UFO sightings: Pentagon reveals cause of 1960s uptick in ‘extraterrestrial’ activity

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Disaster for Trump as Truth Social Crashes at Critical SOTU Moment

Marco Bello/ReutersDonald Trump may have rage-posted his way through President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Truth Social, but his social media site crashed for many before Biden even entered the House chamber, with technical issues lingering for at least an hour before and into his remarks.Beginning shortly before 9 p.m. EST Thursday, outages numbered in the thousands, according to Downdetector. The outages peaked an hour later and then began to slowly resume back to normal, accordi
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DOJ Torches Trump’s Arguments for Impunity in Mar-a-Lago Docs Case

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty ImagesJustice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith argued in court papers on Thursday that the nation’s expansive presidential powers don’t permit Donald Trump to whisk hundreds of classified records away from the White House—and they certainly don’t justify him lying to the feds to cover it up.The special prosecutor investigating the former president over his hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago finally responded to Trump’s attempts to get his criminal case d
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks House Rules to Wear MAGA Hat at State of the Union

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWearing a bright red MAGA hat on the floor of the U.S. House before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as expected, made a scene—and she broke the rules in the process.According to official House rules, House buildings are considered official government resources. “Accordingly, as a general rule, they may not be used for the conduct of campaign or political activities,” the House rules say.But Greene’s “Make America Grea
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Tucker Carlson Sits Down With Ex-Rival Chris Cuomo in Cable Return

NewsNationThey’ve traded plenty of barbs over the air, and now they’re going one-on-one. Chris Cuomo sat with his one-time rival Tucker Carlson for a conversation on his NewsNation show Cuomo, the first part of which will air on Monday, the network announced Thursday. The sit-down, which was first reported by Variety, is Carlson’s first TV appearance since he was booted from his Fox News show last year. The two will discuss Carlson’s firing from Fox News and his recent interview with Russian Pre
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Fulton County ethics board drops Fani Willis complaints from hearing

A Fulton County ethics watchdog slated to hear complaints against District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Thursday will no longer do so, according to an updated meeting agenda. The Fulton County Board of Ethics was expected to hear two complaints against Willis after her romance with a special prosecutor on the election interference case involving former…
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‘Generation Putin’ – young Russians reflect on his 24 years in power

Egor, 18, says bluntly that Russia’s leaders are «unworthy». What both have in common is that neither can remember a time when Putin, in power since the last day of 1999, was not in charge of Russia as president or prime minister. In an election next week, he is set to win a new six-year term that – if he completes it – would enable him to overtake Josef Stalin and become Russia’s longest-serving leader for more than 200 years.