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Since President Trump nominated Pete Hegseth as the next U.S. Defense Secretary, the knives have been out for him.
First, they belittled him by claiming he was merely co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend." Even now, in their myriad hit pieces, Hegseth is referred to as the former Fox News host, the implication being that he is a lightweight.
After graduating from Princeton University in 2003, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard. He volunteered to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet he’s never referred to as a military veteran.
Let's look at the allegations so far.
Syrian rebels fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have entered Damascus as they capped a stunning advance across the country.
Residents of the capital have reported sounds of gunfire and explosions, with the insurgents announcing they had also liberated the Saydnaya military prison north of capital.
On Saturday evening local time, opposition forces took the central city of Homs, Syria's third largest, as government forces abandoned it. The city stands at an important intersection between Damascus, the capital, and Syria's coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus - the Syrian leader´s base of support and home to a Russian strategic naval base.
Megyn Kelly fiercely responded to a bizarre report claiming the on-air personality is gearing up to form a new show rivalling ABC's The View.
The bombshell 'breaking news' report, which surfaced on Friday, claimed the former Fox News television host, 54, would soon join television personality, Elisabeth Hasselback, for a 'new conservative talk show' on CBS.
The report, published by Read Update News, said the new show is 'set to premiere in early 2025' and 'aims to fill a perceived gap in the market by providing a platform for conservative voices often overshadowed in mainstream media'.
New photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged killer have been released by the NYPD, as the hunt for the assassin enters its fifth day.
The alleged killer can be seen in the back of a cab as NYPD investigator's search remains ongoing.
Earlier this week, a backpack found by officers in the hunt for Thompson's killer did not contain the murder weapon, according to reports. Authorities looking for the individual responsible for gunning down Thompson in the early hours of Wednesday morning found the backpack inside Central Park on Friday.
Sources have since told Bloomberg and NBC News that a jacket was found inside alongside Monopoly money.
Trump Greets U.S. Marines Stationed in
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President-elect Donald Trump greeted United States Marines who are stationed in France during his visit to the country and to attend the re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
In a video posted to X by Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications, Trump was seen shaking the hands of several U.S. Marines, who were lined up. (X Video)
Several people responded to the video by pointing out that Trump was “a real commander-in-chief” and was putting America first, even abroad.
“President Trump greets US Marines in France,” one person wrote in a post on X. “Everywhere Trump goes he’s America-First.”
Authorities May Know Identity of UnitedHealthcare
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Authorities are reportedly making some serious headway in the investigation of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot outside a Hilton hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested that investigators already knew the name of the suspected shooter, but he did not divulge it to the public. “We don’t want to release that now. If we do, we are basically giving a tip to the person we are seeking, and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all,” he told reporters, according to reports.
"Let him continue to believe he can hide behind the mask.
The Georgia Bulldogs were struggling to get anything going against Texas, and there was little reason to be hopeful of a turnaround with their quarterback crumpled on the turf. Enter a guy who had barely played in his college career.
Little-used backup Gunner Stockton came off the bench in the second half after an injury to Carson Beck and led No. 5 Georgia to an improbable 22-19 overtime victory over the No. 2 Longhorns in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday.
The Bulldogs (11-2) won their third SEC title under coach Kirby Smart, but the trophy comes with an even bigger prize —
Go ahead and give “Frosty” the cold shoulder.
Driving while jamming to the snowman-themed seasonal song could land you in a snow bank if you’re not careful.
That’s according to experts who warn against listening to music with a high rate of beats per minute, or BPMs, while headed over the river and through the woods this holiday season.
The fearsome festive news comes courtesy of a study from the South China University Of Technology (SCUT), where researchers found songs with a BPM greater than 120 guilty of encouraging dangerous driving habits.
And after evaluating a lengthly list said to include every classic Christmas tune,
The Food and Drug Administration will decide on a ban of certain food dyes in the coming weeks after receiving a petition to review the safety of Red 3, NBC News reports.
“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.
According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 —which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more —
These airline fees are soaring.
Another major air carrier will be implementing an extra charge for carry-on bags, as the cost of checked baggage climbs.
Beginning in January, Air Canada will be charging basic-economy travelers an extra fee for bringing aboard carry-on luggage larger than a handbag or small backpack.
The fee will pertain to flights within the Americas, according to the Miami Herald.
Travelers who choose the budget-friendly fare option will be charged $25 for their first piece of carry-on luggage — which includes both roller bags and oversized rucksacks — and an additional $36 for a second.
If flyers fail to pay when booking their tickets
A federal judge dismissed a January 6th defendant’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its former primetime TV anchor, Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday.
Delaware Federal District Court Judge, Jennifer Hall, ruled that Carlson’s reporting on Epps was protected under the First Amendment because Epps’ lawyers did not prove Carlson had acted with “actual malice.”
“For the reasons announced from the bench today, it is hereby ordered that Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim is granted,” Hall, a Biden appointee, wrote.
Members of the corporate media claimed that Epps would win his lawsuit against Fox News
Outgoing Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Jaime Harrison said that his party shouldn’t back down an inch when it comes to the exclusionary racist politics that it has embraced even after a disastrous election.
Harrison, who is black, defended identity politics during a Thursday meeting with state Democrat chairs on Thursday, urging them to defy naysayers who have dared to point out that discrimination is a dead end, as the party found out on November 5 when Donald J. Trump was overwhelmingly elected over Kamala Harris, a champion as well as a beneficiary of DEI.
“When I wake up in the morning, when I look in the mirror,
Thousands upon thousands of veterans’ headstones across the United States will have wreaths placed on them on December 14 to honor them and to keep their sacrifices fresh in the minds of all who see.
“For me, to see the American people — what they can do when they all come together — there’s so much volunteerism here and love of our military, and there’s also a great understanding. Our mission is to remember the fallen, and honor of those that serve, and teach the next generation the cost and value of freedom. And the ‘teach’ piece, to me, is what really hits home. It’s grown into an amazing thing,”
A pair of fentanyl dealers were sentenced to a combined 15-year federal prison sentence after being found guilty in the death of a 15-year-old Carrolton, Texas, girl. The two supplied the girl with fake Percocet pills containing the deadly fentanyl, according to court documents.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton announced the sentencing on Wednesday.
Lizbeth Prieto, 19, also known as Lizbeth Escamilla, and Cristian Lopez, 24, were charged via criminal complaint in June 2023 and indicted the following month, according to a press release by U.S. Attorney Simonton’s office. Ms. Prieto pleaded guilty in November 2023
A formerly homeless Chicago man who dreamed of one day becoming a father and a police officer has accomplished his goals, and is sharing his heartwarming story.
Lavelle Schaffer, 33, told ABC 7 Chicago that the dramatic growth he has made in his life is like a Hollywood story: [video]
“My life has come full circle,” he said. “It still feels like a movie almost.”
He became homeless with his pregnant girlfriend 10 years ago, and said that “every day was like survival mode.”
“‘Where am I sleeping? Who’s going to stay up?’ That takes a toll on you,” Schaffer recalled.
After spending more than a year on the Chicago streets,
Former President Barack Obama is being slammed online for his “hypocrisy” and being “up on his high horse” in response to his first speech following the November election.
During his Thursday pluralism-themed address at the Obama Foundation’s Democracy Forum in Chicago, the former president argued that Democrats need to reject “holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya'” when “one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power.”
“… Let me make this key point: Pluralism is not about holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya.’ It is not about abandoning your convictions and folding when things get tough,” Obama told the crowd.
During Friday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Hannity,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz predicted the New York City jury hearing the Daniel Penny case would remain deadlocked, possibly resulting in a loss for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Dershowitz said such a loss, coupled with a loss in his prosecution against President-elect Donald Trump, would likely result in a lost reelection bid. According to Dershowitz, Bragg was the “worst district attorney” in modern New York history.“Professor Dershowitz, in this kind of a dynamic, when you’ve got even at one point, he told the jury that it would have to be another jury, if they couldn’t
The Hunters Become the Hunted: Jack Smith’s
Partisan Prosecutors Lawyer Up as They
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Jack Smith’s prosecutors are lawyering up as they brace for President Trump.
Late last month Jack Smith moved to dismiss both federal cases against President Trump as Trump plans to go scorched earth and fire the special counsel’s entire team of prosecutors.
Jack Smith asked to dismiss both the January 6 case and classified documents case against President Trump.
Both cases against Trump were dismissed and now Jack Smith’s investigators are fielding calls with lawyers in DC.
“One former senior White House official said aides inside the White House and across various federal agencies are intensely worried
President-elect Donald Trump met with Prince William after the ceremonial reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday, calling the Prince of Wales a “great man.”
The two shook hands and spoke briefly at the ceremony, and met after the event for about 40 minutes at the residence of the British ambassador in Paris, where the 42-year-old Prince of Wales, still sporting a beard he grew during summer vacation, met Trump at the door, and said “Great to see you.”
As both men stood in the foyer and posed for photos, Trump praised the British throne’s heir apparent, saying, “Great man this one. He’s going to do a fantastic job.”
We are so back.
President Trump on Saturday arrived to France to attend the reopening of Notre Dame after the cathedral was damaged by a fire in 2019.
Trump proudly announced he would be attending the reopening of Notre Dame.
“It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago. President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so.
Mexican actress Marcela Alcázar Rodríguez, 33, died Sunday after reportedly participating in a high-risk ritual involving poisonous frog venom in the Mexican state of Durango. The actress willingly consumed the Amazonian frog venom as part of a longstanding spiritual cleansing ritual endemic to indigenous South American cultures, according to Infobae, an Argentine outlet. Rodríguez suffered a severe reaction to the poison and was taken to a Red Cross hospital, where she died
Before he even assumed office, President-elect Donald Trump met with world leaders to establish early lines of communication. He set the tone for the successive four years of his administration. The meetings came before the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after it was set on fire. Trump showcased his unorthodox approach to foreign relations, focusing on strengthening bilateral ties, asserting America's interests, and laying the groundwork for his America First agenda. Trump and world leaders discussed various topics, including defense and global security. His blunt style indeed left an unmistakable impression on the worldwide stage.
Pictures of Jill Biden With Donald Trump
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The re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, which suffered extensive fire damage in 2019, occurred on Saturday, and dozens of world leaders were on hand for the festivities. There was one notable absence, though. President Joe Biden was nowhere to be found.Instead, Jill Biden showed up with her daughter. That alone spurred questions given the president has long claimed to be a "devout Catholic." Yet, he couldn't be bothered to show up for a once-in-a-lifetime event that other world leaders flocked to? Of course, while the White House will likely claim a scheduling conflict (there was nothing on the president's schedule for Saturday), we all know the real reason.
A Virginia realtor is facing the possibility of having his license revoked over social media posts as concerns mount about the status of free speech for those working in real estate and other professions.
Wilson Fauber, a Staunton, Virginia-based realtor with a career spanning four decades, appeared before the Virginia Association of Realtors on Wednesday in a hearing to determine whether he violated the National Association of Realtors’ Standard of Practice 10-5. Adopted in 2020, the standard declares that realtors “must not use harassing speech, hate speech, epithets, or slurs based on race, color, religion, sex disability, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is trying to "strong-arm" the jury in the Daniel Penny case into deciding on a verdict by dismissing manslaughter charges when they appeared deadlocked, former U.S. assistant attorney Andy McCarthy says. "Bragg added a baseless recklessness charge to the indictment so the jury would have two counts, increasing the odds of conviction by giving the jury something to compromise on," McCarthy wrote in National Review. The manslaughter charge required prosecutors to prove that Penny acted with recklessness when he put mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1, 2023. Neely had barged onto a subway car while high on drugs, threatening
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, previously endorsed allowing trans-identifying individuals to serve in the U.S. military, a position military specialists and reports have warned hampers the force’s overall readiness.
The recently unearthed revelation stems from comments the GOP senator made during an Aug. 9 interview on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.” The host asked Ernst, an Army veteran, whether she agrees with Republicans’ sentiment that the military “has become too woke.”Ernst said she doesn’t believe “those [who] serve in uniform” are woke but admitted that “there is civilian leadership of the military that is woke.” She then cited trans-identifying individuals serving in the armed forces
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Can anyone deny that these emphatic words spoken by President Ronald Regan in his speech at the Berlin Wall were some of his most notable (among many) from his stellar two terms in the White House? And, if you thought about it, wouldn’t President Richard Nixon saying, “I am not a crook,” seem to be the words that spring to mind to sum up Nixon’s days in office? One president rises at Brandenburg Gate; the other falls from Watergate.
Before Nixon, who will ever forget President John F. Kennedy’s powerful expression, “Ask not what your country can do for you -
Democrat strategist James Carville went off on Joe Biden and called him the “most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime.”
Carville said Biden should have announced in 2023 he wasn’t going to run for reelection.
Biden waited until Obama and Pelosi forced him off the ticket in July and swapped him out for Kamala Harris shortly before the DNC Convention.
Kamala Harris blew through $1.5 billion in donor money in 3 months and still lost in a landslide against President Trump.
Joe Scarborough seems to be in the midst of a mental breakdown. Facing falling ratings and immense criticism from his far-left fanbase over meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the 'Morning Joe' host lashed out at his audience in an attempt to explain his position.
Sitting next to Mika Brzezinski, a clearly annoyed Scarborough shouted at the camera, claiming that he wasn't befriending Trump but was trying to get the "read of the man" as a supposed "journalist." I'm not sure how much sense that makes given he's known the incoming president for decades. How much more of a "read" would he need to garner?
A conservative activist group has compiled a list of 20 military officers it says need to be sacked as soon as Trump's team is in charge of the Pentagon. The group, the American Accountability Foundation, identified twenty officers ranging from a colonel to a four-star general and admiral as “pretty egregious” advocates for DEI.
This list is causing sphincters to snap shut all through the upper ranks.
The list compiled by the American Accountability Foundation includes 20 general officers or senior admirals and a disproportionate number of female officers. It has had a chilling effect on the Pentagon’s often frank discussions
Kamala's Deputy Campaign Manager Explains
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President Joe Biden decided that if he were going to be forced out of the 2024 race, he wouldn’t allow his enemies to dictate the terms of the new ticket. There are numerous stories about how the party brass wanted a mini-primary, not a coronation, but Biden decided to nuke it. When he announced he was ending his re-election bid, he immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. If you’re wondering why Barack Obama and other top Democrats took longer, this wasn’t the plan—no one wanted Kamala. Pelosi admitted she wanted a lightning-round primary. That’s the primary reason, but there’s another one that’s predictable given the ethos of the Democratic Party:
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Calvin Coolidge was taciturn by nature, it’s true. But the nickname obscures important elements of his life and career.
For example, did you know that Coolidge starred in what is today known as Franklin Roosevelt’s medium, radio? Or that as president, he gave hundreds of press conferences and established “a record for speechmaking in the last two decades,” according to the New York Times? Or that Coolidge wrote his own speeches? Or that his Autobiography stands as “the forgotten classic of presidential writing,” in the words of historian Craig Fehrman?
“The words of the President have an enormous weight,” Coolidge wrote, “and ought not to be used indiscriminately.”
As the kids like to say with a wink and a nod, “if you know, you know.”
In the first White House briefing since the Hunter Biden Pardon, White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre worked her way through a tangled mess of justifications for why Joe Biden changed his mind and gave a pardon to his son, Hunter. However, within the remarks she relied heavily on a name that apparently has leaned-in to the issue of Preemptive Pardons by the outgoing administration. WATCH (prompted):
It is transparently obvious why Jim Clyburn would be seeking a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden.
Across American communities, illegal immigrant gangs have become a growing and dangerous threat that is often linked to violent drug trafficking, human smuggling, and organized crime, operating with little to no fear of law enforcement. They use loopholes at the southern border to enter the United States thanks to lax immigration policies enacted by the outgoing Biden-Harris Administration.
Most recently, a top Tennessee law enforcement official confirmed that the dangerous Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, is now popping up in the state despite having strict border policies. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch warned that the gang is operating a human trafficking scheme in the state.
We may as well drop "President-elect" Donald Trump, which I'm still not tired of writing, and start using "Acting President Donald Trump," because while doddering old Joe Biden is falling asleep in his chair in Africa, Donald Trump is out meeting with world leaders - and they are anxiously awaiting their turn to meet with him. That's what presidents do. In the latest example, Acting President Trump attended the re-opening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday, and did so alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron, where the two exchanged friendly remarks. (X Video)
Notre Dame Cathedral is formally reopening its doors Saturday, more than five years after a devastating fire nearly destroyed the 861-year-old Gothic wonder at the center of the City of Lights.
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris is expected to preside over the reopening with French President Emmanuel Macron and more than 1,500 invite-only guests, among them 50 heads of state, Prince William, first lady Jill Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, who made his first foreign trip since his presidential victory last month.
The event — the culmination of a painstaking, $760 million restoration project — is taking place on one of the Roman Catholic Church’s holiest days —
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston recently became the latest Democratic leader to engage in a chest-pounding call to arms in resistance to the incoming Trump administration's plan to deport people who entered the United States unlawfully.
While a post-election poll by YouGov for CBS News shows that a massive 73% of adults want President-elect Donald Trump to prioritize the repatriation of illegal migrants, the mayor pledged to not only have Denver police "stationed at the county line to keep (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) out" but also that "you would have 50,000 Denverites there."
Biden White House Isn’t Blaming Trump
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Old Joe Biden is deeply proud of being a member of the Biden clan, as he has made clear on numerous occasions when he has guaranteed the veracity of some statement (usually a whopping lie) by following it up with “My word as a Biden.” In reality, however, being a Biden has come to mean the total evasion of responsibility, and the determination to blame someone else for one’s failures when not denying outright that they were failures at all. This is, actually, a general tendency on the left. On Friday, Biden’s chief propagandist, Karine Jean-Pierre, found a new person to blame
Donald Trump awkwardly shook hands with France's president during a visit to Paris to celebrate the re-opening of Notre Dame.
The president-elect met with President Macron as part of the ceremony to commemorate the renovation of the iconic cathedral, which was ravaged by a devastating fire in 2019.
The leaders embraced each other warmly, if not entirely gracefully, at their meeting at Élysée Palace, Macron's official residence.The bizarre gesture, described as a 'power move' by online commenters, saw Trump 'dominate' Macron by gripping his hand from above as the two posed for photos.
Trump wrote when he accepted the invitation earlier this week that the French premier had done 'a wonderful job
Kamala’s political career was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Old Joe Biden signed off on it, even holding a cordial meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. Cackling Kamala’s chaotic career was as dead as a door-nail.
Yeah, you’ve heard this before. This is indeed “A Christmas Carol,” and with Old Joe’s wild Scroogey hair billowing in the wind at the White House’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Friday, the comparison was irresistible. The New York Post reported that the Biden “doffed his stocking cap to reveal long, wispy locks — appearing more like a character out of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic
Iran is abandoning its Syrian ally following rapid gains made by Islamist rebel forces, who are now closing in on the capital Damascus.
“Iran is starting to evacuate its forces and military personnel because we cannot fight as an advisory and support force if Syria’s army itself does not want to fight,” a prominent advisor to the Iranian regime, Mehdi Rahmati, told the New York Times.
“The bottom line,” he said, “is that Iran has realized that it cannot manage the situation in Syria right now with any military operation and this option is off the table.”
The unspoken reason Iran is leaving Syria is that Israel smashed Iran's proxy Hezbollah, fatally
The list of stories on the corruption committed by Democrats in major cities across the country might rival the length of your average telephone book. In this latest, sordid situation on Friday, we find ourselves learning about alleged corruption in the city of Boston, thanks to a heads up by our friend Andy Ngo:
He wrote on his X account:
Tania Fernandes Anderson, a woke BLM Muslim former illegal migrant Democrat serving on the Boston City Council, has been arrested by the FBI after being indicted on five counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and one count of aiding and abetting theft
Establishment Republican strategist Karl Rove attacked highly popular Vice President-elect JD Vance this week for his successful Senate bid in 2022, claiming he was a poor candidate.
Rove’s odd and unprompted insult came in a comment to the New York Times in an article published Thursday about Steven Law stepping down as head of the Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)-aligned Senate Leadership Fund super PAC:
“There was a candidate running in Ohio who was a terrible fund-raiser and was not a particularly effective candidate and the rest of the Republican ticket is winning by — from 18 to 24 points,” Mr. Rove said. “
PHLADELPHIA - Shaur Thomas, who was released from prison and paid $4.1 million by the city after serving 24 years for a murder he says he didn't commit, pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a man over a $1,200 drug debt. Thomas, whose 1992 murder conviction was overturned in 2017, was convicted of third-degree murder and related crimes for fatally shooting 38-year-old Akeem Edwards last year.
Biden's Preemptive Pardons Prove Once
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President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter, after repeatedly promising that he wouldn't, has come under fire this past week. And now, a bombshell report out of Politico alleges that Biden's senior aides are contemplating issuing preemptive pardons to a slew of officials they think might be in the line of fire during President-elect Donald Trump's next term.
Prince William will meet president-elect Donald Trump in Paris to discuss the 'special relationship' on Saturday as they join world leaders for the reopening of Notre-Dame.
William will travel to France by request of the Government for the event celebrating the £600m restoration of the landmark cathedral following a devastating fire in 2019.
While in Paris, he will hold meetings with both Trump and America's first lady Jill Biden, Kensington Palace said. Trump and dozens of heads of state and government accepted invitations from French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the ceremony.
The iconic cathedral is formally reopening its doors today following an ambitious five-year project to restore a monument
America's top internet sleuths have refused to help law enforcement officials track down the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 50-year-old father-of-two was gunned down earlier this week, with the footage of his assassination circulating on social media amidst an ongoing manhunt for his killer.
Typically this type of high-profile violent crime sets platforms including TikTok and X alight with buzz, with amateur internet sleuths hunting to root out the perpetrator.
Obama Just Accused Republicans of What
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No one seems sure who first said it, maybe Joseph Goebbels, but in any case, it’s a tried-and-tested Alinskyite tactic: accuse your enemy of what you’re doing. Barack Obama is a practiced expert at this, and he gave a master class in it on Thursday at his Obama Foundation’s Orwellian-named Democracy Forum.
With some notable and revealing difficulty in getting the words out, Obama accused the Republicans of doing everything that the Democrats have been doing for the past few years: rigging elections, weaponizing the justice system, and trying to ensure that they would remain in power on an indefinite basis. Whatever can be said of Barack Obama, the man
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President-elect Donald Trump’s team is reportedly floating the idea of shaking up the White House press briefing room. As expected, members of the press are already whining about it.Team Trump is looking at replacing legacy media outlets in the briefing room’s front rows to make room for independent news organizations, at least some of which might be friendlier to the incoming administration, according to The Hill.
People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to him could replace outlets like the major television networks,
There are a few calendar dates that are burned into the American psyche. Some endure for good and happy reasons. Everybody knows why we celebrate July 4 and December 25. Both are part of our national identity as a free nation, the freest on Earth, founded in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Others endure for tragic reasons. November 22 saw the assassination of a president and, days later, his alleged killer, much of it brought directly into our living rooms as the first (and only) such event during the television age. September 11 was a horrifying example of murder brought about by men who hated America simply for being America.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is raising concerns that certain establishment GOP lawmakers may quietly undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda despite publicly claiming to support it. As Trump gears up for another four years in the White House, Roy fears some of his colleagues, particularly those with strong ties to the D.C. establishment, will work behind the scenes to thwart his policies or derail his efforts. The Texas representative’s warnings reflect a broader anxiety within the GOP about the deepening divide between the incoming Trump Administration and those deep inside the swamp. In addition to Roy, others also fear these Republicans may prioritize their political futures.
Tim Walz admits he’s a ‘little surprised’
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lamented losing the 2024 race for the first time in a series of local media interviews this week, with the Democrat admitting he was a “little surprised” that he and Vice President Kamala Harris were defeated.
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t at the end,” Walz told KSTP.
“So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.” (Photo) The Minnesotan’s assessment cuts against that of several Harris campaign aides,
It’s hard to imagine any administration feeling enthusiastic about handing over power to a new president, especially after a hard-fought and often bitter campaign.
However, for a regime that has relentlessly sought not only to defeat but to destroy its opponent, a smooth transition becomes almost impossible. Despite the irony that President Joe Biden may have actually cast a vote for President-elect Donald Trump, it’s evident that he and his team are actively creating obstacles to hinder their successors.
In ways large and small, from domestic policy to foreign affairs, the most un-American and power hungry administration in modern memory appears determined to obstruct Trump’s agenda.
While it is uncommon
More than 1,000,000 fewer native-born Americans are employed than last year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The number of foreign-born workers employed increased by roughly 400,000 year-over-year in November, while 1,094,000 fewer native workers were employed, BLS data shows. The large disparity is partly driven by a decrease in the number of native-born Americans employed of 215,000 from October to November.
President-elect Donald Trump and his inner circle closed ranks around Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on Friday, signaling they are behind him 100 percent despite a concerted smear campaign based on anonymous sources.
Trump on Friday posted on Truth Social:
“Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe. He was a great student – Princeton/Harvard educated – with a Military state of mind,” he said. “He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense Defense, one who leads with charisma
What has been going on in the Daniel Penny case, from the second NYPD detectives brought the young man in for questioning, has been the grossest and most disgusting miscarriage of justice imaginable.
And after living through the past five years of Soros prosecutors, I can imagine some pretty horrible stuff.
John had the breaking news earlier about the deadlocked jury...
When jury deliberations began in the Daniel Penny case on Tuesday, I really expected we'd have a verdict in a matter of hours or certainly by Wednesday morning. Today, on the jury's 4th day of deliberations they have told the judge they are deadlocked on the manslaughter charge.