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Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett has once again repeated the debunked claim that he was randomly jumped during one snowy night in Chicago six years ago. In an Instagram post on Saturday, Smollett accused the city of Chicago working as part of a conspiracy to discredit his claim of being a victim of a hate crime. “Over six years ago, after it was reported I had been jumped, City Officials in Chicago set out to convince the public that I willfully set an assault against myself. This false narrative has left a stain on my character that will not soon...

Hordes of hoodlums vandalized three police cars — including smashing windows and jumping on at least one vehicle — early Sunday during a wild car meet-up in Queens, according to police and footage of the chaos. The bedlam happened along Rockaway Boulevard in a commercial area of Ozone Park as rowdy brutes engulfed the police cars responding to disorder around 1 a.m., police and law enforcement sources said. Other rabble-rousers then jumped on top of the car and threw another traffic cone at it before the vehicle — with its sirens blaring — pulled away, footage shows. Jaw-dropping video shows...

Whoa. If there was one thing I didn’t expect to hear today, it was former “Meet the Press" and NBC News political pundit Chuck Todd blasting former President Joe Biden in deeply personal terms. But he did exactly that on Sunday and sure didn’t hold back, saying that Biden’s image as a family man was utter bull droppings and that “he never should have been there [in the Oval Office] in the first place. He was speaking with Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the odious Lincoln Project, on "The Warning" podcast, and the two were talking about why the Democrats lost...

“‘You must be wary of those seeking to use their influence and their expertise to wrongful ends.” Those words were spoken at the George Washington Law School commencement ceremony two years ago by the recently defeated Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.). This week, the words took on a new meaning after Wild was accused of leaking information from the House Ethics Committee. Wild embodies a party that is in an ethical and political free fall. Wild was fighting to release the report of the investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). When Gaetz decided to withdraw from Congress, the report was...

Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner has deleted his X / Twitter account in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory. His exit marks the end of an era for Reiner who had spent years using the platform to spread false claims and wild accusations aimed at Trump and his supporters — including repeatedly smearing them as white nationalists. Rob Reiner’s X account, which boasted 2.3 million followers, was no longer accessible as of Thursday, with the platform returning a message that the account “doesn’t exist.”

CNN host Jake Tapper was stunned by a shocking exit poll Tuesday showing former President Donald Trump substantially leading Vice President Kamala Harris among independent voters in Georgia. “Independent voters — they make up 31% of the electorate” there, CNN political analyst David Chalian noted, before revealing that Trump is “winning them by 11 points” in the swing state of Georgia. CNN’s exit poll found Trump garnering the support of 54% of the Peach State’s independents, compared to Harris’ 43% backing. Chalian pointed out that in the 2020 election, Joe Biden won Georgia independents by a 9-point margin, indicating a...

The Georgia-Florida college football game took an ugly turn in the EverBank Stadium stands Saturday when two police officers repeatedly punched different fans in an aisle. It’s unclear what caused it to begin in the first place and whether any arrests followed, but during a 15-second clip posted to X, one police officer threw three punches at a fan who was already on the ground, while another police officer punched another fan at least seven times before eventually wrestling him to the concrete. A third police officer was shown in the clip away from the other two, but he didn’t...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said he’s “not wild about” taxing unrealized capital gains, but “I’m wild about a democracy that works. I’m wild about the rich history of our country continuing for the future. I’m wild about opponents having a voice and having a seat at the table, as opposed to being thrown in jail or hunted down by our military.” While Murphy was talking about New Jersey’s tax policies in the broader context of tax policy fairness, co-host Joe Kernen cut in to ask, “Are you in favor of taxing...

Climate alarmists have reacted to hurricane season with predictable hysteria, seeing in every storm further confirmation of their worst doomsday fears. A case in point is Jan Wondra, writing for Ark Valley Voice, who suggests that Hurricane Helene proves no place on earth is immune from the effects of global warming and may be a harbinger of an impending “climate breakdown.” Wondra even goes so far as to cite the 2004 apocalyptic climate thriller “Day After Tomorrow” to warn readers their direst fears are true and the end is indeed nigh. The “ominous signs are everywhere,” she writes, and even...

House Speaker Mike Johnson stopped Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley to campaign for Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie’s congressional run against [the] Democratic incumbent …. Johnson and Mackenzie stopped at Cetronia Ambulance Corps in South Whitehall Township as part of National EMS Week. Johnson’s visit is the first of what likely will be many from high-profile Republicans on behalf of Mackenzie in what is expected to be a close race. The seat is considered one of the most competitive in the United States, and has been deemed a “toss-up” by election forecaster the Cook Political Report. Speaking with reporters at the...

Florida law enforcement officials arrested 23 juveniles and six adults after a wild brawl erupted outside a Brandon skating rink when a party was canceled on Saturday night. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a call from an off-duty deputy at Astro Skate at about 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, requesting help with a large crowd that was fighting in the parking lot. Investigators learned the fight broke out after a planned party was canceled when the individuals hosting the private party failed to hire an off-duty deputy for the event, which Astro Skate requires. Since the requirement...

Gun control activist David Hogg is living high on the hog thanks to the many donors cutting checks to his political action committee (PAC), Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show. Hogg created a group in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections called Leaders We Deserve PAC, which states that its goal is to elect Generation Z politicians to offices throughout the country. He created the PAC with Kevin Lata, the campaign manager for Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL)—a Generation Z Democrat elected in 2022.

SALISBURY TWP., Pa. — Little daylight separated the Lehigh Valley's three Republican congressional candidates during an hourlong debate Wednesday afternoon. Kevin Dellicker, an Air Force Reserve intelligence officer; state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie; and Maria Montero, a member of former Gov. Tom Corbett's administration, faced off at WFMZ's studio for a taping of 'Business Matters.' The three political hopefuls staked out similar positions on just about every subject broached by host Tony Iannelli. On foreign affairs, the three offered unequivocal support for Israel and its continued military campaign in Gaza following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. They labeled the Chinese government as...

A 17-year-old migrant was stabbed during a wild brawl involving dozens of people — including other migrants — in Times Square Thursday night, police sources said. The male victim, believed to be from Nicaragua, was chased by a large group before they caught up to him and knifed him in the lower back in front of 251 W. 42nd Street around 5:30 p.m., according to the sources and cops. The victim was taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, police said. “I saw someone running…and there was blood coming from his back, coming from everywhere,” witness Bell Mohamed...

Hollywood celebrities erupted in orgasmic emotion late Thursday after officials in Fulton County, Georgia, released their mugshot of former President Donald Trump. While there was plenty of joy from Hollywood’s hardcore Joe Biden cheerleaders, some of the celebrity climaxes were disturbingly angry and vindictive — a sign of mounting, unstable rage as Trump continues to surge in the polls ahead of 2024. Celebrities who went wild over the mugshot include John Cusack, Alyssa Milano, Jon Cryer, and Disney tool Josh Gad.

A man was left critically injured after being struck by a car, beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed in a wild, caught-on-camera ordeal in the middle of an upstate New York street over the weekend, police said. The chaotic chain of events unfolded in Poughkeepsie on Sunday afternoon after two speeding vehicles sparked a wrong-way crash that ended with two men brawling and another wielding a shotgun. Investigators, who are still trying to piece together the violent scene, said the two cars had been flying down Pershing Avenue Park in the wrong direction just after 3 p.m. when they...

Wild video allegedly captures a freeloader trashing a Los Angeles taco stand and attacking the vendor with pepper spray and body blows after refusing to pay for her food. The vendors told KTLA that the woman polished off her food Sunday and then flipped when pressed for money. She is seen going to her distinctive pink Lexus and returning with a can of pepper spray, according to the cellphone footage recorded by one of the victims. “When she finished spraying me, she started throwing everything and then she grabbed me and started to hit me,” Joanna Vasquez told KTLA in...

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said Wednesday on her show “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that it was “pretty wild” cocaine was found at the White House. Partial transcript as follows: MITCHELL: We have just learned that a formal lab has confirmed the suspicion that that white powdery substance found in the West Wing on Sunday was, in fact, positive for cocaine. The discovery led to a brief evacuation of the White House Sunday night. Joining us now is NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli. So, Mike, where do things stand now? This is so unusual. You and I have covered the White...

Four people were shot and injured after a wild gunfight erupted outside of an Alabama bar early Sunday morning. Three men and a woman were shot near Tin Roof, a bar in Birmingham’s Lakeview Entertainment District, cops said, according to AL.com. An off-duty cop was working inside Tin Roof at about 12:45 a.m. when someone reportedly rushed into the bar to say there had been a shooting outside. Officials found a man who had been shot and a woman who was grazed by a bullet in the parking lot, according to the article.

Jaw-dropping video captured a ginormous alligator sauntering through an upscale Florida community to the horror of residents. WINK meteorologist Matt Devitt posted footage on Facebook of the “big boy” waddling across the road at the Forest Glen Golf & Country Club in Naples late last week. “Dios mio!” a woman is heard saying in Spanish – meaning “My God!” “Is it really here? It’s gigantic!” another woman cries out about the 10-foot-long roving reptile that turned the neighborhood into a scene out of “Jurassic Park.” The scaly jaywalker, which apparently arrived from a nearby river, took all the attention in...