Nashville’s NPR affiliate reports: Goodlettsville police say they responded this morning to a bomb threat at the home of Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. The heavy police presence led to the closure of portions of Patton Branch and Madison Creek roads in the Sumner County portion of Goodlettsville Wednesday. This is one of a number …
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Trump Claims Mexican President Has Agreed To Close The Border, Mexican President: We’re Not Doing That
Last night Trump posted this to Truth Social: Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, …
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Billboard Magazine reports: It’s official: Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spends a 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, tying the all-time record set by Lil Nas X’s Billy Ray Cyrus-featuring “Old Town Road” in 2019. The song holds at No. 1 the week the same week that his new single, “Good News,” debuts on …
Read More »RFK Compared Vaxxing Kids To Pedophilia Coverups
NBC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a dark view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2019, he called the federal agency’s vaccine division a fascist enterprise and accused it of knowingly hurting children. He also compared what he saw as a widespread conspiracy to hide harms from the child vaccination program to the cover-up of …
Read More »GOP Florida Rep Backs Tariffs On Mexico Because Cuba
“Mexico has been aiding the drug cartels and helping our enemies. They must pay the price. Mexico’s socialist President, Claudia Sheinbaum, is sending 400,000 barrels of oil to the murderous Communist Castro regime in Cuba. “I applaud President Donald Trump’s decision to implement a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States until the drug and border crisis …
Read More »Ohio AG Appeals Ruling Striking Down Abortion Ban
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is appealing a decision that permanently struck down Ohio’s most restrictive abortion ban and other abortion regulations. In October, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Christian Jenkins permanently struck down an Ohio law that required doctors to check for cardiac activity before performing an abortion. Those who didn’t follow this protocol …
Read More »Musk Suggests Executing Trump Critic For “Treason”
The Independent reports: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and Trump’s “first buddy,” took to his social media platform X to ominously accuse the key witness in Trump’s first impeachment of treason while calling for him to “pay the appropriate penalty.” Musk, who has been tasked by Trump to lead an outside agency on government efficiency named after a meme, …
Read More »Trump Team’s Transition Ethics Pledge Excludes Trump
CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s team submitted an ethics plan guiding the conduct of its members throughout the transition period that does not appear to include provisions for one key member of the team: the president himself. “There does not appear to be a provision addressing the requirement for the president-elect to address his conflicts of interest,” said Valerie Smith …
Read More »Arizona Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Trump
NBC News reports: An Arizona man has been arrested after he allegedly posted videos online that showed him brandishing an AR-15-style rifle and threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump and members of Trump’s family, authorities said. Manuel Tamayo-Torres posted videos on a “near-daily basis” in which he accused Trump and the president-elect’s family members of kidnapping and sex-trafficking his children, …
Read More »Rioter Accused Of Being “Fed” Loses Suit Against Fox
The Washington Post reports: A Delaware judge Wednesday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed last year by Ray Epps, an Arizona man who sued Fox News for comments made on the air about him that suggested he was an undercover federal agent who played a role in fomenting the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While Epps protested outside …
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