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Trading gradually resumed after coming to a standstill on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday, as a cooling issue at one of its data centers impacted traders across the globe.

Did trusted California Pastor Jack Hibbs play a role in Charlie Kirk’s assassination? Are Calvary Chapels a secret military operation to manipulate Christians into supporting Israel? According to disgraced commentator Candace Owens, the answer to both questions is yes....

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) is leaving Congress. The outspoken Republican, who has been at odds with her party and President Donald Trump in recent weeks, made the announcement on Friday night, expressing her frustration with the national debt and the recent government shutdown. "I ran for Congress in 2020 and have fought every single day believing that Make America Great Again meant America First," she wrote in a letter she made public Friday evening. "I have one of the most conservative voting records in Congress defending the 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, unborn babies because I believe God creates...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today destroyed Democrats’ latest anti-Trump narrative during House consideration of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. In his remarks, Chairman Comer outlined the Oversight Committee’s thorough review of the federal government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and criticized Democrats for misrepresenting witness testimony, selectively leaking and altering documents, and advancing yet another false narrative to attack President Trump. Chairman Comer emphasized that documents and witness accounts undermine Democrats’ claims and urged them to prioritize justice for survivors over politics.Below are Chairman Comer’s prepared remarks.Thank you, Mr. Speaker.As Chairman of the House...

Dear Military Veterans,I would like to create a table of military service for those who served in the Marines and want to be included. I have already created a separate table for Free Republic's Navy Veterans and I want to create separate tables for each. It will help me organize my work if I tackle one branch at a time.Please look at part of a table below which I have provided as an example, and see what I have in mind. I'm open to suggestions, but this table is a quick way to get started. However, I am busy these...

REQUEST to GROK: Please provide me with a list and links for each of Tulsi Gabbard's Press releases and speeches in 2025 after she was appointed to hold office by Trump. Put them order, include the date and a brief description of the topics covered. If her press releases include one or more links, please include them. Organize the information from oldest to newest.GROK:Tulsi Gabbard's 2025 Press Releases and Speeches as DNITulsi Gabbard was nominated by President Trump on November 15, 2024, confirmed by the Senate on January 28, 2025, and sworn in as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on...

[H/T Bert]The video premiered Jul 27, 2025 and is 14 minutes in length. I posted my notes on the first half of the video (Part 1) below.[40 seconds into video]1. Nunes says Tulsi Gabbard explained that the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) contained the intel that no collusion was detected between Trump and Putin. That information was never given to Congress; but information given to Congress was in that 'disposed of PDB). President Trump's campaign was made aware of this information as was the House Intelligence Committee (w/Devin Nunes). Obama was briefed with the same information (i.e., 'nothing to see here'),...

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“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball.Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday’s Minneapolis school shooting was not a “her.” He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural...

An Offer He Can't Refuse “This is not our war. The US is not in a war. Ukraine is in a war. . .” — Sec’y of State Marco Rubio Volodymyr Zelenskyy is dropping in at the White House today so that Mr. Trump can read him the riot act. It’s that simple. Somewhere to or from Alaska, Mr. Trump concluded that a ceasefire would not work, for the excellent reason that seven previous ceasefires in Ukraine failed, and only reinforced distrust and disappointment between the warring parties. Instead, the goal is a peace settlement, an end to the war....

It’s not just a bad hare day. A rapidly spreading virus is causing cottontail rabbits to grow black, tentacle-like growths out of their heads, prompting warnings to steer clear of the mutated animals. The so-called Frankenbunnies have been spotted multiple times in Fort Collins, Colo. Resident Susan Mansfield told 9News she saw a rabbit with what looked like “black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his or her mouth.”

Many of us find Suchet's reading particularly engaging. I feel like I am listening to someone who was there when events unfolded. But there are links to other versions posted below Suchet's video information for those who prefer other readers. :DFreeper redryder_90 and I created these threads to store any observations or comments made by those of us listening David Suchet's narration of the Bible. Prior threads of this series are listed in post #1 below. This week's book is available in a few different formats. Below the video image, I linked Bible Gateway's convenient hub offering David Suchet and...

Today, the Department of Justice announced the launch of the Backpage remission process to compensate victims whose trafficking was facilitated through the Backpage.com website. This marks the largest remission process to date to compensate victims of human trafficking.“Backpage.com facilitated the exploitation of women and children as one of the largest online advertisers for commercial sex and sex trafficking over its 14-year existence,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Backpage and its executives made millions off the trafficking of victims. Today’s announcement underscores the Department’s unwavering commitment to use forfeiture to take the...

<p>Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn encouraged FBI officials to get fingerprints from the burn bags discovered in a secret room at FBI Headquarters.</p>

A House panel moved to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton in an Epstein investigation. GOP Congressman Scott Perry (PA) called up the motion to subpoena the Clintons during an Oversight subcommittee hearing on the Epstein files. House Oversight Chairman James Comer now has to issue the subpoenas. “The subpoenas will be issued in the near future,” a House Oversight Committee aide told Fox News. Fox News reported: A House panel Wednesday voted in favor of subpoenaing former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., offered a motion during a House Oversight Committee subcommittee...

House Democratic leaders on Wednesday stepped up their hardball criticism of President Trump and the GOP over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, accusing their rivals of shielding pedophiles by not releasing federal files surrounding the case. The Democrats say the decision by GOP leaders to leave Washington a day early for the long summer recess — a move precipitated by Democratic efforts to force votes compelling the Trump administration to release those files — is indication that Republicans don’t want the details of the Epstein case revealed because they might implicate wealthy GOP donors, or even President Trump himself. “What a...

@goddeketal BREAKING: Donald Trump just called Republicans who want the Epstein files to be released stupid. Live on TV. TRUMP: “It’s a hoax. Some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.” I’m at a loss for words.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday disowned his supporters who have called for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, chiding them as "weaklings" who "bought into this bulls---." The lengthy post on Truth Social represents the clearest split from the faction of his MAGA base that has questioned the Justice Department’s handling of the case. My "PAST supporters have bought into this “bulls---” hook, line, and sinker," he said in the post, adding, "Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their...

The Department of Homeland Security resumed third-country deportation flights Tuesday by sending five immigrant detainees, all from different countries, to the small nation of Eswatini in southern Africa.The five men from Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba and Yemen have criminal backgrounds ranging from murder to sexual assault, according to a social media post by DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.“This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,” McLaughlin wrote.It’s not clear if the men are in law enforcement custody in Eswatini. Mclaughlin told NBC News, “That’s up to Eswatini.”The landlocked country is located between South...