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Ashley Biden, President Biden’s daughter, owes $5,000 in income taxes beginning in 2015, according to a recent tax lien docket first obtained by Fox News Digital.

Liens are legal claims imposed by the government on a property or assets to secure unpaid taxes after repeated attempts to collect.

On Dec. 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified Biden that the “amount of such unpaid tax, interest, additions or penalties is a lien in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon the taxpayer’s property – real, personal, or both – as the case may be,” according to the notice.

The period start date listed on the lien begins Jan. 1, 2015 – when Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration – and ends Jan. 1, 2021, days before he was sworn in as president.

Ashley Biden, 42, and her attorney did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was pictured posing with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers — part of the well-connected sex offender’s use of photos to manipulate the women he abused and control the narrative around his nefarious behavior, according to a new report.

The photo — believed to be among the first showing Gates with an alleged Epstein victim — was allegedly taken by the shady financier himself at Gates’ Seattle office in March 2014, years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In the image, published by the Journal Sunday, Gates is seen smiling and fiddling with the zipper of his dark quarter-zip sweater as a woman identified as a Polish model, then in her 20s, stands erect at his side in a grey jacket and blue scarf with her chest nearly pressed up against him.

The woman, whose face was obscured in the published photo, told the Journal she met Epstein, a registered sex offender, months before the snap was taken and that he then quickly began showering her with promises that he could help her career with his powerful connections.
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JUST IN - Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, a radical change in Vatican policy.

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About 2 weeks ago I watched a YT video of an amature group of aircraft pilot gamers who had a realistic, mulitplayer, aircraft/ship gaming system. They simulated this very scenario. U.S. aircraft carrier versus missiles/drones from Yemen. Interesting thing is while the carrier strike group is launching missiles (attack or defense), the carrier can not launch nor land aircraft. They launched defensive missiles from the ships and attacked with aircraft that could locate mobile launchers that were fleeing to underground bunkers in the mountains.

The flight physics and capabilities apparently match the published specs.

This will not be easy. They had A/C losses from a notional Yemeni force, but I bet that Iran has given them a few surprises for the coalition.

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