Famous Rapper Received Over $100 Million in Foreign Cash to Help Obama Win, Gets 14 Years in Prison

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. . .Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign cash to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

The Brooklyn-born Grammy winner — who co-founded the hip hop group with singers Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean — stayed mum as U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly handed down the hefty sentence Thursday in Washington, DC.

Michel, 52, also received three years of probation and was ordered last month to forfeit $64 million linked to the federal crimes.

The “Ready or Not” rapper was found guilty in April 2023 of 10 counts of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government — after a high-profile trial that included testimony from actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Michel ran an international scheme in which he took $120 million from Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, who wanted to gain political influence in the United States, the Justice Department said. (Read more from “Famous Rapper Received Over $100 Million in Foreign Cash to Help Obama Win, Gets 14 Years in Prison” HERE)

Top Conservative Pollster Says Trump Abandoning MAGA, Setting Up the GOP to be “Crushed”

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Respected conservative pollster Richard Baris, known for his accurate reads on voter sentiment and one of the few who correctly forecasted Trump’s wins in both 2016 and 2020 when most others failed, has issued a stark “5-alarm” warning to President Trump and the MAGA movement. In analysis following the recent off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Baris uncovered a troubling trend: significant drop-off among Republican voters who simply stayed home. While losses in deep-blue states were expected, the sheer scale of GOP abstention points to deeper MAGA discontent that could spell serious trouble for the 2026 midterms.

Baris, director of Big Data Poll and a regular on Steve Bannon’s War Room, stresses that traditional kitchen-table issues like the economy, immigration, and crime, are not what’s killing enthusiasm right now. Instead, his post-election surveying in New Jersey and Virginia revealed two standout grievances: Trump’s perceived sidelining of domestic priorities in favor of foreign entanglements (particularly, the administration’s focus on Israel) and his gross mishandling of the Epstein files release. The recent government shutdown ranked a very distant third.

Trump’s initial dismissal of Epstein questions as a “Dem hoax” landed poorly with a base that sees elite accountability and the Deep State as core reasons they voted for him. As Baris noted on X while quoting his earlier warnings: “Five months after our early warning poll, it’s becoming mainstream knowledge the mishandling of the #EpsteinFiles played a bigger role in the decline of Trump’s approval than some wanted to believe . . . I tried, CK. I did.”

Baris’s reference to Charlie Kirk (“CK”) was an apparent reminder that he had warned Kirk and others in the Trump orbit months earlier that downplaying or bungling the Epstein release would demoralize key voter demographics.

In a separate appearance relayed by Trump administration alum Grace Chong, Baris told Bannon bluntly: GOP voters feel the administration “got sidelined with things they did not care about,” and the shutdown only compounded the malaise. “The right needs a wake-up call,” he said. “They need to change this fast or they are going to get crushed.”

These frustrations are now showing up in broader polling, with Trump’s approval ratings softening amid nonstop attacks from Democrats, the media, and even 2028 hopefuls inside the party. Many in the base remain furious over the continued lack of accountability for Deep State figures despite repeated promises to drain the swamp.

The clear message is: don’t panic yet, but act immediately. There is still time to course-correct before the midterms, but pretending Democrats are too extreme to stage a comeback ignores recent history like New York City’s extreme leftward lurch. Baris’s track record makes his alarm impossible to dismiss as establishment spin, especially since he’s one of the only pollsters praised by Trump for his accuracy.

The path forward, according to Baris and other pro-MAGA analysts, is straightforward: refocus relentlessly on what actually animates the base: crushing inflation and economic pain, sealing the border, fighting crime in the streets, releasing the Epstein files unredacted, and delivering real prosecutions of the Deep State. If the President ignores this, the GOP will get crushed in 2026.

Senior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws

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A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.

Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen.

But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood.

Foehner took the plea deal to avoid a trial, where he faced 25 years in prison on gun charges that are not hard to prove, said his attorney Thomas Kenniff after Thursday’s hearing in Queens Supreme Court. (Read more from “Senior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws” HERE)

Questions Mount as Missing Surveillance Footage Emerges in Charlie Kirk Murder Case

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The investigation into the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has taken a sharp turn after the discovery that key surveillance footage of the accused shooter, Tyler Robinson, is missing.

On September 10, 2025, Kirk was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. Authorities later recovered a scoped Mauser Model 98 rifle believed to have been used in the shooting. The suspect, 26-year-old Tyler Robinson, surrendered shortly after the killing. Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby stated on September 17 that Robinson was brought to the sheriff’s office within the hour by a family friend, accompanied by his parents, and was met by plainclothes detectives. “Our job was not to interview; our job was just to get him here,” Brooksby explained.

Despite that timeline, public records requests later filed with the sheriff’s office painted a different picture. When local outlet 2News requested security footage showing Robinson arriving at the sheriff’s office or entering a holding area, the department initially responded that no such records existed, stating that Robinson “did not go to or enter the jail area.” After a second, broader request seeking any surveillance video showing Robinson entering the building at all, the sheriff’s office offered a new explanation: the footage had once existed but was automatically deleted due to a 30-day retention policy. Officials further stated the video was never shared with prosecutors, the FBI, or any outside investigative agency.

The conflicting accounts have drawn sharp criticism. Defense attorney Rudy Bautista, who has handled death-penalty cases in Utah, called the situation “very concerning,” noting that in a high-profile murder case, every piece of potential evidence should have been immediately secured. Without video confirmation, the timeline of Robinson’s surrender is based solely on the sheriff’s office account, offering no visual record of the conditions under which he was taken into custody.

Political commentator Candace Owens has also weighed in, telling her audience that the unexplained absence of surveillance footage “raises bigger questions than it answers.” She suggested that either the footage was never archived properly or “maybe it never existed in the first place,” noting that such an oversight would be unthinkable in a case of this magnitude.

Robinson is currently facing the death penalty, and prosecutors have already requested additional security measures in court, including video appearances in which Robinson’s face is partially concealed. The intense public scrutiny surrounding the case means that evidence handling will likely continue to be a central issue as the trial approaches.

‘Astonishing’: MAGA Influencer Melts Down and Accuses Pam Bondi of ‘Gaslighting’

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A MAGA influencer melted down on Wednesday over comments Attorney General Pam Bondi made during a news conference about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Bondi was noncommittal during the press conference about when the Department of Justice would release more of the Epstein files. She also said that the administration would “continue to follow the law with maximum transparency,” though some analysts doubt that the administration has been forthcoming about the files.

Benny Johnson, a MAGA influencer who hosts an eponymous podcast on YouTube, responded to Bondi’s comments on Wednesday night. . .

“That should enrage all of you,” he added. (Read more from “‘Astonishing’: MAGA Influencer Melts Down and Accuses Pam Bondi of ‘Gaslighting’” HERE)

Jeffrey Epstein Had a Tiny, ‘Extremely Deformed’ Penis Shaped Like a Lemon: Victim

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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had an “extremely deformed” penis that was shaped like a lemon, one of his victims has revealed.

Rina Oh, who has long claimed she was among the scores of young women preyed on and abused by Epstein, dropped the unsettling revelation in a recent Substack interview with magazine maven Tina Brown.

“He had an extremely deformed penis,” Oh, 46, told Brown.

“Some people have described it as the shape of an egg. I think it was more of the shape of a lemon, and it was really small when it was fully erect. It was probably like two inches.”

Rumors about Epstein’s apparent egg-shaped genitalia emerged when he was grilled by a lawyer in 2009 as part of a civil lawsuit brought by a number of underage alleged victims. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein Had a Tiny, ‘Extremely Deformed’ Penis Shaped Like a Lemon: Victim” HERE)

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5th Person Confirmed Dead at Disney World Resort in Less Than a Month: Officials

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A fifth person has died at a lavish Florida Disney World resort in a chilling string of deaths in less than a month that’s cast a dark shadow over the “Most Magical Place on Earth.”

The unidentified guest was reportedly pronounced dead at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, just steps from Disney Springs, on Nov. 8, the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to The Post Wednesday.

“Although there was a death at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort, we declined jurisdiction,” the Medical Examiner said in a statement, noting the body was ultimately turned over to the individual’s personal physician.

The grim news was first reported by a Disney World-focused X account “Walt Disney World: Active Calls,” which tracks real-time police activity across the massive theme park.

A person was first reported “down” at the Saratoga Springs property at 3:18 p.m., according to the account. Minutes later, it delivered a grim update that the individual was “dead.” (Read more from “5th Person Confirmed Dead at Disney World Resort in Less Than a Month: Officials” HERE)

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Makes Bombshell Claim Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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Mark Epstein, the brother of the late sex offender, has made a bombshell claim that Republicans’ names are getting scrubbed from the government’s files on the deceased disgraced sex offender.

‘I’ve been recently told the reason they’re going to be releasing these things, and the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files,’ Mark Epstein told NewsNation on Monday.

The late pedophile’s younger brother said he had been tipped off by a ‘pretty good source’ that the FBI has been working to clean the files.

‘There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia, where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out of it,’ Mark Epstein claimed. Though he never named any specific Republicans who may have had their names blotted out.

The FBI maintains its Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia, but declined to comment on Epstein’s claims. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Makes Bombshell Claim Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names” HERE)

Democrats Explicitly Tell Spy Agencies, Military To Disobey Trump

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Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin posted a video to social media Tuesday morning in which she and five of her congressional colleagues called for the military and the intelligence community to “stand up” to President Donald Trump’s administration.

The half-dozen Democratic lawmakers who took part in the video titled, “Don’t give up the ship,” had all served as military or intelligence officers. In her X post of the video, Slotkin stated the lawmakers seek to “directly” tell service members and intelligence personnel that the “American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.”

“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now,” Slotkin, a former CIA officer, said in the video she appeared in alongside Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Democratic Pennsylvania Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan, Democratic New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander and Democratic Colorado Rep. Jason Crow.

“Americans trust their military,” said Houlahan, a former Air Force officer.

“But that trust is at risk,” added Deluzio, a former officer in the Navy.

“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” Kelly, a former Navy officer, said in tandem with Crow, a former Army officer, and Slotkin. (Read more from “Democrats Explicitly Tell Spy Agencies, Military To Disobey Trump” HERE)

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Over 100 Common Medications Found to Disrupt Gut Health and Raise Risk of Colon Cancer, Researchers Warn

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A stunning new study out of Stanford University has identified more than 140 widely used medications that can severely disrupt the gut microbiome and may significantly raise the risk of colorectal cancer, now one of the fastest-growing cancers among younger adults.

Researchers found that a wide range of drugs—including 51 antibiotics, antifungals, chemotherapies, and even some antipsychotic medications used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia—can trigger a dangerous chain reaction in the gut. These medications not only kill bacteria directly but also reshape the nutrient landscape inside the intestines, forcing bacteria to fight for survival in ways that may dramatically and permanently shift the body’s microbial balance.

How Medications Create a Cancer-Promoting Gut Environment

The microbiome—trillions of bacteria that help regulate digestion, immune response, metabolism, and protection against disease—relies on a delicate balance. When drugs wipe out weaker or more beneficial bacteria, the nutrients they once consumed are suddenly left available for other, often harmful, strains to feast on.

This allows inflammatory and drug-resistant bacteria to surge in population, creating a gut environment known to trigger:

Chronic intestinal inflammation

Damage to the intestinal lining

Cell mutations linked to colon cancer growth

A permanent shift in gut microbial composition

“In other words, drugs don’t just kill bacteria; they also reshuffle the ‘buffet’ in our gut, and that reshuffling shapes which bacteria win,” said lead researcher Dr. Handuo Shi.

Chronic Inflammation is the Key Link to Cancer

When harmful bacteria dominate, they produce toxins and enzymes that:

Damage DNA in colon cells

Erode the gut’s mucosal barrier

Allow inflammatory molecules and toxins to leak into surrounding tissues

Promote tumor formation and growth

Such persistent inflammation is now widely recognized as a major driver of early-onset colorectal cancer, which has sharply increased in adults under 50.