Former President Donald Trump expressed support for House Speaker Mike Johnson during remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Friday.Flanked by Johnson‚ Trump said that the congressional figure is ";doing a‚ a really good job under very tough circumstances.";While some Republicans strongly support the idea of approving more assistance for Ukraine as that Eastern European nation battles Russia‚ others staunchly oppose the prospect. Asked whether he would support a Ukraine aid bill if Johnson were to push one‚ Trump‚ the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee‚ said‚ ";We';re looking at it right now"; and brought up the idea of supplying aid as a loan‚ rather than a ";gift."; Watch live: Trump‚ Johnson hold news conference at Mar-a-Lago www.youtube.com Trump';s comments come as GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has been hammering Johnson. Last month‚ she filed a motion to vacate the speaker.";I support President Trump and am working as hard as possible to help him win in November and winning a Republican House and Senate majority. But I do not support Speaker Johnson. He funded the DOJ‚ FBI‚ and today voted against warrant requirements and FOR FISA!!"; she declared in a tweet on Friday.Blaze Media';s Daniel Horowitz tweeted Friday‚ ";For those who doubted me‚ this presser closes any doubt on the fact that Johnson has been doing everything with Trump';s blessing."; (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Metal detectorists have discovered a unique bronze portrait of Alexander the Great near Ringsted on the Danish island of Zealand. The circular object is just over an inch in diameter and depicts Alexander with his characteristic wavy‚ center-parted hair and rams horns over his ears‚ a representation of his claim to be the son of the Greco-Egyptian deity Zeus Ammon. It dates to around 200 A.D.The portrait is heavily worn‚ and the finders did not immediately recognize the face as bearing the attributes of Alexander the Great. The fact that it was a face and seemed ancient was more than exciting enough‚ so they turned in the object to cultural heritage authorities. Roman Iron Age specialist Freerk Oldenburger‚ an archaeologist at Museum Vestsjlland‚ examined the piece and recognized it as an image of Alexander the Great.The size and shape of the piece suggests it was a fitting‚ perhaps a decorative element on a shield‚ scabbard or belt. The lead contents of the bronze alloy points to a Roman origin of the metal as Roman bronzes were cast with the same alloy. Indeed‚ the relief itself may have be of Roman manufacture.It is similar in date‚ design and shape to a silver gilt shield fitting that is part of the enormous deposit of 16‚000 military objects found at Illerup dal on the eastern coast of Jutland. Most of the objects found in the Illerup river valley deposit‚ including the Alexander shield decoration‚ were sacrificed after a battle around 200 A.D. It was war booty taken from an army of about 1‚000 men from Norway and western Sweden who sailed down to Jutland and were soundly defeated by local Germanic warriors. Many of the swords‚ mounts‚ coins and fittings were of Roman origin‚ evidence of contact between Scandinavian elites and the Roman Empire.When the Alexander fittings were made in the early 3rd century‚ the Roman Empire was ruled by Septimius Severus (r. 198-211 A.D.) and his eldest son Caracalla‚ followed later by his younger son Geta. Caracalla was just 10 years old when Septimius took the throne and made his eldest co-emperor‚ so it took a few years for him to make any real power moves of his own and he only became sole emperor after he killed his younger brother Geta practically before their fathers body was cold. Caracalla‚ like most Roman military men‚ hero-worshipped Alexander‚ a theme that certainly would have accompanied him on his campaign to Britain with his father (208-211 A.D.) and his own campaign against the Alemanni in Germania Superior and Raetia (today part of southern Germany‚ Switzerland and Austria) in 213-214 A.D.His full obsession with Alexander kicked into high gear right after the German campaigns. Heres how Herodian describes it in Roman History 4.8.1-4.8.2:Caracalla‚ after attending to matters in the garrison camps along the Danube River‚ went down into Thrace at the Macedonian border‚ and immediately he became Alexander the Great. To revive the memory of the Macedonian in every possible way‚ he ordered statues and paintings of his hero to be put on public display in all cities. He filled the Capitol‚ the rest of the temples‚ indeed‚ all Rome‚ with statues and paintings designed to suggest that he was a second Alexander.At times we saw ridiculous portraits‚ statues with one body which had on each side of a single head the faces of Alexander and the emperor. Caracalla himself went about in Macedonian dress‚ affecting especially the broad sun hat and short boots. He enrolled picked youths in a unit which he labeled his Macedonian phalanx; its officers bore the names of Alexanders generals.Even before Caracalla claimed to be his reincarnation and plastered his images everywhere‚ Alexander was an enormously popular figure for military accessories. How a portrait of Alexander as Zeus-Ammon made its way to Ringsted is unknown‚ but the battle of Illerup dal took place around the same time‚ and the silver gilt version of the fitting reached even further north.There have been trade routes‚ there have probably also been people in Roman military service‚ it may also be the Germans themselves who have traded in these things. So there can be many ways it ended up here‚ says Freerk Oldenburger.It is also not certain that people in the Ringsted area at the time were aware of who the face represented.The possibility is that they saw one of their own gods in it. There were also Germanic shield mounts with other faces‚ the meaning of which we do not know with complete certainty‚ but which probably represent local warriors.But I actually think they knew it. Alexanders myth had been so big in Europe‚ Asia and North Africa.The bronze Alexander the Great fitting will be exhibited at Ringsted Museum Saturday‚ April 13th‚ and Freerk Oldenburger will give a presentation about it.

A bill to restrict paramilitary training in Maine in response to a neo-Nazi who wanted to create a training center for a ";blood tribe"; was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday. The law‚ which the governor signed without public comment‚ allows the attorney ...

The Biden administration is now taking aim at lightbulbs as part of its climate agenda‚ announcing Friday new efficiency standards that will ";slash harmful greenhouse gas pollution"; and set levels that can only be met by LED bulbs.

The rates of young people seeking permanent contraception increased drastically following the overturning of Roe v Wade in June of 2022‚ a new study released Friday has revealed.

A man is accused of attacking a Burger King employee after he was denied free food and asked to leave.

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This week‚ National Public Radio senior editor Uri Berliner sent shock waves through their staff by going public with an article on The Free Press website about how they lost the public';s trust due to an explicit animus against Donald Trump. Since Trump entered politics‚ the public radio network';s audience has become even more dominated by very liberal Americans.But it didn';t start with Trump. NewsBusters can tell you NPR has demonstrated a leftist bent from the beginning. NPR legal reporter Nina Totenberg destroyed the Douglas Ginsburg nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987‚ then tried again with Clarence Thomas in 1991. This animus against conservatives didn';t kick in suddenly in 2015.Totenberg‚ both on NPR and on talk shows‚ brazenly represented the leftist tilt of NPR‚ wishing out loud that Sen. Jesse Helms (or one of his grandchildren) would get AIDS‚ and proclaiming after 9/11 that she was ashamed of America when news broke that terrorism suspects were held in secret CIA prisons. There were other outrages over the years on NPR‚ but Totenberg was the ";face"; of left-wing activism.NPR executives tried to claim that ";inclusion"; of differing views is an NPR value -- but anyone who listens to NPR on a regular basis quickly figures out that this is a taxpayer-funded liberal sandbox. There';s no real room for conservative views. When Republicans appear‚ NPR staffers are on the attack.CNN';s Oliver Darcy complained that Uri Berliner';s article demanding more viewpoint diversity on NPR was a ";massive gift to the Right."; On a daily basis‚ taxpayer-funded NPR is nothing short of a massive gift to the Left‚ pumping out progressive propaganda to over 1‚000 stations. Because it has public in its branding‚ too many Americans still think its fair and balanced and a service to everyone‚ which only signals they';re not paying enough attention to the product.Enjoy the podcast below‚ or wherever you listen to podcasts.

The family of a 5-year-old who died from severe neglect is furious at the state government officials who returned the girl to her mother after a previous case of child abuse.The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said they were called to a mobile home park over a call about an unresponsive child on Tuesday at about 5:15 p.m.They discovered Kinsleigh Welty inside the home and transported her to Riley Hospital for treatment over severe malnutrition‚ but she died some time later. Court records say that police interviewed the girl';s mother‚ Toni McClure‚ who initially tried to blame the abuse on the girl';s father. When that story fell apart‚ police say she confessed to neglecting her daughter but added that she simply didn';t care.Investigators said the girl was forced to live in a small closet covered with feces.Police said the girl had feces in her hair and on her feet and lice on her head. She also weighed less at age 5 than she had weighed when she was 2 years old.McClure allegedly admitted to locking the girl in the closet and said the girl would ask for food‚ but she did the bare minimum to feed her. She also said that she thought her actions might lead to her daughter';s death but that she wanted to be rid of the girl.Police arrested her for murder after she made the comments.They also arrested her boyfriend Ryan Smith for neglect resulting in death. McClure was also charged with neglect resulting in death. ";Wasn';t a parent‚ she was a monster.";Brian Welty‚ the grandfather of the girl‚ called her death ";horrific"; in a statement to WXIN-TV.Its going to obviously be a memory Ill have my entire life‚ that my granddaughter basically starved to death and it could have been avoided‚"; he added.The family says that McClure had previously been charged with neglect when Kinsleigh had only been 3 weeks old. A judge suspended the woman';s sentence and gave her 400 days of parole. The family says that they were willing to take care of Kinsleigh‚ but officials have a policy of reuniting children with their parents. We were planning on keeping her‚ but DCS has their policy of reunification and thats horrible‚ Welty explained. Reunification from the get-go is the problem in my eyes because no matter what the parent does their goal is reunification.The system has failed this poor child and I dont want her death to be in vain‚ said Hogan. Twice they were taken away for the abuse and neglect and she just kept getting them back. No one knows why. Its a failed system.Indiana Department of Child Services Chief Chris Bailey called the death ";horrific"; in a statement that thanked the officials who handled the case. ";This little girl had no chance whatsoever‚"; said the girl';s great step-aunt Carrie Hogan. ";She had a parent who‚ well‚ she wasn';t a parent‚ she was a monster‚ who failed her in every way."; Shes a wicked woman. Thats all I can say‚ Welty added. Here';s more about the incident: Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!