Posts on Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Los Angeles Times could roll out an artificial intelligence-powered "bias meter" as soon as January, in the latest shakeup as the paper's owner tries to reshape the outlet.
LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong announced the upcoming AI feature on Wednesday. [SNIP] "Whether it be news or opinion — more likely the opinion or the voices — you have a bias meter so somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias," Soon-Shiong, a billionaire tech entrepreneur and doctor who bought the Times in 2018, said Wednesday.
The NYPD is offering up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the gunman who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown, Manhattan, on Wednesday morning.
Thompson, 50, was shot outside of a Hilton hotel near 54th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues just before 7 a.m., according to authorities.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) and Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe got into a heated yelling match during a hearing Thursday on the two assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump after the congressman implied that there was a security lapse at a September 11 memorial service this year.
During the final hearing of the House’s bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempts, Fallon displayed a photo of President Joe Biden and Trump standing at New York City’s Ground Zero during the ceremony: (X Video) Fallon said that Rowe, who also attended the event, should have been standing near the president for security purposes.
Mexican security forces said on Dec. 4 that they had made the largest fentanyl seizure in the country’s history, impounding 1,100 kilograms (1.2 tons) of the synthetic opioid in the state of Sinaloa.
Mexico’s top security official, Omar García Harfuch, said in a statement that more than a ton of fentanyl was seized by officials in Sinaloa state. Several guns were also seized, and two men were arrested, he said.
“This is an investigation that has been going on for a long time, and yesterday, it gave these results,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a press conference on Dec. 4, referring to the fentanyl seizures.
Violence has worsened recently in Sinaloa,
Many TV outlets are obsessed with President Biden’s pardoning of his son. The pro-Democrat outlets defend Biden’s assertion that political motivations within the Justice Dept. are driving prosecution of his innocent son (sic). Also, there are sentimental defenses regarding a father’s connection or compassion for his own son — his flesh and blood — as being completely understandable. The more conservative media see this “pardon” as completely hypocritical and an outright lie, noting the frequency of the president’s assertions that he would not under any circumstances pardon his son, which assertions were backed up by repeated assertions by his mature and brilliant press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre,
I, for one, am delighted that alleged President Joe Biden pardoned his s******, perverted, drug-addled corrupto-kid. I might as well be because there’s not anything I can do about it. We all knew this was coming. We knew it from the beginning. We especially knew it when Joe Biden promised he wouldn’t do it. That made it a certainty. And now we get to watch the amazing contortions of the all-star leftist yogis twisting themselves into positions unfathomable by the human mind in order to justify it. It’s great to see them humiliating themselves.
It’s not great because it’s yet another blow to the rule of law.
New footage emerged Thursday showing the at-large suspect in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson strolling out of a Manhattan subway station just 30 minutes before the fatal shooting.
The suspected gunman – accused of shooting the executive execution-style on a Midtown street – was seen leaving what appears to be the 57th Street station around 6:15 a.m., in the newly-obtained surveillance video taken from a cigar store on Sixth Avenue.
Thompson, 50, was repeatedly shot by a masked assassin who had been waiting outside the Hilton hotel along Sixth Avenue, where the CEO was hosting an investors’ conference, cops said.
A powerful coalition of African American churches is calling for the suspension and investigation of MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton, alleging that donations from Kamala Harris’s campaign to Sharpton’s National Action Network have compromised the integrity of the black Church and journalism.
Last week, MSNBC admitted it was “unaware” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign had paid $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit ahead of a favorable interview with the Democratic nominee on October 20, just weeks before the election, according to Fox News.
After Harris’s defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that the Harris campaign made two $250,000 donations
At last, Hunter Biden has his full and unconditional presidential pardon, covering all “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed” between the tender ages of 44 and 54. Freshly sober and exculpated, young master Biden is now at liberty to pursue his promising artistic career. I join the readership of The Federalist in well-wishing this walking, talking malum prohibitum.
There is no gainsaying that Hunter’s father, President Joe Biden, has for a change acted strictly within the confines of his constitutional authority. Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution gives the president plenary authority to “grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences
‘100 Percent Bullsh-t’: Fox News Talent
Shoot Down NBC’s Smear Campaign Against
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Current and former Fox News talent are calling bull on legacy media’s latest smear campaign to sink Pete Hegseth’s bid to lead the Pentagon.
On Tuesday, NBC News dropped a malicious hit piece against the Army veteran and former “Fox and Friends Weekend” host, in which 10 allegedly former and current network employees supposedly claimed that Hegseth displayed signs of a drinking problem in the workplace. Curiously, none of the alleged anonymous sources referenced by authors Chloe Melas, Courtney Kube, and Sarah Fitzpatrick identified themselves, citing “fear of retaliation.”
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., introduced legislation on Wednesday that would federally ban mutilating transgender procedures for children and punish so-called “physicians” who perform such procedures.
The legislation would block doctors from being able to prescribe or administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as perform mutilating transgender surgeries like mastectomies.
The Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors (STOP) Act would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to place a minimum $100,000 fine on doctors who do not follow the law.
California’s fast food industry shed more than 6,000 jobs after Democratic lawmakers passed a bill mandating a $20 minimum wage for most fast food and counter service restaurants in the state, according to a new analysis of labor data.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that between September 2023, when California governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228, and June 2024, Golden State fast food employment dropped from 570,909 jobs to 564,743. That’s a loss of 6,166 jobs, or 1.1 percent, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Employment Policies Institute.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) isn’t sold on Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. The Iowa Republican had her meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee, appreciated his service—Hegseth is a decorated combat veteran—and said they had a frank discussion about the confirmation process. Mr. Hegseth is the target of a Brett Kavanaugh-like smear campaign, where allegations of sexual misconduct and heavy drinking are bubbling up on the pages of the fake news press. Yet, Ernst doesn’t seem keen on voting for his nomination. Instead, there are rumors that she’s trying to derail him to get the job for herself. She also supports the transgender nonsense to continue in the military,
Transgender activists broadcast their intrusive takeover of at least one women’s bathroom on Capitol Hill on December 5.
The transgender takeover marked an escalation by the mostly male movement in their campaign to demand access to spaces that are used by women to guard their sexual privacy and career opportunities in a diverse society. (X Video) The intrusions were done by two groups. One took over a bathroom in the Capitol Hill Visitor Center, and the other group occupied a bathroom in a hallway of a building used for the representatives’ offices.
The second group included Chelsea Manning, a former soldier who claimed transgender status after being convicted in 2013
Powerful new DOGE rule to be
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unleashed by Musk and Vivek on millions
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A Republican unveiled a new bill that will give Donald Trump's DOGE agency the tools and clear direction to hit the ground running on day one of the next administration.
Trump tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to 'dismantle' the $6.5 trillion bloated U.S. bureaucracy by heading the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
They plan to cut wasteful regulations and spending by specifically targeting the number of federal government employees. Top Republican Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is leading DOGE's aggressive plans on a new 'DOGE Caucus' being set up in the Senate.
On the House side, Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was tapped for a powerful job assisting DOGE
Tensions flared as Republicans on the bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump grilled acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe during the panel’s final hearing which devolved into a fiery screaming match.
Rowe was set off by Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) who lambasted him for taking nine days to visit the Butler, Pa., site of the first attempted assassination, despite being deputy director. Rowe trekked over to the site only after he was elevated to acting director with the resignation of his boss, Kimberly Cheatle.
Fallon then presented a photo showing the acting director standing near the incoming president — without a protective agent in view
Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz defended the gruesome execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday in a sick social media post suggesting other health care executives should face similar fates — as hundreds of more twisted trolls took to the internet to revel in the tragedy.
“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” Lorenz wrote on BlueSky, a microblogging social media network, alongside an article about how Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. The tech reporter made the loathsome declaration just hours after Thompson, 50, was gunned
Authorities in Mexico dissolved two caravans of would-be illegal immigrants heading to the United States, just days after President-elect Donald Trump warned he would levy a 25 percent tariff on imports from the country.
Migrant activists said this week that some were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers. Migrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagran said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”
The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5,
California Large 7.0 magnitude earthquake
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hits off Northern California coast, tsunami
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HUMBOLDT COUNTY – A large earthquake has just struck off the coast of Humboldt County on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck around 10:44 a.m., west of Petrolia, California in the Pacific Ocean. A Tsunami Warning has been issued for 45 miles southwest of Eureka.
The earthquake had been registered preliminarily as having a magnitude of 6.6, but USGS updated it 7.0.
An apparent aftershock 5.8-magnitude quake has also been registered several minutes later near Cobb, California in Lake County.
A quake that large is expected to be felt across the region.
Iowa election officials sued the Biden administration after the federal government declined to hand over a list of noncitizens registered to vote in the state before the 2024 elections.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials refused to hand over a list of noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Iowa “despite having confirmed that hundreds of noncitizens were on Iowa’s voter rolls after a manual individualized process,” Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate and Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a lawsuit Tuesday. The complaint is filed against the Department of Homeland Security and its subagency, USCIS.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case addressing state restrictions on controversial medical interventions, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors with gender confusion. At the heart of the case is a Tennessee law banning these procedures for children, with the court’s decision likely to have far-reaching consequences. Will our country protect children from these barbaric and irreversible procedures or not?
As I previously reported, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson humiliated herself when she bizarrely tried to equate banning transgender procedures for minors with prohibiting interracial marriage. She began with a convoluted statement:
Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe erupted into a screaming match against Rep. Pat Fallon after the Texas Republican ripped the protective agency’s failures that enabled two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump. Fallon lambasted Rowe for waiting days before visiting the Butler, Pa., site where Trump was nearly killed on July 13 — and then presented a photo showing the acting director near the now-president-elect instead of his detail during the Republican’s visit to New York to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Who is usually at an event
The NYPD has released new photos of the gunman who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown. The new images show the suspect’s face, which had previously been hidden behind a mask, with the gunman even seen flashing a smile. The photos were taken at an Upper West Side youth hostel where police believe he might have been staying before the shooting.
Police are still looking for the suspect after he was spotted riding away from the crime scene on Sixth Avenue and entering Central Park just before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Women golfers rejoice after LPGA bars
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post-puberty males from female competition:
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Multiple women's golfers came forward to praise and celebrate the LPGA's rule change on Wednesday that bars post-pubescent males from competing against females in pro competition.
The organization said in a news release that male players who have gone through male puberty are barred from competing in the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA competitions. The new rule will go into effect for the 2025 season.
"Players assigned male at birth and who have gone through male puberty are not eligible to compete in the aforementioned events," the organization said. "The policies governing the LPGA’s recreational programs
Jordan Neely’s father sues Daniel
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Penny as NYC jury deliberates verdict
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Jordan Neely’s father is suing Daniel Penny over his son’s chokehold death on a New York City subway car as the jury still deliberates whether to convict Penny of manslaughter.
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, accuses the Long Island Marine veteran of negligent contact, assault and battery that caused injuries and Neely’s death last year.
Neely’s father, Andre Zachary, “demands judgment awarding damages in a sum which exceeds the jurisdictional limits of all lower Courts which would otherwise have jurisdiction,” according to the lawsuit.
This is interesting. President Trump has announced that David A. Warrington will now lead the Office of the White House Counsel, as well as “Asst to the President and Counsel to the President.” It would appear that President Trump is adjusting the legal framework within the office.
Originally, President Trump announced William Joseph McGinley to serve as White House Counsel; however, he has now moved McGinley to be the legal counsel covering DOGE, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Warrington will now lead the office of White House Counsel:
Former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz has sparked outrage after she appeared to support the murder of UnitedHelathcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Lorenz, once a rising star on the internet beat, issued a series of controversial posts on Bluesky shortly after Thompson was assassinated in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday.
'Woke up to see this spammed in my group chats,' Lorenz wrote alongside a celebratory image that read, 'CEO DOWN.'
'People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,' she wrote on a different post.
'As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out
My RedState colleague, Brandon Morse, has started the ball rolling regarding Republican/Right-wing Never-Trumpers. In his column, he states that “the Never-Trump "right" has no shame.” I totally agree, and I would like to add another point to this debate.
I can’t tell you how many times I have talked to some Never-Trump Republicans – several are acquaintances of mine – and the debate always goes along the same lines. I bring up a political topic having nothing to do with Donald Trump (I avoid the subject around them, for obvious reasons). The Never-Trump Republican turns whatever that political discussion is focused on into a soliloquy about how uniquely
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) expressed support for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, stating he sees “no reason” to not support Hegseth.
When asked by a reporter if Cramer was “ready to vote” for Hegseth, Cramer explained that he was ready to “give him the benefit of the doubt.” “Well, I am — I give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m ready to be supportive of getting to that point,” Cramer said. “I’m ready to get him in front of the committee. I did warn him, I said, ‘You know, not everybody on the committee’s as friendly as I am.'”
If one read only the legacy press and listened to Democrats, one would think that president-elect Donald Trump has just nominated a Kremlin stooge to oversee America’s intelligence community.
Trump’s choice to be his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, has been tarred as “likely a Russian asset” by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The New York Times last week devoted a feature-length story to how Gabbard has become a “favorite of Russia’s state media.” Hillary Clinton once claimed Moscow was “grooming” her to run for president. Former congressman Adam Kinzinger, writing in The Bulwark, called her “outright disloyal.”
I don't know how he does it. But here we have another day ending in "y," and it's another day of Republican strategist Scott Jennings having to put out multiple fireballs of misinformation on a CNN panel. It's nearly impossible to follow the bouncing ball of lies being told by multiple panel participants in this segment, but we'll try.
The entire trainwreck of a segment begins with left-wing social media content creator Leigh McGowan stating her belief that President-elect Donald Trump will be "sending the military into blue states to make them behave."
“What are you talking about?” an incredulous Jennings responds.
Since Elon Musk changed the name of "Twitter" to X, and President-elect Donald Trump mostly posts on Truth Social, his own social media platform, technically his ripostes can no longer be termed "Mean Tweets." But thanks to his epic win on November 5, whatever we want to call them now, Mean Tweets are back on the menu. The Wall Street Journal has been having a normal one this week. First, by dropping a thinly-sourced, concern-trolling piece that Trump may be replacing the embattled Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday.
Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is free-shaving rescue animals in Catalonia.
There's a real electricity around this often moribund transition period between presidencies. President-elect Donald Trump took about 12 hours to shake off his campaign fatigue and has been nothing but energy since. While the TDS lefties are losing their minds in an attempt derail any future that Pete Hegseth may have at the Pentagon, some of Trump's other nominees are behaving as if the clock has already begun ticking on their official time in office.
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In what might be the greatest subtweet of 2024, outgoing Democratic congressman Dean Phillips spoke for many Americans when he posted on X: “Let’s just say the quiet part out loud, certain Americans are indeed above the law and influence is always for sale.”
Phillips was, of course, responding to the big news on Sunday that President Joe Biden had pardoned his son Hunter—something he had repeatedly vowed he would never do. In the “grant of clemency”
For Eithan Haim, operating on patients provides a welcome break from the federal criminal indictment hanging over him. Haim, who is 34 years old, works as a general surgeon at a regional hospital in Texas, dealing with ruptured appendixes, gunshot wounds, and whatever else comes through the ER. “Whenever I go into an operating room, any stress is gone,” he says. “It’s a beautiful thing.”
Haim’s alleged crime? That he violated HIPAA, a patient privacy law, when he revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital was providing gender transition treatments to minors after it announced that such services had been “paused.”
Days Ahead of Trump Arrival, the French
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President Trump is scheduled to arrive in Paris this weekend. Today, almost in an act of divine providence, the government collapsed.
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron tomorrow, according to France’s BFMTV. He is expected at the Elysee Palace at 10am local time. Barnier’s resignation is a constitutional obligation after he lost a vote of no-confidence earlier Wednesday evening triggering the collapse of his government.
A mystery is unfolding in the skies over central New Jersey, and even the FBI is stumped about what's going on.
Reports have emerged of "mysterious nighttime drone flights" appearing in the nighttime skies of central New Jersey, and some residents have taken to social media with videos of strange occurrences. Per one report, the drones -- or drone-like aircraft, no one is really sure what they are at this point -- have been sighted since as far back as November 18. Morris County resident Julie Shavalier witnessed the odd occurrence and told NBC News what she saw:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan doth bestride Turkey like a colossus. President since 2014 and before that, prime minister for eleven years, Erdogan has worked assiduously throughout this century to destroy Kemalist secularism and restore Turkey’s Islamic character. Erdogan has also made no secret of wanting to restore not just Islamic law, but the territories that the Ottoman Empire once ruled, including much of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. His present backing of jihadis in Syria appears to be part of that revanchist agenda. And along with all this, not surprisingly, goes a burning hatred of the U.S. and the West.
“I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” President Biden wrote in the last line of his statement explaining his unconditional pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. In doing so, he actually went full circle: The very first line of his statement emphasized their father-son relationship as well: “Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” So it was Biden’s open and close.
His PR team deliberately positioned it this way, of course. They had to: Hunter Biden isn’t a sympathetic character.
Earlier this week, President-elect Donald J. Trump rightfully went off on The Wall Street Journal.
The President-elect posted in part: “The Wall Street Journal is becoming more and more obnoxious and unreadable. Today’s main headline is: “Trump’s DEA Pick Pulls Out In Latest Setback.” With all that’s happening in the World, this is their Number One story of the day. Besides, he didn’t pull out; I pulled him out because I did not like what he said to my pastors and other supporters. But, more importantly, what’s my “latest” setback??? I just won the Presidency of the United States! They haven’t written a good story about me in YEARS…”
Bitcoin surged to over 100,000 per coin on Wednesday after President-elect Trump announced Paul Atkins, a crypto aficionado, would be nominated to head the Security Exchange Commission (SEC).
Google valued the coin at 102,726 U.S. dollars late in the day, while the NASDAQ and S&P 500 markets also measured gains. The digital currency has been teetering around the six-figure margin for days as Trump begins to enact plans to make America “the crypto capital of the planet.” The former president is bolstering the evolving platform amidst the threat of new currency systems seeking to challenge the U.S. dollar.
Turkey’s Erdogan funds an ethnic cleansing
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One of the things the media have been silent about since Turkish-backed forces attacked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is how these same forces have used the moment to ethnically cleanse Kurds in northern Syria, including (as always with Muslim warriors) the sexual enslavement of women.
Most Westerners first became aware of the long-running regional war against the Kurds in 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war. That was when news broke that after Iranian troops and allied Kurdish fighters captured an Iraqi military base near the Kurdish town of Halabja, Saddam Hussein ordered a poison gas attack on the town itself. The attack killed 3,000-5,000 civilians, injuring 10,000 more.
There’s not much Donald Trump could ever do as president that will generate more resistance and hatred than bleeding the fetid capital swamp. It’s arguable that there’s nothing he could ever do as president that would be better for the republic.
Trump’s decision to make administration appointments from figures who are outside of the establishment adds to the loathing that so many in the political-media establishment already directed toward him. Various grifters, vipers and unprincipled schemers from both parties have spent their adult lives seeking seats of power, comfort and endless tenure in the capital.
‘Razor-thin’ Republican House majority
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House Republicans pulled off what some members feared they couldn’t and defended their majority in the 2024 elections — but that slim control appears poised to winnow down to a two-seat majority at the start of next year, potentially hobbling the 47th president’s agenda.
The final House race was called Tuesday in California’s 13th District, where Democratic challenger Adam Gray ousted GOP Rep. John Duarte, and resulted in Democrats flipping a net of one seat this cycle with the GOP clinging to a 220-215 majority, down one from the 118th Congress.
However, at least three reps are set to depart in January.
Charlamagne tha God challenged Whoopi Goldberg over President Biden’s controversial pardon of his scandal-scarred son, Hunter, asking, “Why can’t you say when Democrats are wrong?” while appearing on “The View” Wednesday.
“The Breakfast Club” host sparred with Goldberg as the two liberal figures bickered over the 82-year-old president’s decision to let Hunter off the hook for any federal offenses over the past decade after previously claiming he would not intervene in his 54-year-old son’s criminal problems.
Charlamagne called the criticism against Biden “valid” because “Democrats stand on this moral high ground all the time” and “act so self-righteous.”
The chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s largest insurers, was killed Wednesday in midtown Manhattan in what police described as a targeted attack by a shooter outside a hotel where the company was holding a conference.
The shooter fled on foot into an alleyway and was last seen on an e-bike heading into Central Park. New York City police said the attack on Brian Thompson was planned, but the motive was unclear.
Here’s what to know Police said Thompson was heading to the company’s annual investor conference at the New York Hilton Midtown around 6:45 a.m. when a person walked up behind him and shot him multiple times.
The Justice Department briefed the House Judiciary Committee about an investigation it opened into Special Counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutors over misconduct allegations, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Examiner.
Details about the misconduct were not immediately clear.
The DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) told Chairman Jim Jordan’s committee last month about a misconduct allegation that took place in June 2023.
The OPR did not take any action against Jack Smith’s office due to the ongoing lawfare investigations into Trump.
Tourists flocked to Rockefeller Center for the Christmas tree lighting Wednesday night, unfazed by an armed assassin on the loose after killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson around the corner hours earlier.
Thousands of visitors from all over the country and overseas stood in line for hours in hopes of getting a glimpse of the famous tree in Manhattan — just two blocks away from where the shocking murder was committed shortly before 7 a.m.
The tourists bundled up and sang along to performances by the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson as light flurries fell over the celebration before the tree lights were turned on at 10 p.m.
CNN National Correspondent Lucy Kafanov has a rainbow flag emoji in her Twitter handle and was wearing rainbow gloves on Wednesday, but CNN Newsroom still thought she was an appropriate choice to send to the Supreme Court to cover oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the case that seeks to answer whether Tennessee’s ban on so-called “gender-affirming care” violates the Constitution. In addition to some horrifically one-sided reporting, Kafanov also sought to shame Tennessee and its supporters by rolling out 10-year-olds who identify as transgender to claim that they are in danger of being murdered.
To anyone unaware of Kafanov's activist stance, she quickly made it clear which side s
President-elect Donald Trump announced that William McGinley would serve as Counsel to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
In a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that McGinley would be working with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-heads of DOGE. Trump previously picked McGinley to serve as his White House Counsel. Trump announced in another post that David Warrington would “serve as Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President,” adding that he would “lead the Office of White House Counsel.”
Jeff Bezos said he was 'optimistic' about President-elect Donald Trump's second term on Wednesday and even plans to 'help him' achieve their shared goals.
The Amazon founder was often seen as antagonistic toward Trump during his first go around in the White House.
However, Bezos expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years. The video player is currently playing an ad.
'I'm actually very optimistic this time around,' Bezos said on stage during a wide-ranging interview at a conference in New York.
'He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I´m going to help him.'
It didn’t look good for Pete Hegseth, facing a multi-pronged attack on his character, a la Brett Kavanaugh, regarding his defense secretary nomination. Hegseth is qualified for the job. He’s also not just a Fox News host—he’s a decorated combat veteran who has worked with such groups for years. Yet, tales of sexual misconduct and hard drinking are now filling the airwaves, most of which is unsubstantiated drivel. The sexual misconduct allegations were investigated, and no charges were drafted. (X) His nomination to run the Pentagon was controversial.
Detectives investigating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly found shell casings with the words 'deny', 'defend' and 'depose' inscribed on them.
Police sources told ABC News that casings were found at the scene with the cryptic messages left on them.
Detectives are now working to determine what the words mean and if they could possibly hint at a motive for the slaying of the 50-year-old.
The gunman fired several shots during the ambush and jammed his gun in the process, but managed to quickly clear the obstruction and continue firing,
The at-large suspect who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel may have left a message on the bullets he used to kill the executive Wednesday morning, according to police sources.
The NYPD is investigating the possible message — which appears to include the words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” — engraved on live rounds and shell casings left behind by the masked assassin after he shot Thompson, 50, several times at about 6:46 a.m. before fleeing, the sources said.
Cops had recovered three live 9-millimeter rounds and three discharged casings in front of the Hilton hotel on Sixth Avenue, where Thompson, of Minnesota, was set to host
First son Hunter Biden was spotted on camera for the first time since his father, President Biden, pardoned him, smiling for the cameras as he picked up a fast-food order in California.
Hunter was seen on Wednesday afternoon in Santa Barbara sporting a T-shirt, jeans and baseball cap while picking up food from an Arby's.
The media was heard asking Hunter in a short video outside the restaurant if he had any comment on the pardon. The first son did not respond, and instead was seen hopping into the back of an SUV while flanked by security.
A few years back, left wing billionaire George Soros went on a spending spree and got prosecutors elected all over America who then went to work doing the exact opposite of what prosecutors are supposed to do.
They were soft on crime, freed dangerous criminals without bail and refused to prosecute certain cases based on so-called social justice.
Once the public figured this out, these prosecutors started getting challenged for office or even voted out in recall elections. Since 2022, almost two dozen of them have been kicked out of office, but it’s no time to slow down. They all must go.
Breitbart News reports:
OpenAI is partnering with defense technology company Anduril Industries to develop and deploy advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to protect the United States and its allies from the looming threat of lethal drones.
"By bringing together OpenAI's advanced models with Anduril's high-performance defense systems and Lattice software platform, the partnership aims to improve the nation's defense systems that protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and other aerial devices," OpenAI stated in a Wednesday press release.
Amid the rapid advancement of aerial threats, OpenAI says the new strategic partnership