Tuesday - February 20, 2024 - NEWS

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Trump expected to challenge New York judge's definition of fraud: report
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/trump-expected-challenge-new-york-judges-definition-fraud-report

Democrats weaponized justice system to punish Trump in business case
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/democrats-weaponized-justice-system-to-punish-trump-in-business-case/

WATCH: Law Professor Jonathan Turley Reveals the ‘Insidious’ Poison Pill in Judge Engoron’s Ruling Against President Trump in the New York Civil Fraud Trial
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-law-professor-jonathan-turley-reveals-insidious-poison/

Giuliani to Newsmax: Appeals Court Should Reverse $355M Trump Ruling
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-ny/2024/02/19/id/1154150/

Trump Hits Back After Nikki Haley’s String of Attacks: ‘Birdbrain’ Backed by Democrats
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/trump-hits-back-nikki-haleys-string-attacks-birdbrain-backed-democrats/

Trump supporters raise nearly $500,000 for New York fraud judgment
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2863337/trump-supporters-raise-nearly-500000-for-new-york-fraud-judgment/

Donald Trump is Right about NATO
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/donald_trump_is_right_about_nato.html

President Trump Drops the “C” Word – Calls Out the ‘Communism’ on the Left in His Presidents’ Day Message to the American People
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/president-trump-drops-c-word-calls-communism-left/

MAGA Trucker Opts Out of Boycott He Encouraged
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/truck-drivers-boycott-new-york-city/2024/02/19/id/1154166/

Musical about Trump, his ex-wives and Stormy Daniels premieres in New York
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/musical-about-trump-his-ex-wives-and-stormy-daniels-premieres-new

Fourth 'Anti-CPAC' Summit Packed With Trump Critics
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/principles-first-summit-anti-trump-cpac/2024/02/19/id/1154199/

James Biden said Joe was on call with now-bankrupt hospital firm prez’s bro allegedly fleeced: report
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/james-biden-said-joe-was-on-call-with-now-bankrupt-hospital-firm-report/

Marlow: ‘The Bidens Were Clearly Given Millions of Dollars from Entities All Over the World'
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/19/marlow-the-bidens-were-clearly-given-millions-of-dollars-from-entities-all-over-the-world/

Biden administration to relax electric vehicle mandate deadlines through the end of the decade
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/biden-administration-push-electric-vehicle-mandate-deadlines-will-still-move

The Biden White House Is NOT Pleased With The New York Times
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/02/19/biden-white-house-continues-to-lash-out-against-the-new-york-times-n2635449

Biden is headed for defeat in upcoming election — and Dems have ‘no plan to fix the problems’: top pollster
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/media/biden-is-headed-for-defeat-in-upcoming-election-and-dems-have-no-plan-to-fix-the-problems-top-pollster-nate-silver/

Not Your Father's Democratic Party
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/02/20/not-your-fathers-democratic-party-n2635437

Joe Biden continues to undermine national security for America, and countries around the world
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/joe_biden_continues_to_undermine_national_security_for_america_and_countries_around_the_world.html

Dem Rep. Krisnamoorthi on Biden Campaign’s TikTok: I Don’t Have One Because His Own Admin. Says It’s a Security Risk
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/dem-rep-krisnamoorthi-on-biden-campaigns-tiktok-i-dont-have-one-because-his-own-admin-says-its-a-security-risk/

Is Biden About to Actually Do Something About the Border?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/19/is-biden-about-to-actually-do-something-about-the-border-n2635427

Manchin: Biden Doesn’t Have Knowledge, Function, Ability to Unite Country
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/19/manchin-biden-doesnt-have-knowledge-function-ability-to-unite-country/

Biden Campaign, Dems Rake in $42 Million in January Fundraising
https://www.newsmax.com/us/democrat-fundraising-campaign/2024/02/20/id/1154221/

GOP lawmaker introduces legislation to reimburse Texas for billions it used to secure the border
https://justthenews.com/government/security/gop-lawmaker-introduces-legislation-reimburse-texas-billions-it-used-secure

Biden Willing to Meet With Speaker on Aid Package
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-mike-johnson-aid-package/2024/02/19/id/1154149/

Manchin: Border Is Biden’s ‘Responsibility’ that He Had to Be ‘Pressed’ Into Dealing with by GOP
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/19/manchin-border-is-bidens-responsibility-that-he-had-to-be-pressed-into-dealing-with-by-gop/

Bipartisan Pols Intensify Push for Bill Linking Ukraine Aid, Border
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-bipartisan-letter/2024/02/19/id/1154190/

Sen. Vance: Europe's Unpaid Defense Is 'Tax' on US
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/sen-jd-vance-nato-defense/2024/02/19/id/1154158/

Radical Democrats Want The Same Fate For America As Hamas Does For Israel
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/radical-democrats-want-the-same-fate-for-america-as-hamas-does-for-israel/

Sen. Graham's Flip on Foreign Aid Irks Colleagues
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lindsey-graham-ukraine-defense/2024/02/19/id/1154126/

Elizabeth Warren Stumped When Asked Why Americans Say They Miss Trump’s Economy (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/elizabeth-warren-stumped-when-asked-why-americans-say/

Manchin reveals why he’s not running for president but still won’t back Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2863838/manchin-reveals-why-not-running-for-president-but-wont-back-biden/

Time to Recall Members of Congress
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/time_to_recall_members_of_congress.html

CBS News Selectively Edited Tim Scott Quoting Scripture
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/02/19/cbs-news-selectively-edited-tim-scott-quoting-scripture-n2635447

The Missing Crossfire Hurricane Binder: President Trump Demanded its Contents Be Released – The FBI Wants It Hidden from the American Public and Will Do Anything to Prevent It’s Release
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/missing-crossfire-hurricane-binder-president-trump-demanded-its/

Justice Department can’t ignore Bobulinski
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2861808/justice-department-cant-ignore-bobulinski/

The Delusions Of CIA Chief William Burns
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/delusions-cia-chief-william-burns/

There's a New Twist in the January 6 Pipe Bomber Story
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/02/20/we-have-a-new-twist-in-the-january-6-pipe-bomb-story-n2635446

Government-Backed Censors Who Rigged The 2020 Election Are Now Stealing 2024
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/government-backed-censors-who-rigged-the-2020-election-are-now-stealing-2024/

Secretary of State urged staffers to avoid ‘problematic’ terms like ‘manpower’ and ‘mother/father’
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-urges-staffers-to-avoid-using-problematic-terms-like-manpower-and-mother-father-report/

Trump vulnerable to Jan. 6 lawsuits after missing Supreme Court immunity deadline
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/trump-open-to-jan-6-suits-after-missing-scotus-appeal-deadline/

Biden cozies up closer to Europe’s only narco state
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2863517/biden-cozies-up-closer-to-europes-only-narco-state/

*POPCORN* Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Quiet Part About WHO Is Actually Running the Country Out LOUD
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/19/kennedy-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-who-is-really-running-the-gov-n2393093

'Asylum-Seekers' From Syria Kitted Out in 5.11 Tactical Gear
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/02/19/asylum-seekers-from-syria-kitted-out-in-511-tactical-gear-n2393111

John Oliver Offers Clarence Thomas $1M to Quit Supreme Court
https://www.newsmax.com/us/john-oliver-clarence-thomas-supremec-ourt/2024/02/19/id/1154162/

Rep. Tlaib endorses anti-Biden protest as Michigan's Democratic primary approaches
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/rep-tlaib-endorses-anti-biden-protest-michigans-democrat-primary-approaches

70% of New York voters say Biden not fit to serve another term: poll
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/70-of-ny-voters-say-biden-not-fit-to-serve-another-term-poll/

Engoron’s $350+ Million Verdict Against President Trump Spells Doom for Business in New York, Ending Free Enterprise and Opening the Floodgates for Socialism in the Financial Capital of the World
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/engorons-350-million-verdict-against-president-trump-spells/

Vulnerable Democratic Incumbent in Wisconsin Is About to Get a Republican Opponent
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/02/19/vulnerable-democratic-incumbent-in-wisconsin-is-about-to-get-a-republican-opponent-n2635452

Democrat Who Advocates Gun Control Has Spent Thousands on Private Security
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/shocker-democrat-who-advocates-gun-control-has-spent/

Haley Relies on Dems, 'Never Trumpers' to Close S.C. Gap
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nikkihaley-donaldtrump-southcarolina/2024/02/19/id/1154153/

Nikki Haley Mercilessly Mocked over Awkward Post: ’12 Fellas Down. 1 to Go’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/nikki-haley-mercilessly-mocked-awkward-post-12-fellas-down-1-to-go/

New York Gov. Hochul seeks to limit oversight of bond sales while expanding her powers: Report
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/report-hochul-budget-limits-oversight-bond-sales

Washington Democrats: half of initiatives will get hearings, half will not
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2863251/washington-democrats-half-of-initiatives-will-get-hearings-half-will-not/

Iowa Senate passes foreign ownership land bill
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/iowa-senate-passes-foreign-ownership-land-bill

Disgraced pol Bob Menendez showed cash-stuffed safe to married lover who posed nude for him — 15 years before FBI gold bars raid: dossier
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/sen-bob-menendezs-mile-high-sex-lover-saw-hidden-cash/

Everything You Need To Know About The Motions To Disqualify Get-Trump Prosecutor Fani Willis
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-motions-to-disqualify-get-trump-prosecutor-fani-willis/

Atlanta Mayor: Motion Against Willis ‘a Distraction’ — ‘I’m No Lawyer’ So I Can’t Respond to Criticisms of Her
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/atlanta-mayor-motion-against-willis-a-distraction-im-no-lawyer-so-i-cant-respond-to-criticisms-of-her/

The NYC skyscraper Trump could dump to pay off $355M fraud fine — and it doesn’t even bear his name
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/business/the-nyc-skyscraper-trump-could-dump-to-pay-off-355m-fraud-fine-and-it-doesnt-even-bear-his-name/

Kemp signs measure to let voters decide on city of Mulberry
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2863246/kemp-signs-measure-to-let-voters-decide-on-city-of-mulberry/

Wisconsin governor signs into law maps he drew, likely ending court fight; says 'right thing to do'
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/wisconsin-governor-signs-law-maps-he-drew-says-right-thing-do

Waking the sleeping giant in South Bend
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/waking_the_sleeping_giant_in_south_bend.html

Female Trucker Joins Boycott of Deliveries to New York City Following Judge Engoron’s Egregious Ruling Against Trump (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/female-trucker-joins-boycott-deliveries-new-york-city/

West Coast communities prepare as the feds finalize areas for new floating wind farms
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/west-coast-communities-prepare-feds-finalize-areas-new-floating-wind-farms

Boston Families Furious as City Kicks Black Children Out of Community Center to House Biden’s Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/19/boston-families-furious-kicks-black-children-out-community-center/

Landslides block roads in Los Angeles area as California faces rare tornado threat during atmospheric river
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/landslides-block-roads-in-los-angeles-area-as-california-faces-rare-tornado-threat/

Just for Fun: Jokes Flood Twitter/X Following Acorn-Induced Police Shooting
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/02/20/police-acorn-shooting-jokes-n2393079

COVID vaccines linked to slight increases in heart, brain, blood disorders: study
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/covid-vaccines-linked-to-slight-increases-in-heart-brain-blood-disorders/

Embalmer Shares Shocking Video of Removing “Strange White Fibrous Clots” from a Dead Body — “I Didn’t Start Seeing This Until Early 2021” (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/embalmer-shares-shocking-video-removing-strange-white-fibrous/

Indiana Parents Ask SCOTUS to Weigh In on State Taking Custody of Sex-Confused Teen
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/indiana-parents-ask-scotus-weigh-state-taking-custody-sex-confused-teen/

Idaho Asks Supreme Court to Help Enforce Minor Surgery Ban
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/idaho-supreme-court-gender-dysphoria/2024/02/19/id/1154203/

Frozen embryos are children, Alabama Supreme Court rules: 'Human life is an endowment from God'
https://www.theblaze.com/news/frozen-embryos-are-children-alabama-supreme-court-rules-human-life-is-an-endowment-from-god

Pro-Abortion Leftists Are Mad Texas’ Heartbeat Law Saved Thousands Of Nonwhite Babies
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/pro-abortion-leftists-are-mad-that-texas-heartbeat-law-saved-thousands-of-nonwhite-babies/

New Study Could Disprove Popular Trans Activist Argument
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/19/study-disprove-trans-activist-argument/

OH, COME ON: Britain's National Health Service Says 'Trans Women's' Milk as Good as Breast Milk
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/02/19/nhs-trans-womens-milk-as-good-as-breast-milk-n2393073

There Can’t be a 'Trans Genocide' — Because 'Trans' People Don’t Exist
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/there_cant_be_a_trans_genocide__because_trans_people_dont_exist.html

Fixing Medicare Starts With Cracking Down On A Multibillion-Dollar Catheter Scam
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/fixing-medicare-starts-with-cracking-down-on-a-multibillion-dollar-catheter-scam/

Asthma Drug Approved by FDA to Treat Food Allergy
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/xolair-food-allergy-anaphylaxis-peanut/2024/02/19/id/1154108/

Fmr. Obama FBI Official: Terror Watch List Numbers at Border Over 10x What Bothered Me when I Was in Office
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/fmr-obama-fbi-official-terror-watch-list-numbers-at-border-over-10x-what-bothered-me/

POTUS' Attempt to Shame GOP for the Border Mess (and Vacationing) Is Another HUGE Fail
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/02/19/potus-attempt-to-shame-gop-for-the-border-mess-and-vacationing-is-another-huge-fail-n2393101

Presidents Day: 5 Presidents Who Warned Against Mass Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/19/presidents-day-5-presidents-who-warned-against-mass-immigration/

Border Crisis: Illegal Immigrants Pour Across California Border, Including Afghani on Terror Watch List
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/02/19/afghan-man-on-terror-watch-list-enters-us-illegally-via-california-n2393083#google_vignette

Huge Line of Illegals “As Far as the Eye Can See” Traverse Down Steep, Rocky Mountain After Crossing Into San Diego
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/shock-video-huge-line-illegals-as-far-as/

Illegal Immigrant Deported Five Times Allegedly Killed 10-Year-Old Child in Hit-and-Run
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/02/19/illegal-immigrant-deported-five-times-allegedly-killed-10-year-old-child-in-hit-and-run-n2635429

Vermont Town Gets Firsthand Look at Border Invasion
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/swanton-vermont-migrants/2024/02/19/id/1154131/

WATCH: O’Keefe Media Group Releases Footage of Unitarian Universitarian Church of Tucson’s Board Meeting Where They Discuss Reporting on Possible Human Trafficking Operation in Arizona (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-okeefe-media-group-releases-footage-unitarian-universitarian/

Pima County Administrator warns of 'homelessness on steroids' as federal funding for asylum seekers ends
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/021924_migrant_shelter_funding/pima-county-administrator-warns-homelessness-steroids-as-federal-funding-asylum-seekers-ends/

REPORT: Illegal Border Crossers in New York City to Receive Debit Cards Worth up to $10,000 EACH
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-illegal-border-crossers-new-york-city-receive/

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Reverses Plan to Give Luxury Harlem Condos to Migrants After Public Outcry
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/20/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-reverses-plan-to-give-luxury-harlem-condos-to-migrants-after-public-outcry/

'Great Work, Chief'! Dem Senator Gets Clues Why So Many Younger People Have 'Climate Anxiety'
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/02/19/dem-senator-gets-clues-why-so-many-younger-people-have-climate-anxiety-n2393104#google_vignette

'Edgy' Cartoonist's Lame Cartoon Claiming School Choice Will Lead to Resegregation BOMBS (Pun Intended)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/19/crow-school-choice-n2393100

Drag as Subversive Education
https://townhall.com/columnists/janerobbins/2024/02/20/drag-as-subversive-education-n2635455

Riley Gaines slams trans New Jersey swimmer who smashed another collegiate record
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/riley-gaines-slams-trans-new-jersey-swimmer-who-smashed-another-collegiate-record/

Actor Kirk Cameron teams up with Brave Books to launch TV program
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/actor-kirk-cameron-teams-brave-books-launch-tv-program

Christian Nationalism Book Relies On Falsehoods To Paint Religious Conservatives As Bogeymen
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/why-the-christian-nationalism-bogeyman-is-based-on-lies/

Transgender Funeral At St. Patrick’s Cathedral Is An Attack On The Church
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/the-transgender-funeral-at-st-patricks-cathedral-is-an-attack-on-the-church/

Questions Remain After St. Patrick's Cathedral Used for Trans Atheist Funeral Mass
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/02/19/st-patricks-cathedral-transgender-atheist-funeral-n2393036

Jewish college students in U.S. face rising antisemitism, with little help from officials
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/jewish-college-students-us-face-antisemitism-little-help-officials

Harvard Faculty Group Posts Antisemitic Image; Deletes, Apologizes
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/02/19/harvard-faculty-group-posts-antisemitic-image-deletes-apologizes/

Rob Reiner: Trump Is the ‘MouthPiece’ for the Christian Nationalist Movement
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/19/rob-reiner-trump-is-the-mouthpiece-for-the-christian-nationalist-movement/

A Glaring Blindspot in the Press With Gas Prices
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2024/02/19/a-glaring-blindspot-in-the-press-with-gas-prices-increased-oil-drilling-defies-bidens-green-agenda-n2635435

New York Times publisher admits White House gets ‘extremely upset’ with its reporting on Biden’s age, poor polling
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/new-york-times-publisher-admits-white-house-gets-extremely-upset-with-its-reporting-on-bidens-age-poor-polling/

NY Times Publisher: Biden Age Criticism Fair, Balanced
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/new-york-times-joe-biden-age/2024/02/19/id/1154154/

Ukrainian Refugee Who Wins Trump’s First Signed Sneakers for $9000 Calls Out Media – Responds to Bogus Claims From Mainstream Media that He’s a “Russian Oligarch”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/ukrainian-refugee-who-wins-trumps-first-signed-sneakers/

Joe Rogan predicts Biden will be forced to step down from 2024 presidential race with Democrats 'setting up Gavin Newsom' to run against Trump
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104351/joe-rogan-predicts-biden-2024-election-gavin-newsom-trump.html

Jon Stewart Attacks Tucker Carlson After Facing Woke Backlash over Biden Criticism: ‘You’re Such a Dick’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/02/20/jon-stewart-attacks-tucker-carlson-after-facing-woke-backlash-over-biden-criticism-youre-such-a-dick/

CBS News Pushes False Gun Control Narrative in the Aftermath of the Kansas City Parade Shooting
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/02/19/cbs-news-pushes-false-narrative-on-gun-control-in-the-aftermath-of-the-kansas-city-parade-shooting-n2635414

Freelance reporter threatened to ‘kill every Jew’ and shoot pro-Israel US officials: court docs
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/freelance-reporter-threatened-to-kill-every-jew-and-shoot-pro-israel-us-officials-court-docs/

Why the Media Skipped Over a Foiled Mass Shooting Plot in California
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/02/20/why-the-media-skipped-a-foiled-mass-shooting-plot-in-california-n2635438

Laughs in POLKA: MSNBC Guest Says Americans Stole Every Form of Music from Black People (Watch)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/20/msnbc-guest-says-black-people-created-all-music-n2393121

Bogus Rankings by Biased So-Called Historians and Scholars Place Obama Seventh, Biden Fourteenth, Reagan 16th, with Trump at the Bottom of the List of Best U.S. Presidents of All Time
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bogus-rankings-so-called-historians-scholars-place-obama/

What Biden Bull Market?
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2024/02/20/what-biden-bull-market-n2635428

Interest payments on $34 trillion US national debt will exceed DEFENSE spending this year - as legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones says a 'debt bomb' set to go off in US
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-13101521/interest-payments-national-debt-defense-spending.html

Source: Capital One Weighs Acquisition of Discover
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/capital-one-discover-merger/2024/02/19/id/1154159/

Supreme Court Weighs Bid to Challenge Debit Card 'Swipe Fee' Rule
https://www.newsmax.com/us/debit-card-debt-bank/2024/02/20/id/1154218/

Imagine A World Where The Internal Combustion Engine Didn’t Exist
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/imagine-a-world-where-the-internal-combustion-engine-didnt-exist/

Why regulating AI will be difficult — or even impossible
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/2858858/why-regulating-ai-will-be-difficult-or-even-impossible/

Musk: Neuralink's 1st Human Patient Can Control Mouse
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/neuralink-elon-musk-human/2024/02/20/id/1154217/

The crypto G: First photo of Sam Bankman-Fried in jail posing with gangsters - as fellow inmates say 'he's strange as sh*t' but 'a good guy'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104285/Sam-Bankman-Fried-jail-gangsters-posing-crypto.html

Hawaii poised to slap tourists with $25 climate tax
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/business/hawaii-wants-to-charge-25-per-tourist-tax/

Bud Light loses crown as best selling Super Bowl beer - with Corona taking top spot after Dylan Mulvaney boycott
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104249/super-bowl-2024-beer-sales-corona-bud-light-boycott.html

Cheerios and Quaker Oats Reportedly Exposing Americans to Chemical that May Cause Infertility – Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Says House Oversight Committee will Hold Hearings on New Development
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/cheerios-quaker-oats-reportedly-exposing-americans-chemical-that/

Minn. Cop Killer Wasn't Allowed to Have Guns
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/officers-firefighter-killed/2024/02/19/id/1154194/

Who Are The Kansas City Parade Shooters, And Why Don’t We Know?
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnnantz/2024/02/20/who-are-the-kansas-city-parade-shooters-and-why-dont-we-know-n2635454

Crew busted for using drones to try to drop drugs into West Virginia federal prison
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/11-busted-in-probe-of-drones-trying-to-deliver-drug-to-federal-prison/

NYC murder suspect who fled Soho 54 hotel in victim's leggings is arrested in ARIZONA after stabbing a woman in Phoenix McDonald's
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104841/NYC-murder-suspect-fled-Soho-54-hotel-victims-leggings-arrested-ARIZONA-stabbing-woman-Phoenix-McDonalds.html

Ruby Franke’s husband wants vlogger to face max prison time for her ‘horrific and inhumane’ child abuse
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/ruby-frankes-husband-wants-max-prison-time-as-she-faces-60-years-for-abuse/

Straphanger beaten unconscious by stranger with metal pipe in latest NYC subway violence: cops
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/straphanger-beaten-unconscious-by-stranger-with-metal-pipe-in-latest-nyc-subway-violence-cops/

Suspect in connection with Colorado dorm shooting in custody
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/suspect-connection-colorado-dorm-shooting-custody

Dramatic confrontation between migrants, cops ends with arrest at Randall’s Island shelter
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/one-arrested-in-altercation-with-cops-at-randalls-island-migrant-shetler/

EAST TEXAS SHERIFF: McDougal Admitted Leaving House with Missing 11-Year-Old Girl
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/02/19/east-texas-sheriff-mcdougal-admitted-leaving-house-with-missing-11-year-old-girl/

Fugitive linked to child sex crimes caught thanks to daughters’ TikTok campign to find him
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/americas-most-wanted-suspect-davie-albarran-linked-to-child-sex-crimes-caught-in-florida/

Texas Girl Scout troop robbed while selling cookies in front of Walmart: video
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/texas-girl-scout-troop-robbed-while-selling-cookies-in-front-of-walmart-video/

Europe

Nigel Farage Considers Class Action Lawsuit Against Big Banks, as Thousands Claim Debanking
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/20/nigel-farage-considers-class-action-lawsuit-against-big-banks-as-nearly-3000-claim-to-have-been-debanked/

Julian Assange is too unwell to attend appeal against his extradition to the US, judges told - as Wikileaks founder's wife arrives at court amid protest calling for his release
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103419/julian-assange-appeal-london-court-wife-stella-protest.html

Jobless Migrants and Foreign Students Cost UK Taxpayers £36 Billion Since 2020: Report
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/20/jobless-migrants-and-foreign-students-cost-uk-taxpayers-36-billion-since-2020-report/

European Commission opens investigation into TikTok and its impact on children
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/european-commission-opens-investigation-tiktok-and-its-impact-children

Pushback: Dutch prime minister warns Europeans to stop 'whining' about Trump, focus on Ukraine
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/tues-dutch-prime-minister-warns-europeans-stop-whining-about-trump

Long After Pope's Abuse Summit, Victims Still Traumatized by System
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/vatican-pope-abuse/2024/02/20/id/1154207/

Polish F.M.: Some in NATO ‘Behind the Curve’ on Defense Investment, 13 Are Below 2% Threshold
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/polish-f-m-some-in-nato-behind-the-curve-on-defense-investment-13-are-below-2-threshold/

Hungary finally ready to ratify Sweden's NATO bid under mounting international pressure
https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungary-finally-ready-ratify-swedens-nato-bid-mounting-international-pressure

Serbia Has Crossed the EU’s Rubicon; Germany and Its Allies Must Respond
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/serbia-has-crossed-eus-rubicon-germany-and-its-allies-must-respond

Evan Gershkovich appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention is rejected by Moscow court as Wall Street Journal reporter faces spying charges in Russia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103707/Evan-Gershkovich-appeal-rejected-moscow.html
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Russia/Ukraine War

GOP Sen. Marshall: Putin Does Not Respect Biden, EU Nations
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/19/gop-sen-marshall-putin-does-not-respect-biden-or-eu-nations/

Costs of war: Ukrainian corruption threatens past and future aid
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2863477/costs-of-war-ukrainian-corruption-threatens-past-future-aid/

Zelenskyy: Foreign Aid Delays Making Life 'Very Difficult' on Front Line
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/ukraine-foreign-aid-russia/2024/02/20/id/1154215/

High-Profile Russian Defector Who Landed Helicopter in Ukraine to Escape to West Shot Dead
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/20/high-profile-russian-defector-who-landed-helicopter-in-ukraine-to-escape-to-west-shot-dead/

Kremlin spy chief calls defecting Russian helicopter pilot a 'moral corpse' days after he was found 'riddled with bullets' and run over by a car in Spain - amid fears hit squad assassinated him to 'settle scores'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104393/Kremlin-spy-chief-calls-defecting-Russian-helicopter-pilot-moral-corpse-days-riddled-bullets-run-car-Spain-amid-fears-hit-squad-assassinated-settle-scores.html

Russia detains California woman with dual US-Russian citizen on suspicion of treason for raising $51 for Ukrainian army: report
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/world-news/russia-detains-dual-us-russian-citizen-for-treason-tass-citing-fsb-as-source/

White House scrambles to get more details of American ballerina arrested in Russia and tells Moscow their diplomats must be given access to meet her
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104683/white-house-american-ballerina-arrested-russia-moscow.html

X suspends account of Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya 'for violating rules'... before reinstating it 45 minutes later - a day after she set it up and accused Putin of killing her husband
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104281/X-suspends-account-Alexei-Navalnys-widow-violating-rules.html

Polish farmers block Ukraine border, spill grain, as Ukrainian truckers protest against blockade
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/20/polish-farmers-block-ukraine-border-spill-grain-as-ukrainian-truckers-protest-against-blockade/

Ukraine Offers SpaceX an 'Algorithm' to Stop Russian Use of Starlink
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ukraine-offers-spacex-an-algorithm-to-stop-russian-use-of-starlink
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Middle East Region

Blaine Holt to Newsmax: Israel Winning, Rejecting Biden Plan
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/blaine-holt-israel-war/2024/02/19/id/1154129/

Israel Rejects Sexual Assault Claims by Antisemitic UN ‘Expert’
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/20/israel-rejects-sexual-assault-claims-by-antisemitic-un-expert/

The Media Is Still Swallowing Hamas’ Lies About Israel
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/20/the-media-is-still-swallowing-hamas-lies-about-israel/

International court hears arguments over Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2863309/international-court-hears-arguments-israeli-occupation-gaza-west-bank/

US vetoes Gaza cease-fire resolution at UN Security Council
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/02/us-vetoes-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-un-security-council

Jordan Increasingly Concerned About Iran Amid Activity Of Iran-Backed Militias On Its Northern Border
https://www.memri.org/reports/jordan-increasingly-concerned-about-iran-amid-activity-iran-backed-militias-its-northern

Western intellectuals in a Soros-backed think tank are all in for promoting Iran's interests
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/western_intellectuals_in_a_sorosbacked_think_tank_are_all_in_for_promoting_irans_interests.html

Resurgent al-Qaida training camps latest black eye from Biden Afghanistan withdrawal
https://justthenews.com/government/security/tueresurgent-al-qaida-training-camps-latest-black-eye-biden-afghanistan

Here’s what an uncoordinated US withdrawal from Syria would look like. It’s bad for many partners, but especially Turkey.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/syria-withdrawal-turkey-us-hts/

Yemeni army attacks US warships with armed drones
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212206/Yemeni-army-attacks-US-warships-with-armed-drones
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Asia

China cuts key mortgage rate to boost economy
https://www.breitbart.com/news/china-central-bank-cuts-benchmark-lending-rate-to-boost-economy/

China Claims Largest Travel Season Ever, Seeking to Calm Worried Investors
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/02/19/china-claims-largest-travel-season-seeking-calm-worried-investors/

China Uses Crises to Build Central Asia Influence
https://cepa.org/article/china-uses-crises-to-build-central-asia-influence/

Putin gave Kim Jong Un a Russian-made car in a show of their special ties: North Korea
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/putin-gave-kim-jong-un-a-russian-made-car-in-a-show-of-their-special-ties-north-korea-says/

Why Calls for Regime Change in North Korea Can Be Counterproductive
https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/02/why-calls-regime-change-north-korea-can-be-counterproductive

South Korean trainee doctors walk out in protest against plan to raise medical school intake
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-trainee-doctors-walk-out-in-protest-against-plan-to-raise-medical-school-intakes

Thai ex-PM Thaksin walks free, but ‘at a cost’
https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/thaksin-shinawatra-parole-02202024105530.html

Malaysia govt’s new media ethics code raises questions about press freedom
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-govt-s-new-media-ethics-code-raises-questions-over-press-freedom

Nepali journalists Aishwarya Kunwar, Puskar Bhatt arrested under cybercrime law
https://cpj.org/2024/02/nepali-journalists-aishwarya-kunwar-puskar-bhatt-arrested-under-cybercrime-law/

Hilarious moment wild monkey boldly enters hotel room then helps itself to snacks and a vape while astonished US tourists look on
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13104007/Just-vaping-Hilarious-moment-wild-monkey-invites-hotel-room-helps-snacks-vape-astonished-tourists-look-on.html
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Latin America

Leader of drug trafficking organization imprisoned for international cocaine distribution scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/leader-drug-trafficking-organization-imprisoned-international-cocaine-distribution

Mexico continues to struggle with high fentanyl consumption as experts warn data is clouded by lack of testing
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-continues-struggle-high-fentanyl-consumption-experts-warn-data-clouded-lack-testing

Argentina Announces Financial Surplus in January – the First in 12 Years
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/02/19/argentina-announces-financial-surplus-january-first-12-years/

Brazil’s Lula Criticizes Israel, Compares Military Campaign to the Nazi Holocaust – Gets Branded ‘Persona Non Grata’ by Tel-Aviv – Brazil Recalls Ambassador as Spat Intensifies
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/brazils-lula-criticizes-israel-compares-military-campaign-nazi/

Brazil expels Zionist ambassador and withdraws its ambassador from Tel Aviv
https://www.saba.ye/en/news3306589.htm

Brazil Will Not Retract Lula's Comments in Row With Israel
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/brazil-lula-gaza/2024/02/19/id/1154178/

Former Honduran leader to stand trial for allowing drug trafficking in exchange for millions from cartel
https://www.foxnews.com/world/former-honduran-leader-stand-trial-allowing-drug-trafficking-exchange-millions-from-cartel

World's biggest snake is discovered in the Amazon rainforest: Huge anaconda measures 26ft-long and weighs 440lbs - and its head is the same size as a human's
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13103951/Worlds-biggest-snake-discovered-Amazon-rainforest-Huge-anaconda-measures-26ft-long-weighs-440lbs-head-size-humans.html

3 Indicted in '21 Haitian Prez. Assassination
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/haiti-martine-moise-indicted/2024/02/19/id/1154188/

Cuba's President meets with Russia's Foreign Minister
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-president-meets-with-russia-foreign-minister
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Africa

Russia's Wagner group has rebranded under the shady spy chief behind Salisbury poisonings and is offering African 'regime survival packages' in return for access to natural resources, report finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13103245/Russias-Wagner-group-rebranded-shady-spy-chief-Salisbury-poisonings-offering-African-regime-survival-packages-return-access-natural-resources-report-finds.html

Russia’s Wagner 2.0 takes over security and gold mines in Africa
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russia-wagner-gold-mines-africa-2916430?ITO=newsnow

WATCH: South African Member of Parliament Threatens Jews with ‘Bloodbath’
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/20/watch-south-african-member-of-parliament-threatens-jews-with-bloodbath/

Guinea's military junta dissolves government, seals borders
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/africa/2024-02-20-guineas-military-junta-dissolves-government-seals-borders/

Bandits block Gusau-Sokoto Highway, Kidnap 26 Travellers
https://politicsnigeria.com/just-in-bandits-block-gusau-sokoto-highway-kidnap-26-travellers/

UN agencies sound alarm over renewed clashes in eastern DR Congo
https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/news/2024/02/90527/un-agencies-sound-alarm-over-renewed-clashes-eastern-dr-congo

SA troops in DRC need air support, says former general
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-02-20-sa-troops-in-drc-need-air-support-says-former-general/

Obasanjo advocates law to curb organ trafficking
https://punchng.com/obasanjo-advocates-law-to-curb-organ-trafficking/
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Canada

Canada Asks China to ‘Help Influence the Houthis to Keep the Red Sea Open’
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/19/canada-asks-china-to-help-influence-the-houthis-to-keep-the-red-sea-open/

Canada sending more than 800 drones to Ukraine to support its fight against Russia
https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-sending-800-drones-ukraine-support-fight-russia

Tired of War? Canada grants multi-year visas to Israelis
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-787914

Jordan Peterson Says Study on Trans Adolescents and Suicide States the Obvious
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/02/19/jordan-peterson-says-study-on-trans-adolescents-and-suicide-states-the-obvious-n2393105

Jewish B.C. cyclist disinvited from International Women's Day event because of IDF service
https://theprovince.com/news/canada/leah-goldstein-international-womens-day

Man charged after allegedly driving drunk to Toronto area police station hours after prior arrest
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/man-charged-after-allegedly-driving-drunk-to-toronto-area-police-station-hours-after-prior-arrest-1.6776012