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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces do not occupy Bakhmut, despite Moscow’s assertions that the city had been taken. “Bakhmut is not occupied by the Russian Federation as of today,” Zelensky said in response to a reporter’s question at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan.

During Tuesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed formerly anonymous claims that the White House had not been briefed about Monday’s FBI raid at Donald Trump’s home, Mar-a-Lago, and that they learned about the hours-long action the way everybody else did.After her initial presentation, Jean-Pierre was asked (by a reporter who stumbled over the words “served a search warrant” several times, grasping for the politispeak phrase for “raid”):On a different topic, the FBI served a search warrant on the former president’s residence in Florida. Was the President or anyone at the White House aware of that search warrant,...

President Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer, forcing the White House press office to quickly clarify that he was referring to skin cancer treatment that he had before taking office last year.

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke appeared to back off his 2019 statement that "hell yes" he intends to take guns away from citizens if elected to office. "I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone," O’Rourke told reporters in Tyler, Texas on Tuesday, according to KLTV. "What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment."

VIDEOJoe Biden went to South Carolina State University on December 17, 2021 and continued lying again. His big lie was repeating his worn "Very Fine People" Hoax about Charlottesville, VA and Donald Trump. Of course, Biden was confused as to not only where Charlottesville is located but also as to the name itself. He also LIED about personally desegregating restaurants and movie theaters in Delaware. However, one bit of refreshing honesty from Biden as he again repeated what really counts in elections.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took a page from her boss’s playbook Wednesday; bolting from the podium when asked to comment on Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal. “Thanks everyone!” proclaimed Psaki

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the Biden administration’s decision not to require coronavirus vaccines or negative COVID-19 tests for people illegally crossing the border to seek asylum, claiming they are “not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time.” In recent days, thousands of migrants from Haiti and other countries have flooded the southern border seeking permanent asylum in the US. Many reached a processing bottleneck in Del Rio, Texas, last week, leaving over 12,000 migrants to camp under a bridge, sparking coronavirus and security threat concerns among local and state leaders. During Monday’s daily press...

President Joe Biden’s penchant for embellishment and falsehood has not slowed in his old age. The president told yet another one of his self-aggrandizing whoppers this week, claiming he spent time at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after an antisemitic terrorist attack in October 2018 left 11 worshipers dead. “I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with the — just, it just is amazing these things are happening, happening in America,” Biden said Thursday in a meeting with Jewish leaders. The synagogue’s executive director told the...

Earlier, we wrote how far left Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) had been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus.Jayapal blamed Republicans, claiming that a bunch of the Congress was locked up together during the Capitol protest and some of the Republicans didn’t wear masks.But as my colleague Sister Toldjah observed, Jayapal herself wasn’t wearing a mask when she was caught on video in close quarters with other people on video including Rep. Lisa Blount Rochester (D-DE) who was also not wearing a mask.Pelosi also allowed COVID-positive Dems on the House floor last week to vote for Speaker. Weird you don't mention that....

CLAIM: Joe Biden claimed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “I am not banning fracking.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden has promised to ban fracking — repeatedly — as has his running mate. Biden said Monday — during a speech supposedly on violence: “I am not banning fracking. Let me say again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”

Dr. Fiona Hill told the impeachment inquiry Thursday that she was concerned that a hold on aid might endanger Ukraine’s security. But in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed, Hill argued against giving Ukraine any lethal weapons. Hill was testifying in the seventh public hearing in the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry. As she had in her closed-door deposition last month, Hill said she was concerned about Ukraine’s security and stability as it defended itself against Russia. In that context, she — and others — were worried about a hold on security.But Hill also had to admit that she co-authored an op-ed in 2015, when...

Need a master class on the Mueller report before Robert Mueller testifies before Congress? Join PBS NewsHour correspondent and producer William Brangham, senior broadcast producer Mike Melia and digital politics editor and senior writer Daniel Bush on July 24 as they answer questions and walk viewers through the Russia investigation and Mueller's findings. The livestream kicks off at 7:40 a.m. EDT with a breakdown of the major findings and moments from Mueller's report. Between deep dives on parts of the report, your hosts will answer select questions from the live chat and social media. To ask a question, use our...

by Jenn Carter Almost as quickly as the "bombshell" accusation of rape by "renowned columnist" E Jean Carroll against Donald Trump exploded into the media, it has collapsed into a puddle of mush after Carroll made a series of bizarre statements on the air that have left even her liberal allies struggling to explain it. NO mainstream outlet has bothered to question her lurid and seemingly preposterous story that Trump in 1995 raped Carroll in a dressing room of an "empty" Bergdorf Goodman after demanding she try on lingerie for him. Monday night, Carroll made a stunning statement that...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has insisted that she does live in the Bronx, despite claims that her neighbors have never met her. Through a spokesman, the New York Democrat strongly denied a Saturday report in the New York Post, which claimed there was scant evidence that she lives in the Bronx condo where she is registered to vote. 'She lives there,' the freshman congresswoman's spokesman Corbin Trent told DailyMail.com, referring to a condo in the Parkchester neighborhood that was owned by Ocasio-Cortez's late father. 'That's home, period, for her. That's where she gets her energy, her drive. She not only lives...

Twice failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton isn't thrilled about new reports exposing additional corruption around the Uranium One deal. Hillary of course denies the deal, which was pushed by Russian nuclear officials on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, had anything to do with making her rich. Certainly, the former Secretary of State argues, it had nothing to with lining the pockets of President Bill Clinton through big speaking fees or sending millions to the Clinton Foundation. During an interview with C-SPAN's book TV, Clinton said critics of her corruption are "peddling bologna." Notice how the anchor attributed the Uranium One story...

The false claim that Donald Trump invaded Hillary's space began the next morning after the debate, but it never actually happened. Donald Trump never moved very far from his chair as he tells Bill O'Reilly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S--7jtA1wio Here's a biased CBS News show trying hard to spread the false story. Study the pictures and you'll see Trump is right, he's always near his chair and never within 10 feet of her. She is the one moving and that in the camera angels that try to make it look like he's behind her, he's actually way off to her side:

American Airlines is disputing Lena Dunham’s claims that she overheard two female airline employees having a “transphobic talk” at the airport on Wednesday, saying the time stamps of her claims don’t add up. A spokesperson for the airline told TheWrap that they are unable to substantiate the allegations made by the creator and star of HBO’s “Girls.” Dunham tweeted around 3 a.m. ET, said the airline spokesperson, when American’s last departure/arrival at JFK was around 1:45 a.m. ET. Additionally, a video that Dunham posted around the same time showed that the actress was flying on Delta Air Lines, which according...

Hillary launches astonishing conspiracy claim that Trump won the election because he 'colluded' with 1,000 Russian agents who filled Facebook with 'lies' and Twitter with 'bots' Defeated Democrat is back on the speaking circuit, telling a Silicon Valley get-together about her election loss Clinton says her defeat isn't her fault as she claims Russians and 'forces in this country' were out to defeat her She claims 1,000 Russian agents were filling Facebook with 'lies' and the 'majority' of news on it was 'fake' Clinton said she was certain someone had 'colluded' so the Russians knew what fake news worked and...

My friend, who lived in France for five years, and now in US, thinks our new health system is not only unnecessarily inadequate, but unsophisticated. She says that in France that: You get immediate appointments Immediate treatment World class results Mideast sheiks go there Relatively low cost meds (if you have to pay at all) Latest improvements All Free To pay for this, she says All French citizens pay taxes. Everyone pays the same percentage tax....35% One page tax filing To fellow Freepers......truth please.

Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday praised the nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers, a year after it went into effect, claiming it “made the world safer”. In a statement, Obama claimed the challenges the U.S. faces today would be much worse without the nuclear agreement. He said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “has achieved significant, concrete results in making the United States and the world a safer place”, according to The Hill. Obama stressed that Iran’s nuclear program “faces strict limitations and is subject to the most intrusive inspection and verification program ever negotiated to...