WASHINGTON—The House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Jan. 14, with a vote of 218-206. The legislation excludes males from participating in women’s sports sponsored by organizations that receive federal funding.

The text stipulates that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

“This is a great day for women in America,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said at a press conference following the bill’s passage.

The legislation, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), is also likely to pass in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.

Proponents of the legislation pointed out male advantages in sports, such as increased muscle and lung capacity. They raised the risk of injury in high-impact sports as well as concerns about young women being forced to share locker room space with biological males.

“It’s dangerous, it’s unfair, it’s rejection of reality, and it is just plain wrong,” Johnson said.

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Dr. Jill is burning it down on her way out.

It is well-known that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris hate each other.

However, Jill Biden is now going public with her disappointment about Nancy Pelosi’s betrayal.

Pelosi reportedly threatened Joe Biden as she pressured him to drop out of the 2024 race.

After nearly a week of getting battered by damaging leaks, Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 race on July 21.

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The House Oversight Committee has released its final report on COVID-19, confirming many of the theories and claims labeled as “conspiracy” or “misinformation” during the pandemic. The report focuses on the origins of the coronavirus and the federal government’s funding of gain-of-function research. It concludes that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

The committee highlights five key arguments supporting the “lab leak” theory. First, the virus displays a biological characteristic not typically found in nature. Second, data reveals that all COVID-19 cases trace back to a single introduction into humans, unlike previous pandemics, which involved multiple spillover events. Third, Wuhan houses China’s leading SARS research facility, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function experiments under inadequate biosafety conditions. Fourth, researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology reportedly became ill with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before the outbreak was linked to a wet market. Finally, the lack of scientific evidence for a natural origin, even after years of research, strengthens the lab leak hypothesis.

The House Oversight Committee has also determined that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a key role in suppressing the truth about the origins of COVID-19. According to the report, Dr. Fauci orchestrated the creation of the publication “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which was widely cited by public health officials and media outlets to discredit the lab leak theory. This publication was allegedly crafted to promote the narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally rather than in a laboratory.

The report further concludes that a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19. It highlights that current government mechanisms for overseeing gain-of-function research are inadequate, overly complex, and lack global enforcement. This oversight failure has underscored the need for more stringent and transparent regulations to mitigate risks posed by such experiments.

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi delivered a one-two punch during a recent televised confirmation hearing, dismantling Schiff’s narrative on January 6 and his incessant praise for former Representative Liz Cheney.

As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing questions from Senators this morning during a confirmation hearing for the U.S. Attorney General.

Bondi, the former Florida Attorney General, was nominated after Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name as Trump’s pick for AG.

As Conradson also noted, Trump Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s first confirmation hearing was held yesterday, and he passed the test with flying colors. Now, Bondi is shining as well.

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Independence Day, observed annually on July 4, is a national holiday that honors the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. This pivotal document marked the founding of the United States of America and its liberation from British tyranny and oppression.

In the mid-1990s, a song with the same title was awarded Country Music Song of the Year. Performed by Martina McBride, it celebrates a woman’s liberation from her abusive husband.

What are the commonalities? Oppression and abuse. Is anyone else sensing a strong stench of these in America, what used to be a shining city on a hill?

Could January 20, which is less than a week away, become another Independence Day for Americans who strive for freedom against a tyrannical federal government?

Tyranny begins gradually before escalating rapidly. After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Benjamin Franklin responded to the inquiry, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” by saying, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Where is America since the days of the Founding Fathers?

In the last twenty years, tyranny has intensified as America underwent a “fundamental change,” as promised by a former U.S. President. America’s government and administrative state are now all-consuming.

Many wars have been waged, wasting American lives and resources, frequently started under false pretenses to benefit the military-industrial complex, politicians, and their donors.

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Joe Biden on Wednesday snapped at a reporter asking if Trump deserves credit for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that a deal was reached for the release of Jewish hostages in the Middle East.

The hostages will be released shortly

“WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!” Trump wrote.

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Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi took another scalp during a fiery exchange with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as she went through her confirmation hearing.

When it was his turn to question Bondi, he brought up President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to pardon several of the individuals convicted for their supposed involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

Schiff asked whether Bondi would advise Trump not to issue blanket pardons to all of those who were prosecuted for the riot. “Senator, I have not looked at any of those files. If confirmed, I will look at the files for the parties as well as the ongoing investigation,” the nominee replied.

The senator pushed back, questioning whether Bondi would be able to do this. “Will you be able to review hundreds of cases on day one?” he asked.

Bondi tried answering, saying she “will look at every file I am asked to look at,” before Schiff interjected: “Of course, you won’t. Will you advise the president?”

The nominee answered, “I would have plenty of staff,” but was interrupted again.

Finally, Bondi managed to get more than a few words out, saying she is “not going to mislead this body, nor you,” and said, “You were censured by Congress, senator, for comments just like this that are so reckless.”

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One lawmaker steps ‘on his own rake’ while grilling Trump’s nominee for attorney general

Pam Bondi, the longtime Florida attorney general nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the nation’s top cop, took the concept of the politicization of the Department of Justice directly to Democrats during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Specifically, it was Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse who was described by an online commentary at Twitchy as having “stepped on his own rake” while questioning her.

He brought up the incorrect law-enforcement concept of starting with a name, then hunting for a crime for that name.

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Eating too much steak and bacon may raise the risk of dementia later in life, a controversial, government-funded study suggests.

Harvard researchers looked at 133,000 adults for four decades and evaluated how much processed and unprocessed red meat they ate on an average per day.

They found that eating one serving of processed red meat – roughly two slices of bacon or a single sausage – was linked to a 13 percent increased risk of dementia.

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President Joe Biden enacted a series of roadblocks to slow down Donald Trump‘s agenda during the president-elect first days in the White House, despite his steadfast promises to cooperate with the incoming administration.

The moves include changing the order of succession in federal agencies so pro-Biden staffers will be in charge before Trump’s nominees can be confirmed, and enacting federal rules that will take the new administration months to overturn.

The White House has also doled out billions in federal funds on clean energy initiatives and other Biden priorities.

‘They’re playing dirty during the transition period,’ Ezra Cohen, a former Undersecretary of Defense for Trump and a current Hudson fellow, told DailyMail.com.

‘When President Trump’s going to be in office, dealing with actual, real problems … now he has to deal with stuff like this,’ he added. ‘It’s just bad for America that they’re doing this.’

Although Cohen conceded that none of it is ‘insurmountable,’ he emphasized that the moves were ‘just about throwing sand in the gears to try to interfere with President Trump.’

The Biden administration simply claims it’s just securing the president’s legacy. Biden is giving two speeches during his final week in office that are designed to defend his tenure. And his social media accounts have been actively tossing out ambitious claims about his presidency.

Most presidents spend their final weeks in the Oval Office shoring up their initiatives and making sure their priorities stay protected under the new commander-in-chief. And Biden publicly pledged to cooperate on the transition, which was a change from the 2020 election when Trump refused to concede to him and made no effort to facilitate a government handover.

However, Biden, in an interview with USA Today last week, also laughed when the news outlet asked him about Trump trying to overturn his initiatives.

‘I think he’s going to have a problem,’ the president said. ‘Trump’s going to have a hard time undoing a lot, I think.’

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Tucker Carlson has made a shocking claim about the mysterious drones that plagued New Jersey for over a month, saying they were controlled by Chinese mothership satellite.

The first sightings appeared over the Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway and President-elect Donald Trump‘s golf course in Bedminster in November, followed by thousands more in the skies.

While the US government was quick to dismiss claims they were foreign adversaries, Carlson claimed he was told otherwise.

He said ‘an intel person’ told him that the drones ‘were in fact Chinese,’ explaining the US government took down a Chinese satellite ‘that was a command and control satellite for these drones.’

Carlson appeared to be hinting at a Beijing-operated satellite known as GaoJing 1-02 which fell from space on December 21.

Astronomers tracking such devices confirmed the Chinese satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere above New Orleans and headed north towards Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri before burning up in the atmosphere.

But Carlson claimed it was ‘taken down by the US government.’

He made the claims while speaking with independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, who heard a similar explanation for the drones.

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Governor: Under plan, taxes would be cut or unchanged for 82% of Marylanders, increased for higher earners

ANNAPOLIS, Md. —

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore introduced his $67.3 billion operating budget proposal for 2026 that he said is based on growing the economy to provide a path to work, wages and wealth.

Moore said the state faces a fiscal crisis nearly a decade in the making based on increased spending amid a downturn in the economy and that his budget plan contains spending cuts and a tax code overhaul.

“With this budget, all will get done (to) build an economy that grows the middle-class and gives everyone a pathway to work, wage and wealth,” Moore said.

The governor also pointed to what he called a “stark, new policy direction” from the incoming Trump administration that could include cutting federal spending, slashing safety net programs and altering the tax code.

According to the proposal, health ($22.2 million) and education ($12.1 million) comprise the largest portions of the budget, followed by higher education ($9.4 million), transportation ($6.6 million), human services ($4.9 million) and public safety ($3.8 million).

The plan maintains a Rainy Day Fund balance of 8% of general fund revenues in fiscal year 2026 at $2.05 billion.

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It’s not quite the end-game for Joe Biden’s presidency, but with just days left before he exits the White House for the last time, he appeared in the Oval Office on Wednesday evening to give his “farewell speech.” Despite being relatively short, Biden managed to go out with a bang…and not in a good way.

Sitting behind the Resolute Desk, the president ranted and raved about random topics, including “fact-checking” on social media sites. Given how silly and granular of a thing that is to bring up at a farewell address, I can only assume his handlers have just completely given up at this point. Can you blame them?

BIDEN: Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies, told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families, and our very democracy from the abuse of power.

Past presidents have used their addresses to speak to the American people about high-level ideals. Joe Biden angrily complained about the moderation policies on a social media platform. You can’t make this stuff up.

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Regulators sued John Deere on Wednesday – alleging the tractor-maker of ripping off farmers.

They say the 187-year-old firm – the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery – drives up repair costs by forcing farmers to rely on its authorized dealer network.

It is the latest scandal to hit John Deere in the past year. Over most of 2024, it was under fire for axing jobs in the Midwest – at the same time production is being moved to Mexico.

And in July, John Deere made a huge U-turn on its DEI practices – including a Pride event for toddlers – after a backlash by farmers.

Wednesday’s lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission argues John Deere has unlawfully boosted its profits by requiring farmers to use its network of authorized dealers for repairs.

This makes it difficult for farmers to use independent mechanics or do repairs themselves.

The only software that enables repairs of all Deere equipment is produced by the company, which it only makes available to its dealer network, the FTC said.

As a result Deere has maintained a 100 percent market share, allowing it to hike prices.

Deere did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the FTC’s actions.

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Hunter Biden has reportedly lost hundreds of his treasured artworks in the Los Angeles wildfires.

According to The New York Post, Hunter’s artworks went up in flames as wildfires continued to ravage the city, leaving thousands of properties in its wake.

The report states:

A trove of nearly 200 artworks by Hunter Biden has been destroyed — one of the casualties of the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, The Post has learned.

The controversial art had been in storage near the Pacific Palisades home of Hunter’s Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris and is valued at “millions of dollars,” a source close to the Biden family said.

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decided to cosplay as leaders on Monday by giving a briefing on the devastating California wildfires. That’s the thing about pretending, though. It rarely ends well, and things went downhill very quickly.

While sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Biden kept his eyes locked on his script, bragging about giving victims a “one-time payment of $770.” What that is supposed to accomplish wasn’t immediately apparent.

Giving away a one-time payment of $770 is basically meaningless to anyone who lost their home in the wildfires. That might cover a few nights at a hotel, but that’s about it. It certainly won’t be useful in actually recovering from the damage.

But let’s put that aside because this is a matter of priorities. For context, at the end of December, it was reported that the United States had provided $3.4 billion to pay the salaries of Ukrainian bureaucrats and schoolteachers. Not to buy weapons for soldiers on the front line, not to supply ammunition, but to pay government officials living in the safest parts of the country.

So taxpayers are on the hook to pay the salaries of government officials from another country but American disaster victims are only given a pittance of $770 after losing everything. It’s an absurd perversion of priorities that continues to play out in a way that is impossible for the public to ignore.

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The following regulatory proposals have been printed in the Maryland Register:

• ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY – Severn River Vessel Management Area– Severn River South Shore (Cove of Cork)
• WORCESTER COUNTY  – Ocean City—Back Bay Areas – Canals and Inlets (Fenwick Ditch)

The department is seeking comments on the proposed regulation. Comments provide the department with additional information and perspectives. Please visit our Changes to Boating Regulations page for information about what has been proposed and how to submit comments.

All comments must be received by 11:59 p.m. on February 10, 2025.

These ideas is in the comment period of the regulatory process. The graphic (left) demonstrates where this falls in the five steps it takes for ideas to become effective regulations. Visit our regulation definitions page to learn about each step of the process.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland for releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s report Tuesday, saying the “one-sided” document violated America’s “core principles.”

Garland released Smith’s report early Tuesday morning, when Smith outlined findings from his probe into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election. Dershowitz called the report’s release “lawfare,” comparing it to then-FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 press conference regarding the investigation into a server in Hillary Clinton’s home. Dershowitz said that Democrats who criticized Comey’s comments at the time praised Smith and Garland.

“These same Democrats are applauding Jack Smith and saying what he did was great and what Merrick Garland did by revealing the information, releasing the screed, the one-sided screed, that’s fine! You know what that’s called? Double standard hypocrisy,” Dershowitz said during Tuesday’s episode of “The Dershow.” “It really shows that the release of this report, the publication of this report, is lawfare. It’s lawfare. it’s not law.”

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Marylanders are understandably upset with the news of significant vehicle registration fee increases that the Democratic-led General Assembly passed earlier this year. Unfortunately, these vehicle fee increases are just the tip of an ever-growing iceberg – the new and increased taxes and fees under the Moore Administration.

Since the end of the 2024 Legislative Session, the Joint Republican Caucus in the Maryland General Assembly has worked to tally the number of tax and fee increases that have occurred since Governor Moore took office, either at his direction or through the actions of the Democratic majority in the legislature.

The number is staggering. It almost defies belief – 338 new or increased taxes and fees as of today.

Where do these tax and fee increases come from? For starters, 38 of these new or increased fees and taxes were the product of the 2024 Legislative Session. The General Assembly passed the Paint Tax, the Uber Tax, increases in the Cigarette Tax, and massive increases in vehicle registration fees – to name a few. While the Governor did not propose them, neither did he veto them. While we appreciated his original commitment to hold back some of the more egregious tax plans that his Democratic partners in the General Assembly were championing, he has now signed some of these tax increases into law.

Governor Moore’s Department of Transportation (MDOT) has the authority to increase parking fees at BWI without legislative approval. In the fall of 2023, MDOT included parking fee increases as part of its plan to close budget gaps. In May, MDOT confirmed that these parking fees would increase by 33-40%.

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‘This line of questioning is unbecoming of her position as a United States Senator,’ a critic says of Hawaii Democrat

Social media users are criticizing a Democratic senator for claiming that Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth would lead a military invasion of Greenland if nominated.

A confirmation hearing for Hegseth was held by the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, when lawmakers were given the opportunity to question Trump’s defense pick. One Democrat in particular, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, caused a firestorm of social media reactions to her asking Hegseth whether he would invade Greenland or take over the Panama Canal.

“Trump never strategically tips his hand. I would never publicly state one way or another to direct the orders of the president,” Hegseth responded to the question.

“Hirono was playing judge, jury, and executioner based on lies and stupidity,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., wrote in a post on X.

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Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth faced a grueling hearing by the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday; while no minds were changed, Hegseth’s performance probably ensured his confirmation (see Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing Starts in 30 Minutes, This Is What You Need to Know). In my view, Hegseth showed a respect for the process it probably didn’t deserve. He came prepared, and when he wasn’t the subject of libelous and defamatory attacks — Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono actually accused him of rape — he engaged with senators on the panel. No one could doubt his enthusiasm and zeal for the job.

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As Washington, D.C., gears up for President Donald Trump’s Inauguration next Monday, federal and local authorities are making bold claims of readiness. The FBI asserts they are not tracking any “specific or credible threats” to the event.

However, given the politically charged climate and past security lapses, many are questioning whether the nation’s capital is truly prepared for potential unrest.

Special Agent in Charge William McCool of the Secret Service, overseeing the security efforts for President Trump’s inauguration, announced that 25,000 law enforcement and military personnel will be present to ensure the event’s safety.

The highly partisan US Capitol Police will participate in security at the US Capitol during the Inaugural next Monday.

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President Trump announced in a statement Tuesday that he will create an External Revenue Service to counter the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) taxation of American citizens.

This new agency will “collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources,” said Trump.

Trump says his inauguration, “January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service.”

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Tuesday, saying:

For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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An absolutely explosive confrontation on the House floor happened Tuesday afternoon between Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and racist Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

As TGP readers know, Mace played a critical role in getting biological males nabbed from the Capitol Hill bathrooms following the election of transgender (bio-male) Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware.

She has continued her activism for women even after getting attacked by a pro-trans “man” on Capitol grounds.

During an Oversight Committee hearing, Crockett started taunting Mace over her powerful stance, unjustly accusing her of just trying to score political points and line her pockets.

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In 2016, NBC News secretly colluded with the Washington Post to help Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign by trying to derail Donald Trump by releasing a decade-old video.

Billy Bush was used as a pawn for the failed October Surprise.

Bush joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the legacy media’s endless attacks and the beginning of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Tucker Carlson: You said this was the beginning of Trump derangement syndrome. Did you sense that at NBC?

Billy Bush: Oh, God. Absolutely. I mean, anything. Remember this, over at ABC News, at the same time when Trump became President, they launched a 70… they built a 75-person investigative unit. I know the guy who was head of it, dedicated to anything negative on Trump. Find stuff on him and get him out.

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House Oversight Chairman James Comer ripped Special Counsel David Weiss’ final report on his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden as “incomplete” due to President Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son.

“Special Counsel David Weiss just released an incomplete 27-page report because President Joe Biden issued his son an unprecedented pardon. This sweeping pardon prevents the Special Counsel from holding Hunter Biden accountable for the international influence peddling racket only made possible by Joe Biden,” Rep. Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement Monday evening following the release of Weiss’ final report.

“Let’s be clear: the Biden DOJ was never going to prosecute the Biden Crime Family. The House Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Bidens’ influence peddling schemes revealed how Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited from his family cashing in on the Biden name,” Comer continued.

The Department of Justice released Weiss’ report to Congress on Monday evening, which detailed his roughly six-year investigation into first son Hunter Biden’s taxes and purchase of a firearm in 2018 while he was addicted to controlled substances – namely, crack cocaine.

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NNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore, University of Maryland College Park President Darryll J. Pines and IonQ President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Chapman today announced the “Capital of Quantum” Initiative – a landmark public-private partnership that will catalyze $1 billion in investments and cement Maryland as a global leader in quantum information science and technology. The initiative was announced during an event highlighting the governor’s economic growth agenda for the 2025 legislative session.

“Quantum has the potential to transform every part of our economy and society, from national security to health care,” said Gov. Moore. “With extraordinary assets and partnerships, Maryland can—and should—lead in this new emerging sector, and we are moving forward with a clear strategy to make that vision a reality. Together, we will make Maryland the quantum capital of the world.”

The strategic partnership between the State of Maryland, the University of Maryland, private, and federal partners will drive more than $1 billion in investments through a combination of state funds, matching federal grants, private sector investments, and philanthropic contributions over the next five years. The effort will firmly establish the State of Maryland, anchored by the University of Maryland, as one of the world’s top quantum epicenters.

Recognizing Maryland’s unique assets and strategic advantages to grow the state’s quantum science and technology sector, Gov. Moore last month signed an executive order that identified quantum computing as an industry that the Moore-Miller Administration will prioritize through state investment and support.

Gov. Moore’s FY 2026 proposed budget includes $27.5 million as the state’s initial investment in the Capital of Quantum initiative, which is expected to spur more than $200 million worth of investments from the University of Maryland and partners to support academic, technical, workforce, and ecosystem support. The Moore-Miller Administration has also committed continued funding for the construction of Zupnik Hall, to which the state has committed $185.4 million for a new, state-of-the-art facility that will feature quantum labs on the University of Maryland campus.

“Quantum is science with limitless possibilities, and the next frontier for the State of Maryland,” said Lt. Gov. Aruna K. Miller. “Nurturing the brilliant minds of our state and investing in talent right here in Maryland cultivates seeds today that will bear fruits of excellence and innovation for Maryland’s tomorrow.  As we continue to lead with our hearts and govern driven by data we keep Maryland solidly ahead of the curve.”

“We are deeply grateful to Gov. Moore for his visionary investment in building a brighter future for Maryland’s economy,” said University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines. “He recognizes the immense potential of quantum technology and the possibilities we can unlock if we work together to position our region as the global Capital of Quantum.”

IonQ – a spinoff of the University of Maryland and a leader in the quantum computing and networking industries – also announced their intention to expand their footprint in Maryland by establishing a new, 100,000 square foot corporate headquarters in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. The facility will feature a new data center, laboratories, and office space. The expansion, which is supported by a $10 million state investment included in the governor’s FY 2026 budget, would double IonQ’s corporate headquarters workforce to at least 250 employees in Maryland over the next five years. This expansion is expected to create high-paying and high-skilled jobs in diverse fields including construction, software and hardware engineers, physicists, technicians, machine operators, and more.

“Through Governor Moore’s strategic economic development initiative and investment in quantum, he is not only supporting cutting-edge research and innovation but fostering economic growth and job creation in the state,” said IonQ President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Chapman. “The governor’s commitment is a testament to his vision for the pivotal role that quantum science will play in the state’s economic development and technological leadership.”

The University of Maryland is world renowned as one of the leading universities in quantum technologies with more than 35 years of prior research and development experience. IonQ began its journey as a startup located within the Discovery District at the University of Maryland campus. Many of its employees were educated by the University of Maryland.

IonQ is the first startup from the Discovery District to go public on the New York Stock Exchange and today employs more than 400 people worldwide, with a market capitalization of more than $5 billion dollars. Today’s announcement extends IonQ’s close partnership with both the University of Maryland and the State of Maryland.

Barack Obama’s wife continues to appear to be avoiding President Trump at all costs for reasons that are not immediately clear.

The Associated Press reported today that Michelle Obama announced she would NOT attend President Trump’s historic Inauguration ceremony on January 20.

This marks her second snub of the soon-to-be 47th President in as many weeks.

On an interesting note, though, Barack will be there.

The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama shared the following statement to the Associated Press:

“Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration.”

No one in Obama circles, including her, explained why Michelle was skipping Trump’s inauguration. Readers can draw their own conclusions regarding what, if anything, this means.

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Attempts to pin the catastrophic California wildfires on the bogeyman of “climate change” are a deflection from the real culprits, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote Monday.

The climate left is desperately trying to “change the subject from the failure of the state and local government to contain the fires that often accompany Santa Ana winds,” the WSJ editors note.

The op-ed first dismantles the ridiculous claim that climate change somehow caused the conflagration and then shows how state and local governments, and Gov. Gavin Newsom in particular, have abdicated their important role of protecting California residents from wildfire.

For eco-lefties, “climate change explains wet and dry seasons, which follows the progressive line that climate change is responsible for every natural disaster except for perhaps earthquakes,” the essay observes. “In today’s climate orthodoxy, bad weather is always man-made.”

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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Harris, M.D. released the following statement after NOAA Fisheries formally withdrew the proposed North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule which would have had significant economic consequences for Maryland’s First Congressional District. The North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule, originally published in the Federal Register in 2022, would have limited vessels larger than 35 feet from traveling faster than 10 knots (11.5 mph).

Statement From Congressman Harris:

“The withdrawal of the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule is welcome news. After this rule was proposed, I listened to concerned watermen, recreational and commercial fishermen, charter boat captains, representatives from the fishing tournaments in Ocean City, as well as local elected officials who expressed that while preserving the North Atlantic Right Whales are an important environmental concern, the consequences of the proposed 10 knot speed reduction on the local boating industry would be severe. Boating is a recreational and commercial way of life for thousands of my constituents and I will always question the economic consequences of more government regulation — especially if it harms our First District economy.”

He’s fidgeting while LA burns.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting raked over the coals online for his strange shimmy during a local TV interview addressing the ongoing fire crisis in Los Angeles County.

Newsom was interviewed by the local Fox affiliate in Los Angeles on Monday, standing in front of the charred wreckage wrought by the fires that have plagued the city for over a week.

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While discussing the potential of property speculators swooping into the once coveted neighborhoods afflicted by the fires — Newsom grins ear-to-ear and does an effective shoulder shimmy while trying to calm residents’ fears.

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Public records received by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal 388 non-citizens voted in the 2024 general election.

The documents were obtained in response to a FOIA request for: Public records identifying the number of non-citizens who voted in the November 2024 General Election; including, information about the wards in which they are located, their party affiliation, and the designators for the ballots they received.

Judicial Watch reported:

Judicial Watch announced today it received a spreadsheet from the District of Columbia Board of Elections revealing that 388 noncitizens voted in DC’s November 2024 general election.

While federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, states and localities may allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. In 2023, the DC Council amended the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to allow all noncitizen residents, including illegal aliens, to vote in its local elections.

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CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said Democratic senators’ “mudslinging” strategy backfired at President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s Tuesday confirmation hearing.

The hearing included Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine accusing Hegseth of infidelity and Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand lecturing the nominee for eight minutes about women serving in the military. Jennings, on “CNN News Central,” praised Hegseth’s composure, describing him as “calm, cool, and collected” while asserting the Democratic senators’ behavior likely bolstered Hegseth’s confirmation chances.

“In short, I think Pete Hegseth kicked their asses today. I mean, it wasn’t even close. They didn’t lay a glove on Hegseth. No mistakes. Calm, cool, collected. I mean, before the thing even started, you had this, like, Code Pink, you know, protester freak show trying to disrupt the hearing,” Jennings said. “That’s the Democratic base, by the way, which probably explains why the Democrats on the committee acted in such a bizarre and unprofessional way. I was appalled at some of the way these senators handled themselves and some of the lines of questioning.”

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A young California mom forced to evacuate her home to escape the Los Angeles wildfires this week posted one of the most moving tweets I saw as the disaster unfolded.

Her kids had just minutes to pack a single bag of anything they wanted to save before they fled, and she shared what her preschool-aged daughter chose to salvage: her stuffies.

The entire backpack was filled with stuffed animals.

The photo brought me to tears: I know that’s what most of my kids would do, too.

These tragic wildfires have impacted rich and poor, destroying powerful, influential communities and working-class neighborhoods alike.

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Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett accused Special Counsel David Weiss of conducting a “whitewash” in the investigation into alleged corruption involving members of the Biden family.

During an appearance on “The Evening Edit,” Jarrett said Weiss overlooked serious accusations of “influence peddling” and allowed critical statutes of limitation to expire. The discussion centers on the halted investigation into President Joe Biden’s involvement, with Weiss now saying there was no preferential treatment despite his report detailing numerous corrupt foreign dealings, particularly in China and Ukraine.

“David Weiss ignored the larger crimes of influence peddling. He let statutes expire, tipped off defense attorneys, scuttled raids. He halted any investigation about Joe’s involvement, and incredibly Weiss now insists, ‘Oh, gee. There was no preferential treatment,’ and yet his report outlines many of the corrupt foreign deals. China, Ukraine, the list goes on and on,” Jarrett said. “These were obvious crimes, but never charged. So the Weiss coverup continues. This is a whitewashed report.”

Jarrett was asked whether President-elect Donald Trump should take drastic measures and release all related records from the National Archives, all to expose the extent of the alleged corruption.

“I absolutely would,” Jarrett said.

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SALISBURY, Maryland — Consistent with his position regarding density within the Central Business District (CBD), Mayor Randy Taylor has filed a formal veto of Ordinance # 2909 as passed by the Salisbury City Council on January 13, 2025.

“The potential impact of this change would be devastating to the downtown and has no place on the stage of good planning or common sense,” Mayor Taylor said.

This ordinance attempts to double the allowable density from 40 units to 80 units per acre with no parking standard within the CBD. Mayor Taylor along with planners throughout the state, design professionals and zoning specialists, find this legislation to be grossly inappropriate.

The change would also be inconsistent with Maryland planning law as well as Salisbury’s Comprehensive Plan and could only be passed in the context of a lack of understanding regarding its impact.

The Washington Post is dying, like Democracy does in darkness.

Cringe-worthy slogans aside, the Washington Post’s downfall is well deserved as the rag has become an ultra-biased outlet that not only proved itself to be an unreliable social narrator but proved that the ideology that it supported is an absolute failure.

So it’s not a surprise that over the course of the years, its audience has more or less completely abandoned it, leaving it a shadow of its former self, a Goliath in the news industry.

According to Semafor.com, WaPo has bled out its traffic, and that bleed was heavy. From 2021, it’s lost 90 percent of its daily users:

Over the last four years, web traffic has cratered. According to internal data shared with Semafor in recent weeks, the Post’s regular daily traffic last year sunk to less than a quarter of what it was at its peak in January 2021. That month, the Post briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily active users following the attack. But by the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered around 2.5-3 million daily users.

Last year, Washington City Paper noted that the Post had stopped publicly disclosing its traffic numbers in press releases, after a 60% decline in monthly traffic. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Post’s revenue fell from $190 million in 2023 to $174 million last year.

The Washington Post has had to face several misfortunes over the course of the last few years. The Post was on the losing side of several fights, both externally and internally, and continues to use losing strategies despite it being clear that it’s hurting the organization.

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US natural gas futures spiked to an intraday high of $4.279/MMBtu during Sunday evening trading, driven by forecasts of another round of cold air set to sweep through next week.

“The pattern ahead is about as favorable as it gets for big dumps of cold air. Reminiscent of 2013/14 Winter at times in terms of the cold set up. Most of the country in the deep freezer by Day 8,” private weather forecaster BAMWX wrote on X.

BAMWX said the “major cold shot” will be the “coldest air yet this year” and “extend all the way to the Deep South.”

“One feature that has continued reoccur throughout this winter has been what we call the +TNH or the Hudson Bay Vortex,” the private weather forecaster said, adding, “We haven’t had a consistent +TNH pattern through winter in several years. The only recent year that had a strong +TNH was 2022.” 

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Health officials are on high alert after a case of tuberculosis was reported in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small town thrust into the spotlight by President-elect Donald Trump during a rally in September. Trump highlighted a staggering 2,000% increase in Haitian migrants in the town in just a few short years, many of whom were funneled into local factories like cattle. The TB case has heightened fears of a potential outbreak.

The Charleroi Area School District superintendent notified parents on Monday morning about a teen recovering from TB who returned to class without clearance from doctors.

“I am writing to provide an update regarding a recent health matter involving one of our high school students. The student, who attended school today, was diagnosed with tuberculosis a couple of weeks ago. Upon learning that the student had returned without a doctor’s clearance to return to school, we immediately isolated the student and sent them home,” Superintendent Dr. Edward Zelich wrote in the letter.

Zelich continued, “Please know that we are closely monitoring the situation and will continue to work with the appropriate health authorities to ensure our students’ and staff’s safety and well-being.”

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Historian and author Victor Davis Hanson—or, as Mark Levin properly calls him, “America’s Wise Man” —recently noted that California’s progressives are actually taking the state backwards. This matches what I have often written, that today’s progressives are anything but, and in truth could be better classified as “regressives.”

Here’s Hanson, himself a resident of California, per a video posted by the Western Lensman on Twitter/X: “It was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy, you put it all together and it’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb.”

Hanson added, “And to finish, what we’re seeing in California is a state with 40 million people. And yet the people who run it feel that it should return to a 19th-century pastoral condition. They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state. But they’re not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century, when you had no protection from fire.”

Everything The Left comes in contact with it destroys, nearly all of it on purpose.

If “Make America Great Again” is the slogan of Trumpian Republicans, it is only fair that Democrats have their own slogan. (Equity!)

Perhaps “Make America 1932 Again.” Or, “Make America Impoverished Again.” Or, “Make America Almost Uninhabited Again.” I’m sure readers can come up with many more candidates.

Democrats for Destruction. Sounds like the makings of a bumper sticker.

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‘American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat,’ says Rep Andy Ogles, who is leading the bill

FIRST ON FOX: President-elect Donald Trump’s House GOP allies are clearing the runway for him to make good on his vow to acquire Greenland.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark over purchasing Greenland, a territory located in North America but with longstanding cultural and geopolitical ties to Europe.

The bill is titled the “Make Greenland Great Again Act,” according to a copy of its text obtained by Fox News Digital.

“Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past four years, and before even taking office, President Trump is telling the world that America First is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, and House Republicans are ready to help President Trump deliver for the American people,” Ogles told Fox News Digital.

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When leftists are faced with the inevitable consequences of their own political policies it’s rare for them to sit down and reflect on their failures.  Instead, they double down and refuse to admit any fault whatsoever.  They will make excuse after excuse and blame scapegoat after scapegoat.  In a city like Los Angeles and a state like California which have been micro-managed by Democrats for decades with zero input from conservatives, somehow, they still find a way to attack their ideological opposition in the wake of a disaster.

Leftists do not admit wrongdoing when criticized.  Rather, their default is to go on the offensive against their critics in an attempt to flip the table and change the subject.  They do this so often that one begins to wonder if they care at all about the destruction they have caused?  Maybe their policies did not fail?  Maybe destruction is exactly what they want?

Former Biden Administration Press Secretary Jen Psaki took to MSNBC recently to dismiss claims of mismanagement on the part of the LA government and their fire response teams.  Instead of admitting to the reality that the area had little to no water and limited equipment to fight the fires because of terrible planning, Psaki tries to make the event all about Donald Trump, Elon Musk and even Alex Jones.

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Mercifully, President Joe Biden gave the last foreign policy speech of his single term on Monday, and it was as delusional and insulting as you’d expect. Instead of taking responsibility for his laundry list of failures, including the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden painted a much rosier picture, proclaiming America’s enemies have become “weaker” under his leadership.

Is that true? Of course, it’s not true, but what do you expect from someone who displays sociopathic tendencies?

Since Biden took office, China has grown the size of its military and expanded its political influence across the globe, from the South China Sea to Africa and even South America. As to Russia, one could argue their military resources have been depleted fighting Ukraine, but they are still currently invading Europe with no peace deal in sight. The only major American adversary that is objectively weaker in 2025 is Iran, though one could argue they are still more powerful today than before Biden lifted the crushing Trump-era sanctions that had the Islamist nation nearing collapse.

Here’s the kicker, though. Nothing Biden did led to any present-day weakening of Iran. The destruction of Iran’s proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza happened because Israel ignored every red line the Biden administration set in terms of military action.

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Outgoing Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm took one last trip to Puerto Rico on Friday to promote solar power on the island after its power grid failed on New Year’s Eve.

Granholm ventured to Puerto Rico on Friday “to provide residents with an update on the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to support the recovery and modernization of Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure” after the island’s power grid failed and left most Puerto Ricans in the dark on New Year’s Eve. On the trip, Granholm promoted the administration’s efforts and spending to bring solar power to Puerto Rico, even though many power market experts have previously warned that over-reliance on intermittent solar power can erode long-term grid reliability.

“The Biden Administration has taken historic action to accelerate the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s grid following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017 by unlocking billions of dollars in disaster recovery funds, which had been held back between 2017 and 2020,” reads a Wednesday email to reporters notifying them of Granholm’s travel and agenda for the trip. “Additionally, the Biden Administration’s Investing in America agenda is helping Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable residents access cheaper, more resilient solar power and battery storage through programs like the Programa Acceso Solar and Programa de Comunidades Resilientes.”

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WASHINGTON — Special counsel David Weiss, who successfully prosecuted first son Hunter Biden on tax fraud and gun charges, slammed President Biden’s criticism of his investigation as “gratuitous and wrong” in a report on the years-long investigation released Monday.

“Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,” Weiss wrote in his 27-page report.

“I prosecuted the two cases against Mr. Biden because he broke the law,” wrote Weiss, who also serves as Delaware US Attorney and who attached to his report hundreds of pages of court filings.

‘The DEI vermin responsible for this travesty must be indicted for a catastrophic failure of unimaginable magnitude

Hollywood actor James Woods, whose Pacific Palisades home was miraculously spared by the fires ravaging Los Angeles, is now calling for criminal indictments for officials responsible for the lack of water to fight the deadly infernos.

“This is not simply negligence. This is criminal negligence,” Woods said on X.

“The DEI vermin responsible for this travesty must be indicted for a catastrophic failure of unimaginable magnitude.”

Woods attached a video of Austyn Jeffs of the Free Press who was documenting the scandal of the Santa Ynez Reservoir, which should hold 117 million gallons of water, being dry as the fires broke out last week.

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Former Toronto Raptors star Jontay Porter texted bettors during games, informing them that he was going to fake an injury to help them win their wagers.

In April 2024, the NBA banned Porter for life after a league investigation revealed that Porter communicated with several different bettors and coordinated with them, so his in-game performances mirrored their bets.

Porter engaged in the prop bet fixing to erase his considerable gambling debts.

The damning information came forth in a Monday article in The Athletic, which cited a man named Shane Hennen, who said he heard from another co-conspirator that Porter “was planning to manipulate his on-court minutes to help bettors win their prop bets.”

Court documents also stated that Porter would “take himself out early” to keep his personal stats in line with his accomplices’ wagers.

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to gun laws in Delaware and Maryland.

The justices turned away an appeal from a group of gun enthusiasts and firearm advocacy groups in Delaware to block the state’s prohibition on assault-style rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines after a lower court refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the ban.

Delaware’s gun safety laws were enacted in 2022 and ban various semi-automatic “assault” long guns, including the AR-15 and AK47, though it allows those who owned such weapons prior to the law being enacted to keep the firearms under certain conditions, according to Reuters.

The high court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, also declined to hear a case challenging Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements, which requires people to get safety training, submit fingerprints and pass a background check before buying a handgun.

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President Trump held his first press conference on Tuesday after Congress certified him the winner of the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

During his press conference from his home in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump made headlines when he announced he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico – to the Gulf of America.

President Trump also told the assembled journalists that he heard there was a second person who died on January 6, 2021 at the pro-Trump protests on Capitol Hill.

Actually, Mr. President, four people died that day, three were killed by police action, on January 6, 2021.

Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in cold blood by Officer Michael Byrd. Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack. Benjamin Phillips was killed when Capitol Police fired exploding cylinders into the crowd, and he was knocked unconscious, and Trump supporters were unable to revive him. And Rosanne Boyland was gassed, pushed down, smothered until unconscious, and then beaten with a stick by Officer Lila Morris several times as she lay dying on the US Capitol Steps.

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As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes,’ Weiss wrote of Hunter Biden

Special Counsel David Weiss’ final report on his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden determined the first son’s drug abuse could not explain away not paying taxes on millions of dollars of income earned off of his “last name and connections.”

“As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a four-year period. From 2016 to 2020, Mr. Biden received more than $7 million in total gross income, including approximately $1.5 million in 2016, $2.3 million in 2017, $2.1 million in 2018, $1 million in 2019 and $188,000 from January through October 15, 2020,” Weiss wrote in his final report, which was released Monday.

“Mr. Biden made this money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate. He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements that paid him millions of dollars for limited work,” Weiss continued.

Hunter Biden, 54, had a busy year in court last year, when he was convicted of two separate federal cases prosecuted by Weiss. He kicked off his first trial in Delaware in June, when he faced three felony firearm offenses involving his drug use, before pleading guilty in a separate felony tax case in September.

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“FOX & Friends Weekend” co-host Will Cain will take over the 4 p.m. ET weekday timeslot on Fox News Channel with “The Will Cain Show” as part of a series of programming changes across FNC and FOX Business Network, CEO Suzanne Scott announced Monday.

“As the media landscape continues to evolve, we are always looking to innovate our programming lineup to meet the needs of our viewers, and we are confident the new lineup will best position FOX News Media for the future. Will Cain brings years of experience to the 4 p.m. hour as an accomplished broadcaster and a lawyer and we look forward to adding his insights to what will no doubt be another historic news cycle ahead this year,” Scott said in a statement.

“The Will Cain Show” will debut on January 21 featuring conversations with newsmakers from across politics, business, culture and sports.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris convened Senior White House and Administration officials for a briefing on the federal government’s response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

The Los Angeles fires have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, and the reported estimated damage is around $150 billion.

The damage is largely due to Democrats like Governor Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass after they slashed fire department funding and didn’t fill reservoirs.

On Monday Biden announced his Regime is giving $770 to people impacted by the California wildfires.

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The situation in Los Angeles is not good. Now, it’s the winds. It’s horrible to watch and there are more neighborhoods under threat:

Firefighters were slowly making progress in their battle to contain the inferno that has burned wide areas of Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood to the ground, but spreading flames and strong winds still threatened communities in the populous San Fernando Valley on Sunday.

Aircraft dropped water and fire retardant on steep hills to stem the eastward spread of the Palisades Fire and KTLA television reported that ground crews had managed to save a number of houses, although others were lost.

“LA County had another night of unimaginable terror and heartbreak,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said.

Six simultaneous blazes that have ripped across the second-largest U.S. city since Tuesday had killed at least 14 people as of Sunday morning. At least 16 people are estimated to be missing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said he expected the death toll to rise. “I’ve got search and rescue teams out. We’ve got cadaver dogs out and there’s likely to be a lot more,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program.

It’s unreal that we’re watching scenes like this in a civilized country. You’d expect the fire hydrants to pump water, but not in Los Angeles. It’s a horror movie except that this time it’s not Hollywood making it.

There is a lot of blame to go around. Yes, Mayor Bass is in over her head and Governor Newsom is not far behind. However, what we are seeing here is the collapse of the blue model. The Democrat Way used to be about taking care of workers and their families, but this is not your father’s party. This modern version of the Democrats is more into pronouns, making excuses for criminals, and making everything about race.

We have not started counting heads for the 2030 census but the projections don’t look for the guys with a “D” on their caps. This is what we are expecting to happen:

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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has faced a number of criticisms over her leadership amid the wildfires destroying large portions of the city.

First, there was the fact that Bass spent the first part of the crisis several thousand miles away on an entirely separate continent, attending an official trip all the way in Africa as the horrible situation unfolded.

Then, there was the revelation that she had tried to slash almost $49 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department budget one day before the Pacific Palisades fire started.

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The anger of homeowners in Los Angeles is growing as they are facing an insurance crisis as companies could struggle to cover the staggering costs of the wildfires.

Tens of thousands of displaced LA residents have lost everything but the clothes they were wearing and a few select personal items, leaving insurance companies on the hook for colossal payouts.

But customers of one of California‘s biggest insurancers ranted against the company last week after the company cancelled fire coverage for thousands of homeowners in the Pacific Palisades last summer in an attempt to avoid ‘financial failure’.

State Farm said in 2023 that it would stop accepting new homeowners-insurance applications in California and then added last year that it would stop covering 72,000 homes across the state due to the growing frequency and severity of wildfires.

Comedic actor Rob Schneider ranted against State Farm last week, saying they were ‘a pile of crap for cancelling insurance policies’.

Actor James Woods, whose Pacific Palisades home was engulfed by flames and destroyed, also confirmed in a post that ‘one of the major insurance companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago’, an apparent reference to State Farm.

Even if residents are still covered by insurance, they could face a $115billion shortfall due to insurance companies likely only covering $20billion of the $135billion in estimated losses.

‘The concern isn’t whether insurance companies will pay out for damage but rather how much and how long it will take,’ Amy Bach, the executive director of United Policyholders, a California-based nonprofit consumer group, told NBC. ‘For the people who lose their homes in these wildfires, there will be fights over coverage.’

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“All these things are connected. This is a challenging time. But we’re up to this challenge.”

That was California Gov. Gavin Newsom back in 2020 when he was busy blaming “climate change” for the wildfires that erupted that year.

“I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers,” he said.

Four years later, Newsom is again blaming “climate change” for the fires ravaging Los Angeles.

But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared?

Someone needs to ask Newsom why the state didn’t spend the last four years aggressively clearing out underbrush to minimize the chances of a catastrophic wildfire. Why didn’t it carve out large and effective buffer zones to keep fires from reaching populated areas? Why wasn’t there a Marshall Plan-scale effort to build reservoirs so firefighters could get water from hydrants?

It’s not as though the state didn’t have plenty of warning. For decades, environmentalists have been screaming about how “climate change” was going to make wildfires more frequent, more all-consuming, and more deadly.

Yet in the very state where environmentalists hold all the levers of power, they dawdled and delayed, let bureaucratic red tape and environmental groups stall efforts to prepare for the worst, and put other ridiculous and massively expensive projects (such as the “bullet” train) at the front of the line.

And in the process, California has wasted fantastic sums of money.

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New York Judge Juan Merchan made a big show last Friday of holding a sentencing hearing before President-elect Trump has his inauguration on Jan. 20, as RedState’s Susie Moore shared.

Twitchy’s Sam Janney wrote earlier on Sunday at our Townhall Media sister publication about part of Trump FBI director nominee, Kash Patel’s reaction, when asked about Trump’s conviction in the Manhattan business records fraud case–which many have long seen as blatant lawfare against a political opponent of the leftists/Democrat Party apparatus. While the clip is from May, it’s gone viral once again on social media.

Janney, referring to Patel, averred:

…[I] “can’t wait to see what happens when he’s officially in office.

Like, for example, his push to investigate Judge Merchan, his very openly anti-Trump daughter, and lawfare in general.

And hoo boy, she isn’t kidding. During an appearance on Fox News with host Trace Gallagher after the jury’s verdict, the man did not hold back when the host invited him to give his take.

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Joe Biden’s administration has offered a mere $770 in “one-time payments” to individuals devastated by the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles.

This paltry sum is a stark contrast to the billions of dollars being funneled overseas. This is a slap in the face to those who have lost homes, livelihoods, and loved ones.

The Los Angeles wildfires have wreaked havoc, resulting in at least 24 deaths and the destruction of thousands of structures. Over 150,000 residents have been forced to evacuate, with entire neighborhoods reduced to ashes.

In the face of such widespread devastation, the federal government’s response has been alarmingly inadequate.

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As wildfires ravage Southern California, homeowners in Pacific Palisades find themselves grappling with an unbearable reality: their homes are burning, and their insurance policies—once their safety net—were canceled just months ago by State Farm.

In a move justified by the company as a strategy to avoid “financial failure,” State Farm canceled over 72,000 homeowners’ policies statewide, with Pacific Palisades—a now-charred affluent neighborhood—bearing a significant brunt.

James Woods, a renowned actor and Pacific Palisades resident, summed up the community’s frustration on social media.

“Actually, one of the major insurance companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago,” he wrote.

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Victor Davis Hanson said on Monday that he thinks the FBI is “afraid” of the incoming Trump administration over the possibility that their shady dealings will be ‘re-examined.’

Speaking with Fox News on Monday about new evidence released of a suspect in the DC pipe bomb case, the Hoover Institution Senior Fellow told host Laura Ingraham;

“I think they’re afraid the narrative changed over the four years, and they were afraid to release any information during the election. Now they feel that there’s a new administration and there might be some exposure or culpability. They’re afraid that if they were Donald Trump and they had suffered what they did to him, they would be very frightened the way they think,” adding “So they think Donald Trump is going to re-examine a lot of this.”

A new video published by the FBI’s DC Field Office shows a suspect appearing to plant a bomb near the Democratic National Committee.

Hanson went on to call out what he said were the FBI’s “lies,” highlighting the neglect to immediately release Lt. Michael Byrd’s identity after fatally shooting Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot. The senior fellow additionally cited the number of charges brought against attendees of the Jan. 6 attack compared to those not charged during the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots. -Daily Caller

“A lot of the things they said, Laura, were abject lies,” Hanson continued. “There were not four officers killed. There were not 10 people killed. There was only one violent death, we think, and that was a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt. Then there was no need to hide Officer Byrd’s identity. Anytime an officer lethally shoots an unarmed person in this country, they’re identified. For some reason, they wanted to suppress that.”

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Construction to begin mid-January

SALISBURY, Md. – The Wicomico Civic Center will break ground on a long-awaited $9.8 million renovation later this month.

In the spring of 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a $5.5 million federal grant to make major improvements to the now 45-year-old venue.

The federal grant funds will be combined with $4.3 million in state and local funding.

“The planned improvements will total more than $9.8 million, representing the single largest investment in this building since it was rebuilt after the fire,” said Steve Miller, director of Wicomico Recreation, Parks & Tourism. “We are hopeful that this investment will attract new events and generate additional economic activity in the county.”

Plans include an expanded box office and lobby, safety barriers along the north and west sides of the venue, improved wayfinding, improved ADA access, an expanded food court and better connectivity between the Civic Center and the Wicomico High School campus.

The venue will remain fully operational throughout the renovation process. Visitors can find the most up-to-date information about the renovation at https://www.wicomicociviccenter.org/about/news.

The project is expected to be complete in roughly one year.

President Biden and President-elect Trump sat side-by-side in the Oval Office after the election exchanging pleasantries in front of the cameras, both promising “a smooth transition.”

Biden vowed to “do everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated,” insisting the president-elect would get “what you need.” Trump replied, “I very much appreciate that,” agreeing with the president that the coming transfer of power would be “as smooth as it can get.”

That era of good feeling, if it hadn’t already, ended two weeks from inauguration day. “They say we’re going to have a smooth transition,” Trump said Tuesday during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate, “all they do is talk. It’s all talk.” The incoming president feels sabotaged by the outgoing president on at least two fronts: A sudden and sweeping offshore drilling ban and his imminent sentencing in his New York hush money trial.

Biden announced earlier this week that he would protect 625 million acres of ocean from offshore oil and gas drilling along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea. An environmentalist, he has conserved more land and waters than any other president in history and condemned the “false choice” of choosing “between protecting the environment and growing our economy” when announcing the ban under a provision of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

Predictably, Trump balked. “It is like the whole ocean,” he said while reflecting on the vast acreage and complaining that his predecessor had just “destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean.”

“I’m going to have it revoked on day one,” he continued before indicating that such a move would likely incur legal challenges. And he should know. Trump tried to reverse former President Barack Obama’s ban on drilling in Arctic and Atlantic waters through executive action, only to be blocked by a federal court in 2019. The judge ruled that reversing a ban would require congressional action.

Democratic administrations tend to be more conservation-minded, while Republican ones are more permissive of oil and gas production. This is nothing. During the campaign, Trump often bragged about how the United States became a net exporter of fossil fuels during his tenure, boasting about the vast reserves of “liquid gold under our feet,” a supply far greater “than any other country.” And while the U.S., in fact, hit record highs of domestic oil production in the last four years, Biden hastened and cheered the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

The latest conservation effort is more than just energy policy in the eyes of Trump. It is instead a direct attempt to hamstring his strategy to bring down inflation before that plan can even start. During remarks at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump vowed that increased drilling would bring down gas prices and reduce manufacturing inputs, thus “driving down inflation.” At Mar-a-Lago, an optimistic president-elect pegged the value of offshore drilling at $50 trillion, complaining that Biden “has thrown it away.”

Of course, there is no love lost between Trump and Biden. The Republican calls his counterpart “the worst president in history.” The Democrat regularly called his predecessor “a threat to democracy.”

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Add this story to the ‘Trump was right again’ pile.

Just three months ago, when Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, he talked to Joe about the ongoing issue of water dispersal in California and about how the state could stop wildfires by clearing dead trees from forests.

He suggested that the state actually has more than enough water to deal with these and other issues such as farming, but progressive environmental policies are standing in the way.

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President Biden has long maintained the delusion that history will see him as a great leader, and he’s clinging to it to the bitter end.

In an “exit” interview with Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, Biden reviewed the last four years with nonstop nonsense.

Blame his failing faculties, the White House bubble, his lifelong pretensions to be more than an extremely lucky hack politician — or all three

Risibly, he again claimed he could have beaten Donald Trump in the last election, had his own party not elbowed him out.

“The polling” showed it, he claimed.

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