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A North Carolina homeowner fed up with the plague of porch pirates over the Christmas holidays decided to play a little trick on the next culprit to steal from him — and one crook actually was caught on video lugging away the heavy surprise in a box. The homeowner in question — who lives in southwest Charlotte but didn't want to be identified — decided to get back at those who steal packages from people's porches, Queen City News reported. “I was at the hardware store and doing a little bit of Christmas shopping, and I said, ‘Let’s get something...

After years of trying to “protect democracy” and “fortify democracy”, Democrats finally succeeded in Oregon where they banned Republicans from running for office. That’s what the Democrat flavor of democracy looks like. When the Tennessee House of Representatives temporarily expelled two Democrats who had taken part in an insurrection on its grounds, the media quickly turned it into a national story. The move by the Republican majority was an “attack on democracy”. But when the Democrat majority in Oregon banned half the Republican Senate delegation from running for reelection, that has been treated as a local story. And not an...

In 2003, prosecutors said, the mayor of a city in Northern Illinois sent a message to the operators of a local strip club: Pay me, or I’ll shut you down. The mayor of Harvey, Ill., a city of about 18,000 just south of Chicago, knew that the strip club allowed prostitution in a private area of the club, and he demanded $3,000 a month from the business to let it stay open, according to prosecutors. According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the club yielded to the threat, eventually even acquiescing to a demand from...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is becoming one of the most significant surrogates for President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign and is expected to play a larger role in shoring up his base support in the new year. At a recent fundraiser in Washington, D.C., hosted by Clinton at her WhiteHaven estate, the former secretary of state and the Women’s Leadership Forum reportedly pulled in nearly one million dollars for Biden's reelection. According to NBC News, former President Bill Clinton even appeared during the fundraiser.

A Chicago police officer is out of a job after she was caught falsely reporting being held at gunpoint and robbed of thousands of dollars. Officer Zondranika Williams, 37, was charged with felony disorderly conduct and false report of an offense at a court hearing Thursday, two days after she was relieved of her duties with the Chicago Police Department, CBS News Chicago reported. Williams called 911 on Sept. 23 to report that she had been robbed of $5,000 in cash in the alleyway by her garage in the 8000 block of South Wabash Avenue. She told the operator that...

...a United Nations program that, unknown to most Americans, has been showering millions of dollars in cash to help foreign nationals on their way to cross the U.S. southern border. In late 2021 and early 2022, the UN program drew outrage among advocates of regular immigration law enforcement, including congressional Republicans of border states, after they learned, in part from Center for Immigration Studies video, photos, and analysis, that UN debit cards and vouchers for transportation, shelter, and medical and legal advice to gain asylum “protection” all along Latin America’s migration trails were easing travel in the most voluminous ongoing...

A Rochester man with a long criminal record has been charged with murder in the city's latest homicide. Forty-four-year-old Jamel Robinson is charged with yesterday's shooting death of 38-year-old Kevin Rigdon outside the downtown transit center. Police say the men knew each other, but the motive isn't known. A second man was wounded by gunfire and is still hospitalized. Robinson was arrested a short time later, leaving the Sibley building, and carrying a loaded handgun. Police say his record includes a criminal sex act conviction, he is a sex offender and was DISCHARGED FROM LIFETIME PAROLE LAST YEAR.

SIOUX CITY — A federal jury has found Kim Taylor guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud. The jury returned its verdict Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City. Taylor was charged with 52 counts of voting-related fraud accusing her of conducting a scheme in which she fraudulently filled out voting forms and ballots on behalf of numerous Vietnamese voters, many of whom have limited English comprehension. Taylor was accused of filling out forms and having voters sign on behalf of children and grandchildren without fully explaining or interpreting the forms or telling them they needed permission before signing...

More than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 Capitol Police security video will be made public on a dedicated website starting immediately and ramping up in the coming months, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced on Nov. 17.However, individual video clips released to media or other requesters will have the faces of identifiable individuals blurred, a senior congressional aide told The Epoch Times. That restriction drew immediate fire from some Jan. 6 criminal case defendants.“So while we are significantly expanding the amount of clips that will be available and who can request them, we will be blurring faces with respect to...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” that former President Donald Trump does not need to be criminally convicted of insurrection for the 14th Amendment to disqualify him as president. Raskin said, “The authors of the 14th Amendment themselves dealt with that question. They felt that if someone sets themselves at war against the Constitution, and engages in the most profound anti-democratic act of trying to overthrow an election by installing themselves in office with an insurrection, then at that point, they are constitutionally barred. So, when people say, it is undemocratic what the voters decide,...

Ukraine has recovered 14 archaeological items allegedly stolen by a Russian man who was stopped at a U.S. airport on suspicion of illegally importing artifacts, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Ukraine’s acting Minister of Culture Rostyslav Karandieiev said the man stole the artifacts from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and then tried to transport them into the U.S. At a news conference in Kyiv Friday, Karandieiev showed some of the artifacts to journalists, along with the documentation that Ukraine received. The recovered items include various types of weaponry, such as axes of different sizes, and date back to periods ranging from the Neolithic...

Six freshman Republican members of Congress from New York want to disown lying Long Island Rep. George Santos. Nassau County Rep. Anthony D’Esposito announced Wednesday that he will be “introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster, George Santos” following a superseding indictment against his fellow Republican that dropped Tuesday. “Right now, we’re focused on removing him from Congress,” D’Esposito told reporters when asked whether Republicans would remove Santos from their conference before kicking him out of office. Empire State GOP Reps. Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams will co-sponsor the measure,...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on her show “Deadline” that Mark Meadows, who served as chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, was so “exposed” in the Georgia criminal RICO case he is “naked with his rear end hanging out.” After playing clips from The House Select Committee investigating January 6, Wallace said, “I want to deal with this intent and this knowledge of illegality first, so, Cippolone and Jacob, based on their testimony to the committee, are the ones saying in all of these meetings to anyone that’s listening that the plot is illegal, the fake electors...

The proposed provision, as per the critics, could change ICE’s role from deporting violent criminal aliens to assisting in their resettlement within the US. Furthermore, critics highlight that Biden’s plan could allocate ICE’s resources to sanctuary cities for resettlement, adding to the federal funds previously granted for the resettlement of illegal aliens. Major media outlets have largely overlooked this radical proposal.

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The mainstream media reporters are still missing the real story—bribery likely took place during Joe and Hunter Biden’s involvement with Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer is joined by Seamus Bruner on the latest Drill Down podcast, and together they lay out the case, based on their research, that bribery clearly took place: The Biden family was paid in exchange for explicit favors done by then Vice President Joe Biden for a foreign entity. “This is a clear violation of the law. This is criminal conduct that’s occurring. This is a direct bribe. It’s a quid pro quo,”...

"The special counsel shall be selected from outside the United States government." — Code of Federal Regulations, Title 28, Chapter VI, § 600.3(c). [Emphasis added]This requirement is the law. The regulations were authorized by Congress under 5 U.S.C. 301, 509, 510, 515-519.The attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. It is certainly expected that he would obey the law in its entirety.

It was a satisfying video for those who see America sinking into a criminal abyss: a brazen robber was systematically working his way through a Stockton, California convenience store's cigarette shelves, pouring hundreds of packs into a huge garbage can on wheels. Eventually, one clerk grappled with him, and another began whacking his legs with a long stick. The clerks are now being investigated for assault under the theory that you cannot use deadly force to protect commercial property. That's just wrong. ... police are investigating the clerks for criminal assault. These are the same police who never showed up...

Collapse is never a sudden occurrence; it is an outcome of gradual erosion over time. A weakening that takes place almost invisible to those who pass through the construct, until eventually, at an uneventful time in the mechanics of history, the process gives way.Fitch has joined with the prior position of Standard & Poors to downgrade the USA credit rating. The weight of debt, in combination with reverberations from the continued hammering deep inside the political fundamental change operation, has triggered another flare.

This was the week Joe Biden's rotten House Of Cards began teetering on the brink of collapse. While Netflix's fictional U.S. President Kevin Spacey was found not guilty of sex charges by a jury in London, in another courtroom 3,500 miles away the web of lies and secrecy around alleged corruption in the Biden family was unravelling spectacularly. A judge in Delaware threw out a disgraceful sweetheart deal which would have seen Biden's degenerate son Hunter walking free after pleading guilty to tax evasion, gun and drug charges, which would normally have led to serious jail time. Judge Maryellen Noreika...