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A top aide who worked in former President Joe Biden’s administration has been slapped with a subpoena by House Republicans for an alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline during his time in the White House. Anthony Bernal was a senior aide to Biden and some called him former first lady Jill Biden’s “work husband,” the New York Post reported Thursday. Bernal on Wednesday told the House Oversight Committee he would not sit for a transcribed interview about the allegations. “Bernal had been slated to appear on Thursday but pulled out after the Trump White House counsel’s office informed former Domestic Policy…

Owen McIntire, the 19 year-old trans person who is the main suspect in the firebombing of a Tesla dealership in Kansas City, Missouri, is facing 30 years in prison if convicted. Back in April, a judge released McIntire from jail so that he could continue his transition to female, but that freedom is not likely to last. Attorney General Pam Bondi has made it quite clear that she is taking this crime and others like it very seriously. The Daily Mail reported: Trans student, 19, who ‘torched two Tesla Cybertrucks’ faces HUGE sentence thanks to Trump’s AG Pam Bondi A…

Calum Hood’s Order Chaos Order debuts at No. 179 on the Billboard 200 and enters the top 10 on both … More Vinyl Albums and Top Album Sales charts, marking his first solo win. BURBANK, CA – MARCH 10: Calum Hood of 5 Seconds of Summer performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards Fan Army celebration presented by Taco Bell with 5 Seconds Of Summer at the iHeartRadio Theater on March 10, 2018 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)Getty Images for iHeartMedia 5 Seconds of Summer is on a bit of a break at the moment, though…

A disturbing spree of kidnappings has struck women in the Alawite Muslim minority community in Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, reports revealed this week, including at least 33 known cases of brazen abductions in broad daylight. The Alawites are a branch of Shia Islam that comprises about ten percent of the Syrian population, but they were dramatically over-represented in the fallen government of Assad, who was himself an Alawite. A little under 75 percent of Syrians are Sunni Muslims from various ethnic backgrounds.  Many Syrians resented the Alawites for enjoying preferential treatment under the brutal Assad dynasty,…

A majority of Americans approves of President Donald Trump’s airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to one of the first polls taken in the aftermath of the weekend’s military action. A new poll by American Pulse, conducted June 23-25 among 633 likely voters and with a 3.9% margin of error at the 95% confidence interval, showed that 55.5% of voters approved of Trump’s efforts to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, against 39.4% who disapproved. When airstrikes were specifically mentioned, the margins were similar: 53.7% approved and 39.3% disapproved. There was a partisan split, but Republicans approved (86.1%) more strongly…

Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville reacted to the Democrat primary win of the far left radical Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race during an appearance on the ‘Politicon’ podcast this week. Carville called it a ‘potentially damaging event’ and seemed to lament the fact that Democrats could no longer dodge the socialist label. Anyone who remembers the 2008 election will recall how Democrats would foam at the mouth if anyone called Obama a socialist. Today, a sizable portion of the Democrat party openly describes themselves as Democratic Socialists. That is the faction to which Mamdani belongs. Transcript via…

TOPSHOT – In this picture taken on April 23, 2022, farmer Jinadasa Paranamana works in a paddy field … More in Tissamaharama, Hambantota district. – Farmers were once big supporters of the Rajapaksas, but a bungled fertiliser ban withered their crops along with their backing for Sri Lanka’s previously powerful and popular political clan. – TO GO WITH SriLanka-agriculture-economy-politics-unrest,FOCUS by Aishwarya KUMAR (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP) / TO GO WITH SriLanka-agriculture-economy-politics-unrest,FOCUS by Aishwarya KUMAR (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Prior to Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, energy prices and supplies were…

President Donald Trump criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for claiming a victory over Iran’s “12-Day War” with Israel, and pointed out that Iran was “decimated.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why Khamenei would “so blatantly and foolishly” claim that Iran had “won the War with Israel,” when that is a lie. Trump’s post came after Khamenei claimed in several posts on X that he was offering “Congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime.” Khamenei also wrote in another post that “the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the…

The public schools in Newton, Massachusetts, will bar unvaccinated students from attending school this fall following a recent chicken pox outbreak. The Boston Globe reported: The decision was prompted by a review of student vaccination statuses following a recent chicken pox outbreak, said Superintendent Anna Nolin in a memo to the School Committee last week. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the previous superintendent waived student vaccine requirements, according [sic] the memo. Newton Health and Human Services and the City of Newton Nursing Division found last week at least 182 students, a little more than 1 percent of the student body, continued to attend school…

The Foreign Office argued that “complex heritage” makes Blaise Metreweli a good fit to lead the spy agency The UK Foreign Office has defended Blaise Metreweli, the first woman appointed to lead the MI6 foreign intelligence agency, after media reports revealed that her grandfather fought for Nazi Germany.The government argued that Metreweli’s controversial family background has only strengthened her resolve to protect the country from external threats.On Thursday, the Daily Mail published a report revealing for the first time that Metreweli, who is set to become MI6 director in October, is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski – a Red Army defector…