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FBI Director Christopher Wray preparing to resign

FBI Director Christopher Wray preparing to resign

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, The Washington Times has learned. Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn’t want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director’s thinking. “He’s going to be gone at the…

Veteran Daniel Penny is acquitted in NYC subway chokehold case over Jordan Neely’s death

Veteran Daniel Penny is acquitted in NYC subway chokehold case over Jordan Neely’s death

NEW YORK — A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s death last year. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed…

DeSantis to join Trump at Army-Navy game amid talk of Cabinet post

DeSantis to join Trump at Army-Navy game amid talk of Cabinet post

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will attend the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland, next week with President-elect Donald Trump in a rare joint appearance by the two former political opponents, a source confirmed Friday.  Mr. DeSantis, who ran against Mr. Trump in the GOP…

Gunman still at large after UnitedHealthcare chief killed in ‘premeditated’ NYC shooting

Gunman still at large after UnitedHealthcare chief killed in ‘premeditated’ NYC shooting

A search is underway for the gunman who killed the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurance company outside a Manhattan hotel as the executive was arriving to speak at a conference Wednesday morning. The unidentified masked gunman waited for Brian Thompson, chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, to walk past him before opening fire in a “premeditated, preplanned…

Canada can become 51st state if it can’t handle tariffs, Trump tells Trudeau

Canada can become 51st state if it can’t handle tariffs, Trump tells Trudeau

Donald Trump reportedly wants to accomplish what the War of 1812 did not. The president-elect was probably trolling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at their meeting last week, but he reportedly suggested making Canada the 51st state. Or maybe the 51st and 52nd. According to a report on Fox News, Mr. Trump made the suggestion…

President Biden pardons son Hunter Biden on tax and gun charges, breaking vow not to do so

President Biden pardons son Hunter Biden on tax and gun charges, breaking vow not to do so

By Jeff Mordock – The Washington Times – Sunday, December 1, 2024 President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on tax and gun charges, condemning the prosecutions as politically motivated while reversing his promise not to use his executive authority to save his son from potential prison sentences. In a statement Sunday night, Mr. Biden called the convictions “a miscarriage of justice” and accused Republicans of…

Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

Twelve senators are urging the Department of Homeland Security’s top watchdog to probe the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology, as many Americans prepare to travel for the busy holiday season. The bipartisan Senate coalition includes unlikely allies worried about the TSA’s conduct, including strange bedfellows such as Sens. Ted Cruz…

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

Biden spent big to fight contrary narratives; ‘misinformation’ on virus, climate

The Biden administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to study and police “misinformation,” according to a report released Friday. OpenTheBooks, a spending watchdog, said the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals…

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

Trump is warning Republicans to stop Democrats from confirming more Biden judges

President-elect Donald Trump called on Republican senators again Wednesday to halt Democrats from confirming more of President Biden’s judicial nominees before he takes office on Jan. 20. Senate Democrats have been moving swiftly to confirm pending vacancies before they lose control of the upper chamber on Jan. 3, following the new GOP majority’s…

Media Advisory: NRB 2025 Press Registration Now Open

Media Advisory: NRB 2025 Press Registration Now Open

(Washington, DC) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2024 — Troy A. Miller and the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a nonpartisan, international association of Christian communicators whose member organizations represent millions of listeners, viewers, and readers, will host its annual NRB International Christian Media Convention…

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