Article Title: Anna Paulina Luna Issues Blunt Message To Democrats on Debt-Raising Funding Bill
Article Title: Elon Musk Is Especially Fired Up Over This Part of the CR
Snippet of Article: "As Musk wondered, "How can this be called a 'continuing resolution' if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?" … Members would go from making $174,000 to $243,000.How can this be called a “continuing resolution” if it includes a 40% pay increase ..."
Article Title: Swartz creek man who operated $72M Ponzi Sceme has sentence commuted by Biden
Snippet of Article: "...President Joe Biden commuted this week is that of a Swartz Creek man who pleaded guilty to wire fraud after operating a $72 million Ponzi scheme.
Gregory McKnight, 64, ran a company called Legisi Holdings, where he solicited investments and promised high returns for more than 3,000 investors. ..."
Article Title: Fired postal worker threatens to ‘shoot somebody’ when he was denied benefits, feds say
Snippet of Article: "...A federal jury found Quadri Garnes, 48, of Brooklyn, New York, guilty of transmission of threats to injure after a five-day trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a Dec. 13 news release. ...After Garnes lost his job as a mail carrier at the Homecrest post office in Brooklyn in May 2022, his application for unemployment benefits was rejected because he worked less than 60 days, according to prosecutors. While on the job, Garnes had crashed his postal truck into two vehicles before his firing, prosecutors said.
Article Title: We Had Another Night of Drones Flying Everywhere in New Jersey
Snippet of Article: "...It might have been a television show, but we could use FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully because drones have invaded New Jersey. Are they UFOs? We don’t know. It’s even more alarming that the FBI said this week on the Hill that they have no idea what’s going on above the skies of the Garden State. ...“That’s right,” responded Robert Wheeler Jr., the FBI’s Assistant Director of the Critical Incident Response Group, who admitted that it’s “concerning” they can’t identify who’s behind the swarm of drones that seems to invade NJ skies nearly every night.
“That’s crazy!” Gonzales replied. “That’s madness that we don’t know what these drones are…” "
Article Title: Wray Resigns In Disgrace After Using FBI To Persecute Enemies And Protect Lawbreakers
Snippet of Article: "...FBI Director Christopher Wray has announced his plans to resign before former President Donald Trump returns to the White House. ...Wray’s choice of words is ironic considering the agency’s election interference and targeted harassment of conservatives. ... Under his watch, the FBI worked with Big Tech to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story and prosecuted political opponents and journalists for allegedly engaging in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. "
Article Title: Border Czar Tom Homan Reveals Where Mass Deportation Operation Will Begin
Snippet of Article: "...Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, said the nation’s largest mass deportation operation will begin in Chicago.
“Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said Monday during a Republican event in the Windy City, referring to Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker. ..."
Article Title: Christopher Wray Preparing Resignation As FBI Director
Snippet of Article: "This moment offers an opportunity to reflect on Wray’s tenure, the criticisms that have mounted against him, and what a new era of leadership under Donald Trump’s administration could mean. ...appears to be stepping down to avoid an inevitable firing under Trump’s return to the White House. Sources close to Wray suggest that he does not want to endure a public dismissal, which aligns with reports that his “days were numbered” under a Trump administration. ...Wray’s leadership symbolizes an agency in turmoil, accused of failing to address internal misconduct while projecting partisanship in its investigative priorities. ..."
Article Title: UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin left message behind to 'make a statement' or 'throw off police': Detectives
Snippet of Article: "...Police sources told the New York Post that the words "deny," "depose" and "defend" were written on the live rounds and casings left behind by the assassin after the shooting. Each bullet and casing had just one word written on it.
"Clearly intentionally left to make a statement," the detective said on Thursday. "This will help identify a motive and eventually the suspect."..."
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Snippet of Article: "...Hunter, surrounded by his taxpayer-funded security detail, smiled after leaving Arby’s. ...The 54-year-old first son pleaded guilty in September to nine criminal counts related to $1.4 million in unpaid taxes and was found guilty of three federal gun charges in June after he was charged with possession of a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs."
Article Title: IT BEGINS: Nervous About Trump Policies, Illegals Starting to Return Home
Snippet of Article: "...An outside observer might be forgiven for presuming that Donald Trump has already taken office. World leaders are dropping in to talk with him, and his proposed policies are already bearing fruit. Reuters, predictably, notes that Trump's border policies are already making a difference — but gets the main point in the illegal immigration debate completely wrong.
Yes, the incoming Trump administration has made their intentions known, and they are already having an effect. Not least of those effects are President-elect Trump's appointment of border bulldog Tom Homan and the incoming Trump administration's stated immigration policies. Now, some immigrants are mulling over a return to their home countries, aware of the fact that there's a new sheriff in town north of the border. ..."
Article Title: DNC Finance Committee Member Blasts Harris Campaign Spending, 'Lining the Pockets of Well-Connected Dems'
Snippet of Article: "...there has been considerable scrutiny as to the spending — the most ever in a presidential campaign. ...DNC Finance Committee Member questions why so many consultants became millionaires off of donations to Kamala Harris' campaign:
Lindy Li: "There's a lot of conflict of interest here. And we need a careful accounting and probably more granular than the FEC report would offer"
Article Title: Joe Biden Tries To Justify Hunter Pardon By Peddling Another Round Of Lies
Snippet of Article: "In June, the president repeatedly vowed not to pardon his son, including during a joint news conference with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As the time, the elder Biden stated: “I’m not gonna do anything. I said I abide by the jury — decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him.”
President Biden’s “no pardon” position remained firm as recently as last month, when the issue arose during a press conference. “We’ve been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in early November....whistleblowers’ testimony established that Hunter Biden wasn’t unjustly targeted, but instead received unfair preferential treatment: The DOJ refused to authorize a search at his father’s house because of “appearances,” witnesses were tipped to the FBI’s impending questioning of them, federal prosecutors allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most serious criminal charges, and the DOJ entered into a sweetheart plea agreement calling for no felony charges pursuant to a deferral agreement that was so unusual, the federal judge asked for briefing on the propriety of the deal. ..."
Article Title: Democrat James Carville: Audit Harris Campaign's Spending
Snippet of Article: "...Democrat strategist James Carville is calling for an audit of Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, saying its "unfathomable" spending has damaged the Democrat brand. ..."But I would say the policy, number one, is we're going to audit everything. We're going to audit the campaign. We're going to audit Future Forward. We're going to audit the DNC so people can know.
"But I'm telling you, without complete transparency, the campaign ... That's two and a half freaking billion dollars.
"Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?" Carville asked."
Article Title: Democrats Point Fingers At Biden, Harris, Mayorkas for Costing Them the Election
Snippet of Article: "...accused lame-duck President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas of pushing a pro-migration agenda on the country despite millions of Americans rejecting it.
The data found that more than half of swing state voters broke for Trump solely because of his immigration policies. ..."
Article Title: Trump Picks Navy Outsider to Fix a Thoroughly Broken Service
Snippet of Article: "...The challenges facing Phelan are daunting. The Navy is THE vital service in any conflict with China but from an outsider's perspective, that service seems not only broken but content in being unable to carry out its mission. ...The ships it designs have gone from being best-in-class to laughingstock. The highly touted "Littoral Combat Ship" has not been deployed to the theater for which it was intended, the Red Sea, because its missile magazines carry too few missiles to defend itself against the Houthis. "
Article Title: Ex-CBS News reporter accuses network of ‘defying’ orders from Shari Redstone, CBS CEO to probe Hunter Biden laptop scandal
Snippet of Article: "...Cheeks told her CBS wanted to “have accountability” on the issue and to “speak truth to power on both sides of the aisle,” which the investigative reporter welcomed.
But the journalist said there was pushback inside the left-leaning network over her probe into the laptop of the president’s son, and whether its contents revealed corruption by President Biden. ...In her bombshell allegation, Herridge said she brought evidence to Ciprian-Matthews and “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell in early October 2020 that the laptop contained material about “a million-dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm,” along with business texts and emails from the son of Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
But her reporting never aired. "
Article Title: Climate activists learn fate for red powder attack on US Constitution at National Archives
Snippet of Article: "Federal authorities said the pair caused $58,000 in damage within National Archives Rotunda ...Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced to 24 months in prison and 18 months, respectively, in the Feb. 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division announced on Monday.
Zepeda pleaded guilty on Aug. 15 to felony destruction..."
Article Title: Tom Cotton Sends Letter to Lloyd Austin Telling Him to 'Knock off the Nonsense' Obstructing Trump
Snippet of Article: "...Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), in a scathing letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slammed "partisans and obstructionists" at the Department of Defense who are already plotting ways to thwart the incoming president's agenda.
Cotton was responding to reports that officials within the United States government are conspiring against President-elect Donald Trump to undermine decisions he finds warranted in furthering the interests of this nation. ..."
Article Title: DNC Let Go of Staff With No Severance, Says Union
Snippet of Article: "Losing an election has not absolved the organization of its responsibility to treat its workers with basic dignity.” ...Last Thursday, workers with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were told they would be laid off without severance and with little notice, according to the DNC’s union. The cuts included some longtime workers of the organization, the union said.
With the election over, the DNC intends to downsize from about 680 staff to fewer than 200. ...But this degree is unusual—and has affected DNC staffers who’ve stayed with the organization across several campaigns, or even multiple decades, according to the union.
One former DNC union member, whose last day was Friday, said she was shocked. ..."
