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An Emmy Award-winning ABC News journalist hasn’t been seen in months. Besides a successful career in journalism, James Gordon Meek, 52, served as a senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee. He was also writing a book detailing one part of President Biden’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. According to Rolling Stone magazine, FBI agents raided his upscale Northern Virginia apartment in April. Meek hasn’t been seen since. The Daily Wire has more: The publication claims that sources familiar with matter said that he was the target of a federal investigation and that…

Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the unfounded and discredited infamous Steele Dossier has been acquitted by a jury on all four counts of lying to the FBI. The development is an embarrassing defeat to Special Counsel John Durham’s three-year investigation into potential misconduct in the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1582470463896158208 The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump and his supporters have long insisted the inquiry would prove a “deep state” conspiracy against him, but after pursuing various baseless theories, Mr. Durham never found and charged one. Instead he developed two narrow cases accusing people involved in outside efforts to scrutinize…

Researchers at Boston University’s biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) lab have created a COVID variant with an 80% mortality rate in mice, not people. The team of medical scientists combined the omicron variant spike protein with the original virus “to help fight against future pandemics.” https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1582103904342315009 The University responded to misleading claims about the research: We want to address the false and inaccurate reporting about Boston University COVID-19 research, which appeared today in the Daily Mail,” said the BU statement. “First, this research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-CoV-2 virus strain or make it more…

Rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, has agreed to buy the MAGA-allied social media platform Parler. Parler debuted in 2018 as a free speech alternative to Twitter. Ye, a worldwide star who’s embraced conservative ideals in recent years, lost his Twitter and Instagram accounts last week over antisemitic posts. CNBC has more on the acquisition: “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” said West, who now goes by Ye, in a statement released by Parler.Financial terms of the deal weren’t announced. The…

A juvenile suspect is in critical condition today, accused of murdering five people in a mass shooting Thursday evening in Raleigh, North Carolina. One of his alleged victims was an off-duty police officer. The News & Observer reports: Five people were shot and killed, including an off-duty police officer, near a northeastern Raleigh greenway Thursday, in an incident that rattled the city and drew national attention.Two other people, including a Raleigh Police K-9 officer, were transported to a hospital. The officer had non-life threatening injuries and has been released from the hospital, Raleigh Police Lt. Jason Borneo said at a…

Editor’s note: News agencies first announced that the jury unanimously recommended the death penalty for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. Subsequent reports explained that the Florida jury recommended life in prison on the initial counts. American Liberty News sincerely regrets this error. A Florida jury has reached a decision in a school shooter’s death penalty trial. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1580576222026731520 Nikolas Cruz pled guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder after going on a shooting rampage at his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on Feb. 14, 2018. The three-month trial was to decide whether the gunman…

President Joe Biden experienced a loss every parent dreads when his eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015. The commander-in-chief appeared to claim yesterday that Beau died in combat in Iraq. Biden made the seemingly impromptu remarks at a speech yesterday near Vail, Colorado, where he designated Camp Hale a national monument. WATCH: https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1580315228918513664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1580315228918513664%7Ctwgr%5E82d644c1a4307e3c88c1831bbdf510a6a8d4bfae%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fjoe-biden-claims-his-son-beau-died-in-iraq The camp was the training facility for the legendary 10th Mountain Division. As Biden spoke fondly of the unit’s record in World War II, he switched gears to make the unfortunate gaffe about his late son. The Daily Wire further reports: “American soldiers of…

A jury has ruled that conspiratorial media personality Alex Jones must pay $965 million for spreading lies that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation and that the parents of the victims were “crisis actors.” The Daily Beast reports: The money will go straight to the pockets of family members who lost a child in the massacre, and to an FBI agent who was harassed by Jones’ listeners. There were 15 plaintiffs in total.Jones’ chaotic trial played out in Waterbury, Connecticut, 20 miles southwest of where 26 people were killed just over a decade ago. Jury deliberations…

Former Democratic presidential contender and former U.S. representative for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democratic Party, describing its leadership as an “elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.” Gabbard’s announcement came in a video posted on Twitter. The ex-Democrat ended her statement with an appeal for “independent-minded Democrats” to join her in leaving the Democratic Party. WATCH: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet The Daily Wire has more: Gabbard, who represented Hawaii’s second congressional district after serving two combat tours in the Middle East, made the announcement in a video posted to her social media accounts early Tuesday morning. She also said that…

A truck bomb caused the partial collapse of the sole bridge connecting the recently annexed Crimean peninsula with the rest of Russia on Saturday. According to Russian authorities, the fireball killed at least three people. The Ministry of Transport cleared rail traffic shortly afterward and OK’d restricted road traffic hours later. https://twitter.com/mrsorokaa/status/1578641347593936896 https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1578605334062473216 Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack, but Ukrainian officials reacted positively when the news broke. The 12-mile bridge is the main artery across the Kerch Peninsula to Russian forces in Crimea and Southern Ukraine. Within hours of the attack, Russian leader Vladimir Putin issued…