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A federal judge has rejected the U.S. government’s request to sanction Elon Musk for missing a scheduled deposition in September. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled that imposing sanctions on the billionaire owner of SpaceX and X would serve no purpose.
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David Brock world scores fresh checks from dark money donors
To Media Matters for America and the American Independent Foundation, two progressive groups formed by the conservative journalist-turned-Democratic operative David Brock, the scourge of so-called right-wing “dark money” is a stain on democracy.
Media Matters once declared, in a blog post on its website that Brock promoted, that the press ignores “the GOP’s dark money problem.”
However, the Brock-linked groups have also long relied on anonymous donations from shadowy organizations to keep their lights on, tax records show.
Newly filed disclosures with the IRS covering 2023 show Media Matters and the American Independent Foundation scooped up hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Hopewell Fund. The charity is part of a massive Democratic-aligned dark money network called Arabella Advisors, overseeing groups that, in turn, do not release details on their finances thanks to lax federal disclosure laws.
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The legal team representing the U.S. Navy veteran suing CNN for defamation has requested the court to compel anchor Jake Tapper to sit down for an additional hour of deposition after he refused to answer key questions "aimed at punitive damages discovery" during the first go-round.
Zachary Young alleges that CNN smeared his security consulting company, Nemex Enterprises Inc., by implying it illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan during the Biden administration's military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Young believes CNN "destroyed his reputation and business" during a segment that year on Tapper's program "The Lead."
A high-stakes civil trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 6 in front of Judge Henry in the Circuit Court for Bay County, Florida.
Tapper sat down for a deposition last week but was instructed by CNN’s counsel not to answer a variety of questions, according to a court filing obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said on Monday he planned to resign on Dec. 13, about a month before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
Williams' office, known as the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, has an unusual degree of independence from the Justice Department and is known for bringing high-profile financial fraud and public corruption cases.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/manhattans-top-federal-prosecutor-resign-ahead-trump-inauguration-2024-11-25/
Microsoft is investigating an issue with its Microsoft 365 service and its Teams app, with some users reporting to DownDetector that they are having problems using services such as Exchange and Outlook.
On social media service X, Microsoft posted a message early Monday that it is assessing "an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or functionality within Microsoft Teams calendar." The problem appears to be affecting Microsoft users globally, according to posts from users.
"We've identified a recent change which we believe has resulted in impact. We've started to revert the change and are investigating what additional actions are required to mitigate the issue," Microsoft added in a subsequent post.
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🦃Biden carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning two turkeys, Peach and Blossom, at the White House so they can “join the free birds of the United States of America.”
Peach and Blossom are the two lucky turkeys from Minnesota who will escape a fowl fate of ending up on someone's Thanksgiving table this year when they are pardoned Monday by President Biden at the White House.
Peach and Blossom, weighing 41 and 40 pounds, respectively, where hatched back in July. They traveled to Washington this week and were treated to a suite at the Willard InterContinental hotel before their big day on Monday, as is tradition.
"Keep calm and gobble on."
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New Trump FCC Chair Brendan Carr says he will work to implement Trump’s agenda, smash the censorship cartel, and make sure the media is serving the public interest moving forward. No more lying!
Carr also says he plans to review George Soros’ attempt to buy 200 US radio stations.
Loving this guy already!
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ICYMI: The director of an elite D.C. preschool was arrested Tuesday on charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor after he repeatedly chatted online with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as the sexually abusive father of a 9-year-old boy, according to court documents.
James Stewart Carroll, 55, was head of a private preschool known as the National Child Research Center in Northwest Washington for the past six years, according to his LinkedIn page. Carroll previously spent two years as head of the Concord Hill School in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and 11 years as a teacher at the Beauvoir School on Washington National Cathedral’s campus in Northwest.
Charging papers filed Monday and unsealed Tuesday tied Carroll to a Discord account that engaged others in online chats “about child sexual exploitation, circumcision of teenage boys, urinating on teenage boys and adults.”
In September, the papers allege, the account uploaded a suspected file of child sexual abuse material involving two naked boys. An employee of Discord, an online chat platform, reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which in turn reported it to the FBI, the papers say.
Internet platforms have been alerted to watch for anyone posting child sexual abuse material.
The Discord account was last accessed by a Comcast Cable account in the Washington area which appeared to be tied to Carroll; according to the FBI affidavit, it was registered with Carroll’s phone number and an address of the Beauvoir School. The FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force then obtained Carroll’s phone, email and Discord records. They found other Discord accounts with further explicit conversations about child sexual abuse, according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Paul Fisher.
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A hard-right critic of NATO who has praised Russia is set to face a centre-right opposition leader in a presidential election run-off in Romania that could undermine its pro-Western stance after a shock outcome in the first-round vote.
Independent hard-right politician Calin Georgescu, 62, won 22.94% of votes in Sunday's voting, the electoral authority said. Centre-right contender Elena Lasconi, leader of the opposition Save Romania Union, lay second with 19.18%.
The outcome was a huge shock as pre-election opinion polls had made Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu the frontrunner. Ciolacu said he would resign as party leader following the result but would remain in the role of prime minister until a parliamentary election scheduled on Dec. 1.
The candidate of the centre-right Liberals, Ciolacu's coalition partners, also failed to secure a place in the election run-off, which will be on Dec. 8.
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Absolutely tragic. Over the weekend, Texas encountered a caravan of 250 illegal migrants with over 60 unaccompanied minors. Among them was a little 2-year-old girl holding nothing but one piece of paper with a name a phone number.
Sanctuary cities enable and incentivize the most grotesque human rights abuses imaginable. They must be stopped, and the officials who obstruct ICE from doing their jobs must be charged.
Enough.
President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar is warning sanctuary cities of dire consequences if they refuse to turn over illegal immigrants, saying he’ll seek Justice Department authority to charge officials with obstruction and harboring if they don’t turn over illegal border crossers in their custody.
“They need to be aware of a couple things. No. 1, impeding a federal law enforcement officer is a crime. No. 2, if you knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal alien from ICE, that's a crime,” Tom Homan told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview. “So don't cross that line!”
The former acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was named earlier this month by Trump to coordinate all border security issues from the White House starting Jan. 20. He has been crafting plans already.
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As the U.S. electricity supply comes up short, power-hungry industries are looking to go off-grid
Earlier this month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected an agreement between a nuclear power plant owner and Amazon to locate a data center next to the plant and satisfy its power needs.
The decision raises the prospect that energy-hungry data centers, as well as other industrial power consumers, may not be able to meet their power demands with the grid. If the grid can’t supply the power, companies might be forced to create their own power plants. Those plants will likely tap natural gas as a fuel source, or eventually employ advanced nuclear reactors in the next decade.
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In March, Talen Energy, the majority owner of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Pennsylvania, sold a data center campus to Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud service provider, for $650 million, according to Utility Dive. Talen intended to sell power to Amazon from Talen’s 2.2 gigawatt stake in the Susquehanna power plant.
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Locked out of power next year, Democrats are hatching plans to oppose President-elect Donald J. Trump that look nothing like the liberal “resistance” of 2017.
Gone are the pink knit caps and homemade signs from the huge protest that convulsed blue America that year, as exhausted liberals seem more inclined to tune out Mr. Trump than fight.
Washington is far different, too. The Republicans who stymied some of Mr. Trump’s first-term agenda are now dead, retired or Democrats. And the Supreme Court, with three justices appointed by the former president, has proved how far it will go in bending to his will.
As they face this tough political landscape, Democratic officials, activists and ambitious politicians are seeking to build their second wave of opposition to Mr. Trump from the places that they still control: deep-blue states.
Democrats envision flexing their power in these states to partly block the Trump administration’s policies — for example, by refusing to enforce immigration laws — and to push forward their vision of governance by passing state laws enshrining abortion rights, funding paid leave and putting in place a laundry list of other party priorities.
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🙏Prayers up for Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, who has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.
“I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” the post said.
Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.
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🙄 Former president Bill Clinton has revealed in his new book Citizen that he regrets ever having met with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The excerpts, first reported by The US Sun, show him admitting that he had flown on Esptein's private jet, the Lolita Express, in 2002 and 2003.
Clinton wrote: 'The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward. I wish I had never met him.'
Clinton claims in his memoir that Epstein had offered the plane in support of Clinton's foundation and that they spoke about economics and politics.
He also outrighted dismissed allegations that he had ever visited Little Saint James, a private island in the US Virgin Islands owned by Epstein. 🤥🤥🤥
Clinton also said that the two only had brief meetings, one in his Harlem office and another in Epstein's New York home.
The former president wrote: 'I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing.
'He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him. I’ve never visited his island.'
In January of this year bombshell court documents had claimed that Clinton 'liked them young'.
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🤣🤣Axios CEO absolutely loses it over Elon Musk saying 𝕏 users "Are the media now," while passionately defending traditional media outlets:
"Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day saying, like "WE ARE THE MEDIA! YOU ARE THE MEDIA! My message to Elon Musk is BULLSHIT! You're not the media!"
"People on social media are spreading falsehoods constantly, every day, every hour, every minute about the news. What you do is important. What the New York Times does is important. What the Wall Street Journal does is important."
They are outraged that 𝕏 reveals their inaccuracies, contributing to the significant challenges their industry faces.
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NEW: President Trump's transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
The energy checklist largely reflects promises Trump made on the campaign trail, but the plan to roll out the list as early as day one ensures that oil and gas production will rank alongside immigration as a pillar of Trump's early agenda.
Trump, a Republican, also plans to repeal some of his Democratic predecessor's key climate legislation and regulations, such as tax credits for electric vehicles and new clean power plant standards that aim to phase out coal and natural gas, the sources said.
An early priority would be lifting President Joe Biden's election-year pause on new export permits for LNG and moving swiftly to approve pending permits, the sources said. Trump would also look to expedite drilling permits on federal lands and quickly reopen five-year drilling plans off the U.S. coast to include more lease sales, the sources said.
In a symbolic gesture, Trump would seek to approve the Keystone Pipeline, an issue that was an environmental flashpoint and which was halted after Biden canceled a key permit on his first day in office. But any company looking to build the multibillion-dollar effort to carry Canadian crude oil to the U.S. would need to start from scratch because things like easements have been returned to landowners.
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Trump team barred from agencies amid legal standoff
Advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to the Health and Human Services Department multiple times after Donald Trump tapped him to lead the massive agency, hoping to jumpstart coordination before his takeover in late January. They were rebuffed.
Kennedy’s inability to communicate with the agency he may soon manage, confirmed by an administration official with knowledge of the episodes granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations, is just one consequence of the president-elect’s continued foot-dragging on signing the standard trio of ethics and transparency agreements with the federal government — something his team pledged to do shortly after the election.
The Trump transition’s unprecedented delay in signing the agreements has so far prevented the incoming administration from having any formal contact with federal agencies, including sending in groups of policy advisers known as “landing teams.” It also means they can’t access cybersecurity support or secure email servers for transition-related work, or request FBI background checks for their nominees.
Both the Trump transition and the White House confirmed to POLITICO that negotiations on the agreements are still underway. But until the standoff is resolved, Trump’s Cabinet nominees will gain no more insight than the general public into the workings of the departments they’re supposed to run.
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😆🥴🫠With the early primary polls on her side, Democrat Party insiders say Kamala Harris is thinking seriously about trying again for the presidency in 2028.
“Of course, she’s going to try and run again,” someone the Daily Mail describes as a “well-connected Democratic strategist,” told the outlet. The strategist added that Kamala’s ambition is only one thing driving this decision.
“Despite some hesitation, Harris has generated a lot of sympathetic reactions from professional Democrats in Washington,” reports the Daily Mail. “They describe her campaign as ‘near flawless’ but say she struggled to separate herself from President Joe Biden’s record.”
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Two in-house investigators at U.S. intelligence agencies recently quit their jobs. There’s growing fear in Washington that they could be the start of an exodus — or a purge — of government watchdogs.
A wave of departures by inspectors general would give President-elect Donald Trump the opportunity to nominate or appoint people of his choice to the watchdog posts — leaving dozens of federal departments, agencies and offices subject to oversight by people who would owe their positions to Trump.
In the wake of Trump’s election, CIA Inspector General Robin Ashton and Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim revealed they plan to leave government in the coming weeks. Neither cited Trump’s victory as a basis for the decision, but the timing of the announcements troubled some longtime advocates for IGs.
More than 70 inspectors general serve in posts at agencies across the federal government, tasked with ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse, and investigating alleged misconduct. They generate thousands of reports each year and claim to have identified hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings.
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A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China.
"If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can be delivered no matter what, then that is a key part of our deterrence," the chair of NATO's military committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said in Brussels.
Speaking at an event of the European Policy Centre think tank, he described deterrence as going far beyond military capability alone, since all available instruments could and would be used in war.
"We're seeing that with the growing number of sabotage acts, and Europe has seen that with energy supply," Bauer said.
"We thought we had a deal with Gazprom, but we actually had a deal with Mr Putin. And the same goes for Chinese-owned infrastructure and goods. We actually have a deal with (Chinese President) Xi (Jinping)."
Bauer noted western dependencies on supplies from China, with 60% of all rare earth materials produced and 90% processed there. He said chemical ingredients for sedatives, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and low blood pressure medicines were also coming from China.
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☢️We're ‘inching towards a nuclear war,’ says military intelligence analyst
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CNN’s Jake Tapper is refusing to answer basic questions about his salary and his show's finances as he navigates a $1 billion defamation lawsuit brought by a Navy veteran who says CNN destroyed his security contracting career when it aired false and defamatory claims about his efforts to get Afghans out of the country as the Taliban took control in 2021.
https://freebeacon.com/media/cnns-tapper-refuses-to-disclose-salary-other-financial-info-in-1-billion-defamation-suit/
🧟💅Billionaires are creating ‘life-extending pills’ for the rich — but CEO warns they’ll lead to a planet of ‘posh zombies’
Billionaires are funding the creation of life-extending pills that will eventually hit the market for people to buy, according to a CEO — and he says it’ll turn the rich in to “posh, privileged zombies.”
The chilling warning comes amid fears that AI and biotechnology are evolving at such a rapid pace that anti-aging tablets might only be a matter of years away.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and ChatGPT’s Sam Altman are among the latest in a long line of American tycoons to throw their wealth behind regenerative medicine.
Their aim is to increase life expectancy with drugs and other technologies that make the body’s cells stay younger and disease-free for longer.
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NEW💥: The Alaska Republican Party has engaged Harmeet Dhillon to conduct a recount and examination of the state's election outcomes related to the proposition to repeal Ranked Choice Voting.
The Alaska Republican Party will request a statewide recount and review of the election results for Ballot Measure 2 - the Repeal of Rank Choice Voting from the 2024 General Election. We will submit this request, along with the names of the requisite Alaskan voters required to initiate this process, once the election is certified, which is scheduled for November 30, 2024.
Together with our partners at the Republican National Committee, the Alaska Republican Party has assembled a team to oversee this process. We have engaged the Dhillon Law Group, led by Harmeet K. Dhillon, to be on the ground during the recount and review, along with our Party Counsel and observers.
Ms. Dhillon and her firm are a nationally recognized, seasoned election integrity legal team, and bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to this recount process. Ms. Dhillon is an expert in election law. She and her colleagues Michael Columbo and Mark Meuser were recently on the legal teams in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and other crucial locations nationally to ensure a fair, transparent, and thorough process. Our Party Counsel, Ms. Stacey Stone and her team, are experienced Alaskan election law practitioners, and in September 2024, they successfully intervened on the Alaska Republican Party's behalf in the case of Alaska Democratic Party V. State of Alaska Division of Elections, ultimately prevailing in the Alaska Supreme Court.
The Dhillon Law Group, our Party Counsel, and I will lead this effort. We look forward to a thorough and comprehensive review and recount.
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🥴🫠WHYYY are they lying like this? We can clearly see this headline is bullshit with a quick trip to the store:
🤥A new study found that a standard Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper than ever, despite record price jumps in the grocery store since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cost of this year's feast was estimated to be $58.08 for ten people, or $5.81 per person, according to a nationwide survey of grocery prices by the American Farm Bureau Federation, a lobbying group that represents millions of farmers.
That's a five percent drop from last year but still a 19 percent increase since 2019, pointing to stark realities of inflation over the last five years.
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😳Liam Payne was trying to escape from his hotel room when he plummeted to his death — and the hotel staff knew that he had threatened to use the balcony as a means of busting out, according to a report.
The One Direction Star, who reportedly hated being holed up in hotel rooms, appeared to be heavily intoxicated when he was dragged through the lobby by staff at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, security footage shows.
When the hotel employees reach Payne’s room, the pop star fought back and clearly did not want to go inside.
Moments later, a staff member called 911 minutes later and said they feared Payne might use the balcony and hurt himself, indicating the hotel was well aware that a serious accident was possible, according to TMZ.
“I don’t know whether his life may be in danger. He is in a room with a balcony, and, well, we’re a little afraid …” the employee said, according to the 911 transcript obtained by TMZ.
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So now we know that the cop who shot dead unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.
There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, “improperly” firing his gun at a car near his home while off-duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a “racist a–hole,” again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight.
The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot.
,Source: New York Post,https://search.app/S1NFS688cdE8FzKM6
Few things had gone right for Miami in the first part of the season. Now that the Fins have turned things around recently, there’s cause for celebration. And how do the Dolphins celebrate good play on the field?
🕺Well, they hit the Trump Dance, of course.🕺
The moment of Trumpian jubilation came in the third quarter of Miami’s beatdown of New England as defensive lineman Zach Seiler celebrated getting a stop in the only way that made sense.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is opting to bypass traditional FBI background checks for certain Cabinet appointments, instead relying on private companies for vetting, according to sources familiar with the plan.
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