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In what would the most ambitious U.S. effort ever to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore turbines through executive orders. The orders awaiting his signature target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. They also intend to conserve 30 percent of the country’s lands and ocean waters in the next 10 years, move to an all-electric federal vehicle fleet and elevate climate change to a national security...

Joe Biden has become the 46th president of the United States. He will face many challenges on the global stage. The Middle East, for one, can be counted on to provide multiple crises and opportunities for America. Below, we examine the most significant of them. In the past six months four Arab-Muslim majority states normalized relations with the Jewish state. They proceeded to establish diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel; they include Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, and Morocco. The question now is whether the Biden administration will continue this trend, and extend peace between Israel and additional...

Several severe weather conditions forecasted over the next week.

CNN's Jake Tapper suggested Tuesday afternoon that U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should be "co-defendants" at the impeachment trial for former President Trump. Tapper made these comments as senators were being sworn in as jurors.

With the chances of the Senate actually convicting former President Trump in the upcoming impeachment trial, Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-INO) are quietly pitching their colleagues on a bipartisan resolution to censure Trump, according to Axios.The Senators are 'looking for a way to condemn Trump on the record' as it's become abundantly clear that Democrats don't have the 17 GOP crossover votes required to gain a conviction for Trump's second impeachment. That said, Axios says that some Democrats are only interested in censure if at least 10 GOP Senators will publicly commit to it - which would...

Now she accuses Israel of denying her grandmother and other Palestinians a vaccine. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) has had her predictable say on the coronavirus vaccine and Israel. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) has had her predictable say on the coronavirus vaccine and Israel. She claims that Israel has a duty to vaccinate the Palestinians, that it did not do so because Israel is a “racist” state and Israelis are “racists.” The report on her noxious fuming is here: “Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Calls Israel a ‘Racist State,’ Spreads False Claims on Vaccinating Palestinians,” Algemeiner, January 19, 2021:US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration will announce on Wednesday a new batch of executive actions aimed at combating climate change that will pause new oil and gas leases on federal land, reduce fossil fuel subsidies, and strengthen measures to protect poor and minority neighborhoods from pollution, according to the White House. The orders will set the direction for newly sworn-in President Joe Biden's climate change and environmental agenda and mark a drastic reversal from his predecessor Donald Trump, who sought to maximize the country’s oil, gas and coal output by removing regulations and easing environmental reviews. Biden's focus on...

The pastors at scandalized Hillsong Church were anything but humble servants. As the Australia-based institution continues to come under fire for allegations of “slave labor” and homophobia, ex-congregants and staff are now claiming that pastors used tithe money to help fuel their decadent lifestyles. At Hillsong NYC, many pastors frequently splurged on fancy restaurant meals, designer clothes and weekly manicures while living in the same Kent Avenue Williamsburg high-rise and zipping around the neighborhood on ATVs, disgusted former members told The Post. Indeed, it appears once-celebrity-beloved star pastor Carl Lentz — who was canned in November after admitting to cheating...

Sometimes questions yield the best lines of inquiry, which was of course the whole point of the Socratic method. In our present epoch, we need to ask why are extremists of the nation’s socialist left still talking about the “Capitol Riots”. We use the plural in this context because that is what they are using. For most people, this was a singular event that took place over 3–4 hours almost 3 weeks ago.For our extremist radicals in the national socialist media, it’s the ‘Capitol siege’ [implying that it is still going on] and other words evocative over violent imagery. This...

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Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today that:The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is initiating an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election. The investigation will encompass all relevant allegations that may arise that are within the scope of the OIG’s jurisdiction. The OIG has jurisdiction to investigate allegations concerning the conduct of former and current DOJ employees. The OIG’s jurisdiction does not extend to allegations against other government officials.The OIG is making this...

A mountain's thin air and rocky soil can make it an inhospitable place to grow crops. But for all the challenges these conditions present farmers with, they can reward them in equal measures, such as with cold temperatures, dry air, and reduced dependence on pesticides. Actually going to market, however, requires hauling one's produce down the mountain—a task not for the faint of heart. In some tea-growing regions of Southeast Asia, the quickest way is via the biggest motor vehicles that can maneuver down mountainous trails: Motorcycles. Recent videos uploaded to social media show farmers traversing the treacherous terraces of...

The information in this documentary is real and scary and probably explains why everyone in the deep state want Trump destroyed. My friends, the corruption involves both sides of the aisle. They are all in on it. Trump exposed and will continue to expose the truth. I had no idea that the Mandalay Hotel shooting was part of a plot to assassinate the Crown Prince of Saudi ARabia. We foiled the plot. Trump saved his life. Did you know this? This is a PBS documentary that was not released. IT is the single most comprehensive explanation about what really happened...

Tainan, Jan. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's Air Force on Tuesday conducted a rare public drill of loading a type of locally made cruise missiles that reportedly has a range within reach of coastal Chinese provinces to one of its fighters, amid increasing military threats from the other side of the Taiwan Strait. In a drill held at the southern Tainan air base, flight crew from the First Tactical Fighter Wing deployed the Wan Chien (10 thousand swords) air-to-ground cruise missiles on an Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) jet. The missile, developed by the military's top research unit, the National Chung-Shan Institute of...

Rosenstein offered to wear wire on Trump, wanted fired Comey's advice on special counsel, newly declassified memos show. Newly declassified FBI memos provide startling new details that undercut the frenzied 2017 effort to investigate Donald Trump for obstruction, revealing the FBI knew Director James Comey's firing had been conceived by Justice Department leadership long before the president pulled the trigger during a key moment in the Russia probe. The memos written in May 2017 by Acting Director Andrew McCabe and a lieutenant also provide contemporaneous proof for some of the more jaw-dropping lore of the now-discredited Russia collusion scandal. For...

Though President Biden is all in on a Senate impeachment trial, telling CNN he believes it “has to happen,” even he is acknowledging the reality that the upper chamber will not be able to convict former President Trump. He told the network that if Trump had several months left in office the outcome of the trial could be different, but noted that it’s unlikely now that 17 GOP senators will vote to convict the former president. "The Senate has changed since I was there, but it hasn’t changed that much," Biden said. Biden made the comment during a brief one-on-one...

Boris Johnson has said he hopes it will be safe to reopen schools in England from 8 March, as the prime minister revealed to MPs when he intends to set out his plan for easing lockdown. In a COVID-19 statement to the Commons, the PM said ministers "do not yet have enough data to know exactly how soon it will be safe to reopen our society and economy". But he expressed hope that children could return from Monday, 8 March, provided the government meets its vaccination target of offering a jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by...

A new study out of Oxford University found that “the likelihood of a COVID-19 survivor developing a psychiatric or neurological illness within six months was 33.6 percent.”What’s more, the study – “Six-month Neurological and Psychiatric Outcomes in 236,379 Survivors of COVID-19” – found that one in eight people who have recovered from the virus are diagnosed with their first psychiatric or neurological illness within six months of testing positive.“The numbers rose to one in three when people with a previous history of psychiatric or neurological illnesses were included,” the New York Post added.The study also found that one in nine...

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has issued a warning to America, declaring that ex-CIA Director John Brennan, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and the oligarchs in Big Tech are "domestic enemies." In a new video message on Tuesday, Gabbard warned that Brennan, Schiff, and Silicon Valley pose an even greater threat to American liberty than the rioters who stormed the Capitol earlier this month.

On this date in 1781, George Washington quelled a dangerous mutiny in his starving Continental Army with a couple of salutary summary executions. Weeks before, the Pennsylvania Line had mutinied for better pay — successfully. (When approached by British agents offering hard currency should they turn coat, the mutinous troops patriotically arrested the agents.) General Washington had cause to fear widespread discontent in his chronically undersupplied army, however. He circulated to Congress and to several state governors an urgent appeal (.pdf) for more aid to hold up morale. The aggravated calamities and distresses that have resulted from the total want...