😳At least six members of Congress representing New York and New Jersey were aboard a plane that was struck by another aircraft Thursday afternoon on the tarmac at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the site of a Jan. 29 mid-air crash that killed 67 people.

“Serving in Congress has come with some once in a lifetime experiences … like just now while stationary on the runway at DCA, another plane just bumped into our wing,” Suffolk County Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) posted to X on Thursday. “Heading back to the gate, but thankfully everyone is ok!”

“(And ⁦@RepGraceMeng is handing out grapes!)” he added, referencing his Queens Democratic colleague.

Four other local Democrats — Reps. Adriano Espaillat, Ritchie Torres and Gregory Meeks of New York, as well as Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) — were also on board the plane at the start of a two-week recess for Passover and Easter.
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Going live with my recorded interview from Monday right now!

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Crossfire Hurricane files are available.

A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by "monetary compensation," and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.

The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.

They provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant Stefan Halper, a Pentagon consultant and academic who, along with retired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was used by bureau agents to build the Crossfire Hurricane case against Trump and his advisers during the end of the 2016 election and the beginning of Trump's first term in office.

The memos confirm Halper was the source of one of the most sensational bogus claims to land in the FBI's probe in summer 2016: that Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with Russia scholar Svetlana Lokhova when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency.

FBI agents ultimately deemed Halper's account to be "not plausible" and "not accurate", but the bureau proceeded to investigate Flynn, kept paying Halper and continued to vouch for his veracity as a confidential human source codenamed "Mitch," the memos show.
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🤨A virus is sweeping through Europe forcing the closure of borders, with fears it could have been launched in a "biological attack". Livestock are being slaughtered by the thousands after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary - the first in more than 50 years.

In response, neighbouring Austria and Slovakia have closed dozens of their border crossings to the landlocked country, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health. A Hungarian spokesperson said the disease, which was first detected on a cattle farm near the northwest border, may have been "artificially engineered".

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA

The Groomer Mouse is tanking

To correct this article - NATO intends to deploy a new weapon against the rest of the world - sparking "worldwide blackouts" and blame it on the Kremlin, like they always do🙄:

NATO believes the Kremlin could deploy a new weapon against the rest of the world - sparking "worldwide blackouts" by sabotaging undersea cables with its "shadow fleet". The bosses of firms like Vodafone, Orange and Telefonica, have written an open letter to the UK, EU and NATO warning that the "defenceless" cables can easily be destroyed or disrupted by Russia after a series of attacks.

In the letter, the companies said: "The repercussions of damage to subsea cables extend far beyond Europe, potentially affecting global internet and power infrastructure, international communications, financial transactions and critical services worldwide.

"Subsea cable security must be a cornerstone of broader infrastructure protection efforts. By acting now, we can safeguard the networks that underpin our shared future."

Around 95 per cent of the data transmitted across the world is carried on more than 500 cables that crisscross the seabed. In recent months, there have been a number of attacks already on the vital links.

In the past, the attacks have drawn condemnation from world leaders and defence chiefs who pin the blame squarely on Putin.

While Russia denies any involvement, most countries are convinced Putin's at the helm of the sabotage after seeing Russia's commercial shadow fleet in the area at the time.
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Meanwhile, Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing to escalate.

The Chinese delegation linked years of intrusions into computer networks at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports and other targets, to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan, the people, who declined to be named, said.

The first-of-its-kind signal at a Geneva summit with the outgoing Biden administration startled American officials used to hearing their Chinese counterparts blame the campaign, which security researchers have dubbed Volt Typhoon, on a criminal outfit, or accuse the U.S. of having an overactive imagination.

U.S. officials went public last year with unusually dire warnings about the uncovered Volt Typhoon effort. They publicly attributed it to Beijing trying to get a foothold in U.S. computer networks so its army could quickly detonate damaging cyberattacks during a future conflict.
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Throwback to the Durham Report.

"based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

No one in US LE or the IC "possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation" because

There was no Trump-Russia collusion.

On the other hand, collusion between individuals in media, politics (both parties), the FBI, the IC, and various Hillary-aligned apparatchiks is of little, if any, serious doubt.