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The jury deliberating the fate of attorney and onetime White House hopeful Michael Avenatti has reached a verdict. Guilty. The disgrace lawyer was convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing nearly $300,000 in book-advance money from his then-client and former porn star Stormy Daniels. Avenatti faces up to 22 years behind bars. A sentencing date hasn’t been set. The news makes Avenatti’s fall from grace complete. A few years ago, many considered him a political force to be reckoned with. One who could win the presidency. https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1489692808034324486 As CNN reports: Prosecutors alleged that Avenatti — who helped…

Earlier today the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted overwhelmingly to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). The RNC said that the two representatives are “participating in a Democratic led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Although 35 House Republicans voted to support an independent commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack as part of a bipartisan deal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) came out against it. Then, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled all GOP members he had nominated from the House committee investigating the attack following Speaker Pelosi’s rejection of Reps.…

Despite the Omicron surge, nonfarm payrolls grew by 467,000 in January. Wall Street expected employers to add 150,000 new jobs. While experts believed Omicron would put millions of workers on the sidelines, the economy brushed off the latest variant of COVID-19. The Biden administration was quick to take a victory lap after it spent much of the past week bracing for anemic numbers. We created 467,000 jobs in January. That’s more than 6.6 million jobs since I took office. 2021 was the greatest year of job creation under any president in history. — President Biden (@POTUS) February 4, 2022 However,…

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill The 2022 midterms are coming closer. Although Democrats won the biggest prize in 2020, Republicans are poised to make substantial gains this cycle. Of course, nothing is set in stone and if conservative politicians should know anything, it’s this: Being right is not sufficient to win. We owe it our values, our children and future generations to learn how to win. It was with that mindset in mind that we at American Liberty News decided to conduct a 2022 elections and issues…

Senior U.S. officials have revealed that the Kremlin is preparing to make a fabricated video to justify an invasion of Ukraine. According to officials speaking on the condition of anonymity, the intelligence community has evidence that Russia intends to produce a graphic video as a pretext for invasion. Analysts claim that any doctored footage would either show an ambush of Russian soldiers in a border raid by Ukraine or a massacre of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. As USA Today reports: The military equipment used in the fabricated attack will be made to look like it is Ukrainian or from allied…

The White House has announced that U.S.-led forces carried out a “successful” counterterrorism operation in Syria early on Thursday. The target of their raid: ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Al-Qurashi led the terror group since October 2019. His predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, blew himself and his children up while under attack by U.S. special forces. Indeed, the raid closely resembled the one launched by President Trump two years ago. Commandos swarmed al-Qurashi’s compound under cover of darkness. After attempts to get everyone inside to surrender themselves failed, “a major battle” erupted. Like al-Baghdadi, al-Qurashi exploded a bomb as U.S.…

As the Omicron variant slams the labor market, private payrolls fell by 301,000 for the month on January, well below the Dow Jones’ estimate for growth in the neighborhood of 200,000. The pandemic-sensitive leisure and hospitality industry represented more than half of the decline as companies reported cutting 154,000 jobs. Other industries, such as trade, transportation and utilities, along with other service-providing industries make up the rest of the losses. The report is the first time payroll processing firm ADP reported negative job growth since December 2020. As CNBC explains: The labor market recovery took a step back at the…

A Wisconsin company has learned the hard way not to alienate half the country. Bill Penzey, CEO of Penzeys Spices, inexplicably declared that he should rename Penzeys’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day sale weekend “Republicans are racist weekend.” Worse still, Penzey’s suggestion came in a company newsletter. He cited proposing modest election reforms and opposing riots as proof of the GOP’s racism. Penzey went so far as to sickeningly claim Republicans often fantasize about killing African Americans. The company has since lost over 40,000 subscribers. The CEO’s latest email put a brave face on a difficult situation. Still, he couldn’t sugarcoat…

Jeff Zucker has resigned as the president of CNN Worldwide. The surprising announcement follows revelations that he had an intimate relationship with a colleague. Zucker said he should’ve revealed his relationship with CNN executive Allison Gollust during the network’s probe of former anchor Chris Cuomo. He led the cable news giant for nine years. Watch CNN’s on-air reaction: https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1488913731794911235 The New York Post further reports: “As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker wrote in…

President Biden approved plans this morning to send thousands of U.S. troops to Central and Eastern Europe in the coming days. The announcement came after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recommended repositioning U.S. military units closer to Ukraine amid its standoff with Russia. Late last month, the Pentagon placed 8,500 service members on “heightened alert” in response to Russia’s massive military buildup on Ukraine’s borders. As CNN reports: The deployments to Eastern Europe, which were first reported by CNN, are a show of support to NATO allies feeling threatened by Russia’s military moves near Ukraine, US officials said. The troops are…