Obama's CIA chief testif ies that Biden campaign ‘ triggered’ Hunter Biden l etter to discredit laptop

Ex-CIA chief says Blinken ‘triggered’ Hunter Biden letter to discredit laptop
A former top CIA official who helped write and sign the infamous October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter baselessly claiming Russian involvement has testified that a phone call with now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” its creation.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is ‘senior’ Biden official in Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower claim
Attorney Mark Lytle wrote that the IRS employee wants to provide information to congressional leaders to “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee” — Garland — and also to detail “preferential treatment” in the criminal probe of the first son.

Game changer: How possible meddling in Hunter Biden investigation was exposed
Three years ago, Democrats went to the barricades to defend an anonymous CIA employee who filed a legally baseless whistleblower complaint against Trump in the Ukraine matter. They did that because they could. Now Republicans have the majority in the House.

Senior DHS official has office raided, leaving more questions than answers
The office is responsible for providing intelligence assessments on major transnational organized crime operations, border security, and terrorist activity.

AP: Semi-automatic rifle ban passes Washington state legislature
The high-powered firearms — once banned nationwide — are now the weapon of choice among young men responsible for most of the country’s devastating mass shootings.

Colorado Shoots Down Ban On ‘Assault Weapons’
Colorado lawmakers narrowly voted down a state House bill calling for the ban of so-called ”assault weapons” on Wednesday, in a vote that included three Democrats joining with the Republicans to defeat the measure.

The Woke Revolution Is Erasing the Past
Students of English and history are going the way of the dodo bird. During just the last decade, their numbers at colleges and universities have dropped by a third – and humanities enrollment is down by 17%.

Text Alert System Launches To Warn Chicago Of Future ‘Teen Takeovers’
While Chicago residents claim to decry violence and lawlessness, they just voted into office a far-left progressive mayor who ran on an anti-cop platform.

Biden plans to make re-election announcement next week
Biden aides have ramped up planning for the long-expected launch of the president's bid for a second four-year term in 2024.

Matt Taibbi: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me "direct threats to people who oppose them," is now threatening me with prison — over Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error.

Disney goes to war with DeSantis as lobbyists told to prepare for Florida battle: Report
Disney wants lobbyists to use their powers of persuasion in convincing lawmakers in Tallahassee to shoot down proposed legislation that would curb the company’s authority in deciding issues like land use, taxation, and maintenance of infrastructure.

Pity The Reporters Assigned To The Ron DeSantis Beat
To get a sense of how hard reporters in Washington are struggling to kneecap Ron DeSantis ahead of his expected presidential campaign, consider that they’ve rolled in Chris Christie to attack the Florida governor.

NY Post: Inside RFK Jr.'s White House bid launch: 'Never seen so many hot MILFs'
His supporters, a mix of old-time Democrats dreaming of Camelot, Republicans, and anti-vaxxers came from as far as Palm Beach to see the 69-year-old who’s been described by the Boston Globe as someone who “without his name would be just another fringe-dwelling extremist.”

The awkward multi-polar world of the West versus ever-wealthy developing countries
The political clout of the BRICS is turning out to be as important as their increasing economic heft. Assumptions in 2001 that these countries would become friendly allies in a U.S.-dominated world order are proving false.

Will BRICS' New Currency Overtake the US Dollar Dominance?
According to a recent Bloomberg report, the BRICS countries are expected to grow their economies faster and eventually surpass G7 nations.

The De-Dollarization Fairy Tale
Why today’s USD-centric system works and why it’s been impossible to replace in 50+ years.

Tax Receipts Are Leaning Toward The 'Worst-Case' Debt Ceiling Scenario
As Goldman's chief political economist Alec Phillips writes, with “Tax Day” receipts now in the books, non-withheld receipts month-to-date are down 29%.

Home sales fell in March amid volatility in mortgage rates
Sales were 22% lower than March of last year.

NATO chief: Ukraine’s ‘rightful place’ is in the alliance
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg defiantly declared Thursday that Ukraine’s “rightful place” is in the military alliance and pledged more support for the country on his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion just over a year ago.

Axios: A US arms race with Russia and China could spin out of control
The United States suddenly faces a new arms race that could be more dangerous than the Cold War.

UFO Senate hearing: Pentagon official 'concerned' about China and Russia's 'advanced tech'
The head of the Pentagon's office tasked with tracking UFOs told lawmakers of "emerging capabilities" and "advanced tech" from potential foreign adversaries — specifically Russia and China — that "are concerning."

US supersonic bombers to make surprise appearance in drill near disputed China-India border
Washington sends B-1B Lancers to highlight partnership with New Delhi and push it to adopt an aggressive stance towards China, analyst says.

Twitter Files: Twitter loves Dr. Fauci and Big Pharma 'marketing strategy'
Documents uncovered at Twitter point to dissembling by Fauci under oath and a social media company that helped market COVID vaccines while labeling and removing tweets for vaccine “misinformation"

‘Resupply is not an option’: Lawmakers wargame Chinese invasion of Taiwan
Lawmakers are confronting stark realities over a possible Chinese invasion against Taiwan, raising an urgent alarm that the U.S. must act faster to stock up the island on the weapons needed to counter such a military attack.

Chinese press: US intends to 'turn Taiwan into battlefield'
"Taiwan compatriots will become the ultimate victims of such a conflict and it will be the island that will be destroyed. The result of the U.S. plan to exploit Taiwan is the destruction of Taiwan."

Both sides of Taiwan Strait belong to China: Foreign Minister
Qin Gang reiterates Beijing’s claim over the self-ruled democracy and denies the country is trying to change the status quo.

Taiwan Quietly Urges US to Calm Rhetoric on China Chip Dangers
Spooked by the threat that China might invade Taiwan, the U.S. wants to cut its dependence on the island’s world-beating microchips. Officials in Taipei believe the Biden administration is going too far.

Taiwan Export Orders Slump Most Since 2009 as Chip Demand Falls
“Taiwan’s exports should continue to fall if the U.S. economy weakens further.”

China’s theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
In their quest for the perfect pineapple, Taiwan’s agricultural engineers spared no effort. They spent almost 25 years developing a variety with a mango-like fragrance, a longer shelf life, and a resistance to blemishing.

Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Filming for the movie is due to resume in Montana.

Quentin Tarantino admits he keeps gun 'for protection,' still calls for more gun control
Tarantino also confessed that he was deeply "traumatized" by the violence depicted in the Disney cartoon "Bambi."

Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix for casting black woman as Cleopatra
The Egyptian lawsuit states that “most of what Netflix platform displays do not conform to Islamic and societal values."

How Hard Lines in Fox-Dominion Deal Talks Suddenly Softened
The $787.5 million settlement, believed to be the largest in a defamation case, came together quickly.

Wired reporter booted off Twitter for distributing Matt Walsh's hacked materials
Walsh says "a Twitter suspension is going to be the least of his problems."

MSNBC anchor accused of plagiarism after he attacks journalist Matt Taibbi
Mehdi Hasan was accused of plagiarizing content in a column after he got into a Twitter spat over accusations he made against journalist Matt Taibbi.

BuzzFeed News to shut down permanently
Oh no, how will the world survive with one less far-left "news" outlet?

A Texas Playboy model turned Italian princess evicted from $533M villa
Princess Rita Boncompagni-Ludovisi — the model turned Italian princess by marriage — was evicted on Thursday from her longtime Italian mansion after being accused of failing to preserve the historic property.

NY Times: Israel’s Right-Wing Government Has Jewish Democrats at a Loss
U.S. lawmakers defending Israel have often fallen back on what they call the countries’ shared democratic values. The current government makes that difficult.

AOC Reintroduces the Green New Deal
"When we first introduced the Green New Deal, we were told that our vision for the future was too aspirational. Four years later, we see core tenets of the Green New Deal reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act ..."

Electric vehicles may be too heavy for old parking garages: Report
The collapse of a parking garage in New York City on Tuesday that killed at least one person has put a new spotlight on aging structures used for vehicle storage.

Ford F-150 Lightning fire footage highlights a growing EV risk
The previously unreleased footage, obtained by CNBC, shows smoke billowing from three tightly packed electric pickups. Moments later, flames shoot several feet above the vehicles.

Nuclear fusion will not be regulated the same way as nuclear fission — a big win for the fusion industry
Until now there hadn’t been any certainty in how the nascent industry was going to be regulated in the United States.

Top House Democrat Says Men In Women’s Sports Is An Issue That ‘Doesn’t Exist’
Jeffries criticized the measure — claiming that all “kind-hearted Americans” stood with him in supporting trans-identifying children — and said that “extreme MAGA Republicans” were attempting to amplify an issue that “doesn’t exist.”

Dems accuse GOP of transgender ‘bullying’ as House votes on bill to ‘save women’s sports’
One Democrat said that debating the bill was "traumatizing."

Rocket Mortgage puts tampons in men’s bathroom to promote ‘menstrual equity’
“What we found through a tipster is that Rocket Mortgage is providing tampons in the men’s restroom across their company as a part of this sort of far-left LGBT initiative from their sort of LGBT resource group.”

Puberty blockers prescribed to children as young as 8, medical professionals admit to undercover Project Veritas journalists
A new video released by the nonprofit undercover journalist enterprise showed medical professionals nationwide admitting to providing controversial and potentially irreversible transgender "treatment" to young children confused about their gender identity.

'New Zealand's Strongest Man' enters women's powerlifting competition to protest its transgender policy
Organizers change the rules overnight in response.

Joe Rogan mocks 'stupid and cliché' Bud Light video ad in response to trans controversy
"The corporations. We want to think of them as being these impossibly large machines that make money. And they are. But they are just run by people. And some people are dorks.

Flashback: Old Bud Light ads jokingly feature cross-dressing men
In one ad, cross-dressing men pretend to be women so they can compete in a women's pool competition where the first-place prize is Bud Light beer.

Canadian man claiming to be female arrested for alleged sexual assault in women's shelter
According to the National Post, when asked to clarify the suspect's gender, Windsor police stated the suspect was processed as a female and should be referred to as a female.

Report: Texas School Fund CEO Steps Down Amid BlackRock Controversy
Note, this news is not being reported anywhere else at the current time.

Idaho teacher accused of raping 16-year-old after meeting boy on 'dating hookup site'
The Boise teacher was also an outspoken LGBT activist.

‘Forever Chemicals’ Linked To Weight Gain, Making Dieting Harder, Study Finds
So-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water are contributing to obesity and making weight loss harder, a new study finds.

Your Hair Is Going Gray. This Glitch May Explain Why.
Experiments using mice found a malfunction in adult stem cells that offers insights into why we turn into silver foxes and vixens.

ChatGPT can predict the stock market and understand Fed statements, studies claim
The first study, conducted at the Richmond Fed, found that ChatGPT-4 is capable of sorting statements from the Fed into five categories in a manner that aligns closely with human readers.

ChatGPT won’t take over from humans for now, says Infosys founder
Nothing can beat the human mind — not even AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT, says the founder of one of India’s largest information technology services companies.

TikTok has tens of thousands of moderators in Ireland looking for offensive content, CEO says
"... we have built a team that is tens of thousands of people plus machines in order to identify content that is bad, and actively, proactively remove it from the platform,” Chew said.

'Elon took my blue check away!' Reactions pour in as Twitter yanks legacy verification badges
AOC, who always portrays herself as a victim, sounded the alarm, claiming that the new checkmark system lays the groundwork for "major potential harm."

The US Is Investigating Over 650 Possible UFOs
The Pentagon is tracking more and more UFO incidents but has yet to come across any evidence of alien activity.

The Starship rocket exploded. So why did SpaceX cheer?
Big NASA programs are generally not afforded the same luxury of explode-as-you-learn. There tends to be much more testing and analysis on the ground — which slows development and increases costs — to avoid embarrassing public failures.

Man on flight throws fit over crying baby: 'Did that motherf–ker pay extra to yell?'
“I’m not screaming. Do you want me to scream? I’ll f**king scream,” he warns. “We are in a f**king tin can with a baby in a goddamn echo chamber and you wanna talk to me about being f**king OK?”

ESPN hosts jump in the foxhole with Riley Gaines, blast Biden's push to invade women's sports with men
Sage Steele and Samantha Ponder are both mothers of three children, and both have daughters. This week, they utilized their celebrity to help ensure that their daughters and other American girls may once again be able to enjoy fair athletic competitions.

Charly Arnolt felt ‘stifled’ at ESPN, rips network’s Lia Thomas tribute
“ESPN has been very adamant about keeping politics out of their programming, yet you just saw, late last month, they did a whole tribute, during Women’s Month, for Lia Thomas,” Arnolt said.

Feral goats run riot in UK town as exasperated locals demand they be shot
The goats have roamed the town of Llandudno and its accompanying mountains for over 100 years but shot to fame in 2020 when they took over the streets emptied by the coronavirus lockdown.