to use tools...

Hollywood celebrities using popular weight loss drug Ozempic to shred those unwanted pounds are now facing an unexpected new side effect dubbed “Ozempic mouth,” according to a report. Users of the hottest prescription drug in Tinseltown, including Sharon Osbourne, Whoopie Goldberg, and Rebel Wilson, are showing signs of the distinctive side effect linked to rapid facial weight loss from a higher dose of the GLP-1 medication, a New York-based cosmetic dermatologist told the DailyMail.com. “Many users of Ozempic who I know report noticeable volume loss in the face, which can result in the formation of fine lines, wrinkles, sagging skin,...

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that the Trump administration “relishes the opportunity to try to intimidate and shock people.” Host Jen Psaki said, “The judge, the arresting, the arrest of the judge in Wisconsin, again not isolated, felt jarring. I don’t know that we should be jarred by too many things these days. Do you think, I mean, you’ve you’ve done the studying of Donald Trump for a long time, is that to scare people, to deter judges from doing what their job is? What do you think the motivation is behind that?” Schiff said, “I...

Raging George Clooney showered f-bombs on a Morning Joe producer after star Mika Brzezinsky claimed Barack Obama put him up to an anti-Biden op-ed, it's claimed. The Hollywood heavyweight, 63, a top fundraiser for the Democrats, is said to have flown into a frenzy over a Morning Joe segment following Biden's disastrous debate against Donald Trump last summer. Clooney had piled onto calls for Biden to exit the race with a blistering New York Times op-ed where he said the then-president was 'not the same man' he once was, and said Democrats wince when seeing him in front of cameras....

The man who got kicked in the face in a shocking moment of pickleball violence just wants to be done with it and has no plans on pressing charges. Footage of the fiery on-court altercation at a tournament in Mexico has gone viral, surprising many given pickleball’s reputation as a friendly sport. In what appeared to be a match point, the eventual kicker, who was wearing pink shorts, received a serve before approaching the net, where he illegally stepped over the non-volley line. That mistake gave away a foot fault, and ultimately the match.

1:41 Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that he was “frightened” Democrats think former President Donald Trump will win. Host Brianna Keilar said, “In know you’ve heard it. There is there thinking that you’re aware of from I think Democrats in the political class who said yeah, but Harris needs people in the middle and liberals are going to vote for her regardless, why would they stay home? It’s as good as a vote for Trump. What do you say to that reasoning?” Moore said, “I honestly think we’re going to have one of our...

Trump said that he is not a supporter of sanctions against RussiaUS presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg that he is not a supporter of sanctions.“I don’t like sanctions,” he said, commenting on the policy of the current White House administration towards Russia.At the same time, as the agency specifies, the former president made it clear that he is equally cool to the idea of protecting Taiwan from a possible invasion of mainland China and attempts to “punish” Russia for the special operation in Ukraine.

Carl Bernstein claims Biden White House insiders have told him that the president's visibly ailing health at the first debate Thursday has been seen on numerous occasions in the past 18 months. The torturous 90-minute debate saw the president frequently lose his train of thought, trail off mid-sentence and mix up topics, prompting a cacophony of calls from politicians and pundits for the 81-year-old to step down. The performance has sparked an unprecedented panic in the party, leading many to wonder if Biden, 81, should drop out or even resign. Bernstein, 80, is a longtime journalistic icon in Washington, having...

U.S. wage growth has slowed sharply over the past year and is getting closer to returning to its pre-pandemic level, according to new data from career site Indeed. The wage tracker – based on salaries for job advertisements listed on Indeed – showed that salaries were up 3.3% in February compared with the same time one year ago. That is a marked drop from January 2022, when wages were up about 9.3%, suggesting that employers are facing less competition for new hires.

On November 17, 2020, the lives of former Wayne County, MI Chair of the Board of Canvassers Monica Palmer and her family were forever changed after she refused to certify the Detroit election that was, once again, out of balance. What unfolded next is unimaginable. The hatred by Democrats for anyone who challenges the legitimacy or dares to scrutinize elections they’ve won is unmatched. As retribution for her decision to refuse to certify the election results, a newly elected Democrat State lawmaker and a prominent Wayne State University official publicly threatened and doxxed Ms. Palmer and her family. The Left...

SHOCKING RUSSIAN REPORT FOUND! Current Ukraine War Footage And News With (Day 686) A shocking secret Russian report to high command has been uncovered showing the true state of Russian forces in the southern front. Ukraine may be using this to their advantage while Zelensky states that there is no external pressures trying to end the war. Ukraine has also seen more improvements to their armed forces. Russia has not been able to advance and Ukraine still holds them back.

President Donald Trump is boasting a massive 43-point lead in Iowa, a Morning Consult survey found. The polling examining the race in Iowa shows Trump with a stunning, garnering 58 percent support. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, not Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, emerges to a distant second place, 43 points behind with 15 percent support. DeSantis falls closely behind with 14 percentage points, followed by Vivek Ramaswamy with ten points, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with two points, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson with a single point. The surveys were taken between December 1, 2023, through Jan....

This is the shocking moment a 17-year-old shot a 14-year-old dead on the streets of DC while his mother stood by and did nothing - before he was caught bragging about the shooting online. Surveillance footage shows the teen, believed to be Lorenzo Thompson, 17, in a black hoodie and balaclava raising a gun outside the Crown gas station at 14th and Euclid streets NW in Columbia Heights at about 11:30pm on November 3. The woman with red braids and wearing a white coat, believed to be Thompson's mother, watches on but does nothing to diffuse the situation.

Farley, whose company is set to lose $4.5 billion on its EV production this year, remains confident in their longer-term profitability. He embarked on a Route 66 road trip in August in Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, noting that “there are things you can’t learn in an office or from a PowerPoint,” in a LinkedIn post announcing the trip. While on the road, Farley encountered inconsistencies in available charging. Some of the EV chargers he used were effective and provided a painless experience, while in another case, he had to use a low-speed charger that juiced up his truck’s...

A jaw-dropping 3.8 million people have entered the United States through its borders since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 — nearly half of whom slipped into the country illegally and were never caught. Over the last three years, 2,345,600 people have been granted Notices to Appear (NTAs) before an immigration court, according to figures compiled by Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration database. NTAs are issued to people who arrive on US soil, hand themselves in to Border Patrol and claim asylum. If they are deemed to potentially have a case, they are assigned a hearing — often years in...

The daughter of a 60-year-old woman who was beaten with her own cane in a disturbing caught-on-camera assault in Harlem said she’s angry nobody came to help her defenseless mom — as cops identified her alleged attacker as a 43-year-old man with at least nine prior arrests. Laurell Reynolds, 60, of the Bronx was walking through the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. Friday when Norton Blake allegedly stripped her cane from her and beat her with it, according to NYPD officials and a disturbing two-minute-long recording of the crime. Nobody stepped in to help...

Jill Biden professed her bemusement Monday night at loyal Donald Trump supporters still backing the former president in the wake of his federal indictment. AP reports she told an audience of Democratic donors at the Upper East Side home of Barry Ginsburg and his wife Merle in Manhattan the 2024 election presents a stark choice between what she described as the “strong, steady leadership” of President Joe Biden and the “chaos and corruption, hatred and division” of “MAGA Republicans." The first lady then professed her bemusement at reading a headline before her flight landed that described a majority of Republicans...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration has begun removing pornographic books from school libraries, flagging material that contains drawings of children engaged in sex acts. Almost a year ago now, signed the Parental Rights in Education Act into law prohibiting classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade. The bill was falsely labelled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by the left. Earlier this week, DeSantis officials tweeted out examples of the kind of material that is being flagged and taken out of schools. While leftists have complained that DeSantis is banning books in some sort of...

CNN aired audio of former President Donald Trump swearing and discussing weapon systems with journalist Bob Woodward Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360.” Trump said, “I have built a weapons system that nobody has ever had in this country before. We have stuff you haven’t even seen or ever heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.”

A shocking video shows San Francisco school children having to pick their way through a filthy, open-air drug den of homeless addicts after getting off a school bus at the end of the day. The video, posed by Ricci Wynne, shows the elementary school kids filing off the 14 transit line in the Golden Gate City at 8th Street and Mission by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building past dozens of sickly users nodding out on the sidewalk. 'This is no back ally,' he says in the tweet. 'This is the main artery of the city that has been...