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Vice president JD Vance has said that Hunter Biden is “welcome to apply” for money from a special $1.8 billion fund to help the victims of “lawfare.”
“This is about compensating Americans for the lawfare they experienced under the last administration,” Vance told reporters, speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday. “Republicans can apply for it, Democrats can apply for it… If Hunter Biden wants to apply for this particular fund, he’s welcome to.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the $1.776 billion compensation fund Monday, which is aimed to financially help individuals who believe they have been targeted for investigation or prosecution.
The fund is being set up as part of a settlement after Trump abandoned his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
Blanche vowed that the “machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens ..

The exact moment when it became clear that JD Vance was going to fumble this press conference was about 10 seconds in, when he called the Iran war “the Iran situation.”
The moment when it became clear that it was going to become deeply weird was when he claimed that the United States doesn’t have a national healthcare system because there are American troops in Europe.
And the moment when it became truly eye-opening was when he suggested taxpayers should be fine paying for a $1.8 billion (sorry, a patriotically pegged $1.776 billion, to be precise) slush fund for Trump allies because there aren’t taxes on overtime or tips.
It had already started off uncomfortably. Tasked with answering the questions of White House correspondents in the place of Karoline Leavitt (currently on maternity leave), Vance came sauntering into an already tense political moment carrying the political equivalent of a can of gasoline and a copy of Hillbilly Elegy. He had a tough job: defending that already-infa..

Police are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found stuffed inside a freezer at an abandoned Dallas house – and whether a suspicious fire that broke out at the property later that day is connected.
Officers responded to the vacant home on Georgia Avenue in East Oak Cliff around 2:30 p.m. Sunday and found Mariah Murray’s body inside a freezer, according to Dallas police.
Dallas Fire-Rescue was later called to the scene after the house caught fire. Investigators have not said what caused the blaze or whether foul play was involved.
No arrests have been made, and police have not released information about a suspect or possible motive.
Murray’s loved ones, who describe her as a “good spirit,” are pleading for answers. They say she did not deserve the tragic circumstances of her death.
open image in galleryDallas police have launched an investigation after the body of 27-year-old Mariah Murray was discovered inside a freezer at an abandoned home (Fox4)“All of t..

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s appearance at a Kentucky military event on Monday was briefly derailed by mother nature.
Hegseth was speaking at a reenlistment ceremony at the Sabalauski Air Assault School at Fort Campbell when powerful, persistent winds overwhelmed his remarks.
“Great to see everybody. It’s an honor to be here,” he said, just as a strong gust sent the flags behind him whipping violently, rattling their poles, video captured by Fox News shows.
The former broadcaster said he was “humbled to stand in front of great Americans willing to raise their right hand again to serve this nation.” He added, “I won’t belabor this too much,” an apparent nod to the difficulty of being heard over the wind.
Over on the Pentagon’s live YouTube feed, the problems were even more pronounced. The first minute-and-a-half of Hegseth’s speech aired without audio, leaving viewers to watch his lips move silently as flags thrashed and black stage curtains billowed.
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Trump says he told Xi that America 'spies like hell' on China as he defends CCP cyber attacksDonald Trump has warned Tehran that the “clock is ticking” and threatened consequences if its leaders do not act quickly.
“For ⁠Iran, the ‌Clock is Ticking, ‌and they better ‌get moving, FAST, ⁠or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME ‌IS ​OF ‌THE ESSENCE!,” the US president wrote ⁠in a ‌Truth ​Social ‌post.
Trump warned that if Tehran failed to reach a peace agreement with the US, it would face “a very bad time”.
“If they don’t, they’re going to have a bad time. A very bad time. They had better make a deal,” Trump told French media. He also shared an AI-generated graphic of him and a US Navy admiral in front of stormy waters, and the line: “It was calm before the storm.”
It comes after Trump spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran on Sunday as the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a security meeting with his cabinet, Israeli media reports.
Trump’s warning follows a drone stri..