Fbi Seizes Website Used By Notorious Ransomware Gang

Italian politics are bewildering at the best of times, but now we see Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni railing against critics on the left and the right as she vows to continue to aid Ukraine until they are finally liberated from the Russian invasion. She had harsh words for anyone calling for a "peace" that carves up sovereign Ukraine.

During Friday's Ways and Means Committee hearing on trade policy, Ambassador Katherine Tai castigated North Carolina Republican Greg Murphy, for his condescension toward her role regarding U. S. trade. Murphy began his questioning by claiming Tai was too nice a person to be involved in trade issues, claiming he felt sorry for her. "I personally think you're too nice a person to be in the job that you're in," he said.

Trump’s campaign rally, scheduled for Saturday evening, just happens to be during the 30th anniversary of the ATF siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco in which 76 members of the cult, including many children, and four federal agents died. From the Chronicle's editorial, titled, "Trump is stoking the fires of Waco:" Thirty years later, the anti-government paramilitary groups feeding off lies about the “deep state” and a stolen election periodically visit the modest, little chapel on the site of the sprawling, ramshackle building that burned to the ground.

After controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and others visited a Washington, D. C., jail where Jan. 6 defendants were held, she held a press conference. Of course, Greene called the defendants that stormed the U. S. Capitol "political prisoners," but she wanted a whistle-blowing protester at the press conference arrested. Whistle-blowing can be considered an act of protest against wrongful practices by government officials.

A federal judge has ordered several of Trump's ex-aides, including Mark Meadows, to testify before the grand jury that's investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election, rejecting the former president’s claims of executive privilege, multiple sources confirmed. Via CNN: Trump’s legal team had challenged subpoenas issued by special counsel Jack Smith demanding testimony and documents from Meadows, the former president’s White House chief of staff, as well as several others by asserting executive privilege. In a sealed decision last week, then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell rejected the Trump team’s claims of privilege for Meadows and other top Trump administration officials who were subpoenaed by Smith, including former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien and former Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli, sources told CNN. Trump’s privilege claims for other former White House aides, including Stephen Miller and Dan Scavino, also were rejected, the sources said. read more

It seems like it's a daily thing now that pastors or professors at Christian schools are arrested for pedophilia. And please note that Abilene Christian University professor Charles Wadlington is not a drag queen. Via KTAB/KRBC: Charles Wadlington was arrested on a warrant for Sexual Abuse of Child and now remains held in jail on a $75,000 bond. UPDATE 3/23 – Wadlington was released on March 23 according to the Taylor County Jail records. Court documents state that in March 2023, a child came forward to police and said she and her sister were sexually assaulted by Wadlington, their adoptive father, and their brother may have been harmed as well. The brother was interviewed first.