Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrants Used to Illegally Spy on Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign

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FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI lied to obtain surveillance warrants that were used to illegally spy on Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in office.

“It took me two years of my life to prove the following: that a political party in the United States of America, in the 21st century, would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information,” Patel told Sean Hannity during Tuesday’s episode of Hang Out with Sean Hannity.

From there, the political party would then “funnel that to, not just the intelligence community, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then take those packaged lies that they had paid for with campaign finance funds and go into a secret surveillance court,” Patel continued, “and illegally spy on your opponent to be the next President of the United States.

“That took two years of my life,” Patel reiterated. “And what did we find out? The FISA court themselves came back and said these warrants were illegal, that the FBI did not provide evidence of exculpatory evidence and innocence, and that the FBI essentially lied in those applications.”

The FBI director went on to say that this was merely “step one,” adding, “I knew it didn’t stop there.” (Read more from “Kash Patel Says FBI Lied to Obtain Warrants Used to Illegally Spy on Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign” HERE)

Newborn Babies are Internally Bleeding to Death — a Troubling Parenting Trend is to Blame

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Doctors across the country are seeing an alarming rise in newborns bleeding to death — and a concerning trend by parents is the culprit.

While all initially healthy at birth, a 7-week-old boy from Maryland experienced sudden seizures, a Kentucky newborn threw up before becoming lethargic and a girl in Alabama stopped breathing for several seconds at a time before they died, as reported this week by ProPublica.

Their conditions could have easily been prevented with one standard recommendation at birth, which parents are refusing in droves.

The babies developed vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), a rare but potentially fatal condition that can be averted with a single vitamin K shot.

Vitamin K plays an essential role in our bodies, and it’s especially important for newborns.

“Babies are born with a limited amount of clotting factors that get used up pretty quickly,” Dr. Candice Foy, a pediatrician and medical director of the newborn nursery at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, previously told The Post. (Read more from “Newborn Babies are Internally Bleeding to Death — a Troubling Parenting Trend is to Blame” HERE)

Suspect who Allegedly Fired at Secret Service Agents near White House Identified — and Charging Docs Include Possible Motive

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The man arrested for a shooting Monday at the National Mall that led to a White House lockdown has been identified in a federal criminal filing.

Michael Marx, 45, was spotted at about 3:30 p.m. by a plainclothes officer who believed he was carrying a gun. When he was approached by uniformed officers, he fled and allegedly fired a gun at them.

The suspect was shot, captured, and arrested, but a juvenile bystander was also shot during the altercation.

Investigators confirmed an initial report that the motorcade for Vice President JD Vance had just passed by before the shooting.

The gunshot victim was described as a civilian witness who was standing behind an officer and was shot in the leg. The officers returned fire and shot the suspect in the hand, left arm, and upper abdomen.

As he was being transported in an ambulance to a hospital, Marx allegedly said, “F**k the White House,” as well as, “Kill me, kill me, kill me.”

(Read more from “Suspect who Allegedly Fired at Secret Service Agents near White House Identified — and Charging Docs Include Possible Motive” HERE)

FAA Contractor Charged for Allegedly Threatening to ‘kill you — Donald John Trump’

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Federal Aviation Administration mechanical engineering contractor finds himself at risk of significant jail time over an email he allegedly sent the White House, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire.

The 35-year-old man, Dean DelleChiaie, of Nashua, was arrested on Monday and appeared in court on Tuesday on a charge of interstate communication of a threat against the president. If convicted, the FAA contractor faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

An affidavit in support of the charge filed by a U.S. Secret Service special agent details the alleged actions of DelleChiaie. According to that affidavit, the Nashua man first came to the notice of the Secret Service near the end of January after the FAA IT department contacted the USSS. The contact was made after the suspect allegedly took his government-issued computer to the IT department and asked for his search history to be deleted.

While working on the suspect’s request, the IT department employees noticed disturbing search topics on his computer.

According to the affidavit, these search topics are alleged to have included:

How to get a gun into a federal facility;
Previous assassination attempts against the president;
The percentage of the population that wants the president dead; and
The phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump.”

(Read more from “FAA Contractor Charged for Allegedly Threatening to ‘kill you — Donald John Trump’” HERE)

Iran War Drives Up Jet Fuel Costs As Summer Travel Season Looms

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Airfare is taking off as the Iran war drives up jet fuel costs, with travelers now facing steeper prices heading into the summer travel season.

The spike shows how the conflict in Iran is hitting Americans far beyond the battlefield, as rising oil prices ripple through airlines, gas prices and consumer costs. Fuel is one of airlines’ largest operating expenses, according to the World Air Transport Statistics (WATS), and higher costs are increasingly being passed on to travelers through higher fares, added fees and fewer flight options.

Airfares are reportedly surging by around 25% according to data released by KAYAK. The increase comes as the Iran war drives up jet fuel prices and Americans head into the busiest travel season of the year, straining consumers’ plans.

Families planning to travel are getting hit with higher ticket prices, raising the possibility that travelers may resort to changing destinations and driving instead of flying.

“I don’t see how a family that could just barely justify, say $500 in plane tickets, is going to be able to justify $800,” JP Krahel, Loyola University professor, told CBS News. “If it’s a discretionary trip, they may say, ‘You know what, instead of flying across the country, let’s just drive down to the beach.’” (Read more from “Iran War Drives Up Jet Fuel Costs As Summer Travel Season Looms” HERE)

Vatican Publishes ‘Emerging Issues’ Report On Engaging With The Gays

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A Vatican report, released on Tuesday, aimed at creating a “paradigm shift” in how the Church talks about same-sex attraction, has sparked its own conversation about its direction regarding same-sex unions.

The report, published by the General Secretariat of the 2023 Synod on Synodality, was drafted by Study Group No. 9 — of the 10 study groups established by Pope Francis in February 2024 — to understand how to engage with “controversial” or “emerging issues.”

While not having been credited in drafting the report, Fr. James Martin, SJ, who has been accused by many church leaders of undermining the church’s teachings on same-sex attraction, played a large role in promoting the report and holds personal ties with one of the authors of its cited testimonies.

Although the report was supposed to cover the concern of dealing with controversial topics at large, the highlight of the 30-page final report was the testimonies of two openly gay “married” men, the first time such testimonies have been included in a report from the Vatican, the Religion News Service reported.

One of the men said that his “sexuality isn’t a perversion, disorder, or cross; it’s a gift from God. I have a happy, healthy marriage and am flourishing as an openly gay Catholic.” (Read more from “Vatican Publishes ‘Emerging Issues’ Report On Engaging With The Gays” HERE)

Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’

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Deputy assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka defended the Iran war during a Wednesday press call, using colorful language to dismiss criticisms of the conflict.

Gorka called the previous wars led by Republican administrations in the Middle East “forever wars” in a press call on Wednesday. When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked Gorka how specifically the war in Iran was not a “forever war,” he called the belief that it was “a bad joke” and people who do not want to “deal” with the Iranian regime “testicularly challenged,” pushing forward the assertion that the war would remain a “limited air campaign.”

“They have been plotting to kill President [Donald] Trump, members of his cabinet, former military commanders, former members of the administration, the idea that after just one incident like the Beirut bombing or after one attempted plot against the lives of U.S. personnel here in the United States, we don’t deal with this regime means you are testicularly challenged,” Gorka said in his response to the DCNF.

“Let me just say that that is a low T [testosterone] approach to threat to the United States,” he emphasized.

At the same time, Gorka asserted that the Trump administration “is not a nation-building administration.” (Read more from “Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’” HERE)

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Intelligence Report Points to Chilling Potential Motive for Alleged WHCD Shooter

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The deranged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, may have been triggered by the Iran war when he stormed the event and allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump and other top administration officials, according to a new ‌Department of Homeland Security intelligence report.

A preliminary assessment by the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, dated April 27, stated that Allen had “multiple social and political grievances” with the Trump administration — and concluded that the conflict in Iran “may have contributed to his decision to conduct the attack.”

The report, marked as a “Critical Incident Note,” was first obtained by Reuters and offers the clearest evidence yet on a possible tipping point that led to the heinous attack. The suspect criticized US actions in the war in several social media posts.

Prosecutors in court documents have alleged that Allen “disagreed” with Trump politically and “wanted to ‘fight back’ against government policies and decisions that he found morally objectionable.”

He sent an anti-Trump email to his family members just moments before the April 25 shooting in which he called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and appeared to refer to the president as a “traitor.” (Read more from “Intelligence Report Points to Chilling Potential Motive for Alleged WHCD Shooter” HERE)

Health Officials Think They’ve Tracked Down Source of Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

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Two MV Hondius passengers who died from hantavirus likely contracted the deadline infection while bird-watching in Argentina, investigators believe – then brought it on board the now-stranded cruise ship.

Argentine officials say a Dutch couple that succumbed to the virus last month picked it up from rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia in mid-March, they told the Associated Press Wednesday.

However, there’s one big hole in the theory. Authorities previously said that the area and the surrounding province of Tierra del Fuego had never recorded a case of the hantavirus.

The passengers then boarded the MV Hondius, which departed on its 35-day-long expedition trip from the Argentine port on March 20.

Hantavirus is usually transmitted by inhaling the virus from infected feces or urine from mice or rats.

The 70-year-old Dutchman reportedly began feeling sick on April 6, with a fever, headache, abdominal pain and diarrhea. (Read more from “Health Officials Think They’ve Tracked Down Source of Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak” HERE)

Judge Apologizes to Alleged WHCD Attacker for Treatment in Jail

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A judge issued an apology to Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attacker, for how he has been treated while being held in jail.

During a hearing on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui expressed his apologies to Allen, who has been “held in the safe cell,” according to ABC7 News. Faruqui reportedly said the safe cell was “tantamount to solitary confinement.”

The judge also gave the Washington, DC, Department of Corrections a deadline of Tuesday “to notify when the jail’s housing board will” make a decision regarding “which section of the jail” Allen will be placed in, according to the outlet.

Faruqui’s apology to Allen comes after Allen’s attorneys said in court filings that Allen “was placed on suicide watch shortly after arriving at the D.C. jail.”

Due to Allen being placed on suicide watch, he was put in “what’s known as a ‘safe cell,’ a padded room with constant lighting and 24-hour lockdown conditions,” according to the outlet. Allen’s attorneys claimed that he showed “no signs of being a risk.” (Read more from “Judge Apologizes to Alleged WHCD Attacker for Treatment in Jail” HERE)