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A new report says that the Truth Social platform founded by former President Donald Trump informed federal officials about dangerous posts made by a Utah man who was shot to death Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI. Craig Deleeuw Robertson, 75, was shot to death at about 6:15 a.m....

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Sen. Chuck Schumer may be sponsoring legislation that targets a super PAC that engages in just the type of behavior the Senate majority leaders claims to disdain. The New York Democrat has co-sponsored the DISCLOSE Act that he claimed will "fight the cancer of dark money in our elections." Meanwhile,...

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Why didn’t we have 35,000 patriots protesting for free speech outside the courtroom when Donald Trump was arraigned last week? Why didn’t we have 10,000 protesters for free and fair elections in Mohave County, Arizona, when the Board of Supervisors rejected hand-counting ballots? Over and over, I hear “thought leaders”...

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You know God is powerfully present in a service when people come to the altar not just to throw themselves before the Divine Lawgiver for mercy, but also before local law enforcement. It was a small town in Illinois -- a Friday night service in June 2000. During the time...

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Reports of Lil Tay's death, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. The social media influencer put out a statement Thursday to announce that she was fine, one day after news reports circulated that the 14-year-old and her brother had died, TMZ reported. The announcement indicated that the false report was...

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Voltaire once quipped that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. In like manner, President Joe Biden admitted this week that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act had nothing to do with reducing inflation. According to Bloomberg, Biden made the admission while speaking at a Thursday...

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An autistic teenager in England was forcibly detained (by seven officers, no less) for the high crime of saying a police officer looked like her grandmother. Yes, that dystopian scenario is missing a bit of context, which we'll address momentarily, but the facts are indisputable. According to The Telegraph, footage...

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On her way out of her job as a Seattle police lieutenant, Jessica Taylor handed in a letter raking the city's left-wing leaders over the coals for destroying her once-great city. Taylor retired from the Seattle Police Department on Aug. 1 after 23 years on the job, but instead of...

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Former President Donald Trump accused special counsel Jack Smith of election interference online after the Justice Department requested one of its criminal trials against him to commence just before the Iowa caucuses on Thursday. In a legal filing, Smith and assistant special counsels Molly Gaston and Thomas Windom asked for...

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Tech titans Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will fight in an “epic location” in Italy in the coming months after Musk worked out a deal with the Italian government, he said Friday on his X social media platform, formerly Twitter. A bout between Musk and the Meta CEO has been...

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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss has been tapped as a special counsel in his ongoing investigation into President Joe Biden's son. Weiss' appointment appears to have been his own idea. "On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that, in his...

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A New York teen has been charged with hate-crime murder in Brooklyn stemming from an altercation last month, but the prosecutor’s comments about the case don’t appear to match video evidence of the deadly encounter. From multiple viewings, it appears as though the teen had actually made an effort to...

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According to one biographer, former President Barack Obama has concealed many things behind his carefully cultivated public image. David Garrow, author of "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," believes that the ex-president's long-ago letters to his former girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, contain much that readers would find revealing. "Barack...

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Neighbors of the 75-year-old man killed in Utah after allegedly making threats to President Joe Biden and others are speaking out regarding the man they knew. The FBI went to Craig Robertson's home in Provo Wednesday to serve search warrants and to arrest Robertson for his previous online threats for...

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Family members of an elderly Provo, Utah, man killed outside his house Wednesday by FBI agents investigating threatening posts on his Facebook account have released a statement questioning the agents' actions. In a statement to KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City on Thursday afternoon, the family denied claims that he was...

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On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. One prominent Republican greeted the announcement with appropriate skepticism and assurances of continued resolve. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, released...

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Top Republicans laid into the Department of Justice on Friday after it was announced that the federal prosecutor who offered Hunter Biden a “sweetheart” plea deal had been named a special counsel in the investigation into him. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday morning that U.S. Attorney for Delaware David...

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Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund shared his perspective on the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with Tucker Carlson this week, explaining how critical intelligence had been withheld from him in the days before the event. In the interview, Sund revealed that federal intelligence agencies were aware...

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Joe Biden's crooked Department of Justice is working to throw peaceful anti-abortion protesters in prison even as officials ignore actual terrorists who have bombed pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. The Biden administration continues its campaign to put an end to political free speech if it runs in opposition to his party...

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Republican state lawmakers who organized a six-week walkout to impede the progress of pro-abortion legislation will be barred from seeking re-election once their current terms end, the Oregon secretary of state confirmed this week. In a Tuesday news release, Democratic Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade said she was merely upholding...

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