We should all be grateful that this perp was dumb enough to tend to his sick crime while the world's most advanced street-mapping service, Google, happened to be driving by:

So Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is, like, really upset that his name keeps getting brought up with this insider trading stuff in Congress.

Jesse Watters got him going on this last winter, and now it's back in the news. Here were the numbers Watters referred to on his show last January, naming Crenshaw as one of the insider traders. The graph compares stock gains among members of Congress versus an ETF which closely follows the S&P 500.

Over four years after it began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand on Tuesday for the first time to give testimony in his long-running corruption trial.

Netanyahu, 75, has been widely accused of using Israel’s various regional wars as a way of either avoiding giving evidence in the trial or even ending it completely. 

Last month he reportedly asked Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, to help him get out of testifying, arguing that it would be a security risk for him to be in a known location for an extended period. 

Israel’s longest-serving leader and its defining politician, who now heads a government dependent on key members of the country’s far-right settler movement, is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to be charged with a crime.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was blocked Wednesday from quickly advancing a bill that would allow local law enforcement agencies to track aerial drones, ensuring Congress won’t act this year on the mysterious drone sightings that have bewildered residents of New Jersey and across the eastern U.S.

Schumer, a New York Democrat, sought to speed a bipartisan bill through the Senate by seeking unanimous consent on the floor, but Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, objected to its passage.

“The people in New York and New Jersey have a lot of questions, and they’re not getting good enough answers,” said Schumer. “The utter confusion surrounding these drone sightings shows that the feds can’t respond all on their own.”

Syria’s Christians are making preparations for the New Year celebrations. However, the recent takeover of the country by Islamist forces has left them uncertain about the future of the Christian community.

Bishop Armash and a number of other Christian figures have met with the Syrian caretaker PM and asked for guarantees for the lives of Christians. 

"Today we notice that there is joy among the faithful and the people, but with that joy we feel a great deal of anxiety and fear, a fear that we feel as if our future is uncertain," he told Rudaw. 

The number of Christians in Syria has significantly dwindled since the start of the civil war over a decade ago.

"You let Hillary Clinton off the hook for Benghazi. Sit your ass back down," Mace said on X last night.

Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, has revealed that vulgar and racist messages discovered on its campus earlier this month were fabricated.

The messages, including the phrases “F*ck N***ers” and “Trump Rules,” were meant to smear supporters of former President Donald Trump as racists.

After a thorough investigation involving Campus Safety officers and the Memphis Police Department, the college confirmed that the messages were created by a student who has since admitted responsibility, Fox News reported.

Victor Davis Hanson, the revered conservative historian and scholar, appeared on the Jesse Watters show on FOX News this week and called out Democrats and the media for hiding Joe Biden’s condition from the American people.

Hanson suggested that it’s the worst presidential scandal since Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in 1919 and the White House hid the news from the public for months.

He also summarized Biden’s entire presidency as nothing more than a stand-in for the real power players in Washington like the Obamas.

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JD Vance tore into Democrats after they almost unanimously voted against the government funding bill dubbed the American Relief Act of 2024, which President Trump endorsed Thursday.

The bill came to the floor after a disastrous 1,547-page continuing resolution was rejected by the MAGA base, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was called out for negotiating an America Last funding bill.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump endorsed the new government funding bill, saying it’s “VITAL to the America First Agenda,” and called on all members of Congress to vote in favor.

However, 38 Republicans voted in opposition Thursday night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested a missile ‘duel’ with the United States that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any U.S. missile defence system.

Addressing Western scepticism about the Oreshnik, Putin suggested that both sides select a designated target to be protected by U.S. missiles. “We’re ready for such an experiment,” Putin said.

Putin also said that Oreshnik was a modern weapon, though it is based on previous Russian design developments.

The US had foreknowledge of the offensive led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and helped another rebel group join the fight, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday.

The report said the US notified the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a US-funded militia based out of a US base at Al Tanf in southern Syria, to “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of Assad’s rule.

“They did not tell us how it would happen,” Bashar al-Mashadani, an RCA commander, told The Telegraph. “We were just told: ‘Everything is about to change. This is your moment. Either Assad will fall, or you will fall.’ But they did not say when or where, they just told us to be ready.”

On Thursday, the Pentagon revealed the US has roughly 2,000 troops occupying Syria, more than twice the number it has been disclosing.

For years, the US has said it has about 900 troops inside Syria. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said the troops levels have been at 2,000 for a “while,” well before the regime change that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Since the regime change in Syria on December 8, the Pentagon has been asked repeatedly about the number of US troops in the country and kept repeating the 900 number. Ryder claimed he had just learned that it was significantly higher than he had been saying.

Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Thursday that Israel is committing the crime of extermination and acts of genocide by depriving the civilian population of Gaza of the necessary amount of water to survive.

HRW said in a press release that its 179-page report found “that Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation needed for basic human survival.”

“Israeli authorities and forces cut off and later restricted piped water to Gaza; rendered most of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure useless by cutting electricity and restricting fuel; deliberately destroyed and damaged water and sanitation infrastructure and water repair materials; and blocked the entry of critical water supplies,” HRW said.

The report found the restrictions on water have likely caused thousands of deaths. “Doctors and nurses told Human Rights Watch that they had seen numerous infants, children, and adults die from a combination of malnutrition, dehydration, and disease,” the report reads.

In February, Rami was arrested by the Israeli army at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The 42-year-old Palestinian was taken to the notorious Sde Teiman detention center, where, like thousands of Gazans detained there, he endured severe abuse at the hands of the guards. But he was soon transferred out. “I thought I was being returned to Gaza, but I found myself in another prison,” he told +972 and Local Call. That prison was Ofer Camp — a military facility that Israel established during the current war to hold detainees from Gaza, located between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Rami described the facility as no less brutal than Sde Teiman. “I was severely tortured,” he said. “We were forced to kneel with our hands tied from sunrise until midnight. Guards beat us on every part of our bodies. I was given electric shocks every two days.” He stressed that such treatment was not exceptional: “All detainees at Ofer were tortured, beaten, and humiliated. We [all] received food only once a day.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's new anti-border crossing campaign uses shocking language to warn illegal migrants that their daughter may be raped if they try to cross.

The Lone Star State is launching a visceral billboard campaign in Mexico and Central America to deter illegal immigration by highlighting sexual assault and other dangers. 

One of the 40 billboards asks illegal migrants a shocking question in multiple languages: 'How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?' 

Abbott's move was made not long after Donald Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan said the Texas governor had done more to secure the border than any member of the Biden administration. 

The campaign is costing $100,000, with Abbott hoping to warn those looking to cross the border of the cost they'll face for doing so. 

Another warned that migrants will be arrested if they enter Texas illegally. In addition to Spanish, billboards are being produced in Russian, Chinese and Arabic.

Eighty bankruptcies are not from small mom-and-pop dealers; they involve corporate dealership companies that own multiple dealerships under their corporate umbrella. Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge), Ford, and Nissan are at risk of bankruptcy soon.

Two-thirds of American dairy farms have been eliminated within one generation. Cows produce dangerous emissions and have no place in modern society, according to the World Economic Forum and climate change proponents. We are seeing a drastic decline in dairy farms across the world thanks to this mentality. The latest crackdown on dairy farms comes from new regulations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that demand dairy cattle be tested for the bird flu or H5N1.

The star and writer of the controversial Am I Racist? documentary has blasted the Academy Awards for shunning the successful film from its top 15 nominees. 

Matt Walsh posted on X that the documentary's exclusion was a 'farce' considering its successful performance. 

The Daily Wire movie brought in more than $12 million since its release, reported Mediaite, and Walsh described the film as 'the highest grossing doc of the decade.'  

'This is the outcome I expected, of course, but it doesn’t make it any less of a farce,' he wrote. 

The movie, directed by Justin Folk, features Walsh going undercover at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion dinners and conferences pretending to be a progressive activist.

The White House tried to hide from the public Joe Biden‘s rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report.

Biden’s team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his ‘bad days’, and kept him at arm’s length him from his own Cabinet members.

Former President Obama guides Biden off-stage

An explosive investigation by The Wall Street Journal has exposed an extensive, deliberate and years-long cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden’s abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama‘s vice president.

Despite the efforts of ‘eager beaver hand-holders’, Biden’s decline became increasingly obvious, especially after Special Counsel Robert Hur last year released a report depicting a forgetful and frail then-81 year old. 

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This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, ranks the companies which have received the most American taxpayer support (in the form of government subsidies) since the year 2000.

Government subsidies take a variety of forms: tax credits, abatements, training reimbursements and direct grants.

Their star witness was a serial liar. And they knew this. What does that say about these committee members?

January 6 Select Committee star witness Cassidy Hutchinson is caught in an ongoing war with the truth. Unfortunately for Cassidy, she committed these lies while under oath and therefore she will likely face legal consequences for her actions.

On Thursday Ben Williamson, who previously worked with Cassidy Hutchinson described a phone call he received from Cassidy before her testimony before Congress.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in New York arrested a Mexican-born illegal immigrant who sexually abused a child after being removed from the country five times.

According to ICE, the criminal immigrant, 36-year-old Raymond Rojas Basilio, sexually abused an 11-year-old child in the U.S.

Rojas committed this crime after being removed from the country five times and then re-entering once again on an unknown date and at an unknown location, without admission by an immigration official.

Conservative commentator Nick Fuentes revealed Thursday on Twitter that he was targeted at his Chicago home by a gunman who had just committed a triple homicide. 
 

Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform.

The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me.

He is now dead. I am okay!

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 19, 2024

Tragically, the gunman broke into a neighbors home to evade police & killed two of their dogs.

While heartbreaking, it could have been so unimaginably worse. God have mercy.

Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed.

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 19, 2024

Swedish rap artist Gaboro was tragically shot and killed in a Norrköping parking lot while pleading for his life. The shocking attack, recorded by the assailant and widely circulated online, has left the nation in disbelief. Despite police efforts, Gaboro could not be saved, marking another devastating incident tied to Sweden's escalating gang-related shootings.
 

It’s shocking to discover that 47% of licensed real estate agents didn’t sell a single house last year. This startling statistic, revealed by the Consumer Federation of America, sheds light on the ongoing struggles within the real estate industry. The report, titled “A Surfeit of Real Estate Agents 3: Abundant Jobs, Inadequate Mentorship, and Few Sales,” shows that nearly half of agents sold one or no homes at all. The root issue? An oversaturated market.

(Of course, the US State Department disagrees)

The State Department, which is implicated in Israel's crimes, said it disagreed with the report by Dave DeCamp December 19, 2024 at 3:38 pm ET Categories NewsTags Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Thursday that Israel is committing the crime of extermination and acts of genocide by depriving the civilian population of Gaza of the necessary amount of water to survive.

HRW said in a press release that its 179-page report found “that Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation needed for basic human survival.”

“Israeli authorities and forces cut off and later restricted piped water to Gaza; rendered most of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure useless by cutting electricity and restricting fuel; deliberately destroyed and damaged water and sanitation infrastructure and water repair materials; and blocked the entry of critical water supplies,” HRW said.