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A select group of billionaire businessman, world famous pop stars, doyennes of design and Hollywood A-listers have once again descended upon the ancient Greek city of Selinunte for Google Camp. The annual event is once again in full swing, with private planes and megayachts shuttling guests Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Stella McCartney, Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, Gayle King, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper to the Verdura Resort in Sicily. And as per tradition, guests on Monday enjoyed dinner and a concert under the stars in the ruins of the Temple of Hera on the island....

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson pushed back against what she described as a false narrative surrounding her, insisting that she is not a “wacky new-age nutcase.” “The establishment media sees me as a real threat to the status quo,” Williamson told Hill.TV during an interview that aired on Tuesday. “People are so invested in creating this false narrative about me as the ‘crystal lady,’ ‘wacky new-age nutcase.’ If you really think about it, I must be doing something right that they’re so scared,” she added. Williamson, a self-help author and spiritual advisor to Oprah Winfrey, insisted that the U.S. doesn’t...

Children on either side of the US-Mexico border played together despite a fence dividing them — thanks to three pink seesaws erected by a pair of California professors. The teeter-totters on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico are the handiwork of Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University of California, Berkley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate design professor at San José State University, The Guardian reported. “One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from 2009 in an event filled...

Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon, has hit out at the portrayal of her father in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s new film set in the late 1960s film industry, saying it was disheartening and uncomfortable. Speaking to the Wrap, Shannon Lee said: “[Bruce Lee] comes across as an arrogant [a-hole] who was full of hot air, and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others.” She added: “It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theatre and listen to people laugh...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday night defended President Trump's scathing comments about Baltimore, where Carson worked for years as a neurosurgeon. Carson, the only black member of Trump's Cabinet, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that while at Johns Hopkins Hospital he would sometimes find ways to keep young patients for an extra day or two to keep them from returning to squalid conditions. "As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I spent many hours, sometimes operating all night long, trying to give children of Baltimore and other places around the world a second chance at life. And usually...

Afternoon, Free Republic! A few weeks I posted my guide about how to build an AR-15. Many of you enjoyed the guide and we had a great discussion about building black rifles at home. Some of you asked for more information or wanted more resources for building and improving your rifles, so here's a sub-guide! AR-15 Triggers: The Full Guide & Troubleshooting. I go over the trigger mechanism, explaining its individual parts. Then I discuss all the factors affecting trigger performance, and the symptoms to look out for. I summarize all the available trigger options you might want to invest...

One of the ugliest secrets about abortion is that, worldwide, girls are much more likely to be killed in the womb than are boys. This has resulted in an alarming male-to-female ratio in multiple countries. Even the George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch has recently declared that “You Should Be Worrying about the Woman Shortage.” The piece notes that in India and China alone, there’s “now an estimated 80 million extra men.” Surprisingly, the piece acknowledges that this gross disparity is due to the gross policy of sex-selective abortion. Unsurprisingly, instead of blaming the evil practice of the killing of any...

Well, Trump really stirred up a rat's nest this time and was immediately condemned by all the usual suspects as a 'racist.' But all of his comments regarding Baltimore and the corrupt democrats' complete and utter disregard for the poor people forced to live in poverty and squalor are turning out to be TRUTH. Nothing makes the rats and vermin scurry more than when the light of truth shines forth. The corrupt democrats have been playing the minorities and poor for decades. We've spent untold trillions on the so-called 'War on Poverty' over the last 50 years, and for what?...

Shortened title. Full title: Jeffrey Epstein’s life ‘in jeopardy’ as powerful pals ‘don’t want their secrets out’, victim’s lawyer claims Spencer Kuvin, who represents three of the billionaire perv's sex trafficking accusers, threw doubt on claims the financier attempted suicide. Epstein was found "sprawled on the floor" and "blue in the face" in a New York jail, last Tuesday according to reports. Investigators are still probing whether it was a suicide attempt or if the shamed 66-year-old was attacked. Now Kuvin believes Epstein knows so much dirt about his rich and famous friends that there may be some individuals willing...

Despite the embarrassing spectacle of Robert Mueller’s Congressional testimony where he finally learned about the report he supposedly created and wrote, Democrats are doubling down on stupid. They are ignoring the first law of holes, that when you are deep in one, the smart play is to stop digging. The hole they continue to dig is the one denying the reality of the 2016 presidential election, that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton fair and square. It was not the result Democrats and their media comrades wanted or expected and now they seek to overturn the will of the American people...

Al Sharpton has been in the public limelight for just over 30 years – ever since he first burst upon the scene by promoting the fake story of a white-on-black gang rape in upstate New York in 1987. But not until now has America had a president with enough courage to tell the nation exactly what Sharpton is: “Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score,” said Donald Trump on Monday. In response, Sharpton did the only thing he's ever really learned how to do: He accused the president of harboring “a particular venom for blacks...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday signed a bill requiring President Trump to release his tax returns before he can appear on the state's 2020 primary ballot. Under S.B. 27, called the "Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act," any candidate running for president or governor of California will be required to file copies of the last five years of their tax returns to the California secretary of State.

Dozens of suburban Chicago families, perhaps many more, have been exploiting a legal loophole to win their children need-based college financial aid and scholarships they would not otherwise receive, court records and interviews show. Coming months after the national "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, this tactic also appears to involve families attempting to gain an advantage in an increasingly competitive and expensive college admissions system. Parents are giving up legal custody of their children during their junior or senior year in high school to someone else -- a friend, aunt, cousin or grandparent. The guardianship status then allows the students...

I fear the only fair solution is to pay our garbage national men’s team more.No, actually, this is more complicated than it seems at first glance. According to a letter released Monday by U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro, the federation paid out $34.1 million in salary and game bonuses to the women between 2010 and 2018 as opposed to $26.4 million paid to the men. The total does not include the value of benefits received only by the women, like health care…Comparing compensation between the two teams is difficult because the pay structure is based on different collective bargaining...

To be fair, the same Emerson poll shows that the alternative face of the Democratic Party doesn’t fare much better. Among Democrats, both Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get majorities seeing them favorably, and the other three “Squad” members also get double-digit positive overall favorability ratings. When it comes to the general electorate, however, fortunes reverse sharply for both the Speaker and the Squad: The Democratic House leadership is struggling with favorability among voters; Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a 28% favorable opinion and a 46% unfavorable opinion. The House “squad,” consisting of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Illan Omar...

A parade float in the small town of Kingfield, Maine, has been causing a stir for more than a week. The weekend of July 20, a float showing President Donald Trump standing over Hillary Clinton, who is wearing a pinstripe suit and building a brick wall, appeared in the Kingfield Festival Days parade. Some in town are now questioning whether or not it should have been allowed. The float was an interpretation of the parade's "outer space" theme — a sign on the float read, "We're Outta Space," alluding to the U.S. not having space for immigrants. Some who saw...

God's progressive process of redeeming the world has been done through covenants and dispensations.  These terms somewhat overlap, though not always.  You can generally find various Christian denominations, sects, and theological systems somewhere along a continuum from intellectual legalism on one extreme and behavior legalism on the other.  And placing too much emphasis on either covenants or dispensations can lead one away from the solid middle ground and into one of these two forms of legalism.  This closely mirrors other articles in which I've written about how the same demons of the early Church still haunt us today, specifically...

Many retail employees are having a hard time making ends meet. Leftists have proposed raising wages to $15/hour, and sometimes have done so, but such wages are unrealistically expensive for most retail employers. If retail stores had restricted occupancy apartments above their selling floor, retail employees could live in these and not need to pay for a car and liability insurance. Residential restricted occupancy is sometimes found in English agricultural regions to keep housing affordable for people working in agriculture. Retail store residency would have additional benefits of reducing road congestion and CO2 emissions, increasing employee reliability, the amount of...

Despite America's improving economic state as of late, a new study suggests millennials are not weaning themselves off of their parents' money particularly well – or at all. According to the poll, 46 per cent of millennials (that's anyone born between 1981 and 1996 typically) "admitted their parents help them with basic costs like their cell phone bill, their groceries, and their rent." Similarly, 48 per cent said their parents were their first stop for financial support above a bank loan or savings.

As the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting widely expected to yield the first interest-rate reduction in 11 years, President Trump reiterated that the size of the shift matters to him. "I'd like to see a large cut," he told reporters Tuesday, before leaving the White House for Virginia. Additionally, Trump said, the central bank should immediately stop paring a balance sheet that ballooned to $4.5 trillion as the Fed purchased government debt and mortgage-backed securities to amplify the benefits of near-zero interest rates during a plodding recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. While Republican lawmakers lambasted the so-called quantitative...