President Trump fired four high-profile presidential appointees just after midnight Tuesday, including Gen. Mark Milley, and Biden's top envoy to Iran, Brian Hook (who also served in the role during Trump's first term).
Trump also declared that "no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States."
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, is currently being processed for release from FCI Pollock, a medium security federal prison in Louisiana, NBC News reports. Tarrio had been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison after his conviction.
"He is being processed out," said his attorney
In his FBI role, Baker personally circulated the conspiracy theory, manufactured by “researchers” working with the Clinton campaign, that the Trump campaign and Russia were communicating via a secret server. After leaving the FBI, Baker served as deputy general counsel at Twitter, where he backed the company’s censorship of reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, based on yet another conspiracy theory that the laptop files were Russian disinformation.
...some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the pandemic – especially regarding his agency’s links to the lab in Wuhan, China, that might have created the virus that causes COVID-19.
The pardon addresses any COVID-related offenses, and is backdated to 2014—the year a U.S. ban on so-called "gain of function" virus research took effect -- research Fauci is accused of outsourcing to China.
“I'm revoking nearly 80 destructive, radical executive actions of the previous administration. They'll all be null and void within about what five minutes,” Trump said, adding that he would also implement “an immediate regulation freeze, which will stop Biden bureaucrats from continuing to regulate.”
Trump said he would fire “most of those bureaucrats” and issue a temporary hiring freeze, including a pause in hiring any new Internal Revenue Service agents. Federal workers will also be required to return to in-person work.
"Tonight, I'm going to be signing on the J6 hostages - pardons - to get them out - and as soon as I leave, we're going to be signing pardons for a lot of people," President Donald Trump said.
President-elect Donald Trump will suspend the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who were found to have coordinated with the 2020 Biden campaign to discredit credible and serious allegations contained on Hunter Biden's laptop about his family's influence peddling operation.
Hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher first reached an Israeli military facility near the border with the Gaza Strip and have been reunited with their families, the IDF has announced. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari in a press briefing said that Romi, Emily, and Doron and are now in "safe hands". He said, "They are now with us and on their way home."
“This is causing many migrants to leave on their own, knowing that they’re either going to be deported to their home country or be deported to Mexico,” Vasquez said, adding “The overwhelming majority of them do not want to be in Mexico.”
NewsNation reporter Jorge Ventura also warned sources have told him that newly deported migrants are targets for extortion or even abduction by Mexican cartels and human smugglers.
Our troops continue their mission of frontline defense in Syria to ensure the safety and security of Israeli residents. Syrian Armed Forces tanks, anti-tank missiles, RPGs, mortars and observation…
Multiple case reports and studies suggest a potential link between covid injections and an increased risk of cancer, including aggressive and metastatic types. Specific cases reported include colon cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, gastric cancer, basaloid carcinoma, melanoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia/lymphoblastic lymphoma, among others. Researchers propose that the vaccines may cause immune suppression, leading to accelerated cancer progression and that certain modifications in mRNA vaccines (e.g., 100% N1-methyl-pseudouridine) enhance tumour growth.
Barrett — who was put on the bench by Trump — joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices to deny his request to halt sentencing after his conviction for business fraud involving hush money payments.
He was handed an unconditional discharge Friday, meaning his conviction stands but he receives no additional penalty.
President Yoon is in a struggle with the opposition “Democrat Party” of South Korea that is under the control of Chinese Communist sympathizers beginning with their leader Mr. Lee Jae-myung who was convicted of crimes in November, which triggered this string of events because his conviction prevents him from running for the presidency.
Wednesday's events took at least six hours, and were greatly complicated when loyalist lawmakers formed a human chain to block the entry of police into the compound. Thousands of Yoon's supporters also showed up and demonstrated.
Moscow has still threatened to again use its new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile known as Oreshnik, which is said to be unstoppable using conventional anti-air defense measures.
On Wednesday Russia's retaliation come in the form of major aerial attacks against Ukraine's critical infrastructure, leading to emergency and rolling power blackouts across the country.
A top advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon has been fired after an undercover investigation caught him on camera admitting he's working with generals on a 'stop-Trump' effort.
California’s eco-regulators halted a critical wildfire prevention project near Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub - only for that same area to be engulfed in flames during the Palisades Fire, the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history.
Azerbaijani President Ilhan Aliyev gave a nearly three-hour-long interview to several local TV channels last week, during which time he signaled that his country might be preparing its own special operation against Armenia along the lines of Russia’s ongoing one in Ukraine. He of course didn’t use that term, but describing Armenia as a fascist state whose foreign-backed military buildup poses a threat to regional security very closely resembles Putin’s words about Ukraine ahead of large-scale hostilities.
But, the other half of ESG, the climate change agenda, is still well underway.
The World Economic Forum, the premier globalist think tank, has released more information this past month showcasing their plans to make carbon taxation about “justice, fairness and DEI”. When they talk about “equity in climate change” what they are referring to is a developing project designed to redistribute wealth away from first-world western nations into the coffers of third-world countries.
Russia has been growing its so-called shadow shipping fleet for several years but concerns have escalated in the last few months after some of them were linked to a series of incidents involving undersea infrastructure.
Germany, Britain, and 10 other European countries agreed in December on measures to “disrupt and deter” Russia’s shadow fleet.
The much anticipated treaty has long been in the works, since at least last summer, news of which caused President Zelensky to say there's an axis of rogue states conspiring to defeat Ukraine. This has included North Korea as well, which has lost troops helping Moscow defend Kursk region.
According the latest hydrologist report, "Major flood control reservoirs are either near their respective top of conservation levels or below." Precipitation has been slow in the first couple of weeks of the year, but the "The statewide accumulated precipitation to end of November 2024 was 5.22 inches, which is 132% of average." The snowpack, which is also where water is stored, and Gavin Newsom lets flow out to the Pacific Ocean to "save" a bait fish, is growing. "The statewide average snow water equivalent (SWE) was 5.1 inches for December 1, which is 168% percent of normal and 19% of April 1 average."
The Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a final rule in February imposing stricter energy standards for residential clothes washers (RCWs), such as washing machines and clothes dryers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Meta not only censored our posts – many having to do with topics that the so-called medical “experts” like Dr. Anthony Fauci were dead wrong about – but outright kicked us off the platform without warning. Meta first took action against CHD in May 2019, from takedowns and restrictions to an outright ban in August 2022 that is still in effect. What were our offenses? Simply publishing data on the risks of COVID vaccines, Remdesivir, and ventilation, as well as having the temerity to raise the benefits of natural immunity and alternative treatment with ivermectin and other protocols.
Burned 22,660 acres and numerous homes, businesses and landmarks in Pacific Palisades and westward along Pacific Coast Highway, toward Malibu. As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the fire was 11% contained. Many parts of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Brentwood and Encino are under evacuation orders or warnings. More than 12,000 structures remain threatened. Officials estimate that more than 5,300 structures, including many homes, have been damaged or destroyed.
Various armed allied groups of HTS are rampaging through the central and northern countryside, attacking Christians and Alawites, in a developing ethno-religious genocide. It has only been one month since Assad was overthrown.
oshua Steinman has heard that “a significant number” of Biden NSC staffers will be kept on once President Trump is sworn into office.
This is the same agency that produced Eric Ciaramella, the Obama Deep State asset who manufactured the complaint that led to the first Trump impeachment. Ciaramella lied about Trump’s call to the newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Hunter Biden’s illicit payments from Ukrainian Burisma Holdings.
Recall that Germany’s green energy masterminds decided that it would be best to decommission the country’s fleet on nuclear power plants, and to produce weather-dependent power with wind farms operating in the north of country, and then supply it to southern Germany via power transmission lines. There’s on problem with the masterplan from the green masterminds: the wind doesn’t blow all the time and so shortages result and rationing becomes necessary!
According to the StromgGedacht from grid operator TransnetBW in Stuttgart, to avoid overloading the grid: “Electric vehicles or batteries (of laptops etc.) should also not be charged from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. if this can be avoided.”
Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday as both prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeau said he will remain as caretaker PM until the Liberal Party selects its new leader.
US intelligence services have identified a complex supply chain set up by the Houthis in China since the beginning of the attacks in the Red Sea – i24NEWS has the scoop
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end its third-party “fact-checking” program in order to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms. But ending its questionable fact-checking program isn’t enough — Zuckerberg needs to reinstate groups like Children’s Health Defense that were banned from Facebook and Instagram for speaking the truth.
Caravan is headed from Tapachula to Juarez on foot, sources say
Mexico recently announced it'll build 25 new shelters for foreign nationals
Rush to border fueled by Donald Trump's return to White House
Mayor Karen Bass stands in a stunned silence for nearly 2 minutes as a reporter asks her if she regrets cutting Los Angeles' Fire Department budget by nearly $20 million and being absent as her citizens' homes burned down.
Following the August arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the popular social network and messaging application known for its stringent privacy policies has sharply increased its cooperation with U.S. authorities. The platform provided data on more than 2,200 users in 2024, a stark increase from previous years
That’s a good thing if the motivation for Meta Platforms chairman Mark Zuckerberg’s stunning shift towards liberty is what he says it is—a return to core beliefs—and not merely kowtowing to a new American administration.
In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau's FOIA follies matter
What makes my endorsement of Jay all the more peculiar is that he and I still disagree on COVID response. I know because I had the chance to talk with Jay and others in October at a conference that he organized at Stanford, at which I served as a panelist. What’s more, Jay invited me to this conference knowing that his and my opinions on this subject continue to diverge. Here and in other examples, I have seen Jay’s commitment to hearing diverse and disagreeing viewpoints. Jay is not one to try to muzzle a dissenting opinion.
However, it remains anything but clear whether the Islamic Republic has actually decided to build a nuclear weapon, something recently (and surprisingly) acknowledged by the CIA.
Still, the constant daily headlines over Iran's enrichment advances set things up for a collision course with the Trump administration after the Jan.20 inauguration.
Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a staunch firearms advocate, has introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The MoD claimed further that the Ukrainian army had lost more than 12,000 of the 15,000 troops deployed to defend Kurakhove, figures which are not independently verifiable. The military also said Ukraine lost about "3,000 pieces of various weapons and military hardware, including 40 tanks and other armored combat vehicles."
A little more than a month after critical undersea telecommunications cables were severed in the Baltic Sea region, reportedly by a Chinese vessel, a similar incident has unfolded just days into the new year—this time off Taiwan's northern coast.
Taiwan English News reported that four core subsea telecom cables were damaged off the coast in Yehliu, New Taipei City, on Friday.
Four years after what the FBI describes as an act of domestic terror--the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021--federal authorities have not yet solved the most consequential crime of that day: the presence of two explosive devices within blocks of the U.S. Capitol.
Joel Salatin, the self-described “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer,” enthusiastically engages in a free-flowing conversation as he navigates the bumpy mountain roads that wind through his 700-acre Polyface Farms in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
He showcases his whimsical sense of humor while driving a faded early-1980s Ford Bronco that has no windows and only gets washed by the rain.
Davis and Schulte devoted six of their 12 drivel-filled paragraphs to the absurd argument that Trump tried to overthrow the federal government during the unarmed Capitol incursion of January 6, 2021, and that this alleged “insurrection” disqualifies him from the presidency under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
If that argument sounds familiar, it is because Democrats in multiple states tried to remove Trump from their 2024 ballots using the same ridiculous assertions. Of course, they did not succeed.
Will he order another “Operation Warp Speed?”
What if people really do start dying, not just the elderly, but young people. Children. Will he be blamed for how unprepared we are?
Yet is Hurricane Helene really proof that man-made climate change is making life more dangerous in the U.S.?
The Heritage Foundation special report “Keeping an Eye on the Storms: An Analysis of Trends in Hurricanes Over Time” answers definitively in the negative.
In the report, Joe D’Aleo, visiting fellow in Heritage’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, and Kevin Dayaratna, chief statistician in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, break down the data.
Tensions over the SMA strained the South Korea-U.S. alliance during Trump's presidency. At the time, Trump accused South Korea of "free-riding" on U.S. military power and demanded a fivefold increase in Seoul's contribution, totaling $5 billion.
Biden's decision relies on a provision of the 72-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. This allows the president to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing. Section 12(a) OCSLA does not include language that would allow any future presidents to reverse the ban.
"That was tested after President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean," the New York Times noted, adding, "During his first term in office, Mr. Trump tried to revoke the ban. In 2019, US District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska ruled that Mr. Obama's ban could not be undone without an act of Congress."
Honduran President Xiomara Castro has threatened to evict US military forces from a major base if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his promise to unleash a mass-deportation policy targeting illegal immigrants. An estimated five percent of the Honduras population lives in America.
Robert Barnes, an attorney for raw milk producer and Amish farmer Amos Miller, revealed on X late Friday night that the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania "affirmed the trial court decision allowing Amish farmer Amos Miller to continue to make his wonderful food available to customers outside the state."
"Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence,” it continues. “What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives? Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."
In a court order on Friday, Merchan wrote that the Court had found “no legal impediment to sentencing” and added that the Court recognized “that Presidential immunity will likely attach” once Trump is sworn into office. Merchan added that it was “incumbent upon” the Court “to set this matter down for the imposition of sentence” prior to Trump’s inauguration.
Following the December 8 overthrow of Bashar al-Assad amid the rapid takeover of Syria by al-Qaeda splinter group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the big question for the incoming Trump administration in the US will be whether to finally pull American forces from Syria, after they've been there for a half-decade.
For now it seems US troops are not only maintaining their bases in the northeast, where Syria's oil and gas fields are located, but are actually expanding the Pentagon presence, and very close to the border with Turkey.
Federal authorities and investigative teams are probing a potential military connection between a US Army veteran who displayed an Islamic State (IS) flag and was described as "hellbent" on causing maximum damage by steering a Ford F-150 Lightning (EV) into a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, and another US Army veteran who drove an explosives-filled Tesla Cybertruck that detonated almost like a VBIED outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel just hours after the Bourbon Street massacre.
Two law enforcement sources familiar with the New Orleans truck-terror-ramming attack and the Las Vegas incident told NBC News that federal investigative teams are probing a potential military connection between the two individuals involved in both attacks.
Today, some of the highest paid U.S. federal agencies are financial regulators overseeing multi-trillion dollar asset markets.
While the median pay for federal workers is $99,000, wide variations exist across 438 agencies and sub-agencies. Employees at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have a median pay of $247,518 while employees working for Veterans Affairs and the Treasury Department are paid among the lowest.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that the Ukrainian decision to cease its gas partnership with Russia would hurt the rest of Europe economically.
While the Houthis have primarily focused their attention on the Red Sea waterways, they have sporadically traded blows with Israel. These back-and-forth strikes have intensified in recent weeks.
U.S. aircraft conducted strikes on Sana'a in the hours after the Tel Aviv attack, but the Houthis responded by launching drones and missiles at the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group. As U.S. warships prepared to defend against incoming Houthi attacks in the early morning hours on Dec. 22, one warship accidentally shot down a friendly two-seater F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet, forcing the two aviators to eject to safety.
On Dec. 8, Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised Beyond Trust, a third-party software service provider, and accessed certain unclassified documents, according to a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management Aditi Hardikar.
“This is unacceptable,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) wrote in a Dec. 30 post to social media platform X. “As Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the CCP, I’ll be requesting a briefing from the Treasury Department and working with my colleagues to ensure we protect our nation against these types of brazen attacks.”
According to a report by a national security expert, the People’s Republic of China has ordered the largest military build-up of any nation in the world since Germany in the 1930s, raising concerns about the military threat presented by China.
Precise numbers on casualties from either side of the conflict are not to be trusted, but there has been a sudden surge of activity by Russian troops with steady gains, pushing Ukraine towards the border with Sumy. Ukrainian soldiers say they were not prepared for the aggressive Russian response in Kursk and cannot counterattack or pull back.
“There’s no other option,” said one drone unit commander. “We’ll fight here because if we just pull back to our borders, they won’t stop; they’ll keep advancing.”
Jeju Air Flight 2216 from Bangkok to Muan, South Korea, crashed and caught fire after a 'bird strike' reportedly caused a landing gear malfunction, forcing the pilots to land the jet on its belly. However, the pilots could not burn off enough airspeed during the landing approach and flaring process during the landing, resulting in the aircraft crashing into a berm at the end of the runway.
"Congress has secretly paid out more than $17 million of your money to quietly settle charges of harassment (sexual and other forms) in Congressional offices," Massie posted on Thursday. "Don’t you think we should release the names of the Representatives? I do."
Germany's Bild newspaper which highlights a German government assessment saying the country is defenseless against the Russian Oreshnik missile system.
"The Patriot is not right to combat longer-range ballistic missiles, such as the Oreshnik," Bild quoted a government document as saying, in reference to the US-supplied air defense missile system. "Any interception would be more like sheer luck."
A Dec. 13 article in Fortune called the polio vaccine “not only safe but also effective” and claimed that “20 million people who would’ve otherwise been paralyzed by polio are walking today.” But how accurate are those statements? And what basic facts critical to a full understanding of polio vaccines did Fortune not share with readers? the WHO said, “if it is allowed to circulate for sufficiently long enough time, it may genetically revert to a ‘strong’ virus, able to cause paralysis, resulting in what is known as circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses.”
Vaccine-derived polioviruses were responsible for the recently reported cases of polio in Gaza and the 2022 case reported in New York.
In March 2023, seven children were paralyzed by vaccine-derived polio linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Meanwhile, inside Syria, the new Islamic rulers are losing no time in consolidating their rule and making clear their intentions. On 26 December, Al-Jolani appointed former Al-Qaeda commander and Nusra Front co-founder Anas Hassan Khattab as the head of the country's general intelligence agency. Khattab was designated a “terrorist” by the United Nations a decade ago. According to the UN, he was involved “in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” the Nusra Front. This Al-Qaeda offshoot was rebranded as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in 2017.
A judge has given Georgia lawmakers the power to subpoena District Attorney Fani Willis in their inquiry into her alleged misconduct in Trump’s election case.
Southwest of the key city of Pokrovsk, Putin's forces are currently surrounding another "linchpin" town called Velyka Novosilka. The area is considered a gateway to the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region and its fall would give Russia easier access to central Ukraine due to thinner defensive lines. The town is currently surrounded on at least three sides and experts suggest Ukraine is unlikely to order their troops to retreat due to the importance of the location. Kyiv now fears that the soldiers in the area will soon be encircled.
Others show HTS-linked factions or else foreign jihadist groups cleansing entire villages of 'Nusayris'—a derogatory term for Alawites, which is ethno-religious background of the Assad family. Jolani's officials have recently tried to urge for militants to not film their atrocities or upload them to the internet.
Heller referenced a 2007 BBC News article titled "Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'," which warned readers of the supposed threat that "latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years."
The BBC article's baseless claim was designed to instill climate fears across the public to ram through a radical de-growth climate agenda across the Western world.
For the better part of a century, Cuba has been under the control of communists and their ideologies, and the previously inconceivable has finally happened—they’ve run out of sugar. Like John Hinderaker at Powerline quipped, “This is like Libya running out of sand.”
Or…like Alabama running out of cotton.
Like Costa Rica running out of pineapples.
This year, I am highlighting a whopping $1,008,313,329,626.12. That’s over $1 trillion in government waste,
including things like ice-skating drag queens, a $12 Million Las Vegas pickleball complex, $4,840,082 on
Ukrainian influencers, and more! No matter how much money the government has wasted, politicians keep
demanding even more.
A court has overturned a felon-in-possession ban for Bryan Range, ruling that a food-stamp fraud conviction doesn’t justify Second Amendment right restrictions.
This means that instead of letting an old COVID policy expire, we are now creating and funding a permanent “public health workforce” to deal with “public health emergencies.” We were told repeatedly that COVID was a once in a century plandemic so why do we need a permanent workforce to deal with this sort of thing?
Red Voice Media reports:
The report states that members of Trump’s transition team have informed experts of their intention to officially announce the withdrawal on Inauguration Day. This move would complete a process that began during Trump’s previous term but was halted after Joe Biden reversed the decision upon taking office in 2021.
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The committee investigators wrote that they found substantial evidence that Gaetz regularly paid women for sexual activity between 2017 and 2020. The report alleges he engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017; possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, between 2017 and 2019; accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging related to a 2018 Bahamas trip; and sought to impede and obstruct the committee’s investigation.
China is ‘like a boa constrictor that’s tightening and tightening around the United States,’ expert says regarding the CCP’s vast investments in Latin America.
The career jihadist and leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Damascus on Sunday, in a first since the overthrow of Assad earlier this month.
The Ron Paul 'Revolution' could be on the horizon as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month. Elon Musk, one of Trump's top advisors, wrote on X about creating efficiencies at the Federal Reserve.
Germans took to the streets on Saturday night in Magdeburg to protest a deadly Christmas Market attack carried out by a 50-year-old immigrant from Saudi Arabia. The car-ramming attack on Friday night claimed five lives and left 200 people injured.