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By Kyle Becker There's an old saying in journalism that if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out. Apparently, that standard doesn't apply when the subject is the Trump administration and Mother Russia. MSNOW is being called out for another Russia Hoax story that has blown up in its face. For years, allegations involving Donald Trump and Russia have generated sensational headlines, anonymous-source reporting, and fierce political controversy. A perpetually maudlin Rachel Maddow appeared nightly on MSNBC, spinning fantastic yarns about Donald Trump's insidious plot to collaborate with the Russians in order to rig elections against the irreproachable Hillary Clinton and to steal Americans' apple pies. The biased network's breathless accounts of secret bank transactions, Wikileaks memos, and dastardly meetings in the shadows of Trump Tower had the MSNBC faithful unironically checking under their beds for Russians. Now, another MSNOW report is putting eg...

By Susie Moore California's effort to dictate how federal law enforcement officers identify themselves while carrying out their duties has run headlong into a constitutional brick wall, courtesy of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Yes, the 9th — they're showing semi-refreshing levels of sanity these days.) In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, a three-judge panel reversed a lower court's refusal to block enforcement of California's so-called "No Vigilantes Act" against federal officers, concluding that the law's application to federal officers violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause — and the panel wasn't exactly on the fence about it. Writing for the court, Judge Mark Bennett concluded that the federal government wasn't merely likely to succeed in its challenge to the law — it was " certain to succeed. " California's Attempt to Regulate Federal Agents Is a Non-Starter California enacted the No Vigilantes Act (SB 805) in Se...

By Teri Christoph Just when you thought you'd learned every ugly detail there was to know about Jack Smith's sham "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Trump, along comes Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) with yet another jaw-dropper of a revelation. Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that Smith's team and the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) had obtained the personal information of at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters as part of the far-reaching investigation that eventually led to Smith's prosecution of Trump. According to a new memo from Grassley, the Biden DOJ and Smith's special counsel office obtained spreadsheets that housed information on hundreds of thousands of Republicans, including more than 148,000 entries that apparently identified GOP donors. Many of those donors, said Grassley, were small-dollar contributors. In other words, Smith and the Biden DOJ were compiling information...

Medicare Part B premium to rise 3.3 percent for most beneficiaries By Lorie Konish The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will be 3.6 percent in 2027, the Social Security Administration said on Wednesday. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, provides an annual inflation adjustment to both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, benefits. Social Security retirement benefits will increase by $75 per month on average, the agency said. “Social Security will implement this cost-of-living adjustment for 76 million Americans, giving them greater financial stability,” Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in a statement. Around 72 million Social Security recipients will see the benefit increases in January, according to SSA. About 7.3 million SSI beneficiaries will receive higher payments starting Dec. 31, the agency said. The 3.6 percent COLA for 2027 is in line with Social Security experts’ projections, which last month forecast an increa...

By Hannah Nightingale Hadyn James Dollery, who goes by “Sophie,” was convicted on four of five counts.  A trans-identified male former substitute teacher in Loudoun County , Virginia has been convicted of making death threats and threatening to go on a “murder spree” at a local high school. In total, Hadyn James Dollery , who goes by “Sophie,” was convicted on four of five counts. Dollery had been arrested in April and indicted on three counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds, and one count of threatening to damage a building. Dollery had worked as a substitute teacher at Eagle Ridge Middle School. The jury of seven men and five women began deliberating on Thursday, and on Friday evening found Dollery guilty of two counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds, and one count of threatening to damage a building, and not guilty on the third charge of threatening, per Loudoun ...

After Iran engaged twice in the space of one year against Israel and the United States, the question of how Iranians respond to an external enemy has returned to the fore. By ALEX WINSTON On September 22, 1980, as Iraqi warplanes bombed Iranian airfields and Saddam Hussein's tanks crossed the Iranian border, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared remarkably unconcerned by what was unfolding in the fledgling Islamic Republic. Iraq’s attack, he told the Iranian people, was little more than “a thief throwing a stone” before running away. There was no reason to panic, he insisted, and certainly no reason to believe that Iran had entered a major war. The country's armed forces were perfectly capable of dealing with the threat. History, of course, would prove him spectacularly wrong as the war dragged on for eight long years and left an estimated half a million people dead. Saddam's invasion brought together a deeply fractured Iranian nation How...

By Anthony Blair The mom accused of murdering her husband and their young son at a Poconos resort was found with her wrists and her neck slashed, according to cops — who said she told them she was “suicidal, not stupid.” Metallica Rose Harrison, 27, also ranted about how she worked hard to be “the best mother, the best wife” after calling 911 Monday to allegedly admit murdering husband Charles Harrison and their 3-year-old son, identified only by his initials T.H., at Great Wolf Lodge, according to an affidavit obtained by WNEP . “My husband and son are already gone in the bed in the living room. They’re already gone, I’m sorry,” Metallica Rose told the 911 operator of the pair found with multiple stab wounds to the chest. Metallica Rose Harrison is accused of fatally stabbing her husband, Charles and their toddler. Chaz Harrison / Facebook She also asked for help finding a vein to stab in her neck — telling cops when they arrived that she was “suicidal, not stupid,”...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell On Tuesday, incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) faced her Republican challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, in the only debate of the New York governor's race. Spectrum News hosted the event for what many consider a toss-up race .  Gov. Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman are nearly neck-and-neck as they head into the gubernatorial election’s only debate Tuesday, a stunning new poll found. Democrat Hochul leads the Republican Nassau executive 47% to 44%, a Pollfinity survey released Tuesday found. The poll found about 6% of voters were undecided, while another 3% planned to cast their ballots for others. It went as expected. Blakeman came with facts and policies; Hochul blamed President Donald Trump for the problems New York faces and her refusal to keep New Yorkers safe. In fact, safety took up a huge portion of the debate, and Blakeman came loaded for bear. One knew things were not going well for Hochul when she literally glitched in the...